Every night, shortly after dark, residents of a small Indian village began hearing stones slam into the roofs of their homes. Sometimes the impacts came just minutes apart. People went looking for whoever was throwing them, but nobody could figure out where the rocks were coming from. By early October 2026, the strange incidents had … Read more
Something unusual happened at Loch Ness in 2026. The Official Loch Ness Monster Sightings Register recorded 15 in-person reports during the year, compared with six during all of 2025 and only three in 2024. But the number alone is not what makes the year interesting, because witnesses described long bodies, heads, humps, violent disturbances and shapes moving through calm water, often in broad daylight.
In 1999, expedition leader Adam Davies was searching the forests around Gunung Tujuh in Sumatra when his team found an impression worth preserving. The cast did not look comfortably human, but it did not look like an orangutan foot either. Later, primate specialists who examined it found the shape unusual enough that…
On January 18, 1994, people across northwestern Spain reported a brilliant object moving through the sky. The sighting was unusual enough for astronomers to study its path, and the obvious first thought was that a meteor had crossed over Galicia. A few days later, investigators heard about a violently damaged hillside…
At about 1:40 in the morning on August 27, 1979, Marshall County Deputy Sheriff Val Johnson was driving alone through the farmland of northwestern Minnesota when he noticed a brilliant light near the road. It seemed unusually low and bright, and Johnson wondered whether an aircraft might be in trouble. He turned his…
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 did not disappear from the world in one instant. On March 8, 2014, the Boeing 777 carrying 239 people left Kuala Lumpur for Beijing and initially behaved like an ordinary passenger flight. Over the next several hours, however, the systems that normally told people where the aircraft was…
In September 2014, a couple driving home through Dorset experienced something that began so quietly they did not immediately understand what was happening. They were travelling along the familiar B3157 near Abbotsbury when the road beneath their car started to feel different. Smooth asphalt became rough, painted…
On the night of December 6, 1978, 26-year-old security guard Pier Fortunato Zanfretta was making his rounds through the hills outside Genoa, Italy. He stopped at an isolated villa near Torriglia after noticing unusual activity around the property and initially suspected burglars. Instead, his radio call became…
At 1:25 in the morning on May 21, 2022, a game camera outside the Amarillo Zoo quietly snapped a photograph. There had been no alarm, no escaped animal and no report of anyone trying to break into the property. The grounds were dark and still until zoo employees later looked at the image and realized something unusual…
On March 4, 1918, one of the largest ships in the United States Navy left Barbados and headed north toward Baltimore. USS Cyclops was a 542-foot collier carrying roughly 11,000 tons of manganese ore, along with 306 crew members and passengers. She was expected home within days, but somewhere in the Atlantic the ship…