Mexico Unexplained

An overview of little-known encounters with flying saucer UFOs in Mexico.

The little-known site of Cacaxtla has some of the most amazing murals in Mesoamerica.

Modern-day "Toltec shamans" promise enlightenment, for a price.

A basic understanding of the treaty that formally ended the Mexican War in 1848

This mysterious lost city set among central Michoacán's avocado groves is little-understood by researchers.

Obsidian has played practical and symbolic roles for thousands of years in ancient Mexico.

The border town of Juárez is full of ghost stories. Here are 6.

In the 1930s a Mexican businessman hid 16 tons of gold in the desert. Where is it?

A student pilot encountered high strangeness on a routine solo flight outside Mexico City

Thrust into power in his mid-20s, the last emperor of the Aztecs tried to resist the Spanish and hold onto his crumbling empire.

Unknown to many Mexicans, Mexico waged a brutal war on the Yaqui people starting in 1925.

In the 1930s an American adventurer allegedly stumbled on an ancient city in a cave supposedly once inhabited by a blond race of giants.

Martín Ocelotl, a Nahua priest and shaman, skillfully navigated the cultural upheaval of early colonial Mexico by blending indigenous spiritual practices with Christian symbols, only to face the wrath of the Spanish Inquisition in 1537 for his clandestine resistance.

For many years unexplained fireballs have appeared in the skies over Mexico. What are they?

Just decades after the conquest of the Aztecs, the Spanish in colonial Mexico had a terrible situation on their hands.

6,000 petroglyphs exist in the largest rock art gallery in Latin America at La Proveedora. Who made these drawings? Why?

What was that hideous creature that washed upon a beach in Veracruz in 1969?

An ex-prostitute had an incredible grip over a small town in northern Mexico, convincing the townsfolk to commit unspeakable acts.

Nestled in the high desert plains of the Mexican state of Puebla, on the border with Veracruz, lies Laguna de Alchichica, a shimmering, turquoise jewel set within an ancient volcanic crater. This saline lake, known as an axalapasco in the local Nahuatl language, is more than just a natural wonder. Measuring almost a mile and […]

The California Channel Islands, an eight-island chain off the coast of Southern California, are a treasure of natural beauty and ecological significance. Known in Mexico as the Archipiélago del Norte, or the Archipelago of the North, these islands—San Miguel, Santa Rosa, Santa Cruz, Anacapa, Santa Barbara, San Nicolás, Santa Catalina, and San Clemente—are today part […]