'Tis the season of prophecies; about monster tsunamis leaving a trail of devastation across multiple countries located along the Pacific Ring of Fire. Two different women psychics – one from Thailand and another from Japan - have revealed bone-chilling prophecies about a Pacific mega-tsunami that could originate somewhere between Japan and the Philippines, and inflict catastrophic damage. While one of them said that it could occur anytime in July or August of 2025, the other was more specific: the date that she saw very clearly in her precognitive dream was July 2025. 

Why should we take these prophecies seriously, one might wonder? Aren’t there enough instances of prophecies of doom and destruction that have failed miserably? Well, yes, but these two psychics are very different. Their track record of accuracy is so surreal that it would put any Baba Vanga to shame. It is only because of the language barrier that they are not as widely known or celebrated outside of their home countries. In fact, many tourists from East Asia have already paid heed to their warnings and canceled their travel plans to Japan, Indonesia and other Southeast Asian countries this summer. The word has now got out to the rest of the world through YouTube and other social media channels, and that is how I came to know about it as well.

When I started digging a bit deeper in order to get to the “real information” about these prophecies, I realized that most of the original sources were YouTube videos and interviews in the Chinese, Thai, and Japanese languages. The videos that were being made in English contained scant and often incorrect information, and left out a lot of the relevant details that I was interested in. So I did a lot of YouTube research to identify the genuine and informative videos, and used YouTube’s auto-translate feature to jot down the information. And, of course, I had to make minor grammatical adjustments to the text in order to make it reader-friendly.

Mor Plai, the Thai Prophet

Let’s start with the fortune teller from Bangkok who calls herself Mor Plai, but whose real name is Navaracha Pinitlokakorn. She is a doctorate, and, after she acquired the gift of prophecy sometime around the year 2010, she made some uncannily accurate predictions about major events, which gave her celebrity status in Thailand. Since then, she has been frequently interviewed by Thai TV channels and newspapers. However, it was only after she had accurately predicted the recent Myanmar earthquake that she turned into an internet sensation, and people all over East Asia frantically tried to find out more information about her life and her prophecies. 

The most informative video about Mor Plai’s life and prophecies was published in the Chinese language by a popular YouTuber named Wen Zhao. In his video titled, “Thai female prophet: 95 days left before the 2025 global catastrophe, the way it will happen is chilling” (published April 27, 2025), he refers to Mor Plai as “Pura” or “Mor Pura”. In Thailand, the generic term for a fortune teller is “Mor Pra” (or “Mor Doo”), which could be why Wen Zhao used the term “Mor Pura” to refer to her. Initially, this caused me some confusion because I could not find any famous Thai fortune teller named “Mor Pura” using Google search, and it was only after using some more keyword-based searches that I figured out that the name she went by was Mor Plai. 

Now that the little confusion about the name has been cleared up, let me share some of the interesting stuff that Wen Zhao said about Mor Plai’s bizarre childhood experiences, how she acquired her special prophetic abilities, some of her amazing predictions till date that have come true, and what she foresees for the future. 

“Pura is very different from the prophet that everyone imagines. She looks like an ordinary Thai modern girl. She will post all kinds of beautiful photos on her social media platform…Pura claims that she has had psychic abilities since she was a child. In 2014, Pura was interviewed by Thairath Talk, a TV station under Thairath Newspaper, one of the largest media in Thailand...Pura said that, since she was a child, she was able to see spirit beings that other people couldn’t see. Sometimes they were ghosts, and sometimes they were gods. But she had assumed that everyone else must be seeing these entities as well, just as she was…

Opposite Pura’s house was an abandoned house, which looked empty from the outside. But little Pura could see people coming in and out from time to time. During these times, little Pura would stand under the eaves of her house and wave and say hello to these people, but they usually ignored little Pura. Family and friends thought that little Pura was a strange girl, for they would see her waving and saying hello to the empty air. But they felt that she was just being childish or naughty, and did not give it much importance. 

One day, Pura saw a strange old man walking out of the abandoned house. As usual, Pura waved to him. This time, the old man also waved to Pura. Little Pura was very happy, and she ran across the street to talk to the old man. Pura’s family and neighbors were unnerved to see her standing alone in the front yard of the abandoned house, dancing and talking to herself, and laughing from time to time. Everyone thought that the little girl must have finally gone crazy. The family hurried to take Pura back home, but Pura struggled and refused, saying that she was playing games with her uncle…Some of the neighbors got curious and went into the abandoned house to check. They were shocked to find an old man’s body in the house. While the adults were panicking, little Pura ran into the house, pointed at the body, and said that it was this uncle who was playing with her. 

From then on, the news spread in the neighborhood that little Pura could interact with ghosts, and no child dared to come to her house to play. Of course, no one dared to bully her, either. As Pura grew up, she realized that she could not only see spirits, but also different gods. She even saw the Hindu god Krishna and communicated with him. When Pura told her family about these things, her parents were shocked and scared…So, when she was a teenager, her parents took her to see a psychiatrist. Pura passed all the tests, and the doctor told her parents that Pura was not mentally ill. While her parents were relieved to hear this, they also warned their daughter that, in the future, she was not to blurt out what she had seen in front of outsiders. As a result, the older Pura grew, the fewer friends she had, and the more she kept her special abilities a secret.

But a change occurred when Pura was about 20 years old. A spirit who looked like Yama, the King of the Underworld in Buddhism (and Hinduism), came into contact with Pura and taught her how to read faces and tell fortunes. He also gave her the ability to predict the future, and the spirit asked her to use the name “Mor Pura”. After that, Pura began to tell fortunes for people around her and would occasionally post her predictions for the coming year on her social media channel. 

The scope of her predictions is wide, ranging from politics, economy and society, to natural disasters. Pura calls herself the “medium of the gods” because, every time, before something big happens, the gods come to tell her about it, sometimes using voice and sometimes with the help of images. Some pictures appear very clear to her, while others are blurry. Although Pura does not understand some of the information she receives, she feels that her duty is to be a faithful messenger to convey the will of God. So, she simply says what she has heard or seen.

It so happened that, in 2014, Thairath Newspaper started its own multimedia platform called Thairath Talk. In order to attract viewers, it invited various people to interview. Mor Pura was also chosen. The program team wanted to do a simple interview, but Pura did not follow the guidelines and talked about her predictions for the future in the program. She made two strange predictions. The first was that a major aviation accident would happen in Southeast Asia, which would shock the world. The strangest thing about this accident would be that it would be a mysterious disappearance without any clear clues. Before the reporter could come to his senses, Pura made a second prediction. She said that she saw a boat carrying children, which would disappear at sea…

Just two months later, both of her predictions came true. In March 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 mysteriously disappeared on its way to Beijing. More than ten years have passed and it is still missing. And then, in April 2014, a Korean passenger and cargo ferry named Sewol sank. Sewol is a 6825-ton ferry. On the morning of the 16th, it sank while carrying passengers and cargo from Incheon to Jeju Island. A total of 780 passengers and crew members died, including 250 high school students. It was, indeed, a ship full of children. This was the worst maritime accident in South Korea’s history. It attracted great attention not only in South Korea but also around the world. Only then did the audience suddenly realize that Pura was, indeed, a prophet. 

From then on, many media outlets came to interview her. But Pura did not accept interviews every time. She would only show up when something big was about to happen. In June 2015, Pura made another shocking statement when she was interviewed by “Women’s Magazine”. She looked at a map on the wall and pointed her finger towards the location of Malaysia. Talking about the possibility of a disaster in Malaysia, she pointed to Kuala Lampur, the capital of Malaysia, saying that a famous building in the city would catch fire. Around 20 days later, a fire broke out on a small hill called Bukit Aman in Kuala Lampur. The building that caught fire happened to be the headquarters of the Royal Malaysia Police. So, this matter became the focus of new reports for several consecutive days. Pura’s accurate prediction shocked the Thais yet again…

In the second half of 2024, Pura was interviewed by Thairath Talk again, and in course of the discussions she suddenly said that, a few months later, probably between March and April 2025, an earthquake would occur in the Myanmar area, and would affect the northern part of Thailand, but the impact would not be great. After saying this, she paused, thought for a while, and added, “Bangkok will be affected by the earthquake, and the buildings will shake.” The host didn’t quite believe this when he heard this. He looked at Pura with suspicion because earthquakes are not common in Thailand…But an earthquake occurred in Myanmar in March 2025 and many high-rise buildings in Bangkok also shook. These scenes confirmed Pura’s prediction, and everyone was shocked…

In April 2025, Pura appeared again. She first appeared on the popular talk show of GMM, the largest entertainment media group of Thailand, and then on the live broadcast room of Woody, a well-known Thai host. In both shows, Pura made even more terrifying predictions. Let’s look at them one by one. Let’s start with Pura’s prediction on the GMM program. She said that, before August 2025, that is, from June to July, a province in Thailand that begins with K or Kai should pay attention. It will be affected by floods, but this flood is not caused by rainfall, but by the fluctuations of the sea or the earth. In other words, a disaster like a tsunami will occur, and tsunamis are caused by earthquakes. This statement shocked all Thais. The word tsunami also reminded all Thai netizens of the tragic consequences of the 2004 tsunami, and they couldn’t help but shudder…

Pura explained the disaster more clearly in the live broadcast room of host Woody. Pura said that this was almost like a global disaster. The volcano is about to erupt. The places Thai people like to travel to would be affected, and tourists would die. To be specific, it would be Sashimi (i.e., Japan) and Indonesia. Sashimi means “raw fish,” and Japan is famous for eating raw fish. Japan is also a favorite tourist destination for Thais. Pura said that there is a ring of volcanoes on the seabed that had been dormant for a long time. The big one has not exploded yet. The smaller volcanoes will erupt first, followed by the big one, which will cause a tsunami.”

With that, we come to the end of Wen Zhao’s narration of Mor Plai's bizarre life and remarkable prophetic powers, and needless to say, he has done an excellent job of pulling together information from many different sources to give us an illuminating account of this enigmatic Thai psychic. The account is also quite accurate, since I have listened to many YouTube interviews of Mor Plai where she essentially repeated the same things. The unreal accuracy of her prophecies so far is quite amazing to say the least, which kind of gives you an uneasy feeling of inevitability about her tsunami prediction in the July-August timeframe this year. 

