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Munchrd: Can black holes actually break the laws of physics?Strange Phenomena

Can black holes actually break the laws of physics?

No, but they show us where our understanding ends. Black holes do not violate the laws of physics so much as expose the seam…

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Munchrd: What are skyquakes, and what makes the sky boom on a clear day?Strange Phenomena

What are skyquakes, and what makes the sky boom on a clear day?

A skyquake is a loud, thunder-like boom that seems to come from the sky or open air, often on a clear day with no storm in…

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Munchrd: What is comet 3I/ATLAS, and why do scientists say it's older than the Sun?Strange Phenomena

What is comet 3I/ATLAS, and why do scientists say it's older than the Sun?

3I/ATLAS is only the third interstellar object ever detected passing through our solar system: a genuine comet, made of ice…

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Munchrd: What made 'the Bloop' and the other strange sounds from the deep ocean?Strange Phenomena

What made 'the Bloop' and the other strange sounds from the deep ocean?

The Bloop was an ultra-low-frequency sound recorded by NOAA in 1997, loud enough to reach sensors more than 5,000 km apart.…

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Munchrd: Why do ocean waves glow blue at night?Strange Phenomena

Why do ocean waves glow blue at night?

The blue glow comes from bioluminescent plankton, single-celled organisms called dinoflagellates. When a wave, a boat, or…

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Munchrd: Is spontaneous human combustion real?Strange Phenomena

Is spontaneous human combustion real?

Not in the literal sense of a body igniting from within with no outside spark: mainstream forensic science does not accept…

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Munchrd: What are the Nazca Lines?Strange Phenomena

What are the Nazca Lines?

The Nazca Lines are hundreds of enormous designs, called geoglyphs, etched into a desert plateau in southern Peru: straight…

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Munchrd: What caused the Tunguska event?Strange Phenomena

What caused the Tunguska event?

On 30 June 1908, a stony asteroid (or possibly a comet fragment) roughly 50 to 60 metres across entered the atmosphere and…

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Munchrd: What is the Voynich manuscript?Strange Phenomena

What is the Voynich manuscript?

The Voynich manuscript is an illustrated book of about 240 pages, written in an unknown script and language that has never…

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Munchrd: What was the Wow! signal?Strange Phenomena

What was the Wow! signal?

The Wow! signal was a strong, narrowband radio burst detected on 15 August 1977 by Ohio State University's Big Ear telescope.…

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Munchrd: Why do people report alien abductions?Strange Phenomena

Why do people report alien abductions?

Almost every abduction report starts with a real, terrifying experience, usually sleep paralysis, when the mind wakes but the…

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Munchrd: What really crashed at Roswell?Strange Phenomena

What really crashed at Roswell?

A top-secret balloon from Project Mogul: a classified US programme using high-altitude balloon trains to detect Soviet…

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Munchrd: Why did the government admit UFOs are real?Strange Phenomena

Why did the government admit UFOs are real?

Because Congress passed laws requiring it to. Recent US reports use the term UAP (unidentified anomalous phenomena) and…

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Munchrd: Why do ships vanish in the Bermuda Triangle?Strange Phenomena

Why do ships vanish in the Bermuda Triangle?

They don't, at any unusual rate. The Bermuda Triangle sees no more disappearances than any comparably busy, storm-prone…

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Munchrd: Why do strangers share the same dreams?Strange Phenomena

Why do strangers share the same dreams?

Because you all run on the same hardware and face the same predicament. A shared body, shared threats, and shared social…

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Munchrd: Why does mass hysteria spread?Strange Phenomena

Why does mass hysteria spread?

It spreads socially, not chemically. Under stress, one person's genuine symptoms, fainting, nausea, tics, get read by others…

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Munchrd: Why haven't we found aliens?Strange Phenomena

Why haven't we found aliens?

Nobody knows, and that's what makes it famous: it's called the Fermi paradox. The galaxy is so old and so full of habitable…

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Munchrd: Why is Area 51 so secret?Strange Phenomena

Why is Area 51 so secret?

Because it is the United States' most classified flight-test site: the place where secret spy planes and experimental…

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Munchrd: Why do crowds crush?Strange Phenomena

Why do crowds crush?

Because above roughly five or six people per square metre, a crowd stops behaving like a set of individuals and starts…

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Munchrd: Why do near-death experiences feel so similar?Strange Phenomena

Why do near-death experiences feel so similar?

Because they seem to come from how the brain behaves as it is starved of oxygen and pushed to its limit. Failing blood flow…

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Munchrd: Why do people see ghosts?Strange Phenomena

Why do people see ghosts?

Because a healthy brain can generate a vivid sense of a presence, a figure, or a touch when its inputs get scrambled: at the…

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Munchrd: Why do some people feel no fear?Strange Phenomena

Why do some people feel no fear?

Almost always it is a brain difference, not bravery. The clearest case is a woman whose amygdala was destroyed by a rare…

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Munchrd: Why do some people hear a mysterious hum?Strange Phenomena

Why do some people hear a mysterious hum?

The Hum is a real, low-frequency droning sound that roughly 2% of people perceive while others nearby hear silence. A few…

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Munchrd: Why do we believe in lucky numbers?Strange Phenomena

Why do we believe in lucky numbers?

Because your brain is a pattern-finding machine that hates feeling out of control. When you can't influence an outcome, you…

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Munchrd: Why is ball lightning still a mystery?Strange Phenomena

Why is ball lightning still a mystery?

Because it is real but almost impossible to study. Ball lightning is a rare, short-lived glowing sphere seen during…

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Munchrd: Why do people in disasters sense an invisible helper?Strange Phenomena

Why do people in disasters sense an invisible helper?

That unseen helper is called the Third Man factor, or a sensed presence. Under extreme stress, exhaustion, cold, altitude or…

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Munchrd: Why does the Mandela effect happen?Strange Phenomena

Why does the Mandela effect happen?

Because memory does not replay the past, it rebuilds it from fragments and expectations every single time. When a lot of…

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Munchrd: Why can a sound too low to hear fill a room with dread?Strange Phenomena

Why can a sound too low to hear fill a room with dread?

The leading explanation is infrasound, sound below about 20 Hz, under the floor of human hearing. You can't hear it, but a…

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Munchrd: Why do some dying brains blaze with activity at the very end?Strange Phenomena

Why do some dying brains blaze with activity at the very end?

In a small number of recordings, brains near death produced a burst of high-frequency gamma waves, the rhythm tied to vivid…

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Munchrd: Why do you wake up paralysed, with something on your chest?Strange Phenomena

Why do you wake up paralysed, with something on your chest?

Sleep paralysis is a timing glitch: your mind wakes up before your body's REM paralysis lets go. You're conscious but frozen,…

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Munchrd: Why did scientists just catch your brain glowing in the dark?Strange Phenomena

Why did scientists just catch your brain glowing in the dark?

Your cells give off a faint, real glow called ultraweak photon emission, single photons thrown off as a byproduct of…

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