Fall Asleep to The Real Places You're Not Allowed to Visit
Inside a mountain on a Norwegian Arctic island, roughly 1,300 kilometers from the North Pole, over 1.2 million seed samples sit in sealed foil packets on shelves in a tunnel carved into sandstone, at ...
8 Sep 2h 21min
Fall Asleep to What Lives at the Bottom of the Ocean Mystery
More than seventy percent of the ocean floor has never been mapped to modern survey standards. We have higher-resolution maps of Mars. The unmapped portion — roughly 267 million square kilometers — is...
7 Sep 2h 21min
Fall Asleep to The Animals That Were Myths Until Someone Found Them
The gorilla was a myth for twenty-three centuries. Carthaginian sailors reported it around 500 BCE. European naturalists dismissed the accounts as exaggeration or confusion with chimpanzees. In 1847, ...
6 Sep 1h 37min
Fall Asleep to The Tamam Shud Mystery
On the morning of December 1, 1948, a well-dressed man was found dead against the seawall of Somerton Beach in Adelaide, Australia. His legs were crossed. A half-smoked cigarette rested on his collar....
5 Sep 1h 41min
Fall Asleep to The Signals We've Never Been Able to Explain
In the spring of 1960, a young astronomer named Frank Drake pointed a radio telescope at two nearby stars and listened for a signal that was not there. He listened for four months. He heard nothing. T...
4 Sep 1h 30min
Fall Asleep to The Ancient Mysteries of Appalachia
The Appalachian Mountains are among the oldest on Earth — formed roughly 480 million years ago, before trees existed, before any animal had walked on land, when colliding continents pushed peaks to Hi...
3 Sep 2h 22min
Fall Asleep to Phenomena Caught on Camera That Science Couldn't Explain
For centuries, credible observers reported seeing a glowing sphere drift through a room during a thunderstorm. Scientists said it was a retinal afterimage. In 2012, a spectrometer in China accidentall...
2 Sep 2h 26min
Fall Asleep to The Lost City of Z Mystery
In 1925, a sixty-year-old British surveyor named Percy Fawcett walked into the Brazilian rainforest with his son Jack and a family friend named Raleigh Rimell, searching for an ancient city he called ...
1 Sep 2h 3min
