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SCP-3199 Humans, Refuted: the Keter creature that breeds through horror

20/06/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - In the darkest archive of the most secretive organisation on the planet there is a file that makes even the hardest staff shudder when it is mentioned. It is SCP-3199 - nicknamed Humans, Refuted. Th ..

SCP-1000 Bigfoot: the terrifying secret of the apes that hid from humanity

20/06/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - In the darkness of the old-growth forests there is a creature that has watched humanity for tens of thousands of years without ever revealing itself. It is not the dim-witted animal people assume. I ..

The most mysterious places in the world

01/08/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - There are many places in the world today that still hold mysteries for humanity. Science keeps advancing, yet researchers have still not found answers to these puzzles of the past, which leave anyon ..

Roswell 1947: a crashed flying disc, or a top-secret Project Mogul balloon?

15/08/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - An army press release on 8 July 1947 said the Roswell unit had recovered a "flying disc", then quickly changed the story to a weather balloon. That reversal created the most famous UFO case in the w ..

Rendlesham Forest: "Britain's Roswell" and the lights among the pines

14/08/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - Over three nights at the end of December 1980, American servicemen at RAF Woodbridge and Bentwaters reported strange lights in Rendlesham Forest. The memo written by Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt, ..

The Phoenix Lights, 1997: a huge V formation, or two events merged into one?

13/08/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - On the evening of 13 March 1997, thousands of people in Arizona described a formation of lights travelling from the north down towards Phoenix; later, a nearly stationary row of lights appeared sout ..

The Belgian UFO wave 1989-1990: black triangles, radar and an F-16 pursuit

12/08/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - From late 1989, Belgian police officers and civilians reported clusters of three slow-moving lights, sometimes perceived as one dark triangle. On the night of 30-31 March 1990 the Belgian Air Force ..

USS Nimitz and the 2004 "Tic Tac": a strange object at sea, or the limits of sensors?

11/08/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - In November 2004, the USS Nimitz carrier group tracked radar contacts off the coast of California. The pilot David Fravor and his colleagues reported a white, pill-shaped object operating over an ar ..

The Hessdalen lights: a natural UFO laboratory in a Norwegian valley

10/08/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - The Hessdalen valley has recorded white, yellow and red balls of light, sometimes hovering and sometimes moving for minutes at a time. A peak in the early 1980s led to a measurement campaign in 1984 ..

The Marfa Lights: Texas desert orbs and the test by spectroscopy

09/08/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - From the viewing area east of Marfa, people see points of light that change colour, split and merge, or glide across Mitchell Flat. Many of the everyday lights have been shown to be headlights on Hi ..

The Min Min lights: the glow that follows travellers across the Australian outback

08/08/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - People crossing the outback describe a white, yellow or green orb that quietly follows a vehicle, retreats when chased and disappears without a trace. Min Min stories carry their own meanings in man ..

Ball lightning: the glowing sphere through a window, and a plasma problem with no agreed answer

07/08/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - Ball lightning is described as a glowing sphere from a few centimetres to tens of centimetres across, lasting far longer than a lightning stroke, drifting sideways and then fading or exploding. Thou ..

St Elmo's fire: the blue flame on the mast that sailors both feared and welcomed

06/08/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - In an electrical storm, the top of a mast, an aircraft wing or any sharp object can emit a blue-violet glow accompanied by a hissing sound. Old sailors saw it as a sign of protection from Saint Eras ..

The Brown Mountain Lights: ghost lights on the Blue Ridge and the USGS investigation

05/08/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - From viewpoints in North Carolina, people describe white, red or yellow points of light appearing near Brown Mountain, rising and then vanishing. After the flood of 1916 cut the power and the railwa ..

The green fireballs of New Mexico: what did Project Twinkle see over the nuclear sky?

04/08/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - In late 1948, pilots and scientists around Los Alamos and Sandia reported brilliant green fireballs crossing the sky, seemingly low and silent. Because they appeared near nuclear facilities, the mil ..

Trans-en-Provence 1981: does a circular ground mark prove a UFO landed?

03/08/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - On 8 January 1981, Renato Nicolai at Trans-en-Provence heard a whistling sound, saw a small lead-coloured object leave his plot of land, and then found a circular mark. The police took samples and G ..

Shag Harbour 1967: a glowing object fell into Canadian waters and vanished

02/08/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - On the evening of 4 October 1967, residents of Shag Harbour saw a string of lights descend and apparently touch the surface of the water. The RCMP took the report, treated it as a possible aircraft ..

Socorro 1964: what did officer Lonnie Zamora see in a New Mexico gully?

01/08/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - On the afternoon of 24 April 1964, police officer Lonnie Zamora broke off a car chase to check a bang and a flame in a gully. He described a white oval object standing on legs, two small human figur ..

How to cook bun bo Hue: deep flavour, lemongrass aroma and a broth that stays clear

14/09/2026
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Culture & Cuisine - Cooking guides - A good bun bo Hue has a broth that is reasonably clear but deep in flavour, fragrant with lemongrass, with the shrimp paste melting into the base rather than standing out on its own, and an orange-r ..

How to cook chicken braised with ginger: warm and fragrant, tender meat and skin that stays put

11/09/2026
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Culture & Cuisine - Cooking guides - Chicken braised with ginger is an easy home dish, but three things go wrong very easily: the meat dries out, the skin turns flabby, or the ginger is sharply hot without being fragrant. The trick lie ..

Southern Vietnamese sour fish soup: no fishy smell, vegetables still crisp

10/09/2026
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Culture & Cuisine - Cooking guides - A good canh chua ca loc has a clean sourness from tamarind, a gentle sweetness that is nothing like sugar water, fish that is tender but still in whole steaks, and vegetables that are fresh and cris ..