Discover the stories that blur the line between history and legend. Explore ancient myths, lost worlds, mysterious beings, religious traditions, unexplained events, and the enduring mysteries that continue to fascinate historians today.
The Great Moon Hoax of 1835: The Bat-Men That Fooled the World In the last week of August 1835, the people of New York opened their newspaper and learned, in calm and confident prose, that life had been discovered on the Moon. Not microbes. Not moss. Forests and oceans, herds of bison, blue unicorns, beavers…
The Green Children Of Woolpit: The Medieval Mystery Never Solved. Sometime in the twelfth century, in a quiet farming village in the east of England, two children appeared at the edge of a field. A boy and a girl, lost and frightened, standing where moments before there had been no one at all. The villagers…
The Nephilim: Giants, Fallen Angels or Something Far Darker? They appear in one of the most cryptic passages in all of scripture. Briefly mentioned, never fully explained, and debated by theologians, archaeologists and historians for centuries. The Nephilim are one of the Bible’s most compelling and disturbing mysteries and the deeper you look, the stranger…
Did Noah’s Flood and Atlantis Describe the Same Event? What Historians, Geologists and Ancient Texts Reveal For thousands of years, two of the most famous stories in human history have fascinated people across the world. One comes from the Bible. The other comes from ancient Greece. One tells the story of a catastrophic flood that…