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Osbaston House: The Night Christopher Foster Lit the Match

By Prathamesh Kabra 23 Min Read

Firefighters heading into Maesbrook before dawn on Aug. 26, 2008, ran into a strange obstacle at the gates of Osbaston House. A horsebox sat across the entrance, its tyres flattened,…

Sarajevo Sniper Tourism: Dark Allegations That Reopened a Wartime Mystery

“I remember playing with a ball with other kids and hearing 'ping' sounds around me. It took me a few…

By Samia Miraj 17 Min Read

Luis Garavito

In a windowless interrogation room in Villavicencio, Colombia, two tired men sat across from each other. Detective Aldemar Duran had…

20 Min Read
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When Internet Sleuths Restored the Name of Lavender Doe

On October 29, 2006, the body of a young woman was found…

8 Min Read
What led Brenda Spencer to commit one of America’s first school shootings?

On the morning of January 29, 1979, students arrived at Grover Cleveland…

15 Min Read
Once, a hiker who was lost on a mountain for 24 hours ignored calls from rescuers, mistaking them for spam

In a world where spam calls bombard our phones daily, one lost…

6 Min Read
The Night They Came for Laura and L.D. Nelson

They came in silence. A dozen men, maybe forty. Some with handkerchiefs…

8 Min Read
Women & LGBTQ+ people take up guns during Trump’s reign: ‘We need to protect ourselves’ amid rising threats

A few days into Trump’s renewed presidency, Ashley Parten, a 38-year-old Black…

5 Min Read
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The Spreckels Mansion Tragedy: What Really Happened to Rebecca Zahau?

In July 2011, tragedy struck twice at the Spreckels Mansion in Coronado, California—a luxury seaside estate owned by wealthy pharmaceutical executive Jonah Shacknai. It began with a catastrophic fall that…

By Prathamesh Kabra 37 Min Read
The Forgotten Plague: Encephalitis Lethargica and the Mystery That Still Haunts Medicine
11 Min Read

A disease like no other It began as a whisper, a strange affliction barely noticed amid the chaos of World…

Lauren Spierer left a Bloomington townhome before dawn, and the record goes quiet
21 Min Read

At about 4:30 a.m. on June 3, 2011, Lauren Spierer walked away from a townhome near 11th Street and College…

The Jamison Family Disappearance and the Mystery in the Woods
15 Min Read

In October 2009, a family of three from Eufaula, Oklahoma drove into the Sans Bois Mountains to look at rural…

Part 1: The Morning Andrew Gosden Walked Away From His Life
13 Min Read

On the surface, mid September in Balby looked exactly as it should. School runs, packed lunches, buses at the same…

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