History & Mystery
Real events that shouldn't have been possible. Short narrated episodes and long-form articles on what science still can't explain.
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.
Read → Natural Disaster · 1958 The Lituya Bay MegatsunamiOn 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.
Read → Climate · 536 AD The Year the Sun Went DarkIn 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.
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