Explorando os Enigmas do Superuniverso
In my previous article, on Tyler Houck’s new book, Buckeye Beasts (on 19th and early-to-mid 20th century accounts of Wild Men-type creatures), I noted just how useful old newspapers can be when it comes to the investigation of aging events and obscure incidents. Another perfect example of this came my way on the very same […]
There is unrest afoot in the AI research community in recent weeks; some of this calls into question whether artificial intelligence being developed over the years to come will have an effect on legal rights to freedom of speech, while others have to do with concerns over what government institutions might do with it. Following […]
It might sound like the tagline from an old science fiction B-movie (It Came from the Ant Nebula!), but as it turns out, there really is a powerful laser beam shooting out of the distant Ant Nebula some 8,000 light-years away. Is this an attempt at intergalactic communication, or is some strange and unknown natural […]
There are numerous forms of ghosts in the world, and these can take a vast variety of forms. There are the wandering wraiths, the poltergeists, the revenants, shadows, ghouls, and specters, all subject to the cultural influences thrust upon them. In Japan there is one very curious and unique form of spirit, and that is […]
Buckeye Beasts is a recently-published book from Tyler Houck (you can find out more about Tyler’s cryptozoological research at this link). The sub-title of his book will tell you exactly what it’s all about: Historical Accounts of “Gorillas,” “Wild Men,” and Other Hairy Monsters in Ohio. It’s a regional study of Bigfoot- and Wild Man-type […]
The 1970s had the Pentagon Papers – the documents released in 1971 by Daniel Ellsberg which detailed how President Johnson’s administration “systematically lied, not only to the public but also to Congress” about the Vietnam War, secret bombings of Cambodia and Laos, raids on North Vietnam and more. It looks like the 2010s are becoming […]
In some ways, mummies are the closest thing we have to real-life time travelers from the past. These preserved bodies clue us in on the ways people lived in ages long past and even reveal what they believed about death and the afterlife. Mummies are also an enduring source of mystery, as they rarely ever […]
It’s time once again to address the lingering questions about one of the most infamous political deaths in modern American history: The Kennedy Assassination. Was there a second gunman after all, and is there reason to question the available evidence? To be clear, we’re not addressing (or contesting) Lee Harvey Oswald’s role in the plot […]
Australia is full of weird, supernatural legends and reports of paranormal experiences, from tales of the Yowie—the “Australian Bigfoot”—to haunted highways and strange aboriginal folklore. For a long time, however, it was thought that Australia was without a tradition of the European folk magic like that practiced in the colonial days of the United States. […]
In this episode we venture into the obscure domain of the underworld enforcers, a group of unwitting participants who live in a Chinese community but secretly work for Yama the god of death. We also take a look and what occurs when you try to run into a dimensional time-slip and run thirty years late […]