Category: History’s Mysteries
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Pirates wore eye-patches like their lives depended on it — but not for the reason you think

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Nazis and the occult: Deep connection or overused movie plot device?

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Lincoln’s assassination recounted by last surviving witness on 1950s game show

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New evidence shows the Tower of Babel was not a myth after all

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Leatherman: A life (and death) full of mysteries

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Göbekli Tepe: The megalithic holy site that predates Stonehenge by 6,000 years

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New discovery in the Pacific: Divers find shipwreck rumored to be full of gold

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This WWII Ghost Bomber Mysteriously Landed Itself

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Fact or fiction: Was the “Great Chicago Fire” started by a cow?

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Thousand-year-old handprint shines light on Scotland’s “lost people”

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Did aliens really crash at Roswell, New Mexico?

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The untold tale of Tituba and how she sparked the Salem Witch Hunt

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Was there an actual love story between Pocahontas and John Smith?

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Long-lost sealed sarcophagus recovered in Egypt

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The suprising connection between the British women’s suffrage movement and vegetarianism

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The real purpose behind a 2,000-year-old battery

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These island ruins are said to be the 8th Wonder of the World

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The man who really started the Civil War

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Bobby Dunbar mystery solved? DNA test puts 100-year-old mystery to rest

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What Nietzsche actually antisemitic? Historians think not — and that some of his writings were forged to make him seem so

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Newly discovered Titanic photos offer clues to why it sank so quickly

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Where is Jimmy Hoffa?

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The curious case of the missing Russian duchess

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The dancing plague of 1518

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New letter reopens the case of the Alcatraz escapees

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