Vol. I · No. 26 Price: One Tinfoil Hat

“All the News That’s Unfit to Believe”

CRYPTIDS

Retired Teacher's 13-Year Hunt for Bray Road Beast Turns Up Orbs, Black Mist and Tidy Piles of Carcasses

Lee Hampel, who owns a 35-acre farm on the Wisconsin road, says his data-driven inquiry links the legendary creature to unexplained lights in the night sky.

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Image: Daily Star: Weird News

A retired mathematics and computer science teacher who farms along Bray Road in Elkhorn, Wisconsin, says that after thirteen years of methodical investigation he has found what he believes is evidence that the area's celebrated "werewolf" is connected to unidentified flying objects, according to a report in the Daily Star.

The creature in question is the Beast of Bray Road, a hairy, wolf-like figure said to have stalked the lanes around Elkhorn since the 1980s. Lee Hampel, who owns 35 acres on the road, told reporters he brought to the subject the habits of his old profession. According to an investigative report by NewsNation, as relayed by the Daily Star, he has accumulated thousands of files, among them what he says are more than 100,000 photographs stored on roughly 200 SD cards from motion-activated trail cameras scattered across his land.

Chief among his exhibits, the report states, is an iPhone photograph of a dark figure standing near a cornfield. Mr. Hampel says a scale analysis put the figure at about seven feet tall with shoulders roughly three and a half feet across, dimensions considerably larger than those of a typical wolf or coyote. He further claims to have seen the beast personally on three occasions and to have taken plaster casts of its tracks, which he describes as showing a large five-toed, seven-pad print unlike that of any known local animal.

Officialdom, by his account, was unmoved. He says he carried one 3.5-inch track to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, where it was dismissed as an abnormal coyote.

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SKIES & SAUCERS

Unidentified Object Said to Pass Within 25 Meters of Space Station

A UFO blogger says NASA footage of a Dragon capsule's approach shows something slipping past the orbiting outpost, unremarked upon by crew or controllers.

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Image: UFO Sightings Daily

A close shave in low Earth orbit has been reported by Scott C. Waring of UFO Sightings Daily, who writes that a NASA video of a Dragon capsule approaching the International Space Station shows an unidentified object drifting past the station at a perilous distance.

According to the post, the sighting dates to October 13, 2026. Mr. Waring writes that as the capsule's camera showed the station, something moved past it slowly, coming within an estimated 25 meters. He puts the object's width at about 7 meters and states that it could have destroyed the station had it struck.

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SKIES & SAUCERS

Winged Craft Said to Pass the Sun Again, Possibly Damaged and Trailing Debris

A UFO blogger reviewing NASA/SOHO images reports that a winged object has once more crossed near the sun, and wonders whether it is wounded or escorted.

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Image: UFO Sightings Daily

A winged craft has been observed passing the sun once more, according to a post published November 2 on the website UFO Sightings Daily. The author, Scott C. Waring, says he found the object in images from NASA's SOHO solar observatory.

Mr. Waring lists the time of the sighting as 00:54 on November 2, 2026, and the location simply as "Earths Sun." He notes that the accompanying screenshot has been converted to negative format so that the supposed spacecraft may be seen more plainly.

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DISCLOSURE WATCH

Congressman Presses Pentagon Office to Release Long-Delayed Historical UAP Report

Rep. Andre Carson says a key record from AARO has been held back for almost two years, and calls for its immediate release.

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Rep. Andre Carson has called for the immediate release of a historical report on unidentified anomalous phenomena that he says the Department of Defense has delayed for almost two years. According to a post on r/UFOs, the congressman made the demand in a statement to The Post.

The report is the work of the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, known as AARO, which the statement describes as established to receive, analyze and resolve UAP reporting. Mr. Carson charges that the current administration has not been fully transparent on the subject and has slow walked several statutory requirements set by Congress for UAP disclosure.

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Source: r/UFOs · Nov 1, 2026
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RADIO HOUR

Two Hundred Dollars Buys Couple a Clock That Never Chimes, Except at Night

A garage-sale grandfather clock, once owned by a minister, proves a poor bargain in a vintage radio drama, according to a Weird Darkness listing.

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A grandfather clock purchased for two hundred dollars at a garage sale has caused considerable domestic disturbance, according to a description posted by the Weird Darkness podcast of an old-time radio drama broadcast.

The listing states that Charlie and Charlotte Tucker bought the timepiece, said to have belonged to a dead minister. The seller, it says, swore the clock does not chime, though it struck one as the couple walked past it.

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SPIRITS & SPECTERS

Lincoln Ghost Walk Guide Says Some Stories Still Unsettle Him

Dan Pounds, who leads tours through the city's haunted streets, discusses castle legends and uneasy moments at Greestone Steps, according to Spooky Isles.

