Vol. I · No. 6 Price: One Tinfoil Hat

“All the News That’s Unfit to Believe”

SPECTERS

Faceless Man in Wide-Brimmed Hat Reported in Homes Worldwide, Said to Pass From Kin to Kin

A podcast episode gathers witness accounts of the so-called Hat Man, a figure said to appear to one family member and then to another.

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Witnesses around the world describe the same faceless man in a wide-brimmed hat, and they say that once he appears to one person in a house, another family member is often next, according to the show notes of a recent episode of the Weird Darkness podcast, titled "The Hat Man: The Shadow That Spreads From One Family Member To The Next."

The episode's central segment, credited to Greg Newkirk and Dana Matthews of Week In Weird, notes that reports of the figure, a mysterious entity in a long-brimmed hat, continue to arrive from many countries. It asks the questions the subject invites: who the Hat Man is, what he wants, and why so many people claim to have been visited.

The account that opens the telling dates to 1969, in a rental house in Northern Virginia. According to the episode summary, a boy named Brian fled muffled voices in his closet and saw a tall, thin man in a large-brimmed hat standing at the foot of the guest-room bed. The summary notes this was decades before he had heard of the Hat Man or of the shadow people, whom Art Bell's Coast to Coast AM made famous in 2001.

The Hat Man shares the program with a varied company of other oddities. A contributor named Heather Circle tells of her aunt Amy, who is said to have woken to what Heather believes was the Grim Reaper, nearly seven feet tall and holding a toddler's missing pink sippy cup, two weeks before Amy was diagnosed with terminal cancer at 25. Another listener-style story concerns a woman who lost her favorite aunt to a brain aneurysm and later found herself stranded by a broken-down car near the cemetery where the aunt is buried.

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Source: Weird Darkness · Oct 13, 2026
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SKIES & SAUCERS

Segmented Object Spotted on Rhodes Airport Webcam; Author Pronounces It 'Alien Craft'

A UFO blogger scanning live camera feeds says he found a metallic, arm-like shape in the sky over a Greek airport and had an AI tool sharpen the image.

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Image: UFO Sightings Daily

A still image from a public webcam trained on Rhodes International Airport has drawn the attention of Scott C. Waring, author of the blog UFO Sightings Daily, who reports that it shows a segmented, metallic object hanging in the sky above the Greek airfield. The sighting is dated October 12, 2026.

According to the post, Mr. Waring habitually watches live camera feeds in search of the unexpected, calling the practice a way of being everywhere at once. He writes that the image was on the main screen of the Skyline Webcams site when he came upon it, and he advises readers that it may still be there, adding only, "Good luck."

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SKIES & SAUCERS

Reconnaissance Office Names Its UAP Director as Washington's Saucer Docket Swells

A digest from The Anomalist surveys a memo, a briefing, a possible congressional hearing and a rediscovered cache of Las Vegas files.

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The National Reconnaissance Office, an agency whose work is seldom discussed in public, has appointed a director for its PURSUE effort and addressed the extraterrestrial hypothesis, according to a digest published by The Anomalist and drawn from Sentinel News. The digest credits writer Baptiste Friscourt with covering a memo said to demonstrate the executive branch's genuine interest in unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP.

The digest's own commentator, signing as WM, takes a drier view. The memo, he suggests, also reinforces the executive branch's interest in controlling information on the subject.

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Source: Sentinel News · found via The Anomalist · Oct 12, 2026
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SKYWATCH

Reddit Experiencer Urges Public to Lie Down and Watch the Stars for 'Fish' of Light

A poster of five decades' experience reports dim, fast-moving orbs near the Pleiades and a curious sensation of being watched in return.

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A Reddit user posting to r/Experiencers has issued a call to fellow members of that community to take up a patient new pastime: lying on the ground beneath the stars, pillow and blanket at hand, and watching for movement overhead.

The author's method, as described, is to relax the eyes and look as though searching for a fish swimming in the sky. A session should last about an hour, the post advises, and should be repeated from time to time to exercise the muscle of seeing. The writer cautions against expectation and says the most activity has appeared near the Pleiades.

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Source: r/Experiencers · Oct 12, 2026
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BIG CATS ABROAD

Big Cat 'Catfoot' Stalks Evenings Near Binley Woods as Germans Hunt Puma

Authorities are reported called in over sightings in Britain, while a police search for a suspected puma continues near Munich Airport.

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Image: Coast to Coast AM

Authorities in the British community of Binley Woods have recently been called in following a series of reported big cat sightings, according to a digest entry published by The Anomalist, which draws on a report from Coast to Coast AM.

The animal, now known locally as "Catfoot," is said to make most of its appearances in the late evening. The report states that residents have been advised not to approach the creature. It offers no description of the animal's size or colouring, and names no witnesses, nor does it say what, if anything, the authorities have found.

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Source: Coast to Coast AM · found via The Anomalist · Oct 12, 2026
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SECOND SIGHT

Migraine Sufferer Reports Vision of Distant Friend's Curled Hair and Two White Clips

A poster on r/remoteviewing says a three-year-old episode of pain and closed eyes produced a detailed image of a friend 200 miles away, later confirmed by text.

