Caught on Camera? LOL JK Cryptids are the imaginary friends of the adult world — creatures that allegedly exist but somehow manage to avoid every camera, drone, microscope, satellite, and scientific investigation ever launched. Bigfoot. The Chupacabra. Mothman. The Jersey Devil. You name it. If it sounds like something that would’ve been cut from an … Read more
When Navigational Errors Become Paranormal Mysteries Ah, the Bermuda Triangle — that soggy wedge of ocean where, according to enthusiasts of sloppy thinking everywhere, the laws of physics take a coffee break and planes vanish into thin air because “mystery.” The legend is simple: ships and planes disappear inside a roughly triangular region bounded by … Read more
The Glamour Shots of Wishful Thinking Aura photography is the perfect scam: expensive, scientific-looking, and so devoid of actual science it might as well come bundled with a free tin-foil hat. The idea is simple — and by simple, I mean insultingly stupid. You sit for a portrait while a “special” camera captures the invisible … Read more
Of all the absurd stories humanity clings to, few are more impressively self-indulgent than alien abductions. Apparently, creatures capable of interstellar travel — who have cracked faster-than-light propulsion, quantum physics, and advanced medicine — are also deeply interested in kidnapping random Americans, probing them awkwardly, wiping their memories with the finesse of a bad stage … Read more
Scotland’s Wettest Tourist Trap At this point, the Loch Ness Monster is less a creature and more a business model. If you could bottle vague hope, blurry photos, and economic desperation, you’d have Nessie: the most famous aquatic nonentity in modern history. The legend is simple: somewhere in the dark, cold depths of a Scottish … Read more
Rocks, Rituals, and the Rise of Ridiculous Theories There are few things on this planet more impressive than Stonehenge. And there are even fewer things more embarrassing than the way people talk about it. A prehistoric ring of gigantic stones? Amazing. A feat of prehistoric engineering? Absolutely. Proof of extraterrestrial intervention, ancient power grids, or … Read more
Where Secrecy, Sci-Fi, and Stupidity Collide Area 51 is the world’s most famous military base precisely because people don’t know what actually happens there — and as usual, when humans encounter a blank space on the map, they fill it with whatever nonsense makes them feel clever. In this case: alien spacecraft, interdimensional portals, and, … Read more
Remote Viewing: How to Be Wrong from Across the World Remote viewing is what happens when you take the ancient art of guessing and slap a government grant on it. It’s the mystical claim that certain gifted individuals can see distant locations, hidden objects, or secret events simply by concentrating really, really hard. In other … Read more
Your Dog Is not that Deep Just when you thought humanity’s desperation for meaning had scraped the bottom of the barrel, someone lifted the barrel and found an even slimier layer underneath: pet psychics. These are self-proclaimed “animal communicators” who, for a modest fee — usually something insultingly close to your grocery budget — will … Read more
Connect the Dots There’s a special kind of magic in humanity’s ability to find patterns where none exist. Some people look at a cloud and see a dog. Others look at a map and see divine pathways of mystical energy controlling the fate of mankind. The difference is that one of those people grows out … Read more