History
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Read more: Can trauma change your DNA?
Can trauma create inheritable changes in humans?
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Read more: The history of the jack-o’-lanterns
The history of the jack-o’-lantern
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Read more: Did the gods really talk to Bronze Age Man?
Did the gods really talk to us in the Bronze Age?
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Read more: The Dark Truth of Satanic Panic
The Dark Truth of Satanic Panic
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Read more: What Preppers Get Wrong About the Apocalypse
A few years ago, the media theorist Douglas Rushkoff was driven deep into the desert to a luxury compound, where five very wealthy men sat him down and asked, in effect, the same question. Not “how do we stop the collapse,” but “how do we survive it once it comes.” They wanted to know which…
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Read more: Japan’s Gates to Nowhere
About 800 meters from where the second atomic bomb detonated over Nagasaki on the morning of August 9, 1945, a stone gate was standing at the entrance to the Sannō Shrine. The blast took one of its two support pillars. It should have taken both. Instead, as later recorded, one support column was kno
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Read more: Why 90’s Anime was a Body Horror Nightmare
Why would one of the least violent societies on earth spend a decade drawing itself being torn apart?
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Read more: Loch Ness Monster & The Surgeon’s Photo: Evidence or Hoax?
Some legends are born in the mouth, carried from hearth to hearth and polished by generations. Others are born in a press room, stamped onto paper in a single day and multiplied into thousands of identical memories. The modern legend of the Loch Ness Monster grew from both kinds of birth: older Scottish stories about…
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Read more: The Siberian Unicorn and the Folklore of Fossils
In the frozen steppes of Siberia, beneath layers of permafrost and ice, there once lay a colossal skull unlike any other. The wind-whipped grasslands of the Ice Age had buried this secret for millennia. When at last the skull was unearthed by modern hands, its heavy bones spoke of a creature that bridged myth and…
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Read more: Egypt’s Sacred Cats – From Myth to Meme
Have you seen the videos? A young woman presses play on her smartphone, and a haunting melody of ancient flutes fills her living room. Her cat, previously lounging lazily on the windowsill, bolts upright. Ears perked, eyes wide, the feline seems transfixed by the mysterious music echoing from millennia past. This is a scene playing…
