The Archive

A wave came over the top of a 110-foot cliff, bent iron railings flat, and moved a one-ton rock. It took three men with it. No ship in the area logged a storm that night.

On July 9th, 1958, a wave 1,720 feet high stripped trees from a mountainside in Alaska. It is the tallest wave ever recorded. Two fishing boats rode it out and survived.

In 536 AD the sun went dim and stayed dim for eighteen months. Snow fell in August. Crops failed from Ireland to China. No one knew why for over a thousand years.

In 1590, a supply ship returned to find 115 colonists gone. No bodies, no signs of attack — only one word carved into a post. No explanation has ever held up.

Something flattened 800 square miles of Siberian forest in 1908 with the force of 185 nuclear bombs. No crater was ever found. No one knows what it was.

Eighteen stories beneath the surface of Turkey, a city built for 20,000 people sits in near-perfect condition. No one knows who built it, or why they needed to disappear underground.