The Ancient Code

The idea of air travel by sky car or flying saucer has been around for decades, with patents by Alexander Weygers and Nikola Tesla from the Roaring Twenties.  Now, numerous inventors are hoping to make the dream a reality at last, with plans for vertical takeoff and landing aircraft (VTOL) vehicles. In a...

Russia's Dyatlov Pass Incident is one of the creepiest, most mysterious true stories ever told. In January 1959, during the height of the Cold War, nine young Urals Polytechnic Institute students in their 20s and 30s went hiking in the Ural Mountains. All were experienced hikers and skiers, but none were prepared...

Last year, Senator Marco Rubio created a stir in a June 17 Select Committee on Intelligence report. The Senator from Florida requested a detailed analysis from Navy Intelligence's "Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force."  Thanks to that request, the task force's existence went public. Also, we learned of Rubio's request for a report from...

Are legends of mermaids and mermen based on something real? If so, stories dating back to the first writings are nothing like the Little Mermaid.  Sinde 1988, more than 16,000 people have vanished in a triangular area, the "Bermuda Triangle of Alaska." The missing person rate is twice the national average, with...

Petroglyphs found in Georgia show a possible connection between some of the earliest archaeological sites in the United States and Bronze Age Europe. Symbols found etched into stone are remarkably similar. At one ancient site in Savannah, Georgia, some also point to possible connections with the Mesoamericans. Nevertheless, today, those...

The Gorman Dogfight: It was "one of the most credible accounts of UFO activity in the country," according to a recent piece by the Grand Forks Herald from North Dakota. On Friday evening, October 1, 1948, a crowd formed to watch a college football game on a crisp fall evening in Fargo....

Trees talk to each other deep underground. It's an idea still relatively new to science but familiar to ancient beliefs. Today, scientists are confirming that forests act like one big superorganism. Below the ground, fungal highways connect the trees. Through this highway, the oldest trees nurture their young. What's more,...

This is an extraordinary time for anyone interested in Egyptian tombs. A new fascinating film, Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb, has premiered on Netflix. Plus, we just learned that over 100 new ancient coffins and rare 40 wooden and gilded statues have been discovered in Saqqara, meaning another film is probably in order! https://twitter.com/SmithsonianChan/status/1327597178337042432?s=20 Saqqara...

The Carolinas are a hotbed of documented UFO sightings. In fact, the Queen City of Charlotte has been rated among the top 10 large North American cities for UFO sightings. So far, there have been 153 sightings of mysterious lights, discs, and orbs in the sky since 1910.  Last year, we shared...

If extraterrestrials visited Earth in the distant past, what kind of evidence might they leave behind? For Paul Davies, an Astrobiologist from Arizona State University, the traces of ancient alien (or their robot) visits might be found in one of three places: Nuclear wasteLarge-scale mining operationsA "message in a bottle." (metaphorically) Now...