Happy New Year to all! Let’s dive straight into a new year of news briefs:
- Big pharma is about to tune in to the potential of psychedelics.
- Folklore structure reveals how conspiracy theories emerge, and fall apart.
- Decayed papyrus hints that more Dead Sea Scrolls remain to be found.
- New findings at Easter Island reject the earlier presumed societal collapse theory.
- Metal detectorist discovers ultra-rare Chinese coin in England.
- A new theory about the monolith: we’re the aliens.
- There’s mounting evidence that life of Earth started with more than just RNA.
- “Near the end of life, my hospice patient had a ghostly visitor who altered his view of the world.”
- Spirit mediums get their abilities to contact the deceased tested and the results are predictable.
- Satanic panic: when British TV viewers were traumatised by The Omen.
- Man arrested for roaming streets dressed as a werewolf to scare people on New Year’s Eve in Pakistan.
- The Fortean pursuit of truth and neo-Nazis.
- Image(s) of the Day: The rare, vintage Project Blue Book documents of Blair MacKenzie Blake.
Thanks Rick and Tonya.
Quote of the Day:
I sometimes fear that people think that fascism arrives in fancy dress worn by grotesques and monsters as played out in endless re-runs of the Nazis.
Fascism arrives as your friend. It will restore your honour, make you feel proud, protect your house, give you a job, clean up the neighbourhood, remind you of how great you once were, clear out the venal and the corrupt, remove anything you feel is unlike you…
It doesn’t walk in saying, “Our programme means militias, mass imprisonments, transportations, war and persecution.”
Michael Rosen
