Cash-Landrum 1980
What do you think about this? It was the night of December 29, 1980, on a deserted road outside Huffman, Texas. Betty Cash, her friend Vickie Landrum, and Vickie’s seven […]
Sego Canyon Rock Art
There is a canyon north of Thompson Springs, Utah, where three different ancient peoples left their art on the same red sandstone wall.
Roanoke 1587
In July of 1587, Sir Walter Raleigh’s expedition dropped 115 English colonists, men, women, and children, on Roanoke Island off the coast of present day North Carolina.
Jersey Devil
The legend goes back to 1735. A woman known in the stories as Mother Leeds, in a small Pine Barrens cabin, gave birth to her thirteenth child on a stormy night.
Yonaguni Monument
In 1986, a Japanese diver named Kihachiro Aratake was scouting a new site for hammerhead shark tours off the coast of Yonaguni Island. Eighty feet down, he swam over the edge of what looked like a cliff and stopped cold.
Sutro Baths Ruins
If you stand on the cliffs at the western edge of San Francisco, just past the Cliff House, you can look down at the concrete bones of what was once the largest indoor swimming complex on Earth.
Lost Dutchman Mine, Curse or Coincidence?
Six months to find his skull. A bullet hole drilled clean through it. The Lost Dutchman Mine has cost more lives than any single gold find in American history, and people keep going in.
Olmec Colossal Heads
In 1862, a farmer clearing a field in Veracruz, Mexico hit something with his plow. Not a rock. A face carved in black basalt.
Yamashita’s Gold
In the final months of World War II, as the Imperial Japanese Army was being pushed out of the Philippines, a general named Tomoyuki Yamashita allegedly oversaw the burial of a fortune the world had never seen on one map before.
Dream Visitations
People who have lost someone close to them tell me the same story all the time. Months, sometimes years after the death, the person they lost shows up in a dream.