Eerie Feeling

From historians to horror writers to white nationalists, attempts to explain the settlement's fate reveal a great deal about our own attitudes.

Believers claim these mysterious paths reveal unseen connections and, through them, a larger picture of the truth.

What sightings of lions in Illinois and pumas in Australia tell us about our relationship with the natural world.

Examining why these ubiquitous, obsolete fortifications carry an air of mystery.

Before vaccines, pseudoscientific folks remedies for the deadly virus involved mysterious animal-vegetable-mineral hybrids.

Or, why families under siege make for great movies.

From Champ to Bessie to lake sturgeon, these cryptids represent what lies beneath the surface of the familiar.

What a strange spate of "gas attacks" tells us about what was really lurking in mid-century America.