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A Reddit user posting to r/remoteviewing has described what they regard as a single instance of remote perception, occurring three years ago during a migraine that, by the author's account, had lasted at least four hours.

According to the post, the writer lay curled on a sofa with eyes shut and knuckles pressed to the temples when a clear image appeared of a friend, shown from the shoulders up and slowly rotating. The author says the picture was clearer than ordinary sight, down to eyelashes and pores. What stood out, the writer states, was the friend's unusual curled hair, held back in front by two white clips.

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TRANSMISSION

Time Is Alive, Listening and Slightly Nosey, Says Author; Body Said to Be Antenna

Gillian MacBeth Louthan's latest essay holds that every decision spawns a parallel world and that love knocks on the door of the heart like a persistent welcome wagon.

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Image: Era of Light

A new essay titled "The Quantum Awakening: Parallel Worlds" appeared on October 12 on the website Era of Light, bylined to Gillian MacBeth Louthan. It offers readers a guide to time, thought and the many versions of themselves said to be living down the corridor.

The author writes that time is a living entity that is fluid, flexible and intelligent, and compares it to an octopus that can change colors and hide in plain sight. According to the essay, parallel worlds are born from every decision a person makes, and from every decision not made. She likens the arrangement to a subway system with many stops.

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Source: Era of Light · Oct 12, 2026
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FROM THE DEEP

Bronze Ring Bearing Lost Lighthouse Recovered From Sunken Palace Off Alexandria

Divers working among the drowned ruins of Antirhodos have found what is said to be the first known signet ring depicting the vanished Wonder of the ancient world.

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Image: The Debrief

Nearly 2,000 years after a royal palace slipped beneath the Mediterranean, archaeologists have brought up a small bronze ring engraved with the image of a monument that no longer stands. According to The Debrief, the engraving depicts the Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

The ring was found on Antirhodos, an island that once formed part of the city's royal quarter. The excavation is conducted by the European Institute for Underwater Archaeology, led by French archaeologist Franck Goddio, in collaboration with Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.

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Source: The Debrief · Oct 12, 2026
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ANCIENT ENIGMAS

Clovis People Found Living 9,000 Feet Up Montana Peaks, Earlier Than Thought Possible

An archaeologist calls the site a place and ecosystem that 'shouldn't exist,' as a digest of antiquity news also surveys glyphs, a possible female king and Mycenaean burials.

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The long-argued story of how people came to inhabit the Americas has acquired another wrinkle, according to a digest published by The Anomalist, which draws on a report originally carried by Popular Mechanics. The report, by writer Tim Newcomb, holds that Clovis people lived some 9,000 feet up in the mountains of Montana at an earlier date than had been believed.

Archaeologist Scott Dersam is quoted as describing the find as being "in a place that shouldn't exist in an ecosystem that shouldn't exist." The digest sets aside the competing pre-Clovis theories for the moment and directs readers to a longer account by Nick Mott in Mountain Journal, titled in part 'It Should not Exist.'

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Source: Popular Mechanics · found via The Anomalist · Oct 12, 2026
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ANCIENT ENIGMAS

Hampshire Church Yields Labyrinth Hidden Beneath Altar Table for Over a Century

Heritage charity invites the public to help explain a 1,500-tile floor pattern and the curious behaviour of sunlight at St Mary's, Itchen Stoke.

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Image: Ancient Pages

A redundant church in Hampshire has revealed a floor labyrinth that, according to Ancient Pages, went largely unnoticed for more than a century, and the Churches Conservation Trust is now asking the public for help in understanding it.

The 11-circuit design lies at the eastern end of St Mary's Church. It is described as roughly five metres across and made of about 1,500 glazed brown and green tiles, laid as a smaller copy of the medieval labyrinth at Chartres Cathedral in France. It is believed to be the only historic indoor church labyrinth in the United Kingdom. The article says the Conybeare brothers commissioned it, and that it was built between 1866 and 1867.

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Source: Ancient Pages · Oct 12, 2026
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ANCIENT ENIGMAS

Ice Age Carvers Copied the Tusk's Own Grain, Study of Ukrainian Venus Figurines Finds

An international team reports that ornaments on 18,000-year-old mammoth-ivory figurines from Mizyn echo the natural growth lines of the tusk itself.

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Image: Ancient Pages

An international research team says it has identified the source of the ornamentation on eighteen female figurines carved from mammoth ivory some 18,000 years ago, according to a report by Ancient Pages on a study in the journal npj Heritage Science.

The figurines were excavated at the Mizyn campsite in Northern Ukraine more than a century ago. The researchers examined them under the microscope, and six were digitised in three dimensions under a heritage project backed by the US Ambassador Fund for Cultural Preservation. Access to such objects had been restricted, the report says, owing to Russian military actions targeting historical artifacts in Ukraine.

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Source: Ancient Pages · Oct 12, 2026
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GLITCHES

Student Wakes at Rear of Bus After Boarding at Front; CCTV Sides Against Memory

A university commuter says she was certain she sat behind the driver, but onboard footage reportedly shows otherwise.

