Stories from the edge of explanation.
About 4 min readIn 1944 a hardware merchant in Mexico was offered thousands of clay figurines — including dinosaurs, Romans and Egyptians — supposedly dug from ancient ground. Archaeologists say they were made for a peso apiece.
About 4 min readIn the canals of Xochimilco, south of Mexico City, a small island is covered with hundreds of decaying dolls nailed to trees and walls. They were hung there by a reclusive caretaker, Don Julián Santana Barrera, over fifty years — and after his death in the canal in 2001, the island became one of the world’s strangest haunted places.
About 4 min readIn December 1913, the 71-year-old American writer Ambrose Bierce crossed into revolutionary Mexico — and vanished. More than a century later, no body, no grave and no confirmed account of his fate has ever been found.