How Did a Volcano Turn This Roman’s Brain to Glass?
In 79 AD the Roman towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum were destroyed by an enormous...
Unexplained Phenomena
The Non-Existent Secret Alien Base Hidden off the California Coast
At the end of 2024 there was a rash of sightings of purported UFOs in...
21 Grams, Artificial Intelligence, and the Path to Robot Suffrage
In 1901 a doctor from Massachusetts found himself facing a puzzling question. The doctor, Duncan...
Pellagra: The Mystery Disease that Brought Monsters to Europe
Pellagra is a disease of which most people have never heard. It is understood today,...
Ichor, Life Blood of the Immortals
It is fair to say that gods are a little different. Whilst most creation myths...
The Wendigo: Native American Stuff of Nightmares
(The following article contains spoilers for the 2022 movie Prey) In 2022 the seventh movie...
The Jersey Devil: Unpicking the History Behind the Mystery
Everybody’s heard of the Jersey Devil, the crazy-looking cryptid which haunts the Pine Barrens of...
Silphium: Can We Rediscover the Roman Wonder Drug?
Cure-alls are, generally speaking, never what they claim. Most medical wonder drugs are nothing of...
Oklo: the Impossibly Ancient Nuclear Reactors of Gabon
Nuclear power is among the most complex and advanced technologies we have developed as a...
The Beast of Set, the Unknown Creature at the Heart of Ancient Egypt
The Egyptian pantheon of gods is among the most familiar to the modern world. Although...
The Radioactive Guardian of the Egyptian Afterlife
The pyramids were old for most of Egyptian history. Of the three great kingdoms that...
Vimana: Ancient Hindu Flying Machines Hidden in Plain Sight?
Those who go looking for evidence of UFOs will often end up finding what they...