Birds in Europe are prying up the metal barbs, meant to repel them from roosting on buildings, and using the devices as nesting material

Jeremy Wilson spent years crisscrossing the country and inventing new identities. A war hero, an MIT grad, a Hollywood journalist, an IRA operative—Jeremy has claimed to be all those things and more. And oh, what a mess he's made. By Guy Lawson.

Then police learned about the alien reptile cult. By Kyle Swenson.

Someone or something appears to have some extremely advanced technology and the Pentagon is actively changing the nature of the conversation about it. By Tyler Rogoway.

That disastrous rock may now look to have been a Beta Taurid passenger. By Robby Berman.

The story of Ingersoll Lockwood’s books "Baron Trump's Marvelous Underground Journey" have been used to peddle a time travel conspiracy before. By Mike Rothschild.

Cyanobacteria were recently, and unexpectedly, found living in "the dark biosphere," thousands of feet underground. By Mindy Weisberger. (Oct. 3, 2018)

This year I edited another book, worked on fascinating projects at Fluxx, and learned learnings.

The Carolina coast has a seldom seen breed of squirrel that is 2 feet tall and weighs as much as a chihuahua. A state camera trap program is capturing images of these fox squirrels in remote areas. By Mark Price.

When flying in and out of Las Vegas, keep your eyes open for the white 737s with the red stripe. They are ferrying unnamed people to very secret locations, doing very secret things. By Howard Slutsken.

Here's how a man got "rotten 'zombie' skin" during a hiking trip in Greenland. By Laura Geggel.

Preliminary finding turns heads at neuroscience meeting

In 1885, an explorer ventured out into an uncharted area of the Kalahari Desert and would lay eyes upon a great mystery that still remains unexplained. By Brent Swancer.

Horrific tales from real refurbishers prove there’s much worse that can happen to a computer than spilled coffee.

Groundbreaking Channel 4 series from 1998 exploring Outsider Art, in which Jarvis Cocker travels the globe in search of large-scale visionary environments. [All three episodes inside the snap.]

They've been discovered at Roman-era sites, but no one knows what they're for. By Tom Metcalfe.

Salamanders in the European Alps and elsewhere can put off developing into adults for years—or their entire lives—in certain circumstances. By Elizabeth Anne Brown.

Deepsea Oddities

Who is paying $12 million for an abandoned town? We found out. By Michael Waters.

Taken by Paul Smith on May 24, 2018 @ Edmond, Oklahoma, USA.