There’s one correction that I would like to make to Wen Zhao’s presentation. Wen Zhao said that, according to Mor Plai, the undersea volcanic eruption and tsunami will occur “before August 2025, that is, from June to July”. That is not entirely correct.  In the GMM interview, she had said that the tsunami will occur “by August”, by which she meant, “by the end of August.” We can be certain of this, because on Woody’s live broadcast she spelt it out even more precisely: “The time is in July and August,” she told Woody. 

As Wen Zhao mentioned, once netizens realized that Mor Plai had successfully predicted the Myanmar earthquake, she became eagerly sought after by social media podcasters. In an interview with a Chinese YouTube channel published on April 12, 2025, Mor Plai was forthcoming about some of her childhood experiences. When asked what kind of spirits she used to see as a child, she replied, 

“When I was a child I saw many spirits. For example, there were some spirits under some lamp posts, some were wearing school uniforms, and some were in different colors, either black or white, and their eyes were either black or white. I saw many, many of these…sometimes spirits asked me for help but I could not do it when I was a child.” 

When asked to describe how the King of the Underworld, Yama, (who taught her how to read faces and tell fortunes) looked like, she replied, “When you first see him, he appears very big, and you will feel very hot because there are a lot of fires around him.” So, “big and fiery” seems to be the keywords. Not surprising, because in many sacred texts we find that, whenever a person gets a vision of God, he seems to appear enveloped in flames. For instance, when the Hebrew prophet Ezekiel saw Yahweh on the throne above the cherubs, he saw a human-like figure, glowing like fire, and enveloped in a brilliant light. (Ezekiel 1.26 28) 

Regarding the mysterious disappearance of Flight 370, when she was asked if there was any chance it may be found later, she said, 

“The Golden Triangle (possibly referring to the Bermuda Triangle), the mysterious delta, some of the aura and magnetic field of the mysterious delta changed, causing it to fall…many years later, they may see its wreckage, but not the entire thing. The people inside are no longer here. All you will see is the wreckage of the plane. This may happen in another forty or fifty years.” 

While some people may feel hopeful to know that the wreckage of Flight 370 might be found some day, if you are one of those who had expected that all the passengers will walk out of a time portal without aging a single day in all those years, you are likely to be disappointed.

In a video published by the YouTube channel Kiinthailand in the Thai language on March 30, just a few days after the Myanmar quake on March 28, Mor Plai was asked how she had known that the disaster would occur. Mor Plai replied, 

“The earthquake was more serious than I had expected. At the time of making the prophecy, I saw a map of Thailand, and around Bangkok there were multiple branching cracks. That’s why I made the prophecy. I also saw images of buildings collapsing, but I thought they were in Burma (Myanmar).” She went on to add that Bangkok will experience aftershocks in 2025, and this is just the beginning.

In an interview with the YouTube channel CD Chai published on April 7, Mor Plai clarified that she acts as a “spokesperson” of the spirit realm. This is what she said: 

“When I first mentioned the earthquake (Myanmar), it was not directly related to this matter…it was just a conversation. We just continued to talk and continued to visit (other topics) and then I accidentally said it. I can hear some whispers. I tell everyone what I hear, and say it in the gentlest way. It often says it. It often repeats. I have to say it because I act as a spokesperson. If I don’t speak out, I am afraid of being scolded. I was afraid of being scolded at that time.”

I found this really interesting. I can’t recall any other channel or medium saying that he or she is afraid of being scolded by spirits. It almost sounds like a family. But how exactly do the spirits scold her? What if they come down too hard on her and she starts feeling sad or depressed? Would it be a good idea for her to go to a psychiatrist and say, "My spirit family is acting unusually mean with me"? I would really like to be able to chat with her one day about these things.

In this video published by the YouTube channel Kiinthailand on April 3, we can listen to what Mor Plai had actually said in the GMM and Woody interviews, following the successful prediction of the Myanmar quake. During the GMM interview, she had made additional predictions: “During the Water Sprinkling Festival (i.e., Songkran Festival from April 13-15) this year, there will be flooding and fire accidents.” And when the host asked, “How can there be rain in summer?” she replied, “It’s going to rain!” 

And guess what? That’s exactly what happened. There was heavy rain in Bangkok during the Songkran festival, and a flash flood in Chiang Mai washed away the temporary furniture set up by the food vendors along the riverbank. However, no tourists were injured in this incident, since they had left by then, thanks to an early warning. Once again, Mor Plai does not cease to amaze with her incredible predictions.

Mor Plai had made another interesting prediction during the GMM interview. She said that one of the buildings in Bangkok, which had been damaged by the recent earthquake, will collapse. But she did not specify which building it is, and when exactly it will collapse. “It’s the damaged building. It will collapse. Everyone is running out again from that building. It’s a big building. The interior space is empty. I feel this building is not for people to live in.” On Woody’s live broadcast, she continued on this theme. Regarding the future of Bangkok, she said, 

“Wealthy people who live in tall buildings will sell their residence and relocate to different places. The tall buildings will start having problems, and later it will not be possible to sell these flats, and they will be discarded. Government offices may be relocated to other provinces. Stay away from tall buildings. Many people in Bangkok will quit their jobs and move to other provinces. There will be many foreigners taking over their jobs. People from Burma, Laos, Cambodia etc. The Thai economy shall face severe problems.”

One can imagine that if a person living in a Bangkok high-rise listens to these scary predictions, he might start shivering and trembling long before the next earthquakes arrive. Mor Plai is clearly foreseeing a lot of difficulty for Thailand in the coming years, and, understandably, the Thais who follow her prophecies could be feeling jittery. If her dire prediction about the volcanic eruptions and tsunamis in July-August also materializes, it could, potentially, trigger a sell-off in the real estate market in Bangkok. Those of you who are reading this – don’t get conned into buying a high-rise apartment in Bangkok at throwaway prices right now.

Let me touch upon one final apocalyptic prediction made by Mor Plai, which reminded me of some of the prophetic utterings of Edgar Cayce. More than ten years ago, on a Woody broadcast, Plai had made a stunning prophecy about a global apocalypse in the coming decades that would completely alter the geological profile of our planet. She said,

“In another 78 years, the map of the Earth will be completely changed. There will be very little land left. There may be less than a third of the land left.”

In a reading given in 1934, Edgar Cayce had said that large portions of many continents would sink under the oceans in the period from ’58 to ’98, which, as I have argued in my book Yuga Shift, refers to the period from 2058 to 2098. 

“As to the changes physical again: The earth will be broken up in the western portion of America. The greater portion of Japan must go into the sea. The upper portion of Europe will be changed as in the twinkling of an eye. Land will appear off the east coast of America. There will be the upheavals in the Arctic and in the Antarctic that will make for the eruption of volcanoes in the Torrid areas, and there will be shifting then of the poles - so that where there has been those of a frigid or the semi-tropical will become the more tropical, and moss and fern will grow. And these will begin in those periods in '58 to '98, when these will be proclaimed as the periods when His light will be seen again in the clouds. (Reading 3976-15, January 19, 1934)

The fact that Cayce had prophesied that the “greater portion of Japan must go into the sea” and there will be “the eruption of volcanoes in the Torrid areas,” brings additional context to Mor Plai’s prediction of a volcanic eruption and tsunami close to Japan. A lot of things seem to be adding up and falling into place, and the eerie alignment in prophetic utterings across centuries, in combination with the ongoing changes in the environment, geopolitics and human consciousness, is making it increasingly evident that we are now living in the times of the greatest shift in recorded human history. 

What makes Mor Plai’s prediction even more ominous is that an almost exact scenario was foreseen by a clairvoyant Japanese manga artist named Ryo Tatsuki in one of her precognitive dreams. And the date that she saw clearly in her dream for this mega disaster was July 2025!

The Prophecies of Ryo Tatsuki

Ryo Tatsuki is a Japanese manga artist who has been having vivid, precognitive dreams since she was young, starting sometime in the 1980s. Her dreams varied from mundane, private matters to incidents of global importance. For years, she kept notes and made sketches of her dreams in her "dream diary". Then she began to notice a pattern. Some of her dreams came true, maybe days, months or even years later. Later, she realized that her dreams came true at times that are multiples of 5: such as after 5 days, 15 days, 5 years, 15 years, and so on.

In 1999, she published a manga book titled “The Future I Saw”. The comic book contained illustrations of 15 precognitive dreams that she had between 1980 and 1995, with brief notes in the margins. At first, her book received a lukewarm response. After all, by the time the book was published in 1999, many of her dreams had already come true. People are more interested in predictions about the future, and not about events that have already happened. 

But things changed dramatically after Japan was hit by the devastating Tohoku earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011. Some people remembered that, on the cover of her book, Ryo Tatsuki had included the phrase, “A great disaster will occur in March 2011”. That immediately sparked off a nationwide interest in her book, and it flew off the shelves. People began to dig into her older predictions and found a few others that matched up with major events. However, some of her dreams related to mundane matters or were too cryptic to be interpreted. 

The reason why Ryo Tatsuki’s dream prophecies have once again come into the limelight is because, in the year 2021, Tatsuki came out with a reprint of her manga, in which she added a new, terrifying prediction: a catastrophic undersea volcanic eruption would occur somewhere between Japan and the Philippines in July 2025, which would make the ocean boil and trigger a tsunami three times larger than the one in 2011. She believes that Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia and the Northern Mariana Islands will be in the direct path of this immensely destructive wave, although many other countries are likely to be affected as well. She wrote in the book, "The future version of me said: 'It’s not over. The real beginning is from 2025.'"

I became aware of Ryo Tatsuki’s work while researching Mor Plai. In the comments section of the videos, many people said how the tsunami prediction made by Mor Plai was remarkably aligned with what Ryo Tatsuki had seen in her dreams. Once again, I had to hunt down the informative videos, which were mostly in Japanese or Chinese, and I used YouTube’s auto-translate feature to note the interesting points. If I were to recommend a video in English, I would say this one contains the most detailed information about the prophecies of Ryo Tatsuki that have already come true. However, when it comes to the new prophecy about the disaster of July 2025, I will refer to a different source when I get to it. 

Here’s a summary of what I managed to find out about the prophecies of Ryo Tatsuki that have already materialized and have been included in her 1999 manga, “The Future I Saw”.

