This is a real headline in the year 2026.

The Monday news briefs are LIVE at the Daily Grail! Massive ancient structure discovered in Ireland, new Voynich Manuscript theory, scientists scanned 3I/ATLAS for technosignatures, and much more: www.dailygrail.com/2026/01/news...

The wrap-up. Day 12 of the 12 Days of Cryptids. I ❤️ Monsters. moderncryptozoology.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/m...

In my latest blogpost, I went looking for reasons the FBI finds no records in response to FOIA requests submitted on individuals named in an FBI memo already obtained during a previous request on another subject. Here's what I found: www.expandingfrontiersresearch.org/post/how-fbi...

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This tragedy will be studied by psychologists for years to come. The fact that so many of the victims decided to waste precious time recording the fire with their phones instead of fleeing, is a sign that modern technology and social media have upended our most basic necessities.

the mind has a unique ability: it can punish you a thousand times for a single mistake. reality only happened once

RAWIllumination.net: 'Non-Euclidean' in 'Reason' magazine www.rawillumination.net/2026/01/non-...

I read a passel of books in 2025. I had made a commitment that year to read more fiction. Nonfiction inspires thought, fiction inspires imagination. Here are three novels I won't be forgetting, and will surely re-read. -->

The Friday news briefs are LIVE at the Daily Grail! The intriguing idea that we might be Martians, William Butler Yeats' occult imagination, the US Right is now championing psychedelic drugs, and much more: www.dailygrail.com/2026/01/news...

Day 9 of the 12 Days of Cryptids Fearsome cryptid creatures – Modern Cryptozoology moderncryptozoology.wordpress.com/2026/01/02/f...

Day 8 of the 12 Days of Cryptids moderncryptozoology.wordpress.com/2026/01/01/t...

There is a review coming soon in Fortean Times. (I found it a mixed bag, good info but doesn't know what it wants to be.) For more geomythology-adjacent content, try my Spooky Geology. sharonahill.com/spookygeology/

As we enter the new year, I've given my website a small refresh to mark my 25th anniversary writing online. I published my very first articles on my original Tripod website in 2001, nine years before launching my namesake site. www.jasoncolavito.com

Yo dawg, I heard you like lists, so for the last Daily Grail news briefs collection of the year, I posted a list of all the 'best of the year' lists: www.dailygrail.com/2025/12/news...

Relevant to this point: www.dailygrail.com/2021/06/ufo-...

I've said many-a-time now, that if certain government agencies had deliberately set out to hijack the UFO community and stop actual boots-on-the-ground research, they couldn't have done a better job than what's panned out over the last 8 years. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

RAWIllumination.net: Michael Johnson on smart plants @r-michael-johnson.bsky.social - www.rawillumination.net/2025/12/mich...

The Tuesday news briefs are LIVE at the Daily Grail! Cryptic Dead Sea scroll code possibly broken, giant stone monuments older than Stonehenge in Armenia, scientist says the Universe is intelligent, and much more: www.dailygrail.com/2025/12/news...

The idea of werewolves moved from France to Canada to the southern U.S. as well as the Caribbean. Names and stories blended and evolved. #folklore #monsters

"History is full of bad people who thought, said, and did bad things. The truly good people in history thought, said, and did a somewhat smaller number of bad things. In this gradient can be found the engine of all human progress." ~ Andrew Lloyd

stevebozz: "In honor of Christmas tomorrow, I will be taking 7.5 hour break to spend with my family before resuming my tweeting about how space aliens are here, the government is covering it up." 🤣

3 philosophical debates from the 20th century that neuroscience is reshaping

The Annunciation to the Shepherds, Jacopo Bassano, c. 1555

artwork: Kiyoshi YAMASHITA / 清山下 (1922 - 1971)

“Do you really believe that the sciences would ever have originated if the way had not been prepared by magicians, alchemists, astrologers, and witches whose promises and pretensions first had to create a thirst, a hunger, a taste for hidden and forbidden powers?” ~ Nietzsche

Those who think "cryptids" are stupid hate my posts. Those who take cryptids seriously hate my posts. Cryptids aren't stupid, but they aren't real animals that science hasn't discovered. They are contemporary legends, highly influential in media and important as local entities.

My annual year in review column is up. Take a look back at the disturbing and profoundly stupid events of 2025 in ufology, pseudoarchaeology, and the weird. www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/a-dark-...

Interesting short thread 🧵 for those into FBI and spy history.

And off we go...

The Xmas Eve news briefs are LIVE at the Daily Grail! 'Lucy' may not be our direct ancestor after all, gravity may be evidence our universe is a simulation, pilo reports UFO hovering beside jet, and much more: www.dailygrail.com/2025/12/news...

Combing through IC records on Leon Festinger, now accused of misrepresenting the study of a UFO cult & cognitive dissonance depicted in WHEN PROPHECY FAILS. Maybe he & fellow researchers were clouded by cognitive dissonance! But seriously, folks… where did the money trail wind?

Hilarity? Ensues.

The Tuesday news briefs are LIVE at the Daily Grail! Druids descend on Stonehenge, Starship debris put airplanes at risk, the radioactive reindeer problem, and much more: www.dailygrail.com/2025/12/news...

The 12 Days of Cryptids – Modern Cryptozoology Coming soon - a blog series where I present info and opinions on cryptid topics. Come on, it'll be fun! moderncryptozoology.wordpress.com/2025/12/22/t...

The Solstice news briefs are LIVE at the Daily Grail! Archaeologists search for hidden chambers in Mexican pyramid, Harvard astrophysicist concedes comet is probably not a spaceship, ancient math hidden in 8,000-year-old pottery, and much more: www.dailygrail.com/2025/12/news...

Even this late it happens: the coming of love