Author Archives: John Pullen

Francis Crick was one half of the team that made one of the biggest ever discoveries in biology. It earned them the 1962 Nobel Prize for medicine.     Crick was born on the 8th June 1916 in Northampton, England. His education and interest in science and in particular, biophysics, was interrupted by the outbreak ofContinue reading “Francis Crick – DNA Pioneer”

A few scientists have questioned whether their work or discoveries have been turned into something which they did not foresee or hoped would never happen. A good example of this was the splitting of the atom. Those like Enrico Fermi hoped that nuclear energy would be used to create a form of new cleaner powerContinue reading “The Mystery of the Vanishing Physicist”

Many past civilisations have left us artifacts which to us today, can still be puzzling. For example, the stone statues of Easter Island and the appearance of crystal skulls from various locations are just two. Another collection of strange artifacts was discovered in the 1930s in the jungles of Costa Rica.     The jungle wasContinue reading “The Mystery of Costa Rica’s Stone Spheres”

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There are many famous prisons around the world and through history, but one of the most infamous is located on an island off San Francisco. It was said to have been impossible to escape from and its name was Alcatraz. Although closed and a tourist site these days, it was home to some of theContinue reading “The Men who Escaped from the Impossible Prison”

It is said that “truth is the first casualty of war.” But it could also be said that the second casualty of war is the theft of the wealth of those countries which have been invaded. And because the Second World War saw many countries within Europe invaded by the Nazis, they also had theirContinue reading “Mystery of the Lost Nazi Gold”

Jungles can be dangerous places. Some contain wild animals, others unfriendly local tribes. But one thing they all have in common is that it is easy to get lost and not find your way out. This includes the jungles of Panama in Central America. The particular mystery here is more than perplexing as the intendedContinue reading “Mystery of the Lost Jungle Hitch-Hikers”

Aircraft have gone missing ever since they first took to the air. As their range and endurance increased, aircraft would venture further and further afield and eventually to cross oceans. This resulted in there being more lost aircraft never to be found again. And one of the most puzzling happened to one of the mostContinue reading “Flight into the Unknown”

In the days when lighthouses were “manned” it was looked on as a solitary and lonely existence even if there were three keepers working the same lighthouse to keep the lamp in good order. One such lighthouse was located on Flannan Isle, in the Outer Hebrides off Scotland. It was built in 1899. But aContinue reading “The Mysterious Disappearance of the Lighthouse Crew”

There are satellites orbiting the Earth with one main objective, to detect nuclear explosions. Besides defence, they are there to detect any unauthorised nuclear tests as they were mostly banned by a treaty signed in 1963.     One such satellite as Vela 6911 and on the morning of the 22nd September 1979, it detected aContinue reading “The Secret Nuclear Explosion”