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11 Strange Stories From the National UFO Reporting Center

Get in, loser, we're going planet-hopping.

11 Strange Stories From the National UFO Reporting Center

MagellanTV Will Pay You $2400 to Binge-Watch 24 Hours’ Worth of True Crime Documentaries

Sit back and relax while other people track down the murderer.

MagellanTV Will Pay You $2400 to Binge-Watch 24 Hours’ Worth of True Crime Documentaries

Dusting for Prince: When Queen Victoria’s Grandson Was Suspected of Being Jack the Ripper

Prince Albert Victor photographed in 1891.

Dusting for Prince: When Queen Victoria’s Grandson Was Suspected of Being Jack the Ripper

The Notable Body Parts of 10 Historical Figures

Jeremy Bentham doesn't look a day over 273.

The Notable Body Parts of 10 Historical Figures

7 Facts About Los Angeles's Notorious Cecil Hotel

The exterior of Los Angeles's Cecil Hotel, as seen in Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel (2021).

7 Unexplained Mysteries From the World of Science

An aerial view of the mysterious Patom crater in Siberia.

The CIA’s Entire Collection of Declassified UFO Documents Is Now Available to Download

Time to find out what the CIA has been keeping from us.

Watch a Bright Blue UFO Zoom Over Hawaii in Eyewitness Video

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When the Warminster 'Thing' Terrorized a Small English Town

Eerie events plagued Warminster, a town located just 15 miles from Stonehenge.

New Online Art Exhibition Needs the Public’s Help to Track Down Lost Masterpieces by Van Gogh, Monet, and More

Vincent van Gogh's original Portrait of Dr. Gachet wasn't stolen, but it hasn't been seen in 30 years.

10 Killer Gifts for True Crime Fans

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The Smart—and Scientific—Reason Freddy Krueger’s Sweater Is Red and Green-Striped

A sweater-clad cosplayer at Long Beach's Comic and Horror Con in 2012.

22 Creepy Cryptids From Around the World

Belgian painter Pieter Dirkx's interpretation of the Mongolian death worm.

A New Documentary Investigates West Virginia’s Infamous Mothman

The Mothman statue in Point Pleasant, West Virginia.

Little Weesy Coppin, the Ghost That Foretold the Franklin Expedition’s Fate

An 1847 illustration of the HMS Terror and HMS Erebus during an earlier Arctic expedition, by James Wilson Carmichael.

18 Movies That Left Audiences Completely Confused

Leonardo DiCaprio's character in Inception was nearly as mind-boggled as viewers were.
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