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A guide who leads visitors through the darker history of Lincoln has told the website Spooky Isles that certain tales on his route continue to trouble him, even after repeated telling.

According to the site's summary, the guide, Dan Pounds, shares ghost stories connected with Lincoln Castle and describes unsettling moments at Greestone Steps, one of the stops on the city's ghost walk.

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Source: Spooky Isles · Nov 1, 2026
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SPIRITS & SPECTERS

Bonfire Folklore and Paranormal Protection Promised, Though Article Text Proves Elusive

A Higgypop piece bearing an enticing title arrives with its body missing, leaving only the author's credentials and a list of related reading.

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A news item published on 1 November 2026 by the paranormal website Higgypop carries the title "Bonfires, Folklore & Paranormal Protection." The article's main text, however, did not survive the journey to this office, and readers hoping for details of the bonfire customs in question must consult the original.

What remains is the page's furniture. The site's founder and content creator, Steve Higgins, is described there as having built digital things for more than twenty years, covering ghosts, retro games and urban exploration. The page also calls him a former radio anorak and a hardcore day tripper.

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Source: Higgypop · Nov 1, 2026
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THE OCCULT DESK

Medieval Necromancers' Fasts Were 'Technology,' Not Piety, Reddit Author Argues

A poster on r/occult contends that bread-and-water regimens in 15th-century grimoires were designed to exhaust the analytical mind before scrying.

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A Reddit user posting to r/occult has advanced a theory that the harsh preparations demanded by medieval books of ritual magic were less a matter of religious devotion than of practical method. The post, published on the first of November, concerns texts such as the Munich Manual of Demonic Magic and the Heptameron.

According to the author, those works require days on bread and water, nights spent awake, long repetitive prayers and complete isolation before a practitioner may take up a dark mirror or polished blade. Readers, the author says, commonly take these rules as a religious matter. The author once did the same, attributing them to lingering Catholic guilt.

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Source: r/occult · Nov 1, 2026
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TRANSMISSION

Council of Light Tells Weary Star Seeds: The Void Is Merely a Waiting Room

A channeled message published by Era of Light says a year of upheaval was planned by the higher self, and that a breakthrough is imminent.

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A message attributed to ETARA, described as the Pleiadian-Sirian-Arcturian Council of Light, was published on November 2 by Era of Light. It was channeled by Asara Adams and transcribed by the site, and it addresses what it calls light workers and star seeds who have lately found their lives rearranged.

According to the message, these individuals have endured a tremendous shift over the past year. Big pieces of life fell away, many things remain unsettled, and the readers now find themselves in what the text calls a different reality with many unknowns. The message states that this was no accident: each soul arrived with a specific mission, and the higher self planned the upheaval.

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Source: Era of Light · Nov 2, 2026
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VISIONS

Meditator Reports Vivid Eye of Horus During Hemi-Sync Session

A newcomer to the practice says the symbol appeared unbidden, and asks fellow experiencers for an explanation.

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A Reddit user posting to r/Experiencers has described a meditation session that ended with an unexpected visitor of a symbolic sort: the Eye of Horus, which the author says appeared vividly while they lay in repose.

According to the post, the event took place a few months ago. The author says they were listening to a Hemi-Sync recording found on YouTube, a type of audio that is commonly used to accompany meditation. The author adds, in a note of hindsight, that this was "probably not a good idea."

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TRANSMISSION

Pleiadians Advise Earth Residents to Locate 'Star Connector' in Chest

A channeled message published by Era of Light says humanity's origins lie off-world, and offers a nine-tap daily exercise for those wishing to get in touch with their relations.

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Image: Era of Light

A message attributed to the Pleiadians, channeled by Christine Day and published on the website Era of Light on November 2, has informed readers that none of them originated on Earth and that each has a "Star family" elsewhere in the universe.

According to the channeled text, the planet has undergone rapid multidimensional shifts, and the coming month will bring a high-frequency transmission aimed at reopening the higher light settings of the Grids and Ley Lines. Readers are told that they pre-agreed to be present for this period and that the time of waiting passively has ended.

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Source: Era of Light · Nov 2, 2026
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ANCIENT ENIGMAS

Cupboard in Pompeii Yields Necklace of 24 Charms Left Behind in Flight From Vesuvius

Archaeologists on Via dell'Abbondanza report a child's protective necklace, coins and an incense burner, preserved since A.D. 79.

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Image: Unknown Country (Whitley Strieber)

The Archaeological Park of Pompeii announced on Oct. 29, 2026, that excavations at a house on Via dell'Abbondanza, one of the city's principal streets, have turned up a wooden cupboard's worth of personal belongings, according to a report from Unknown Country. The cupboard itself was reconstructed from evidence, and its contents have lain undisturbed since the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79.

