True crime stories & great mysteries

Rita Gorgonova case

The most famous murder case in pre World War 2 Poland - young girl was brutally murdered in the sleep. In the secluded house where it happened only few people were present and Rita Gorgonova...

Texarkana Moonlight Murders

Texarkana Moonlight Murders was a series of killings in and around city of Texarkana in 1946. Unknown masked killer called Phantom Killer attacked 8 people, out of which 5 died.

The Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine

The Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine or Lost Dutchman’s Mine is a legendary rich gold mine hidden somewhere in the Superstition Mountains in Arizona. Although the exact location is not...

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SS Ourang Medan

Two American ships while crossing the Strait of Malacca, near Indonesia, received distress call from SS Ourang Medan. The rescue party that boarded the ship found all the crew dead...

Voynich Manuscript

The mysterious book named after Wilfrid Voynich, a book dealer who purchased it in 1912. The manuscript contains 240 pages filled with text that so far was not deciphered and the pictures...

Amityville horror house

Average house at the end of the road in Amityville proved to be a crime scene, where whole DeFeo family was killed. Years later the new inhabitants of the house had to ask for help from exorcist.

Yeti - legendary snowman

Yeti is legendary ape-like creature that supposedly lives in the high regions of Himalaya. First stories about meetings with yeti emerged when Europeans arrived to Tibet, but locals...

JFK assassination

American president John Fitzgerald Kennedy was shot while visiting Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. Official version is that he was shot by a single, obviously insane, shooter Lee Harvey Oswald...

Korean Air Lines Flight 007

On September 1, 1983 Boeing 747 suddenly flew into Soviet Union airspace over Kamtchatka Peninsula. It was Korean Air Lines Flight 007 and soon Soviet fighters were sent to intercept the intruder...

9/11 attacks

Two planes full of passengers hit the twin towers of World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001 starting the one of most mysterious conspiracy theories in history. At 8:46 AM, five...

Smolensk air crash

During a trip to annual ceremonies marking the anniversary of the Katyn Massacre (when during the World War II over 20,000 Polish officers, previously kept captive, were killed by NKVD...

High Rock event

In June 1966 four boys went on the top of High Rock (Wysoki Kamien) in Poland, where they wanted to see if the rumours of this place being haunted were truth. What happened to them...

Beast of Gevaudan

Wolf-like creature (or creatures) that terrorized the French province of Gevaudan in 18th century. Over 100 people were killed by the Beast of Gevaudan, but still we have no idea what the beast was.

Bermuda Triangle

The Bermuda Triangle is region in Northern Atlantic between eastern coast of United States and Bermuda Islands, where some unexplained events took place since 15th century. The Bermuda...

UFO sightings

When we talk about UFO we often forget that UFO stands for Unidentified Flying Object, which not necessarily means that that those objects have to be made by human or aliens - they...

Cracker 1993

Dr Edward "Fitz" Fitzgerald has one special skill - he can get into the criminal mind, which makes him invaluable for the police.

Empire of the Wolves 2005

Young woman begins to suspect that her husband isn’t who she thought he is or... that she doesn’t know who she is herself.

The Thomas Crown Affair 1968

Eccentric millionaire gets involved in the perfect crime plot just for the thrill of it.

Black Coal, Thin Ice 2014

In 1999 dismembered body of coal worker is found scattered on different coal depots. Detective Zhang finds a suspect, who is killed in shoot-out. Five years later similar victim is found.