In August 1587, a group of 115 English settlers arrived at Roanoke Island off the coast of what we now call North Carolina. A mere three years later, …
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Historical Mysteries
Delve into some of history's most profound, unsettling and beguiling mysteries.
On 5 December 1872, about 400 miles east of the Azores, the British merchant ship Dei Gratia made an eerie discovery. The crew spotted a ship in the …
Maritime history is well-provisioned with alluring mysteries of lost ships and unexplained shipwrecks. From the vanishing of Franklin’s 1845 Arctic …
In 1483 the English king Edward IV died aged 40. His two sons, the soon-to-be crowned King Edward V (aged 12) and his younger brother, Richard of …
In May 2020, James Spark and Mark Didlick, two avid metal detectorists, made an astonishing discovery in North Yorkshire – a discovery that …
The Winchester Mystery House is a mansion in San Jose, California, with a strange and sinister history: it’s said to be haunted by the spirits of …
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