History & Archaeology

Canada

Forged hoax of a furry trout displayed at Ripley’s Believe It or Not Museum, Ocean City, Maryland, USA. By Ryan Somma. Source: CC BY-SA 2.0.

Unexplained Phenomena

Something Fishy Going On: Rumors of the Furry Trouts

Things are gonna get quite fishy—or rather furry—in this most curious story time of an article. Let us first dive...

Walrus ivory scrimshaw dated to around 1100, carved in the same fashion as the prow of a Viking longboat. New research has pinpointed where such walrus were hunted by Norsemen, revealing that their expeditions roamed much farther than previously thought. Source: Cleveland Museum of Art / Public Domain.

Archaeology & Discoveries

Ancient Walrus Ivory Reveals Vikings Regularly Hunted in North America

We may have grown up thinking it was true, but Columbus was not the first European to make contact with...

We now know what happened to James Fitzjames, first officer of the doomed Frankling Expedition of 1845. Source: Richard Beard / Public Domain.

Archaeology & Discoveries

Cannibalized Remains of HMS Terror’s First Officer Identified

The story of the ships HMS Terror and HMS Erebus, and the doom that awaited them in Canada’s frozen north,...

Unlike most cryptids the Wendigo actually existed, at least in terms of a terrifying psychosis brought on by the isolating wilderness. Source: Aden Kowalski / CC BY-SA 4.0.

Unexplained Phenomena

The Wendigo: Native American Stuff of Nightmares

(The following article contains spoilers for the 2022 movie Prey) In 2022 the seventh movie in the Predator franchise was...