On the night of April 26, 2012, 39-year-old bouncer Lionel Veranes was working the door at a nightclub in Chambéry, France. A woman entered, smiling and thanking him by name—a common occurrence for Lionel, who was a popular fixture in…
On the morning of November 10, 1982, 54-year-old Mary Kemp received a phone call from her 35-year-old son, Don Kemp, who was on a cross-country trip researching a book about Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. He told her he was in Wyoming…
On August 12, 1970, Lawrence Hallahan was driving along the coast in County Cork, Ireland, when he noticed a sailboat floating in Towhead Bay—an area too rocky and dangerous for sailing. He remembered a widely reported case about Edward Neil,…
On a fall afternoon in 1887, ranch hand Jean Wilson was herding cattle along the Platte River in Wyoming with his loyal dog. Though he usually enjoyed working outdoors, he was exhausted and eager to return home to his wife.…
On the night of November 14, 1995, 19-year-old Zhang rushed to catch Bus 375, the last bus leaving a quiet district on the outskirts of Beijing. Having finished work late, missing the bus would have left him stranded. At the…
On the evening of 11 December 1988, 38-year-old Francoise Gandrron had every reason to enjoy her newfound freedom. Recently divorced and with her 19-year-old son having moved out, she had embraced a lively social life. Almost every evening, she could…
In March 1963, dozens of students and teachers at a school in Yorkshire were said to have witnessed a terrifying and apparently inexplicable event. A 16-year-old girl, Eileen Welch, reportedly rose high into the air before crashing back to the…
A ventriloquist’s attempt to lighten the mood at a funeral in France reportedly ended in tragedy when a grieving widow believed her dead husband had suddenly come back to life. One morning in August 1987, 57-year-old Claudia Cessie walked slowly…
On the afternoon of 15 August 2022, 24-year-old beauty influencer and blogger Sharaban K sat in front of a mirror applying her makeup in a bedroom in Munich, Germany. It was not an unfamiliar room. In fact, it was her…
In the darkness before sunrise on 12 April 1990, 31-year-old Nathan Neesmith pushed down the throttle of the fishing boat he was steering off the coast of Georgia. He expected the vessel to surge forward. Instead, almost nothing happened. The…