Things are getting bad out there, but the Wednesday Grail news briefs are here to soothe your frazzled nerves…
- Was Bigfoot just spotted in Ohio? Reported sightings stoke a long-running hunt for answers.
- Just show us the spaceships already: Until the U.S. government has data or samples of alien material that can be shared, the story of extraterrestrial visitors is just a story. (Archived page link)
- Buried in Sudan’s desert, 280 vast ancient stone circles reveal a vanished cattle-herding culture.
- Free energy from the vacuum? Warp drive pioneer unveils battery-free ‘Microsparc’ that allegedly draws power from the quantum vacuum.
- Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS came from a place nothing like our solar system.
- Giant squid detected off Western Australia in stunning deep-sea discovery.
- Hall of Records theories explode as CIA doc mentioning ‘temple under Sphinx’ found.
- What’s it like to spend your life in the Internet’s craziest corners of conspiracy culture? (Archived page link)
- In 2025, a huge landslide created a 500-meter-high tsunami in a major tourist area – but fortunately, it happened early in the morning, so nobody was around.
- Are the benefits of psychedelics exaggerated?
- ‘Speculation’ and ‘egregious failure’: 30 researchers publish scathing critiques of study that questioned date of early human occupation of Monte Verde in Chile.
- What causes lightning? The answer keeps getting more interesting.
- You’ve never had control over a single event in your life, this leading neuroscientist says, because you actually don’t have free will.
- Does your dog miss you will you’re on vacation? Ask a pet psychic. (Archived page link)
Quote of the Day
Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
James Baldwin
