This is a perfect tale for anyone sitting around a bonfire with friends on a dark night. The only problem is, it’s not just a tale because there was evidence left behind. If that doesn’t have your skin crawling then try this: Bizarre Accounts of Supernatural Harbingers of Disaster. Brent Swancer goes beyond the benchmark […]

Caveat emptor is Mark O’Connell’s battle cry as he addresses the recent wave of 23 and Me ads flooding television. He has a crazy idea or two up his sleeve on their potentially sinister purpose, and how it all ties back to you-know-who. (CS) — Delivered by Feed43 service

Nothing like a couple of good controversies to start off the week. Mark O’Connell takes on the late Carl Sagan with some of the same zeal the good doctor used against the Marjorie Fish star map. This was the result of a laborious effort the Ohio Mensa member undertook to see whether any astral alignments […]

If you’re already aware of Mark O’Connell’s series on the August 1955 Kelly-Hopkinsville “siege,” one of the most classically scary high strangeness stories ever, you’ve likely already read this post and also Little Green Men–Part IV. If you’re new to the surpassingly weird event and/or Mark’s well-written and documented account, start from the beginning and […]

Mark O’Connell tells a tale of good and bad experiences with Rolling Stone magazine writers. The good experience is one Mark recently had. The bad experience is a story about Dr. J. Allen Hynek, subject of Mark’s recently-published book The Close Encounters Man, and the treatment accorded Hynek, the two main figures in the 1973 […]

Mark O’Connell takes a rather jaundiced view of what the Roswell crash story has become, enumerating many instances of Things That Make No Sense. Trouble is, he could have listed even more problems, and it’s certain that, whatever did fall to earth in New Mexico and exactly when landfall occurred, the event has become so […]

Another year and another album and The Flaming Lips are still the oddball lovable weirdos they have been for decades. The long-running experimental outfit released their 16th studio album Oczy Mlody earlier this year, and the record continues the band’s streak as one of pop music’s great weirdo…

Mark O’Connell tells a low-key but slightly creepy UFO story recently related to him. During the process, he notes a recurrent theme in such accounts, the phrase “We fell asleep and in the morning it was gone.” Says Mark: “It makes absolutely no sense that a person would fall fast asleep immediately after having a […]

Mark O’Connell’s experience has led to the “unalterable conclusion that most, if not all, photographs of UFOs are crap.” He’s undoubtedly right; we’re even wondering whether ambiguous UFO footage shouldn’t, without other solid witness data, render some case dispositions as “Insufficient Evidence.” Mark also makes a case for the value of a drawing. However, photographs […]

There’s an unspoken bond between people and animals, often transcending death. Nowhere else is this more obvious than at the zoo. From phantom lionesses, dedicated caretakers who refuse to call out dead, and phantom patrons there’s more than Brent Swancer could bargain for. Not every spirit, nor lion, is harmless as Brent looks at the […]