The crazy New York City bike messengers.

London bicycle messenger courier, Oxford Street

If you saw the movie, Premium Rush, you probably figured those crazy New York bike messengers must be tamer in real life than they were portrayed in the movie. You’d be wrong. Premium Rush (and Quicksilver, another movie with a bike messenger theme) actually offer a very close portrayal of a professional bike messenger. Bike…

Two American pilots sent to intercept a mysterious plane. As they approached the plane they radioed back to the ground to report that the aircraft was a P-40 and bore markings that had not been used since the attack on Pearl Harbor.

A letter, written in 1918, days before the end of the War, was sent by a soldier to his 9 year-old nephew. The soldier never returned home but 63 years later, the letter mysteriously found its way home.

The famed Indian rope trick – a myth, a product of mass hypnosis, or was it really magic? The trick, involving a coil of rope extended skyward, has yet to be duplicated by modern day magicians despite centuries of exhaustive study by scholars and expert magicians.

In 1587, a colony of 118 men, women, and children became one of the earliest attempts to colonize the new world – America. Traveling from Britain to Roanoke Island, near Chesapeake Bay on North Carolina’s coast, they were the first true attempt at colonization of the New World. Not long after settling, they became one…

Shroud of Turin

The Shroud of Turin, a 14 1/2 foot by 3 1/2 foot linen cloth, has been kept in Turin, Italy since 1578. The cloth bears the images of a man with wounds similar to those suffered by Jesus.

Lucy Pringle Aerial Shot of Intricate Pi Crop Circle

Crop circles appear to be relatively new phenomena, the first reports occurring during the early 1980’s in Wiltshire, England.

Nineteen Year Coma

In 1984, on Friday the 13th, Terry Wallace, then 19 years old, and a friend were involved in a major car accident in Mountain View, Arkansas. He went into a coma for 19 years and left a wife and small child waiting.

Free Energy Created in Ireland?

In what some claim may be the greatest invention since the wheel, an Irish inventor’s 23 years of effort may have finally paid off. The 58 year old electrical engineer claims to have invented an electromechanical device that runs on 12-volt batteries and is capable of replenishing its own power supply. Once powered up, it…

Orffyreus – perpetual motion

Perpetual motion, although seemingly impossible to produce, has fascinated both inventors and the general public for hundreds of years. The enormous appeal of perpetual motion resides in the promise of a virtually free and limitless source of power. The fact that perpetual-motion machines cannot work because they violate the laws of thermodynamics has not discouraged…