HistorIQly Jr. Ages 8–12
Big mysteries.
Curious minds.
A deserted ship. An ancient computer. Five photographs that fooled the world. Open a book, follow the clues, and decide what the evidence tells you.
Find your next mystery
History's greatest mysteries for young detectives 01 The Collection
Four doors into the past
Follow the kind of mystery that makes you ask one more question.
Hoaxes
Someone lied — but who, and why?
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They were here — then they weren't.
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Ancient secrets buried in time.
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Puzzles left behind by the past.
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HistorIQly Jr.
A story is only the beginning.
Read with curiosity. Leave with better questions.
Follow the story
Meet the people, places and puzzles behind each case.
Look at the evidence
Separate what we know from what remains uncertain.
Make up your own mind
Use the sources and detective questions to keep investigating.
For curious readers ages 8–12, and the grown-ups reading alongside them.
02 All Case Files
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Hoaxes
The Cottingley Fairies
Two Cousins, Five Photographs, and a Famous Hoax
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Hoaxes
The Cardiff Giant
The Stone Man That Fooled a Nation
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Hoaxes
The Piltdown Man
The Painted Skull That Fooled Science for 41 Years
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Hoaxes
The Horned Helmet
How One Opera Costume Changed What the World Believed About Vikings
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Hoaxes
The Martian Invasion
The Radio Drama Behind the Legend of a Nationwide Panic
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Hoaxes
The Crop Circle Makers
How Two Hoaxers Made Patterns That Sparked a Global Mystery
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Hoaxes
Barnum's Mermaid
The World's Most Famous Mermaid Was a Monkey Sewn to a Fish
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Hoaxes
Nessie
The Most Famous Monster Photograph Ever Taken Was a Toy Submarine
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Hoaxes
One Minute of Bigfoot
The Patterson-Gimlin Film and the Ape That May Never Have Existed
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Hoaxes
Life on the Moon
The 1835 Newspaper That Reported Bat-Men Living on the Moon
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Hoaxes
The Bermuda Triangle
The World's Most Dangerous Stretch of Ocean — Or the World's Biggest Myth?
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Vanished
Into the Pacific
The Disappearance of Amelia Earhart
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Vanished
CROATOAN
The Lost Colony That Left One Word Behind
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The Ghost Ship
The Mary Celeste and the Crew That Was Never Found
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Vanished
D.B. Cooper
The Man Who Hijacked a Plane, Took the Money, and Jumped Into the Night
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Vanished
Lost in the Ice
129 Men Sailed Into the Arctic to Find a Shortcut. None Came Back.
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Vanished
The Lighthouse at the End of the World
Three Keepers. A Silent Lighthouse. What Happened?
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Vanished
The Lost Princess
Did the Youngest Romanov Daughter Survive the Night That Ended the Russian Empire?
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Vanished
Lost in the Amazon
A British Explorer, His Son, and the City That Swallowed Them Both
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Vanished
Flight 19
Five Navy Planes Flew Into the Bermuda Triangle. They Never Came Home.
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Vanished
The Vanishing of Agatha Christie
The World's Most Famous Mystery Writer Became Her Own Greatest Mystery
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Lost Worlds
Atlantis
The Island That Swallowed Itself — Or Did Plato Make It Up?
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Lost Worlds
Göbekli Tepe
The Stone Age Settlement That Changed the Story
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Lost Worlds
The Nazca Lines
Giant Desert Drawings and the People Who Made Them
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Lost Worlds
The Island of Giants
Who Carved the Moai — and How Did They Move Them?
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Lost Worlds
Stonehenge
Someone Moved 5-Ton Stones 200 Miles. No One Knows Exactly Why.
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Lost Worlds
The City of Gold
Explorers Spent 400 Years Searching for El Dorado. Did It Ever Exist?
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Lost Worlds
The Cloud City
The Inca Mountain Settlement and the Clues Its Builders Left Behind
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Lost Worlds
Troy
The City Behind the Story
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Lost Worlds
The Cliff Dwellers
They Built Homes in the Cliffs. Why Did Their Communities Move?
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Lost Worlds
Great Zimbabwe
A Vast Stone City Whose Builders Historians Refused to Believe In
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Ancient Mysteries
The Book Nobody Can Read
The Voynich Manuscript and Its 600-Year Secret
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The Ancient Computer
The Antikythera Mechanism and the Knowledge We Lost
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Ancient Mysteries
The Wow! Signal
The Radio Signal Nobody Has Explained
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Ancient Mysteries
How Did They Build the Pyramids?
Stone, Sledges, and an Ancient Engineering Mystery
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Ancient Mysteries
The Script Nobody Can Read
Easter Island Had Its Own Writing System — and Nobody Has Decoded It
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Ancient Mysteries
The Underground City
An Underground Refuge Built and Expanded Across Generations
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Ancient Mysteries
The Perfect Walls
Inca Stonework So Precise That a Knife Blade Cannot Fit Between the Blocks
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Ancient Mysteries
The Ancient Battery
A Clay Jar, Metal Parts, and a Question About Electricity
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Ancient Mysteries
The Disc With No Answer
A 3,700-Year-Old Clay Disc Covered in Symbols. Nobody Has Decoded It.
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Ancient Mysteries
Greek Fire
The Byzantine Weapon That Burned on Water — and Its Lost Formula
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The Cottingley Fairies
Two Cousins, Five Photographs, and a Famous Hoax
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