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 the United States. Social media filled up with blurry footage (and it is, of course, always blurry…
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 MacDougall, wished to reconcile the two major influential factors in his life: medicine along with the science…
Pellagra: The Mystery Disease that Brought Monsters to Europe
Pellagra is a disease of which most people have never heard. It is understood today, and treatment is straightforward; in fact, nobody needs to suffer form it at all. But it deserves…
Ichor, Life Blood of the Immortals
It is fair to say that gods are a little different. Whilst most creation myths have mankind created in the image of their immortal, divine benefactors, that image is rarely more than…
The Wendigo: Native American Stuff of Nightmares
(The following article contains spoilers for the 2022 movie Prey) In 2022 the seventh movie in the Predator franchise was released. The movie, Prey, was in many ways similar to the 1987…
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 southern New Jersey. Said to resemble a screaming, flying kangaroo with an oversized horse’s head, for almost…