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Happy Easter to all who celebrate! DNA study casts even more doubt on Shroud of Turin’s true origin. 2000-year-old mystery: Researchers may have decoded the lost script of Teotihuacan. Scientists have engineered a tobacco plant that can produce five psychedelics, including psilocybin and DMT. Avi Loeb comments on Vice President JD Vance’s remarks that UFOs might be demons. Related: The Vice President of the United States believes UFOs might be demons. Former congresmman Matt Gaetz claims ― without actual evidence― the U.S. is forcing extraterrestrials to mate with humans abducted from war zones and migrant caravans. Trump’s new science panel…

Tax preparation by candlelight: Rembrandt, The Parable of the Rich Fool, 1627 (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin)  “Taxman” turns 60 this year. The opening track of the Beatles’ 1966 album Revolver, George Harrison wrote the song not just out of self-interested anger at the supertax passed by Harold Wilson’s Labour Government that year, but also because the money went to financing arms research and production. It is especially hard to pay taxes—even when far below the eye-watering 95% rate faced by the high-earning Beatles—when bombs are falling. The levy had driven half of the Fab Four to the brink of bankruptcy. “Taxman” was…

There are many American legends spanning many disparate areas of the United States, and each is imbued with its own strangeness and mysteries. One area that has long had many stories of ghosts, hauntings, phantoms, curses, and demons is the realm of the Old West. This is a land awash with numerous Native legends, and those from the settlers as well, and it often seems to be a place of ghosts and phantoms prowling the ruins of what once was. Here we will look at some of the eerie legends of the paranormal mysteries and entities once said to prowl…

Reading the Daily Grail news briefs will help you to not make bad choices… After 60 years, witnesses to Australia’s biggest UFO sighting at Westall High School say it’s time for answers. Scientists may have uncovered the oldest known dice, dating back more than 12,000 years. How old lies find new believers online: Long-debunked conspiracies don’t disappear — they evolve and thrive in the age of algorithms. A private company wants to block the Sun, responsibly – now it needs to sell it to the public. (Archived page link) Researchers spent years interviewing 160 Bigfoot hunters – this is what…

A roundup of mysterious, paranormal and strange news stories from the past week. Source link

Today’s Grail news briefs has everything… The Artemis II astronauts have just flown farther from Earth than any humans in history. Archaeologists unearth ‘first direct evidence’ of advanced ancient metallurgy in Egypt’s Middle Kingdom. British UFO commentator Nick Pope has passed away, his wife has announced. NASA administrator says the odds of finding alien life are ‘pretty high’. A biblical megaflood could hit the US at any moment. And that’s only the beginning. Former congressman Matt Gaetz claims military once briefed him on alien breeding program involving humans when he was in office. Ice Age dice show early Native Americans…

The conspiracies surrounding “super soldiers” are just as far-fetched as those involving secret space programs, at least to many people. In fact, these two theories are often closely linked for fairly obvious reasons. Running such programs without significant leaks would be nearly impossible. But what if these programs involved time travel, memory wiping, or even age reversal? Or if these missions occurred on another planet, perhaps even in another galaxy, in a different time? Source link

Word has gotten around through social media that Nick Pope passed away yesterday in his home of Tucson, Arizona, in the company of his wife. He was just sixty years old, and had only recently revealed in February the news that he had been diagnosed with terminal esophageal cancer, which he was taking with great aplomb. After working for the British government as a civil servant for 21 years, Pope irrupted into the public UFO scene in the 1990s with the publication of his book ‘Open Skies, Closed Minds’, where he related his experience after being in charge of the…

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So, we’ve all exhaled now, until the next time we have to hold our breath again? Vale British UFO personality Nick Pope (1965-2026). The brain might not create consciousness after all: What if consciousness isn’t created by the brain — but is actually built into the universe? Medieval ‘giant’ with trepanned skull discovered in mass grave in England. Nearly a century of wondering: The American UFO saga, in reality and in fiction. How a giant squid attack became an urban legend. Review: In an age of disinformation, “Saucers, Spooks and Kooks” is the real disclosure film. Reminder: We published the…