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Blood Falls in Antarctica: The Red Flow Bleeding from the Heart of a Glacier

08/09/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - Amidst the white and blue of Taylor Glacier, a dark red stream oozes out like an unhealed wound. Geologist Griffith Taylor recorded Blood Falls in 1911; initially, the color was attributed to algae. ..

The Hessdalen Lights: Strange Orbs Continue to Appear Over a Norwegian Valley

13/09/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - In Norway’s cold and sparsely populated Hessdalen valley, people report white, yellow, or red lights that sometimes hover motionless and sometimes streak across the sky. A wave of sightings in the e ..

Fast radio bursts: millisecond signals carrying colossal energy

12/09/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - A fast radio burst can end before a human can blink, but in that brief moment, the source in a distant galaxy emits an extraordinary amount of radio energy. When the first FRB was recognized in arch ..

How Did the Sailing Stones of Death Valley Move?

12/09/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - Across the dry lake bed of Racetrack Playa in Death Valley, stones sit at the ends of long trails as if they crept through the mud when no one was looking. Some weigh hundreds of kilograms, with pat ..

Brinicle: the "icy finger" that grows down to the seabed and freezes everything in its path

07/09/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - Under polar sea ice, an icy tube sometimes grows straight down like an inverted stalactite. Inside it is a stream of extremely cold and dense brine. When this "finger" touches the seabed, a web of i ..

Morning Glory cloud: the hundreds-of-kilometers-long white wall rolling across Australia

06/09/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - On certain dawns at the end of the dry season in northern Australia, a wall of cloud hundreds of kilometers long rolls low across the sky. It can travel in a single band or multiple parallel bands, ..

Tabby's Star: Do Its Unusual Dimmings Really Hide a Megastructure?

11/09/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - In Kepler data, KIC 8462852 occasionally dimmed by more than 20% in irregular curves, much deeper than a normal transiting planet. When familiar causes did not fit immediately, the idea of an "alien ..

Fairy Circles in Namibia: Footprints of the Gods, Sand Termites, or a Battle for Water?

11/09/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - Across a long strip of the Namib Desert, millions of nearly circular barren patches lie evenly spaced across a grassy carpet. Seen from above, they resemble a grid drawn with a compass. Legend calls ..

Oumuamua: The First Interstellar Visitor and the Invisible Acceleration

10/09/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - On October 19, 2017, Pan-STARRS1 detected a point of light leaving the Solar System on a hyperbolic orbit. It was traveling too fast to have ever been gravitationally bound to the Sun and became the ..

Catatumbo Lightning: The Near-Endless Storm Over Lake Maracaibo

05/09/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - Over the southern region of Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela, the sky flashes like a giant lighthouse for many consecutive nights. Thunderstorm clusters re-form near the mouth of the Catatumbo River, mak ..

Ball lightning: a real glowing sphere or just an illusion after a flash?

10/09/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - After a lightning flash, witnesses sometimes describe a glowing sphere about the size of an orange floating through the air, lasting a few seconds before fading or exploding. There are accounts of i ..

Where Do the Giant Circles Under the Ice of Lake Baikal Come From?

09/09/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - Every winter, Lake Baikal freezes over like a giant sheet of glass. But satellite images sometimes detect dark circles kilometers wide appearing amidst the white ice. They are too large to be recogn ..

UVB-76: The Mysterious Buzzing Sound Broadcast for Decades on 4625 kHz

14/09/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - On 4625 kHz, an intermittent buzzing sound has repeated day after day since at least the early 1980s. Occasionally, the channel marker stops, a Russian voice reads out a call sign, code words, and n ..

Strasbourg Dancing Plague of 1518: When the Entire City Couldn't Stop Dancing

07/09/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - In the summer of 1518, Strasbourg records describe citizens dancing against their will, continuing to the point of exhaustion. The authorities erected stages and hired musicians because physicians b ..

Upsweep: the rising tone still echoing across the Pacific

13/09/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - Ever since NOAA gained access to the SOSUS hydroacoustic data in 1991, listening stations across the Pacific have been recording trains of pulses a few seconds long whose pitch sweeps upward. The so ..

Perytons: the fake cosmic signal produced by a microwave oven

12/09/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - For years the Parkes telescope in Australia picked up radio pulses in which the high frequencies arrived first and the low frequencies later - the look of a signal that had travelled through plasma ..

LGM-1: the clockwork signal once suspected of being aliens

11/09/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - In 1967 the postgraduate student Jocelyn Bell noticed a recurring patch of "scruff" on kilometres of chart paper from the Cambridge radio array. Recording at a faster rate turned the signal into pul ..

The Taos Hum: the drone only some people hear in the New Mexico desert

10/09/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - In the early 1990s a number of residents around Taos described a low hum like a diesel engine in the distance, clearer indoors and at night. A neighbour standing in the same room might hear nothing ..

The Princes in the Tower: who erased them from history in 1483?

09/09/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - In the summer of 1483, twelve-year-old Edward V and his younger brother Richard were brought to the Tower of London while their uncle took the throne as Richard III. At first the boys were still see ..

Legio IX Hispana: a Roman legion lost in Britain, or posted east?

08/09/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - Legio IX Hispana was once stationed at York and fought through ferocious uprisings in Britain. After the early second century its name disappears from the surviving lists of Roman legions. Novels an ..

The Green Children of Woolpit: legend, or a memory of refugees?

06/09/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - Two chronicles from the late twelfth century relate that villagers at Woolpit in Suffolk found two children with green-tinged skin beside a wolf pit. They wore strange clothes, spoke a language nobo ..