goodreads/mysteries

www.newyorker.com   (2024-11-04)

Nigel Pickford has spent a lifetime searching for sunken treasure—without leaving dry land.

getpocket.com   (2024-05-12)

A multicultural, interfaith family in 1970s San Francisco reported a series of unexplained phenomena. Then a priest with a dark past stepped up.

www.atlasobscura.com   (2024-05-04)

Some say the true death worm has already been found—slithering beneath the sands of the Gobi.

www.atlasobscura.com   (2023-08-05)

A classic ghost story has something to say about America—200 years ago, 100 years ago, and today.

newrepublic.com   (2023-04-24)

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.

www.latimes.com   (2023-02-15)

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.

longreads.com   (2022-06-23)

Tales of odd phenomena stoke our imagination even as they tease us.

email.getpocket.com   (2021-11-28)

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.

magazine.atavist.com   (2021-10-03)

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?

www.newyorker.com   (2021-09-18)

What can hyperpolyglots teach the rest of us?

www.nytimes.com   (2021-05-23)

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.

mysteriousuniverse.org   (2019-07-24)

The Russian ship called the Ivan Vassili began its life in St. Petersburg in 1897, where it was built as a civilian steam

mikedashhistory.com   (2018-02-01)

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…