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Growing up in the rural countryside of Western North Carolina, it’s not uncommon to see a variety of different kinds of wildlife. Deer, wild turkeys, black bear, and a host of other creatures that are common only to those who look for them abound, and yet are often overlooked by those whose eyes aren’t trained […]

In years to come, UFO researchers may look back upon the Pentagon revelations over the last year as a turning point in government disclosure. Of course, it could also likely be that these are a clever smokescreen, a ruse, or a distraction intended to mislead the public as usual. Whatever the case may be, it […]

In 2012 I wrote an article here at Mysterious Universe titled “The Strange Saga of the Vanishing Cars.” An extract from the article reads as follows [QUOTE]: “As I know only too well, and as a result of years of looking into the MIB mystery, it isn’t just the MIB that are weird. Their cars […]

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 […]