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Mystery 'Metal Starfish' Found Off Rhode Island Coast

Answers will come soon enough.

Erik Shilling August 14, 2017

George C. Creelman lilies at the Ontario Agricultural College.

The Hunt for a Missing Canadian Lily

The pioneering horticulturist Isabella Preston bred the George C. Creelman lily in 1916. At some point in the 1940s, it seems to have vanished.

Cara Giaimo August 14, 2017

The true meaning of Geedis may be the mystery of our time.

Join the Search for Geedis

One comedian's quest for a fantasy franchise that might never have existed.

Eric Grundhauser August 3, 2017

Graves of Beechey Island in the snow

Graves of Beechey Island

The remote graves mark the mysterious deaths of four 19th century explorers.

The mine worker Fet-Mats Israelsson's gravestone in Falun.

Fet-Mats grav (Grave of Fet-Mats)

His body was found mysteriously preserved in a Swedish mine over 40 years after his initial disappearance.

Solving the Decades-Old Mystery of the White Box That Fell From the Sky

David McPherson Sr. suspected the CIA was responsible. He was right.

Erik Shilling July 26, 2017

School Office Detectives Reunite a 1965 Class Ring With Its Owner

The school was secondary. The solution was elementary.

Natasha Frost July 26, 2017

The dark blue area is the Diamantina Trench southwest of Perth. It is up to 26,401 feet deep.

Explore the Seafloor With Data Collected During the Search for MH370

The Australian government has released the results of a survey of the bottom of the Indian Ocean.

Kelsey Kennedy July 21, 2017

Viaje Fantástico, the bronze sculpture of a naked woman riding a rooster is in Plaza Vieja.

Viaje Fantástico

No one knows the meaning behind this giant sculpture of a nude woman with a fork riding a rooster in Havana.

Stiffy Green's full body

Terre Haute, Indiana

Stiffy Green

Whether his story is true or not, Stiffy Green is the most beloved bulldog in all of Indiana.

Heysham, England

'Poet Philosopher & Failure' Gravestone

A succinct inscription commemorates the ebb and flow of a woman's life.

Stoneham, Massachusetts

Where Shute Fell

This headstone-like marker inscribed with three words has been an utter mystery for over a century.

Arizona's (No Longer) Mysterious Monkey Farm

Some guys with drones inspired a day or two of wild speculation, though.

Erik Shilling July 6, 2017

Dartmoor

Hollowcombe Bottom

The site of a mysterious pony massacre is rich with extraterrestrial conspiracy theories.

Arco della Costa

Whale Bone of Arco della Costa

A whale rib was used to advertise the store by the arch that offered exotic goods from far away.

The Floating Man Mystery That Briefly Haunted Southeast England

It was, in fact, an inflatable stormtrooper.

Erik Shilling June 19, 2017

On the Way.

On the Way

Enigmatic bug-like sculptures mystify drivers along a Swedish highway.

The piece bears some resemblance to designs of eastern European origin.

The Lady in the Woods

This oak sculpture at the edge of a small woodland is nine feet tall and shrouded in mystery.