While our ancestors may not have had the complete story about high strangeness around them, mixing what we know now with their myths can often illustrate the gaps they filled with those “gods” (so to speak). It’s not such a nutty proposition as Nick Reid and Patrick Nunn pointed out a while back how Ancient […]

“Japan’s Pyramid” got its nickname from its “orderly triangular sides,” but there’s much more to this “mountain of many mysteries” than just myth. Hikoshi Tamura says an archaeological investigation only added to the place’s fascination. There’s a much wider-reaching surprise and conundrum in Secret Patterns Found in Arrangement of Medieval Islamic Tombs. “They were set […]

Micah Hanks discusses an early interest of Carl Sagan, from which he apparently distanced himself in later years. Hanks suggests “Palaeocontact” still has scientific relevance–some scientists even suggest prospecting for ancient ET “technosignatures” upon other bodies within our solar system. In talking about The UFO Phenomenon: Mysterious and Elusive Photographs Said to be Held by […]

The 1940 Olympics were cancelled on account of the second Sino-Japanese War. The Akira manga mentions the 2020 Tokyo Olympics back in the ’80s, and things didn’t end well for Tokyo. Now COVID-19 is ravaging Japan, yet their government still isn’t going to cancel. Well they had better listen to Alex K.T. Martin who talks […]

“Comparisons of genetic and morphological data suggest that the more we know about our extinct ancestors, the fuzzier the picture becomes.” Thus Alan Boyle describes the fallout from a (re)discovery of a 146,000-year-old skull in northern China. Not only does the shape of the cranium encourage differing scholarly opinions on early humans, but the story […]

An Israeli archaeological team has discovered what it suggests “was the source population” for the European Neanderthals and their Asian “equivalents.” Unsurprisingly, this conclusion has excited, well, excitement and controversy within the hominin-hunting world. Pallab Ghosh has the story. For conjecture about a far more recent spread of people. see David Halpin’s Thoth’s Storm: New […]

Ghost towns are nothing new, but there’s a certain cachet with Gainsthorpe which haunts historians like Kurt Readman. Sometime in the 17th century, Gainsthorpe was no longer around. There are several explanations, ranging from disease to technological advancements, but the mystery infuriatingly endures. In other spooky news, there’s something to be said about this Man […]

If the Patterson-Gimlin film thrilled you, then this (relatively) ancient snap of a bagged Bigfoot is going to light your fire. Despite the visual evidence, David Childress finds this may be part of a conspiracy older and deeper than Roswell. Don’t be surprised to learn this photo came from the capo di tutti of cryptozoology, […]

A new study advances land bridges over floating “on matted vegetation running down rivers” for how animals spread to what are now the Antilles Islands. David Nield reports how a team modeled “40 million years of tectonic plate movement” to achieve this conclusion. Yet another fresh review suggests that for islands, “when it comes to […]