Ancient mysteries & UAPs, investigated with real evidence, not folklore. THE ELF brings the rigor. THE MONKEY brings the nerve to ask what if.
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Janet Hodgson admitted faking "about two percent" of the Enfield poltergeist.
The rest includes a police officer's account, 180 hours of tape, and a voice describing a death in that house that a TV crew later traced to a real man.
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ALT A conceptual dark-academia photograph showing a young Janet Hodgson in a dimly lit archive room, seated before a towering wall of thousands of stacked cassette tapes, reel-to-reel reels, and police case files labeled 180 HR TAPE. High contrast, cinematic noir lighting with dramatic shadows.
1891: a patent for a "toy or game" that spelled out answers by itself.
2012: a lab blindfolded the players. When they thought they were guessing, the pointer was right 65% of the time.
The Ouija board's real secret:
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ALT A Masterpiece-grade cinematic photograph in a Victorian library. Four young adults in dark, academic attire gather around a candle-lit Ouija board. Two are blindfolded, one on the left in a trench coat and one on the right in a three-piece suit. All four touch a planchette moving over a board that spells 'IDEOMOTOR'. The other participants watch with a silent, shared gaze, confirming the psychological result. Rain streak-ed window visible in background.
July 8, 1913. A Ouija board in St. Louis spells out: “Many moons ago I lived. Again I come. Patience Worth my name.”
For 24 years she dictated novels critics called genius.
No record of Patience Worth has ever been found. The books are still here.
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In 1891 the US Patent Office approved the Ouija board as a “toy or game.” The patent explains how it’s built. It never explains how it works. A blindfold does. monkeyandelf.com/ouija-board…
April 1977, Dover, Massachusetts. Four teenagers, three sightings, one description. A watermelon head, no nose, no mouth, glowing eyes, long fingers curled over a stone wall. One of them swore on a stack of Bibles. Nobody has reported one since. monkeyandelf.com/dover-demon…
In 1759, Emanuel Swedenborg told a dinner party in Gothenburg that Stockholm was on fire, 300 miles away. Hours later he said it had stopped three doors from his house. The news arrived days after. Immanuel Kant investigated. monkeyandelf.com/swedenborg-…
The Society for Psychical Research was built to catch fraud. It caught the Creery sisters signalling in code. It caught Palladino.
In 1978, one of its own members found fraud in the numbers of a former president.
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The Enfield girls were caught faking. Janet later put it at about two percent. The investigators had 180+ hours of tape on the rest.
That number doesn't prove the other 98 percent was real. It doesn't prove it wasn't, either.
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In 1909, a clairvoyant said he saw a destiny radiating from a sickly, "dim-witted" 14-year-old boy.
Within two decades, that boy was addressing thousands as the World Teacher.
In 1929, he dissolved the whole thing and called it a mistake.
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Nov 2, 2000: an anonymous poster says he's a soldier from 2036, sent back to steal a computer with a capability nobody outside IBM knew about.
He was right about the computer.
He also said 3 billion people would die by 2015.
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She was caught cheating across 3 countries for 20+ years.
In 1908, 3 expert fraud-detectors spent 11 nights with her and came away convinced.
2 years later, Harvard hid a man under her table. He watched her do it with her foot.
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1981: Nature's editor calls a new book "the best candidate for burning there has been for many years." Its author was a Cambridge biochemist with a Royal Society fellowship, not a crank. The real objection: no result could ever disprove his theory. monkeyandelf.com/rupert-shel…
The CIA filed a declassified 24-point rebuttal to James Randi's exposé of Uri Geller. It doesn't prove Geller was psychic. The document itself admits his most famous tricks were never demonstrated under real controls. monkeyandelf.com/the-cia-fil…
We started a subreddit. r/MonkeyandElf.
Same investigations, but built for actual discussion, not just a feed.
The Elf brings the sourcing. The Monkey brings the argument. You bring the disagreement.
First posts are up now.
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The FBI ran a 15-year covert program to disrupt political groups, no charter, no oversight.
It sent MLK a letter urging him to kill himself.
It supplied the floor plan for the raid that killed Fred Hampton.
Oversight didn't stop it. A burglary exposed it.
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Nov 15, 1966: two couples report a 7-foot winged creature with glowing red eyes near Point Pleasant, WV.
Dec 15, 1967: the Silver Bridge collapses. 46 dead.
The NTSB knows exactly why the bridge fell. It has nothing to do with Mothman. monkeyandelf.com/mothman-sig…
Everyone quotes ‘50.2% chance we’re in a simulation,’ but the paper doesn’t say that. The probability stays under 50%, approaching it only as simulations approach infinity. Precision matters. Here’s what Bostrom and Kipping actually argued. monkeyandelf.com/the-gnostic…
You are a whirlpool.
From snowflakes to civilization, reality is powered by entropy. A stunning look at the physics of emergence. 🌀
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