goodreads/mysteries
Nigel Pickford has spent a lifetime searching for sunken treasure—without leaving dry land.
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A multicultural, interfaith family in 1970s San Francisco reported a series of unexplained phenomena. Then a priest with a dark past stepped up.
Some say the true death worm has already been found—slithering beneath the sands of the Gobi.
A classic ghost story has something to say about America—200 years ago, 100 years ago, and today.
A writer of haunting, uncategorizable songs, she once seemed poised for runaway fame. But only decades after she disappeared has her music found an audience.
Local sleuths help find a suspect in gay porn actor Bill Newton's murder. His dismembered head and feet were found in a Hollywood dumpster in 1990.
Tales of odd phenomena stoke our imagination even as they tease us.
In the mid-sixties, Candace Mossler was one of the most widely known socialites in Houston. She was in her forties, vivacious and full of charm, with wavy blond hair, deep-blue eyes, and a surgically enhanced figure that was often remarked upon in the many newspaper columns written about her.
For eight years, a man without a memory lived among strangers at a hospital in Mississippi. But was recovering his identity the happy ending he was looking for?
What can hyperpolyglots teach the rest of us?
This week the police disinterred a body, found on a beach in 1948, that has puzzled investigators for decades. “There’s lots of twists and turns in this case, and every turn is pretty weird,” one said.
The Russian ship called the Ivan Vassili began its life in St. Petersburg in 1897, where it was built as a civilian steam
Breaking news: a credible solution to the Bouvet Island lifeboat mystery has been found. See comments for 22-27 May 2011, 12 November 2011, 17-20 March & 9 April 2016, and 28 December 2023. The…