The Mizzourian

Adventurer and explorer of my home state and beyond. History, mystery, travel and the strange.

[The Mizzourian @themizzourian]

😮😮😮Big time crossover episode!!

[Bigfoot Society @bigfoot_society]

Something strange is unfolding in northeast Ohio. Multiple witnesses across several towns report seeing massive upright figures moving through the woods, crossing roads, and appearing near homes. In this Bigfoot Society × Blurry Creatures crossover, Jeremiah Byron breaks down

[The Mizzourian @themizzourian]

Cool

[Prime Video @PrimeVideo]

All episodes of “Spider-Noir,” are now streaming in Authentic Black & White and True-Hue Full Color on Prime.

[The Mizzourian @themizzourian]

This 👇

[DK🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸 @1Nicdar]

A strange part of growing older that no one talks about is that we’re all homesick for a place and time that no longer exists.

[The Mizzourian @themizzourian]

@TheCinesthetic GOT https://t.co/ymI6HFpC8k

[The Adorable Pups @TheAdorablePups]

I can watch this video all day 😍🐕

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

In the 1980s, a wildlife biologist in Pennsylvania discovered something astonishing:

You could convince a wild mother bear to adopt an orphaned cub using Vicks VapoRub.

His name was Gary Alt.

For nearly three decades, he studied black bears and helped grow Pennsylvania’s bear population from around 3,000 to nearly 15,000 animals.

But one problem kept haunting wildlife officials:

Orphaned cubs.

When mother bears were killed by cars, hunters, or accidents, young cubs were often left with almost no chance of survival.

Most were either raised in captivity or euthanized.

Gary Alt wanted another option.

He wanted wild bears to raise them.

The problem was biology.

Mother bears identify their cubs by scent.

A strange cub usually isn’t treated as a baby.

It’s treated as an intruder.

Sometimes a threat.

Sometimes something to kill.

Gary learned this firsthand after trying to introduce an orphaned cub to an awake mother bear in spring.

The mother immediately detected the unfamiliar scent and killed the cub.

But then he noticed something interesting.

During winter hibernation, mother bears were far less aware and far less aggressive.

So Gary tried something risky.

He quietly entered a winter den, placed an orphaned cub beside a sleeping mother and her litter, and left.

The mother never noticed.

When spring arrived, she emerged from the den raising one more cub than she’d originally given birth to.

The orphan had been fully accepted.

The technique worked repeatedly during hibernation.

But what about orphaned cubs discovered after winter — when mothers were fully awake and alert?

That’s when Gary found the strangest solution of all.

Vicks VapoRub.

He sedated a mother bear, rubbed Vicks inside her nose, and introduced the orphaned cub while she was unconscious.

The strong menthol smell overwhelmed her sense of smell long enough for the cub to bond with her and her litter.

By the time the Vicks wore off, the cub smelled like family.

It worked.

Later, Gary discovered something even simpler:

Sometimes just rubbing Vicks directly onto the orphaned cub itself was enough.

The menthol temporarily masked the foreign scent long enough to prevent aggression and allow acceptance.

One foster mother even ended up raising six cubs at once — including two unrelated orphans Gary had introduced.

She never treated them differently.

Today, variations of Gary Alt’s methods are still used by wildlife agencies across the United States.

Wildlife officers track GPS-collared mother bears, locate winter dens, and carefully place orphaned cubs beside sleeping mothers knowing there’s a good chance the mother will simply wake up in spring believing the cub has always been hers.

And somehow, that’s the beautiful part of the story.

A wild animal capable of rejecting a stranger in one moment…

Can become a mother to it in another.

Sometimes the difference between rejection and acceptance is timing, patience, and a tiny window where fear has been replaced by trust.

Or, in this case, a two-dollar jar of menthol ointment.

[The Fourth Musketeer @IV_Musketeer]

The 7-second cold wrist rinse was tested on 3,000 soldiers after combat simulations.

Cortisol dropped 52% within 90 seconds. Heart rate fell an average of 22 beats per minute. The Navy classified the protocol in 2009 and kept it secret until 2023.

The mechanism is radial artery cooling. Your inner wrists have the thinnest skin and the largest surface-to-volume ratio for blood vessels. 7 seconds of cold water cools the blood passing to your brain, which signals your hypothalamus to downregulate stress instantly

You've splashed cold water on your face. You've taken cold showers. Both work, but they're inconvenient.

The SEAL protocol takes 7 seconds, requires no undressing, and can be done at any sink. Soldiers used it before night missions to fall asleep fast.

The military classified this because a free 7-second stress fix would reduce demand for combat stress medication ($400M annually).

The 2023 declassification came after a FOIA lawsuit filed by a veteran.

The fix: run cold tap water over your inner wrists for 7 seconds. Both wrists. Do it when you feel a stress spike.

Within 90 seconds, your heart rate will drop. No shower, no ice.

Just 7 seconds.

[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.

[The Mizzourian @themizzourian]

😂

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

Stray cats were seen riding capybaras in Panama, after locals said the city had pushed them too far.

For months, people near the river noticed something strange happening to the stray cats that used to roam the streets.

They weren’t hanging around the alleys as much anymore. They were disappearing toward the river.

