Misc

Nine miles west of Ellensburg, Washington, on a remote, windswept ridge in the Manastash Hills, there is said to exist (or once existed) a seemingly ordinary hole in the ground—nine inches in diameter, perfectly round, bored straight down into the earth with no visible bottom. According to the man who claimed to own the property

Tucked away in the remote wilderness near Gakona, Alaska, stands a sprawling array of 180 massive antennas spread across 33 acres—the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP). Officially, it’s the world’s most powerful high-frequency (HF) transmitter for studying the ionosphere, that ionized upper layer of Earth’s atmosphere (50–400 miles up) where auroras dance and radio

Since opening in 1995, Denver International Airport (DEN, formerly DIA) has been more than a transportation hub—it’s a magnet for some of the wildest, most enduring conspiracy theories in America. Overbudget construction ($2 billion overrun), vast unused underground spaces, apocalyptic murals, a demonic blue horse statue that “killed” its creator, and now two grinning gargoyles

On a clear day, look up: white lines streak across the blue—long, lingering trails from high-flying jets. To most, they’re just contrails—condensation trails formed when hot engine exhaust meets freezing upper-atmosphere air, turning water vapor into ice crystals that can persist or spread depending on humidity and temperature. But to a growing number of observers,

Nestled on the Franco-Swiss border, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) houses the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)—a 27-kilometer underground ring accelerating protons to near-light speeds and smashing them together to recreate conditions microseconds after the Big Bang. Officially, it’s humanity’s most powerful tool for probing fundamental physics: discovering the Higgs boson in 2012, hunting

Introduction: The Myth That Won’t Die Mermaids — half-human, half-fish beings — have long existed in global folklore. From the Sirens of Greece to the Mami Wata of West Africa, they represent mystery, temptation, danger, and wisdom. But in recent years, a bizarre and macabre conspiracy theory has emerged online: that members of the global