C.R. Berry

Mysteries

  • The sixth sense – is it possible to see the future?

    Happy New Year to you all! The blog is back and this week I’m asking, is the sixth sense real? Are there really people out there who can see the future? The answers may lie with our dreams, flamingos and Dennis Quaid’s wife… The sixth sense – also known as extra-sensory perception (ESP) – is… Read more

  • Before the Princes in the Tower, there was the ‘Duke in the Castle’

    We’re all familiar with the story of the Princes in the Tower, when 12-year-old Edward V and his 10-year-old brother Richard disappeared without trace in the Tower of London in 1483. But do you know the story of 16-year-old Prince Arthur, Duke of Brittany – the ‘Duke in the Castle’? Arthur, Duke of Brittany and… Read more

  • The Bermuda Triangle’s first victim – Italian explorer John Cabot

    In 1498, John Cabot set sail on his third voyage to North America under the commission of King Henry VII of England – and disappeared mysteriously. Was he the first victim of the phenomenon that resides in the Bermuda Triangle? The Bermuda Triangle is a region in the North Atlantic Ocean generally regarded as being… Read more

  • Britain’s most famous ghost – the Brown Lady of Raynham Hall

    The most famous ghost in the UK is that of the Brown Lady of Raynham Hall in Norfolk, whose image was allegedly captured by photographers from Country Life magazine. Who is she? Is Raynham Hall really haunted by her ghost? Or is the photo a fake? The first recorded sighting of the Brown Lady was… Read more

  • Manic Street Preachers’ missing guitarist – did he jump or was he pushed?

    Richey Edwards – former guitarist and lyricist for the Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers – was known for having an air of mystery. On 1st February 1995, he became the centre of a new mystery – his own disappearance… Known for his eyeliner-heavy ‘Emo’-look, his enigmatic persona and his politically charged lyrics, Richey Edwards was the guitarist… Read more

  • Is God a Martian? Ancient aliens and the Pyramids of Mars

    Is there or was there life on Mars? Many people, including some scientists, believe that intelligent life used to exist on the Red Planet and that the evidence is already abundant. But how convincing is this evidence? And if ancient aliens did once dwell on Mars, what is their connection to us? Even though freezing… Read more

  • The truth about Loch Ness – time travel and the Taos Hum

    Loch Ness in Scotland is a hotbed of intrigue, mostly because of copious alleged sightings of the Loch Ness Monster, affectionately dubbed ‘Nessie’. A little further investigation reveals that Loch Ness has also played host to poltergeists, the famous Taos Hum, birds going berserk and time travel. So just what is going on at Loch… Read more

  • The most mysterious body ever found… the Atacama Alien

    In 2003, a skeleton was discovered near an abandoned church in the deserted town of La Noria, in the Atacama Desert in Chile. It had a vaguely human shape, except for having 10 ribs instead of 12, an abnormally large and pointed head, and being only 6 inches in length. Many suspected that the Atacama… Read more

  • Serbians, corrupt footballers or the BBC – who killed Jill Dando?

    It was a sad and shocking day on 26th April 1999 when Jill Dando, newsreader and presenter of BBC TV series Crimewatch and Holiday, was shot dead outside her home. After Barry George was convicted of her murder, we all thought the case was solved. Then he was acquitted on appeal. So the question is,… Read more

  • The Death of Edward II – natural causes, suffocation or a red-hot poker up the bum?

    The death of King Edward II during his imprisonment at Berkeley Castle in 1327 is shrouded in mystery. Nobody knows for certain whether he died of natural causes, was murdered on the orders of his wife, or in fact swapped his clothes with a servant and escaped… It’s an understatement to say that Edward II… Read more

  • LA’s most dangerous hotel and the gruesome case of Elisa Lam

    On February 19th 2013, 21-year-old Canadian student Elisa Lam was found dead and decomposing in a water tank at the Cecil Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles. Theories as to how she got there range from mental illness to murder to demonic possession… I’ve heard that Downtown LA has a bit of a bad rep. I… Read more

  • Half-fish, half-polar bear – the mysterious ‘Trunko’

    The world is full of stories about mysterious creatures that inhabit the ocean. One of those is the enigmatic Trunko, a half-fish, half-polar bear monster with an elephantine trunk, spotted battling two killer whales off the coast of Margate Beach, South Africa in 1924… This astonishing encounter between two killer whales and a large creature… Read more

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