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Sept. 5, 1982, started out as a great day for Mark Coulthurst. The skipper of a commercial fishing vessel based out of Blaine, Washington, in the United States, he had recently acquired the high tech fishing boat the Investor and that day he was at the tiny southeast Alaskan fishing village of Craig for the final days of the commercial fishing season. That evening he, his pregnant wife, Irene, both 28, along with their children Kimberly,…
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The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea A newly discovered fast radio burst has some unique properties that are simultaneously giving astronomers important clues into what may cause these mysterious astronomical phenomena while also calling into question one of the few things scientists thought they knew about these powerful flares, as my colleagues and I describe in a study in Nature on June 8, 2022. Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are extremely…
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The 36-year-old woman was found buried in the municipal cemetery of Visconde do Rio Branco. Workers noticed fresh cement and blood near the grave, and then they heard screams coming from inside, reports independent.co.uk. Finding blood and fresh cement, the gravediggers immediately called the rescue service. Arriving workers removed the victim, who, as it turned out later, was underground for about 10 hours. The woman is currently in intensive care and her finger may need…
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This article is more than two years old and was last updated in December 2022. Most ghost hunting gadgets are based on flaky scientific claims or unsubstantiated beliefs. Things like EMF meters are unable to detect a living human, let alone a ghost. In fact, there is no handheld device of any type that can detect a living human. However, the REM-Pod can detect a human that enters its field of detection. If you move…
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A fisherman says he was abducted by a UFO whose two gray alien occupants drugged him and subjected him to a physical examination. Calvin Parker, 64, says he and friend Charles Hickson were captured by the 80-foot football shaped craft while fishing on the Pascagoula River in Mississippi. Parker has now written a book about the October 1973 abduction, which he says involved a gray alien with no neck and wrinkled skin, and another who…