52 stories from the edges of the known, newest first.
A grey-cloaked woman combing her hair, a cry in the night, a death in the house by morning. Follow the banshee myth from Irish keening traditions and medieval texts to Victorian collectors and modern retellings.
Foolish fire, corpse candle, hinkypunk, luz mala: the wandering marsh light has many names. Where the will-o'-the-wisp legend comes from, how it changes around the world, and what science has proposed to explain it.
In March 1962, America's top generals signed a memo proposing staged hijackings, bombings and a fake 'Remember the Maine' incident, all to be blamed on Castro's Cuba. Here is what the declassified record shows, and what it does not.
Six crewed landings, twelve moonwalkers and roughly 600 million viewers for the first one. Yet a stubborn minority insists it was all staged. Here is where the moon landing hoax came from, what it claims and what the record shows.
