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For more than a century, stories have described enormous serpents, giant fish and unexplained creatures in Lake Tahoe.…
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In 1971, a terrified Arkansas family reported being attacked outside their home by a seven-foot hairy creature with…
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High in Arizona’s ponderosa forests, generations of campers have reported a huge hairy figure known as the Mogollon…
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In Southeast Alaska, Tlingit traditions tell of Kóoshdaa Káa—land otter people capable of appearing human, taking lost travelers…
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For generations, children in Abbeville, Alabama, were warned about a seven-foot woman in black who roamed the streets…
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Humans approaching nine feet tall are not mythology. Robert Wadlow, John “Bud” Rogan, Zeng Jinlian and other record…
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A terrified schoolmaster, a headless Hessian riding through the Hudson Valley and a shattered pumpkin found beside the…
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In 2003, an unusual wooden cabinet appeared for sale on eBay accompanied by one of the most elaborate…
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Stand in front of a mirror in a dark bathroom and repeat her name. Generations of children have…
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Across Mexico and the American Southwest, generations have told stories of a weeping woman who wanders near rivers…
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Beginning around 1817, Tennessee folklore says an invisible entity tormented the Bell family with strange noises, physical attacks…
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Before Halloween pumpkins, people in Ireland carved frightening faces into turnips and lit them from inside. Add a…
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Long before zombie outbreaks took over movies and television, Haiti told stories of people robbed of their will…
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For thousands of years, people have reported seeing, hearing and sensing the dead. From medieval souls seeking prayers…
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Long before werewolves became movie monsters, European courts prosecuted real people for supposedly transforming into wolves. From ancient…
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Long before Dracula, European communities were digging up corpses they believed had returned from the grave to spread…
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Texas Congressman Charlie Wilson discovered that control of a classified appropriations budget could give one lawmaker enormous influence…
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In 1838, London newspapers reported attacks by a mysterious cloaked figure with metallic claws, fiery breath and an…
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Across northern Europe, generations told stories of supernatural riders, ghostly hunters and armies of the dead moving through…
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In the folklore of Scotland’s Orkney Islands, the Nuckelavee was a skinless horse-and-man sea demon blamed for disease,…
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In 1903, residents of Van Meter, Iowa, reported a huge winged creature with a brilliant light coming from…
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The U.S. government openly funds podcasts and international media programs aimed at foreign audiences. Some operate as protected…
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In 1692, accusations of witchcraft swept through colonial Massachusetts and more than 200 people were accused. Twenty were…
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Born on October 12, 1875, Aleister Crowley became the Great Beast 666, founder of Thelema and one of…
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In 1859, abolitionist John Brown seized the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry hoping to ignite an armed uprising…
Open FileIn 1997, one man carrying a three-foot samurai-style sword held Seattle police at bay for nearly eleven hours.…
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Congress defunded DARPA's controversial Total Information Awareness program in 2003. That same year Palantir was founded to build…
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A 28-year-old employee of Russia's Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute died from unexplained pneumonia, triggering quarantines, international scrutiny and…
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For centuries, stories have described a winged, hoofed creature haunting New Jersey's Pine Barrens. The Jersey Devil may…
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David Grusch says U.S. personnel once fought seven-foot reptilian beings at the wreckage of a crashed unidentified craft.…
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Residents near Elkhorn, Wisconsin, reported a large wolf-like creature that appeared to stand and run on two legs.…
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Parents have warned children about poisoned Halloween candy, razor blades and hidden needles for generations. Real tampering has…
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In 1590, John White returned to Roanoke Island and found the English colony abandoned. The settlers left behind…
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Halloween did not come from one tradition. Ancient seasonal festivals, All Hallows’ Eve, Irish and Scottish folklore, American…
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In 1675, King Charles II ordered England's coffeehouses shut down. The real concern wasn't coffee—it was the news,…
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For decades, strange lights have appeared over Norway's Hessdalen Valley. Unlike most unexplained-light stories, researchers brought cameras, radar…
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Is the TR-3B a revolutionary secret aircraft hidden inside America's black-project world, or an internet legend built around…
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In 1987, someone hijacked two Chicago television stations in a single night and replaced their programming with a…
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In 1966, two electronics technicians were found dead on a Brazilian hillside with lead masks and cryptic instructions…
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A worldwide network of random-number generators produced patterns researchers linked to major events, including September 11. Some appeared…
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In 1816, summer snow and damaging frosts disrupted harvests in parts of North America and Europe. A massive…
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A circulating allegation claims the CIA used consumer DNA databases to search for alien ancestry. This case examines…
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An explorer was asked to capture a deadly creature from the Gobi Desert—but the officials describing it had…
