Adventures into the Unknown #75

When Robert Drake hits a rough patch as a struggling writer, he decides to write a biography of his ancestor, Sir Francis Drake—but discovers that the historical explorer's "lost year" has never been accounted for. Obsessed with uncovering this mystery, Robert's research consumes him, until a chance encounter in Times Square transports him into a jungle where he meets Sir Francis Drake himself, fleeing from unknown pursuers with a mysterious chest. As Robert listens to the explorer's tale of what happened during that vanished year in 1578, the truth behind centuries of missing history begins to unravel.

When Flight 101 touches down in Chile right on schedule, ground officials expect to welcome its passengers—but find the cabin door sealed and no response from the cockpit. What they discover when they finally cut their way inside defies all logic: the plane is completely empty, yet the parachutes remain untouched and no distress signal was ever sent. "The Case of Flight 101" presents one of aviation's most baffling disappearances, a mystery that endures to this day.

Mikayo Yoshira, director of the Japanese Society for Psychic Research, recounts the extraordinary case of Nobotu Ogata, a young doctor whose uncanny hunches have repeatedly warned of impending disaster—from a traffic accident in his childhood to an earthquake during a lake excursion. As an adult physician, Ogata finds himself gripped by an overwhelming sense of dread he cannot explain, a premonition so powerful it disrupts his work and compels him to transfer to a new city. Yoshira's investigation into Ogata's decades-long pattern of accurate intuition raises profound questions about whether human beings possess a dormant psychic ability to perceive the future.

A British newspaper finances an expedition to Mount Everest to investigate rumors of a mysterious creature—part human, part beast—that the local villagers claim inhabits the icy slopes. As the climbers set traps and search the mountain over months, they discover only tantalizing evidence: strange footprints belonging to no known animal, barefoot yet clawed for gripping ice. The expedition leaves the mountain's secret intact, but the question of what truly dwells in those heights remains unanswered.