On the night of September 19th and on into the early morning of September 20th in 1961, husband and wife Barney and Betty Hill were traveling South on Route 3 to their home in Portsmouth, NH,... »

Museums and Collections, Unique Collections, Hoaxes and Pseudoscience | Edited by JWOcker and Rachel

On the night of September 19 and on into the early morning of September 20 in 1961, husband and wife Barney and Betty Hill were traveling South on Route 3 to their home in Portsmouth, NH, after... »

Memento Mori, Catacombs, Crypts, & Cemeteries, Hoaxes and Pseudoscience | Edited by JWOcker

On a September night in 1965, on a dark road just outside of the town of Exeter, a local 18-year-old hitchhiker by the name of Norman Muscarello witnessed some intensely bright, low-lying aerial... »

Hoaxes and Pseudoscience | Edited by JWOcker

On the night of September 19 and on into the early morning of September 20 in 1961, husband and wife Barney and Betty Hill were traveling South on Route 3 to their home in Portsmouth, NH, after... »

Unusual Monuments, Hoaxes and Pseudoscience | Edited by JWOcker

Chucuito is one of the few ancient sites in the world that is likely to elicit a few giggles. In many ways, you're supposed to giggle when you walk through the walled-off complex covered in row... »

Hoaxes and Pseudoscience, Rites and Rituals | Edited by serflac and atimian

By all scientific accounts, theses rounded objects found in pyrophyllite deposits around Ottosdal, South Africa are three billion-year-old rocks that were naturally formed by carbonate... »

Geological Oddities, Hoaxes and Pseudoscience | Edited by atimian and Dylan

15 years ago, a strange man named Mel Waters called in to the Art Bell radio program, claiming he had discovered a mysterious and infinite hole on his property near Ellensburg, Washington. Quickly... »

Hoaxes and Pseudoscience | Edited by atimian and Dylan

In the 1930s an occultist, writer and hardware store owner published a theory that pyramids might have special powers, such as preserving food, sharpening blades and focusing the mind. The theory... »

Strange Science, Unusual Monuments, Hoaxes and Pseudoscience, Outsider Architecture | Edited by serflac, atimian and others

It makes little sense that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stylized the sinking of the Mary Celeste. The story certainly doesn't need intrigue, or a bizarre cast of characters. In fact, the real story is... »

Hoaxes and Pseudoscience, Incredible Ruins | Edited by atimian and Dylan

In December 2012, a legion of apocalyptic New Age believers will either join the ranks of aliens, or feel very stupid. For the time being though, they're content just to occupy the small,... »

Hoaxes and Pseudoscience, Rites and Rituals | Edited by atimian