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The Zodiac Killer sent four coded messages to Bay Area newspapers between 1969 and 1970. The Z408 was solved in a week. The Z340 took 51 years and a team of international codebreakers. The Z13 — a 13-character message prefaced with the words “My name is” — and the Z32 have never been solved. Here is everything we know about the two Zodiac ciphers that still hold their secrets.
Bernie Madoff stole $65 billion. Allen Stanford stole $7 billion. Thousands of smaller Ponzi schemes steal billions more every year from ordinary investors who trusted the wrong person with their savings. Here is exactly how investment scams work, why they are so hard to spot until it is too late, and the specific checks that would have protected every single victim.
In 2003 a man named Kevin Mannis bought a wine cabinet at an estate sale and listed it on eBay with an extraordinary story — it contained a dybbuk, a malicious spirit from Jewish folklore, and every person who had owned it had suffered nightmares, illness, and misfortune. The listing went viral. The box passed through multiple owners each reporting similar experiences. It inspired a Hollywood horror film. And the full story — when examined carefully — raises questions as interesting as the haunting itself.
On a remote plateau in southern Peru, etched into the desert surface over 2000 years ago, are hundreds of enormous geoglyphs — a hummingbird with a 96 metre wingspan, a spider the size of a football field, geometric lines extending for kilometres with extraordinary straightness. The Nazca Lines have been studied for over 80 years. Their makers are known. Their method has been demonstrated. Their purpose remains one of archaeology’s most genuinely contested questions.
In 1900 sponge divers discovered an ancient shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera. Among the recovered artifacts was a corroded lump of bronze that sat unexamined in a museum for two years. When researchers finally looked closely they found something that should not have existed — a fully functioning astronomical computer of extraordinary sophistication built approximately 2000 years ago and not matched in complexity until the 14th century. The Antikythera Mechanism remains one of the most astonishing objects ever recovered from antiquity.
Phishing is the most common cybercrime in the world. In 2023 alone phishing attacks cost businesses and individuals over $18 billion globally. The emails are getting more convincing — AI is now being used to generate perfect grammar and personalised content. Here is exactly how every major type of phishing attack works and the checks that will protect you every single time.
Romance scams are the highest grossing consumer fraud in the world. In 2022 they cost victims over $1.3 billion in the United States alone — and those are only the reported cases. The average victim loses more than $10,000. Here is exactly how the scam works from the first message to the final disappearance — the scripts, the manipulation tactics, the red flags, and what to do if you or someone you love has been targeted.
In July 1947 a rancher in New Mexico found unusual debris scattered across his land. The local military base issued a press release saying they had recovered a flying disc. The next day the story changed to a weather balloon. Seventy years of investigations, declassified documents, and witness testimony later — the truth behind the Roswell incident is stranger and more interesting than either the official story or the alien narrative.
On January 4 2012 a message appeared on 4chan — one of the internet’s most chaotic forums — that was unlike anything posted there before. It claimed to be looking for highly intelligent individuals. What followed was a three year puzzle spanning cryptography, steganography, ancient literature, physical locations on five continents and a mysterious organisation that has never been identified. Cicada 3301 remains the most elaborate and most baffling puzzle in internet history.
In early November 2022 FTX was the world’s second largest cryptocurrency exchange valued at $32 billion. Sam Bankman-Fried — known as SBF — was celebrated as a genius philanthropist and the face of responsible crypto. Ten days later FTX had filed for bankruptcy, eight billion dollars of customer funds had vanished, and SBF was under house arrest in the Bahamas. Here is exactly how the fastest collapse of a major financial institution in history happened.