Mysteries news headlines

The shocking 1999 shooting death of Jill Dando left Britain stunned.

The space agency still can't explain a handful of sightings and wants better scientific techniques to investigate incidents.

Images of artifacts laying hundreds of metres beneath the ocean offer new insights into Mediterranean culture, experts say.

Researchers came across the wreck of the ship that capsized off Tasmania in 1973.

The US government has received more than 350 new reports of UFOS, roughly half of which are unexplained.

More than a hundred new designs discovered in and around Peru's ancient Nazca plain could bring new information to light about the mysterious artworks.

The findings will disappoint believers in alien visitors to earth.

Hundreds of people across northern Britain watched an unusual fireball lighting up the night sky.

The mysterious detached foot of Sydney fraudster Melissa Caddick has been a key focus on the opening morning of an inquest into her suspected death.

More human remains have been found at drought-stricken Lake Mead.

At least one of the deaths 'are nefarious', authorities say, revealing time is the enemy.

Police in South Australia say they are "cautiously optimistic" after an Australian researcher claimed to have discovered the identity of Somerton man.

Inmates could help solve 52 cold cases mysteries, thanks to a bold initiative.

The 'expanding hole' that proves you can't trust your eyes.

The family of missing Belgian backpacker Théo Hayez remain convinced the 18-year-old wasn't alone in the final moments he vanished, three years ago.

The three Americans who died last week at a Bahamas resort have been identified, as scientists and investigators work to determine their causes of death.

Police are investigating how three Americans died of unknown causes at a Sandals resort on the Bahamas' Great Exuma island.

Mexican wildlife experts are investigating the mysterious death of a flock of birds.

It was precisely 121 years ago today when a ship arrived at the small Scottish island of Eilean Mor, and kicked off one of maritime history's most enduring mysteries.

A fossil of a giant millipede found in northern England has revealed the "biggest bug that ever lived," paleontologists say.

A British aerospace engineer claims to have pinpointed the precise coordinates where Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 crashed and dropped to the bottom of the southern Indian Ocean.

On a desolate and windswept corner of Qatar's northeastern coast, among the sand dunes of the barren desert, lies Al Jassasiya, the Gulf country's largest and most important rock art site.

The mystery surrounding a UK puddle which formed with no rain and glaring sunshine has deepens as investigators rule out pineapple juice.

Wearing a business suit and a pack with $200,000 in cash, D.B. Cooper parachuted his way into the history books nearly 50 years ago.

Members of the US House Intelligence Committee are due to hear a classified briefing about one of the most controversial topics circulating in Washington today: UFOs.

Among his varied pursuits and hobbies, the late Prince Philip held a strong interest in UFOs and collected books and reports on the subject.

When US President Donald Trump signed the A$2.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill into law, the countdown for US intelligence agencies to tell Congress what they know about UFOs began.

Seventy five years after the disappearance of five aircraft and their entire crews over the notorious Bermuda Triangle, an Australian researcher has thrown new light on the mystery.

The group broke the structure into pieces, loaded it into a wheelbarrow, and left 'no trace' of the silver object.

For the first time, scientists have detected a Fast Radio Burst (FRB) that came from inside our own Milky Way galaxy.

Tony Abbott is pushing for a new MH370 hunt, after revelations the Malaysian government told him "early on" the crash was a mass murder-suicide.

It has no brain, is bright yellow and has 720 sexes. It isn't something out of a horror movie – but rather a new organism dubbed "The Blob".

An expedition to find the body and plane of missing pilot Amelia Earhart has concluded, with several tantalising clues that could solve the 82-year-old mystery, including the possibility she was eaten by colossal island crabs the size of a small dog.

For 50 years, residents of a New Hampshire town speculated what might be inside a time capsule from 1969.

Officials in Bielefeld have had enough and are offering big bucks to whoever delivers solid proof of its non-existence.

They've claimed one theory about the fabled 'monster' is plausible.

One family's nightmare is over: They finally sold the home where they were terrorised by letters from "The Watcher."

Fifty years after a plane stolen by a US airman crashed into the sea, the aircraft’s wreckage has been found.

For many, the mere sight of Black Mountain, an eerie and imposing landform in far north Queensland, is enough to make the jaw drop.

A gargantuan earth drawing in South Australia continues to be one of the world’s biggest unsolved mysteries.

'When she swerved she described it was as she went through her.'

Mother of two Lyn Dawson disappeared from her home on Sydney's northern beaches in January 1982 and hasn't been heard from since.

The wife of a man who died on board flight MH370 is outraged the Malaysian government did not offer to fly her from Australia for a briefing on the final MH370 report until the last minute.

US naval historians are a step closer to solving the mystery of why history’s first attack submarine sank with all its crew.

Builders in England have uncovered $2.5m bank notes stashed during World War II beneath the floorboards of Winston Churchill’s favourite tailors.  

Today marks 50 years since Harold Holt vanished. It was a day at the beach that ended in tragedy.

Fifty years on from the unsolved disappearance of Australia's 17th prime minister, Harold Holt, the conspiracy theories will not go away.

Questions surround the death of a stunning 21-year-old model found dead in her college dormitory room in Bangladesh earlier this year.

The family of missing Australian hiker Sophie Dowsley have made the heartbreaking announcement that the search for her in treacherous and remote Canadian wilderness has been called off and she may never be found.

It was a summer's day in 1967 when the prime minister vanished.