Tag: #Mystery
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The Bermuda Triangle: Almost None of It Is True.
The Mystery Was Manufactured I spent this past weekend at NC Crypticon, working a booth where I was selling books and talking up our 4Ever Paranormal podcast. Between signing books, answering questions about cryptids, and talking about folklore, the conversation kept drifting back to the same stretch of ocean. Different people. Different ages. The same…
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The Rocket Scientist Who Tried to Open a Portal Under Pasadena
What Jack Parsons Summoned at Devil’s Gate Dam Jack Parsons co-founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. JPL is the NASA-affiliated research center that built the technology behind America’s rocket program and, decades later, the Mars rovers. Parsons was one of the men who made that program possible in the first place. He was not a fringe…
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We Dismissed the Folklore. Then People Disappeared.
Was The Folklore Right? I’ve been around long enough and seen enough to know that when the folklore arrives before the body does, it deserves a second look. That’s not a comfortable position to hold. It doesn’t fit neatly into how investigations work, how evidence gets classified, or how we’ve decided to separate what counts…