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288 stories in 16 editions · page 1 of 12
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Aldershot Angler Dismissed by Canal-Side Visitors as 'Too Old and Infirm'
A 1983 night-fishing trip on the Basingstoke Canal produced one of Britain's oddest UFO reports, and a writer who walked the towpath says the numbers do not add up.
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Bigfoot Film Defender Disputes Documentary's Claim of 'Rehearsal' Footage
Researcher Bill Munns says newly surfaced film shows a re-enactment at most, though The Daily Grail finds his case hard to accept.
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Former Official's Nuclear Submarine Bait Said to Be Aimed at Luring Unidentified Craft
A digest of recent UFO commentary points to a Popular Mechanics profile of Jay Stratton, a memoir, and a lively dispute among the field's whistleblowers and skeptics.
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Homeowner's Mouse Hole Vanishes From Garage Wall After 15 Years of Annual Plugging
A Reddit user says he and his wife both recall the pencil-sized opening, yet neither can now find it.
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Mariners Report Darting Orbs Off Nova Scotia; No Radar Echo Recorded
A ship's officer describes a glowing light and several companions performing swift maneuvers in a clear Atlantic night, while a UFO website calls the matter proof of alien craft.
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Jester Marionette Found in Locked Trunk Beneath Farmhouse Attic Stairs
A Halloween enthusiast's dream of a quiet rural home takes a turn, according to a new audio drama, when a loose floorboard yields a Hebrew-marked chest.
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Cornwall Cottage Said to Tidy Itself Overnight; Tenant Baffled by Spotless Kitchen
A vintage radio drama, newly rebroadcast, tells of a cheap rental whose unrefusable housekeeper leaves no trace of her work.
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Roman Coffin at Westminster Abbey Holds a Medieval Abbot, Study Suggests
A new paper in the Journal of the British Archaeological Association names two 11th-century abbots as candidates for the skeleton found in a sarcophagus inscribed to a Roman Briton.
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· Fringe Science & Earth Changes
Violent Deaths Said to Bring Swifter Rebirths, Virginia Study Claims
Researchers at the University of Virginia report a small but statistically significant link between sudden death and a shorter wait for reincarnation, while stressing that the evidence falls short of proof.
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Anonymous Poster Claims Three Years Inside Occult Order, Offers Boards First Look
The author of a thread on /x/ says an outage delayed the disclosure; respondents largely suspect a hoax but debate Thelemite schisms and loosh anyway.
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Mantis Appears at Bedroom Window; Screen Intact, Resident Puzzled
A Reddit user posting to r/Experiencers wonders aloud how an insect, or perhaps something more, arrived on the glass upon waking.
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Reddit Poster Asks Why Apollo 11 Crew Looked Grim, and Where the Tapes Went
A user on r/HighStrangeness argues that the astronauts' demeanor, the erased tapes and the end of the Moon missions point to a buried discovery.
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Emerald Green Dragon Tribe Says It Never Left, Asks Only to Be Called Upon
A channeled chapter from Caroline Oceana Ryan's book states that dragons are aiding Earth's ascension and keeping out of sight of the world's militaries.
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Candlelit Ghost Story Contest at Villa Diodati Said to Have Birthed Two Monsters
A Spooky Isles feature recounts how a storm-bound party, a book of German ghost tales and a challenge to write horror gave rise to Frankenstein and The Vampyre.
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King of the Dutch Dolmens Keeps Its Counsel at Borger
The Netherlands' largest megalithic tomb, said to be over 5,000 years old, still guards a sealed chamber and a good many questions.
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· Fringe Science & Earth Changes
Scientists Devise Test for Mirror Life Before Any Such Creature Exists
Researchers in Scotland and England propose using circularly polarized light to spot organisms built from reversed molecules, none of which are known to have been made.
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Portraitist Built Landscapes on His Table From Cork, Coal and Broccoli
Thomas Gainsborough, short on time for outdoor sketching, reportedly staged miniature scenery to paint by candlelight.
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Second Emu in Days Taken Into Custody on Streets of Santa Cruz
Authorities round up a wandering bird just days after a separate emu incident in the same California city.
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Former Pentagon UAP Chief Says He Has Seen 'Non-Human Beings'; Harvard Scientist Asks for Data
Jay Stratton's memoir and Fox News interview draw a public invitation from Avi Loeb, which, as of October 21st, has gone unanswered.
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Orbs Over Tennessee, Lights Over England: A Hemisphere-Wide Roundup of Unexplained Objects
A digest of recent sighting reports names a Tennessee radio host, a five-hour visitor over Saltillo and a triangle of lights in England.
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Cowherd Said to Be Slapped by Band of Dwarves, Who Then Depart Without Explanation
A Reddit user finds a witness account from Jacques Vallee's 'Passport to Magonia' too amusing not to share.
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Silent Craft, Voice in the Dark, and Two Wandering Orbs Chronicled by Reddit Witness
A poster on r/Experiencers describes a years-long, 'responsive' relationship with non-human intelligence, beginning with a green-plasma craft over a driveway.
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Husband Says Backyard Sneeze Prompted 'Bless You' in a Voice Not His Own
A Reddit user reports that the family's large, self-styled 'Alien boy' of a cat nodded at the precise moment of the blessing.
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Wombat-Tunnel Robot Sent Beneath Turkish Mound Some Believe Holds Noah's Ark
A small Australian-built machine named Gopher has been lowered into boreholes at the Durupınar formation as a 90-day field season ends and laboratory work begins.
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Louisiana Earthworks Said to Predate the Great Pyramid by Nearly a Thousand Years
A Reddit post holds that eleven mounds at Watson Brake, built by hunter-gatherers, still puzzle scientists some 5,500 years on.
