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288 stories in 16 editions · page 9 of 12
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Unidentified Object Seen at Lebanese Border; Army Yet to Say Whether It Crossed
A Reddit user posting to r/UFOs recounts an alert, a night of searching and a military statement that left the question of the object's identity open.
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Screaming Heard Four Nights Running Trails Hikers Through Northern Cascades
A Pacific Crest Trail veteran asks the internet what followed her party of five through the Washington wilderness in 2018.
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Motorist Reports Two Tall Gray Figures Crossing Nevada Highway at Night
A driver on Highway 95 says a trailing semi braked hard moments before two smooth, two-legged shapes sprinted across the road.
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Tall Figure Reported Standing in Sicilian Tornado Storm
A Reddit user says friends filming severe weather in Raffadali later noticed a humanoid outline more than three metres high.
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Science of Sand: Desert Divination Said to Be Guided by Jinn Reported Still Practiced
A Reddit post describes Ilm al-Raml, a 1,200-year-old tradition in which dots struck into the ground are said to be directed by unseen spirits.
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· Fringe Science & Earth Changes
Stalled Exeter Train Of 1841 Was Really A Train Of 1848, Researchers Find
An international team says a typographical error in an 1871 Nature article hid the true date of an early solar disruption of railway telegraphs.
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Giant Object Said to Streak Past Sun Observatory in a Single Frame
A UFO blogger says a 2.5-mile craft, towing three smaller orbs, crossed the view of a solar imaging service, and that NASA will say nothing.
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Three-Mile 'Doorway' Reported on Floor of Martian Crater
A UFO blogger says a new online map reveals an ancient entrance to an underground city, long abandoned.
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Dracula Was Late: England Kept Its Own Vampires Long Before the Count Landed at Whitby
A University of Hertfordshire researcher says English belief in the undead stretches from medieval Yorkshire pits to a Buckinghamshire bishop's absolution.
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Mother Pours Son's Pills Down Kitchen Drain in Tale of the 'Stick Man'
A horror episode of Weird Darkness, broadcast October 12, builds a story around a six-year-old boy, a secret bargain and a mudroom.
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Conjoined Soviet Twins, a Voice in the Dark and a Stone-Throwing Yowie Fill One Podcast Hour
Weird Darkness devotes an episode to Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapova, a child's warning to cover her feet, and two old Australian accounts of rock-hurling creatures.
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Kryon Tells Listeners They Were Born Master Pianists, Only the Piano Is Missing
In a message posted to Era of Light, the channeled entity argues that humanity's inborn powers are capped by the consciousness of the planet, and that the ceiling is now rising.
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Reptilian Hand Appears in Vision, Reports Reddit Experiencer; Eye Follows by Afternoon
A poster to r/Experiencers describes two visions of scaled beings and a twitching throat chakra, which the author reads as a polite announcement of arrival.
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· Fringe Science & Earth Changes
Government UFO Documents Released Without Context; Further Records Said to Be Under Compilation
Investigative journalist George Knapp reports that the Defense Intelligence Agency has begun gathering older files to fill gaps left by the recent releases.
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· Fringe Science & Earth Changes
Reddit Poster Links Grusch Radio Remarks on Ocean Bases to Anonymous 4chan Claims
A user on r/UFOs asks fellow enthusiasts whether a viral podcast interview strengthens the case of the so-called 4chan whistleblower.
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Writer Finds Flying Saucers Lurking in 1968 Witch Picture
Christopher Knowles of The Secret Sun contends that the horror film The Crimson Cult hides a second story about UFO abduction beneath its tale of English witchcraft.
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Spinning Triangle Said to Cross Sky Above West Springfield RV Lot
A witness reported to NUFORC an object with lit triangular faces that flew a steady line overhead until it shrank to a speck; a UFO website's editor calls the shape very rare.
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Exeter Trapdoor Refuses Thrice to Open Beneath Condemned Man, Podcast Recalls
A Weird Darkness installment drawn from a book on failed executions revisits the 1885 morning on which John Lee was to hang.
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· Fringe Science & Earth Changes
NASA Backs Expedition to Plumb Mysterious Pit on the Moon
A project named GIMLI would combine radar, seismic and gravity instruments to learn whether the Marius Hills Pit leads to a lunar cave system.
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Research Team Takes Up Night Watch for Strange Lights in Argentine Sierra
A lawyer, an anthropologist and a self-described pioneer of the field are gathering witness accounts in Buenos Aires Province, armed with binoculars and infrared viewers.
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Anonymous Poster Says Unseen Entity Has Announced Comedian's Imminent Death
A /x/ user, who admits not knowing who the man is, reports a warning about Bert Kreischer and cites the entity's earlier notice of Val Kilmer's death.
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Two Children on an Enclosed Porch Glimpse 1950s Street, Poster Says
A Reddit user recounts a childhood afternoon in which the sky turned orange, the cars changed, and a waving stranger appeared, all corroborated, the author says, by a cousin.
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Skulls From Abydos Reopen the Case of the First Pharaohs' Retainers
A fresh look at skulls held at Cambridge suggests that at least 39 percent of those examined may have met violent ends beside Egypt's earliest royal tombs.
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Helicopter Said to Circle Hovering Object Above Los Angeles Neighborhood
A Reddit post shares video from 2019 that its author says shows an unidentified aerial phenomenon of the 'irregular-organic' type.
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From Cellar Stairs to Bathroom Mirrors: Weird Darkness Traces the Long Career of Bloody Mary
A podcast essay follows a Halloween divination game from a Scottish footnote through a tomcat in the cellar to a self-help bestseller, and asks who, if anyone, is answering.
