Anomalous Science & Fringe Claims
The Baghdad Battery: A Jar, a Theory and a Long Shadow
A classic strange-archaeology case in which a plausible object became a magnet for much larger claims than the evidence supports.
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Anomalous Science & Fringe Claims
Tunguska: The Morning the Forest Fell Flat
A 1908 blast over Siberia flattened forest without leaving a classic impact crater, making Tunguska a cornerstone case in anomaly, science and myth.
Anomalous Science & Fringe Claims
The Antikythera Mechanism: Ancient Gears Without Ancient Aliens
The Antikythera Mechanism is genuinely astonishing, but its lesson is ancient technical skill, not a shortcut to fringe claims.
Anomalous Science & Fringe Claims
The Nazca Lines: Huge Drawings Without Impossible Builders
The Nazca Lines are extraordinary landscape works, but careful archaeology explains them through human labour, ritual geography and desert preservation.
Anomalous Science & Fringe Claims
The Shroud of Turin: An Evidence Problem Wrapped as a Relic
The Shroud of Turin is valuable to the archive because it forces every question about provenance, authentication and interpretation into the same room.
Anomalous Science & Fringe Claims
Out-of-Place Artefacts and the Value of Caution
Why disputed objects need context, chain of custody and patient interpretation before becoming extraordinary evidence.
Anomalous Science & Fringe Claims
Sleep Paralysis, Ghosts and the Edge of Waking
A terrifying human experience sits at the crossroads of neurology, folklore, bedroom architecture and belief.