Futility Closet

Forgotten stories from the pages of history. Join us for surprising and curious tales from the past and challenge yourself with our lateral thinking puzzles.

365-Lateral Thinking Puzzles 11/29/2021

364-Sidney Cotton's Aerial Reconnaissance 11/22/2021

363-The Lambeth Poisoner 11/15/2021

362-The Leatherman 10/25/2021

361-A Fight Over Nutmeg 10/18/2021

360-Haggard's Dream 10/11/2021

359-Stranded in Shangri-La 10/04/2021

358-The Radium Girls 09/13/2021

357-Scenes From an Earthquake 09/06/2021

356-A Strawberry's Journey 08/30/2021

355-The Auckland Islands Castaways 08/23/2021

354-Falling Through a Thunderstorm 08/16/2021

353-Lateral Thinking Puzzles 08/09/2021

352-A Victorian Hippopotamus 07/26/2021

351-Notes and Queries 07/19/2021

350-Symmes' Hole 07/12/2021

349-The National Hotel Disease 07/05/2021

348-Who Killed the Red Baron? 06/28/2021

347-The Cottingley Fairies 06/21/2021

346-A Desperate Winter in Antarctica 06/14/2021

345-Climbing Mont Blanc 06/07/2021

344-Martin Couney's Incubator Babies 05/24/2021

343-Operation Cowboy 05/17/2021

342-A Slave Sues for Freedom 05/10/2021

341-An Overlooked Bacteriologist 05/03/2021

340-A Vanished Physicist 04/26/2021

339-The Baron of Arizona 04/19/2021

338-A Point of Law 04/05/2021

337-Lost in a Daydream 03/29/2021

336-A Gruesome Cure for Consumption 03/22/2021