A Classic: The Fate of the Mary Celeste
What was their fate? And more importantly, what would drive everyone off a stable, seaworthy ship, into a lifeboat not made for long-distance voyages? The Mary Celeste mystery is a classic. What happened that day in December of 1872?
The Ghosts of Chappaquiddick: Can We Ever Escape Ourselves?
Time moved on and he served an astounding 46 years in the U.S. Senate, until his death in 2009. But the cloud, the mystery, and the unseemly smell of the incident never entirely went away. The best spin doctors money can buy could never quite cleanse the image of a girl drowning in a car while the Senator went on about his business. And different theories have emerged of precisely what happened those hours of July 18 and early the 19th, 1969.
We set off to explore personal tragedy, wrapped in political intrigue.
What Brought Down TWA Flight 800, A Spark or a Missile?
It’s every traveler’s worst nightmare. Well up in the sky, over water, a jetliner disintegrates and sends everyone tumbling to their deaths in the sea below....
The Galapagos Affair: The Truth Really Was Stranger than Fiction
There are a few places on earth that can be called the Middle of Nowhere, and the Galapagos Islands qualify. Only 600 miles west of Ecuador and the South...
Mail-Order Mayhem
Status of Mystery Investigation: Tentative Conclusions Reached 6/15/15 Not long after the national ultra-shock of September 11, 2001, and the demolished Twin...
Secret Societies & Geronimo’s Remains
Few stories are more troubling, and suggest more questions, than the demise of the notorious Apache they called Geronimo, and the controversy...
Karen Silkwood: One More Victim of Nuclear Poisoning?
In the 1970’s, the promise of nuclear power was still king in the United States. And in Oklahoma, the Kerr-McGee corporation was king: the employer of...
Roanoke, The Lost Colony: How Do You Lose 117 People?
You might call it the ultimate missing persons case. Because it wasn't just one person or two people, or an whole family that vanished. An entire colony of...
Amelia Earhart: Lost in Time, Lost in Space
The job was open in the 1930’s, almost as if advertised in the nation’s newspapers: we need a Woman Hero of the Skies, a female Charles Lindbergh. As the 20th...