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A two-masted sailing ship with torn sails drifting alone on a dark Atlantic swell
FREEVanished · 1872 · 9 min

The Mary Celeste: The Ship That Sailed On Alone

December 1872. A ship is found drifting in the Atlantic: seaworthy, with food, water and cargo aboard. All ten people who sailed on her are gone.

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Three airmen with torches in a frosty pine forest at night, facing a glowing light
FREEUnexplained Encounters · 1980 · 9 min

Rendlesham Forest: The Lights Among the Trees

Christmas 1980. US airmen see lights in a Suffolk forest. Their deputy commander goes in with a Geiger counter, and puts his name to what he saw.

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A man in a dark suit at the top of an airliner's rear stairs, in rain at night
FREEThe FBI Files · 1971 · 11 min

D.B. Cooper: The Man Who Stepped Into the Storm

A calm man in a dark suit hijacks a jet, collects $200,000 and four parachutes, and jumps into a freezing night over Washington. He was never seen again.

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33 more case files in the app

Unsolved BritainLighthouse keepers who vanished. A banker under Blackfriars Bridge.
The FBI FilesReal case files, released and read aloud.
Unexplained EncountersRendlesham Forest, Roswell and the lights nobody explained.
VanishedShips found empty. Explorers who never came home.
Espionage & SecretsSpies, defectors and a body that fooled Hitler.
HeistsThe thefts nobody has solved, and the ones that nearly worked.
Legends & CreaturesNessie, Bigfoot and the files behind the folklore.
Codes & PuzzlesCiphers, a dead man's pocket and a sculpture at the CIA.
Strange HistoryA dancing plague. A flood of molasses.

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