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Cryptozoology
Could Having More Bigfoot Skeptics Help Cryptozoology? Maybe So.
“I have a long-term, unshakeable interest in Bigfoot, and I’ve thought about the subject quite a lot,” wrote Darren Naish in June of last year. Naish is a British palaeontologist and science writer, who authors the Tetrapod Zoology blog over at Scientific American. The post featuring this quote, titled “If Bigfoot Were Real“, discussed the pros and cons of making a…
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Bizarre
The Hidden Mothers: Ghost-Like Ladies of Victorian Family Portraiture
Let’s face it: strange things often turn up in old photos. Therefore, it’s a given these days that Internet archaeologists dig around, looking for things like out-of-place objects, purported by some (though often tongue in cheek) to be evidence of “time travel”. Of equal popularity are various archaic practices, that range from primitive surgical procedures, to odd…
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Bizarre, Modern Mysteries
Mysterious People Who Spontaneously Travelled to Parallel Realities
One concept that has become the focus of much speculation and wonder is that of other realities, dimensions, universes, whatever you want to call them, existing parallel to our own beyond some unseen veil that separates us. If this is so, and these other realms do brush up against our own, then is it possible to…
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UFO Phenomenon
Are Spy-Planes Afoot? The Latest on Reports of Unconventional Aircraft
For a number of years, a wide variety of reports that involve alleged “mystery aircraft” have continued to surface. While bearing certain characteristics that distinguish them from typical military aircraft, the aircraft in these reports are a cut above your typical “flying saucer” or UFO type object reports. First, let’s recall the aircraft that were observed, and even…
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Bizarre, Ghosts & Hauntings
Strange Tales of Ghostly Pets
There has long been the assumption that only humans have true souls. We like to think that we sit on some high perch above the rest of the myriad of life that populates our planet. Yet what about the dear pets we keep? Alongside us often exist beloved animal members of the family that form emotional…
Jeff Bezos Leaves Bathrooms and Barf Bags Off of Spaceship
Since the dawn of space travel, one of the greatest technical challenges facing rocket engineers has been the problem of dealing with human waste. There’s the legendary transcript of Apollo 10’s commander Tom Stafford dealing with a weightless floater. Oh—who did it? Who did it? Give me…