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Rebecca Northfield, writing for “Engineering and Technology” shows how a mystery can be solved through science. She explained one mystery like this: “At California’s Death Valley there are hundreds of trails from large, rough blocks of rock in the aptly named Racetrack Playa. It clearly means the stones…

Twenty-five-year-old Devin Custalow waited nearly 30 minutes on Valentine’s Day hoping a man she met on the subway in October would show up. Custalow met the man and felt a connection with him, so she created a 20-foot mural asking him to meet her on Valentine’s Day. She was surrounded by friends, family,…

Police in Germantown, Wisconsin are puzzled over who might have left a diamond ring on their Christmas tree. The tree was set up in the department’s lobby during the Christmas season, and the police had invited people to bring their children to decorate the tree and get a stuffed animal in return. They…

When a brain tumor took away Dorothy Holm’s ability to speak, she picked up index cards and began filling them with what appeared to be random sequences of letters. When Dorothy passed away in 1996, her 11-year-old granddaughter, Janna kept the cards, thinking they might be some kind of coded message.…

The amazing discovery of a 1880s era Winchester rifle has authorities in Nevada stumped. During an archaeological survey in late 2014, the rifle was discovered leaning against a tree. It blended in to its surrounding so well that officials say it is possible the .40-40 rifle had been there since the…

While scholars debate exactly what it is, a mysterious limestone tablet featuring the name of the archangel Gabriel is the highlight of an exhibit in Jerusalem. The “Gabriel Stone” is believed to have been found near the Dead Sea several years ago and contains 87 lines of an unknown prophetic text that…

When Marion Shurtleff bought a Bible from a used bookstore in California, she planned to use it to compare with her other versions. She noticed a folded, yellowed letter inside, but was startled to find her name on it when she opened it. Shurtleff says slipped between the pages of the Bible was an essay…

Stephen Hawking, the physicist who is renowned for his work on the most complex questions of astrophysics, admitted there is one topic he thinks about often that stumps him. “Women,” said Hawking. “They are a complete mystery.” --The Week, January 20, 2012, p. 6 Illustration by Jim L. Wilson and Rodger…

A mysterious code left over from the Second World War has some of the world’s best code breakers baffled. They spend their time spying on their enemies and tracking messages through satellites and cyberspace, but admit they have no idea what the message found on the leg of a carrier pigeon means. The…

The appearance of a mysterious noise has residents of a small English community baffled. Residents of Woodland in County Durham say the noise, termed “the hum” has been heard every night for the past two months, and resembles the sound of car engine. Sometimes the hum is so strong that it shakes beds.…

In Forgotten God: Reversing our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit, Francis Chan writes, “While these serve as cute metaphors for an unexplainable mystery, the fact is that God is not like an egg, a three-leaf clover, or the three forms of water. God is not like anything. He is incomprehensible, incomparable,…

Could a photograph taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in early 2010 be a sign from God? The telescope photographed a mysterious X-shaped object in the heavens that has many astronomers puzzled. Science fiction buffs have suggested the object, located about 90 million miles from earth, resembles Hollywood…

Mystery of God "Can you solve the mysteries of God? Can you discover everything there is to know about the Almighty?" (Job 11:7 NLT) Perhaps you've caught a glimpse of it while standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon, or driving down Highway 1 along the California Coastline or standing at the foot of…

I heard recently about a man who filled his car with gas at a self-service gas station. After he had paid and driven away, he realized that he had left the gas cap on top of his car. He stopped and looked and, sure enough, it was lost. He thought for a second and realized that other people must have…

MYSTERY Ever since Carly Simon topped the music charts in 1972 with “You’re So Vain”, she has been quizzed about the person mentioned in the lyrics. The song tells the story of a lover who is as attractive as he is faithless and arrogant. Simon has always said she would never tell who the lyrics, “You’re…

MYSTERY Authorities in Harwich Massachusetts are not sure if it was a prank, a theft, or an attempt to bring a little cheer to their lives. They are still investigating the mysterious appearance of a piano, in good working condition, in the middle of the woods. A woman walking along a trail near Cape…

I have come to understand that mystery is something that is more experienced through the emotions than it is comprehended with the mind. Mysteries are like love, they are not meant to be solved, but rather are meant to be lived into. They are experienced from the inside, not comprehended from the outside.…

When Albert Einstein was asked if he believed in God, here was his response: "I'm not an atheist. I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages.…

This is well-nigh the greatest of discoveries a man can make, that God is not confined in churches, but that the streets are sacred because His presence is there, that the market-place is one of His abiding places, and ought, therefore, to be a sanctuary. Any moment in any place, the veil can suddenly…