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The Bermuda Triangle: How a Legend Gets Manufactured
The Bermuda Triangle was invented in 1964 by a writer for a pulp fiction magazine. This is the story of how a manufactured mystery became one of the twentieth century's most durable legends — and what the famous disappearances actually show.
Vampire History: The Real Origins of the World's Most Persistent Legend
Vampire mythology spans thousands of years and dozens of cultures. Behind the folklore lie real historical figures, genuine medical conditions, and a set of fears about death and contamination that are entirely understandable given what people once knew about disease.
Simon Whistler · April 30, 2026 
Moon Myths and Hoaxes: From Cheese to Bat-People to Hollow Spaceship
Humanity has been inventing extraordinary stories about the moon since we first looked up at it. A tour through history's strangest lunar myths — from a Victorian newspaper's bipedal beavers to a Russian theory about alien armour plating.
Simon Whistler · April 28, 2026 
The JFK Assassination: What the Physical Evidence Actually Shows
More than sixty years after Dealey Plaza, the physical evidence — film analysis, blood spatter patterns, acoustic recordings — continues to resist the single-shooter conclusion. Here is what the record actually contains.
The Baker Street Robbery: Britain's Most Mysterious Bank Heist
On September 11, 1971, a gang tunnelled beneath a London bank, cracked 268 safety deposit boxes, and escaped with £3 million. Within days the story vanished from every newspaper in Britain — and nobody in authority has ever explained why.
Simon Whistler · April 24, 2026 
The Beast of Gévaudan: France's Three-Year Reign of Terror
Between 1764 and 1767, a creature killed 112 people across a remote French province. Unlike most cryptid accounts, these attacks were documented by church officials and government authorities — making this one of history's most well-recorded animal mysteries.
Simon Whistler · April 22, 2026 
Borley Rectory: The Truth Behind England's Most Haunted House
For decades, Borley Rectory held the title of the most haunted house in England. Investigation reveals something more mundane and more interesting: fabrication, fraud, and one very ambitious ghost hunter.
Simon Whistler · April 20, 2026 
Mothman: What Point Pleasant Actually Saw
Between November 1966 and December 1967, dozens of residents of Point Pleasant, West Virginia reported encounters with a winged figure with glowing red eyes. Thirteen months later, a bridge collapsed. The question was never whether people saw something — but what.
Simon Whistler · April 15, 2026 The Bermuda Triangle: What the Numbers Actually Show
The Bermuda Triangle has swallowed hundreds of ships and aircraft in the popular imagination. The data tells a different story — one about the history of maritime insurance, selective reporting, and how a legend gets built from nothing.