i write because the the alternative forms of my obsessive insanity are either too destructive or decidedly less sexy.
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Every entry in this series has been leading here. The ghost that infrasound can’t fully explain, the entity contact that the REBUS model accounts for but doesn’t quite close, the simulation argument resting on the premise that consciousness can run on any substrate: all of these threads terminate
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In 2019, researchers at Johns Hopkins University published a survey study of over 2,500 people who reported contact with “seemingly autonomous, non-human entities” while using DMT. The results were strange enough that they published them anyway. Sixty-nine percent of respondents described the entities as benevolent. Over 80%
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Nick Bostrom’s 2003 paper “Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?” is not a work of science fiction. It is a formal philosophical argument published in the Philosophical Quarterly, and it has been taken seriously enough that physicists at MIT, Caltech, and Oxford have spent peer-reviewed time either
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The list of things that will make a person see a ghost is embarrassingly long. Carbon monoxide poisoning causes hallucinations, paranoia, a creeping sense of presence in empty rooms. Infrasound at 18.98 Hz, inaudible to human ears but felt in the chest and the visual cortex, produces feelings of
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The United States government ran a psychic spy program for over 20 years. This is not a conspiracy theory. The program was officially declassified. The documents are available. The CIA’s own final assessment is in the public record. It ran from 1972 to 1995, cost over $20 million, employed
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The textbook story of human civilization runs like this: anatomically modern humans spent roughly 200,000 years as hunter-gatherers, then around 10,000 BCE, more or less simultaneously in several locations, agriculture appeared. From agriculture came settlements, from settlements came cities, from cities came writing and metallurgy and what
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Loch Ness is 23 miles long, a mile wide, and 750 feet deep at its maximum. It contains more fresh water than all the lakes in England and Wales combined. It sits inside a fault line that runs diagonally across Scotland, which is why it’s long and narrow and
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The standard dismissal runs like this: Bigfoot is a folklore creature sustained by hoaxes, misidentified bears, and the psychological need of lonely men in flannel to believe the wilderness still holds something unknown. Case closed. Next question. That dismissal is too easy. It mistakes cultural ridicule for empirical refutation. The
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The Bermuda Triangle has a remarkable property: it disappears when you count properly. Not the triangle itself. The triangle is real geography: the roughly 500,000 square mile patch of the western North Atlantic bounded by Miami, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico. What disappears, under the weight of actual data, is
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The ancient aliens thesis is not primarily about aliens. It’s primarily about race. Strip away the UFO imagery, the Giorgio Tsoukalos hair, the History Channel production budget, and what you have underneath is a claim that reduces to this: the people who lived in ancient Egypt, ancient Mesoamerica, ancient
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The earth is round. This is not in dispute. The evidence is so overwhelming, so geometrically obvious, so independently verifiable by anyone with a camera, a ship, and an understanding of what a horizon is, that spending serious time debunking it feels like explaining why fire is hot. Which is
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We came here to debunk. The data had other plans. That’s not a concession to conspiracy culture. It’s a commitment to the methodology that’s supposed to separate science from superstition: falsifiability. A claim that can’t be tested can’t be dismissed. A claim that survives serious