FRINGE QUEST

A survey of the weird, the wondrous, the wacko. Critical thinking welcomed.
Also hanging out @fringequest.bsky.social

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I did my own research.

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OBSERVER 'zine: I quit my corporate job to carry the mantle of FATE Magazine, Part 2 / HUGE Announcement.

mr: the gentleman writes in the first person yet his name is not disclosed. huh?

https://t.co/5Y6uq1LqCf

[Limina - The Journal of UAP Studies @EditorLimina]

Why do certain phenomena capture the imagination of an entire culture?

Next week's SUAPS Community Reading Circle focuses on:

“Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Sky”
by Carl Jung

Thursday, June 18
6–7 PM EDT

Schedule and access:
https://t.co/X4MCvdUCVo

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― Fernando Pessoa, Diary in the Shade

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"There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there. The other is to walk round the whole world till we come back to the same place." — G.K. Chesterton

[Unearthed 🏺 @UnearthedHQ]

🚨 THE STONE THAT MAY HIDE AN ANCIENT SECRET OF WATER AND POWER

Deep in the mountains of Peru sits one of the most puzzling artifacts ever carved by human hands: the Sayhuite Monolith.

At first glance, it looks like a massive boulder covered in strange patterns. But look closer, and an entire miniature world begins to appear. The stone is covered with hundreds of intricate carvings—terraces, temples, stairways, rivers, ponds, channels, and pathways—all sculpted into a single rock with astonishing precision.

Archaeologists believe the monolith was created by the Inca or a related culture more than 500 years ago. Yet its true purpose remains a mystery.

Some researchers think it was a sophisticated hydraulic model used to study how water moved through canals and agricultural systems. Others believe it was a sacred ceremonial object, representing a mythical landscape connected to spiritual beliefs and rituals. The most intriguing part? No one knows for certain.

When water is poured onto parts of the stone, it flows through the carved channels exactly as if the monolith were a miniature living landscape. Was it an ancient engineering blueprint? A teaching tool? Or a sacred map used in ceremonies now lost to history?

Despite decades of study, the Sayhuite Monolith continues to challenge historians and archaeologists. Every groove and channel seems to tell a story, yet the stone refuses to reveal its final secret.

Some mysteries are buried underground. Others have been sitting in plain sight for centuries, waiting for someone to finally understand them.

[Jason Colavito @JasonColavito]

My new piece on the secrets of Ohio's Serpent Mound is now available in the @archaeologymag July/August issue, in print and online. I examine exciting new research into the cosmology and mythology behind North America's largest effigy mound. https://t.co/GmIswJh2nm

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@JasonColavito words fail me

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@JasonColavito w h a t

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@JasonColavito you're forgetting Lara Logan

[The Debrief @Debriefmedia]

A massive 6000-year-old 'mega-structure' unearthed by archaeologists reveals links to a mysterious ancient culture. https://t.co/u4y7Z5A69U

[Stephen Whitty @StephenWhitty]

She's SO close to figuring it out. Yes, "trust and mutual respect" is essential in a newsroom -- in fact, in any workplace. The problem is you don't inspire it.

[Unearthed 🏺 @UnearthedHQ]

🏺 China Unearthed a 3,000-Year-Old Mystery That Shouldn’t Exist

Deep beneath the soil in China, archaeologists uncovered something that left even experts stunned — giant bronze masks with haunting eyes, strange golden objects, towering statues, and ritual items unlike anything ever seen before. The discovery was made at the ancient Sanxingdui site in 2021, and the artifacts are believed to belong to a lost civilization that existed more than 3,000 years ago.

What makes this discovery so mysterious is that these objects do not match the style of ancient Chinese civilizations we know from history books. The masks have enormous eyes, sharp features, and almost supernatural expressions, making many people wonder who these people really were… and why their art looked so different from the rest of the ancient world.

Some researchers believe Sanxingdui may have been the center of a powerful kingdom that vanished without explanation. Others think the strange masks and statues were connected to rituals, forgotten gods, or beliefs that disappeared thousands of years ago. Even today, nobody fully understands why these incredible treasures were buried underground.

Imagine standing in front of a massive bronze face created by human hands over 3 millennia ago… staring back at you with wide, mysterious eyes as if guarding secrets from another age.

