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Patreon-only Live Stream?

This was a Patreon request, but I wanted to put it in front of everyone because I'm not sure.

Are you interested in a Patreon-only Q&A session? To be honest, you already have to be a bit ...

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Here's the latest Discord link.

https://discord.gg/VCTwhEbKew

If you haven't stopped by to say hi yet, please do!

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Interdimensional Traveler from a Parallel Universe: The Man from Taured

Imagine you wake up one morning and notice everything around you is just a tiny bit different.  Maybe you're in the same house, but furniture is slightly out of place. Your favorite coffee mug...

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Operation: Highjump

OPERATION: HIGHJUMP

Operation Highjump commenced in August 1946. It was the largest, most heavily armed naval task force ever sent to Antarctica.

Leading the mission was Admiral Richard...

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Am I racist?

Did I just make a terrible mistake?

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63: The Circleville Letters Mystery

MYSTERY OF THE CIRCLEVILLE LETTERS

We all keep secrets.

For most of us, these are nothing more than minor embarrassing details about ourselves. But some of us have da...

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58: THE LEGEND of the Immortal: The Count of Saint Germain

CHASING THE IMMORTAL COUNT  

The Count of Saint Germain has been called a prophet, a sorcerer, and an immortal.  He's been spotted all over the world for a thousan...

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59: Why Ancient People Didn't See the Color Blue

Here's a philosophical question for you. If a color doesn't have a name, can we still see it?  

Many years ago, the human eye evolved to give us the ability to see about a million color...

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55: Another Carrington Event? You Are NOT Prepared for the Coming Solar Storms

WE'RE DUE FOR ANOTHER CARRINGTON EVENT 

On September 1, 1859, astronomer Richard Carrington was observing a huge sunspot. Suddenly, a flash of intense white light burst...

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47: Legend of the Moon Eyed People | Before Christopher Columbus?

LEGEND OF THE MOON-EYED PEOPLE  

Across the Southern Appalachian mountains, from Georgia up through North Carolina, hundreds of unusual stone structures have been disco...

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42: MIT Computer Predicts the World Will End in 2040 - First Signs Appear in 2020

COMPUTER PREDICTS WORLD WILL END IN 2040  

In 1704, using a series of calculations, Isaac Newton predicted the world would end sometime around the year 2060.  

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46: Messages Through Time - A Time Travel Story

THE COMPUTER THAT PROVED TIME TRAVEL | THE DODLESTON MESSAGES  

In December 1984, Ken Webster, a high-school teacher, was living with his friend Nic and girlfriend Debb...

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40: Atlantis World War Pole Shift - The Terrifying Predictions of Edgar Cayce

ATLANTIS, WORLD WARS AND THE POLE SHIFT 

Terrifying predictions of Edgar Cayce  Edgar Cayce gave over 14,000 psychic readings. He made a number of predictions abou...

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39: Bigfoot Aliens KGB? Dyatlov Pass explained -- and solved

KGB, BIGFOOT or ALIENS? WHAT REALLY HAPPENED AT DYATLOV PASS?  

When the helicopter rescue team arrived at the Dyatlov Pass in February 1959, the nine missing hikers ha...

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35: The Thing Embassy Incident: How Russian children and the KGB trolled America for years

FOR SEVEN YEARS, SOVIET AGENTS SPIED ON THE AMERICAN EMBASSY UNDETECTED  

In 1945, Soviet children presented the ambassador with a gift to commemorate the friendship of...

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Sonic Weapons, Havana Syndrome and The Fear Frequency

Do some horror movies use sounds of a *specific frequency* to amp up the scare factor? Yes.  Can infrasound and ultrasound damage the human body? Yes.  Has sound been used as a real-world...

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34: How Long Can Humans Live Without Their Head?

HOW LONG DO ANIMALS (and people) SURVIVE WITHOUT THEIR HEADS?  

Does a human head remain conscious after being separated from its body?  

It sure does. But ...

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30: The Phantom Time Hypothesis -- The Middle Ages Never Happened

According to a German historian, the year is actually 1724. He says our calendar is a lie and a big chunk of the Middle Ages never happened.  

Which says that back in 1000 AD, there was...

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28: NY's Windowless Skyscraper actually a NSA Spy Hub called TITANPOINTE

TITANPOINTE. 

New York City has skyscrapers of all shapes and sizes. But why does this 500 foot tall, 29-story building have no windows, no lights and no markings at al...

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25: Comparing Earth technology with alien civilizations | The Kardashev Scale

THE KARDASHEV SCALE. 

We have no idea what an alien civilization would look like. Humans are evolved primates. What if an alien species is reptilian? Or more like an in...

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24: The Dog Suicide Bridge | Why Have Hundreds of Dogs Jumped?

THE DOG SUICIDE BRIDGE. 

In Dumbarton, Scotland, there's a 19th-century gothic bridge that crosses a 50-foot ravine. It's *officially* called Overtoun Bridge. But it's ...

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23: The Max Headroom Incident. UNSOLVED: The Creepiest TV Hack in History

THE MAX HEADROOM INCIDENT. 

November 22nd, 1987 was a pretty normal evening for television viewers in Chicago. That night, like every night, Dan Roan was covering sport...

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19: Stuxnet | The Computer Virus that prevented and started the next world war

STUXNET. 

The virus that prevented; then started the next world war. Cyberwar is being waged right now in your name. No matter what country you call home, your governme...

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18: Numbers Stations | Listen to Spy Broadcasts, Audio & Coded Messages

NUMBERS STATIONS. 

Not a relic of the past. Intelligence agencies use shortwave to communicate with spies, agents and assets in the field. Right now. Today. Let's liste...

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17: 9 Time Travel Stories | Is Time Travel Possible? Evidence says yes, it is.

Is time travel possible? According to physicists, yes. Time travel *to the future* is not only possible, it's been scientifically proven.  

But what about traveling to the past? Well, t...

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16: Aztec Death Whistle | The Scariest Sound You've Ever Heard

The Aztec Death Whistle. If hell has a sound, I bet it sounds alot like the Aztec Death Whistle. The Aztec Death Whistle sounds like a shriek of death mixed with howling wind. It's...

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12: What does outer space smell like? (You're not gonna like it.)

What does the moon smell like? Do planets, comets, asteroids and space have their own odors?  The smells of the universe are not universal. Different objects in space — comets, planets, moon...

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11: The Voynich Manuscript Decoded - Have We Finally Solved the Most Mysterious Book in the World?

For 600 years the Voynich Manuscript has stumped scholars, cryptographers, physicists, and computer scientists. Now, a researcher in Germany has claimed to have finally decoded the most mysterious ...

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8: Chicxulub Asteroid Impact - The Day the Dinosaurs Died

The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact - The Day the Dinosaurs Died  One of the deepest scars on our planet is hidden beneath the Yucatán Peninsula and the Gulf of Mexico. The buried crater, over 90 m...

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7: The Most Secret Places in the World

The Most Secret Places in the World - And the wild theories about what really happens inside. In the modern world, places are supposed to be accessible. People move freely around the country they l...

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