In 1912, a famous antiquarian and bibliophile Wilfrid Michael Voynich, incidentally, the husband of the author of a very popular at one time in our novel “Gadfly” Ethel Lillian Voynich, bought on occasion from the Jesuits amazing book from the collection of a famous medieval scholar and Jesuit monk Athanasius Kircher (Athanasius Kircher).

The ocean is good at keeping its secrets. Thousands of missing sailors, hundreds of ships that have disappeared into the abyss without a trace - throughout history, the ocean has taken many lives. Many sea disasters will forever remain a mystery, beyond the control of modern researchers, despite the arsenal of technical means. One of them is the strange disappearance of the sailing ship Copenhagen in 1928.

The death of the Dyatlov group in 1959 still stirs the mind. And the more time passes, the more difficult it is to imagine the circumstances in which the tourists found themselves. In January 1959, a group of 9 people went on a ski trip across the Northern Urals. In 16-18 days the tourists planned to cover about 300 kilometers and climb two peaks.

On June 12, 2007 in California Westwood premiered the film “1408”, an adaptation of Stephen King's story of the same name, directed by Mikael Hofström and starring John Cusack. Huge bets on the picture no one made - horror-adaptations of King's prose is not always brought outstanding fees, but in this case, the audience received more than competent genre picture, which is now considered one of the best tape from the film universe of the king of horror. In honor of the 15th anniversary, I probably should have made you happy with some of my next crazy theory, but I've been overdoing something with it the last few days. So I decided to approach the events at the Dolphin Hotel from a different angle - through real horror, which is more frightening than fiction.