Queensland

The Min Min Lights: The Outback Lights That Follow Travellers

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The roadside sign at Boulia, Queensland: 'For the next 120km you are in land of the Min Min Light — this unsolved modern mystery is a light that at times follows travellers for long distances, it has been approached but never identified'

About 5 min readFor more than a century, travellers on the empty roads of western Queensland have reported glowing balls of light that follow them for kilometres, then vanish. Science has a strong answer — a mirage that lifts distant lights over the horizon — but not every sighting fits it.

The Kaz II: The Ghost Yacht Found with the Engine Running and Nobody Aboard

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A representative image: a white sailing catamaran anchored in calm blue water off a rocky coast — the Kaz II was a 9.8-metre catamaran of similar type, and no freely licensed photograph of the vessel itself is available

About 5 min readOn 20 April 2007 rescuers boarded a 9.8-metre catamaran drifting off Queensland. The engine was running, the table was set, a video camera held footage of the crew alive five days earlier — and the three men were gone. A coroner later reconstructed what probably happened, but no bodies were ever found.