Stories

Step into a basement in East London and you’ll find a collection that seems to defy logic. Pickled animal parts, preserved body fragments, celebrity memorabilia, occult objects, and natural oddities fill every corner.

On August 29, 2021 an unknown car stopped at a farmhouse in Buhuşi, Romania. A 93 year old man stepped out in the same clothes he had worn when he left home thirty years earlier.

For centuries, left-handedness has been treated as something dangerous, deviant, or in need of correction.

Long before humans split the atom, a self-sustaining nuclear reactor quietly ran beneath the ground in what is now Gabon.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, psychologist Walter Mischel and colleagues at Stanford University conducted an experiment that would become one of the most cited in social science.

Faced with violence, corruption, and environmental devastation, the people of Cherán expelled politicians, police, and criminal groups.

In 2015, conservation biologist Neil Jordan proposed a low-cost, non-lethal idea that sounded more like a prank than a serious strategy: painting eyes on the backsides of cows.

Isaac W. Sprague, born in Massachusetts in 1841, lost weight relentlessly from the age of 12 despite eating well.

In 1895, readers of The Boston Post encountered a story unlike any other. It described Edward Mordake, a young English nobleman said to have been born with a second face on the back of his head.

In Cancún, Mexico, a non-profit underwater museum holds 500 submerged sculptures between three and six meters deep. Planned to reduce pressure on nearby coral reefs, the site draws about 200,000 visitors a year and opened in November 2010 after work began in 2009.