This summer, we traveled further north than our usual stay in the Scottish Borders to tour the fabled North Coast 500, the scenic, twisting ring road in the Highlands. Along the way, we drove up the A9 and took the opportunity to make a brief stop in Calvine—a remote hamlet and the alleged location of
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Science Fiction & Alien ContactBRUNTON’S MACHINE A Chicago Drummer’s Trip Around the World in 28 Hours CHAPTER I “I am not dreaming. I have gone around the world in twenty-eight hours. I have no desire to repeat the trip which I have just ended, and which was not a voluntary journey on my part. Not true? Yes, it is
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HiddenWhen dozens of children at Ariel school Zimbabwe reported seeing aliens in 1994, ufologists falsely assumed they’d had no exposure to UFO and sci-fi media
Explore the journal article version of a skeptical analysis of the 1994 Ariel School UFO incident in Zimbabwe. Here I critique investigative biases and propose a puppet hypothesis, suggesting theatre props mistaken for aliens amid media hype and cultural influences.
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The Mysterious Events at Ariel SchoolFeature Article Skeptical Inquirer Volume 49, No. 6 November/December 2025
In 1980, British novelist Lionel Davidson, best known for his crime thrillers, published an uncharacteristic children’s novel: Under Plum Lake. On the surface, it is a whimsical story about a 12-year-old boy who, exploring a sea cave, stumbles upon a hollow earth utopia beneath the ocean. But read closely, Under Plum Lake is something else entirely: a visionary parable about the trauma of anomalous experience, the ontological shock of encountering an alien reality, and the loneliness of returning from it with no one to believe you.
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MAGA and the accidental prophecy of OIaf Stapledon’s Last and First Men is an examination of how critics were wrong to dismiss the near future predictions in the early chapters of Stapledon’s masterpiece.
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A closer look at the Carl Higdon alien encounter of 1974 and its connection to science fiction imagery and pulp short stories that preceded it.
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The Telepathy Tapes, Oahspe and the Shalam Orphans
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