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Flight 19: Five Missing Aircraft and the Birth of the Bermuda Triangle Legend

21/08/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - On the afternoon of December 5, 1945, five TBM Avenger torpedo bombers left Fort Lauderdale on a navigation exercise. Hours later, radio fragments indicated the formation was unable to determine its ..

The Hessdalen Lights: Strange Orbs Continue to Appear Over a Norwegian Valley

13/09/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - In Norway’s cold and sparsely populated Hessdalen valley, people report white, yellow, or red lights that sometimes hover motionless and sometimes streak across the sky. A wave of sightings in the e ..

Composer Edward Elgar's Dorabella Cipher

06/09/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - In 1897, Edward Elgar sent Dora Penny a slip of paper covered in semicircular strokes oriented in various directions. More than a century later, no decipherment has achieved widespread acceptance. T ..

The Wow! Signal: 72 Seconds That Kept Humanity Listening to the Cosmos for Half a Century

14/09/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - On the night of August 15, 1977, the Big Ear radio telescope in Ohio recorded a narrow, powerful signal near the 21 cm hydrogen line. It lasted for only a single 72-second scan, then never reappeare ..

Cleaning white shoes according to the material

14/09/2026
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Miscellany - Handy tips - Canvas, leather and synthetics each need a different approach, and a patch test always comes first. This article focuses on steps you can apply straight away, while pointing out what to check so you ..

Ninh Binh in two days and one night: an itinerary that is enough for a first visit

18/09/2026
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Travel & Backpacking - Tips & sharing - Two days and one night are enough for a first-time visitor to take in the limestone landscape, one boat trip and the historical depth of Ninh Binh — as long as you do not try to fit Trang An, Tam Co ..

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 Taos Hum: the drone only some people hear in the New Mexico desert

10/09/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - In the early 1990s a number of residents around Taos described a low hum like a diesel engine in the distance, clearer indoors and at night. A neighbour standing in the same room might hear nothing ..

Visiting Shirakawago Ancient Village at the Foot of Mount Hakusan

30/07/2026
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World - World food culture - Shirakawago ancient village is located at the foot of Mount Hakusan, Gifu Prefecture in central Japan, about 350km from Tokyo. Shirakawago in Japanese means "village of white rivers ". Shirakawago a ..

SCP-2000 Deus Ex Machina: the machine that rebuilds humanity after the end of the world

20/06/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - Imagine that one day the whole of humanity is wiped out — nuclear war, a pandemic, or some nameless catastrophe. Yet a few months later everything is as though nothing had happened. People go to wor ..

World Mysteries: The 8 Most Terrifying Lands on Earth

04/08/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - Our Earth conceals unexplainable mysteries; there are lands so mysteriously terrifying that few dare to set foot there. Here are 8 places associated with mysterious stories that will give you "goose ..

Does the moa still live in New Zealand's forests? From a blurry photo to bone dating

16/08/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - The moa were nine species of wingless birds that lived from the coast to the mountains of New Zealand; the largest could reach up to about three metres. All of them most likely became extinct around ..

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, ..

Mezze culture in the eastern Mediterranean: when the table becomes a space for sharing

19/09/2026
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World - World food culture - Mezze is a way of eating built from many small plates set in the middle of the table, where the conversation and everyone's presence matter as much as the food. From hummus and dressed vegetables to ..

Enchanted by the Beauty of Water Lily Season on Yen Stream, My Duc, Hanoi

05/08/2026
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Travel & Backpacking - Tips & sharing - Enchanted by the beauty of water lily season on Yen Stream, My Duc, Hanoi. Not as bustling as the Huong Pagoda festival season, Yen Stream during the water lily season is peaceful and picturesque. Y ..

Photos from a 3-Day 2-Night Trip to Da Nang

23/07/2026
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Travel & Backpacking - Tips & sharing - Room rate: 5-star hotel around 500k/day-night a href="

SCP-457 The Burning Man: the humanoid flame that grows with every fire and every glance

20/06/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - In the dark of a burnt-out warehouse, among churning columns of flame, something stands looking at you. It does not run. It walks towards you. This is SCP-457 — the entity the SCP Foundation nicknam ..

The Diquís stone spheres: the technique is known, the purpose is not

09/08/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - In the Diquís delta of southern Costa Rica, pre-Columbian communities made hundreds of stone spheres, from small ones to examples more than two metres across. They are often described as "perfectly ..

The Brown Mountain Lights: ghost lights on the Blue Ridge and the USGS investigation

05/08/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - From viewpoints in North Carolina, people describe white, red or yellow points of light appearing near Brown Mountain, rising and then vanishing. After the flood of 1916 cut the power and the railwa ..

BUSTLING TRIEU KHUC VILLAGE FESTIVAL IN HANOI

23/07/2026
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Miscellany - Life around us - On the afternoon of February 25 (the 9th day of the first lunar month), the Trieu Khuc Village Festival in Thanh Liet Ward (Hanoi) took place in a solemn and lively atmosphere, attracting a large nu ..

The Meaning of the Cold Food Festival for Vietnamese People

04/08/2026
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Miscellany - Life around us - Although originating from China, the Cold Food Festival (Tết Hàn thực) of Vietnamese people still possesses its own distinct nuances, deeply imbued with Vietnamese culture. Every year, on the 3rd da ..