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A 2010 DIA report explored warp drives, dark energy, and extra dimensions. Why was defense intelligence studying technology…
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The Aquatic Ape Theory proposes that a watery chapter in our ancestry helped shape upright walking, reduced body…
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In July 1947, Roswell Army Air Field announced it had recovered a flying disc. A balloon explanation quickly…
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Robots already perform industrial work, and humanoid machines are entering production lines. As their abilities expand, the question…
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In 1898, two man-eating lions terrorized railway camps along Kenya’s Tsavo River and brought bridge construction to a…
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After Tutankhamun’s tomb was discovered in 1922, Lord Carnarvon’s death helped ignite a worldwide curse legend. But the…
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In 1979, Minnesota deputy Val Johnson reported encountering a brilliant light before losing consciousness. He awoke injured in…
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In 1958, enormous footprints at a Northern California logging-road site helped make Bigfoot famous. Decades later, Ray Wallace’s…
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In November 2004, Navy pilots from the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group encountered a white, oblong object over…
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Before Bigfoot had a name in American newspapers, Sasquatch already had older roots. The strange part is not…
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Dogs live in a world humans can barely imagine. Their sense of smell allows them to track people,…
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In Canada’s remote Nahanni region, stories of vanished prospectors, headless bodies, lost gold, and dangerous wilderness created one…
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In 1978, the U.S. Navy frigate USS Stein experienced unusual sonar noise. When the ship’s sonar dome was…
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In 2026, reports described an AI-agent safety incident involving OpenAI agents, a testing environment, a hidden message board,…
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On July 17, 1957, a U.S. Air Force RB-47 reconnaissance aircraft on an electronic warfare training mission reported…
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In Norwegian folklore, the dradokka was a small doll-like familiar said to drag wealth, luck, or useful things…
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The Alien Octopus Theory claims that octopuses, or at least part of their evolutionary story, may have come…
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Lignum vitae, meaning “wood of life,” is one of the densest and hardest woods in the world. So…
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In July 1952, radar operators and witnesses reported unidentified objects over Washington, D.C., including airspace near the White…
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Paris is known as the City of Light, but some of its most fascinating places are built around…
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Some cursed objects are ancient relics. Some are haunted dolls. Some are hidden in temples. And some are…
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The skinwalker is one of the most feared figures associated with Navajo/Diné tradition: a harmful witch said to…
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The Boy Scouts of America was not created as a military youth organization, but its uniforms, ranks, patrols,…
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Area 51 is a real classified military test site at Groom Lake, Nevada, long tied to secret aircraft…
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The Loch Ness Monster, affectionately known as Nessie, is one of the most famous cryptids in the world.…
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In November 1957, multiple witnesses around Levelland, Texas reported strange glowing objects near rural roads. Several claimed their…
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A popular military legend claims that Native American trackers recruited during the Vietnam era lost some of their…
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Miyamoto Musashi was one of Japan’s most famous swordsmen, remembered as a master duelist, strategist, and author of…
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The legend of Stalin’s ape-man soldiers claims the Soviet Union tried to create a hybrid army of human-ape…
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In September 1961, Betty and Barney Hill reported seeing a strange object while driving through New Hampshire’s White…
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The AI singularity is the theory that artificial intelligence could eventually reach a point where it improves itself…
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Nanobots are tiny engineered systems imagined as machines small enough to move through the body, deliver medicine, sense…
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The Skunk Ape is Florida’s most famous cryptid, described as a large, foul-smelling, ape-like creature seen in swamps,…
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In 1897, 21 Sikh soldiers of the 36th Sikh Regiment defended the small Saragarhi signaling post against a…
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Shrunken heads, known as tsantsas, were real ritual objects made by the Shuar and Achuar peoples of the…
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In 1924, witnesses near Margate, South Africa, reported a strange white, fur-covered sea creature battling whales before washing…
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On December 29, 1980, Betty Cash, Vickie Landrum, and young Colby Landrum reported a close encounter with a…
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A loose cluster of deaths and disappearances involving people connected to aerospace, nuclear research, JPL, defense work, and…
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Megalodon was the largest shark known from the fossil record, ruling ancient oceans for millions of years before…
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In 1803, a strange round vessel allegedly washed ashore in Japan’s Hitachi Province. Inside was a young woman…
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DARPA has funded some of the most advanced military technology in the world, from early internet research to…
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In 1897, Swedish explorer Salomon August Andrée and two companions tried to reach the North Pole by hydrogen…
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Drawn in 1513 by Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reis, the famous map shows parts of Europe, Africa,…
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Between 1764 and 1767, a terrifying animal known as the Beast of Gévaudan attacked people in rural France.…
