Medieval Europe Put Pigs, Rats and Weevils on Trial. Cats Were Somehow Above the Law.

Western bug aversion may be older than any cultural explanation. New research traces it to inherited biology going back 9,000 years. So is this really just a marketing problem?

The Lykovs survived Stalin's purges and 42 years of Siberian wilderness, but not first contact.

The Roswell mythology spent the 2000s losing its key witnesses and its fabricated evidence. Then the government quietly started studying UFOs again. Then it started admitting things. We still don't know what Mac Brazel found.

A travertine floor tile. A dentist's trained eye. A jawbone that may have been walking around 1.8 million years ago. How many other renovations ended like this?

Between 1978 and 2000, Roswell transformed from a forgotten local incident into the defining UFO event in American history. Some of that transformation was accidental. Some of it was manufactured by people working for the government, who later confessed.