Articles in ‘Mysteries’

According to independent journalist Greg Reese, some of humanity's oldest monuments, myths and calendars may contain warnings about recurring global catastrophes and the cyclical rise and fall of civilizations. By INR International Desk · In his latest presentation, Ancient Warnings to Survive the Great Reset, Reese examines a collection of historical, astronomical and esoteric traditions that appear to point toward a repeating cycle of…

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…

The document in question is a CIA inventory cataloging black-and-white photo negatives from July 1950. Among routine entries such as “Sphinx,” “Tourist at Pyramids,” and “Ruins near Sphinx” appears the line: “Temple under Sphinx; July ’50.” Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news · This phrasing has prompted renewed discussion about possible hidden structures beneath the Sphinx, a topic long associated with Edgar Cayce’s prophecies of an…

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…

The U-196 arrived off the Northland coast sometime in May 1945, with a small team of German nuclear scientists and their equipment. They had been ordered there by the commander of the German submarine forces, Admiral Dönitz, as part of a secret agreement between Germany and Britain, after the United States had determined to exclude Britain from the Manhattan Project, immediately after the second bomb was dropped on Japan…. Photo Chemistry –…

I believe with the unconditional surrender of Germany on May 8, 1945, the then commander of Germany’s submarine fleet, Admiral Karl Dönitz, used the only bargaining chip he had left, German nuclear research, spirited away from the advancing Russians, often with only hours to spare. Germany had begun a joint nuclear research programme with Japan some time in 1942, establishing a research facility in North Korea on the Hungnam River…. According…

In a country as small as New Zealand, with a slowly burgeoning population (4,772,980 at last count), it might be a surprise to hear that mysterious disappearances and strange happenings still remain uncovered. Surely someone must have stumbled upon something by now? But often, sometimes centuries later, these mysteries still remain unsolved. eLocal unravels some of the most enduring whodunnits of the last century, with the hope that someone,…

On May 8, 1945, with Germany’s unconditional surrender, Admiral Dönitz, the commander of Germany’s submarine force, ordered a number of specialised cargo U-boats, still at sea, to proceed to foreign ports across the world. In the early 1980s local divers discovered the hulk of the U-196 in Dargaville, sparking a renewed search for those who came ashore in 1945 AUTHOR'S NOTE “While we may never find out what happened to U-196 and the missing…

It might be a small country but New Zealand has had its fair share of murder mysteries, some of which have remained unsolved for decades. In this edition of elocal, we look back at three of those head-scratching cases that have confused the nation and remain unexplained - in some cases over four decades later. Each of the disappearances include teenage women and while there is a lot of speculation behind how each of these women met their…