The UnXplained

Deadly forests. Haunted houses. Mountains where visitors never return alive. Are there such things as "evil places"?

Will we ever find the answers? Or, might these structures have been intentionally constructed to perpetually mystify us?

Millions of people around the world claim to have had an encounter with a creature unlike any recognized by mainstream science.

Many mysteries of planet Earth are far from understood. How was Devil's Tower formed? Or why do some people get struck by lightning multiple times?

Ancient practices such as prayer, blood sports, voodoo, and exorcism are often thought to be relics of bygone superstition.

Perhaps the greatest unexplained mystery of all is: what happens to us after we die? Perhaps clues to the answer lie in unusual cases of near-death experience.

Even after centuries of study, the human mind remains as inscrutable as ever. Could the quintessential human machine, the brain, be even more powerful than we realize?

How do some people live through the impossible? Remarkable tales of human survival force us to reconsider what we know about our own will to live.

Could a cache of fantastic riches have been buried centuries ago on a tiny island in the North Atlantic?

Modern prophets. Catastrophic premonitions. Dreams of future crimes. Can people really predict the future?

Abandoned cities. Ancient cultures nearly erased by time. And colossal empires that simply vanished without a trace. How does a civilization become "lost?"

Deadly dances. Masters of manipulation. Mass suicides. Murder. Many of the world's deadliest cults ventured down dark, dangerous rabbit-holes of twisted ideologies.

Our world is full of strange and mysterious weather phenomenon that we still have no explanation for. Is it a result of just simple scientific anomalies?

Many have insisted that simple stones can do everything from choosing a king to causing death. So, what is it about rocks and stones that inspires some people to worship them?

What gives animals extraordinary powers? We like to think of ourselves as the peak of evolution--but what if we're wrong?