Tag: #science
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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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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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What High School Biology Owes to Frankenstein
Frankenstein Wasn’t a Nightmare, It Was a Lab Report In 1803, a crowd in London paid to watch a dead man’s face move. His name was George Forster, hanged that morning for murder. A scientist named Giovanni Aldini wired electricity into his corpse, and the jaw clenched, one eye opened, and a hand curled into…
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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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Did AI Just Launch a Missile?
No. But it raised a far more important question. I don’t usually write about artificial intelligence. It’s not something that is really in my wheelhouse. But a recent article in The Debrief discussing the U.S. military’s use of Grok changed that. Not because of the politics or the company behind it, but because it made…
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Now We Know Why They Registered Alien.gov
It Was Never About Extraterrestrials I can handle being told the truth. I can handle being told something I don’t want to hear. What I have trouble tolerating is being treated like I’m too stupid to recognize what’s happening. A few months back I wrote the article The Government Registered Alien.gov. That’s Not Disclosure. I…
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Fear Spreads Faster Than Infection
How hantavirus outbreaks, Ebola fears, and nonstop headlines quietly reshape perception “Three dead in suspected hantavirus outbreak on Atlantic cruise ship.” Headlines like that move quickly because people understand the emotional implications long before they understand the disease itself. A cruise ship immediately changes shape in the public imagination once infection enters the story. The…
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After Enough Secrecy, Even the Government May Forget What Was Real
This file was older than he expected. The paper itself had yellowed slightly around the edges, and the red TOP SECRET banner had faded unevenly with age. He flipped through some of the pages that described recovered materials from unidentified craft, non-human biological assessments, and some department names he had never heard before. Some sections…