Mysteries Unpacked

The police captain of Gary, Indiana, had no interest in the supernatural. Stories of ghosts appearing out of the corner of your eye, mournfully walking paths they once trod in life, phasing through walls and sending chills down your spine. Charles Austin was a veteran police officer, and generally spent his time focused on more corporeal things. But after several visits to the purportedly haunted Ammons family home, Captain Austin had just four words: “I am a believer.”

Imagine thousands of people reporting a massive boomerang shaped object lighting up the sky, not once but twice just a few hours apart, resulting in a military investigation and public uproar.

Captain David Morehouse has spotted something strange on the horizon as he sails across the Atlantic Ocean. It's another ship - a ship that was moving erratically through the water and heading towards Morehouse’s own vessel. When his crew board the mystery vessel, they can't find a single soul on board. Other than the wind blowing through the canvas sails and the ship creaking as it rocked from side to side, there was not a single sound. Morehouse's crew have no way of knowing, but they've just stumbled upon the most famous ghost ship in history - the Mary Celeste

Could you predict your own death? 

John Lang became a viral internet sensation when he documented his various run-ins with California law enforcement, and then predicting his own death. 

This controversial mystery has sparked whisperings over the last decade, some claiming that there’s a sinister truth to John’s claims… 

Stick around for the theories on this one because they just might blow this case wide open.

Imagine the whole country unable to explain a strange rumbling buzzing noise, all at once without any warning or explanation. This case has baffled the UK for an age, and even has been reported across the globe. 

But what on earth could be causing this?

In the late 1800s, a family living in a rural area of northern Tennessee began to be plagued by a strange, malevolent entity appeared to them as various animals, disembodied voices and a chilling presence, but they would never discover the true identity of this ghost or determine what was really causing the strange and often dangerous occurrences that began manifesting at the same time the spirit appeared. With theories abounding that ranged from an evil spirit, a hobgoblin, a demon or simply an elaborate hoax, the Bell Witch Haunting would become one of the most famous supernatural occurrences in American history that continues to perplex and mystify researchers to this day.

In 2016, Canadian and U.S. officials working overseas began experiencing a bizarre and mysterious illness. Seemingly brought on by a cacophonic noise they were only hearing inside their heads, symptoms of the strange illness included severe headaches, intense ear pain, light sensitivity and cognitive issues that for some would plague them for months afterwards. While people in several countries were affected, the malady seemed to have originated in Cuba, and became known as Havana Syndrome. Since it emerged a decade ago, over 1000 people claim to have suffered this same, strange illness, but despite the significant number of patients, nobody has ever been able to discover what Havana Syndrome really is, what causes it, or even if it is truly an illness or something more sinister...

On September 29, 1988, near the⁠ Guarapiranga Reservoir⁠ in São Paulo, Brazil, a grim discovery was made… An unidentified mutilated male corpse was found laying on the ground. This enough would make people question things, but the severe way the body has been treated suggested there was a dark and unexplainable essence to this story.

Isdalen Valley lies about half an hour outside of Bergen, Norway’s second-largest city. The hiking trails in the area are steep and can be difficult to climb, and some locals know it as “Death Valley”; in medieval Norway, the site was known for attracting people who took their own l ives, and the mountainous area had claimed several lives in the 1960s in accidental, fatal falls when hikers had been out in foggy conditions. But in 1970, a terrifying discovery would be made that would define the mystifying and gruesome legacy of Norway’s Ice Valley forever…

On August 16, 1942 a navy blimp came crashing in a suburb in San Francisco California. When the first people onto the scene arrived, their instinct was to find the people inside that could be injured in the wreckage. 

However upon inspection, there was no one inside or near the blimp, meaning that when this blimp crashed down to Earth, it was an empty vessel. 

This mystery has stumped people for nearly a century, raising lots of questions such as: 

…Where did it come from? …Who was supposed to be piloting this blimp? Why aren’t they here? And where are they now?