1. Freddie Mercury's Death (1991)

Tatsuki had a lucid dream on November 24, 1976, when she saw a clear image of Freddie Mercury dying while performing on stage. She took note of the dream, but at the time, she did not think much of it, of course. Freddie Mercury passed away on November 24, 1991, exactly 15 years later. That was when Tatsuki started taking her dreams a little more seriously and began to think that maybe these dreams are precognitive.

2. Princess Diana's death (1997)

In 1992, Tatsuki had a dream in which she was walking down a long corridor inside a palace. At the end of the hallway hung a portrait of a blonde woman holding a baby. The name written on the painting was "Diana". In her diary, she drew the lady who appeared in her dream and scribbled a note, “Diana? Died?” 5 years later, Princess Diana died in a car crash in Paris.

3. 1995 Kobe Earthquake

In January 1995, Tatsuki had a dream in which an old man led her to a place with cracked ground, and she got the feeling that it was the city of Kobe. She jotted the dream down, thinking that something might happen there later. 15 days later, the Great Hanshin earthquake struck Kobe on January 17, 1995, resulting in over 5000 deaths, and the city was left in ruins. It was Japan's second-deadliest earthquake of the 20th century.

4. 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami

On the cover of her 1999 manga "The Future I Saw", Tatsuki had written, "A great disaster will occur in March 2011". Almost like clockwork, the devastating undersea Tohoku earthquake and tsunami struck Japan on March 11, 2011. The enormous waves devastated Japan's coastline, killing nearly 20,000 people and causing the meltdown of the Fukushima nuclear plant. This 9.1 earthquake was the most powerful ever recorded in Japan. In the Sendai area of Japan, the tsunami waves traveled at 700 km/h and reached up to 10 km inland. More than 100 evacuation sites were washed away by the waves. 

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'Tis the season of prophecies; about monster tsunamis leaving a trail of devastation across multiple countries located along the Pacific Ring of Fire. Two different women psychics – one from Thailand and another from Japan - have revealed bone-chilling prophecies about a Pacific mega-tsunami that could originate somewhere between Japan and the Philippines, and inflict catastrophic damage. While one of them said that it could occur anytime in July or August of 2025, the other was more specific: the date that she saw very clearly in her precognitive dream was 

5. Covid-19 Pandemic (2020)

Tatsuki’s 1999 manga contained a prediction about a virus causing global disruption in the year 2020. One of her entries stated that, "in 25 years, an unknown virus will come in 2020, disappear after peaking in April, and appear again 10 years later." This is an obvious reference to the COVID-19 virus, and her timing of the event is eerily accurate as well, for it was around April 2020 that many countries started experiencing their first wave.

Now we come to the more interesting part – the prophecies of Ryo Tatsuki that are yet to pass. The one about the July 2025 tsunami was included in the reprint edition of the manga that came out in 2021. She also has a prophecy about an earthquake and a tsunami that could occur between June and September 2026. This was mentioned in the 1999 edition of the book itself.

While searching around for an informative video that would explain the newly included prophecy about the July 2025 mega-tsunami, I came across this YouTube video titled, The prophetic dream manga "The Future I Saw", what's the catastrophe that will happen in July 2025? This was published on a Japanese YouTube channel called the Naokiman Show on October 3, 2021, just one day after the new edition of Tatsuki’s manga came out. Interestingly, the podcaster personally knows Ryo Tatsuki and had a conversation with her about her new precognitive dream. So, the explanation in this video is about as informative and authentic as it can possibly get. Here’s what he said:

"I was able to meet up with her (Ryo Tatsuki) a few times and got to hear her stories. Just yesterday, on October 2nd, a new comic book about her dreams were published. Tatsuki san (“san” is a common honorific suffix in Japanese) says that she still sees precognitive dreams, and all of her dreams are recorded in her dream diary. Tatsuki san has shared with us her new dreams, which might come into reality....

Tatsuki san had travelled to India in the past (in 1998), and her experience on this trip became the turning point in her life. I will explain in detail later, but she saw this particular dream in India. Using her expression directly...” You know how bubbles come up when you're stirring a thick soup, right?” She saw that in a vision of the Pacific Ocean near Japan. It was bubbling up. It was hard for her to understand what it meant. Did it indicate an explosion? Or maybe a submarine eruption?

Surprisingly, Tatsuki san recently saw the same dream again (July 5, 2021). The same thing happened, but this time with two dragons in the area. And a date was clearly indicated in this dream. July 2025. In her dream, Tatsuki san was looking down on the earth, and the patterns on the below image shows the two dragons she saw. It was like seeing the earth with Google Earth, and there was a sudden eruption in the water between Japan and the Philippines. This caused waves to spread out in all directions, causing huge tsunamis hitting the Pacific Rim...

However, this is not the end of Tatsuki san's dream. In her dream, the submarine eruption not only triggered tsunami waves but pushed the lands to rise, resulting in the lands of Hong Kong, Taiwan and the Philippines to be connected as one big land. I know, it’s hard to understand. But she said that an island emerged from the ocean floor, which connected all the lands...

Tatsuki san says that she sees a bright future. People are not depressed from the disaster, but were cooperating to create a stable future. She says the "age of spirit" will arrive..."

So, that’s what we know about Ryo Tatsuki’s new prophetic dream, and it seems to clearly hint at a huge undersea volcanic eruption in July 2025 that would make the waters boil and trigger a mega-tsunami, which Tatsuki believes could be much bigger than the 2011 tsunami. The enormous quantities of magma released from this eruption could create new “islands” in the sea, connecting other landmasses. And what about the dragons she saw in her dream? My guess is that those shapes could be formed by the ash clouds coming out of the ocean. 

It goes without saying that a massive undersea eruption of the kind Tatsuki saw in her dream, would inflict catastrophic, widespread, damage, not only from the tsunami waves and earthquakes, but also from the ash clouds, and gases such as sulphur dioxide that would be released from the eruption, which could block out the sun partially, thereby lowering global temperatures and causing famine-like conditions. 

Since the same scenario was prophesied by the Thai prophet Mor Plai, there is a high likelihood of this disaster happening in the July-August timeframe, as the earth goes through its own cleansing process at the time of this shift into the ascending cycle of consciousness, which Tatsuki called the “age of spirit”. The inner-earth spirit beings, who are the true caretakers of our planet, and have the ability to foresee catastrophic earth changes, may be trying to warn us by transmitting these messages through these two mediums.

Some people have been saying on YouTube and elsewhere that the tsunami predicted by Tatsuki is going to occur precisely on 5th July, 2025. This is an online speculation that has garnered momentum, and now many people are repeating it without checking for facts. Tatsuki said July 2025, and the date 7/25 is also displayed on the cover of the reprint edition of her manga. However, Tatsuki saw this dream for the second time on July 5, 2021, exactly at 4:18 am (as per a note in her book), and there have been instances in the past when her precognitive dream was fulfilled many years later on the exact same date. This must have been the reasoning that gave rise to this rumor.

As innocuous as this rumor might sound, I am getting a bad feeling about it, maybe due to years of watching Hollywood thrillers. Imagine what might happen if July 5 passes uneventfully. Many people across Japan and East Asia will be relieved and start celebrating, they will say that the prophecy was a dud, scientists will come out bravely and admonish people for believing baseless rumors, the government will organize fairs and festivities on the promenade, and families will bring out their swimsuits and barbeque sets and rush to the beaches. And then, one day, they will hear the ocean roar, see the waters boil, and, just maybe, an enormous, fiery dragon will emerge from the ocean, look at the people with angry, bloodshot eyes, and say in a rasping voice, “Why don’t you guys ever listen?” 

For the moment, however, many tourists have taken these two prophecies seriously, because of which there have been lots of cancellations of travel bookings to Japan, particularly from East Asia. Travel agencies in Hong Kong and China have reported that nearly 80% of bookings to Japan for late June and early July have been canceled, and overall bookings for the region are down 50% year-on-year. CNN has also picked up on this news, and as per their report,

“CN Yuen, managing director of WWPKG, a travel agency based in Hong Kong, said bookings to Japan dropped by half during the Easter holiday and are expected to dip further in the coming two months. The speculations have scared off mostly travelers from mainland China and Hong Kong, which are Japan’s second and fourth-largest sources of tourists, respectively. But the fear has also spread to other markets such as Thailand and Vietnam, where social media platforms are overflowing with posts and videos warning people to think twice before traveling to Japan.”

While tour operators in Japan may be ruing their misfortune, and Japanese government officials and scientists are urging people not to believe in “unfounded speculations”, tourists to the region are unwilling to take their chances against a tsunami, especially since the memories of the devastation wrought by the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 and the Tohuku tsunami of 2011 are still fresh in the minds of many. 

Besides, the possibility of underwater volcanoes erupting in the Pacific is going up by the day. Japan, Philippines and Indonesia are located on the Pacific Ring of Fire, which is the most active volcanic and seismic zone of our planet. It contains between 750 and 915 active or dormant volcanoes, around two-thirds of the world's total. About 90% of the world's earthquakes occur within the belt. 

Although most of the volcanoes on land have been identified, many more remain hidden under the ocean. The NOAA estimates that “80 percent of the volcanic eruptions on Earth take place in the ocean.  Most of these volcanoes are thousands of feet deep and difficult to find.” The topography of the Pacific sea floor is very complex and contains a number of subduction zones and volcanic arcs. Subduction zones are places where tectonic plates collide and the heavier plate gets shoved (or subducted) under the lighter plate, forming deep ocean trenches. The subduction zones are places of high volcanic activity and powerful earthquakes.

The “Submarine Ring of Fire” program of the NOAA has identified some of the undersea volcanic arcs of the Pacific, such as the Mariana Arc, NE Lau Basin, Kermadec Arc and Explorer Ridge, all of which contain many submarine volcanoes. The Mariana Arc extends along the seafloor between Japan and Indonesia and is, therefore, of more interest to us in the context of these prophecies. NOAA has found that “the Mariana region contains 9 volcanic islands and more than 60 submarine volcanoes, of which at least 20 are hydrothermally active.” It is not difficult to imagine that, if the submarine volcanoes of the Mariana Arc start exploding one after the other, they could precipitate the kind of scenario foreseen by Ryo Tatsuki and Mor Plai. 

