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UFOs, strange encounters, forgotten folklore.
A journal for minds that won’t stop wondering.
ConspiraciesNine years after the first film, a stealth fighter slips through time and hands Nazi Germany victory. The plot, cast, paradox logic and wartime legend behind the 1993 sequel to The Philadelphia Experiment.
A grieving rifle heiress, a farmhouse that grew into a labyrinth, and a ghost story that sold tickets. Here is what the record shows about Sarah Winchester and her San Jose house, and where the legend took over.
A lucid dream is the moment the dreamer notices the dream. Here is what the term means, where the word 'lucid' comes from, what sleep labs have found, how people train for it, and when it is wiser to leave it alone.
Five Navy bombers, a lost collier, a steamer called Sandra. How a stretch of the North Atlantic became the Devil's Triangle, what the records actually show, and which questions are still honestly open.
A sleepover dare, a dead girl locked in a trunk since 1969, and a string of deaths borrowed from campfire tales. Here is the plot, the cast, the series it closed out, and the old mirror legend underneath it.
Mike Mignola turned Russia's most famous witch into Hellboy's longest grudge. Here is how the feud began, how the 2019 film reimagined her, and which pieces of her come straight from Slavic folklore.
A light fell from the sky over Flatwoods in 1952, and a group of children and adults climbed a dark hill to find it. What they described became one of America's strangest close encounters. Here is the account, the record and the explanations.
In 1950, over lunch at Los Alamos, Enrico Fermi asked where everybody was. Here is how that offhand question became the Fermi paradox, what the Drake equation and Great Filter add, and which answers still hold up.
From Aldie Mackay's 'whale' beside the A82 to the surgeon's photograph and a 1954 sonar contact, a case-by-case look at the most famous Loch Ness Monster sightings and what each one actually shows.
Berenstein or Berenstain? Monocle or no monocle? A tour of the most widely shared false memories, what the real books, films and logos show, why so many people misremember the same way, and the stranger theories some prefer.
Not every question has an answer.
That’s why we keep asking.
