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The Great Kentucky Goblin Encounter
One summer night in 1955, a Kentucky family found themselves besieged by strange, glowing-eyed creatures that seemed impervious to gunfire. They fled to the police for help—but when…
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The Strange Problem of Wanting Without a Mind
What if wanting doesn’t require a mind? A bacterium cannot think about survival, yet its behaviour is organized around staying alive. If that’s enough to call it a…
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How To Sit In A Chair
Before we can fully understand the process of sitting in a chair, we should consider a few things that might have a potentially devastating effect on the outcome.
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What Does the Soul Weigh?
Can the human soul be weighed? For more than a century, experiments have claimed to measure what leaves us at the moment of death. But follow the evidence…
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On The Form of Extraterrestrial Visitation
If extraterrestrial intelligence exists, what might an encounter with it actually look like? Biology, physics, evolution, and the immense distances between stars place constraints on the possibilities—but they…
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Hard To Kill: Rasputin and Other Immortals
Grigori Rasputin is said to have survived poison, gunshots, a brutal beating, and even drowning before finally dying. But how much of the famous story is true? Rasputin’s…
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The Golem: Friend, Foe, or Farce?
Long before robots and artificial intelligence, Jewish folklore imagined something remarkably similar: an artificial being brought to life by human hands. From ancient religious texts to the Golem…
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The Klerksdorp Spheres: Worth A Closer Look
Buried in three-billion-year-old rock in South Africa are strange, grooved objects said to be perfectly balanced, impossibly hard, and perhaps even manufactured by an ancient civilization. The Klerksdorp…
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The Clapham Wood Mystery: UFOs, Satanism and Strange Deaths
The strange story of Clapham Wood in Sussex, where reports of UFOs, animal disappearances, unexplained illnesses, mysterious deaths and alleged Satanic activity have created one of Britain’s enduring…
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The Woman Who Stayed Awake for 30 Years…Or Did She?
Have you ever had insomnia? Sure, most people have at some point in their lives. It’s one of those things that gets generalised and used to mean “I…