C.R. Berry

Mysteries

  • Witches, phantom dogs and pitchfork killers… Welcome to Meon Hill

    This week I’m getting in the spirit of Halloween by investigating the mysterious Meon Hill, on the edge of the Cotswolds in Warwickshire. It’s a place of Satanic legends, phantom black dog sightings, alleged witches and shadowy pitchfork-wielding killers. Anyone fancy pitching a tent there on October 31st? Meon Hill is nestled between the sleepy… Read more

  • Were the crew of the Mary Celeste swallowed by the Bermuda Triangle?

    The vanishing crew of the Mary Celeste is one of the biggest maritime mysteries in history. The Bermuda Triangle’s been blamed before, but is usually dismissed because the ship’s route didn’t pass anywhere near it. Could it be that whatever’s been swallowing ships and planes in the Triangle… moves? On November 7th 1872, the cargo… Read more

  • The mysterious murder of England’s ‘Mad King’, Henry VI

    One of the main inspirations for the plot of Game of Thrones is the Wars of the Roses, a late 15th-century dynastic struggle that was fought between the houses of Lannister and Stark—no, sorry, Lancaster and York. The wars began during the reign of the Mad King Aerys Targaryen—no, sorry, the Mad King Henry VI,… Read more

  • The mystery of Virginia Dare and the Lost Colony

    Born August 18th 1587, Virginia Dare was the first English child born in America. However, she was also part of the ill-fated Roanoke Colony, which mysteriously disappeared around the time of the Spanish Armada and thereafter became known as the “Lost Colony”… In 1584, Queen Elizabeth I instructed Sir Walter Raleigh to establish an English… Read more

  • “She is not my mummy.” Madeleine McCann spotted in Amsterdam

    In May 2007, Madeleine McCann disappeared. A few days later, Dutch shop assistant Anna Stam had a disquieting conversation with a little English girl called “Maddie”, who came into her shop and claimed the woman she was with had snatched her… On 3rd May 2007, the still unexplained disappearance of Madeleine McCann sparked the same… Read more

  • Strange but true? The green children of Woolpit

    The quaint little English village of Woolpit in Suffolk is home to a mysterious legend. In the 12th century, two nameless children showed up there out of the blue. They spoke an unknown language, ate only raw beans and their skin was green. Were they aliens? Demons? Time travellers? Sick children suffering from chlorosis?  … Read more

  • The truth about Amelia Earhart lies inside a top-secret briefcase

    The disappearance of Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly the Atlantic, is to this day the most famous unexplained disappearance in US history. But could a secret briefcase be the key to what happened to her? In July 1937, during an attempt to fly around the world, Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan,… Read more

  • Who murdered Superman?

    We all thought the Man of Steel was impervious to bullets, but in 1959, we were proved wrong. George Reeves, the first man to play Superman on TV in the 1952 series Adventures of Superman, was shot dead in his bedroom. Officially ruled a suicide, Superman’s death remains shrouded in mystery… George Reeves donned Superman’s… Read more

  • Do the Nazca Lines prove that ancient humans could fly?

    The Nazca Lines were discovered by a Peruvian archaeologist in 1927 and have bewildered the world ever since. Some say they reveal a shocking truth: humans were capable of manned flight 1,500 years ago… The Nazca Lines are geoglyphs—aka drawings on the ground—spread across 168 square miles of the Nazca Desert in Peru and consisting… Read more

  • Ghost caught on CCTV at Hampton Court Palace

    Hampton Court Palace in Greater London is famous for its ghosts, but there’s never been any hard evidence—only eyewitness sightings. That is, until 2003, when a ghost dubbed ‘Skeletor’ popped up on the palace’s CCTV… In the early 1500s, Hampton Court was built by Cardinal Wolsey for King Henry VIII and became the king’s favourite… Read more

  • The book that no one can read: the Voynich manuscript

    Where’s Robert Langdon when you need him? And what would the star of Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code make of the Voynich manuscript, the world’s most mysterious book? The Voynich manuscript is well known today as the book that no one can read, and the code that no one can crack. The manuscript comprises… Read more

  • The weirdest plague ever – dancing

    Yes. You read that right. Here we have the weirdest, funniest and freakiest unsolved mystery I’ve come across in the year and a half that I’ve been writing Behind The Curtain… I remember reading about this a few years ago and thinking, nah, it can’t be true. It’s ridiculous. Yet, outlandish as it sounds, the… Read more

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