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The Black Pyramid Beneath Alaska May Actually Be There
What Happens When You Check the Story? There was an underground nuclear test detonated in China in 1992. The resulting seismic waves from that explosion traveled thousands of miles. Then scientists used them to study what may be under the Alaskan surface. That much is not speculation. The nuclear test happened on May 21, 1992,…
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Why I Don’t Believe in Coincidence
Synchronicity Is What You Felt I don’t believe in coincidence. I haven’t for as long as I can remember. Other people say it all the time. That can’t just be a coincidence. You can hear it in their voice when they say it, a small pause right before the sentence, like they’ve bumped into something…
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The Two Session Method That Might Let You Talk to the Dead
Standing at the Edge of Something I’m Not Ready to Try I have spent years talking to the dead. Scrying in a dark room, staring into a black mirror until my eyes ached. Tarot spread across a table, reading the cards for anyone who asked, myself included. I still do both, though rarely now. Most…
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Who Is the Grim Reaper?
How a Medieval Image Still Scares Modern Brains Just picture this for a second. You’re sick enough to need the ER, not dying, just sick enough that toughing it out at home stopped feeling smart. You park, you walk toward the doors, half thinking about your symptoms, half thinking about the wait. Then you look…
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What People Get Wrong About the Word Nightmare
Nightmare Isn’t a Bad Dream. It’s a Demon on Your Chest. It’s three in the morning. You wake with a start, and something is sitting on your chest. You try to move and you can’t. If that has ever happened to you, you now know what a real nightmare is. Most people don’t. They think…
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Nyx: The Greek Goddess Even Zeus Wouldn’t Cross
I Wasn’t Looking for Nyx When She Found Me Death and Sleep were brothers, and their mother was Night. There was something about that ancient Greek genealogy that made immediate sense to me, even though I’d barely heard of Nyx before that day. Keep following her family tree and it becomes even more remarkable. Fate…
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Maybe The Voynich Manuscript Was Never Meant to Be Solved
Six Hundred Gold Ducats for a Book No One Could Read Rudolf II kept his most prized possessions close. Astrolabes. Alchemical texts. A menagerie of exotic animals most of Europe had never seen. Sometime during Rudolf II’s reign, according to a letter written decades later, he added something stranger to the collection: a manuscript written…
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Fake News Is Older Than You Think and Devon Proved It in 1855
The Word Is New. The Lie Isn’t On the night of February 8, 1855, something walked across Devon, England, for a hundred miles. It crossed rooftops without breaking stride. Haystacks and stone walls fourteen feet high did nothing to slow it, and the snow on top stayed untouched. Even the River Exe couldn’t stop it,…
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How High Strangeness Became a Catchall for Everything Weird
What Hynek Actually Meant by “High Strangeness” I was halfway through writing the Spottsville Monster episode of 4Ever Paranormal when I caught myself doing something I should have known better than to do. I’d gotten to the part where the neighbor, alone in that abandoned barn, heard something tell him not to be afraid. It…
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Death Is Not the Horseman You Think It Is
The Fourth Horseman Was Never About Fear Mary Neal was pinned eight feet underwater, her kayak wedged against rock at the base of a Chilean waterfall, and she wasn’t afraid. She was an orthopedic spine surgeon, not someone prone to panic, and she’d gone into that river a skeptic of anything resembling an afterlife. The…