Prathamesh Kabra
Béla Kiss and the Cinkota Drum Murders
In spring 1916, a rented house on Kossuth Lajos Street in Cinkota stopped being just another workshop. Men pried open…
The Sacred Band of Thebes and the Army That Changed Greek Warfare
The Sacred Band of Thebes was an elite infantry unit in fourth century BCE Thebes. Ancient writers describe 300 selected…
The Unsolved Killing of Brian Egg
Brian Egg, a 65-year-old San Francisco resident, vanished from his South of Market home in 2018. Weeks later, investigators found…
Audrey May Herron vanished on a drive that should have taken minutes
On Aug. 29, 2002, Audrey May Herron finished her shift and left Catskill, New York, at about 11 p.m. She…
Dorothy Jane Scott: Disappearance and Unsolved Murder (1980–1984)
Dorothy Jane Scott was 32 when she vanished after a late-night hospital trip in Orange County, California. Her station wagon…
The Death of Danny Casolaro, and the File That Did Not Come Back
Trigger warning: This article contains references to suicide and self-harm and includes authentic crime scene sketches related to a death.…
Man with the world’s worst hunger ate for 15, swallowed live animals, and was forced to poop out secret spy messages during war missions
Tarrare was born around 1772 near Lyon, although even the name is uncertain in the sources, which sometimes treat it…
The Mysterious Disappearance of Marilyn Bergeron
At 4:03 p.m. on Feb. 17, 2008, Marilyn Bergeron made a small purchase at a Café Dépôt in Saint Romuald,…
Biosphere 2 Was Designed as a Self-Contained Version of Earth. From 1991 to 1993, Eight People Lived Inside It and Documented What Happened Next
Eight people walked into a sealed glass world in the Arizona desert on September 26, 1991, carrying the weight of…
Inside the Mysterious Disappearance of Dr. Margaret Mary Kilcoyne
Dr. Margaret Kilcoyne went to bed around 10:00 pm Friday, January 25, 1980. Her brother, Leo Kilcoyne, was staying at…
Inside the Unfinished Investigation Into Kristen Modafferi’s Disappearance
Kristen Modafferi was heading into what she believed would be the best summer of her life. She had just wrapped…
Derek and Maria Broaddus Bought 657 Boulevard. Then “The Watcher” Started Writing.
They closed on a six bedroom house on Boulevard in Westfield, New Jersey, and treated it like a normal pre…
The Sleeper of Oknö: Inside Karolina Olsson’s 32-Year Mystery
On an April morning in 1908, a maid in a small Swedish coastal home heard sudden noise from the bedroom.…
Ben McDaniel vanished in an underwater cave at Vortex Spring. Fifteen years later, the questions only got louder. Part 4.
The longer Ben McDaniel stayed missing, the more his equipment started to feel like a second witness. His body was…
Ben McDaniel vanished in an underwater cave at Vortex Spring. Fifteen years later, the questions only got louder. Part 3.
The search underwater had already produced a disturbing result. Divers who were qualified to enter the gated section kept surfacing…