Art Grindstone
Don’t Whistle at Night: Folklore, Predators, Physics
Key Takeaways Many people across cultures report a consistent taboo and set of experiences around whistling at night: hearing a distant whistle, replying, then experiencing a whistle that seems to come closer or answer (documented in USC Digital Folklore Archive, Peabody Museum notes, and contemporary social platforms). Practical, measurable phenomena can explain a large fraction […]
Ribbonfish Omen: What Monterey’s Sighting Really Means
Key Takeaways A rare juvenile deep-sea ribbonfish (Trachipterus altivelis) surfaced in Monterey Bay on December 30, 2025, spotted by diver Ted Judah and confirmed by a local aquarium biologist, drawing attention from outlets like SFGATE, SFist, and Divernet. Mainstream sources, including the USGS and marine institutions, assert no proven link between such strandings or planetary […]
NOAA Weather Satellites: Why $30 Radios Can See Space
Key Takeaways Hobbyists routinely receive NOAA APT weather images from polar-orbiting satellites using low-cost RTL-SDR dongles, simple antennas, and free decoding software. NOAA APT downlinks are in the ~137 MHz band (examples: NOAA-15 ~137.62 MHz, NOAA-18 ~137.9125 MHz, NOAA-19 ~137.1 MHz); always verify current frequencies and status on NOAA/NESDIS/OSPO pages. Optical “lamp-to-lamp” communication (Li-Fi/VLC) appears […]
Maduro Captured, Moscow Attacked?: What Really Happened
Key Takeaways U.S. forces carried out strikes in Venezuela on or around 3 January 2026, with the U.S. announcing President Nicolás Maduro’s capture and transport to the United States, as reported by multiple mainstream outlets. Preliminary Venezuelan tallies reported at least 40 dead in the strikes; eyewitness and local reports describe explosions in Caracas, smoke […]
Nuclear Tests & Geomagnetic Storms: The Unproven Link
Key Takeaways The strongest evidence points to geomagnetic storms being driven mainly by solar wind variations, coronal mass ejections, and high-speed solar wind streams, tracked through indices like Kp and Dst by agencies such as NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center. Plausible alternative readings highlight discrete events like the Starfish Prime nuclear test on July 9, […]
Venezuela 2026 Airstrikes: What Really Happened That Night
Key Takeaways The disputed July 2024 presidential election in Venezuela sparked widespread protests, followed by a crackdown with thousands of arrests, as documented by NGOs like Foro Penal (1,848 verified from July to September 2024) and cumulative tallies nearing 2,062 by year’s end; UN reports highlight a systemic breakdown in rule of law, with patterns […]
Times Square’s Second Midnight: Ritual or PR Stunt?
Key Takeaways A planned ‘second post-midnight moment’ unfolded in Times Square on New Year’s Eve 2026, where America250 and the Times Square Alliance relit the Ball in red, white, and blue at around 12:04 a.m. EST to kick off the Semiquincentennial, backed by official press releases from Times Square and America250. The event was broadcast […]
Zodiac Z13 Cipher: Did AI Really Name Marvin Merrill?
Key Takeaways Alex Baber, a self-taught codebreaker, says he solved the Zodiac Z13 cipher and that the plaintext reads a 13-letter name: \”Marvin Merrill\” (an alias tied to Marvin Margolis) — reported by the Los Angeles Times (Dec 23, 2025). Baber reports using AI to generate and filter roughly 71 million 13-letter name candidates; some […]
MIT Fusion Scientist Killed: What We Actually Know
Summary of reported events: – Nuno F.G. Loureiro, a 47-year-old professor and director at MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, was shot at his Brookline, Massachusetts, home on the night of December 15, 2025, and was pronounced dead the following day, according to MIT News and major outlets. – Authorities identified Claudio Manuel Neves Valente […]
New Year’s Solar Flare: What NOAA Didn’t Explain
Key Takeaways An M7.1 X-ray solar flare peaked around 13:51 UTC on December 31, 2025, from Active Region AR4324, as reported by NOAA SWPC and SpaceWeather.gov. SWPC and partner agencies issued watches for elevated geomagnetic activity, predicting possible G1-G2 storms from January 1-3, 2026, with a potential G2 on January 3. Community reports captured aurora […]
Trump Started WW3?: What Russian Fires Really Show
Key Takeaways A YouTube video titled “⚡ALERT:Trump Just STARTED WW3! RIPS PUTIN! RUSSIA IN FLAMES!” (upload ID D9eqy7KLn3o) captures a wave of sensational posts tying political statements to real-world fires and explosions in Russia. Verified reports from BBC Verify, Kyiv Post, and NASA FIRMS satellite data confirm large fires at sites like Taganrog, Saratov oil […]
Max Headroom TV Hijack: What Really Hit Chicago That Night
Key Takeaways On November 22, 1987, two Chicago TV stations—WGN-TV (Channel 9) and WTTW (Channel 11/PBS Chicago)—faced signal hijacks during evening broadcasts, disrupting normal programming with bizarre intrusions. Verifiable evidence includes viewer-recorded tapes of the longer WTTW incident, FCC and FBI technical analyses with enhanced frames, and reports confirming a microwave link override as the […]