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End of Neanderthals caused by flip of Earth’s magnetic field 42,000 years ago, study reveals
A recent study has found that planet Earth’s magnetic poles underwent a flip some 40,000 years ago, in…
Tsutomu Yamaguchi: The man who survived two atomic bombs
On the morning of August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of…
Landing a plane with a pilot sucked out of the window: The incredible story of British Airways Flight 5390
Sometimes miracles don’t just happen in movies. To say, life is full of miracles and the story of…
The paranormal hauntings of Chernobyl
The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant located outside the town of Pripyat, Ukraine ― 11 miles from the city…
Spontaneous human combustion: Can humans be consumed by fire spontaneously?
In December 1966, the body of Dr. John Irving Bentley, 92, was discovered in Pennsylvania, next to the…
The Joelma Building – A haunting tragedy
Edifício Praça da Bandeira, better known by its former name, Joelma Building, is one of the most imposing…
18 unlucky inventors killed by their own inventions
Not all inventions lead to glory. Some fail, while others tragically end in death. Here are ten inventors…
Urkhammer – The story of a town that ‘vanished’ without a trace!
Among the most mysterious cases about missing cities and towns, we find that of Urkhammer. This rural town…
The Sumerian Planisphere – A forgotten star map that remains unexplained
In 2008, a cuneiform clay tablet that puzzled scholars for over 150 years was translated for the first…
The lost plutonium-239 on the Nanda Devi peak: A ‘sleeping monster’ inside the snow
In the 1960s, a mission was launched to install a nuclear-powered sensing device on the summit of India’s…
The dead firefighter Francis Leavy’s ghostly handprint remains an unsolved mystery
For twenty years a mysterious handprint was visible on a Chicago fire station’s window. It could not be…
Horrors of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster was a nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Ōkuma,…