Author: Martin J. Clemens
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In 1873, a shoemaker named James Worson supposedly vanished into thin air before three witnesses. The story has been repeated as fact for more than a century—but following its history leads not to Victorian police records or newspaper reports, but…
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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 they returned home, the creatures came back.
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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 kind of wanting, then where do we draw the line between wanting,…
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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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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 far enough, and the story becomes stranger than the question itself.
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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 also leave room for forms of life, intelligence, and contact far stranger…
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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 death may be less supernatural—and considerably more interesting—than the legend suggests.
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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 of Prague, the story raises surprisingly modern questions about creation, autonomy, and…
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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 Spheres certainly look mysterious—but their reputation may be considerably stranger than the…
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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 paranormal mysteries.
