MMXXVI VOL21 No.961

Robert Kennedy was killed 58 years ago

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Bringing beer to friends in the Vietnam War
War

John Chickie Donohue's 1967 journey to bring beer from New York to his friends deployed in the Vietnam War. The route analyzed in detail with a map, framed in its historical context. Illustrated with real images of the epic journey

Editor's picks

Official reports confirmed more shots than bullets in the assassin's gun while RFK's escorts were not armed. The corridor to the slaughterhouse that was opened for the senator, an allegedly MK Ultra waiting for him and eyewitness testimonies that don't fit the official version

The Marfa lights

A paranormal phenomenon recorded since 1883, still without any explanation. Strange lights appear out of nowhere, lighting up the horizon of the Chihuahuan Desert in Texas

Remembering the Camel Trophy

Held between 1980 and 2000, it is one of the most loved and remembered rallies, along with the original Paris-Dakar, Monte Carlo or the Carrera Panamericana. This is its origin, evolution, some of the epic images it left and the causes that led to its closure

Aviators, pilot sunglasses

The history of sunglasses designed to protect pilots' eyesight. From Ray-Ban Aviators to Randolph Engineering sunglasses, including American Optical's military specifications

The curse of the unlucky mummy

The misfortunes caused by the ghost of a mummy, which ended up fleeing the British Museum in London to find refuge in an abandoned subway station. From there, it now haunts the dark tunnels of the subway train. The same mummy that supposedly traveled in the holds of the Titanic when it sank

Aesthetic subcultures

Gothic, steampunk, dieselpunk, industrial style, safaricore, warcore, preppers, witchcore, cottagecore, dark academia

Cerebral doping 5, what was a Roman dodecahedron used for?

10 surprising facts about the pseudo‑science that is statistics, the Boring Billion years, the 10 days that never existed - just like wild cows - shuffling cards as a single act, the longest‑living tree, some things about the English, the skewed probability of heads and tails and the million‑dollar question; what was a Roman dodecahedron used for? Plus, 10 extra little pills for a stronger hit

Bigfoot

There are legends that relate the existence of similar creatures halfway around the world with different names. Bigfoot, Sasquatch, Yeti, Mensk, Pamir, Almas, Yeren, Orang Pendek, Yowie.... All the evidence that exists are testimonies about sightings, footprints that are very easy to fake and low quality footage. Bigfoot, myth or reality?

The independent Principality of Sealand

In 1967 a British Maunsell fortress located in the North Sea, was occupied and declared a sovereign nation. This is the story of the proclamation as a principality, the subsequent invasion by mercenaries hired by tge Rebel Government of Sealand, the reconquest and the current legal status. Fancy becoming a Duke of Sealand? Now you can!

The curse of Skinwalker Ranch

The ranch is a hotbed of paranormal activity, where scientifically unexplainable phenomena occur. Frequent UFO sightings, cattle mutilations, disabling of electronic devices, reception of strange radio signals and anomalous frequency measurements of various kinds, including radiation spikes, have been reported

The Gary McKinnon hack

This is what the hacker uncovered inside military and NASA computers; reverse‑engineering UFOs, USSS spacecraft, and non‑terrestrial officers

The Voynich Manuscript

It is regularly announced that the Voynich Codex has been deciphered. The reality is that to date, no one has managed to decipher the texts. Only hypotheses have been proposed, from which a few words have been translated in a purely theoretical way

The black bird of Chernobyl

In the days before the Chernobyl disaster, people reported a Mothman‑like apparition near the nuclear power plant. The plant's Ukrainian name is the same as the star that falls when the third trumpet of the apocalypse sounds

Titanic millionaire’s boat

After the Titanic collided with an iceberg, evacuation of the passengers in lifeboats began. Lifeboat No. 1, with a capacity for 40 people, was launched with only 5 first‑class passengers on board. After accusations that sailors had been bribed not to return to rescue survivors from the water when the liner went down, it became known as the millionaires’ boat

Random article

If Molly Brown was said to be unsinkable, these two were unsinkable on God mode. Luck or professional jinxes working together?

Est.1875 

Nolumus credere, velimus scire

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