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John C. Lilly Invented the Isolation Tank at NIMH. Then He Started Talking to Aliens
In 1954, inside a converted tank at the National Institute of Mental Health, a physician named John C. Lilly floated alone in body-temperature salt water, wearing a blacked-out breathing mask,…
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What Edgar Cayce Actually Leaves Behind
Edgar Cayce (1877–1945) left behind one of the largest surviving records…
The Sumerian King List’s Antediluvian Reign Lengths | Six of Eight Divide Cleanly by 72. Two Don’t. Berossus’s Later Version Fixes All Ten
Eight kings ruled before the Flood, according to the oldest surviving…
Sirius B Was Published Astronomy by 1915. Griaule’s Dogon Discovery Came Twenty Years Later
Here is the claim, as it usually gets told: in the…
The Battery Was Discovered in 1938. The Object Itself Is Roughly 2,000 Years Old
A clay jar the size of a large mug, dug up…
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The Tartaria Tablets | Why a 1961 Conservation Decision Made the Dating Argument Unsolvable
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In the Bekaa Valley of eastern Lebanon, three blocks of…
The Antikythera Mechanism | The Device That Should Not Exist Was Recovered From a Roman Shipwreck in 1901. Its Full Function Was Not Understood Until 2021.
In the spring of 1901, a group of Greek sponge…
The Knights Templar’s Nine-Year Gap | What Actually Happened Between 1119 and 1129, and Why the Real Story Beats the Legend
Nine knights. Nine years. A gap in the record most…
The Voynich Manuscript | What 600 Years of Failed Decipherment Actually Tells Us About the Document Itself
The Voynich Manuscript has been studied by codebreakers who defeated…
