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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Ball Lightning
For two centuries, physicists told eyewitnesses they had imagined the glowing sphere that drifted through the living room. In 2012, an instrument pointed at something else caught one, and it turned out to be made of dirt.
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The Oakville Blobs
For about three weeks in 1994, a logging town of 665 people was rained on six times by translucent jelly that reportedly held human white blood cells. Three labs studied it. Three labs lost it.
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Project MKUltra
In 1973 the CIA shredded the records of a twenty-year program of mind-control experiments on people who never agreed to take part. About twenty thousand pages survived because a clerk filed them in the wrong drawer.
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The Chupacabra
A blood-draining monster was reported across Puerto Rico in 1995. The first detailed witness had, by her own account, seen a science-fiction film a month earlier. The dead animals, on examination, still had all their blood.
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The Hopkinsville Goblins
On the night of August 21, 1955, eleven people spent four hours firing shotguns at small silver creatures that would not stay down. The Air Force called it a hoax. The best skeptical explanation is owls.
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The Georgia Guidestones
A man with a fake name ordered a nineteen-foot granite monument to the end of the world, paid in advance, and was never seen again. It stood for forty-two years. Then someone bombed it, and the county finished the job by dinnertime.
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The Roswell Incident
On July 8, 1947, the United States Army announced it had recovered a flying saucer. It retracted the statement within a day, and has spent the better part of eighty years explaining what it meant instead.
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The Toynbee Tiles
For roughly four decades, someone has been gluing the same message into the asphalt of American intersections: resurrect the dead on the planet Jupiter. Nobody has explained it, and the person most likely responsible shut the door.
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The Tic Tac UFO
For two weeks in November 2004, the most advanced radar in the US fleet tracked roughly a hundred objects a day that climbed to 80,000 feet and dropped to the ocean in under a second. The Pentagon confirmed the footage was real. The classification is still unidentified.
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The Loveland Frog
In 1972, two Loveland police officers filed reports on a three-foot bipedal frog. One drew a sketch. The other, forty-four years later, said it was an iguana. The town sided with the frog.
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The Kentucky Meat Shower
On March 3, 1876, fresh meat fell from a clear sky over a Kentucky farm. Two men tasted it. Scientists examined it under microscopes. The leading explanation is worse than the mystery.
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The Mothman of Point Pleasant
For thirteen months in 1966 and 1967, a small West Virginia river town kept a record of something with red eyes and folded wings. Then the bridge fell, and the sightings stopped.
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The Dybbuk Box
In 2003 a man in Portland listed a wine cabinet on eBay and attached a ghost story to it. The cabinet was real. Almost nothing else was, and that turned out not to matter.
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The New England Vampire Panic
For more than a century, New England towns voted to dig up their dead, examine them for signs of feeding, and burn the organs of the ones that looked too fresh. The minutes survive. One of them spells "decent" wrong.
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Shadow People and the Hat Man
Thousands of people, on every inhabited continent, have reported the same figure: a dark silhouette in a wide-brimmed hat, standing in a doorway, saying nothing. He has no agenda anyone can identify, and he has never been late.
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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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Bobby Mackey's Music World
There was a honky-tonk in Wilder, Kentucky where you could order a cold beer, hear live country music, and read a printed sign disclaiming the management's liability for ghosts. The sign went up after a customer sued over being assaulted by one.
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The Phoenix Lights
On March 13, 1997, an entire city looked up and saw something silent and mile-wide pass overhead. The Air Force later explained half of the evening. The governor took ten years to admit he saw the other half.
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The Tallman Haunting
A family in small-town Wisconsin bought a secondhand bunk bed, reported thirteen months of escalating phenomena, then burned the bed. The activity stopped. There is no chapter two.
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The Watcher
Three days after closing on a six-bedroom Dutch Colonial in Westfield, New Jersey, the Broaddus family received a typed letter signed "The Watcher." They never moved in. The writer has never been identified.
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