On January 4, 2012, an anonymous message appeared on 4chan. It contained a simple image of a white cicada against a black background and a short invitation directed at people who considered themselves intelligent enough to solve a test. Hidden somewhere inside the image was a message. Whoever could find it would be taken to the next stage. The...
For more than ninety years, a woman has stood behind the glass of a bridal shop in Chihuahua, Mexico. She wears wedding dresses, watches the street with an unnervingly lifelike expression, and has hands, fingernails, wrinkles and veins that appear almost too realistic for a mannequin. Generations of visitors have stopped to stare at her. Some claim...
A website appears without explanation. Strange symbols fill the screen. Hidden files, cryptic messages, and impossible puzzles lure curious visitors deeper into an increasingly surreal rabbit hole. Some believe it's an elaborate alternate reality game. Others think it's an art project, an experiment in artificial intelligence, or even a recruitment...
As one of the most devastating tornadoes in modern American history tore through the city of Joplin, Missouri, in May 2011, survivors described scenes of unimaginable destruction. Entire neighborhoods vanished in minutes. Cars became airborne. Buildings collapsed. Amid the chaos, however, another story began to emerge—one that has puzzled believers...
Oregon 1981. A new viedo game popped up in suburban arcades around Portland. Children who couldn't stop playing. Nightmares, memory loss, and men in black suits collecting data from the machine. Whether it was a secret government experiment, an elaborate hoax, or simply one of the internet's greatest urban legends, the story of Polybius has become...
On a bright African morning, a strange craft was descending beyond the playground. Sixty children and many adults witnessed the encounter. Over three decades later, the children—now adults—continue to tell remarkably similar stories. Whether interpreted as evidence of extraterrestrial contact, a psychological phenomenon, or something else entirely,...
I've mostely been writing about cryptids, folklore tales and conspiracy theories. Today however, I'll be writing about my still ongoing-journey back to Earth, with a dash of conspiracy theory.
For more than a century, people along the Pacific Northwest coast have reported encounters with something large, serpentine, and unexplained moving beneath the water. Scientists remain skeptical. Locals remain convinced: there is something in the waters.
In Japan, there are lenty of legends of "living dolls", dolls that "acquire independent spirits as children play with them and talk to them." If a so-called living doll is mistreated or discarded by its owner, it is said that it may seek revenge against them, driving the human into madness.