Manhattan Alien Abduction title Screenshot

“This didn’t really happen…did it?” I thought as I watched the trailer for The Manhattan Alien Abduction. Funnily enough, that’s the question at the heart of the forthcoming Netflix docuseries. One that becomes abundantly clear while watching the trailer, but that is also summed up in the tagline: “A woman claimsContinue Reading

Alien Encounters: Fact or Fiction key art

Do you remember the 1995 short documentary The Alien Autopsy? It purported to be found footage of an autopsy of one of the aliens from the Roswell incident. It created quite a stir at the time, largely influenced by the FOX Network, which aired Alien Autopsy: (Fact or Fiction?), aContinue Reading

Encounters poster

“I’m—I’m shit scared. I’m terrified,”  Kudzanai says in “Believers,” the second episode of Netflix’s four-part docuseries Encounters. That’s how he felt following his sighting. He and his brother Tapfu were among the over 60 students who reported seeing a UFO and mysterious being during break time at the Ariel SchoolContinue Reading

Ring camera alien contest

“Winner of Ring contest gets $1 million for proof of extraterrestrials from Ring cam,” the CNET headline read. However, I only saw the first part of the headline, which registered as “Ring alien contest.” And the first “Ring” I thought of was the horror movie The Ring. Which completely confusedContinue Reading

Beyond Skinwalker Ranch keyart

The fourth season of The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch recently premiered on The HISTORY Channel on April 18. However, a spinoff series is due out in a couple of months. Beyond Skinwalker Ranch will premiere on HISTORY on June 6 at 10 pm ET/PT. In fact, if The Secret ofContinue Reading

Still of soldiers from Mission Unexplained

The recent shoot-downs of mystery crafts over American and Canadian airspace have reignited the mania for extraterrestrials and Unidentified Flying Objects/Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UFOs/UAPs). So many are asking: what’s going on up there? Cottage Life’s latest original series Mission Unexplained hopes to provide some answers. Mission Unexplained includes accounts fromContinue Reading

Campground with tents in a valley and UFO in the sky

Skinwalker Ranch may be the most paranormally active location in the United States, if not the world. Outside of Area 51, it may also be the most restricted. The ranch isn’t open to the public, nor does it offer tours, as it explicitly states on its website. Yet it’s equallyContinue Reading

Screen grab of Unsolved Mysteries volume 3 cover from Netflix phone app

Personally, whether they deal with anything paranormal or not, I feel every episode of Unsolved Mysteries is pretty haunting. Not knowing what happened to someone —be it how exactly they died, or where they disappeared to in the case of missing persons— is very haunting. Especially the way the producersContinue Reading

1974 newspaper clipping about Betz Mystery Sphere from the Miami Herald

What is the Betz Mystery Sphere? Is it alien technology left behind by extraterrestrial visitors? Or is it something manmade, and the real mystery is how it ended up on one Florida family’s property to begin with? No matter what it is, the headline-making and conspiracy theory-generating ball is partContinue Reading

Whitley Strieber at site of alien encounter

Before author Whitley Strieber’s encounter with the unknown inspired, The Visitors, the latest installment in Travel Channel’s “Shock Docs” series, it inspired one of his best-selling books, Communion (1987). (Which in 1989 was then adapted into a movie of the same name starring Christopher Walken.) It all started with threeContinue Reading

Left to right: Jack Osbourne, Jason Mewes and Jamie Kennedy discuss their search for UFOs in Utah’s Uinta Basin.

We knew from Travel Channel and discovery+’s 2022 paranormal programming announcement that Jack Osbourne had two “Night of Terror” specials coming. In the first one, he searched for Bigfoot with his actor friend Jason Mewes (Clerks, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back). The duo is reuniting again for the secondContinue Reading

Nope poster

It’s been three years since Jordan Peele released an original movie. I’m talking the likes of Get Out and Us, but he also wrote the screenplay for the Candyman remake. But like Get Out and Us, he also wrote and directed Nope, and when the trailer aired during the SuperContinue Reading