Argleton
If you find Argleton on your map and then visit to find nothing but a farmer’s field don’t…
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Kumari Kandam
So many lost continents, so little time. This one in the Indian Ocean and associated with the Tamil…
US Federal Government evacuates Northern New Mexico. Burns down over 300,000 acres.
After a thorough internal investigation the US Forest Service reports that they started the two fires that combined…
Some depressing imagery
Maria Popova describes depression, “It starts with a low hum that adheres itself to the underbelly of the…
Dancing Plague of 1374
In 1374 a dancing mania swept over the German city of Aachen. In 1888, historian Justus Hecker describes…
Alfred Lothar Wegener: Moving continents
Let’s cheer Lovecraft’s shout out to Wegener in At the Mountains of Madness. “The changing state of the…
Remembering Oumuamua
Remember back in 2018 when Oumuamua came flying through our solar system and all the UFOlogists offered essays…
Having weird dreams?
Dream theory published in 2021 offers the “Overfitted Brain Hypothesis.” To oversimplify: During waking hours people focus on…
A rare sighting of the “Headless Chicken Monster” of the Sea.
The “headless chicken monster,” a.k.a. Enypniastes eximia. NOAA.Smithsonian Magazine reports about the rare encounter near the ocean floor…