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288 stories in 16 editions · page 10 of 12
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New Book Surveys England's Castles for Dangerous Ghosts and Forgotten Spirits
Historian Neil R. Storey's The Haunted Castles of England is said to catalogue apparitions and mysterious encounters within the nation's fortresses.
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Sleep Paralysis Visitor Asks Poster 'Are You Bright?'; Board Convenes to Interpret
An anonymous poster on 4chan's /x/ seeks the meaning of a lone question put to them by an entity, and thirty-one respondents offer theories ranging from the theological to the vocational.
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· Fringe Science & Earth Changes
Reddit Enthusiasts Chart Course Through Rumors of Undersea Bases and Lurking Craft
A post on r/UFOs gathers congressional remarks, a 1989 film, a Baltic anomaly and a Bahamian naval facility into one theory of the deep.
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· Fringe Science & Earth Changes
Ancient Reshuffling of Octopus Genome May Explain Eight-Armed Intellect, Vienna Study Suggests
University of Vienna researchers report that a sudden folding upheaval in cephalopod DNA, hundreds of millions of years ago, may have laid groundwork for their elaborate nervous systems.
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Neanderthals Were Handy With Timber, Spanish Rock Shelter Suggests
Nearly 600 wooden remains and impressions from Abric Romaní include possible spears, a mace-like object and the makings of a kitchen platform, researchers report.
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Federation of Light Fields Reader's Questions on Pyramids, Codes and the Grieving Heart
In a channeled session published on Era of Light, Blossom Goodchild relays what she says are answers from a collective called the Federation of Light on activations, feelings and life after death.
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Child Said to Be Locked In Grove City Library After Dark, Finds She Is Not Alone
A podcast episode billed under the Midnight in the Macabre banner offers a short horror tale of a ten-year-old and a presence among the stacks.
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Washington Man Takes Commissions to Deliver the Dead's Final Words, Secrets and Pranks
Joshua Weaver, 43, says clients pay him to carry out posthumous requests ranging from tender thanks to confessions of infidelity.
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Britain's Sacred Trees Surveyed: Oak, Rowan, Hawthorn and Holly Take the Stand
A Spooky Isles feature on the folklore, magic and pagan calendar of the nation's woodland a sturdy cast of characters.
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Voice of Absent Mother Whispers at Bedroom Door; Teenager Keeps Phone Line Open Till Dawn
A Reddit user recounts a weekend alone at 17 that ended with a second voice answering the first, and a door that stayed shut.
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Hand Acts of Its Own Accord, Doctors Have Reported for Over a Century
A podcast episode pairs alien hand syndrome with a Arizona abduction, shadow figures and an Australian stone-throwing poltergeist.
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Wolf Sighting at Snake River Said to Fulfil Prophecy; Visitors Expected in Three Months
A Reddit user asks fellow experiencers whether a viral video's claim of a 200-year-old Idaho prophecy holds any water.
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Reddit Poster Links Tesla Motor, Wright Airfield and Recovered Craft in 1945
A post to r/UFOs asserts that the Office of Alien Properties sent a recovered Tesla drive to Ohio to test-fly craft from the Battle of Los Angeles and Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
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Morning Jogger Reports Cigar-Shaped Object Lurking in Cloud Above Taipei River
A post on UFO Sightings Daily describes a two-humped form inside a cloud, along with what the author calls a telepathic feeling.
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Nottingham Guide Says City's Caves Hold Chilling Secrets
Simon Unsworth of The Original Nottingham Ghost Walk speaks to Spooky Isles about the haunted caves and hidden history beneath the city.
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New Orleans Cobbler Defies Wealthy Patron Over Silk, Podcast Notes
A retro radio compilation from Weird Darkness revives a 1978 mystery drama set in 1829, where a diary is said to lie behind a chimney brick.
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· Fringe Science & Earth Changes
North Carolina Researchers Fashion 'Lightsaber' That Broadcasts Radio Waves
A laser-formed column of plasma, fed by a metal ring, has been made to transmit signals at around 30 megahertz, according to a new study.
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· Fringe Science & Earth Changes
Spacecraft Passes Through Kink in Sun's Magnetic Field, Settles Old Dispute Among Scientists
European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter samples a 'switchback' in the solar wind and traces it to the Sun's atmosphere, according to a new paper.
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Anonymous Poster Declares Demiurge 'a Demon' Who Soils Itself in Public; Board Weighs In
A thread on /x/ about the Gnostic creator-figure draws 46 replies, ranging from Egyptian funerary texts to a claim of being the demiurge's flesh puppet.
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Pentagon's 1992 Review of Missing Cold War Airmen Hinted at 'Two Different Stories'
Newly published NSA records show Joint Staff officials asking whether official accounts of reconnaissance losses matched what actually happened, though the key passage remains classified.
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Ancient Sea Lizards Built for Ambush, Rutgers Study Finds; Others Preferred the Chase
Researchers modeling the tail strokes of four mosasaur species say differences in tail proportions point to different hunting strategies in the age of dinosaurs.
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Last of William Penn's Riverbank Stairways Survives in Philadelphia
The Wood Street Steps, says Atlas Obscura, are the sole remnant of ten or more public stairways commissioned to give citizens access to the Delaware wharves.
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Reddit Sleuth Links Two Podcast Remarks, Foresees Another Grusch Interview
A poster on r/UFOs says an offhand line in one episode and a mention in another point to a forthcoming conversation.
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Experiencers Ask One Another What 2027 Holds, and Whether They Are Worried
A Reddit user posting to r/Experiencers invites fellow members to share what they feel is coming in a year said to herald great change.
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· Fringe Science & Earth Changes
Rare Metal in Greenland Mud Reveals Five Thousand Years of Atmospheric Habit
A MARUM-led team says niobium in a fjord sediment core shows the North Atlantic Oscillation has steered southern Greenland's rain and snow for millennia.
