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The Supernatural Blacksmith. Nathan Coker: Mystery Files
Nathan Coker could place white hot metal on his flesh without burning, he could gargle with molten lead with no ill effects. All this he regarded as perfectly natural - He was the Supernatural Blacksmith.
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Horror of the Monster Makers - Real Life Freaks made by Frankensteins: Mystery Files
Frankenstein is fiction, but is is possible that human monsters could be created? It's not only possible - It's fact. It's an ancient practice, it continued for centuries and was all done in the name of profit.
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Life after death? The Mary Sutton reincarnation : Mystery Files
Reincarnation? - This is the true story of Jenny Cockell, who believes that she lived a past life as an Irish woman - Mary Sutton - who died over half a century ago in childbirth. So sure was she,that this had actually happened,that she set out to find Mary's living children... and she succeeded.
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Star jelly or Star slime - What is it?: Mystery files
Star Jelly - According to legend, it is brought to our world by shooting stars - meteors. It looks like jelly, or slime and it quickly disintegrates leaving little or no trace. What exactly is "star jelly"?
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The Army that Vanished - Mystery Files
The year is 1937. Chinese troops lie in wait of a Japanese attack, but overnight three thousand men simply disappear without trace and are never seen or heard from again.
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The Disappeared of Flannan Isle - Mystery Files
The true but eerie story of a remote Scottish lighthouse where the three keepers just vanished off the face of the earth, and were never seen again.
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Recipe: How to make Wine from Tea
Did you know that you can make a delicious wine from TEA? - It's quick and easy to make and need no special equipment. Want to inow how? Then read on..
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Curse of the Crying Boy Picture - Mystery Files
Following an horrific house fire in Rotherham, UK, the ground floor was ravaged and reduced to little more than charcoal and cinders, but there in the middle of all the devastation remained one solitary item, completely untouched by the inferno that had raged about it - A cheap framed print of a...
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The Story of Zana the Russian Neanderthal Found in 1850
What they saw appeared to be human - and yet not human. It seemed to be young and female with ape-like features. Her arms,legs,and fingers were unusually thick. her bosom was described as "Massive" and she was covered with thick dark hair. She was also said to be absolutely ferocious, nevertheless,...
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Spontaneous Human Combustion. The Woman Who Burst Into Flames -Mystery Files
Within the charred circle they could see a heap of ashes containing some chair springs, a human spine with the scorched remains of a liver still attached, a human skull which the intense heat had shrunk to the size of a grapefruit and a satin-slippered human foot, severed by burning at the ankle....
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What do "Best Boy" and "Dolly Grip" mean? Plus, Other Odd Film Terms
Have you ever watched the latest Blockbuster Film, and then whilst perusing the closing credits rolling up the screen at the end of the show, been amazed not only at the sheer numbers of personnel required to get the production onto the screen, but also by the sheer strangeness of some of the job...
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My Local Werewolf - The Legend of the Welsh Werewolf - Mystery Files
The countryside is dark, bleak and lonely. What little light there is emanates from the full moon. Tinged with a strange blood-red hue, it hovers above the horizon. The mournful sound of howling echoes across the still night air sending a chill through the blood. Silhouetted against the eerie face...
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Welsh Recipe: Traditional Welsh Cakes (Cacen Gri)
Here we go with another recipe from Wales. This one is a favourite with both locals and visitors to Wales. In Wales they are known by many names (depending on which part of Wales you live in) such as: picau ar y maen, pice bach, cacen gri or teisen radell
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My Local Serial Killer - Peter Moore
Peter Moore was regarded by the parents as a kindly local businessman who was trying to pump life back into a number of cinemas which he owned in North Wales. These were not modern Multi-Plex theatres, but the old-fashioned "Flea pit" type of Picture house that many of us of a certain age will...
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Welsh Recipe: Bara Brith
The name literally means "speckled bread" and is baked and sold commercially in most parts of Wales, but virtually every region, town, and family seems to have their own special version of the recipe.
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Welsh Recipe: Welsh Broth - Cawl Cymraeg
Most nations have their own version of Stew or Broth. It seems to have been a staple of diet for as long back as you care to go, and Wales is no different. The Welsh word for Broth is "Cawl" (pronounced like "Cow" with an L on the end). Cawl was the dish most likely to be served down on the farm...