Prathamesh Kabra
The Church Was Locked. Arlis Was Still Inside
Stanford’s Memorial Church is a masterpiece of stained glass and quiet reverence, nestled in the heart of campus. On most…
The Town That Was Erased: Inside the Soviet Nuclear Disaster You’ve Never Heard Of
What was the Kyshtym disaster and why was it hidden for decades? In late September 1957, a radioactive cloud drifted…
The Radium Girls
They told them it was safe. Then their jaws fell off. In the early 20th century, America was buzzing with…
The Silent Twins
In 1963, twin girls were born in Yemen to Caribbean parents. Their names were June and Jennifer Gibbons. No one…
The Woman Who Turned a Hospital Into a Crime Scene – Gloria Ramirez
On February 19, 1994, the emergency room at Riverside General Hospital looked just like any other California hospital on a…
The Lake That Breathed Death: The 1986 Disaster at Lake Nyos
On the night of August 21, 1986, Ephriam Che was inside his mud-brick house perched on a cliff above Lake…
Brazil’s Lead Masks Mystery
On a quiet August afternoon in 1966, a young boy flying a kite on Morro do Vintém—a scrub-covered hill just…
The Final Madness of Edgar Allan Poe
It began like any ordinary journey. On September 27, 1849, Edgar Allan Poe left Richmond, Virginia, with the intention of…
The Man Behind the Mask: Unburying John Wayne Gacy
John Wayne Gacy didn’t look like a killer. That’s the problem. In his world of tidy lawns, handshake deals, and…
How Did a Cult Carry Out the Largest Bioterror Attack in US History?
What Happened in The Dalles, Oregon, in 1984? In 1984, 751 residents of The Dalles, a small city in Oregon,…
The Forgotten Plague: Encephalitis Lethargica and the Mystery That Still Haunts Medicine
A disease like no other It began as a whisper, a strange affliction barely noticed amid the chaos of World…
Who Was Bobby Dunbar? The 1912 Disappearance That Became a Century-Long Identity Crisis
A boy disappears in Louisiana It began like any other summer outing. In August 1912, Percy and Lessie Dunbar took…
The Great Smog of London: When the City Turned Poisonous
In early December 1952, Londoners prepared for another cold winter. Few could have imagined that within days, the capital would…
The Ship That Wasn’t There: Investigating the Legend of the SS Ourang Medan
In the sweltering waters of the Strait of Malacca, sometime around 1947, a distress call crackled across the radios of…
The Greenbrier Ghost: When a Murder Trial Was Sparked by a Ghost’s Testimony
The Greenbrier Ghost is a true story from 19th‑century West Virginia that mixes mystery, tragedy, and even a ghost’s testimony.…