Mystery

Get a peek into what we’re obsessed with right now.

A pranks, a scaled-down landmark, a local legend, in the middle of the river.

Searching for the slave ship Guerrero, the nonprofit Diving With a Purpose has also trained scores of young Black men and women to find and tell stories once lost to the waves.

Meet some of the artists, archivists, students, and descendants rediscovering and preserving the past.

Our favorite head-scratchers, from a frightening stone to a curious cow's tooth to maybe, just maybe, buried treasure.

For me as a singer-songwriter, there’s just something alluring about that frigid, seasonal darkness.

The discovery, retrieval, and mysterious history of a ‘ghost boat.’

There's more to this 19th-century crime than the dark side of fairy lore.

It's more bizarre than the urban legends.

This rare portrait can now be credited to Harlem Renaissance artist Richmond Barthé.

When a sledgehammer isn't really an option.

Built from recycled materials by an eccentric con artist in the 1930s, the curious creation was demolished—and then reborn.

Whether you call them gaps, rings, or fairy circles, these unexpected formations in seagrass beds are keeping scientists guessing.

A surprise discovery from Haiti may finally reveal how some famous feral horses got to a distant barrier island.