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Trove of Stone Age Arrows Found in Norway
As Norway’s ancient mountain ice melts, archaeologists are recovering remarkably preserved arrows lost by hunters thousands of years ago—offering a rare glimpse into Stone Age technology and the…
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The Moving Coffins of Barbados
In the early nineteenth century, something strange was reportedly happening inside a sealed burial vault in Barbados. Heavy lead-lined coffins were being found scattered about the crypt—but whether…
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The Green Children of Woolpit
In twelfth-century Suffolk, two children with green skin appeared speaking an unknown language and claiming to come from a land without sunlight. What lies behind the strange story…
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The Heikegani Crabs and the Problem of Pareidolia
For centuries, Japan’s Heikegani crabs have seemed to bear the angry faces of fallen samurai on their shells. Carl Sagan helped popularize an evolutionary explanation for their strange…
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The Problem of Talking to an Alien
In 1974, humanity sent a message toward the stars. But transmitting a signal is the easy part. How do you communicate with another intelligence when you may share…
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Reading The Herculaneum Scrolls of Antiquity
For nearly two thousand years, the carbonized scrolls of Herculaneum have remained tantalizingly unreadable. Now, X-rays, virtual unwrapping, and machine learning are beginning to reveal what lies inside—offering…
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The Mad Gasser of Mattoon
In the autumn of 1944, residents of a small Illinois city reported a mysterious prowler creeping through the night and pumping a strange gas into their homes. Victims…
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The Problem of Being You
If every part of something is replaced, is it still the same thing? The Ship of Theseus has puzzled philosophers for centuries, but the question becomes considerably stranger…
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When Fiction Becomes Fact: The Strange Case of James Worson
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…
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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…