The Great Moon Hoax of 1835: How New York Fell for Bat-Winged Lunar Men
On August thirtieth in eighteen thirty five, readers across New York City were in the grip of a fever that had nothing to do with any actual disease and everything to do with the moon. The New York Su...
30 Aug 1min
The Great Moon Hoax of 1835: How The New York Sun Convinced America Bat Winged Humans Lived on the Moon
On August 29th, 1835, readers of The New York Sun were treated to what may be one of the most delightfully bizarre chapters in American media history, part of a series now remembered as The Great Moon...
29 Aug 4min
Minnesota's Missing Minutes: The Unexplained 1979 Val Johnson UFO Encounter That Still Baffles Investigators Today
On the night the calendar rolled from August 27th into August 28th back in 1979, out on the flat, dark highways of Marshall County, Minnesota, a sheriff's deputy named Val Johnson had an encounter tha...
28 Aug 4min
When Krakatoa Exploded in 1883, It Turned Skies Blood Red Around the World and Convinced New Yorkers Their City Was on Fire
On August 27th in 1883, the island of Krakatoa in Indonesia tore itself apart in one of the most violent volcanic eruptions ever recorded, and what followed was so strange that people around the world...
27 Aug 3min
Minnesota Deputy's 1979 UFO Encounter: Shattered Glass, Stopped Time, and a Mystery Still Unsolved
On the night of August 26th into the early morning hours of August 27th in 1979, one of the strangest and most well-documented UFO encounters in American law enforcement history unfolded in the quiet ...
26 Aug 4min
The Lubbock Lights of 1951: Texas's Unsolved UFO Mystery That Still Baffles Science Decades Later
On August 25th back in 1951, something rather extraordinary began unfolding over the town of Lubbock, Texas, an event that would come to be known as the Lubbock Lights, one of the most well documented...
25 Aug 4min
Pompeii's Eternal Scream: The Haunting That Never Ended Since 79 A.D.
On this very day, back in the year 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted with a fury that buried the Roman city of Pompeii under meters of ash, pumice, and superheated gas, freezing an entire civilization in a s...
24 Aug 4min
Marfa's Eternal Mystery: 140 Years of Dancing Desert Lights Still Defy Explanation
On this date in the folklore of the American Southwest, storytellers often point to a curious anniversary tied to the Marfa Lights of West Texas, one of the longest-running unexplained phenomena in th...
22 Aug 3min
