The Canadian grade eight student wanted to see if the idea of setting ships on fire with mirrors was plausible.
A woman from Virginia suffered a seizure eight months ago that saw her heart stop for almost half an hour.
The witness, known only as John Doe, was one of several to see a strange object over Canada more than 50 years ago.
First used centuries ago, this unique form of whistle makes the haunting sound of a blood-curdling scream.
Psychologist Ruth Ogden takes a closer look at how the human mind perceives the passage of time.
What exactly goes on in the mind of someone who is in the middle of being resuscitated following a cardiac arrest ?
Oncologist Jeffrey Long is about as qualified as anyone can be to claim that we continue on after the physical body dies.
A creature said to be the mythical Chupacabra has been captured on film by a drone camera operator.
The 76-year-old had previously been declared dead after suffering from a suspected stroke a few hours beforehand.
A spate of mysterious sheep deaths in the Welsh Cambrian mountains has been attributed to extraterrestrial visitors.
Researchers found signs of 'conscious-like' brain activity in patients who passed away while in a coma.
A near-death experience would seem to be a life-changing event, but it turns out that this is not generally the case.
30-year-old Ashley Kean eats almost nothing but Easter eggs and by now he is sick to death of them.
Caroline Sasaki was mere inches from certain death when a huge rock came crashing into her home at the weekend.
A bizarre murder case out of Germany concerns a woman who sought out and murdered someone who looked just like her.
Researchers Samuel Cohn and Philip Slavin have called into question the role rats played in spreading the plague.
Saturday marked the 75th anniversary of the death of pilot Thomas Mantell who crashed while pursuing a UFO.
Officials have struggled to come up with an explanation for the deaths of at least 40 cows over the last two months.
A 2013 interview with a former-CIA agent who claimed to have intimate knowledge of Area 51 has been doing the rounds this week.
Following the Queen's death, there have been calls for Prince Philip's UFO investigation files to be released to the public.