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By Steve Huff 9/27/12 8:56am

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Jimmy Hoffa (Wikimedia)

Police Search for Jimmy Hoffa Under Roseville, Mich., Driveway

The mystery of the fate of International Brotherhood of Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa is one of the most enduring in American history. Hoffa vanished in July 1975 and in the decades since his name has become a punchline for jokes about unexplained disappearances.

Shouts and murmurs of a new Hoffa resting place come out every other year or so–the latest candidate is an innocuous suburban driveway in Roseville, Michigan. It’s hard to take new rumors that Hoffa’s grave has been found too seriously anymore, but ABC News reports there may be something to this one: Read More

By Steve Huff 5/18/12 12:09am

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One57

Mystery Buyer Pays More Than $90 Million for Penthouse at One57

Intrigue is afoot tonight as real estate sleuths are likely curious to find out who has paid at least $90 million for a 10,923-square-foot penthouse on the upper floors of One57. According to a report in the New York Times the buyer’s home country and name won’t be revealed, and neither will the precise amount paid for the unit, which is located on the 89th and 90th floors of One57. Whoever they are, they’ve topped the $88 million paid earlier this year by a trust for Ekaterina Rybolovleva, the daughter of billionaire Russian Dmitry Rybolovlev. Every square foot of the residence is apparently worth a new-ish, gently-used car: Read More

By Steve Huff 4/15/12 9:42pm

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Not exactly related, yet appropriate.

The Toms River Horror: New Jersey Family Flees “Haunted” House

A haunting mystery is unfolding in Toms River, New Jersey: Did Josue Chinchilla and Michele Callan flee the 3-bedroom ranch they rented at the corner of Terrance and Lowell to get away from malevolent spirits that fly in the night? Or were they running from the more prosaic demons that haunt every empty pocket book?

Mr. Chinchilla and his fiancee, Ms. Callan, told the Asbury Park Press that they took Ms. Callan’s two children and fled the home one chill March night around 1 a.m.–just a week after moving in. The pair claim they and their children were terrified by a litany of classically vague ghostly visitations: Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 2/04/11 3:46pm

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Natalie Portman’s Secret Film

Natalie Portman’s next film comes out in theaters–well, ‘theater,’ singular, in New York. Portman has two movies in wide-release right now, one arty and one tarty–she’s a major movie star. How did her movie end up getting dumped?

It’s her celebrity, in fact, that’s the reason it’s even gotten this far–without the current Read More