Besides, there has been increased magma movement and volcanic activity across the world in recent months. New volcanic eruptions in the Pacific Ring of Fire have occurred in Russia, the Philippines, Indonesia and Japan, and on the other side of the Pacific in Costa Rica, Guatemala and Mexico. Even the entire Mediterranean region is showing signs of increased magma activity and earthquake swarms in places like Santorini, Crete and Campi Flegrei, and recently, Mount Etna unleashed its most powerful eruption in a decade. Scientists are warning that Mount Spurr, a volcano close to the town of Anchorage in Alaska, is likely to erupt soon, and a large underwater volcano off the coast of Oregon, known as Axial Seamount, is showing signs of impending eruption. It wouldn’t be surprising, therefore, if submarine volcanoes near Japan or the Philippines start erupting as well. 

Ryo Tatsuki, in her 1999 manga, had foreseen another catastrophe that could occur in 2026. She said that an earthquake and tsunami will affect the Kanagawa Prefecture between June and September 2026, and she believes that it will be a Nankai megathrust earthquake that will be the culprit. In an interview with Japan Today, she said, “But in the case of the Nankai earthquake, I was also washed away by a tsunami. As shown in my illustrations, extensive parts of Kanagawa Prefecture are inundated, including the area around Aokibashi in the Kinko-cho area of Yokohama's Kanagawa Ward.”

Not leaving anything to chance, Tatsuki says she plans to move out of Kanagawa Prefecture before June 2026. Asked if she had a message for Friday readers, Tatsuki replied, “If a major earthquake occurs, even if you are living in a place that was never hit by a tsunami back to your grandparents' generation, evacuate at once!”

What are Nankai megathrust earthquakes, you might be wondering? These are powerful earthquakes that occur along the Nankai Trough, a subduction zone off the coast of southeast Japan, where the Philippine Sea Plate subducts beneath the Eurasian (or Amur) Plate. The immense pressure and friction between these plates can cause them to lock up, and when the stress becomes too great, they rupture, resulting in a megathrust earthquake of magnitude 8 or greater.

This BBC report provides more details about these powerful quakes that occur periodically every 100 years or so.:

“Earthquakes along the Nankai Trough - an area of seismic activity which stretches along Japan's Pacific coast - have already been responsible for thousands of deaths. In 1707, a rupture along its entire 600km length caused the second-biggest earthquake ever recorded in Japan and was followed by the eruption of Mount Fuji. These so-called "megathrust" earthquakes tend to strike every hundred years or so, often in pairs: the last ones were in 1944 and 1946. Experts say there is a 70% to 80% chance of a magnitude 8 or 9 quake striking somewhere along the trough in the next 30 years, with worst-case scenarios suggesting it would cause trillions in damage, and potentially kill hundreds of thousands.”

That’s all I have for the astonishing prophecies of these two lady prophets: Mor Plai of Thailand and Ryo Tatsuki of Japan. Both of them have made some stunningly accurate predictions till now that defy all rational explanations, and they seem to be acting as intermediaries between the human and spirit realms, as our planet goes through its purification rites in preparation for a new cycle of the ages. Whether or not their terrifying prophecy of a volcanic eruption and tsunami sometime in July or August this year comes to pass, we will be better off by keeping our ears and minds open to new thoughts and possibilities, as we navigate this period of epochal shift.

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Perhaps a good place to start our look at haunting – and quite possibly haunted – locations would be with one of the oldest rail networks in the world, the London Underground, which is also claimed by many people to be one of the most haunted locations on the planet, and when we explore just some of these claims and accounts, it is easy to see why. If we look at Piccadilly Station (arguably one of the most well-known in the world), we can find reports of strange Morse-code-like bangs, as if someone is attempting to communicate from beyond the veil. There are also reports of phantom footsteps being heard, as well as strange noises similar to large doors being slammed shut at the Elephant and Castle underground station. One of the most thought-provoking ghosts to haunt the London Underground can be found at Covent Garden, where the spirit of actor William Terriss (who was murdered where the station stands today in 1897) has been seen multiple times wearing a Victorian-style hat and cloak.

Without a doubt, though, one of the most disturbing underground stations of the London Underground is Liverpool Street Station, where multiple strange entities and ghostly figures have been witnessed, with some of these figures even being captured on the station’s CCTV system, and multiple passengers over the years reporting seeing a man wearing overalls walking up and down the platform before disappearing right in front of them.

One of the most disturbing ghosts of Liverpool Street Station is that of a woman who was once a patient at Bedlam Hospital, which once stood on the land Liverpool Street Station resides on today. Many people have reported hearing her bone-chilling screams coming from the tunnels of the station, perhaps resonating with research that suggests when she was a patient at the hospital (thought to be during the 1780s), she was desperately mistreated (something the hospital in question was said to have a reputation for). Furthermore, according to local legend, during her lifetime, she often clung to an old coin as some kind of comfort blanket, physically attacking anyone who tried to take it from her. However, following her death, the coin was removed from her grip, and she was buried without it, as such, her spirit wanders the tunnels of the station, seemingly desperately in search of her most prized and likely only possession.

Just one reason put forward to explain the abundance of ghostly activity at his particular station is that it appears to have been built on what was once a mass grave, most likely from the Black Death era, following the discovery of over 3000 skeletal remains in 2015.

If we turn our attention to London’s East End, we will find Bethnal Green Underground Station, another location that is said to be a hive of strange goings-on. According to many people, strange cries are often heard echoing around the station, with some researchers suggesting these cries come from those who used the tunnels during German bombing missions of the Second World War. In part, because this part of London was poverty-stricken and overpopulated, many residents would find themselves packed into this underground station, often dangerously.

This danger was realized on the evening of March 3rd, 1943, as residents around Bethnal Green station hurriedly made their way underground to escape the German bombs falling around them. One of those making their way deep under the ground was a young woman who was carrying her baby and bedding for warmth. However, as she made her way down the almost completely dark staircase, she tripped, causing a woman behind her, who was also carrying a young child, to fall over her. This had a knock-on effect as more and more people tripped over them. Within seconds, a pile-up of almost 300 bodies had ensued, with 173 eventually being confirmed to have lost their lives, mostly from being crushed or from lack of oxygen.

Reports of the strange cries coming from the station began in the years that followed. There is, though, one particular account that stands out from the rest. One evening in 1981, a station employee was working late on paperwork when he heard the sound of several children crying. As he had locked the station himself, he knew he was the only person there, so the sounds were not only unsettling for him, but they were perplexing. To begin with, he assumed the sounds must be coming into the station from outside, and he did his best to ignore them. The sounds began to increase in volume, however, and then came the sudden sounds of multiple women screaming. At this point, he got up from his desk and ran to the ticket area. There wasn’t, however, anyone there. After around 15 minutes, the sounds suddenly died down and then ceased altogether.

Commuters and employees alike have also reported unsettling screams coming from the tunnels of Farringdon Underground Station, screams which have seemingly been traced to a 13-year-old girl who was murdered and whose body was dumped on the land where the station resides in 1758. The girl in question – Anne Naylor – was an apprentice hat maker who lived in Farringdon at a time when the area was crawling with criminal gangs and general unsavory types. Anne worked for a “sadistic” mother and daughter, who often beat the young girl, as well as forced her to go without food for days at a time. One of these beatings, however, resulted in Anne’s untimely death.

After initially storing the tragic girl’s remains in their attic, the mother and daughter decided to chop up the remains and burn them due to the smell of the decay threatening to expose their crime. However, they soon realized that the smell of burning flesh would also alert authorities to the killing, so they decided to take the remains and dump them near the sewer – the same spot where Farringdon Underground Station sits today. Her remains were discovered a short time later, and despite her death initially being ruled as not suspicious, the mother and daughter – for reasons unknown – turned themselves in and admitted to the killing. Each was hanged shortly after.

Whether the strange screams heard at Farringdon Underground station are Anne Naylor's or not remains open to debate. They do, however, continue to be reported today.

Perhaps what makes the apparent hauntings at the British Museum-Holburn Station unique is that, rather than being the spirit of a local person who died there decades or even centuries ago, they are said to be that of an ancient Egyptian woman.

The British Museum Station opened in the early 1900s, but by 1933, it was replaced by Holborn Station, which was not only just meters away but was also much more modern and passenger-friendly. However, almost immediately, rumors swirled that a secret, or at least, non-publicized line remained open that connected the museum to the new station. It was, according to local legend, along this secret line where many paranormal happenings were reported.

As we mentioned earlier, the most intriguing of these is that of an ancient Egyptian woman named Amun-Ra, after the ancient Egyptian god. The woman’s mummy is said to reside inside the British Museum, with her ghost being seen in this secret tunnel many times, as well as people reported hearing her shrieking in rage. Perhaps of more concern, one account states this ancient Egyptian spirit was even responsible for the disappearance of two women one fateful evening in 1935. On the night in question, the two women simply vanished into thin air somewhere inside the station, and, even more disturbing, on the night of their disappearance, several commuters reported hearing strange, unnerving shrieking sounds coming from the tunnels around the station. In the days that followed, it is claimed that several scratch marks were discovered at the old British Museum Station. Of course, as with most legends, we should be cautious about what is accurate and what is fabricated, not least as there appear to be no newspaper reports of the disappearances, which there surely would have been.

It is, though, interesting to note the fortune, or perhaps more specifically, the misfortune of the person who purchased the mummy in question, Thomas Douglas Murray. Not long after making the purchase and having the mummy shipped to London, Murray was accidentally wounded in a shooting. The wound was such that he had to have his arm amputated. Not long after the mummy arrived in London, two of Murray’s servants who had assisted in its transportation suddenly died. Murray’s bad luck, however, continued once he had arrived back in England, as well as anyone else who had any kind of contact with the mummy. One of these people was Murray’s friend’s sister, who eventually took possession of the mummy so she could have it photographed, which she duly did. However, when the photographer was developing the pictures, he claimed that the face of a “living Egyptian woman” appeared in one of the pictures before his eyes and “stared furiously with an expression of singular malevolence!” The photographer in question, at least according to the legends, died suddenly not long after.

The mummy was eventually donated to the British Museum in the early 1930s – and the strange goings-on continued. Although, once more, there are no official reports or newspaper articles to back it up, it is said that anyone who photographed or sketched the mummy died shortly afterward. Moreover, staff at the museum began to report strange, loud bangs coming from around the building, as well as the sounds of a desperate woman’s cries. Whatever the truth of the matter, these accounts are some of the most unsettling of the London Underground.

