Adventure, Inspiration, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Technology, Teleportation
Teleportation
Teleportation is the act of making a person or object disappear from one location and having it reappear in a completely different location. Teleportation has been a favorite devise of Science Fiction writers for years, making a huge impact in the Star Trek television series. What most people don’t know is that the term, ‘teleportation’ and the concept behind it was brought into the mainstream consciousness in 1931 by Charles Fort.
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Hinterkaifeck, Murder, Mystery
Hinterkaifeck
At a small farmstead situated between the Bavarian towns of Ingolstadt and Schrobenhausen, approximately 70 KM north of Munich, Hinterkaifeck was the host of a strange and bizarre murder that is still baffling researchers today. On the evening of Friday, March 31, 1922, the six inhabitants of the farm were brutally murdered with a mattock. The mystery is still unsolved to this day.
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Haunted Highways, Haunting, Murder, Mystery, Supernatural
Haunted Highways
We’ve all heard the urban legend; a boy is driving along on a dark and stormy night. Perhaps there is a layer of fog that is decreasing the visibility. As the boy drives along he happens to spot a beautiful girl in a fancy dress, standing cold and alone on the road. The boy stops, offering the girl a ride and a chance to get out of the elements. As they drive along, the girl is quiet, upset over something. The boy tries to get a name or any information but she’s very tight lipped. At a stop the girl gets out, next to a cemetery. Later that evening, the boy will hear a story about a girl that was killed on that road, hit by a car as she waited for her prom date to pick her up. The boy will see a picture of her and realize that it was the girl he’d just given a ride to.
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The De-Extinction of the Wooly Mammoth
This isn’t a dinosaur park but a serious discussion about what scientists are now planning. As a story teller and science fiction writer, the idea of bringing an extinct species back is a truly exciting concept. In 1990, the novel, Jurassic Park was released, followed in 1993 by the movie, telling the story of a park that genetically engineered dinosaurs. The subsequent interest in cloning and de-extinction took on a fever pitch fueled by a compelling story. The hurdles that would need to be overcome are immense, but there are scientists who are up to the task. Currently, there is serious discussion into the attempting to bring the wooly mammoth back to life. Is it truly possible or nothing but science fiction dreaming? Follow along as we take a look how scientists believe they will bring back the extinct wooly mammoth.
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Adventure, Ancient Flying Machines, Inspiration, Mystery, Technology
Ancient Flying Machines
Almost everyone is familiar with the Wright Brothers. Orville and Wilbur Wright were avid aviation pioneers who are credited with making the first, controlled, sustained, heavier-than-air human powered flight on December 17th, 1903 in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Could their discoveries and successes been merely a rediscovering of technologies that the ancients knew about long before we did? Is there any evidence to suggest that early humans developed the technologies needed to fly? Amazingly, there is more evidence to suggest that the ancients of the past knew more than we give them credit for. From paintings, to written accounts, to models of planes, the past is ripe with evidence that suggested that early civilization had at least a partial knowledge of flight.
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Murder, Mystery, Revenge, The Sodder Children
The Sodder Children
The iconic small town in America symbolizes the perfect American dream; that place where children can run free down the streets, a place where no one locks their doors at night, and a place where everyone knows their neighbors. Beneath the façade of the image of the American Dream, some small towns harbor secrets that alter the dream into a nightmare. On Christmas Eve 1945 in the small town of Fayetteville, West Virginia, one family’s small town dream turned into every parent’s worst nightmare.
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