Damn Interesting

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Sympathy for the Devil

There are few things as thrilling as the story of a dramatic escape, especially one with a happy ending. It is unders...
Written by Marisa Brook • 26 Apr 2007 • Read →
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Project Alpha and the Spoon Benders

In the late 1960s, a young Israeli man named Uri Geller gained a substantial amount of attention and fame following a...
Written by Alan Bellows • 16 Apr 2007 • Read →
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Silent Lucidity

There was a time that I could fly. I jutted my right fist into the air, and launched into the sky. My stomach droppe...
Written by Jason Bellows • 12 Apr 2007 • Read →
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Submersible Aircraft Carriers

On 09 September 1942, at about 6:00am Pacific War Time, a lookout on the US Oregon coast spotted a single incoming ai...
Written by Alan Bellows • 09 Apr 2007 • Read →
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The Fall of the Eastland

At a pier on the Chicago River on 24 July 1915, as the passenger steamer SS Eastland prepared to embark across lake M...
Written by Alan Bellows • 29 Mar 2007 • Read →
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The Farewell Dossier

In 1982, operatives from the USSR's Committee for State Security--known internationally as the KGB--celebrated the pr...
Written by Alan Bellows • 26 Mar 2007 • Read →
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A Fluke of Nature

As the sun rises over a grassy pasture, and the morning light glints from the countless clinging drops of dew, a sing...
Written by Alan Bellows • 22 Mar 2007 • Read →
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The Flying Saucers of North America

Under the cover of darkness on 07 October 1959, a convoy of military vehicles escorted a flatbed truck through the ab...
Written by Alan Bellows • 17 Mar 2007 • Read →
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Chuck Bonnet and the Hallucinations

On Charles Bonnet Syndrome, a common but not commonly known hallucination disorder
Written by Alan Bellows • 06 Mar 2007 • Read →
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Misbehaving Pituitaries

At the base of the human brain there lies a tiny organ called the pituitary gland. About the size of a pea, this dem...
Written by Cynthia Wood • 01 Mar 2007 • Read →
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