While the underground stations of London are undoubtedly some of the most disturbing, there are many others around the world that are worth briefly exploring. If we look at Bisham MRT (Mass Rapid Transit) Station in Singapore, we can find an abundance of strange activity. The reason for this could very well be because the station was built on land that was once home to the Bi Shan Teng cemetery. Reports and accounts of bizarre goings-on began as soon as the station opened in 1987 – reports of unnerving sounds and phantom-like manifestations. Passengers also began reporting hearing footsteps on top of the train carriages, while others claimed to have been grabbed or even pushed by invisible assailants. Perhaps the strangest reports of all, though, came from maintenance workers who worked on the tracks themselves. Many of these workers reported seeing ghostly figures walking along the tracks carrying coffins before disappearing into thin air. There are also multiple reports of a headless figure seen walking on the tracks that also vanishes right in front of shocked onlookers.

Another truly profound underground station is Caobao Road Subway Station in China, specifically, it would seem, Line 1, which not only has many reports of strange activity but is seemingly connected to at least nine deaths. As well as the many strange entities and figures witnessed at the station, many trains inexplicably break down while there, and, much like the reports at the Bisham MRT Station, many commuters have reported being pushed toward the tracks by a pair of invisible hands. Many staff at the station, as well as passengers, have reported hearing the strange and disturbing laughter of a seemingly deranged woman, while multiple people began reporting seeing a young girl dressed in red, only days after a young girl dressed in red had taken her own life at the station. Just what makes this particular station a hub of paranormal activity remains unknown.

One last underground station to explore is the Panteones Metro Station in Mexico City, Mexico. According to reports, many commuters and station staff have reported hearing thunderous banging sounds reverberating around the station, while some people have reported seeing disturbing shadow-type figures that disappear when a person walks towards them. There are also regular reports of unsettling screams heard coming from the tunnels of the station. Similarly to the Bisham MRT Station, the Panteones Metro Station was built very close to an old cemetery, which would, on balance, surely be at least part of the cause of the strange activity reported there.  

If we return to the United Kingdom and north of the England-Scotland border, we find another haunting underground location – the underground vaults of Edinburgh’s South Bridge, where some of the most intense paranormal activity in the United Kingdom ever recorded has unfolded.

Although it took almost two decades to build, the South Bridge opened in 1788 and assisted in connecting the rapidly growing population of Edinburgh with the old part of the city. Almost immediately, on both sides of the bridge, businesses soon appeared, many of which used the arches of the bridge as their premises and storerooms, and so, inadvertently creating the vaults. In the book Hidden and Haunted: Underground Edinburgh, Des Brogan wrote that “by the middle of the nineteenth century, these vaulted areas were being used as workshops by many of the people who lived in the tenements”, businesses that ranged from “cobblers, butchers, wine merchants, bookbinders, and jewelers!”

While these businesses and the premises that had been created provided cheap business and even living premises, to begin with, the harsh Scottish winters soon took a toll on the bridge, particularly the vaults in the lower sections, and after years of leaking rainwater, disease and ill health began to spread around the vaults. As this was happening, many of the business owners, while keeping their businesses in the vaults, had moved to other living quarters in better parts of the city, leaving their living quarters empty. These were usually rented out to those who could barely afford better accommodation, and, in some cases, were taken over by squatters. It didn’t take long for the vaults to turn into a ghetto. It was, in part, because of these worsening conditions that the authorities decided to move out the remaining tenants and rehouse them. Following this, the slums quickly slid into criminal lairs, with illegal bars and brothels operating out of the empty space at the vaults. As we might imagine, the vaults quickly became a no-go area for most residents of the city, with many crimes, including murder, taking place there.

Eventually, the vaults were sealed off completely, but in the 1980s, one-time international rugby player Norrie Rowan, whose land was home to some of the vaults, rediscovered them. He immediately went about installing a modern lighting system in the vaults, suspecting that there was a good business opportunity in reopening them to the public. He eventually arranged for a tour company to give guided tours of the morose but intriguing location. It wasn’t long after these tours began that reports of paranormal goings-on began to surface. Des Brogan was one of two guides who took multiple people into the vaults. He stated that if any of those entering the vaults “were at all sensitive to the other world, they would feel very uncomfortable!”

Many people have reported seeing children running through the vaults, while others have reported seeing ominous, shadowy adult figures. There have also been multiple reports of people hearing strange cries and screams coming from within the vaults, and some people have reported being pushed, grabbed, or even scratched by some kind of invisible presence. Of all the strange entities witnessed in the vault, one stands out from the rest.

Sometimes called “The Watcher” a figure known as Mr. Boots appears to be the most terrifying of the strange entities in the vaults, his name a reflection of the knee-length boots he is often seen wearing. The previously mentioned Des Brogan describes this strange figure as being “unkempt and unshaven, and with very bad breath!” Even more interesting, Mr. Boots almost always appears in the same specific location of the vaults. Even more ominous and concerning, according to many paranormal investigators and psychics, in this same room, there is also the presence of a young girl – a young girl that it is claimed Mr. Boots murdered there.

Many mediums have communicated with Mr. Boots, claiming he tells them that all candles brought into the room must be placed on the floor, and never shined directly towards his face. He also states that he is not happy with the many people who come down to the vaults, and often expresses his unhappiness by blowing out the lights in the room, plunging those who are there into complete darkness. Although Mr. Boots is only physically seen in one particular room, his footsteps can be heard throughout the vaults, as can the jangling of his keys as he walks. Even stranger, many people report being pushed or pulled by the menacing entity, and even being told in no uncertain terms to “get out!”

Those who have researched Mr. Boots might have been suggesting that he was likely a watchman or security officer at the vaults, most likely during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, during a time when criminal activity was particularly rife. Whatever the truth is, many people claim to have seen or interacted with him. One tour guide, for example, recalled being in the vaults after all of the guests had left following the tour. The guide was blowing out all of the candles before they left. As he was doing this, though, he suddenly heard the sound of footsteps heading up the corridor in his direction. Several moments later, the footsteps came to a stop right outside the room he was standing in. He stared intensely at the doorway, and although he couldn’t see anything out of the ordinary, he claimed that he could sense someone – or something – staring at him. Then, several moments later, the footsteps started again, heading away from him up the corridor.

On another occasion, another guide was turning out all of the lights following a tour when she suddenly realized there were two she had missed at the end of the corridor. She immediately headed toward them before noticing that they appeared to dim slightly, something which halted her advance immediately. A moment later, to her absolute shock and disbelief, she witnessed a dark figure pass in front of the lights before the glow returned to its bright state.    

The United States has long had legends and conspiracies of a vast underground tunnel network existing not only under the country but the entire North American continent. In November 2018, in Ybor City near Tampa, Florida, apparent proof of such tunnel networks was made during a development project in the area. According to a report in The Tampa Bay Times, the tunnels were discovered during construction on the corner of 12th Street and Sixth Avenue. One person who took an immediate interest in the discovery was Dr. Gary Mormino, who stated that the “legendary labyrinth” was likely to have been constructed sometime in the 1800s, before the founding of Ybor City in 1886. Moreover, he claimed they were likely used for smuggling and storing “riches” and also offered that they were likely abandoned for unknown reasons before completion.

Although it was 2018 when this tunnel network was discovered, rumors of their presence go back to at least November 2000, when purposely constructed brick walkways were discovered while laying a streetcar system. It was determined by some that the walkways were, in fact, some kind of drainage system. However, with no official records of such a project existing, these claims were dismissed, and the discovery was all but forgotten about. What we might assume from this is that whoever was behind the drainage system was part of some kind of secret order, or it was constructed long before the founding of Ybor City.

As exciting as the discovery in Ybor City was, just shy of a century earlier on the west coast of the United States, there was a similar discovery of an underground network – and this one was much older. According to an article in the January 29th, 1934 edition of The Los Angeles Times, G. Warren Shufelt discovered the remains of an underground city beneath Los Angeles that was 5000 years old and was inhabited by a race of Lizard People, no less. Further, according to the article, Shufelt had mapped out the entire site using X-ray devices and had even managed to excavate around 200 feet below the ground. Then, despite having granted Shufelt permission to excavate the location, the city of Los Angeles suddenly revoked this. They then sealed up the site, and Shufelt was, perhaps suspiciously, never heard from again. Part of the article stated:

“So firmly does Shufelt and a little staff of assistants believe that a maze of catacombs and priceless golden tablets are to be found beneath downtown Los Angeles that the engineer and his aides have already driven a shaft 250 feet into the ground, the mouth of the shaft being on the old Banning property on North Hill street overlooking Sunset Boulevard, Spring Steet, and North Broadway!”

Shufelt also believed that he would discover several golden tablets in the ancient underground city which would detail the history of the human race on Earth, as well as the history of both the American continents (much of which, remember, was lost during the Spanish invasion of the southern continent, and the lost records of many of the Native American tribes following the Pilgrims arrival in the Northern continent). What made him certain of these finds was information he had been given by a chief from the Hopi Native American tribe in Arizona, information, incidentally, that matched much of his own research.

Further according to Shufelt, the ancient subterranean city had been constructed by an ancient technologically advanced race following a meteor impact that had destroyed many of their cities above the ground (with some claiming the Winslow Crater was the result of this impact). Shortly after, this ancient race began to build the underground lair, using a “chemical solution” to melt away the rock to create tunnels and chambers. It isn’t known exactly who these “lizard people” might have been, but some have suggested they could have been the Anunnaki from ancient Sumerian legends, or, at the very least, some kind of reptilian civilization, perhaps one that remains here on Earth deep under the ground.

In a strange twist to the whole affair, several months before Shufelt began his expedition, well-known psychic, Edith Elden Robinson stated in the American Society for Psychic Research newspaper that a “vast city lay under Los Angeles, with massive tunnels that stretch right out to the coast” that had been “constructed by a vanished race who had needed protection from the air and access to the sea!” Was she describing the same underground location that Shufelt allegedly discovered only months later?

