Philadelphia police have identified the suspect wanted for terrorizing people near City Hall last week while wearing a mask..
Police announced they are looking for 22-year-old Zymire Hughes. An arrest warrant has been issued.
Authorities believe Hughes may have fled Pennsylvania and has ties to California and Nevada.
Developing …
Due to social media life cycles, a lot of people are constantly about Lanmaoa asiatica.. it all sounds completely made up until you realize.. it’s not.
It’s a mushroom eaten in southwestern China, particularly Yunnan Province, where it’s known as jian shou qing. Apparently it’s delicious.
There’s just one small problem.
You better cook the thing long enough.. if you don’t, you might start seeing little people.
And this isn’t just a hallucinogenic mushroom that makes people see random things. We’re not talking about the usual psychedelic experience — colors changing, walls breathing, strange patterns appearing or somebody seeing a dragon dancing across the ceiling.
No.
Little people. Like the smurfs..
Tiny humanlike figures have been reported walking across plates. Climbing furniture. Marching around rooms. Going underneath doors. Sometimes dozens or even hundreds of them, apparently existing right there alongside the normal world.
They’re known as Lilliputian hallucinations, named after the tiny inhabitants of Lilliput in Gulliver’s Travels.
People in Yunnan are so familiar with what can happen when these mushrooms aren’t properly cooked that making sure they’re thoroughly prepared is simply part of eating them. Researchers have described restaurants where timers are used before the mushrooms can be eaten, with diners being warned about what could happen if they don’t wait long enough.
Hospitals in the region have treated mushroom poisoning cases involving these hallucinations, and researchers have documented this strangely specific recurring experience.
If ten people took some random hallucinogenic drug, ten wildly different experiences might be expected. One person sees geometric patterns. Somebody sees a dragon. Somebody thinks the ceiling is melting.
But with this mushroom, one particular theme keeps showing up:
Little people.
Not everyone who becomes sick from the mushroom sees them, so that part shouldn’t be exaggerated. But among people who experience hallucinations, reports of tiny humanlike figures have appeared often enough that researchers have specifically taken notice.
Scientists are now trying to figure out exactly what chemical in the mushroom causes it. . The familiar psychedelic compounds that might immediately be suspected, such as psilocybin or muscimol, haven’t explained what’s happening. Whatever is producing this extraordinarily specific effect may be something that isn’t fully understood yet.
Which brings us to the completely scientifically irresponsible portion of today’s program.
What if the mushroom isn’t making people see things that aren’t there?
What if it’s temporarily allowing people to see something that’s.. already there?
Maybe somewhere beside ordinary human perception — fourth dimension, fifth dimension, sixth dimension, take your pick — thousands of tiny people are going about their tiny lives while completely unaware that we’re here.
And every once in a while somebody in Yunnan doesn’t cook the mushrooms long enough, looks down at the kitchen table and suddenly realizes:
No, there is absolutely no scientific evidence that Lanmaoa asiatica opens a portal into the tiny-people dimension.
But until scientists figure out exactly what is happening inside the human brain when this mushroom is eaten undercooked — and why such strangely similar imagery keeps being reported —
Maybe the little door should be kept open.
Welcome to a real horror: Modern decor may be causing more harm than good!
A large team of researchers from institutions across the United States, United Kingdom, Europe, Asia, and Canada has published a detailed review arguing that visual discomfort, the headaches, eye strain, nausea, and perceptual distortions that some people experience in response to certain visual stimuli, has a measurable, physical basis in the brain. The paper, published in the journal Vision, pulls together decades of research across neuroscience, architecture, lighting design, and psychology to build a unified theory of why some things are so hard to look at, and what can be done about it.
It argues that the human brain evolved to process the natural world efficiently. When it’s forced to handle the highly repetitive, artificially sharp, and often flickering patterns that dominate modern urban environments — think fluorescent-lit offices, car headlights, striped acoustic panels, or the dense text of a printed page — the researchers argue it may drive greater neural activity than it should, potentially placing excessive demands on the visual cortex.
That metabolic overload, they hypothesize, may be what triggers discomfort, and in people with pattern-sensitive epilepsy, it can provoke seizures.
Read more about the study here..
Maybe next we can discover how modern building design, all being gray and boring, can lead to the same reaction..
We are trying our best to make logical sense of this one.. but we keep failing to comprehend.
Retired Vice Admiral Robert Harward provided expert analysis on the US-Iran standoff on Fox News .. While appearing on the segment, Harward suggested that President Donald Trump had time on his side and was leveraging both the blockade and sanctions to put pressure on Iran.
But no one really listened to him since his appearance sparked speculation that he was wearing a mask.
But seriously..
Here is the full video from the Fox News YOUTUBE page..
Note that comments have been turned off..
It is just weird. I have no idea what we are looking at.. and you don’t either.
A logical part of your brain could say it was a medical issue.. bad makeup.. a necklace.
Or the long standing conspiracy that people just wear masks is right..
There are some folks who believe there is a logical explanation for this…
There’s a really fun thing happening on TikTok right now. It’s not hurting anyone, it’s not dangerous… but it’s causing just enough debate to make it interesting. And honestly, if it’s just for entertainment, that’s all we need.
For the past few days, there’s been a guy posting videos claiming that a tree in his backyard is… moving.
His “evidence” is simple but effective. He records himself walking toward the tree, then compares it to footage from the next day where the tree appears to be slightly closer. Not dramatically… just enough to make you pause. Just enough to make you wonder.
But he doesn’t stop there.
