Posts from "December, 2013"

Surcouf

Surcouf

In February 1942, the Free French Navy submarine Surcouf departed Bermuda for Australia, via the Panama Canal. She never reached the canal, and disappeared without a trace, leading to accusations of conspiracy and betrayal, along with the usual Bermuda Triangle angle.

Some of our Research:More about a sub than you thought possible
Did the Brits do it?
Old sea dogs discuss

Santa Claus

One mystery has plagued us since childhood- how does he carry all those toys? How does he make it to everyone’s house in one night? Why has no one seen him delivering toys? That’s right, it’s Santa! We take a look at the tough questions, and this time, we may have actually solved it!

Some of our Research:
How he gets around
Why you never see him
Never a bad thought

Baghdad Battery

Baghdad, Iraq, 1939, a new curator takes over the National Museum of Iraq, bringing to light a confusing discovery- a ceramic pot with a metallic rod inside. Speculation over what this artifact is, what it was used for, and why it produces electricity has run rampant ever since.

Some of our Research:
Biblical clues maybeThe wiki on it
Possible flaws in the theories

1991 VG

A near-earth-object that was seemingly metallic and approximately 10 meters across went past the earth in 1991. Instead of looking like a piece of space rock it showed characteristics of a “made” object. It looks like it could have been made by an intelligent species, did we send it or did someone else?

Some of our Research:
A great orbital diagramDuncan Steels’ original paper
A scientific approach
Steels’ paper reinterpreted