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UFOs and presidents: A secret history

Could President Truman have known the story behind the front page news from July 28, 1952? For decades, pulp fiction writers, film-makers, and countless UFO researchers have maintained that a veil of secrecy surrounds the government’s knowledge of extraterrestrial beings. […]

October 19, 2015 · Comments Off

UFOs and presidents: A secret history

By Anthony C. Hayes

Van Gogh and the gas madness

By René van Slooten
September 26, 2015 · Comments Off

In a recent article it was argued that Edgar Allan Poe and his wife Virginia suffered from chronic poisoning by illuminating gas, when they lived in New York City from

Edgar Allan Poe: His London ties

By Harry Lee Poe
June 26, 2015 · Comments Off

Stoke Newington - Old Rectory (Public Domain) During Edgar Allan Poe’s bicentennial in 2009, a great debate raged between partisans in Boston, Philadelphia, and Baltimore over which city had the

Edgar Allan Poe and his mysterious Eureka

By René van Slooten
June 19, 2015 · Comments Off

Editor's Note: This essay first appeared on MysteriousWritings.com. It is published with permission. The American poet and writer Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) is the most influential writer in modern literature. Since

Gravity: The mysterious force

By René van Slooten
June 8, 2015 · Comments Off

Will we soon have flying carpets? Skyscrapers without elevators? Airplanes without wings? We should start to think seriously about such fantasies, because science is beginning to understand gravity, which is

Edgar Allan Poe: The mysterious years

By Mikayo Sakuma
May 25, 2015 · Comments Off

After leaving Richmond in 1837, Edgar Allan Poe moved to New York City to pursue a position in journalism. Little is known about this period in Poe’s life. He