Mu and Lemuria are so-called “lost continents.” Both were postulated in the 19th century and continue to have some believers to this day.
Shelly Barclay
Shelly Barclay
Shelly Barclay writes on a variety of topics from animal facts to mysteries in history. Her main focus is military and political history. She is a writer for the Boston History Examiner, Military History Examiner and the Boston American Revolution History Examiner. She also writes for a local historical society newsletter. Read More
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The Iliad contains heroes, damsels, villains, gods and kingdoms pitted against each other. But was the Trojan War myth or based on reality?
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The Coso Artifact was believed by some to be an “Out of Place” artifact indicating a technological civilization existed 500,000 years ago. They were wrong.
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The first Loch Ness Monster sightings, or Nessie, coincided with the completion of the roads along the loch in the first half of the 20th century.
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Ludwig von Beethoven wrote a love letter to a person he addressed as his Immortal Beloved. It was never sent. But who could this person be?
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It wasn’t just the year 2012 that people predicted the end of the world. There have been numerous predictions of the end of times in history.
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The crystal skulls are a number of supposed Pre-Columbian artifacts that are kept by collectors and museums around the world.
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He was loved for playing Colonel Hogan on Hogan’s Heroes. To this day nobody knows who killed actor Bob Crane on 28 June 1978.
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The jury found Lizzie Borden not guilty, but she will be remembered for killing her parents because there is no way to prove she did not.
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Taman Shud Case, AKA: Somerton Man, is the 1948 mysterious death of an unidentified man found on Somerton Beach in Adelaide, Australia.
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Mysterious circumstances surrounding the deaths of Miguel José Viana and Manoel Pereira da Cruz in 1966 became known as the Lead Masks Case.
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The sound heard under the ocean in 1997 was really perplexing. Eventually NOAA determined that the Bloop is not a mysterious creature but something much simpler.
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Filtering through the hoaxes, can religious passages, historic legends, or fossil records provide prood ancient giants actually existed?
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Geli Raubal killed herself, though some think the cause of death is incorrect. But some believe she was murdered by her adoring Uncle Adolf Hitler.
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The Green Children of Woolpit were a boy and girl who wore strange clothes and spoke a language locals did not recognize. The tale dates back to 1189 AD.