Every story, every era. Researched and retold.
Mythology
A storm god cast out of heaven, an eight-headed serpent the size of a mountain range, and a sacred sword pulled from its tail. This is the myth behind one of Japan's imperial treasures.
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Modern
In 1959, nine experienced Soviet hikers fled their tent into a freezing night and died with baffling injuries. A 2021 avalanche study may finally explain the decades-old mystery.
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Medieval
A 600-year-old book written in an unknown alphabet, illustrated with plants that do not exist. Codebreakers, linguists and computers have all failed. Here is the honest state of the world's most famous unsolved text.
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Ancient
People have hunted for sunken Atlantis for centuries. But the island appears in exactly one source - Plato - who invented it around 360 BCE as a parable about pride. Here is what he actually wrote, and why.
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