Kirk Demarais of the Secret Fun Blog looks into the series of space monster plastic figurines from the late ’70s known as the Galaxy Laser Team.
Category History/Events
Human Evolution a “Mistake”?
Over 500 million years ago, a spineless creature on the ocean floor experienced two successive doublings in the amount of its DNA, a “mistake” that eventually triggered the evolution of humans and many other animals, a new study has claimed.
The Mysterious Engravings of Ireland’s 5,000-Year-Old Megalithic Tomb
Described as “one of the most beautiful and powerful sites in Ireland,” the megaliths at Loughcrew comprise a set of tombs enshrouded in mystery. For thousands of years they have stood, high on the windswept hills, with views of a gentle green landscape rolling away on all sides. Before the first pyramids were even built in Egypt, this wild and rugged land was home to Neolithic people who carved strange patterns into the stones. And yet it is the mystery that enshrouds this tomb site in Loughcrew, in Ireland’s County Meath, that is the real secret to its appeal.
The Hero’s Journey
Mystery of the “Frankenstein” Bog Mummies
Ten years ago, archaeologists removed a couple of 3,000-year-old skeletons buried in a peat bog in Scotland. Recent DNA tests have determined that the male and female bodies, which were buried in a fetal position, were actually made up of body parts from at least six people -and that they had died hundreds of years before they were buried!
CONSPIRAPORN! 