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1 week ago | 
explorersweb.com | Kristine De Abreu |Angela Benavides |Kris Annapurna
In 1980, 19-year-old Peter Lambert was working aboard the MV Derbyshire, one of Britain’s largest ships, transporting several thousand tons of iron ore from Japan. It was supposed to be his final trip on the high seas. He was already thinking about his life after this voyage, preparing for another job and planning to marry his childhood sweetheart. Instead, the ship disappeared in a treacherous body of water called the Devil’s Sea.
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4 weeks ago | 
explorersweb.com | Kristine De Abreu |Kris Annapurna |Angela Benavides |Lou Bodenhemier
At the height of the Great Depression, a crazy story had the city of Los Angeles abuzz. Three men with a digging permit, an odd invention, an old map, and an insane hypothesis effectively destroyed a historic hillside. They believed that beneath Los Angeles’s streets, there was a vast network of tunnels built by an advanced civilization of lizard people who’d been dwelling there in the depths for 5,000 years. BackgroundOur story begins not in the City of Angels but rather in Middletown, Ohio.
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1 month ago | 
explorersweb.com | Kristine De Abreu |Angela Benavides |Kris Annapurna
By 1979, the Cold War had dragged on for 32 years. The nuclear ambitions of major world powers were held at bay by a treaty that banned atomic weapon tests in the atmosphere and underwater. Yet, in the wee hours on September 22, satellites picked up an exceedingly bright double flash in the South Atlantic. BackgroundThe bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki introduced a new weapon that could decimate life on Earth.
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1 month ago | 
explorersweb.com | Kristine De Abreu |Angela Benavides |Seiji Ishii
I’m a severe claustrophobe. After getting trapped in a slide in my local McDonald’s at five years old, I swore off all tight and dark spaces forever. So it’s not entirely surprising that I couldn’t get the images of rushing, rising water and tunnels almost impossible to squeeze out of my mind when reading about an expedition to Veryovkina Cave in National Geographic. This dramatic escape from death took place in September 2018.
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2 months ago | 
explorersweb.com | Kristine De Abreu |Kris Annapurna |Angela Benavides |Reynier Squillace
I’ve long been a big fan of Greek mythology and all the wondrous beasts that tested, and sometimes bested, mythical heroes. One such creature was the chimera, a grotesque hybrid of a lion, goat, and snake. But chimeras are not only fairy tales or figments of an overactive ancient Greek imagination. A chimera is an organism with two different genetic materials or DNA, often resulting in unusual physical characteristics and genetic mutations.
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2 months ago | 
explorersweb.com | Kristine De Abreu |Kris Annapurna |Angela Benavides |Reynier Squillace
I first encountered the word “Thule” in college while pouring over beyond-old world maps in class. I thought nothing of it for the next few years until I stumbled across the word again, this time in an obscure mythology page on Facebook. Whether it was a happy accident, coincidence or divine intervention, it is a story wanting to be told. As a mythical place, Thule is less known than its other Greco-Roman counterparts like Atlantis, Hyperborea, or Lemuria.
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2 months ago | 
explorersweb.com | Kristine De Abreu |Lou Bodenhemier |Angela Benavides |Rebecca McPhee
It is a cheesy B-movie, an iconic X-Files episode, and possibly the best-known World War II legend alongside the Nazi Gold Train. From coded letters and strange deaths to teleportation, the Philadelphia Experiment bursts with mystery and intrigue. Mysterious lettersOur story begins in 1955. Morris K. Jessup was a jack of all trades — an astrophysicist, mathematician, professor, car parts salesman, photographer, archaeologist, and ufologist. Despite some wild ideas, he was highly respected.
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2 months ago | 
explorersweb.com | Kristine De Abreu |Lou Bodenhemier |Angela Benavides |Kris Annapurna
Robert Eggers’ film Nosferatu has renewed interest in vampires. Folklore about them abounds, and their presence — or preventing their presence — used to be a real concern. Some archaeologists refer to mysterious graves around Europe and North America as “anti-vampire” burials. These feature iron stakes through hearts, decapitations, sickles placed on necks, and bricks in mouths.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
explorersweb.com | Kristine De Abreu |Kris Annapurna |Angela Benavides
Picture a land free of politics and persecution. The working man, no longer under the heavy thumb of diabolical kings, oppressive governments, and unjust nobility, can live in peace and plenty. Cultures across the globe all have their version of a mythical utopia: the Garden of Eden, Elysium, Shambhala. In the heart of Eurasia, people believed in Belovodye, a paradise on Earth sought by the Russian peasantry, religious figures, and esoteric thinkers since the 1000s.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
explorersweb.com | Kristine De Abreu |Angela Benavides |Kris Annapurna
I am prepared to risk it all by admitting that I enjoyed Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. There it is. The 2008 film didn’t get the best reception because of its overdone CGI and unlikeable characters. But the storyline — centered on a mysterious, elongated skull from Peru — grabbed me. Crystal skulls are some of the most fascinating, strange mysteries out there. They arrived on the archaeological scene in the 19th century, most without stories or context attached.