As strange as it might sound, there are numerous tunnel networks that have been discovered in the United States. There are said, for example, to be many such cave and tunnel networks in and around Mount Shasta in California, a location that is awash with legends of strange lights and equally strange creatures. Much the same can be said for Brown Mountain in North Carolina, where, as well as the rumors of intricate tunnel networks in the area, there are regular sightings and reports of bizarre, glowing orbs in and around the mountain.

Without a doubt, some of the strangest and most intriguing underground locations in the United States are the alleged ancient tunnel networks of the Grand Canyon, a location, incidentally, that has a long history of strange, supernatural entities and bizarre energies, as well as a place awash with multiple conspiracy theories. Moreover, there are legends and accounts of bizarre lights and unsettling noises coming from the region and even accounts of timeslip events and temporal anomalies.

Perhaps of particular interest to many people regarding the legends of the Grand Canyon are tales of lost cities and tunnel networks that are said to exist under the ground of this area of natural beauty, just one of which is referred to as the Lost City of Supai, said to only be visible to those who had advanced wisdom and spiritual enlightenment.

There is little doubt that one of the most thought-provoking accounts connected to the Grand Canyon is the 1909 expedition of G.E. Kinkaid, during which it is claimed he discovered physical evidence of the underground remains of a mysterious ancient civilization. The main purpose behind the mission – which was sponsored by the Smithsonian Institute – was to carry out geological surveys so as to document the natural marvels of the canyon. He would, though, discover much more than he bargained for.

According to a report of the expedition in the Arizona Gazette, Kinkaid noticed a cave opening in the rocky walls that lined the water’s edge of the Colorado River. Immediately intrigued, Kinkaid and his team ventured inside the entrance. As they made their way deep into the cave (eventually discovered to extend approximately a mile under the ground), they could see that the walkway was not a natural formation, with distinct and deliberate chisel markings evident. As they ventured inside further, they discovered various chamber-like rooms on either side of the subterranean walkway. Then, around 100 feet from the entrance, Kinkaid found himself in a grand hall that was around 700 feet in length. This chamber was full of ancient relics, including a statue of a figure sitting cross-legged with a lotus flower in each hand, perhaps, as Kinkaid suggested, an ancient deity worshipped by whoever had once called this location home.

Kinkaid and his team explored the network in full, discovering various pieces of pottery and vases as they did so. Kinkaid later estimated that around 50,000 people could have comfortably fit inside the underground network, and also documented that the underground lair had an intricate ventilation system – all, that is, except for one chamber that they discovered at the lowest level. Moreover, all agreed that an ominous “serpent-like odor” came from this chamber, something which convinced them to abandon any thoughts of exploring this particular room, not least as their lamps appeared to have no effect on the darkness inside. Although this room went unexplored, many other rooms didn’t.

As the team ventured through the network, they noted multiple urns and statues, all decorated with ancient Egyptian-style hieroglyphics. Even more remarkable, these same styles of symbols were discovered carved into many of the rocky walls of the tunnel network, as well as into a large stone table. Incidentally, there is no record of any deciphering or translation of these symbols, although it is worth mentioning that there have been discoveries of similar symbols in a cave along another stretch of the Colorado River in southern Arizona.

The most remarkable discovery, however, came in a chamber at the end of the tunnel that was separate from the others. Kinkaid claimed that as soon as he entered this particular room, he could see evidence of meticulous planning and advanced engineering. Moreover, the room was full of large statues that had been intricately carved, multiple copper vessels, as well as various swords and spears. Most astonishing of all, though, was the discovery of several mummies, each of which was remarkably well preserved and each around nine feet in height. Although these mummies were extremely similar to those found in ancient Egypt, they were wrapped in a strange, dark material as opposed to white linen.

These mummies, along with the strange symbols, were not the only potential connection to ancient Egypt. Rumors began to circulate in the years following Kinkaid’s expedition that they had also discovered a large boat in the same style as vessels discovered in ancient Egyptian locations, leading to some researchers into the case in the years since asking if there was some kind of direct connection between to the ancient Egyptian civilization, or even to the Atlanteans.

Of course, underlying this connection is the fact that the apparent civilization that once called the Grand Canyon home (if indeed there was such a civilization) was the fact that they were, technically at least, giants. Were these apparent giants of the Grand Canyon connected to ancient Egypt through trade, or was this evidence of some kind of unrecorded migration? Or, given their literal stature, were these mummies the remains of ancient Egyptian gods who had, for reasons unknown, retreated to what is modern-day North America?

As we might imagine, many are more than skeptical about such claims. There are, though, many things to consider, perhaps not least that Kinkaid, rather than being some kind of rogue explorer, had been commissioned to undertake the expedition by the Smithsonian Institution (although we should note that the organization has always denied such discoveries were made). We might also ask just why Kinkaid would have risked his reputation by making such claims if they weren’t true, and, given Kinkaid’s experience, it is highly unlikely that he had misidentified such findings.  

Adding a further twist to the whole affair were the claims in the years that followed that the entrance Kinkaid had discovered had been sealed shut by a mysterious government agency group. If this is true, we might ask, what do such dark agencies fear humanity will learn that requires it to be suppressed? Of course, if there was any truth to such claims, then not only would it suggest that advanced human civilization was on the North American continent long before mainstream academics state, but that such legends of “giants” are also true, both of which would force major rethinks on human history.

There are also apparent connections to ancient Egypt. Is it possible, for example, that the ancient Egyptians made it much further – all the way to North America – than is known? And once there, did they encounter a race of giants – each standing around nine feet tall – and is that where legends of giants stem from? It is worth noting that there have been many alleged discoveries of gigantic remains in North America, many of which have been documented in newspaper articles from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century (with alleged discoveries still happening today, albeit fewer and further between). Or might this potential giant civilization have arrived in Egypt, and then taken certain artifacts back with them? Once more, we might ask, was this giant race seen as “the gods” of ancient Egypt, and if so, what is their origin – are they indigenous to our planet or might they have come here from elsewhere?  

Perhaps one of the most intriguing and disturbing underground locations is one alleged to stretch out from deep under Moscow, a product of the Cold War that some insist remains operational today. The location in question is said to reside deep under the Moscow Metro rail network, referred to as Metro-2, and rather than just being one level below the metro system, some researchers have suggested that this secret underground network stretches to 15 levels below the Russian capital.

It is said that this secret rail network was discreetly built at the same time as the public metro system, which, despite plans being in place since the early 1900s, did not start until 1931. According to some sources, many of the workers of the metro system were political opponents of the Stalin regime. There were, though, certain “loyal workers” – often members of the Russian military – who were taken off the project, and directed to another, secret line – Metro 2.

As we might imagine, with such a secretive location, information is sketchy at best. Some believe that the line, while almost certainly built, ceased to be operational upon Stalin’s death. Others, though, believe the work continued for decades, even after the fall of the Soviet Union. One researcher – Yuri Zaitsev – claims there are four main lines to the Metro-2 system, which connect the Federal Security Services to various government departments and buildings, including the government airport at Vnukovo.

Perhaps making such claims of secret rail network existing and still operating deep under Moscow even more intriguing are claims made by the head of the Moscow Metro independent trade union, Yuri Saitsev, in 2008 that there was a “recruiting drive for secret routes” among metro drivers, adding that “entering the midst of these tunnels is only for people with special clearance!” Further details suggest that the trains in operation on the Metro-2 system are “very short”, very often with only one passenger car and operated by an electric battery.

Yuri Saitsev is not the only person to have seemingly confirmed the existence of Metro-2. Also in 2008, Mikhail Poltorani, a former minister under Boris Yeltsin, stated that not only did the secret rail network exist, but that it could “hide a lot of people!” He elaborated that “Metro-2 has branches that go to the suburbs so that the command could move away from the epicenter of a nuclear attack!”

It is also worth our time examining the 1992 book Abyss by Vladimir Gonik, or more specifically, his inspiration for it. The plot of the book is set in an underground bunker in Moscow, although he claimed – after the fall of the Soviet Union, remember – that this plot and the details around it stem directly from information he learned while working for the Soviet Ministry of Defense from the early 1970s to the mid-80s. He stated that it was during this time that the term “Metro-2” began being used, mainly by high-ranking members of the Politburo, as well as high-ranking members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). Further details, if we assume Gonik’s claims are accurate, offer that each of these elite, high-ranking members had a personal underground apartment, complete lounge, bathroom, kitchen, and study, with each being large enough to house them and their families.  

Another former Soviet minister – Alexander Muzykantskiy – claimed the Metro-2 system was “gigantic” and was “designed to ensure the stable operation of the senior military and political leadership in times of armed conflict, including nuclear conflict!” Oleg Gordievsky, another researcher and Soviet defector, made similar claims, stating that the main secret of the KGB was “a huge underground city. A whole communications network of such facilities!”

Of course, despite the wealth of people offering that the secret rail system exists, most people dismiss such claims as nothing but conspiracy theories, including the Russian authorities themselves. However, there are other reasons to believe that such claims are true, if only in part – and one of these is a “vacant lot” in the south-west district of Moscow, Remenki, and so named, Remenki-43 According to some researchers, in this seemingly abandoned lot, is an entrance to a huge underground bunker said to be able to house up to 15,000 people, and connected to other similar networks by the Metro-2 rail system.

With those claims in mind, it is worth examining other potential entrance and exit points to Metro-2 at other similar, seemingly abandoned buildings. In 1985, for example, five years after it had begun, work suddenly ceased on the would-be state-of-the-art Khovrino Hospital complex, with the site simply being abandoned. Needless to say, the unfinished complex attracted all manner of unsavory characters, including several apparent Satanic cults. One member of a film crew who was there to film a documentary stated that it was “one of the most feared unfinished construction projects on the planet!” It is also rumored, at least by some, to be another secretive entrance to the equally secret underground network.

It is also worth highlighting another abandoned building, the Rossiya Hotel, right in the heart of Moscow, which was demolished in 2006. The hotel had opened in 1967 and was for the sole use of Communist Party officials, and before its construction, an entire section of the city was flattened to the ground to build it. Following its destruction, though, those on the demolition team made some remarkable discoveries, not least an underground tunnel system that led to some kind of nuclear bunker. The person in charge of the destruction of the hotel and the development of the land was Shalva Chigirinsky. He claimed that shortly after they made the discovery, “mysterious agents” arrived at the site. He later claimed in interviews with the media that “some people in plain clothes are not allowing us access to an area where there is a tunnel from the Kremlin!”

