Disasters and Close Calls
Near-misses that almost changed history, and the disasters someone saw coming.
- File 019Disasters
Nuclear Near-Misses
A rising moon, a bad switch, a stray rocket: the close calls of the nuclear age.
- File 020Disasters
Disasters Foretold
Someone saw each of these coming and put it in writing.
More departments
- Unsolved MysteriesDisappearances, uncracked codes and vanished ships: cases that are still open, with what investigators actually know.
- Conspiracy Theories, Fact-CheckedThe ones that turned out to be true, the ones that didn't, and the documents that settle it.
- Strange HistoryRidiculous wars, accidental inventions and odd laws, with the myths separated from the record.
- Lost and FoundMissing treasure, lost cities and long-lost wrecks: what's still out there and what finally turned up.
- Hoaxes and ConsThe fakes that fooled millions and the swindlers who pulled off the impossible, and how they were caught.
- Folklore and LegendsCryptids, ghost towns and the stories Americans keep telling, checked against the evidence.
- Relics and ArtifactsSacred relics, out-of-place artifacts and ancient finds: what the objects are, how old they really are, and what the evidence says.
- Weird ScienceReal phenomena that sound invented, strange sounds from the deep, and which mysteries science has cracked.