Category: Enigma

An odd feeling emerged in my mind as I started writing this article. But why? I guess what triggered me the most was the phrase “they are watching you” or descriptions that candidly supported the phrase, which was in almost every blog article I read and video I watched in reference to the Illuminati. Are they actually watching you (and me)? Well, let’s find out. It is no secret that the Illuminati has been one of the contentious topics and tenacious conspiracy theories in the world. In a modern and plausible way, the Illuminati can be described as a mystery, an elite global cult or an organization that sways the thoughts and actions of humans through fully or partially unknown…

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The night before Christmas in 1945, Fayetteville, West Virginia, George Sodder and Jennie Sodder along with their nine children were sound asleep when a fire started in their house at around one o’clock in the morning. The parents along with four of their children managed to escape out of the burning house. Seeing that five of their children; Maurice, Martha, Louis, Jennie and Betty who shared two bedrooms upstairs between them, did not make it out safely, George Sodder broke back in to the house in a desperate attempt to save his five children who were stuck in the fire. Once he was back inside the burning house, he realized that the staircase was on fire and rushed out to…

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This was first published in press and brought in front of the general eye by Vincent Gaddis in 1994 in his article published in Argosy magazine. He named it “The deadly Bermuda Triangle”. Is it a solved mystery as most newspaper headlines and some credible YouTube thumbnails claim it to be or is it still very much a location shrouded in mystery? Pull up your socks as I am going to walk you through some intense and interesting ideas. The Bermuda triangle, also known as the Devil’s Triangle is located off the Southeastern coast of the US in the Atlantic Ocean, between Bermuda, Florida and Puerto Rico, the region has become the center of unresolved mysteries. This is also referred…

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One mundanely normal autumn day in Springfield, New Jersey, a woman walking her dog was about to meet with a gruesome surprise. Her dog, catching a whiff of something she did not quite register, ran off in the direction of the nearby Houdaille Quarry. What it returned with was about to turn this mundanely normal day completely upside down. Her dog had just dragged back the decomposing arm of Jeannette DePalma, a 16-year-old who had gone missing six weeks prior. Thus begins the decades long enigma that is Jeannette DePalma’s mysterious and perplexing death. Jeannette DePalma was born on August 3rd, 1956, to a family residing in idyllic Springfield, New Jersey. Many described the DePalmas as steadfast Christians, a trait…

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Area 51 has long been a hub of mystery for anyone interested in aliens, Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO) and paranormal activity. It is located about 120 miles northwest of Las Vegas, somewhere between mile markers 29 and 30 along Nevada’s “Extraterrestrial Highway” lead by an unmarked dirt road. Buildings are not visible even from the asphalt road and this track leads to Groom Lake or Homey Airport and that is indicated on the civilian aviation maps. This is also considered to be  a military base referred by many unofficial names: Paradise Ranch; Watertown; Dreamland Resort; Red Square; The Box; and The Ranch; Nevada Test and Training Range; Detachment 3, Air Force Flight Test Center and most commonly as Area 51. The…

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The population of East End in London during the Mid-19th Century saw a reconfiguration due to two events in the area. The first was the rapid migration of Irish immigrants as well as Jewish refugees fleeing East Europe. Secondly, it was the increased rates of homicides for which the mastermind behind some peculiar murders was Jack the Ripper, whose identity remains unknown to date. The unfortunate victims of these murders were predominantly sex workers in the slum area of London’s East End, in district of Whitechapel. While the brutal tactics used in the butchering of these women alone are haunting, they also shed light to critical social issues in London during the mid-1800s. From poverty, anti-Semitism, Gender Based Violence (GBV),…

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One of the topics that garnered much interest towards this institution in the last couple of years is the existence of the highly secretive Vatican Apostolic Archives. The Archives were off-limits to everyone but the Pope, that is until 1981 when it opened to select scholars, who were chosen after a thorough screening process. In March  of 2020 however, the Archives opened to a wider audience as long as they could document their qualifications and research needs. The Vatican Apostolic Archives, which contain many historical documents relating to the church, also contain records that include the correspondence in each Pope’s era since its conception. The Vatican Apostolic Archives known famously as the Vatican Secret Archives is the central repository that…

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Imagine you work hard and buy your dream house and a random creep decides to terrorize you with strange letters to the point that you can’t even move in. That’s what happened to the Broaddus family.  In 2014, Derek and Maria Broaddus brought a house in Westfield, New Jersey for around 1.4 million dollars. It was located on 657 Boulevard. Before they decided to move in, they found a letter addressed to “the new owner in their mail box. The letter read, "Dearest new neighbour at 657 Boulevard, allow me to welcome you to the neighbourhood. 657 Boulevard has been the subject of my family for decades now and as it approaches its 110th birthday, I have been put in…

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The universe is an amazing place. It contains gas clouds, asteroids, moons, planets, stars, and black holes among other fascinating things. In fact, the universe we inhabit is huge! So much so that we can’t even begin to imagine the actual size of it. Even our home galaxy, the Milky Way, spreads one hundred thousand light-years across, which means even if you were to hypothetically travel at the speed of light (299 792 458 m/s), it would still take you 100,000 years to go from one end to the other! In this mysterious place, in the year 2015 NASA announced an interesting piece of news regarding a star that could have an alien civilization orbiting it. It is this very…

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“I’m not afraid of the gas chamber because it will send me to the paradise all the sooner because I now have enough slaves to work for me.” The above quote was identified as a part of the hidden message that the newspapers received from the Zodiac Killer, a brutal and notorious murderer who terrorized Northern California, USA in the late ‘60s and early 70’s. The first known attack took place on 20th December, 1968, on Lake Hermon Road in California. A young couple named David Faraday and Betty Lou Jonsen had been shot using a .22 handgun, and unfortunately neither survived. No direct evidence was ever found on the case that could lead the police to the murderer. After…

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