It’s a weird research roundup on this Edge of Wonder with Rob Counts!
Were intergalactic spacecraft developed by NASA? Their own documents imply they were interested in UFOs. Do dwarf-like creatures haunt islanders in Papua New Guinea? A local shared disturbing information.
Dive into all the strange, funny, and out-of-this-world research that blew everyone’s minds over the course of the week. Here’s more on The Edge of Wonder.
Carleton Gajdusek won a Nobel Prize in 1976 for his groundbreaking research on the kuru virus in Papua New Guinea. He found the virus seemingly was spread by cannibalism as those who became infected had dined on the brains of their dead relatives.
But as the documentary film The Genius and The Boys confirms, Gajdusek wasn’t simply intrigued by the maladies of Stone Age peoples. He also was a hardened perodphile who adopted — and molested — scores of underage boys from Micronesia and other remote lands. Here’s more from Jamie Dlux.
Harvard professor Avi Loeb may have his hands on fragments of alien technology from a meteor that landed in the waters of Papua New Guinea in 2014. He previously conducted a study on the origins of the interstellar object Oumuamua, alluding to the fact that evidence indicates it could be a probe sent here on a “reconnaissance mission.” Now, Loeb has been accused of STEALING the fragments, but is this a distraction from his claims being true?
In this episode, Ben Chasteen and Rob Counts take a deep dive into history and share UFO or “airship” reports dating back to the 19th century. What were the strange lights spotted in the sky that looked like giant birds, spotted before airplanes took to the air?
In other news, giant, stone artifacts baffle scientists because they can’t understand the purpose of these large tools supposedly too big for ancient human beings. Scientists also now have material that’s stronger than steel and lighter than aluminum—could this, too, be from alien technology? Here’s more from The Edge of Wonder.