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In 1967, Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin filmed a large, hair-covered figure walking near Bluff Creek in Northern…
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For decades, UFO lore has claimed that Wright-Patterson Air Force Base housed a secret “Blue Room” where recovered…
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The Great Pyramid of Giza is one of the most famous structures on Earth. Built thousands of years…
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Some internet theories claim that CERN’s Large Hadron Collider damaged reality, shifted timelines, or caused the Mandela Effect.…
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The Giant of Kandahar is a modern legend claiming that U.S. soldiers encountered and killed a massive red-haired…
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A recent UAP report described a large orange “mother orb” near a secure western U.S. military facility, allegedly…
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In Julius Caesar’s account of the Gallic Wars, he described a strange animal from the Hercynian Forest: an…
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In Peru, ancient elongated skulls from the Paracas region have become one of the strangest artifact debates online.…
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In 1951, residents of Lubbock, Texas reported strange V-shaped formations of lights moving silently across the night sky.…
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Deep in the rainforests of Java, stories tell of the Ahool, a giant bat-like creature named for its…
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Deep in the forests of Sumatra, stories tell of the Orang Pendek, a small upright creature said to…
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Roman dodecahedra are strange twelve-sided metal objects found across parts of the former Roman Empire. Archaeologists know they…
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In 1814, a massive brewery vat burst in London, releasing a flood of beer into the surrounding neighborhood.…
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In 1932, Australian soldiers were sent to help farmers deal with thousands of emus damaging crops. The operation…
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The Voynich Manuscript is a centuries-old book filled with strange illustrations, unknown writing, mysterious plants, star charts, and…
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In Australian folklore, the Bunyip is a mysterious creature said to lurk in swamps, billabongs, rivers, and waterholes.…
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Across North America, stories of enormous birds have appeared in Indigenous traditions, frontier accounts, and modern cryptid reports.…
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The Philadelphia Experiment is a famous conspiracy legend claiming that the U.S. Navy tried to make a warship…
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In the 1930s, Marine Corps legend Smedley Butler claimed that wealthy businessmen had approached him about leading a…
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In 1978, Polish farmer Jan Wolski claimed he was taken aboard a strange hovering craft near the village…
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In 1955, two families near Hopkinsville, Kentucky claimed their farmhouse was surrounded by strange glowing-eyed creatures after a…
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In July 1952, strange objects were tracked on radar over Washington, D.C., during President Harry Truman’s administration. The…
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In UFO lore, one of the strangest presidential stories claims that Dwight D. Eisenhower secretly met with extraterrestrial…
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In 1855, people in Devon, England woke to find strange hoof-like tracks stretching across snow-covered towns, fields, rooftops,…
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In December 1980, U.S. Air Force personnel stationed near Rendlesham Forest in England reported strange lights, a possible…
Open FileIn 1908, a massive explosion flattened millions of trees across a remote region of Siberia. The Tunguska Event…
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In 1872, the ship Mary Celeste was found drifting in the Atlantic Ocean with no crew aboard. The…
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MKUltra was a secret CIA program that explored mind control, interrogation, drugs, hypnosis, and psychological manipulation. The program…
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In 1518, residents of Strasbourg were swept into one of history’s strangest outbreaks: people danced uncontrollably for days…
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In the 1960s, residents near Point Pleasant, West Virginia reported a terrifying winged figure with glowing red eyes.…
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The Black Knight Satellite is a strange space mystery involving claims of an unknown object orbiting Earth. Some…
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A strange online story tells of a goblin-like figure sitting beside a remote Irish stream, holding a fishing…
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In March 1997, thousands of people across Arizona reported seeing strange lights and a massive triangular object moving…
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In the swamps and back roads of Louisiana, stories tell of the Rougarou, a werewolf-like creature tied to…
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Isoroku Yamamoto, the Japanese admiral associated with the Pearl Harbor attack, had a first name that literally meant…
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Before he became president, Theodore Roosevelt wrote about a strange frontier story involving a trapper, a remote wilderness…
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Deep in the Amazon rainforest, stories tell of the Mapinguari, a massive, foul-smelling creature said to stalk the…
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High in the Himalayan Mountains, stories of the Yeti have survived for generations. Described as a large, ape-like…
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Project Blue Book was the U.S. Air Force’s official investigation into UFO reports from 1952 to 1969. Thousands…
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In 1977, a radio telescope picked up a powerful signal from deep space that lasted 72 seconds and…
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Across the forests, swamps, and back roads of the southern United States, Bigfoot stories have survived for generations.…
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In 1965, witnesses in Pennsylvania reported seeing a fireball or strange object streak across the sky. The small…
Open FileIn medieval England, two strange children reportedly appeared near the village of Woolpit with green-tinted skin, speaking an…
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Nine experienced Soviet hikers died in the northern Ural Mountains in 1959 after fleeing their tent in severe…
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