Have you been a Gemini all your life? Well, now it may be your turn to be a Taurus. These are the new zodiac signs

Misconceptions caused mainly by movies, press and photos

Pros and cons of polarization

…at least officially. It was abandoned in 1931, last seen in 1969, and as of this article, no one knows for certain whether it has sunk or is still drifting.

Nicknamed the Woodpecker, it was the subject of conspiracy theories and counter-interference when it first opened. Today, it's a favorite destination for tourists visiting Pripyat and the Exclusion Zone

The coveted statuette of the ape is disputed by two writers who traveled halfway around the world in search of the lost paradises of the chan-du

We believe diamonds are valuable because of a successful marketing campaign launched in 1947 but they're neither rare nor inherently valuable and lab‑grown diamonds can be produced at half the price and twice the size

The evocative monument tells the tragic ending of a neo‑Gothic drama that never came to pass. The sculptor's biographer dismissed it as a want of the finer inspiration, yet 132 years later no one remembers that biographer while everyone knows the statue

After being declassified online in 2011, it became the most popular document on the FBI website

Rumors about dead stars seen alive are a familiar theme, most with no credibility. The case of Jim Morrison, the legendary singer of the Doors, may sound like more of the same but if anyone ever had reasons to fake his own death, it was The Lizard King. This article looks at the details, the motives, the strange circumstances that surrounded his death and the way he could have pulled it off, escaping to some remote paradise islands

Main arguments of conspiracy theorists against and one reason in favor

From nuclear wasteland to ghost town inhabited by liquidators, returnees, looters, legions of tourists and stalkers, squatters defying the radioactivity left by Chernobyl. Would you go on vacation for a month?

Japan, land of ancestral customs and rituals, also creator of modern habits that are at least shocking to westerners

According to this theory Amelia Earhart ditched in the Marshall Islands, either on purpose or by pure chance. She was then captured and later executed by the Imperial Japanese Army. Evidence, eyewitness accounts, the Jaluit photograph and the unexpected statements of 4 high ranking military officers support this thesis

The man who came from Taured

Her disappearance is one of the great unsolved mysteries of the 20th century. It has been speculated that on her last flight, she crashed into the sea, was captured by the Japanese in the Marshalls Islands or reached the Phoenix Islands. The Gardner theory, although far-fetched, is like putting a semi-happy ending to this story

Since the end of WW2, after a UFO incident occurred, mysterious men appeared with the mission to disinform. They try to convince witnesses that what they had seen was a natural phenomenon. Or all the way around. When the sighting is that of a secret weapon, they spread fake news about UFOs. When they fail, they are free to remove the public credibility of witnesses or even eliminate them

On September 16, 1943, the Black Sheep Squadron began its reign of terror over Japanese pilots, shooting down 11 Zeros in the Solomon Islands. Their leader, Greg "Pappy" Boyington, scored five of those victories and from that fateful day for the Rising Sun, he continued adding kills almost daily

In 1941, a squadron of mercenary pilots became the terror of the Japanese air force during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Grateful Chinese called them the Flying Tigers

In 1958, a mysterious World War II bomber was discovered in the middle of the Sahara, perfectly preserved as if it had suddenly been transported through time from the 1940s and dropped onto the desert dunes 15 years later. This is the story of the aircraft and the tragic fate that befell its crew