From Baghdad to return of the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet

Widely considered as the worst acts of cultural vandalism since World War II, the looting following the United States’ incursions into Iraq beginning in the 1990s has seen the disappearance of thousands of priceless artefacts from the National Museum in Baghdad… many have since found their way back to the Iraqi capital but far more…

A giant conundrum that crosses the continents

The previous part of this investigation into the tall tales buried by the Smithsonian concluded with accounts of pilgrims travelling from the orient to pay homage to the “Child Of The Sun” in a cave in the Grand Canyon where G E Kinkaid had allegedly discovered an underground citadel in 1909, where giant mummies and…

Kinkaid and the great Grand Canyon cover-up

Just 10 years after G E Kinkaid’s discovery of a huge complex cut out of the Grand Canyon rock in a cave located about 42 miles up the Colorado River from El Tovar Crystal Canyon, United States President Woodrow Wilson officially designated the area a national park, restricting access to vast areas of the geological…

The Paiute legend that spawned a giant Nevada mystery

The first part of this examination of the Smithsonian Institution’s role in suppressing evidence that giants once roamed the mountains and forests of North America focused on the man James Bailey introduced to audiences in Boston, New York and Philadelphia in 1894 as the Pennsylvania Giant, but it’s just one of many similar accounts relating…

North Sea sightings fuel notion of an underground alien base

The first part of this investigation into The Doorway To A Doggerland Mystery beneath Orford Ness on the Suffolk coast concluded with details about the United Kingdom’s most noteworthy UFO incident which took place from 26-28 December 1980 in Rendlesham Forest near RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge, about eight miles north-east of Ipswich, when a…

Britain’s version of Area 51 off the Suffolk coast at Orford Ness

It’s a potent combination for one of the United Kingdom’s greatest mysteries… the British version of Nevada’s Area 51 (Orford Ness), the nation’s longest-serving monarch (Queen Elizabeth II) and Project Albian (the extraterrestrial angle dating back to the early 1960s). I first encountered the story after the British monarch’s death in September 2022, through alleged…