Stories of the Paranormal, Supernatural, Legends, Lore, Mysterious Macabre, Unsolved and Unexplained
This week’s story is “The Merchants of Venus” by A. H. Phelps. If you were trying to recruit people for a new colony, who would you choose? Most people would be looking for the next George Washington, or at the very least the next Neil Armstrong. History suggests, they’d be wrong.
A hilltop crucifixion of children, the biggest gold nugget ever yanked out of the ground, unexpected and deadly tornadoes in February, and a round of golf for space cases.
The legendary director’s top-secret UFO film “Disclosure Day” has spawned wild conspiracy theories that actual extraterrestrials appear on screen — and the so-called “evidence” could be more entertaining than the actual movie.
The story of how early Mormon leaders allegedly believed six-foot-tall Quakers were living on the moon is stranger, funnier, and more complicated than the memes suggest — and it involves a newspaper hoax, bat-men, a German professor who saw cities on the lunar surface, and a game of telephone spanning four decades.
Paul Hynek grew up in a house where flying saucer ornaments decorated the Christmas tree and dinner guests included alien abductees who spoke matter-of-factly about their experiences aboard spacecraft.
When witnesses see UFOs, it’s not the aliens that come knocking—it’s the mysterious men in black, and they don’t ask questions… they give warnings.
