Amelia Earhart’s Final Flight: What Happened?
By Iris Kowalczyk · Published May 7, 2026 · Updated May 13, 2026 Last reviewed: May 7, 2026. Amelia Mary Earhart, born July 24, 1897, and Frederick Joseph Noonan, born April 4, 1893, were last heard from at 8:43 a.m. local Howland Island time on July 2, 1937. They were flying a Lockheed Electra L-10E, […]
Stonehenge: An Astronomical Computer?
By Theodora “Theo” Marsh · Published May 7, 2026 · Updated May 13, 2026 Last reviewed: May 7, 2026. Standing on Salisbury Plain at the Hour the Sun Comes Back The first thing the place does, when you arrive on Salisbury Plain in the dark before midsummer dawn, is take the noise out of you. […]
ESP: Exploring Extrasensory Perception
By Linnea Voss · Published May 7, 2026 · Updated May 13, 2026 Last reviewed: May 7, 2026. ESP: What a Folklorist Notices First Extrasensory perception is the claimed acquisition of information without the recognized senses, sorted in the parapsychological literature into telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, and psychokinesis. After ninety years of laboratory work, no robust […]
The Freemasons: Secrets and Power
By Augustus Kane · Published May 7, 2026 · Updated May 13, 2026 The Freemasons: What the Documents Show, and What They Do Not Freemasonry is a fraternal society that emerged from late-medieval Scottish stonemasons’ guilds, organized into a speculative form by the Premier Grand Lodge of England in London on June 24, 1717. Its […]
Bigfoot: North America’s Elusive Giant
By Dr. Sloane Reeve · Published May 7, 2026 · Updated May 13, 2026 Last reviewed: May 7, 2026. What Bigfoot Actually Is, in Plain Zoological Terms Bigfoot, also called Sasquatch, is a hypothesized large bipedal hominid reported across the temperate forests of North America. The modern public case rests on the 1967 Patterson-Gimlin film, […]
Pyramids and Aliens
By Marcus Halloway · Published May 7, 2026 · Updated May 13, 2026 The “pyramids and aliens” question is two stories sitting on top of each other. The first is a documented archaeological record covering roughly seventy years of excavation at Giza, supported by primary papyri, worker housing foundations, and recent muon imaging. The second […]
The Tower of Babel: Historical Evidence
By Emilia Wellesley · Published May 7, 2026 · Updated May 13, 2026 The Genesis Narrative and the Babylonian Referent The Tower of Babel survives in two records that have to be read on their own terms before they can be read against one another. The first is Genesis 11:1-9 in the Hebrew Bible, a […]
Indus Valley: Trade and Communication
By Emilia Wellesley · Published May 7, 2026 · Updated May 13, 2026 Last reviewed: May 7, 2026. The Indus Valley left no decipherable archive of its own commerce. What it left, instead, is a material vocabulary so consistent that scholars have been able to reconstruct the routes, the freight, the partners, and even something […]
The Lost Expedition of Ludwig Leichhardt
By Emilia Wellesley · Published May 7, 2026 · Updated May 13, 2026 On the morning of 3 April 1848, a forty-seven-year-old Prussian-born naturalist named Ludwig Leichhardt rode west from a sheep outstation on the Cogoon River and into the most thoroughly silent disappearance in the recorded history of Australian exploration. He led five companions, […]
The Ubaid Lizardmen Figures: Representations of Gods or Aliens?
By Emilia Wellesley · Published May 7, 2026 · Updated May 13, 2026 Some artifacts are quiet. They sit in storerooms behind tags from a 1929 excavation season, and only the specialists who handle them remember what they are. The ophidian figurines of southern Mesopotamia are quiet objects: ten or fifteen centimeters of low-fired clay, […]