Vol. I · No. 17 Price: One Tinfoil Hat

“All the News That’s Unfit to Believe”

The Morgue

The Archive

Every story we have printed, from the merely odd to the frankly impossible. Filter by strangeness, section, source or month.

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  1. · Skies & Saucers

    Stargazers in Sedona Report Epcot-Shaped Object Wearing Rainbow Halo

    A Reddit user says binoculars revealed color-shifting lights, one resembling a Florida theme-park landmark, over the Arizona red rocks.

    ◉◉○○○Strangeness 2 of 5 · r/HighStrangeness

  2. · Dispatches from the Boards

    Toronto Subway Doors Open on Wrong Side at Davisville, Commuter Reports

    A Reddit user says a routine ride on Line 1 briefly departed from the known order of things, before normal service resumed at St. Clair.

    ◉◉○○○Strangeness 2 of 5 · r/Glitch_in_the_Matrix

  3. · The Occult Desk

    Costa Rican Engineer Asks Machines Whether 1998 Visitor Could Have Known the Future

    Researcher Luis Quiros tells Whitley Strieber's radio program that statements by "the Master of the Key" look very different from the vantage of 2026.

    ◉◉◉○○Strangeness 3 of 5 · Unknown Country (Whitley Strieber)

  4. · Skies & Saucers

    Luminous Disc Hovers Over Trevelin Road, Farmer Tells Newspaper, 48 Years Ago

    A 1978 front page in Diario Esquel, newly revisited, recorded a farmer's account of a 20-to-25-metre craft, with a police corporal named as a witness.

    ◉◉○○○Strangeness 2 of 5 · Inexplicata

  5. · Ancient Enigmas

    Stone Coffin of the First Farmers Surfaces Ahead of Norwegian Industrial Works

    Archaeologists in Halden report a 4,000-year-old cist grave with a mosaic-like floor, an amber bead and arrowheads, but no trace of its occupant.

    ◉○○○○Strangeness 1 of 5 · Ancient Pages

  6. · Dispatches from the Boards

    Bundestag Receives Formal Inquiry on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena

    A Reddit user says the AfD has filed a written query demanding to know who in Berlin is responsible for logging strange things in the sky.

    ◉○○○○Strangeness 1 of 5 · r/UFOs

  7. · The Occult Desk

    Anonymous Vessel Fields Questions for 'Fragment of Source' on 4chan; Readers Suspect a Chatbot

    A poster claiming seven years of contact with an ancient intelligence offers an audience with the entity, and the audience offers a number of theories of its own.

    ◉◉◉○○Strangeness 3 of 5 · 4chan /x/ (Paranormal)

  8. · Fringe Science & Earth Changes

    Dark Matter May Be Black Holes Dwelling in a Fifth Dimension, Physicists Propose

    A paper in Physical Review D suggests that primordial black holes formed with five-dimensional properties could help explain the universe's missing mass.

    ◉◉○○○Strangeness 2 of 5 · The Debrief

  9. · Spirits & Specters

    Thirteen American Burial Grounds Said to Be Poor Places for Quiet Repose

    Atlas Obscura's seasonal guide catalogues cemeteries from Georgia to California where, by local account, the dead have declined to stay put.

    ◉◉○○○Strangeness 2 of 5 · Atlas Obscura

  10. · Skies & Saucers

    Glowing Orb Climbs Out of Sky Above Snohomish Mountains, Witness Reports

    A brief NUFORC account of a rising, pulsing light is declared 'alien technology' by a UFO news site, though the witness offers no such conclusion.

    ◉◉○○○Strangeness 2 of 5 · UFO Sightings Daily

  11. · Fringe Science & Earth Changes

    Flashing Lights and Gentle Buzzing Said to Coax Sleepers Into Lucid Dreams

    A New Scientist report describes Montreal experiments, while a linked item asks whether advertisers will follow into the bedroom of the mind.

    ◉◉○○○Strangeness 2 of 5 · New Scientist

  12. · Dispatches from the Boards

    Anon Vouches for 'Time Traveler' Post, but Board Cries Forgery Over Dates and Post Numbers

    A thread on /x/ weighs a purported 2006 prophecy of catastrophe, with the original poster citing consciousness-only time travel and the replies largely unconvinced.

