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The Antikythera Mechanism

Of all the out-of-place artefacts that pop up around the world, few can be more intriguing than the Antikythera mechanism.The Antikythera shipwreck was discovered by accident by a team of sponge divers during the spring of 1900, off the coastline of the Greek island of Antikythera. The island lies in the Aegean Sea just northwest of the island of Crete. An expedition by the Hellenic Royal Navy…

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The Dechmont Woods Encounter

The Dechmont Woods Encounter

9th November 1979 Robert Taylor was a forestry worker who had parked his pickup near the M8 motorway and proceeded, with his dog, onto the trail for Dechmont Law, a hill in Livingston, West Lothian, Scotland. As he approached a wood clearing, he was startled when he set his eyes upon a large metallic, dome shape hovering above the clearing. His description noted that the object was composed of…

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The Disappearance of Dennis Martin

The Disappearance of Dennis Martin

On Fathers Day weekend in June 1969, a traditional family celebration camping trip was brought to an abrupt halt on the afternoon of Saturday the 14th. William Martin, along with his father Clyde, had taken his two young sons, Doug (9), and Dennis (6), on a camping trip through the Great Smokey Mountains National Park. Mr Martin was an architect and resident of Knoxville,Tennessee and he kept up…

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Missing Skier #2

On February 13th 2018, Danny Filippidis, a 49-year-old Toronto firefighter, found himself walking the streets of Sacramento in California. He didn’t at first know where he was and he had no clue as to why he was there. Even more shocking was the fact that his last memory was of him skiing down a slope in order to retrieve a phone from his car, at the Whiteface Mountain Ski Resort in the…

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The Kentucky Meat Shower

The Kentucky Meat Shower

The weirdest thing happened on the morning of the 3rd of March 1886 in Olympia Springs, in Bath County, Kentucky. At about 11 am, the house and surrounding area of Mr Allen Crouch felt the thud and the slap of falling items landing all around it. Mrs Crouch was on the porch of the property busying herself with the making of soap when she heard the sounds of falling items above her. Puzzled, she…

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The Missing Skier

A strange event occurred on the 8th of May 1979. Steve Kubacki, a former student of Hope College, Holland, Michigan, awoke outdoors, and to his surprise, found himself lying on a grassy knoll. He later discovered he was in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Although not unusual, the idea of students sleeping off a heavy night of partying wherever they happen to lay their head, this was not one of those…

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The Beast of Gévaudan

The Beast of Gévaudan

Few things can be more terrifying than the thoughts of being ripped apart by a wild, rabid beast. It is a natural and primordial fear that has followed us from our cave-dwelling days right up to our point in history, where now, we bask amongst the comforts of technology and modern amenities. Unfortunately, for the farmworkers and residents of the pre-revolutionary county of Gévaudan, in…

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The London Hammer

For things of a Fortean nature, the acronym “OOPArt” and the terminology behind it has left enthusiasts and experts baffled for years. “Out Of Place Artifacts” describe items of a later time period being inexplicably found in almost impossible locations relative to an earlier time period. One such item to arouse intrigue and amazement was the item that came to be known a The London Hammer (or…

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The Bauman Incident

In 1890, avid outdoorsman and later to be, US President, Teddy Roosevelt published a book titled “The Wilderness Hunter”. In it, he recounts a meeting with aged and well seasoned mountain man and hunter named Bauman. This man relates a strange tale of an experience that befell him and a companion whilst out trapping for beaver. “The Wilderness Hunter” Chapter XX – In Cowboy Land – Page…

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The Ostman Bigfoot Encounter

The Ostman Bigfoot Encounter

John Green was a respected Canadian journalist and publisher from Harrison Hot Springs in British Columbia. Approximately ten years before the famous Patterson-Gimlin footage of a supposed female Bigfoot at Bluff Creek, Northern California, surfaced in 1967, John Green had began his investigations into reports, sightings, and local legends of giant hairy bi-pedal creatures in the wilds of the…

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Manchester Canal Deaths

The Manchester Ship Canal stretches over 36 miles (58 Km) from the coast, inland to the city of Manchester. As an inland waterway system, it was a massive undertaking and construction began in 1887; taking six years to complete. It linked the port of Manchester to the Irish Sea and at its peak, earned the Port of Manchester the title of the third busiest port in Britain. It was an artery of…

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The Comte de St. Germain

The Comte de St. Germain

Throughout history various intriguing and illustrious characters have been documented; none more so than the Comte de St. Germain. Often described as a mysterious adventurer, a charlatan, a trickster, a spy, an alchemist, an occultist, a Freemason, an immortal, a time-traveller, a devil…, mystery surrounded this man and he became and remained an enigma to all that encountered him. Unique…

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Black-Eyed Children

Although extensive research may uncover various historical occurrences; accounts of encounters with creepy black-eyed children really came to the fore in 1997 when a journalist had a frightening episode in a car park.  Brian Bethel had been sitting in his car in a shopping centre car park in Abilene, Texas. He was parked near a movie theatre in order to use the outside illuminations to give him…

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The Flannan Isles Mystery

The Flannan Isles Mystery

The Flannan Isles lighthouse is situated on the isle of Eilean Mór, one of the Flannan Isles  in the outer Hebrides, off the west coast of Scotland. The height of the lighthouse is 23 m (75 ft) and was designed by David Alan Stevenson for the Northern Lighthouse Board. Construction was undertaken in 1885 and completed in 1899. All of the materials used had to be hauled up the 45 metre (148 ft)…

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Michelle Vanek

In the vernacular of the residents of the state of Colorado (and across much of the west coast) in the US, the term “fourteener” is attributed to one of the many mountains that rise to a height above 14,000 ft. In Colorado alone, there are 58 peaks above the altitude of 14k. The Sawatch Range in central Colorado includes eight of the twenty highest peaks in the Rocky Mountains. The highest peak…

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The Voynich Manuscript

Either the deluded ramblings of a Renaissance eccentric or a valid herbal, astronomical, and cosmological account of medicines, events, or life within a certain period of time; with the Voynich Manuscript it appears, nobody knows…, that is, nobody can decipher it. Materials It is commonly described as a handwritten codex of unknown origin and content. Experts are still trying to identify the…

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The Hellfire Club - Ireland

The Hellfire Club – Ireland

The fascination with secret societies and elite gatherings have always given rise to suspicions among the middle/lower classes. Tales of demonic debauchery and wanton decadence were rampant in the communities surrounding their meeting places.   

In the social circles of early eighteenth-century London,  “The Hellfire Club” became a byword for immoral excess.

The Duke of Wharton

There…