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Mystery Nameless Thing of Berkeley Square

More than 100 years ago, something terrible happened in Berkeley Square. Nameless Thing of Berkeley Square was a nickname given to the myst...

Every year, residents gather in Thailand along the Mekong River in Nong Khai province to witness a mysterious phenomenon in the form of ball...

UFO, or just poor photography? IN 1963, A SCIENTIST known as Fritz Werner was working on specialist nuclear tests in Arizona. In May of...

Examining the wreckage of a UFO – or is it a weather balloon? DEEP IN THE Nevada desert lies a military base that is surrounded by so m...

Clipper ship similar to the Mary Celeste. THE TALE OF THE Mary Celeste is not technically a ghost story, but thanks to one of the fine...

Hampton Court Palace, site of many ghostly sightings, usually of one or other of Henry VIII’s unfortunate wives. HAMPTON COURT PALACE o...

Still taken from Roger Patterson’s film of Bigfoot. IN THE WILDS OF NORTH AMERICA a mystical ape-like creature hides in the shadows. St...

Skunk ape, or nocturnal monkey? Only the creature in the photograph knows for sure! IN THE MID 1970s, a few years after the public relea...

Abominable: could this be the footprint of a Yeti? IN 1921 LT. COLONEL Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury, a British soldier leading an exped...

Jack the Ripper strikes again in this contemporary illustration. Was he the royal physician, or even royal himself? IN 1888, THE WORLD’...

Woodcut of a vampire feeding on the blood of another victim. EASTERN EUROPE OF THE Middle Ages was a turbulent place. The great Hungari...

Our understanding of the Holy Grail is derived from romantic Arthurian tales of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries ALMOST ALL OF our ...

Fanciful impression of the Ark of the Covenant, reputed to contain the original Ten Commandments. THE BIBLE SAYS that God inscribed the...

Statue of a demon, most likely of Lucifer. THE LEGEND OF Rennes-le-Château is one of the most complicated treasurehunting stories of a...

Foretelling the future with the aid of a chicken. Why poultry is ascribed such powers is perhaps more of a mystery than clairvoyancy its...