The Dyatlov Pass FileFile 004
Dyatlov Pass: The Tracks Away from the Tent
Nine hikers died in the northern Urals in 1959. Their tent, footprints, and a later snow model show how much can be traced—and where the record stops.
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The Rendlesham FileFile 003
Rendlesham Forest: The Lights Beyond the Gate
US airmen left an airfield gate to follow strange lights into the Suffolk woods. On a later night, their deputy commander carried a recorder into the forest—and watched a red light beyond the trees.
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The Flannan Isles FileFile 002
Flannan Isles: The Light That Went Out
Three lighthouse keepers vanished from a Scottish island in 1900. Their colleagues found an orderly station and a west landing broken by the sea.
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The Roswell FileFile 001
Roswell: The Day the Army Said It Had a Flying Saucer
Bright fragments lay scattered across a New Mexico ranch. Within weeks, an Army intelligence officer would collect them—and his airfield would announce that it possessed a flying disk.
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