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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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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Adventure, Ghost Ship, Mary Celeste, Mystery
Mary Celeste
The vast mysteries held by the ocean will never cease to cause fright and caution. Stretching endlessly out before us, the ocean has devoured many ships and planes, caused people to go missing, and swallowed cities whole. For the most part, we can understand the ocean, what happened, but every once in a while, the ocean tosses us a mystery that cannot be explained. A mystery so strange that it causes pause before entering the waters. A mystery that remains unexplained with far more questions than answers.
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Adventure, Mystery, Roanoke Colony, The Lost Colony
The Lost Roanoke Colony
During a time when exploration was ramping up, and the thrill and excitement of settling a new colony to provide goods and wealth to your home country was on every explorer’s mind, ‘The Lost Colony’ can give pause to the horrors that can take place in a new world. What was supposed to be a new colony that would provide gold, a base for resource exploration in the new world, and a port for privateers to attack Spanish ships turned into a mystery that still haunts us to this day. An entire group of people vanish without a trace and even with all our modern investigations techniques there still isn’t a solid answer to what happened to the Roanoke Colony.
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Adventure, Ghost Town, Hidden Trails, Hiking, Inspiration, Motivation, Mystery, Nature, Sica Hollow
Sica Hollow
Traveling along narrow paved roads, passing quaint farmhouses with yard full of old farm machinery, the Hollow is an amazing sight as you descend towards the rivers. Densely wooded with tall maple and linden trees along with an abundance of forest-floor plants, the Hollow is a magical sight. Name Sica, meaning bad or evil, by the Dakota Tribes of the area, Sica Hollow is a place that captures the imagination of anyone who sets foot inside.
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Adventure, Mysterious Tunnels, Mystery, Nature
Mysterious Tunnels
An unguarded opening, black, no light penetrating the depths, gives way to a group of explorers who hope to have the experience of a lifetime in search of fame and riches. Heavy with equipment and supplies, the explorers bid farewell to the sun and descend into the unknown and beyond. That could be a line from any of the popular literature or cinema that has documented man’s obsession with the mysterious hidden tunnels that dot the Earth. From Jules Verne to modern Hardy Boys and R.L. Stine, horror and mystery have always gone to the tunnel as a place where mystery abounds. But do these fictitious tunnels have a basis in reality? Their stories sure do. Whether those stories are to be believed is up to the reader, but the legends of the tunnels persist no matter what skeptics try to say.
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