mysteries
Is This Comely Lady the Real Jane Austen?
Seth Abramovitch · 12/06/11 12:40AMThere is only one accepted portrait of Jane Austen, sketched by her sister in 1810, in which the author of Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice looks to be extremely pissed off. But Austen scholar Dr. Paula Byrne, who is working on a definitive biography due out some time in 2013, has discovered a portrait in auction, and thinks there is an excellent possibility that the woman in it daintily holding a quill and staring out a window pensively — which, coincidently, is precisely how I look at this exact moment — could be Austen herself.
Freak Tofu Explosion Terrorizes Portland
Maureen O'Connor · 11/29/11 05:05PMA female resident of Portland, Oregon was at home cooking tofu when, suddenly and without warning, her kitchen exploded. The woman said she was rinsing her tofu pan in the sink when a mysterious force—she isn't sure what—burned her hand and knocked a six-foot window out of her home and onto the street.
NYPD 'Loses' the Occupy Wall Street Wikileaks Truck
Adrian Chen · 11/22/11 02:24PMGroping Ghost Won't Let This Poor Grandma Sleep
Lauri Apple · 11/22/11 06:40AMWhere Is the Pilot Who Landed a Weed-Filled Plane in Houston?
Max Read · 11/22/11 02:21AMMysterious Unidentified Man Bursts Into Flames in Sweden
Max Read · 11/21/11 10:25PMActor Robert Wagner Not a Suspect in Natalie Wood's Death
Brian Moylan · 11/18/11 06:04PMThe Natalie Wood Drowning Case Has Been Reopened
Seth Abramovitch · 11/17/11 10:04PMWho Is Putting Up Posters in Washington Calling Antonin Scalia a Rapist?
John Cook · 11/16/11 03:40PMA crazy person, certainly. A tipster sent us shots of these leaflets, which have been going up "all around D.C. streets in recent days." In addition to misspelling his first name, the flyers accuse Scalia of date rape, soliciting prostitutes, and pistol-whipping women in hotel rooms. For more information, they recommend that you contact Scalia. He'll probably just deny it.
People Don't Move Any More
Hamilton Nolan · 11/15/11 12:02PMWhy Did This 22-Year-Old Entrepreneur Commit Suicide?
Adrian Chen · 11/14/11 02:39PMHedonistic Ghosts Rudely Sex It up in Woman's Living Room
Lauri Apple · 11/02/11 04:30AMDead Body Found on Top of Truck Driving on Highway
Max Read · 10/25/11 07:12PMMissing German Tourist May or May Not Have Been Eaten By Cannibals
Seth Abramovitch · 10/18/11 02:23AMMissing Tourist May Have Been Eaten by Cannibals, Or Not
Maureen O'Connor · 10/17/11 05:45PMVincent van Gogh Was Maybe Murdered?
Richard Lawson · 10/14/11 03:11PMYoung Woman Ages 50 Years in a Matter of Days
Matt Cherette · 10/14/11 01:06AMDoctors are baffled at the case of Nguyen Thi Phuong, a 26-year-old Vietnamese woman who says that an allergic reaction caused her skin to sag and wrinkle, effectively aging her 50 years in just a few days.