In the west, we tend to categorize everything. We try to come up with rules and regulations that define what something is, sometimes to desperate lengths and great frustration when something just doesn’t fit. Updated 2/11/2020 – Mythical creatures are no exception. We view the vampire as a blood drinking undead human, and a werewolf as […]
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The world has been ending for thousands of years. Early Christians believed the end would happen in their lifetime and that the Roman Empire represented the last gasp of humanity. Updated 2/11/2020 – As it turns out, it was one of the first gasps in the birth of the modern world in which we live. […]
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This week seemed an apt time to ponder our nation’s political ghosts. We all know Abraham Lincoln haunts the White House along with Andrew Jackson and a host of first ladies, Woodrow Wilson is seen in a rocking chair at Blair House. Updated 2/9/2020 – A great many ghosts are associated with the other federal […]
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On September 22, 1979 an aging satellite named Vela 6911 detected two very distinct flashes in the vicinity of the Indian or South Atlantic oceans that supposedly could be only one thing: a nuclear detonation. Updated 2/9/2020 – The Carter administration held an emergency meeting, other satellites were enlisted to see if they saw the detonation, […]
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We’ve all seen “The Exorcist”, the infamous film based on William Peter Blatty’s equally infamous book. We also know that Blatty based his story on something that really happened, the exorcism of a boy in 1949 that took place at no less than four different places during the months-long exorcism. Updated 2/9/2020 – For years […]
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I like to take staged disappearances with a grain of salt. I mean really, every time someone noteworthy disappears, imaginations go wild. Questions are asked about what really happened and before long you have Elvis faking his death, Emilia Earhart spending time in a Japanese prison camp, and most recently Steve Fossett living abroad in […]
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New Jersey’s pine barrens might qualify as the strangest stretch of woods in the world. It is completely out of place, a huge thick pine forest with only a sparse rural population situated among developed and largely urban New Jersey. Updated 2/11/2020 – The Pine Barrens is just the type of place for a cryptid, and […]
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In late 1944, the unlikely small town of Mattoon, Illinois was the setting for one of the most interesting unexplained crimes that the United States had ever seen. Updated 2/11/2020 – During the two weeks between August 31 and September 13 of that year, there were over 20 reports of citizens being temporarily paralyzed by […]
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Due to the breakout success of our first article, The Himuro Mansion Haunting, we’re going back to Asia for the wild tale of a red haired, human like animal believed by the locals to be a man eating prehistoric caveman, and by scientists to be an extinct primate. Updated 2/11/2020 – The story is a familiar […]
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Welcome back to Backpackerverse’s Top 10 Unexplained Phenomena. We hope that you enjoyed the last installment of our favorite unexplained, mysterious and just plain weird happenings. Updated 2/11/2020 – In the final 5, things get weirder as we highlight some of the darker unexplained phenomena that has intrigued us. As noted in the comments of Part […]
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