Happy New Year to all you fabulous Grailers! Before we depart on our journey into 2018, let’s take a look at the most weird and wonderful stories we covered here in the last 12 months:
- Scientists found a suspected hidden chamber within the Great Pyramid.
- Billionaire Robert Bigelow told 60 Minutes that there is “an existing extraterrestrial presence on Earth“.
- A study uncovered common words that appear to have survived from a mother language that existed during the last Ice Age.
- A study found that memories of near-death experiences (NDEs) are more real than real memories.
- Astronomers scrambled for their telescopes in May, as the ‘alien megastructure’ star began its weird dimming again.
- Boston Dynamics’ “Atlas” robot can now do backflips.
- Two scientific papers suggested that a catastrophic extraterrestrial impact event occurred 12,000 years ago.
- Researchers asked if engravings at Göbekli Tepe recorded a catastrophic comet strike 12,000 years ago.
- Another Göbekli Tepe story making headlines: Archaeologists believe it was the site of an ancient ‘skull cult’.
- Submarine attacked by giant sharks at a depth of 2500 feet.
- A sensational article in the New York Times in December revealed the existence of a secret government UFO program.
- A new theory suggested that the Great Sphinx is older than believed, and guards a hidden chamber.
- Plants can count and communicate, despite not having a brain.
- Earthquake lights were observed during Mexico’s 8.2 tremor.
- The National Archives released its final ‘JFK assassination files’ – but President Trump ordered some files to be held back.
- Researchers found evidence for brain activity up to 10 minutes after the time of death.
- A new scientific paper suggested the legendary ‘Wow!’ signal may have been a comet, not a signal from extraterrestrials.
- More than half of all Americans now believe there was an advanced ancient civilization like Atlantis.
- Researchers uncovered the most frequent elements of near-death experiences (NDEs), and the order in which they occur.
- Scientists asked if the answer to the Fermi Paradox might be that advanced aliens are like Lovecraftian ‘Old Ones’, sleeping through eons.
- Hundreds of mysterious, ancient stone structures were ‘discovered’ in Saudi Arabia.
- A researcher claimed that advances in biotechnology could end human civilization within decades.
- A Chilean UFO video stumped experts – but was it just a jet?
- Archaeologists found ‘forest cities’ that are at least 45,000 years old.
- Controversial claims surfaced about an ‘alien mummy’ discovered at Nazca, Peru.
- The mysterious Voynich Manuscript was decoded, yet again.
- A TV broadcast was interrupted by an ’emergency message’ featuring an alleged caller from Area 51.
- Archaeologists discovered ancient henge-like geoglyphs hidden under the Amazon forest.
- Multiple glitches in the Matrix discovered: a 1950s TV show featuring a fraudster named Trump who promised a wall; a 1949 sci-fi novel that named the leader of Martian civilization as ‘Elon’; and a 19th century sci-fi novel about a boy named Baron Trump who travels to Russia.
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