Earth Energy
Have you ever heard the notion that our planet might be humming with a hidden energy all its own? There are folks out there who swear the Earth has a secret stash of power, showing up as magnetic fields or electric currents zipping beneath our feet. They believe that this invisible force has the ability...
Earth Lights
Hornet Spooklight, in the '50s. Credit: Orrick Sparlin, Miami, OK. Source. Fair use. People have discovered strange, luminous sights in the most remote regions of nature for as long as they have roamed the earth. Think of those flickering will-o’-the-wisps—little flames dancing over marshes and through forests—or ball lightning, where the sky’s pressure cooks up...
Easter Island
Moai statues, Easter Island Easter Island, known to its inhabitants as Rapa Nui, sits isolated in the vast South Pacific, some 2,300 miles off Peru’s western shore. Born from a volcanic eruption on the ocean floor, it’s a speck of land—just 45 square miles—adrift amid endless waves, far from its Polynesian cousins. Three volcanic craters,...
El Dorado
When the Conquistadors were ravaging and looting the ancient cultures of the Aztecs and Incas, native tribesmen told them about an amazing rumour. They said that there was a race, deep in the jungle, whose king was covered with gold dust and who swam in a golden lake. It was the story of "El Dorado",...