Articles By: Madeleine Noa

Madeleine Noa is a freelance writer from Honolulu, Hawaii who has published articles on a wide range of topics including spas, real estate development in Hawaii, entertainment, luxury yachts, and history. She is also a copywriter and creates sales collateral for small businesses and corporations. She has been an associate writer for "IN" Magazine and "Second City" Magazine, having been published 13 times between the two publications. She currently is involved in the alternative energy industry and in helping to sustain a symphonic orchestra in Hawaii.

The Deadly Double

Were the ads placed in the New Yorker a sophisticated means of communication for Axis espionage operatives that the Japanese were about to launch a sneak attack somewhere in the Pacific?

The Antikythera Mechanism

The box contained 32 gears, accurately assembled in a box that reproduced the motion of the sun and moon against the background of fixed stars with a differential giving the relative position and the phases of the moon.

Machu Picchu: The New Seventh Wonder of the World

No one really knows why this ancient city was built, who built it, and for exactly what reason. Equally baffling is why it was abandoned 100 years later. In modern day, visitors to Machu Picchu resonate the feeling of a magical, higher, power being present when they entered the site.

The Mysteries of the Piri Reis Map of 1513

Considered to be one of the most beautiful, most interesting, most mysterious maps to have survived from the Great Age of Discoveries, [...]

Area 51: Goverment Secrets

Despite repeated denials by the government that was a secret facility at Area 51, many observers saw people being shuttled in and out of Las Vegas’ McCarran Airport every day from a private terminal used solely by defense contractor EG&G.

The Isabella Gardner Museum Heist

Built in Boston at the turn of the century by the late Mrs. Jack Gardner, the Italianate mansion was used to house [...]

The “Carroll A. Deering” Schooner

Abandoned and deserted, with all of its eleven crewmen missing, the circumstances are as strange as those of the “Mary Celeste,” and her demise remains as one of the greatest unsolved maritime mysteries of all time.

Nan Madol “Venice of the Pacific”

Radio carbon dating and archeological excavations puts Nan Madol to be as old as 200 B.C. Therefore, there is no logical explanation as to the origin of the massive hexagonal shaped stones.

Submerged Relics at Yonaguni-Jima

Now these ancient ruins found submerged beneath the sea near Okinawa is considered by many as “tangible evidence” of a lost, highly sophisticated, ancient civilization dating back 10,000 years! Could this be Mu or Lemuria?

The Demise of the Minoans

Research shows the palaces of the Minoans were destroyed by forces unknown to us in 1700 BC. There is speculation that the destruction was caused either by a powerful earthquake, or by outside invaders.