There’s a room at the old Reserve Bank in Darwin, Australia, that hasn’t been opened since the 1990s. Dozens of keys have been tried in its locks, but since nothing dangerous or unpleasant has been detected emanating from within no one has been curious enough to force entry–until this week. Locksmiths have been booked and […]

You might be surprised to learn that not all cultures enjoy the thrill of having their figurative pants scared off. Hard to believe, we know…The Oakabella Homestead in Western Australia has been forced to change their tourism focus from haunted house to history home, the better to soothe the superstitions of their Asian clientele. Although, […]

How many of our readers knew that in 1927 a retired British naval officer founded a society “to categorically prove that fairies were real”? The society was forced underground, which kind of makes you wonder what they were on to, but–cue the band–it was reestablished in 2015. Now we’re really curious, but we’ll save our […]

Professor Richard Taylor lectures at the University of Oregon in art, physics, and psychology and hopes to bring all three disciplines to bear on the mystery of how crop circles are formed. He doesn’t believe that these intriguing designs are just too clever to be created by us puny Earthlings and hopes to investigate what […]