10 Incredible Long-Reads That’ll Transport You to Another Time and Place

For nearly thirty years, a phantom haunted the woods of Central Maine. Until one day, the hermit came out of the forest.

Tony Carleo stole $1 million in chips – then checked himself into the casino’s hotel to live like a king.

She was the PTA mom everyone knew. Who would want to harm her?

This really weird thing happened to me. Then it got even weirder. Then it turned insane. Do I have a story for you.

Tell your fellow Americans that you plan to cross the United States by train, and their reactions will range from amusement at your spellbinding eccentricity to naked horror.

Gaming the lottery seemed as good a retirement plan as any.

If you want to know why the Internet chose cats, you must go to Japan.

How a big crime in a small town produced a whodunit as gripping and colorful as “The Wizard of Oz” itself.

In her sixties, a swimmer revives an old dream: to swim from Florida to Cuba—111 miles—no matter how many curious sharks and stinging jellyfish get in her way.

When the Great Depression put Plennie Wingo’s Texas cafe out of business, he tried to find fame and fortune by embarking on an audacious trip around the world on foot. In reverse.