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A commuter who says she fell asleep on a long bus ride to university has reported waking in a seat far from where she remembers sitting, in a post to the r/Glitch_in_the_Matrix forum on Reddit.

According to the post, the journey from the author's home town to the university normally takes between an hour and an hour and a half. The poster says she was "absolutely sure" she had taken a front seat directly behind the driver, and that she dozed off as the bus crept through a traffic jam near her town.

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CELESTIAL WEATHER

Water Clouds Observed Thickening and Thinning on Frigid World 7.5 Light-Years Distant

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report the first direct confirmation of variable water clouds beyond our solar system, on the coldest known brown dwarf.

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Image: MessageToEagle

A team led by Brittany Miles, an assistant astronomer at the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory, has reported that water clouds on a distant object change in thickness over time, much as weather does on Earth, according to a report published by MessageToEagle.com.

The object, WISE 0855, is described as the coldest known brown dwarf and lies about 7.5 light-years away. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, the team watched it for 11 hours, collecting a spectrum of its light every 15 minutes. The study appears in The Astrophysical Journal.

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Source: MessageToEagle · Oct 12, 2026
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NIGHT SHIFT

Handle Turns on Locked Oak Door as Cameras Fail at Remote Port During Storm

A security operator at a riverside grain facility says a three-point-locked office, a blackout and a sudden chill left him seeking a rational explanation.

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A security operator at an industrial port inside a remote nature reserve has described an unsettling night shift in a post to r/Paranormal, saying he has never been so frightened at work and cannot account for what occurred. The author describes himself as no believer in the paranormal.

According to the post, the facility lies more than 40 kilometres from the nearest city and handles grain silos, barges and cargo. The author works in the Security Operations Center, in an office near the infirmary, behind a reinforced oak door with three locking points. Only one operator per shift holds the key, the post says, a precaution adopted after an incident involving armed intruders last year.

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Source: r/Paranormal · Oct 12, 2026
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HAUNTINGS

Patrons Ask for 'Fourth Girl' at Establishment Employing Only Three

A Reddit user relays a secondhand account of a blonde woman in white, a courteous greeting from no one, and a ghost apparently committed to her post.

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A Reddit user posting to r/Paranormal has described a curious staffing irregularity at a small, licensed adult entertainment business run by the mother of the author's best friend. The venue, the author says, keeps exactly three workers on any given night, and has for years.

According to the post, roughly one client in ten, by the proprietor's estimate, emerges to pay or rebook and asks for a "fourth girl," described each time as blonde and wearing a white dress. Some patrons reportedly grew irritated on being told no such person exists, suspecting an upsell or a reserve held for favored customers. A few are said to have sworn they saw her smiling at the end of a corridor.

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Source: r/Paranormal · Oct 12, 2026
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DISPATCHES

Anonymous Poster Warns Flu Is Really Dimensional Dining; Advises Swallowing Air

A thread on /x/ offers remedies including mouthwash and a Van De Graaff generator, while 40 replies add theories of their own and a few express doubt.

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An anonymous poster on 4chan's /x/ board published a warning this week claiming that a spreading illness is not an infection at all. According to the post, a virus is mutating inside the body to produce phlegm and flu-like symptoms, but the true cause is "something much much different."

The author asserts that the disease kills through its symptoms and, in those who do not drink alcohol, "consumes" the victim. It is also said to steal the food and drink a person takes in. The post further claims that the dead do not decay in their graves but are eaten, and that the living can avoid being pulled into "dining rooms in the other dimensions" by swallowing air.

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UNDERGROUND

Reading Workshop Found to Rest Atop Four-Level Railway Dug by Hand Over Two Decades

A civil engineer and his six children excavated tunnels more than 15 metres deep beneath a Tilehurst property, now bound for auction.

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Image: Daily Star: Weird News

An unassuming family property in the leafy Tilehurst district of Reading conceals a hand-built underground railway, a network of tunnels and hidden rooms, according to the Daily Star. The property is soon to be offered at auction.

The subterranean works descend through four levels to more than 15 metres below ground, the report states, and contain upward of 1,300 square feet of space, including tunnels and storage rooms. Two secret doors guard the complex, one of them a sliding concrete wall said to weigh 1.5 tonnes.

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FROM THE AIRWAVES

Western Alliance Captain Circles Mars, Finds Canals and Iron Ore but No Ruins

A Weird Darkness podcast episode dramatizes a fictional expedition in which a glory-minded commander is told by a young civilian expert that the red planet's straight channels prove something.

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A Western Alliance ship has taken up orbit around Mars, circling first at the equator and then from pole to pole, according to the synopsis of a Weird Darkness podcast episode titled "We're Civilized: Taking Mars In The Name Of Earth And God," broadcast on October 13, 2026 as part of the Midnight In The Macabre series.

The account, which is a work of fiction credited to authors Alex Apostolides and Mark Clifton, centers on Captain Thomas H. Griswold. The synopsis describes him as already picturing his name in the history books.

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