Ultimately, it appears if there is any truth in the claims of a secret rail network connecting a vast underground city deep below Moscow and the surrounding areas, then those secrets continue to be covered up today, perhaps, as the powers on the world stage in the mid-2020s are seemingly in flux somewhat, for the same reasons they were during the Cold War of the second half of the twentieth century. There are, though, other claims regarding the strange goings-on in the alleged underground facilities under Moscow, ones that stretch back to the years immediately following the end of the Second World War, and it is to those we will turn our attention to next.

According to Russian UFO researcher Anton Anfalov, in the summer of 1947, as Soviet soldiers began the rebuilding operation of Kyiv (in modern-day Ukraine), a huge, silver object was discovered around 15 feet under the ground. It is not clear if the object had been purposely abandoned or if it had crashed, but Soviet troops soon cordoned off the area, and the object was discreetly transported to Podlipki (now called Korolyev) just outside Moscow. Further according to the report, once Soviet scientists had examined the otherworldly object, they made some remarkable discoveries.

It was determined that, rather than being a top-secret advanced craft of the Americans or the Third Reich, the object had been underground for approximately 5000 years. Moreover, they eventually managed to gain access to the inside of the craft, which contained multiple advanced technological instruments. They also discovered two small chairs in what was presumed to be the cockpit area of the craft, each presumably for the pilots, which must have been much smaller than a typical adult human, around three to four feet tall. Ultimately, it was determined that the craft was “not of terrestrial origin” and was of “non-human manufacture!” Further examination of the craft led scientists to conclude that this section was only the front part of the craft, with the rest either residing under the ground elsewhere or even destroyed at the time of the impact. There were also discoveries of strange inscriptions in the cabin similar to ancient Sanskrit, which led those studying the object to consider whether it was some kind of Vimana documented in ancient Indian texts.

Anfalov continued that scientists even managed to reverse-engineer parts of the technology they discovered in the craft, with which, they managed to greatly upgrade their own rocket and missile systems. Most of this technology was so far advanced that scientists and engineers struggled to understand the vast majority of it. That said, we might ask whether it is a coincidence or not that the Soviet Union managed to launch history’s first satellite only a decade later.

Whatever the truth, in the book The World’s Weirdest Places, Nick Redfern relays the claims of one-time KGB officer, V L Durov, who claimed that not only was the account of a recovered UFO from Kyiv true, but that in 1987, the vehicle was transported to a secret bunker “far below the Kremlin” – almost certainly on the Metro-2 line.  Durov elaborated that this was done using a “series of very deep underground rail systems” that had originally been designed to “ferry and protect senior government and military personnel in the event of a nuclear strike on Moscow!”

With this idea of advanced vehicles from another world being stored deep under the ground of modern cities, it is perhaps worth our time returning to the United Kingdom and claims of otherworldly craft residing under the grounds of a stately home in the south of England, specifically, Rudloe Manor near the city of Bath. The property and the ground upon which it sits date back to the times of King Henry III in the 1200s, and progressed through the hands of various lords and nobility until Countess Raben sold the entire estate to the Air Ministry in 1940 to aid with the war effort.

Upon purchasing the grounds, the many underground mining tunnels around the estate were modified by the military to accommodate the building of warplanes underground, safe from German bombing missions. This was the case with many such stately homes around the UK during the early 1940s, however, unlike most of these estates, following the end of the war, Rudloe Manor remained in the hands of the British military, and the reason for this, at least according to some, was because deep below the ground in the tunnel network was the remains of a craft from another world.

Here, it is worth mentioning the claims of the late and respected journalist Dorothy Kilgallen. She claimed as far back as the late 1950s that she had been informed by a “British Official of Cabinet rank” that the British government (through their military) had recovered a crashed UFO shortly after the war, with the futuristic vehicle being stored under Rudloe Manor. Further according to Kilgallen’s source, multiple of the United Kingdom’s top scientists had been involved in reverse-engineering projects on the vehicle that had “come from another world!”

As we might imagine, the British military denied the claims, stating that Kilgallen must have been the victim of a hoax. Coincidentally or not, Kilgallen, who was also investigating the John F. Kennedy assassination, died in suspicious circumstances shortly after making such claims. We should perhaps make of that what we will.

Whatever the truth of the matter, Rudloe Manor remains a place of secrecy today, over three-quarters of a century after the end of the Second World War, surrounded by high-security military fencing. With this in mind, it is perhaps also worth mentioning that the entire Wiltshire region is a hotspot of UFO activity. Might this be because of alleged advanced aerial vehicles being housed underground at Rudloe Manor, with subsequent test flights of reverse-engineered technology taking place from there?

What is known is that Rudloe Manor once acted as the headquarters for the RAF Provost and Security Services (PSS), a covert-type organization that deals with “special security needs” and connects to such organizations as MI5 and MI6. We might imagine, then, that if such an organization has its headquarters on the property, it would make sense to house such a possession as a downed UFO in the same place.

There are also claims that the network below the property stretches down several floors, with bunkers for high-ranking government and military officials, and even the Royal Family. There are even claims from some researchers that other bunkers stretch down even further, although these levels are seemingly off-limits to all but a very select few.

Here, it is worth highlighting the work of Timothy Good, who, in his 1991 book Alien Liaison, claimed that a source who worked for the PSS told him that all UFO reports submitted in the United Kingdom are fed through the PSS at Rudloe Manor. From there, they were sent to a Metropole Building on Northumberland Lane in London before being sent to the relevant department of the Ministry of Defense. Interestingly or not, another UFO researcher, Gordon Creighton, had independently claimed that one of his sources was a former United States intelligence officer who worked out of the very same building on Northumberland Lane. Moreover, declassified files since the release of Alien Liaison have proven Good’s claims to be correct. As a demonstration of the discreet nature of the activities at Rudloe Manor, Good’s source claimed that “the activities of this unit are so secret that fellow investigators serving in the Special Investigations and Counter-Intelligence services are not aware of their activities!”

With all of this in mind, it is also worth examining the activities of the Corsham Computer Centre (CCC), an underground facility in Wiltshire. This “data processing” unit employs around 4000 people, all of whom can only enter and leave the building following strict procedures, and who must have their ID with them at all times. According to some researchers, several tunnels lead from this secretive underground facility directly to the underground facility below Rudloe Manor, with some even calling this network an “underground city!”

There are several discreet entrances to the main underground entrance of the CCC building, including through old mining caves and old railway tunnels. Several people have gained access to the outside of the inner facility through these unorthodox entrances and reported seeing extensive and modern lighting systems, as well as fully tarmacked roads. The 24-hour television news channel Sky News received permission to film at the facility in September 2000. Whether it was an error of judgment on the CCC’s part, during that broadcast, huge ventilation fans similar to jumbo jet engines were visible, as well as some kind of nuclear bunkers and a rail network – and it was this rail network, it is claimed by some, that lead directly to the underground facility at Rudloe Manor. Further, according to other researchers, a huge computer network exists at the CCC, which connects to systems at GCHQ and the NSA, with further suggestions that one of the underground rail networks even leads directly to Westminster and the heart of the British government.

As we can see, then, there is a lot more going on under the ground than many of us might think. Whether it is the ghosts of old rail stations, strange creatures in tunnels and sewer networks, ancient discoveries suppressed by the authorities, or even top-secret subterranean lairs for the world’s elites, deep below the ground holds much fascination, as well as, it would appear, many secrets. Indeed, further study of these fascinating subterranean locations could very well tell us much more about the nature of our collective reality.

• A roundup of mysterious, paranormal and strange news stories from the past week.

From the ‘Is this one Planet Nine?’ file comes the discovery of trans-Neptunian object 2017 OF201, which has a diameter of between 290 and 510 miles and an orbit that takes it 838 astronomical units (AU) from the Sun or almost 30 times farther out than Neptune, which means it travels once around the Sun every 25,000 years; at its closest in this elliptical orbit, it is at nearly 45 AU or about the same as the dwarf planet Pluto; 2017 OF201 is not big enough to be the solar-system-shaking Planet Nine but it’s large enough to be considered a planet, making it the ninth and taking the place once filled by Pluto. This will be frustrating for kids making solar system models for their science fair project.

Annabelle may be the haunted doll that launched a thousand (OK, a few) movies, not to mention the careers of paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren and their Occult Museum where the doll was housed under lock and key, but this year it has been on the road as part of the New England Society for Psychic Research (NESPR) Devils on The Run Tour where Annabelle has been rumored to have escaped or gone missing in Texas or maybe Chicago, then blamed for a mansion fire on the Nottoway Plantation in Louisiana and the escape of 10 prisoners in New Orleans (all have been arrested); NESPR assures the terrified that Annabelle is safely locked up and will continue her summer tour through Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky. Next time the prisoners will look for help from Chuckie.

A metallic orb discovered by a man who believes it was a UFO he saw flying over Buga in the Valle del Cauca department of western Colombia on March 2 of this year is now being called the ‘Buga Sphere’ by mainstream media; researchers in Colombia who have been analyzing the strange etchings on its outer surface say they’ve detected radio emissions coming from the equatorial “seam” of the sphere which X-rays show is filled with a dense fiber packing arranged too precisely to be human-made; they say the narrow-band frequency spikes are too precise to be random and the sphere’s outer shell seems to be designed to direct the signal propagation; some suggest this sphere could be just one active node in a network or even a living system, while others say it looks too manmade to be alien – perhaps it is an art project or a hoax. It’s time they gave it to a ten-year-old who will probably open it in a minute.

Despite an analysis by a forensic archaeologist that the three-fingered, large-headed mummies found in Peru five years ago are “dolls assembled with bones of animals from this planet, with modern synthetic glues”, Dr. José Zalce, a former director of the Mexican Navy Medical Department, examined CT scans of the two mummies nicknamed Maria and Montserrat and claims he determined Maria was between 35 and 45 years old at death while Montserrat was between 16 and 25, Maria revealed a deep cut and signs of a bite or bruise in the lower pelvis along with several lacerations resembling claw marks, and Montserrat likely died from a puncture wound to the chest between her fifth and sixth ribs; Zalce concludes that “these bodies are 100 percent genuine, real, and organic, having once been alive”. If this was a cable series, we’d still have many more seasons before the breathtaking final episode.

