In 2007 Murat Yalcin Yalman was working in the holiday village of Kumburgaz Turkey as a night watchman. From this vantage point, he started seeing odd lights in the sky over the water. After seeing these objects on multiple evenings, he finally bought a video camera and started shooting.  In the series of videos taken over 3 years, several types of objects were captured.  All appear round or oval with a metallic structure.  Haktan Akdogan, who also appears alongside Yalman in most of his public appearances, noted something extraordinary, noting that the video captures images of “beings who are inside the object.  In the end, all this is one of the most extraordinary cases of all time.”

Almost 20 years later, the authenticity of the videos continue to be hotly debated.

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In 1974, archeologists discovered a junk, or a Chinese ship, that was abandoned sometime around 1270 in the port of Quanzhou.  Onboard was cargo that conclusively proved the ship had been up and down the east coast of Africa.   Subsequent investigations showed extensive contact between Africa and China from as early as 800.  Chinese coins and pottery have been found in archeological digs in East Africa from present-day Somalia to Tanzania, and even a few artifacts in present-day Zimbabwe. 

In 1414, during the Ming Dynasty,  the Chinese admiral Cheng Ho sailed into the Indian Ocean with a fleet that dwarfed Columbus’s meager ships 78 years later.  This voyage marked the third time the Admiral had sailed the Pacific and Indian oceans, exploring the world.  He brought back information, trade goods, and a Giraffe, a gift for the emperor of China.

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UFOs continue to be a worldwide conversation topic, with new footage of UAPs sparking debate about the origin of these images.  And truly, the investigation of unidentified flying objects is a global phenomenon.  Today, we'll investigate some of the most famous incidents from Mexico.

Mexico ranks seventh globally for the number of UFO sightings.  Today on My Dark Path, we will look at several UFO encounters, from José A. Bonilla’s photographs of a century and a half ago to sightings in Mexico from just this year.  In Mexico, a UFO is known as an OVNI [pronounced Ov-nee], an acronym for “Objeto Volador No Identificado” (Spanish for “Unidentified Flying Object”).  The U.S. Southwest and Mexico have long been a hotspot for strange sightings in the sky.  Roswell, Area 51, and all sorts of sightings of strange craft have been reported from the American Southwest.  These sightings do not stop at the border.  Mexico has also been a magnet, with dozens, if not hundreds, of OVNIs spotted every year.

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In the early hours of Monday, June 10, 1912, an unknown intruder entered a two-story wooden house through the unlocked back door. The small Midwest settlement had a population of around 2,000, where everyone knew each other by sight, and the residents did not worry about crime. 

But on that June night in 1912, once the killer had completed these grisly acts, he then did several things that mystified investigators at the time and then for decades thereafter.  

The killings shook Villisca to its core, and the failure to convict the murderer despite several attempts only added to the growing fear and unease in the community. The reality was that the killer had disappeared without a trace, leaving no clue as to their identity or whereabouts. It was possible that the killer had slipped back into their own home in the area, or even escaped on one of the 30 trains that passed through the town every day, with a head start of up to five hours. 

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I visited Moscow a few years ago for a My Dark Path research trip so I could finish the mini-series about the Secrets of the Soviets.  Those episodes, like Stalin’s Bunker 42 and Soviet Psychic Spies, are available for My Dark Path Plus subscribers on Patreon. In addition to these stories, I also found other stories that were more contemporary, not only from the dark Soviet era.  Those stories include that of the Chessboard Killer, a serial murderer who killed scores of people around the Bitsevsky Park between 1992 and 2006.

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There’s a sign, mounted on a locked door, four decks down from the flight deck on the USS Ticonderoga, a giant aircraft carrier, a sign reads “RESTRICTED SECURITY AREA / KEEP OUT / AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY / IT IS UNLAWFUL TO ENTER THIS AREA WITHOUT WRITTEN PEMISSION OF THE COMMANDING OFFICER” No one, except the men assigned to work in that room, was allowed to go through  that door.  Because behind that door are stored the nuclear bombs the Ticonderoga carries.  And on the floor of that room the bombs are assembled by the sailors in the weapons division.  They trained to do so efficiently, rapidly, in case they were called upon to arm the bombs for use. The location is the Philippine Sea during the Vietnam War.  The date is December 5, 1965, and before this day is over, one of those nuclear weapons will be in the ocean, armed to go off with no way of recovering it or disarming it.  Today, in our second part of our two part series on broken arrows – lost nuclear weapons – we will explore the only armed nuclear bomb the United States lost and did not recover.  All other weapons lost had fissile material, but had not been primed to explode.  The bomb lost by the Ticonderoga those fifty-seven years ago still sits at the bottom of the sea of Japan, still capable of detonating a full nuclear explosion.

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How could nuclear weapons, the most dangerous tools in the history of war, go missing?  What are the events that cause them to go missing and how are they recovered?  Join me as we explore a few of the stories of America’s Broken Arrows.

February 13, 1950, loss of a B-36 over Canada.
March 10, 1956, loss of a B-47 over the Mediterranean Sea
July 28, 1957, loss of a C-124 over the Atlantic
February 5, 1958, loss of a B-47 near Tybee Island, Georgia
January 21, 1961, loss of a B-52, North Carolina
February 1968, loss of the SSN-589 USS Scorpion, Mediterranean Sea

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Every Halloween, news coverage spikes about the risks of children consuming poisoned candy.  This episode tells the stories of those who have intentionally tried to hurt children through adulterated candy and the origin of reason why parents all tell their children…don’t take candy from strangers.

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In 1925, Roald Amundsen’s expedition to the North Pole failed and his two planes were force to land on the ice without reaching their destination.  His team of six barely to civilization aboard a single, stripped down plane.  Amundsen, already a seasoned explorer, decided that he’d never again allow himself to be stuck on the ice.  A year later, he successfully reached the North Pole aboard the Airship Norge, alongside American Lincoln Ellsworth and Italian airship designer, Umberto Nobile.  Conflict among these men finally broke into the open as the Norge struggled back to civilization, barely surviving a terrible storm over Alaska.  Then, in 1928 Nobile set out to reach the North Pole again, this time for the sole honor of his country, aboard an Italian named airship of his design with an Italian crew.  But this trip would be beset with trials and horrific events that make the disaster of the Airship Italia one that haunts arctic explorers to this day.

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