At first, locals thought the cats had simply run away and decided to live closer to the water. But soon, photographers and researchers noticed the truth was stranger than anyone expected.

The cats had found shelter with the capybaras.

They weren’t just following them around. Kittens were seen sleeping beside the capybaras, older cats stayed close to the group, and some were even captured riding on their backs.

The ironic part is that cats are known for hating water, but the capybaras seemed to let them climb on top while they crossed the river, carrying them from one side to the other like it was normal.

Nobody knows exactly when it started, but many believe the cats found safety with the capybaras after being pushed away from the city.

[Diligent Denizen 🇺🇸 @DiligentDenizen]

‼️🇺🇸: BODY OF ONE OF MISSING SCIENTISTS FOUND 👀

The remains of Melissa Casias, were discovered outside of Taos New Mexico on the edge of a national park by a hiker yesterday.

Casias was a high-level assistant at the Department of Energy Los Alamos National Laboratory, and disappeared last year in June.

Her ERASED PHONES, wallet, and car keys were left in her home in Ranchos de Taos home, her car was left parked outside. 👀

Cause of d3ath has not yet been released.

This stinks to high h3ll. 🤨

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Billy Meier’s famous UFO photograph from Switzerland (1975), the same flying saucer image that would later hang in Fox Mulder’s office in THE X-FILES.

[永倉盛照 nagakura moriteru @uBF2fV1cVQxRjQo]

A video of a UFO sighting at Xiaoshan Airport in China has finally been leaked by the government.
In response to the US public display of UFOs, China is also actively releasing its own UFO footage.

[0️⃣BlackBetty ⚓️ @BabyD1111229]

Remember the time Buzz Aldrin went to Antarctica and had a “serious medical emergency” and had to be medevacked to New Zealand? And then he ALLEGEDLY
…tweeted…

“We are all in danger. It is evil itself.”

Wonder what Buzz meant…😝😉🤭😆

[The Mizzourian @themizzourian]

@Kristinartz The Rain Song -led zep

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[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

Cows found in impossible location after “magic mushroom expedition.”

A farmer in Wisconsin says he woke up to one of the strangest sights he has ever seen: nearly his entire herd of cows relaxing on top of a farm roof almost 10 feet off the ground. Some were laying down like nothing happened, others were stretched out on their backs, and the farmer had no idea how they got up there because there was no ramp, ladder, or clear way onto the roof.

At first, he thought he was going to have to spend thousands bringing in equipment to get them down safely. But before doing that, he checked every camera on the property for clues. The only thing he found was even stranger: footage from the night before showing the whole herd eating wild mushrooms growing in one of the fields.

How the cows ended up on that roof is still a mystery. But one thing is not. Whatever happened that night, those cows clearly had the time of their lives.

[Świadomy Wodnik CONSCIOUS AQUARIUS @SwiadomyWodnik]

W 1918 roku dokonano niezwykłego odkrycia głęboko w kopalniach węgla w Wilkes-Barre w Pensylwanii, gdy górnicy natknęli się na skamieniały pień drzewa osadzony w warstwie węgla.

Niezwykłością tego znaleziska jest to, że pień drzewa został odcięty.

[Megalithic Marvels @derek__olson]

Now this is what I call a seem

[Michael Salla @MichaelSalla]

Antigravity researcher Amy Eskridge did not die in 2022. Next week, I will publicly release details that Amy faked her death and is now in contact with a reliable source I have known for several years who has shared stunning info about her current antigravity research at a secret research facility. I will share more details in my webinar today. https://t.co/v7VPNp01OY

[Wired4WondersTales @wired4wonder]

In 2005, a cat named Oscar was adopted by a nursing home in Rhode Island. He was known for being aloof and rarely friendly. But the staff soon noticed something chilling.

Whenever Oscar would emerge from hiding and curl up next to a patient, that person would pass away within hours.

He didn't just do it once or twice. He did it dozens of times with 100% accuracy, even when the doctors believed the patients were stable.

The phenomenon became so reliable that staff started calling families the moment they saw Oscar enter a room.

Was it a sixth sense? A reaction to the scent of dying cells? Or something even more mysterious? Even the geriatricians who studied him, like Dr. David Dosa, couldn't provide a perfect medical explanation for his talent.

Sometimes, the most unsettling stories are the ones that are actually true.

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

In the summer of 1909, East Harlem merchant G. Herman Gottlieb set out to make a little extra money by selling wild catnip door-to-door in New York City.

What he didn't expect was that the powerful scent of the catnip would attract dozens of neighborhood cats.

As Gottlieb walked through the streets carrying bundles of the herb, cats began emerging from alleys, doorways, and backyards.

The growing feline procession reportedly reached 30 to 40 cats, many of them meowing, rolling on the ground, and following him wherever he went.

The unusual spectacle drew the attention of police, who arrested Gottlieb for allegedly "inciting a crowd." At the station, officers realized that the law referred to gatherings of people, not cats, and the charges were ultimately dropped.

[The Mizzourian @themizzourian]

@Angel_Heart_0_ I think that’s when it premieres here as well.

[The Mizzourian @themizzourian]

Oh deer 😬

[Interstellar @InterstellarUAP]

Will never look at a deer the same way 👽😱