Until recently, maps and atlases were plagued by non-existent islands, mountain ranges and countries.
One 20-year-old woman found, to her horror, that she was not alone in her new Enumclaw apartment.
A chest thought to be filled with Nazi gold has been found in the wreckage of the scuttled SS Minden.
Several households in England have been plagued by a woman crying through their letterboxes at night.
Back in 1964, the Gulf of Tonkin incident resulted in a renewed commitment to war with Vietnam.
Dr Karl Kruszelnicki maintains that the answer to the mystery lies in little more than basic human error.
Forensic linguists have 'almost certainly' determined who really wrote the famous Civil War-era letter.
Sniffer dogs have detected possible human remains during an investigation on the island of Nikumaroro.
A photograph pulled from the National Archives appears to show Earhart at a dock on the Marshall Islands.
The alarm was raised in Dubai last week after the water started to turn a disconcerting orange color.
Two people have died while attempting to track down a $2M haul hidden somewhere in the Rocky Mountains.
The forensic animals will be used to help sniff out the aviator's final resting place on Nikumaroro.
A puzzled motorist recently recorded footage of a riderless motorcycle cruising along a French motorway.
Today marks the 55th anniversary of the escape of three men from the 'inescapable' Alcatraz prison.
Police have revealed that the distress signal was genuine and that it was left in the outback in 2013.
Webcam footage of a strange red light on the second floor of the White House has gone viral online.
An extremely loud bang managed to wake up half the city when it shook houses at 3am on Sunday morning.
The mysterious mansion in California has opened several new rooms to the public for the first time ever.
Police in Western Australia have been investigating a large 'SOS' sign discovered in a remote area.
80 years on from the disaster, the exact cause of the inferno that destroyed the airship remains unclear.