On Christmas Eve, 1945, a fire broke out at the home of George and Jennie Sodder in Fayetteville, West Virginia. The couple escaped with their baby, and the three older children living at home got out as well. The other...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/01/02/The-Children-Who-Went-Up-In-Smoke/
Neatorama presents a guest post from actor, comedi... ...s perfidy." -as The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writings puts it. Also, in Agatha Christie's The...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/09/06/Why-Do-We-Say-The-Butler-Did-It/
A talking weasel on the Isle of Man was an international media sensation back in the 1930s. It was known as "the Dalby Spook" locally, but the weasel called itself Gef. The weasel -or possibly a mongoose- lived on the fa...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/11/18/gef-the-talking-mongoose/
In 1959, ten people went on a skiing expedition to a Russian mountain named Kholat Syakhl, camping along the way there. One turned back due to illness, and the other nine were later found dead. Caught in a snowstorm, th...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/24/the-mystery-of-the-dyatlov-pass-campers/
Do you recognize them? You can highlight the following invisible text for a spoiler, or go to the link for the full story. Or both. (RSS text is not invisible) In this 1960 photograph, the seven original Mercury astrona...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/07/31/guess-who-these-guys-are/
Believe it or not, the First Lady of mystery and the Big Kahuna had something in common-they w...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/07/30/agatha-christie-and-the-endless-summer/
In 1880, German seamstress Margarete Steiff began... ...about Steiff bears, does not believe it. "The mystery first appeared in 1953 with the 50th anniversary...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/07/28/the-great-teddy-bear-shipwreck-mystery/
In this day and age of instant stardom, it's hard to believe that someone can make a public splash and then fade into the background and remain anonymous forever. But a few managed to do that in the past, and were never...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/07/20/6-famous-people-whose-identities-we-still-dont-know/
Bouvet Island is 1,700 miles from Antarctica, and... ...island and found ...an abandoned boat. It was a mystery worthy of a Sherlock Holmes adventure. The boat,...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/02/18/the-mystery-boat-of-bouvet-island/
Some Miami residents couldn't believe their eyes w... ...a sandbar. How and why the piano got there is a mystery . A grand piano weighs at least 650 pounds and is...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/26/grand-piano-on-a-sand-bar/
