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288 stories in 16 editions · page 6 of 12
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Breakfast Reverie Prompts Query: Do Babylonian Wedges Lurk in Goetic Sigils?
A Reddit user on r/occult asks whether ancient cuneiform and the seals of the Goetia might share a common ancestry, or merely a trick of the eye.
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Ex-Army Sniper Tells Podcast of Hotel-Room Tale of Deadly Underground Clash Near Area 51
Nick Betts says a man in a Polish hotel, after sealing the phones in a microwave, described a team's fatal encounter with three reptilian beings; none of it has been verified.
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Unseen Hand Pelts Village Rooftops With Stones Nightly; Police Patrols and Youth Vigil Fail
Residents of an Andhra Pradesh village say stones have rained on their homes after dark for nearly a week, with no culprit found.
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Faceless Figure Paces Toddler's Cot on Baby Monitor, Bromsgrove Parents Report
A Reddit user says a human-shaped silhouette repeatedly checked on a sleeping child in 2020, then faded as the couple found the room empty and calm.
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Catman of Ferry Road Said to Roam Leith After Death
A writer for Spooky Isles says reported sightings of a well-known local figure following his murder have turned a sad case into a puzzle.
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Roswell Visitors Reportedly Perished Refusing Food and Contact, Says Former Pentagon Investigator
Jay Stratton's memoir relays an unnamed informant's account of survivors at the 1947 crash site, while official reports maintain the wreckage was a balloon.
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Father Arrives Home Early, Orders Pizza, Vanishes; Real Father Still at Work
A Reddit user recalls an afternoon at age 13 when a cheerful man resembling his dad entered the house, retired to a bedroom and was not there when the door was opened.
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Puerto Rico Looked Up in November 1973, and Dozens Reported Strange Lights
A casebook by ufologist Noel E. Rigau, published on Inexplicata, catalogs a month of reported sightings from San Juan to Mayagüez.
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· Fringe Science & Earth Changes
Astronomers Say Odd Marks on Old Star Plates May Track Atomic Tests
Beatriz Villarroel and Stephen Bruehl argue that a link between nuclear testing and transient plate markings points to an intelligence watching Earth, according to a digest of recent coverage.
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Oldest Known Shipwreck Said Found Off Turkish Coast, Cargo Intact After 4,500 Years
Marine archaeologists report a Bronze Age wreck near Kekova Island that, if the dating holds, displaces a Greek find as the earliest on record.
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· Fringe Science & Earth Changes
Wiltshire Wheat Field Said to Bear Warning in Molecular Script
A Reddit user argues the 2011 Roundway Hill crop circle depicts melatonin and was meant to alert humanity to herbicide residues in wheat.
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Longleat Employee Reports Chill, Shaking and a Shape in Photograph After Foggy Christmas Shift
A Reddit user posting to r/Paranormal says a night of waiting for a lift in 2022 left a sense of being watched, and asks the public to examine a grainy image.
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Mary Celeste Found Adrift, All Hands Gone; Podcast Reopens Old Case
A Weird Darkness episode revisits the brigantine discovered empty in 1872, alongside a ghost said to have solved a murder and a beast said to have stalked France.
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Irish Man Recalls Figure at Bedroom Door, Three Decades On, and Questions His Own Explanation
A Reddit user says a childhood memory from the early 1990s has never faded, and that the mask theory he long relied upon no longer satisfies him.
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Fighter Jets Scrambled as Unidentified Object Drifts Over Israel's Northern Frontier
Days after a Saturday-night alert near the Lebanese border, the Israeli military is said to be still searching for answers about what it saw.
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Columbus 'Had Better PR,' Says Archaeologist, As Older Voyagers Await Their Due
A digest of recent reports ranges from Norse landings and an Inuit carving to a sunken ring at Alexandria, a pharaonic burial puzzle and a crocodile at the Sphinx.
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Christopher Lee's Forgotten 1977 Picture 'End of the World' Held to Harbor Deepest Occult UFOlogy
Writer Christopher Knowles finds a low-budget B-movie more revealing of our 'surreality' than any great film, and wonders what the late actor was doing in it.
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Texas Firm Sets Machine Intelligence to Work on the Return of the Dodo
Colossal Biosciences says its new GenoMorph platform has begun to pick out the genetic instructions behind the famous bird's peculiar form.
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Daniel Craig Buys Clerkenwell Pub With Reputed Cellar Ghost
The actor best known as James Bond is said to have acquired The Horseshoe, a 250-year-old London inn whose former staff describe an unseen presence below stairs.
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Nevada Man Tells Rogan of Telepathic Parley With Uniformed Visitor Near Quartz Mountain
An eyewitness account relayed on a popular podcast describes a blue-white, earless figure who sought help finding certain materials, according to a UFO news site.
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Langley Drone Swarms Traced to China, Senator Claims, As UFO Digest Notes Fresh Disclosure Squabbles
A digest entry reports a more specific identification of the December 2023 drone incursions over a Virginia air base, alongside a week of argument over government UFO claims.
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Boston Hypnotist Took Hill Couple Back to Fateful Night; Ohio Teacher Built Star Map of Beads and Thread
A new book installment recounts the taped regression sessions of Betty and Barney Hill and one schoolteacher's five-year effort to match a drawing to the heavens.
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Chicago Man Descends Five Flights, Finds Stairway Without a Door at the Bottom
A fictional audio tale on the Weird Darkness podcast follows a man who leaves his phone behind and goes to collect a parcel.
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Adirondack Man Says He Holds Genuine Bigfoot Body; Even Believers Remain Unpersuaded
A self-styled Bigfoot hunter claims laboratory analysis at Cornell supports his find, yet the faithful are withholding applause.
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Astral Traveler Reports Ponytailed Figure at Bedside on Maiden Voyage
A Reddit user says a first out-of-body experience, prompted by the Gateway tapes, ended in a mutual fright and a sudden return to the body.