    ◉◉◉○○Strangeness 3 of 5 · 4chan /x/ (Paranormal)

  13. · Oddities & Curiosities

    Leaning Klondike Cabin Taken Apart, Numbered Log by Log, and Put Back Together

    Dawson City's Gold Rush Cabin, on record by 1900, survived the collapse of the boom town and a near-collapse of its own, and now takes overnight guests.

    ◉○○○○Strangeness 1 of 5 · Atlas Obscura

  14. · Skies & Saucers

    Blogger Says Grusch Told Rogan of Crash Site Firefight With 'Reptillian' Soldiers

    A UFO news site reports that a Joe Rogan interview with the former government whistleblower produced startling claims, and predicts a living alien on live television is coming.

    ◉◉◉◉○Strangeness 4 of 5 · UFO Sightings Daily

  15. · Cryptids & Creatures

    'Catfoot' Reported Prowling Binley Woods as Police Urge Calm and Distance

    Residents describe a large black panther-like cat, while officers ask the public to report sightings to the proper bodies and keep their distance.

    ◉◉○○○Strangeness 2 of 5 · Unexplained Mysteries

  16. · Spirits & Specters

    Two 'Reporters' Tour Radio Man's Home for 45 Minutes; Paper Never Heard of Them

    A Weird Darkness podcast episode revisits the Wytheville, Virginia, UFO inquiries of Danny Gordon and decades of reports of unsettling visitors in dark suits.

    ◉◉◉○○Strangeness 3 of 5 · Weird Darkness

  17. · Skies & Saucers

    Records Said to Show 67 Drone Reports at U.S. Nuclear Sites, Many Unresolved

    A Freedom of Information Act release from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is drawing attention from UAP researchers, as Washington's UFO business continues apace.

    ◉◉○○○Strangeness 2 of 5 · Liberation Times

  18. · Dispatches from the Boards

    Self-Described Traveler From 2029 Opens Question Hour on 4chan's Paranormal Board

    The anonymous author claims to inhabit his younger self's body and to have met reptilians, Mantis beings and Jesus of Nazareth; ninety-six replies followed, few of them settled.

    ◉◉◉○○Strangeness 3 of 5 · 4chan /x/ (Paranormal)

  19. · Dispatches from the Boards

    Former Raider Claims Damascus Files Listed Registered Vampires

    A Reddit user says he photographed more than thirty stamped documents before being ordered to burn the rest, and has now been advised by a relative to go public.

    ◉◉◉○○Strangeness 3 of 5 · r/Thetruthishere

  20. · Ancient Enigmas

    Bronze Seal Ring Bearing Image of Lost Pharos Lighthouse Raised From Alexandria Harbor

    Egypt's antiquities officials say the signet, found among the sunken ruins of the royal island of Antirhodos, is the first of its kind.

    ◉○○○○Strangeness 1 of 5 · Ancient Pages

  21. · Spirits & Specters

    Island Teachers Import Ghost by Sealed Envelope; Transfer Reported Smooth

    A tale described as 'supposedly' true holds that two schoolteachers on Savary Island gave their new castle a resident spirit, with no ill effects.

    ◉◉○○○Strangeness 2 of 5 · The Tyee

  22. · Fringe Science & Earth Changes

    Mile-Long Martian Cloud Forms Out of Nothing, Scientists Report; Textbook Physics Invoked

    Researchers say a yearly ice cloud over Arsia Mons can be modelled only if a process long deemed theoretical is allowed to occur.

    ◉◉○○○Strangeness 2 of 5 · The Debrief

  23. · Fringe Science & Earth Changes

    Okinawa Physicists Nudge Levitating Diamond With Light-Driven Electron Spin

    A team reports that the spin of trapped electrons produced enough force to move a centimeter-scale object suspended against gravity, though it stops short of true quantum superposition.

    ◉○○○○Strangeness 1 of 5 · The Debrief

  24. · Oddities & Curiosities

    Russian Girl Said She Saw Inside the Human Body; Laboratory Was Unconvinced

    A Reddit post revisits Natasha Demkina of Saransk, whose claimed "medical vision" drew tabloids, doctors and skeptics in 2004.

    ◉◉◉○○Strangeness 3 of 5 · r/HighStrangeness

  25. · Skies & Saucers

    Shag Harbour's Famous Splash Eclipsed Other Nova Scotia Sightings, Writer Notes

    A digest entry from The Anomalist points readers to a CBC look back at October 1967, plus two further UFO reports from 1976 and a police sighting.

    ◉◉○○○Strangeness 2 of 5 · CBC