Driving along the dusty stretch of the Stuart Highway between the towns of Alice Springs and Tennant Creek, in the Northern Territory, Australia, you may be held in awe by the sheer expanse of completely flat and barren sun-parched desert all around you. This is an arid realm seemingly devoid of life for large stretches, save some scattered brush and bushes, seemingly like the surface of some alien world, uninhabitable to humans. It is this sheer desolation and lack of any civilization as you meander along the bumpy, unkempt road that may cause you to be surprised to see spring up a sign that boldly states “Caution: Alien Landing Site Ahead.” As you drive on you may pass another sign with a prominent alien head on it welcoming you, as well as plastic statues of aliens. Then a ramshackle collection of shacks, a tiny gas station, and a roadhouse in the middle of nowhere, adorned with murals of aliens, UFOs, and with more alien statues standing around staring at you, the whole of it
The Bigfoot phenomenon is already inherently strange enough as it is. Here we have cases of an apparent enormous hairy bipedal ape-man roaming the wilderness that has managed to remain hidden and elusive for a very long time. The traditional view is that this is a flesh and blood animal of some sort, and that. Read more »
Sprawled over south-central Colorado, with a small portion overlapping into New Mexico, is the San Luis Valley. Comprising over 8,000 square miles of wilderness in a 120-mile-long-by-forty-mile wide tract of semiarid desert scrubland, it is surrounded by the sweeping, jagged peaks of the Sangres de Cristos mountains, which are adorned with pristine wilderness. It is. Read more »
When it comes to weird cults, you could do a lot worse than the Stella Maris Gnostic Church. Based in South America, specifically Cartagena, Colombia, it was founded in 1989 by a man named Rodolfo Perez, who brought over several members of the Universal Christian Gnostic Movement to help him kickstart his project. Shortly after. Read more »
El Yunque National Forest, formerly known as the Caribbean National Forest, lies sprawled out over 28,000 acres of thick rain forest in northeastern Puerto Rico, and is the only tropical rainforest in the United States National Forest System and the United States Forest Service and the biggest rainforest in the Caribbean as well as the. Read more »