The HEX Files

Simona Kossak

04/07/2022

They called her a witch, because she chatted with animals and owned a terrorist-crow, known for stealing gold and attacking bicyclists. A lynx slept in her bed, and she shared her roof with a tamed boar. Simona Kossak was a scientist, ecologist and the author of award-winning films - as well as an activist who fought to protect Europe's...

Parthenogenesis is Greek for virgin birth. This is a form of asexual reproduction where embryos form without fertilization from sperm

Once a military base, much of Camp Hero today is a state park located on Montauk Point, New York. But between Jan 1971 and Aug 12 1983 in an underground facility it was home to a full bingo card of conspiracy theories, from aliens, to mind control, to psychic child soldiers and even time travel,...

Tardigrades

03/10/2022

Tardigrades AKA moss piglets AKA water bears are animals. They belong to their own phyla, Tardigrada. There are about 1300 species. Their name is from the Latin for "slow walker" or "slow stepper". They got the nickname "water bear" from Johann August Ephraim Goeze who discovered them in 1773 called them kleiner Wasserbär (little water bear) and...

Go For a Punch

03/04/2022

Go For a Punch, or possibly SakisaNoBashitsu. An anime that was brought to people's attention through a 4chan user in 2015 about a supposed late 80's, early 90's style video depicting two school girls trapped in a room with no way out. This anime was supposedly very violent and gory, an oddity for the time, and even odder still, is...

The recipe for a good outer space and/or alien conspiracy typically begins with a few common ingredients: take one rogue planet, add in an incredibly intelligent extraterrestrial lifeform (best left out to warm up for roughly 450,000 years), toss in a dash of misunderstood ancient carvings and bad translations. Then let rise with a cover made from...

We all know about Christmas, but there are countless holidays celebrated by thousands of other cultures. Nathan takes us to India and China explore a few!

It was Christmas Eve 1931, when a couple driving through the Arizona desert encountered car troubles. They pulled over and as they were examining the damage, they heard a sound. 150 feet away they found a little girl, seven days old in a woman's hatbox. How had she got there? Where were her parents? Who was she?