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288 stories in 16 editions · page 7 of 12
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Jungle Fortress With No Gates Proves to Be Work of Nature, Not Masons
A moss-draped wall of stone columns in Vinh Son, Vietnam, resembles a citadel but is said to be millions of years old and entirely natural.
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British Psychic Foresees 'Attempted Attack' on Presidential Aircraft in 2027
Craig Hamilton-Parker, who styles himself the 'Prophet of Doom', says a dream vision showed something launched at Air Force One amid 'radioactive dust'.
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Family Ghost Named Dorothy Looks Different to Every Witness, Society Records Show
A writer revisits an 1892 psychical research case to ask why people standing in one haunted house describe unlike apparitions.
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· Fringe Science & Earth Changes
Tiny Lord of the Plankton Sets Record for Smallest Genome Among Its Kind
Researchers report an archaeon with only 189 protein-coding genes, a creature never seen under a microscope and named for a thumb-sized Japanese deity.
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Podcast Panel Weighs AI Egregores, Viral Memes and the Ethics of the Fly Zombie Brain
A Substack episode listing promises talk of alchemy, bot scammers and whether a fly-brain creation might be asked about God.
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Bedford Widow Proclaimed Herself 'Daughter of God' and Kept Rooms Ready for Bishops
The Panacea Society, founded in 1919, held that Eden lay within three miles of its church and that a furnished terraced house awaited the Second Coming.
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Board Alleges Nickelodeon Leak Reveals Subliminal 'Guide'; Thread Offers Links, Few Specifics
An anonymous poster on /x/ claims a leaked animation voiced as SpongeBob jokes about hidden imagery, and 36 replies respond with video links and theories.
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World Pumpkin Record Falls Twice in a Week as Rhode Island Grower Tops Hampshire Twins
Ron Wallace's 1,431.5 kg squash, weighed on Saturday, ends a reign by two British brothers that lasted only seven days.
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· Fringe Science & Earth Changes
Magnetic Field in Solar Wind Found to Reverse Its Spin at a Certain Scale
An international team reports that turbulent plasma sampled by the Parker Solar Probe changes its direction of magnetic rotation, and that the point of change drifts with distance from the Sun.
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Ancient Observatory, Oldest Shipwreck and a Moon Hole Lead Wednesday's Oddments
The Daily Grail's roundup for October 14 spans a 2,500-year-old Mexican observatory, a vampire older than Dracula, and a cavern said to lurk beneath the lunar surface.
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Former Pentagon UFO Investigator Said to Discuss Home Encounter on CNN
A Reddit post points readers to a television segment in which Jay Stratton is said to speak with Jake Tapper about an alleged alien encounter.
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Swedish Villager Reports Uneasy Feeling Near Newly Dug Grave
A Reddit user posting to r/Paranormal says the resting place of a man killed in a work accident gives off an eerie light and atmosphere.
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Glowing 'Space Jellyfish' Drifts Over Eastern Seaboard; Rocket Exhaust Blamed
A luminous, tentacled cloud startled early risers on Tuesday, though the source, a Florida launch, was promptly identified.
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Search Party Lands at Nikumaroro to Inspect Lagoon Object Thought to Be Earhart's Plane
An expedition has reached the remote Pacific island, where a five-day inspection of the so-called Taraia Object is to begin.
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Rainbow Cobra Guides Sleeper Through Portals, Toy-Lined Hallway and Temple of Isis
A Reddit user in r/Experiencers describes a sleep-paralysis journey that ended in a starry sky and a conversation she cannot recall.
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Old Sky Plates Show Flashes Clustered Before Atomic Tests, Reddit Poster Says
A user on r/HighStrangeness points to a published study of 1950s photographs and asks whether something was watching the nuclear age begin.
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Pascagoula Abduction of 1973 Retold on Video, Prompting Fresh Look at Old Case
A short film on the Hickson-Parker incident, flagged by The Anomalist, arrives with a digest of related sightings from Monterrey to Trevelin.
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Saucer Sighted on Cuauhtémoc Highway, Reports Social Security Man by Long Distance
A Chihuahua newspaper in 1973 weighed a motorist's telephoned account of a luminous object, 50 meters across, that lingered for 45 minutes.
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Missing Work Phone Reappears on Kitchen Counter in 1912 Home
A homeowner of four uneventful years reports that a vanished phone returned to its usual spot after a thorough search.
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Majority of Americans Would Consider Buying a Haunted House, Survey Finds
A real estate firm's October poll reports that most would buy, two-thirds would keep quiet as sellers, and only four states are said to have ghost-disclosure rules.
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Defeated Archaeologist Toasts Rival, Presents Black Figurine From Syrian Dig
A retro radio drama, one of nearly a dozen in a five-hour broadcast, concerns a lost college election and a small gift of dubious intent.
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Hidden Stone Circles of Odd-Numbered Stones Emerge from Norwegian Burial Ground
Archaeologists at Hunnfeltet, near Fredrikstad, report circles of 9, 11, 13 or 15 stones whose purpose remains unsettled.
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Royal Archive of 184 Clay Tablets Surfaces in Turkey, Bearing Fevers, Omens and Appeals for Chariots
Excavators at Kayalıpınar report that a 3,400-year-old Hittite archive records an epidemic, a dead infant princess and generals pleading for reinforcements.
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Dreamer Reports Year-Long Siege by Goblins on the Astral Plane
A Reddit user appeals to the r/starseeds community for a means of sending the creatures away for good.
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Tarot Reader's Missing Cards Reappear in Plain Sight, Then a Third Goes Astray
A professional reader writes that two cards lost for two weeks turned up beneath a bag of hair curlers, and that a third briefly vanished mid-reading.
