The Mysterious World of the Homunculi
Humans like to play God. We tinker with nature, mold it, manipulate it, and abuse it. We like to think that we have power over the natural world and that we can use it to our own ends, and one pursuit...
View ArticleChinese Alchemists Successfully Turn Copper into a Form of Gold
Turning common metals like copper into gold — it’s been the quest of alchemists for as long as there was alchemy. A group of scientists in China claim they have finally attained this goal … although...
View Article“A Stranger Attired All In Black”
The late Brad Steiger had a specific interest in the issue of alchemy. He wrote the following: “Helvetius, the grandfather of the celebrated philosopher of the same name, was an alchemist who labored...
View ArticleA Paranormal Connection to Coins: Strange Tales!
For very weird and definitely not clearly understood reasons, both the Men in Black and the Women in Black are often tied to coins. They even seem to have a strange obsession with coins. Yeah, I know...
View ArticleMind Games and a Menacing Visitor
Today, it’s time to take a leap into the past and take a look at a strange affair that went down on the night of Saturday, September 11, 1976. That was the decidedly ill-fated evening upon which the...
View ArticleA Sinister New Side to the Black Eyed Children
In December of last year I wrote an article here at Mysterious Universe titled “Black Eyed Children, Occultists & Demonologists.” In that same article I said the following: “It’s intriguing to note...
View ArticleFrom the Realm of Alchemy to the World of the Men in Black
While commenting on the Men in Black mystery, John Keel said that Albert Bender – the guy who began the MIB controversy in the early 1950s – “explored” the realm of Alchemy, as well as the mystery of...
View Article24.16 – MU Podcast – Saint Germain’s Warning
Who was the enigma of a man known as Count Saint Germain? Reaching the highest levels of the aristocracy throughout Europe this mysterious character seemed to be charting a course in fate and...
View ArticleThe Weird Tale of the Birdman of Stirling Castle
History is populated by mad scientists and inventors. They have driven all manner of bizarre tales and legends, often with the truth buried in the mists of time. There are countless bizarre figures...
View ArticleNewton’s Alchemy Recipe for Philosopher’s Stone Rediscovered
Are you ready for some immortality? A manuscript containing Isaac Newton’s alchemy formula for the philosopher’s stone – the legendary ‘elixir of life’, metal transmuter and key to immortality – has...
View ArticleChemists Find “Alchemical Secret” Of Turning Silver To Gold
The search for gold has had a powerful hold on the human psyche throughout the entirety of human history. Lust for the shiny, malleable metal has driven mankind to extreme lengths, sometimes including...
View ArticleCryptic Manuscripts May Hold Key to Finding Missing Student
Internet sleuths are hammering away at their Mountain-Dew-soaked keyboards trying to piece together the strange clues left behind in a mysterious missing person case out of Rio Branco, Brazil. The...
View ArticleStrange New Details in Case of Missing Brazilian Student
A young Brazilian man named Bruno Borges made headlines last month when he mysteriously vanished from his room without a trace. While missing persons cases happen every day (particularly in Brazil),...
View Article18.13 – MU Podcast
Radionic blasts and auto-taxidermy devices get us warmed up before we launch into the Lost City of the Monkey God and the return of the Mayans. We then discover ‘The Nine’ that guide science and...
View ArticleClose Encounters of the Alchemical Kind
“There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.” ˜Mademoiselle Rose Bertin, French milliner and dressmaker to Marie Antoinette UFOlogy is a senile discipline. By this I’m not referring to its...
View ArticleMysterious Bacteria Eats Metal and Poops Out Gold Nuggets
If your last get-rick-quick plan (stuffing envelopes, mystery shopper, house flipping, Bitcoin) didn’t pan out, here’s another one to consider that may sound like the old goose-that-lays-golden-eggs...
View ArticleSecrets of Alchemists’ 600-Year-Old Textbook Hidden in Strange Stains and Grime
The half-magic, half-science practice of Alchemy is still shrouded in mystery. Far from merely an obsessive quest to transmute lead in gold, alchemy was an old and complex school of study that laid...
View ArticleModern Day Alchemists Turn Water into Shiny Golden Metal
Turning anything other than gold into the precious ‘noble’ metal has been one of the dreams of alchemists — along with creating an elixir for immortality — since alchemy began some 4,000 years ago...
View ArticleExamining the Secret Ancient Order of the Men in Black
Making mention of the Men in Black to most people will likely provoke imagery of Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, who made the MIB famous in the hugely successful movie-trilogy, Men in Black, Men in...
View ArticleThe Odd Story of the Last Alchemist of England
Going back into ancient times, throughout such far-flung regions as China, India, the Muslim world, and Europe, there was long the belief that common, or base metals such as lead could be transmuted...
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