According to reports, Indonesian national Sodimedjo was born in 1870, making him 146 when he died.
Physicist Helen Czerski has cast doubt on one of the most popular theories about the Bermuda Triangle.
Researchers have made a new discovery in relation to one of Antarctica's most unusual natural features.
The phenomenon was first discovered by a group of amateur Aurora Borealis photographers in Alberta.
A new study is aiming to identify some of the sailors who died during the ill-fated Arctic expedition.
Russian scholars have been making headway in deciphering the pages of the mysterious medieval text.
Authorities in Japan have determined how a stretch of city pavement has been burning people's feet.
The treasure trove was found in Shropshire, England inside an old school piano that was being retuned.
A new study has finally determined the reason why our shoelaces keep coming undone all by themselves.
Military expert Dan Mackay found 14,000 Word War II dog tags buried in a field just outside London.
Experts are no closer to determining why the trees outside Gryfino, Poland are all bent out of shape.
An unknown individual in Stevenage, UK has been planting trees on a town green under cover of darkness.
A mysterious visitor to a library in Ohio has been leaving dozens of empty sauce bottles on the shelves.
One of the art world's most hotly debated mysteries may have finally been solved after 500 years.
A new study has indicated that the classic novelist may have died due to the arsenic in her medication.
An old type of aircraft commonly used during Word War II has been sighted numerous times over Derbyshire.
Plymouth resident Joao Caetano managed to make a recording of the eerie sound on his mobile phone
A secretive 'priest hole' in an English Tudor mansion has been tied to the infamous 'Gunpowder Plot'.
Doctors in Massachusetts have been left scratching their heads over a recent spate of amnesia cases.
Authorities in Wales are attempting to work out who chopped down hundreds of beech trees near Caerphilly.