Mystery

In 1902, a person identified only as "a learned correspondent in West Hackney" brought to the attention of the world a curious fact about Psalm 46 of the King James Version of the Bible. The name "Shakespeare" seems to be coded into it.…

[Pakistani brothers] …Ages 9 and 13, the boys are normal active children during the day. But once the sun goes down, they both lapse into a vegetative state — unable to move or talk.…

We previously have featured the story of Michael Lutz, the Wisconsin whistleblower and former prosecutor who alleged that the union-operative wife of “John Doe” prosecutor John Chislhom was behind the targeting of conservative activists that recently was thrown out by the Wisconsin Supreme Court. … Now Lutz is dead, of what police are terming an apparent suicide…

…A senior military official involved in the investigation described “very smooth, very cool” conversation between the pilots during the early part of the flight from Barcelona to Düsseldorf. Then the audio indicated that one of the pilots left the cockpit and could not re-enter.

“The guy outside is knocking lightly on the door and there is no answer,” the investigator said. “And then he hits the door stronger and no answer. There is never an answer.”…

Residents of Woodland, in County Durham, claim that every night a noise permeates the air similar to the throb of a car engine. It is sometimes so strong that it even shakes the bed of one of the householders.... constant from midnight until 4am every night and stops them sleeping.... started about two months ago...

Family members have periodically called Althedia's phone number. At first, it was disconnected, but last weekend, something strange happened. "It rang five to six times and went to voicemail and said, you have reached Althedia Vaught, which is her name and it was her voice and she sounded real tired or drugged. We called back and a guy answered named David and he said he got the phone from Cricket and couldn't get that voicemail off there,"

Tulsa Police and Fire are investigating an SUV found in the middle of the Arkansas River Wednesday morning.... at 31st and Riverside Drive... appears the vehicle has been in the river for a while...

DNA evidence tied to the shooting deaths last year of 2 girls in Weleetka has been discovered by investigators.... "something of significance" but no details were provided.... news conference scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Monday....

"When they opened the grave where my mother was supposed to go," remembers Clifford Jr., "they found a body bag, and inside the body bag, a skeleton. Nobody knows who it was." He had his mother buried in another plot nearby, and later received permission to move his father's body to rest next to his mother's. But when officials reopened his father's grave, they found a new problem. "There's nothing down there but dirt," Clifford Jr. explains, pointing down at his father's grave marker, surrounded by flowers. "No casket. No bones. Nothing. "What we want to know -- what we've been trying to find out for 12 years now -- is what happened to our father's body?"

A body discovered in a shallow grave in Monroe County, Mich., may be the remains of missing 5-year-old Neveah Buchanan, authorities said.

Police have issued an Amber Alert for a 9-year-old girl who they believe is may be in the trunk of a sport utility vehicle with her mother after being carjacked in suburban Philadelphia.

Chances are, the skeletal remains of at least one of Oklahoma 's missing persons sets unidentified somewhere in a medical examiner's office. For decades, the lack of a uniform state and nationwide system to match unidentified remains with missing people has prevented some families from learning that their missing loved one has died.

last night the possibility of an extraordinary discovery had oceanographers and geophysicists captivated. ... The site lies 620 miles off the west coast of Africa near the Canary Islands - a location for Atlantis seemingly suggested by the ancient philosopher Plato. ... Last night Dr Charles Orser, curator of historical archaeology at New York State University - and one of the world's leading authorities on Atlantis - called it "fascinating".