Fragments
Digital folklore, cursed commercials, lost broadcasts, robot bands, and other things that show up when the rest of the world is asleep.
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Watch Memories Form in a Mouse Brain
Have you ever wondered what your brain looks like when it’s forming memories? The above video, which comes from the…
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Anatoli Bugorski: The Man Who Survived the Proton Beam
When the proton beam shot through Anatoli Bugorski’s skull, he saw a flash “brighter than a thousand suns,” but felt…
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Listen to the Sound of the Big Bang
There’s an echo throughout the cosmos, a lingering remnant from the time our universe was born, called the Cosmic Microwave…
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Hey Hey Hey: Creepy Examples of the Uncanny Valley
Originally coined by Masahiro Mori in 1970, the term “uncanny valley” describes our strange revulsion toward things that appear nearly…
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Art Bell and the Area 51 Caller
On September 11, 1997, a man claiming to have worked at Area 51 called in to Coast to Coast AM.…
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The 2009 Norway Spiral Anomaly
On the evening of December 9, 2009, worried onlookers inundated the Norwegian Meteorological Institute with phone calls. Something remarkable had…
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The Creepy Tiki Troll of Nancy, France
A couple years ago, someone noticed something odd on Google Street View near some apartments in Nancy, France. A tall,…
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The Giant Mummified Finger of Egypt
In 1988, entrepreneur and would-be treasure hunter Gregor Spörri allegedly came across something rather incredible in Egypt: a 15-inch-long (38…
Infrasound: The Fear Frequency
Infrasound is sound below 20 Hz, lower than humans can perceive. But just because we don’t consciously hear it, that…
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Exploring the Sunken City of Heracleion
Once thought to be legend, the ancient city of Heracleion is beginning to reveal its mysteries. Built in the 8th…