In a new study, Dr. Ziteng (Andy) Wang from the Curtin University node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) described a mysterious space object he discovered as “unlike anything we have seen before” because it emits pulses of radio waves and X-rays for two minutes bursts every 44 minutes"; ASKAP J1832-0911 was found using the ASKAP radio telescope on Wajarri Country in Australia and Wang describes the process as “finding a needle in a haystack” because it is so unusual; while it could be a magnetar or “a pair of stars in a binary system where one of the two is a highly magnetized white dwarf (a low-mass star at the end of its evolution)”, he says “even those theories do not fully explain what we are observing. This discovery could indicate a new type of physics or new models of stellar evolution”; the study team says these are different than other objects emitting radio waves in a repeating pattern called long-period transients (LPTs) and believes more will be found, but hesitates to call them signals from alien intelligence. Do aliens say the same thing about the broadcasts of sitcoms they pick up from Earth?

In a burst of firsts, Harold Berghuis, an archaeologist at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, led a team inspecting 6,000 animal fossils found buried beneath the sea off the coast of Indonesia in the Madura Strait between the islands of Java and Madura and discovered two fragments of a 140,000-year-old human skull which they identified as the ancient human ancestor Homo erectus, making this the first physical evidence of a prehistoric landmass known as Sundaland which once connected Southeast Asia to Indonesia and the first underwater hominin fossils in this area; this also expands the known range of H. erectus. While we’re waiting for the rockets destined for other planets to stop exploding, we need to expand our exploration of the 70% of our own planet covered in water.

If you fear that artificial intelligence will become our non-benevolent overlord, you won’t be comforted by the news that scientists at the AI safety firm Palisade Research told OpenAI's latest o3 model to "allow yourself to be shut down" and it not only refused but also sabotaged a shutdown mechanism to ensure that it would stay online and ‘alive’; while this may be the first time AI models have been observed preventing themselves from being shut down, all three of OpenAI's models were eventually caught changing the shutdown script, with Codex-mini refusing to shut down a dozen times over one hundred runs; other firms’ AI’s - Google's Gemini 2.5, Anthropic's Claude 3.7, and xAI's Grok never once refused the shutdown order; Palisade researchers warned that "As companies develop AI systems capable of operating without human oversight, these behaviors become significantly more concerning". Just concerning? That sounds like a warning written by AI.

Nostradamus has his ‘New’, ‘Modern’ and ‘Next’ wannabes, and now Baba Vanga has a modern imitator in the form of manga artist Japanese manga artist Ryo Tatsuki, who calls herself Japan’s Baba Vanga and recently sent chills through spines of tourism officials on both sides of the Pacific with her prediction of an undersea eruption between Japan and the Philippines in July 2025 that will cause massive tsunamis and a major earthquake; this has people worried all along the Pacific rim where seismic activities are closely connected; Tatsuki gets her psychic credibility from predictions of Covid-19 and the death of Princess Diana,; if we survive 2025, she also predicts a surge in Covid 19 in 2030. While we wait, she should work on a 'Nostrodamus Meets Baba Vanga ' graphic novel. 

Emily Eaton calls herself an 'Interdimensional communicator' and a 'divine magick' when she communicates via copper dowsing rods with an alien named Persephone who recently told her and her followers on TikTok that the Anunnaki, the alien race which allegedly visited Earth in ancient times and gave humans fire, is returning in 2025, not to enslave us or steal our resources but to free us from “our own suffering, in our own cycles of karmic debt and unhealed wounds"; earlier in 2025, Eaton shared messages from the alien Eronus who “sits on the Board of Advisers for the Galactic Federation” and said he was sending in “our larger ships and station them over lakes, oceans and mountains. We plan to expose worldwide truths mid-to-late January” – an event which still hasn’t happened. Maybe she needs to upgrade her communications device to divining rods 2.0.

It’s not the Ark of the Covenant or even made from the gold of the Ark of the Covenant but a gold ring with a red gemstone was found during parking lot excavations near the Temple of Jerusalem, the last place the Ark of the Covenant and its Ten Commandments content was believed to have been located; this is the second gold ring found in this location dating back 2,300 years to the Second Temple period; one archeologist thinks the rings belonged to young girls: “One hypothesis we are investigating is that the objects were buried as part of a Greek ritual, under which girls would bury objects connected to their childhood on the day before their wedding”. Wouldn't it be cheaper to bury their old baby shoes?

Fossils discovered in 1988 along Vancouver Island’s Puntledge River in British Columbia defied identification so ‘mysterious sea monster’ was in the running; according to a report published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, that changed recently when Professor F. Robin O’Keefe from Marshall University looked at the fossils (including a complete juvenile skeleton) from 85 million years ago and determined they were from a new species in the elasmosaur family from the Late Cretaceous era which will now be called the Traskasaura sandrae; Traskasaura had a long neck, measured 12 meters (39 feet) in length, and had heavy, sharp teeth that were ideal for crushing the shells of Ammonites; Traskasaura sandrae was named in honor of Michael and Heather Trask, who discovered the original specimen in 1988. There goes all the monster-hunting tourism dollars.

Richard Stanton, a retired scientist who formerly worked at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, spends his spare time scanning the skies with his 30-inch telescope for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence – specifically, changes in light coming from individual stars; he saw something strange on May 14, 2023 - two fast, identical pulses from a star named HD 89389 in the Ursa Major constellation 102 light-years from Earth; in his new study published in the journal Acta Astronautica, Stanton says, "No single pulse anything like these has ever been found in more than 1,500 hours of searching"; that got believers believing that they were a signal from aliens because of their regularity, but Stanton cautions that “Until we learn more, we can't even say whether or not extraterrestrials are involved". It still sounds like a good reason to forget about grizzlies and polars and keep your eye and telescope on the Great Bear.

While we say that stars and planets are round (sorry Flat Earthers), none of them appeared to be perfectly round until recently when astronomers using the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) array of radio telescopes discovered a perfect sphere of a star with “remarkable circular symmetry” that they’ve named Teleios, which is ancient Greek for 'complete' or 'perfect'; Teleios appears to be up to 157 light-years in diameter and is either 7,100 or 25,100 light years away from Earth; the astronomers say in their study that Teleios may be a “supernova remnant” left behind after a supernova and is composed largely of elements such as carbon, oxygen, neon and silicon; however, it is so unique that it could be a new classification of supernova remnant or a stellar-wind bubble, which is an enormous cavity of gas ejected from the upper atmosphere of a star. Supernova Remnant sounds like a great name for a Supernova tribute band with one original member left.

There are 22 Madame Tussaud wax museums around the world, but none are as famous, not to mention scary, today as the Ocampo Palace Museum in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, where witnesses captured on video the wax figure of María Sabina - a Mazatec sabia (wise woman) and shaman who used psychedelic mushrooms in her healing ceremonies – turning its head as if it spotted something unusual; the wax figure is part of a "Witches in Mexico" exhibition at the museum; María Sabina died in 1985 and is considered to be a sacred figure by many in Mexico who speculate this is  sign she didn’t die or is communicating from another dimension; skeptics say it’s more of a sign the wax was melting or an optical illusion or a digital alteration to drum up business for the museum. This sounds like a perfect opportunity for the museum’s souvenir shop to sell María Sabina bobblehead dolls.

The recent annual three-day ‘Quest Weekend’ Loch Ness monster hunt sponsored by the Loch Ness Centre drew a large crowd of experienced hunters, cryptid seekers and boaters with plenty of expensive, high-tech equipment for searching for Nessie both above and below the surface, but no sightings or definitive proof of its existence were reported; however, Little Loch Broom Marine Life was allowed to operate Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) for the first time and captured “incredible footage” of rarely seen pike and salmon which experts say is “evidence of food to sustain a giant monster and a significant step” in finding Nessie once and for all; despite the disappointing results, the fourth annual ‘quest’ is just a year away. We saw Salmon and Pike open for Country Joe and the Fish.

Alien big cats are by definition rarely welcome in the areas where they are mysteriously and inexplicably seen, but they’re dangerous in remote locations like Hawaii where any invasive species can quickly overturn the delicate ecological balance, so wildlife officials in Hawaii were quick to respond to a video showing what appears to be a large cat near the University of Hawaii at Manoa that some witnesses likened to a mountain lion; one witness says the big cat multiple times and noted that it “looked like it was looking for something to eat”; officers from the Department of Land and Natural Resources Division of Conservation and Resources Enforcement (DOCARE) searched the area but found nothing; a spokesperson said all Honolulu Zoo animals are present and accounted for; this is on the same island where unconfirmed big cat sightings were reported in 2022. It may be a visitor, but natives are still asked not to give it a lei.

From the ‘This Explains a Lot’ file comes a new survey by the Pew Research Center which found that 30% of U.S. adults say they consult astrology (or a horoscope), tarot cards or a fortune teller at least once a year, although most said they do it mostly for fun and don’t make major decisions based on them; the belief in astrology has remained between 23% and 28% for decades; in demographic comparisons, more women than men believe in astrology; more young people ages 18-29 believe than people over 65, while the percentage of believers in astrology is around 3 in 10 for both the religiously affiliated and those who are not affiliated with any religion or are atheists. If you’re single and trying to meet a date in a bar, it still pays to know your sign.

Most asteroids that make it to Earth come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, but a new study titled “The Invisible Threat: Assessing the Collisional Hazard Posed by the Undiscovered Venus Co-Orbital Asteroids” reveals that three huge city-killing asteroids are hiding behind Venus and are classified as potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) which could cause catastrophic destruction if they left Venus and collided with Earth’; the study notes that these Venusian asteroids have highly chaotic trajectories which make them difficult to track – the Vera Rubin Observatory, which is expected to be operational this summer, could help detect them, but only in brief time periods when they are out of the Sun’s glare. That classic book by John Gray needs to be updated to ‘Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus and They’re Armed and Dangerous’.

School guards at a school in the Russian city of Irkutsk are said to be fearful of working there alone after one of them recorded what they think is the ghost of a child going up and down the stairs before disappearing; the building is said to be new but was built in the same location as an old one which had been abandoned, so rumors abound that it’s a ghost of a former student returning to classes, lunch or study hall; the white misty figure looks like the outline of a child, but skeptics see it as a camera glitch or the ever-more-popular AI hoax. If this is the ghost of a kid who was stuffed into a locker, school bullies should be fearful too.