The Gazette
The newest original articles, reports, timelines and archive updates.
Investigation & Evidence
Investigative genetic genealogy is a powerful lead-generating method, not a machine that names a person automatically. Its results depend on sample quality, database rules, documentary genealogy and independent confirmation.
UFOs & Aerial Phenomena
The Tehran incident rests on a contemporaneous military message reporting civilian observations, two intercepts and aircraft anomalies. The document is strong evidence that the episode was reported, but incomplete for reconstructing the lights or failures.
Historical Mysteries
The Hammersmith Ghost is historically established as a rumour with lethal consequences, not as a verified haunting. Trial evidence documents mistaken identification, public fear and a lasting legal problem.
Disappearances & Unresolved Identities
The Franklin expedition was destroyed by a compound Arctic disaster rather than a single mysterious event. Inuit knowledge and archaeology have recovered its ships, while the exact movements and deaths of the crews remain incomplete.
Disappearances & Unresolved Identities
The princes probably died after entering the Tower of London, and Richard III had custody and benefited politically. The surviving evidence supports suspicion, not a proved murder method or uniquely identified culprit.
Disappearances & Unresolved Identities
Kaspar Hauser was a real unidentified youth whose changing story attracted patrons and suspicion. Modern mitochondrial DNA excludes the House of Baden maternal line; it does not reveal his parents or fully resolve his fatal wound.
Folklore & Legends
Vanishing-hitchhiker stories are documented folklore rather than one verified recurring event. Their changing details, local authentication and older supernatural motifs reveal how a modern legend acquires credibility.
Scientific Anomalies & Natural Phenomena
Ball lightning is a label for rare luminous events reported near thunderstorms. Instrumental observations constrain some cases, while varied testimony and competing physical models leave its full scope unresolved.
Disappearances & Unresolved Identities
Frederick Valentich’s recorded radio exchange is evidence of what he reported, not of what caused the disappearance. Disorientation, misidentification and accident remain plausible without recovered wreckage.
Folklore & Legends
The Wild Hunt is best understood as a scholarly and popular umbrella for varied regional traditions, not one unchanged pagan myth transmitted intact across Europe.
Scientific Anomalies & Natural Phenomena
Tabby’s Star is a genuine astronomical anomaly discovered through citizen science. Chromatic dimming supports small-particle dust rather than an opaque alien structure, while the dust’s origin remains unsettled.
Archaeology & Disputed Artefacts
The Yonaguni formation is a genuine underwater landform. Claims of extensive human construction exceed the archaeological evidence, while limited modification of a natural outcrop remains possible.