poisonings 21 teenagers mysteriously died in a South African nightclub. Was methanol to blame? Mark Frauenfelder

Weird Caracas has a mysterious black highway goo that has killed 1,800 people Ellsworth Toohey

ghost ship Tales of a ghost ship that mostly existed on paper Jason Weisberger

Games 2025's best RPG is constantly getting bigger Grant St. Clair

pandemics Four more cats die from H5N1 as new report calls evidence for efficient mammal-to-mammal transmission "unprecedented" Jennifer Sandlin

NPR Little Moon's 'Wonder Eye' wins 2023 Tiny Desk contest Rusty Blazenhoff

tabloids LBJ killed JFK in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

law Biden signs law mandating working cameras in prisons Rob Beschizza

books Take a creepy cross country roadtrip with The United States of Cryptids Thom Dunn

russia Top Russian scientist dead in mysterious fall at Moscow Aviation Institute Rob Beschizza

commercials "It's a Fine Day" is a cursed Japanese Kleenex commercial Popkin

mysteries $40,000 reward to solve mystery of 58 pregnant cows found dead in a wildlife refuge David Pescovitz

unsolved mysteries California family and dog may have died from toxic algae blooms while hiking Mark Frauenfelder

mystery Expertise and fear doomed the Dyatlov party Jason Weisberger

tabloids Bill & Hillary Clinton seduced by Ghislaine Maxwell, in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

dupe Someone is draining the blood from cattle, leaving them looking like "deflated plush toys" John Struan

deaths What killed Adrian Lamo? Rob Beschizza

Alien invasion base on the moon, Michael Jackson's body missing, and Prince Harry's clash with Trump, in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

biographies Edward Gorey's macabre tarot deck from 1966 Mark Dery

Weird Why did all these cows jump off a cliff to their deaths? David Pescovitz