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It was August of 1949. Geologist Vadim Kolpakov had just heard a tale from locals about an eerie place in the woods known as the “Fire Eagle Nest.” Legends warned of illness, disappearances, and even death for those who ventured close (in 2005, the head of a mission to the crater indeed died suddenly nearby). Unfazed by the...
In the 1940s, Allied pilots during the Second World War reported being hounded by fast-moving blobs, which they dubbed “foo fighters”....
Before ancient Egyptians refined the Great Sphinx of Giza, natural forces may have helped carve the iconic monument’s massive feline shape out of a single mass of limestone....
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For the past four and a half years, I’ve immersed myself in spaces occupied by conspiracy theorists....
A French woman embarked on a day trip to northern Italy for what appears to have been a ghost-hunting trip. She never made it home....
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Parry Malm and Shannon Wiseman weren’t expecting a “pivotal moment” in their sons’ lives when they visited Scotland’s Loch Ness earlier this month, but that’s exactly what happened....
The University of Exeter is seeking to harness growing interest in the subjects with a course that will explore the history and impact of witchcraft and magic around the world on society and science....
Carlo Acutis, a 15-year-old programmer who died of leukemia in 2006, is set to be the first millennial saint, according to a new report from the Catholic News Agency Thursday. Acutis created websites documenting purported miracles and has been dubbed “God’s influencer” since his death....
A motorist was left gobsmacked after he caught sight of what appeared to be a ‘panther-like’ big cat in a field. Geoff Thompson, 37, was driving between Great Witley and Martley, Worcestershire, when he had his encounter....
A self-proclaimed “time traveller” claims to have returned from the year 2671 to warn of us of pending disasters including one this weekend....
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An “otherworldly” pink glow lighting up the sky in Kent left people mystified this week, with some saying it looked like “the end of the world”....
People have been seeing unexplainable things in the sky for millennia. While it is easy to dismiss them as hallucinations or flights of fancy, it is much harder to ignore photographs and videos from reputable sources. This is exactly what the office of the director of national intelligence in the US released in 2021. Its report...
“When I first discovered this ultra-high-energy cosmic ray, I thought there must have been a mistake, as it showed an energy level unprecedented in the last 3 decades,” shared Professor Fujii....
At first, site supervisor and archaeologist Melinda King Wetzel thought she was looking at a fetus from the time of the Egyptian pharaohs....
This week, the director of the U.S. government’s UFO analysis office stated that there is “evidence” of concerning unidentified flying object activity “in our backyard.” According to physicist Seán Kirkpatrick, who heads the congressionally-mandated All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, this alarming UFO activity can...
On July 19, 1952, Palomar Observatory was undertaking a photographic survey of the night sky. Part of the project was to take multiple images of the same region of sky, to help identify things such as asteroids. At around 8:52 that evening a photographic plate captured the light of three stars clustered together. At a magnitude...
A new sighting of the Loch Ness monster has been shared and is claimed to be “possibly the clearest evidence” of Nessie’s existance this year, according to a dedicated centre....
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Researchers ventured into the dry lowland forest of Nui Chua National Park on three surveys between September 2022 and March 2023, according to a study published Dec. 1 in the journal Zootaxa. They were searching for a type of lizard known as a blind skink....
