Articles from ‘elocal magazine’ in ‘Mysteries’

Auckland is famous for harbours, beaches, volcanoes and a skyline filled with cranes and sails. But what if there is another Auckland hiding underneath the one we see every day? Not a spooky conspiracy story. Not politics. Just genuine local mysteries and fascinating places hiding in plain sight. By The Kiwi Grandpa · A video recently surfaced exploring some of Auckland's lesser-known locations. · And once corrected, the result becomes less…

In early 2013, a young traveller arrived in Los Angeles with a camera, a blog, and a plan to see the West Coast. · Her name was Elisa Lam. · What followed would become one of the most dissected and unsettling cases of the modern internet era. · The hotel with a history · Lam checked into the Cecil Hotel, a building already known for its troubled past. Located in the city’s Skid Row district, the hotel had long been associated with crime,…

Yellowstone swallows people in a way the public rarely understands. It isn’t just the cliffs, the gorges, the sudden weather, or the predators. It’s the scale — mile after mile of wilderness that makes an ordinary disappearance feel inevitable, almost explainable. When someone vanishes in a place like that, the mind reaches for a comforting story: a slip, a fall, a bear, an accident. That’s exactly what everyone assumed happened to Kelly…