Category: Mysteries
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Japan Is the World’s No. 1 Hotspot for UFO Sightings. Officials Are Trying to Figure Out Why.
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Are the reports really about aliens or could a national security threat be at play? Japan is no stranger to reports of unidentified flying objects. Next year will mark the 50th anniversary of the country’s most famous UFO sighting out of Kofu, the capital city of Yamanashi Prefecture, in which two boys…
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UFO Sightings Are Spiking. This Man Has Unraveled the Truth Behind Hundreds of Them
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The longtime UFO investigator explains his methods, his obsession with solving every case, and the reasons why we should be skeptical of alien sightings. ON A CLEAR, SUNNY DAY IN JULY, Mick West, a former video game programmer, was flying from his home in Sacramento, California, down to Pasadena. From the…
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UFO Sightings Are Putting Airline Pilots in Danger—But Scientists Have Designed a Groundbreaking Solution
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Pilots don’t have real-time data about the thousands of low-orbit, sun-reflecting objects zooming around Earth. There’s a fix for that. On the night of August 10, 2022, five pilots on two separate commercial airline flights were wholly convinced they’d documented proof of an Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon (UAP) over the Pacific…
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Was Shakespeare a Medium?
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Much has been written about the possibility that William Shakespeare didn’t author the works credited to him, that he was, in effect, an impostor, or a “front” for accomplished writers of the era. Those making the case against Shakespeare argue that Shakespeare lacked education and was likely illiterate, noting that even…
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Black Elk: The Afterlife of an American Indian
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What does the afterlife of an American Indian look like? Is it different from what you and I can expect? Black Elk (1863-1950) was a shaman and visionary who twice visited the land of his ancestors. His second trip was induced by an exhausting, ecstatic “ghost dance” ritual in the Lakota…
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The 17th Witness for Consciousness Surviving Death: Psychiatrist Bernard Laubscher
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In my essay for the Bigelow contest of 2021, I presented a simulated present-day court trial in which The Survival School contends that consciousness survives death in a greater reality, while arguing that the evidence for such survival was overwhelming before 1920. I offered the testimony of 11 pre-1920 scholars and scientists, including…
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Afterlife: The Next Great Adventure
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When I was in high school, I developed a unique scale for measuring my level of happiness. I called it the “4 Gs.” The Gs were grades, golf (I was on the school golf team), girls, and God (the Big G). I realized that if my life was running smoothly…
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Why UFO Footage Plays Tricks on Your Mind, According to the Guy Who Investigates It
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The recent hubbub over the “Jellyfish UFO” shows your brain’s desire for novelty can block out the truth. In January, a well-known UFO influencer, Jeremy Corbell, shared footage of something the public has started calling the “jellyfish UFO.” The footage shows “a mysterious object that appears to have dangling tendrils, and which appears to…
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The Air Force Asked This Man to Investigate UFOs—Then Pushed Him Away After What He Found
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His job was to uncover secrets from the unknown. But his curiosity opened doors that the government preferred to keep closed. This story is a collaboration with Biography.com. Do you think the U.S. government is hiding, and possibly reverse-engineering, extraterrestrial technology? Think again. Or better yet, don’t think about it at…
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A Groundbreaking Scientific Discovery Shows That We Can Reverse Death
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New experiments raise important questions about what it means to die. Editor’s Note: This is one of Popular Mechanics’ greatest stories. It was initially published in December 2022. On December 9, 2013, 13-year-old Jahi McMath was checked in to Oakland Children’s Hospital in California for a routine tonsillectomy. She had sleep apnea and…
