Fall Asleep to The Wilderness That Has Never Been Mapped
The Grand Canyon receives six million visitors a year. Nearly all of them see it from the rim. Below that rim, side canyons branch into slot canyons so narrow that sunlight reaches the floor for minut...
31 Aug 1h 41min
Fall Asleep to The Lost Colony of Roanoke Mystery
In August 1587, a governor named John White stood on the deck of a departing ship and watched a barrier island grow smaller behind him. On that island — Roanoke, in the Outer Banks of what is now Nort...
30 Aug 1h 42min
Fall Asleep to Urban Legends That Turned Out to Be True
Everyone knows what an urban legend is — a story that sounds true, gets told as true, circulates through friends and family and late-night conversations, but isn't real. Except sometimes it is. For ov...
29 Aug 1h 39min
Fall Asleep to The Ancient Secret Rituals Mystery
For nearly two thousand years, the most important religious experience in the ancient Mediterranean was a secret. At Eleusis, outside Athens, thousands of people walked a stone road every autumn, fast...
28 Aug 1h 48min
Fall Asleep to The Mystery of the Vatican's Chronovisor
In 1972, a Benedictine monk named Father Pellegrino Ernetti told an Italian newspaper that he and a team of scientists — including, he said, Enrico Fermi and Wernher von Braun — had built a machine ca...
27 Aug 1h 28min
Fall Asleep to The Book of Giants Mystery
Somewhere in the last few centuries before the Common Era, a scribe composed a text in Aramaic about giants who dreamed troubled dreams. They were the offspring of heavenly beings who had crossed a bo...
26 Aug 1h 44min
Fall Asleep to The Book of Enoch Mystery
For centuries, the Book of Enoch was everywhere. Early Church Fathers quoted it. The New Testament referenced it by name. Jewish communities in the Second Temple period read it alongside the prophets ...
25 Aug 1h 35min
Fall Asleep to Ancient Mysteries Science Can't Explain
A computer made of bronze gears that calculated eclipses a century before Christ. Concrete that has been healing its own cracks underwater for two thousand years. Sword blades containing carbon nanost...
24 Aug 1h 36min
