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UFOs, strange encounters, forgotten folklore.
A journal for minds that won’t stop wondering.
FolkloreA 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.
Why do so many people remember the same thing wrong? A clear definition of the Mandela effect, how it got its name, the best-known examples, what memory research shows, and why theories about parallel worlds keep coming back.
Area 51 sits beside a white salt flat called Groom Lake, deep inside a restricted range in the Nevada desert. Here is where it is on the map, how big it is, what surrounds it, why it is so secret, and how close the public can legally get.
Huge audiences now listen to strangers describe dying and coming back. Here is how NDE videos are made, what the accounts share, what researchers propose, and how to tell a firsthand story from a recycled one.
Stairs that end at the ceiling, doors that open onto air, and a century of ghost stories. Here is what the record shows about Sarah Winchester's San Jose mansion, where the legend came from, and how to visit it today.
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