In early October 2025, volunteers working with the Dogs of Chernobyl program captured photos of something unusual.

High on cliff faces in parts of China, the Philippines, and Indonesia, wooden coffins sit in places where burials seem impossible.

On the morning of 21 July 1918 residents of Orleans, Massachusetts heard distant thumps beyond the shoreline.

In September 1987, a radiotherapy unit sat abandoned in a partially demolished building in Goiânia, Brazil.

In the mid nineteenth century, a French neurologist in Paris carried out unusual experiments that drew the attention of physicians, artists, and later Charles Darwin.

In July 1936 the Spanish Civil War began. The Bank of Spain held about 635 tonnes of gold in vaults at Madrid.

In the early 1800s, travelers heading north from Charleston, South Carolina, often stopped at roadside inns for food and rest.

When a sharp-edged structure appeared in NASA’s photos of Mars, amateur stargazers believed they had found proof of alien architecture.

Joseph Ducreux began as a painter of kings and queens but ended up, centuries later, as an unexpected internet sensation.

On the evening of August 10, 2018, air traffic controllers at Seattle–Tacoma International Airport watched in disbelief as a Bombardier Q400 belonging to Horizon Air began taxiing without authorization.