MK-ULTRA

Long before the Beatles experimented with "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", an unlikely group of Americans got turned on to the possibilities of LSD: the CIA. Unlike the Beatles, Timothy Leary and the counter-cultural movements of the 1960s, the CIA had no interest in using LSD to open up "the doors of perception"; the…

The Mothman

In 1966, the sleepy town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, was shaken by a string of strange sightings. Reports of a mysterious creature the size of a man with blazing red eyes and towering 10 ft wings remains unsolved today. The Mothman has become folklore in West Virginia, it has inspired the movie "the mothman…

The 5th of November Gunpowder Plot

It seems odd that the most famous political conspiracy in English history should have made an obscure soldier with a fondness for explosives so famous and even more odd that more people don't realise it is in fact a conspiracy theory. Today in England, people gather around annually for Guy Fawkes night, a celebration of…