Yesterday’s Myths & Mysteries

February 19, 2014
YOGTZE-Fall: The Unsolved Murder of Günther Stoll
One of Germany’s greatest unsolved murder mysteries is the bizarre case of Günther Stoll, a case otherwise known as YOGTZE-Fall.…
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February 3, 2014
James Worson, The Man Who Vanished Into Air
James Burne Worson thought himself the most athletic man in Warickshire, England, so when his friends challenged him to run…
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November 2, 2013
Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm?
This year, we saw one of the stranger mysteries of recent memory: Elisa Lam, the young woman who was found…
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October 29, 2013
Stingy Jack: The Origin of a Halloween Tradition
Halloween is a modern yearly tradition, but its roots actually go back thousands of years to the old Celtic traditions…
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October 11, 2013
Gloomy Sunday: Is the Hungarian Suicide Song a Cursed Composition?
Do you believe a song can kill? In the early 1930s, Hungarian songwriter Rezso Seress was struggling to make a…
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September 27, 2013
Jack the Ripper: The “From Hell” Letter
News hit this week that Jack the Ripper may not have existed in the way we’ve always believed, with yet…
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July 10, 2013
Fragment of Ancient Egyptian Sphinx Found In Israel
A fragment of a sphinx statue that once belonged to the Egyptian ruler Menkaure has been discovered in Israel. Dating…
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