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UFOs, strange encounters, forgotten folklore.
A journal for minds that won’t stop wondering.
FolkloreA hut on chicken legs, a fence of glowing skulls and a witch who flies in a mortar. Here is the classic Baba Yaga story, how its tellings differ across the Slavic world, and why this witch refuses to be simply good or evil.
Many people remember Nelson Mandela dying in prison decades before his actual death in 2013. Here is what they recall, what the record shows, how memory science explains it, and the stranger theories that keep the story alive.
In 2013 a horror film borrowed the name of a remote Utah ranch famous for cattle mutilations, glowing orbs and red-eyed creatures. Here is how the movie relates to the ranch's documented history, and what is still open.
From the Washington radar sightings of 1952 to the Condon Report that closed it, here is how the Air Force's long-running UFO investigation worked, what its 12,618 files show, and why 701 cases still carry the label unidentified.
A gaunt giant that grows with every meal and is never full. Here is where the wendigo comes from, how Cree and Ojibwe traditions describe it, the troubled history of 'wendigo psychosis', and how fiction rewrote the legend.
Giant footprints in Northern California mud, a famous 1967 film and a hoaxer's carved wooden feet. Here is what the record shows about Bigfoot, what witnesses report, and why the legend refuses to fade.
Taking vitamin B6 before bed is one of the most repeated lucid dreaming tips online. Here is what the small studies reportedly found, where the idea goes too far, and why practice still matters more than any pill.
Five Navy bombers, a vanished airliner, a collier full of manganese ore. How the Bermuda Triangle legend was built, what investigators found when they checked the record, and which questions are still honestly open.
A hitchhiker who vanishes from the back seat, a voice upstairs, a name chanted into a dark mirror. The classic scary urban legends, how they spread, what folklorists found, and why nobody can quite stop telling them.
From front-yard displays to a pine hauled roughly 750 miles from northern California, here is how to see the Valley's holiday lights well, and what to make of the other kind of lights that sometimes appear over the desert.
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