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Case RT-KRYPTOS
Kryptos
A ten-foot copper sculpture has stood in the CIA's courtyard since 1990 with four secret messages carved through it. Thirty-five years later, three are solved. The fourth was never cracked — just found in a folder.
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The Beast of Bray Road
A newspaper reporter in Elkhorn, Wisconsin was assigned a fluff piece about werewolf sightings in 1991. She spent the next thirty years on it. The creature's primary observed behavior was eating roadkill.
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New CASE RT-COOPER
D.B. Cooper
On the night before Thanksgiving 1971, a polite man in a dark suit took $200,000 and a parachute, opened the back of a jet, and stepped out into the rain. He was never found.
New CASE RT-FLATWOODS
The Flatwoods Monster
In 1952, seven people and a dog walked up a West Virginia hill to see what had fallen from the sky. They came back down running. The Air Force said it was a bird.
CASE RT-GROVE
Bohemian Grove
Every July, some 2,000 of the most powerful men in America put on robes and burn an effigy at the foot of a 40-foot owl. The Satanism is cardboard. The guest list is not.
CASE RT-MARFA-LIGHTS
The Marfa Lights
Texas spent about $700,000 on a viewing platform so tourists could gather at night and watch a famous desert mystery. A team of physics students traced most of it to car headlights.
CASE RT-BLUELADY
The Moss Beach Blue Lady
A clifftop restaurant on the San Mateo coast lists its ghost, more or less, as an amenity. Almost everything about the Blue Lady can be explained — the effects, the legend, the séance. What's left over is a woman in a blue dress that nobody can name.
CASE RT-VOYNICH
The Voynich Manuscript
A genuine early-15th-century book, written in fluent handwriting nobody can read, illustrated with plants that don't exist and figures bathing in plumbing. Every few years someone solves it. It remains unsolved.
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