Chief among the finds is a necklace of at least 24 miniature objects made of bone, glass paste, faience and rock crystal. The charms reportedly depict the Egyptian protective deity Bes and the Roman god Mercury, along with tiny hands, feet, pine cones and bunches of grapes.

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BEYOND THE PULSE

Cardiac Patients Said to Recall Music Played During Moments of Clinical Death

A study of 140 volunteers in UK and Spain hospitals reportedly found survivors could identify sounds played as doctors fought to revive them.

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Image: Unexplained Mysteries

A new study has reportedly found signs that awareness may persist beyond the point of clinical death, according to a report on the Unexplained Mysteries website, which itself cites Mail Online.

The report states that researchers enlisted 140 volunteers from hospitals in the United Kingdom and Spain, all of whom were considered at risk of cardiac arrest. During the first two minutes of efforts to resuscitate any who suffered an arrest, music or bird song was played.

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FRINGE SCIENCE

Laboratory Universe in Miniature Said to Show Time Arising Without a Clock

A Reddit post describes a Birmingham physicist's tabletop cosmos as a new way to ask whether time is fundamental at all.

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A question of some antiquity, whether time is a basic ingredient of the universe or merely a by-product of things changing, has found its way onto the r/HighStrangeness forum, where a Reddit user posted an item on the subject this week.

According to the post, a physicist at the University of Birmingham has created a miniature universe in the laboratory. The post says the apparatus offers a surprising new way to investigate the possibility that time is not fundamental, but emerges from the changes taking place inside a system.

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DISPATCHES

Two Children at Play at 3 A.M., and a Father's Belated Tale of the Spot

A Reddit user says a nursery-rhyme tune and a pair of small figures were followed, two years on, by a family story about a child's death outside the house.

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A Reddit user posting to r/Paranormal has described a nocturnal encounter that, the author says, took on a new character only this week, when a casual family conversation supplied what the writer regards as a possible explanation.

According to the post, the incident occurred in early October about two years ago, at roughly 2:23 a.m. The author reports hearing what sounded like a children's toy phone playing nursery rhymes. A search of the balcony and terrace turned up no source. Through a terrace-facing window, the writer says, two children of perhaps five or six years were seen running and playing in front of the house. After four or five seconds one vanished behind a wall, while the other paused, looked directly at the observer, and then followed.

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Source: r/Paranormal · Nov 1, 2026
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ROADSIDE

Motorist Recounts Half Hour in Blackened Fog on US 287 Near Wyoming Line

A Reddit user says a cross-country move turned eerie when a sudden fog, dark figures and an odd buzzing swallowed the car on the road to Laramie.

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A traveler has asked the denizens of r/Paranormal whether a lonely stretch of US 287 has a reputation for strange happenings, after describing what he calls an unsettling drive that he has been unable to shake for a year.

According to the post, the author, his wife and their roommate were moving from Texas to Nevada in May of 2025. On the second day of a four-day journey, rain and traffic had delayed them, and they hoped to reach a Laramie motel by about 7 p.m. Dusk was falling when they joined the highway.

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Source: r/Paranormal · Nov 1, 2026
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DOMESTIC MYSTERIES

Lego Legs Land on Sofa-Sitter's Thigh After Quarter-Hour of Absence

A Reddit user reports that a missing minifigure part appeared on their leg in a manner that, they say, only a thrown object could explain.

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A Reddit user posting to r/Glitch_in_the_Matrix has submitted an account of what they describe as a glitch in the fabric of reality, the scene of which was an ordinary sofa and the instrument of which was a small plastic pair of legs.

According to the post, the author had been taking apart some Lego sets while seated on the sofa, and had separated one minifigure into its parts. The author then left the room for dinner, closing the door behind them. They returned some twenty to thirty minutes later and resumed their seat.

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BY THE NUMBERS

West Virginia Tops Ghost Ranking; New Jersey Finishes Last of 51

A sports-betting media site's Halloween study counts cemeteries, sightings and searches, and the Mountain State comes out ahead.

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Image: Weird Darkness

A ranking released ahead of Halloween places West Virginia first among the states for the likelihood of seeing a ghost, according to a report by Weird Darkness. The list was published October 28th by Action Network, a sports-betting media site, and gave the state 209 of a possible 255 points.

The state's lead rests chiefly on its graveyards. Find a Grave listed 19,902 cemeteries there in October, about 1,124 per 100,000 residents, the highest rate in the country. West Virginia also placed eighth for reported sightings and seventh for ghost towns. South Dakota took second place with 201 points, led the nation in ghost towns, and North Dakota came third.

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