The deeper archaeologists dig, the more questions appear. Who were the people of Sanxingdui? Why was their culture so advanced and so different? And what caused this ancient civilization to suddenly fade into history?

Some discoveries rewrite history. This one may rewrite everything we thought we knew about the ancient world.

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@JasonColavito please tell me you've made this up 😜

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Americans face a new round of punishing price increases for fuel and other products as oil and gas inventories plunge to historic lows around the world because of the war in Iran, energy executives and analysts warn.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

People keep asking me what America is actually capable of, now that it has driven away every ally it has. The answer is not hypothetical. It is the Persian Gulf, right now.

Iran is a nation of 90 million people sitting on a mountain range that runs the entire length of its borders. Its military infrastructure is buried inside those mountains. Command centers, missile batteries, fuel depots, weapons production, all of it underground and dispersed across a country roughly the size of Western Europe. Operation Epic Fury struck approximately 6,000 targets.

Iran is still firing.

The Strait of Hormuz has been closed since late February. A quarter of the world’s daily oil supply has nowhere to go. The entrance is mined, patrolled and locked. And the most expensive military in human history is sitting outside it, unable to go in.

This is the moment to be honest about what America is missing.

Europe operates roughly 10,000 military aircraft. Not little propeller trainers. More than ten thousand combat-capable jets that would immediately transform the air campaign over the Gulf, free up American assets for the deep-penetration mountain missions that actually matter, and sustain an operational tempo no single nation can manage alone.

Britain fields two aircraft carriers and seven nuclear-armed hunter-killer submarines. France brings a nuclear carrier, fifteen frigates and its own nuclear submarine fleet. Belgium and the Netherlands operate the finest mine countermeasure vessels on earth, built specifically for strait-clearing operations of exactly this kind. Italy contributes two carriers and eight FREMM frigates. Poland has the largest land army in Europe. Norway has completed its conversion to the F-35 and fields fifty-two of them.

The map below shows some capabilities in Europe, but It represents only a fraction of what Europe actually has. It does not include Finland, Sweden, Spain, Romania, Greece or Portugal, each of which contributes substantial air power, naval tonnage and ground forces of their own. The full picture is considerably larger than what fits on one page.

And then there is Ukraine. Four years of industrial-scale warfare have produced the most battle-tested drone force in existence. Autonomous strike systems, mass swarm tactics and electronic warfare capabilities developed under live fire at a pace no peacetime military can replicate. An allied force with Ukrainian drone expertise integrated into it would look fundamentally different over the mountains of Iran than what America has there now.

European intelligence services have human networks inside Iran and across the Gulf that no satellite can replace. Germany and France maintained functioning diplomatic back-channels into Tehran until late 2025. That kind of quiet credibility is the difference between a negotiated shipping corridor and a permanent blockade. It cannot be improvised. It cannot be bombed into existence.

None of this is available, because Washington spent years treating its allies as freeloaders, adversaries and negotiating targets, and then went to war expecting the same loyalty it had spent years deliberately destroying.

The alliance built after 1945 was never charity. It was a force multiplier that no defense budget, however grotesque in size, can replace on its own. America is learning that now, at roughly a hundred million dollars per day in operational costs, with the strait still closed and the oil still not moving.

Trump was not acting in America’s interest. He was acting in the interest of a man who has never in his life had to live with the consequences of his own decisions. America is living with them now.

Stay connected,
Follow Gandalv @Microinteracti1

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@likeitmatters3 because ET has become a religion for a lot of people. How many times has "the end of the world" been predicted, nothing happens, the believers nonetheless hang in there ... same thing ...

[Jason Colavito @JasonColavito]

"Network" happens to be one of my favorite movies, and I'm not sure Corbell, who is likening himself to Howard Beale, has any idea that Beale was legitimately mentally ill.

[Mick West @MickWest]

Sure, all the thousands of words, hours of investigation, custom tool programming, and long discussion threads – much of that over several years, continuing today.

That's "silence".....

Marik is weird.

[🍄Mary Jane🍄 @Duskblossom]

@jonathanstea I’m worried about this country, it’s not just mistrust of drs that leads to crazy conspiracy theories about health, I’m seeing it in astronomy and physics spaces as well.