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Ball lightning: a real glowing sphere or just an illusion after a flash?

10/09/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - After a lightning flash, witnesses sometimes describe a glowing sphere about the size of an orange floating through the air, lasting a few seconds before fading or exploding. There are accounts of i ..

Where Do the Giant Circles Under the Ice of Lake Baikal Come From?

09/09/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - Every winter, Lake Baikal freezes over like a giant sheet of glass. But satellite images sometimes detect dark circles kilometers wide appearing amidst the white ice. They are too large to be recogn ..

The Princes in the Tower: who erased them from history in 1483?

09/09/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - In the summer of 1483, twelve-year-old Edward V and his younger brother Richard were brought to the Tower of London while their uncle took the throne as Richard III. At first the boys were still see ..

Rohonc Codex: The Strange Manuscript with Hundreds of Unidentified Symbols

09/09/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - An illustrated book transferred to the library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1838 contains a dense, unidentified system of symbols, with its author, language, or reading direction still un ..

Blood Falls in Antarctica: The Red Flow Bleeding from the Heart of a Glacier

08/09/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - Amidst the white and blue of Taylor Glacier, a dark red stream oozes out like an unhealed wound. Geologist Griffith Taylor recorded Blood Falls in 1911; initially, the color was attributed to algae. ..

Legio IX Hispana: a Roman legion lost in Britain, or posted east?

08/09/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - Legio IX Hispana was once stationed at York and fought through ferocious uprisings in Britain. After the early second century its name disappears from the surviving lists of Roman legions. Novels an ..

Strasbourg Dancing Plague of 1518: When the Entire City Couldn't Stop Dancing

07/09/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - In the summer of 1518, Strasbourg records describe citizens dancing against their will, continuing to the point of exhaustion. The authorities erected stages and hired musicians because physicians b ..

Brinicle: the "icy finger" that grows down to the seabed and freezes everything in its path

07/09/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - Under polar sea ice, an icy tube sometimes grows straight down like an inverted stalactite. Inside it is a stream of extremely cold and dense brine. When this "finger" touches the seabed, a web of i ..

Morning Glory cloud: the hundreds-of-kilometers-long white wall rolling across Australia

06/09/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - On certain dawns at the end of the dry season in northern Australia, a wall of cloud hundreds of kilometers long rolls low across the sky. It can travel in a single band or multiple parallel bands, ..

The Green Children of Woolpit: legend, or a memory of refugees?

06/09/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - Two chronicles from the late twelfth century relate that villagers at Woolpit in Suffolk found two children with green-tinged skin beside a wolf pit. They wore strange clothes, spoke a language nobo ..

The Man in the Iron Mask: which prisoner made Louis XIV hide a name?

05/09/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - In 1669 the war minister Louvois instructed the jailer Saint-Mars to receive a prisoner named Eustache Dauger and hold him in absolute secrecy. The man followed Saint-Mars through several fortresses ..

Catatumbo Lightning: The Near-Endless Storm Over Lake Maracaibo

05/09/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - Over the southern region of Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela, the sky flashes like a giant lighthouse for many consecutive nights. Thunderstorm clusters re-form near the mouth of the Catatumbo River, mak ..

The Loch Ness Monster: what is left after the blurry photo, sonar and eDNA?

04/09/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - Loch Ness holds water so dark, so deep and so long that a ripple in the distance easily turns into the back of an enormous creature. Nessie is famous not because of a bone or a carcass, but because ..

Discover 6 Characteristic Traditional Craft Villages of Quang Nam Province

03/09/2026
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Travel & Backpacking - Tips & sharing - Hoi An is an ancient town in Quang Nam Province recognized as a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site in 1999. In the 17th and 18th centuries, Hoi An was one of the busiest trading ports in Vietnam, w ..

5 Routes Every Backpacker Should Experience at Least Once in Vietnam

03/09/2026
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Marketplace & Classifieds - Tours - Young people are becoming increasingly passionate about backpacking, because the further you travel, the more captivated you become—discovering the sheer beauty of the country, meeting kind-hearted ..

Bigfoot: giant footprints, the Patterson-Gimlin film and the FBI's hair sample

03/09/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - Bigfoot - or Sasquatch - is described as a tall, hair-covered primate living in the forests of north-western North America. Thousands of reports, plaster casts of footprints and a piece of film shot ..

The Yeti: footprints on the Himalaya and the answer from bear DNA

02/09/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - The Yeti usually appears at the edge of a snow slope: a few large footprints, a dark shape, and then a storm that wipes the trail away. The image of the "abominable snowman" was popularised in the W ..

The Chupacabra: blood-sucking monster, or a coyote with mange?

01/09/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - The Chupacabra is an unusually young legend. It flared up in Puerto Rico in the mid-1990s, described at first as a two-legged creature with spines along its back; by the time it reached Texas the im ..

Mothman at Point Pleasant: did the red-eyed creature really foretell a disaster?

31/08/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - In November 1966, Point Pleasant in West Virginia became the centre of reports about a winged creature with red eyes. A year later the Silver Bridge collapsed, killing 46 people. Popular culture joi ..

The Jersey Devil: a thirteenth child, the Pine Barrens and 300 years of legend

30/08/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - The Jersey Devil is described as a creature with a horse's head, bat wings and hooves, born as Mother Leeds's thirteenth child and flying straight up the chimney. The story looks like a colonial tal ..

The Beast of Gevaudan: what animal terrified France in the 18th century?

29/08/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - Between 1764 and 1767, the Gevaudan region of south-central France recorded a series of fatal attacks, mostly on women and child herders. "La Bete" - the Beast - was described as larger than a wolf, ..