He claims he’s watched the tree for hours and hasn’t seen a single bird land on it. Says it looks fake. Says when you check his property on satellite view, the tree doesn’t even show up. And maybe the creepiest part… he says the tree next to it has been there his entire life, but this one? He doesn’t remember it at all.
Listen… this is fun.
What makes it even better is the comment section. There are people fully buying into it. Not questioning it. Not debating it. Just accepting it like, “Yeah… that tracks.”
And that’s where it gets wild.
It’s not even about whether the tree is moving anymore. It’s about how quickly people are willing to go along with something like this. Almost like it’s easier to believe in a slowly advancing tree than to question it. Maybe because, in a weird way, it feels harmless. Maybe even comforting compared to everything else going on.
Now do I believe the tree is moving toward his house?
No.
Do I believe he might believe it?
That’s a different question.
Because at the end of the day, there’s no real way for us to independently verify any of this. And as the videos get more attention, one thing is definitely true… whether he expected it or not, he’s gone viral.
And honestly… let’s just say it.
If there really was a tree slowly moving toward someone’s house in 2026… would that even be the most shocking thing we’ve seen this year?
To be honest… it might be the least surprising.
A bright fireball streaked across southeast Texas skies, creating a booming rumble when a meteor broke through the Earth’s atmosphere on Saturday. One woman claims a fragment crashed through her home.
According to NASA, the meteor became visible over Stagecoach, traveling southeast at roughly 35,000 miles per hour before breaking apart roughly 29 miles above the Earth’s surface just west of Cyprus station around 4:40 p.m. Central Time.
The fragmentation of the meteor, which NASA said weighed roughly a ton and had a 3-foot diameter, created a pressure wave that caused a loud booming noise.
Let’s talk a bit about Mandela Effects, and specifically one strange Mandela Effect that I didn’t even know existed until tonight. I watched a video about how people say it existed, and once it became an issue in my mind, it started to bother me like it really did exist.
Let me explain.
You know those things above baby cribs? You know the word—a mobile. We’ve always called it a mobile. It’s always been known as a mobile. People for generations have said it’s a mobile. As a society we can agree on that, right?
Until you don’t.
Here’s the catch: tons of Reddit forums and different threads across the internet talk about how people remember there being a different word than mobile. They remember it to the point where it’s on the tip of their tongue, and they believe the word was something else entirely.
For me.. and believe me, there are some Mandela Effects I really can’t explain.. this one immediately felt fanciful and a bit silly. The word was always mobile. I don’t remember anything different.
Until I started thinking about how other people remember the word being different.
Then I started to wonder if the word potentially was different, and maybe I’m the one who’s wrong. I nearly second-guessed my sanity. I started second-guessing the idea that the word was always mobile to the point where I was calling family members and asking friends what they thought the word was.
They all convincingly responded: mobile.
But when you sit with this idea long enough—when you let it dwell and fester—your brain starts to play tricks on you. You begin to wonder if it really was mobile, or if the people remembering a different word they can’t quite recall are actually right.
I’m a big fan of the movie Pontypool. It’s one of my favorite zombie horror films, about a mild-mannered, somewhat egotistical radio host broadcasting in the middle of the night from a snowy town. I love that theme. But in the film, people in the town begin to get infected by a strange virus that spreads through language. Words stop meaning what they should, and people begin to lose their understanding of them.
It’s kind of like that old Twilight Zone episode from the 1980s called “Wordplay.” The one where a man slowly goes nuts while the entire world starts using words in ways that make no sense to him.
There’s something about forgetting words that’s genuinely frightening.
Maybe it’s because if you’ve seen Alzheimer’s or dementia in your family, there’s a real horror in forgetting words and forgetting things. Forgetting so much that you eventually become a vessel that feels empty.. without the material that used to fill your mind.
But Pontypool is all about language breaking down. In that movie it’s a zombie virus, of course, you have to make it scary somehow.
But the idea of words changing their meaning, people losing vocabulary, or even losing language entirely… that really gets under my skin.
And it probably does for you too.
It’s strange how something so benign and mundane can somehow still be so terrifying.
And that’s what makes this Mandela Effect a little eerie.
It’s not the usual example like the Berenstain Bears, or the story about Sinbad supposedly making a genie movie that he now says never existed. Instead, this one is about the most basic words we’ve known since babyhood.
And babies learn the word mobile, too… right?
Or was it something different?
There is video and photos of a ‘ghost ship’ sailing near Antarctica flying around on social media..
With AI and fakery abundant online, it is a moment to take a grain or even full shaker of salt when you look at it..
But interesting, no?
Even more interesting.. it’s probably quite literally a REAL SHIP that is sailing the cold and ferocious waters near the continent..
It looks slightly like the famed ship that sailed at the end of the GOONIES…
It was taken by people inside windows of a cruise ship..
Chester Copperpot may be on board..
Jim Carrey made a rare appearance at the César Awards.. and the world has collectively wondered is it really him!?
People have analyzed the videos in labored detail..
What a weird day in news and politics.. reporters have been apprehensive about sharing or reporting this but the internet has gone wild with Trump and Jeffrey Epstein and now Bill Clinton connections..
One of the emails released, from Epstein’s brother Mark Epstein, has gone viral. In it, Mark speculates if Putin has a photo of “Trump blowing Bubba.”
The mention of the President “blowing Bubba” has caused a storm on social media, as ‘Bubba’ is the nickname of former President Bill Clinton, who is also alleged to have been associated with Epstein.
But people have taken it and molded it into thr political shocker worthy of a Trump Season 2 plot shift..
Drudge was in his glory mockinga Trump and also Clinton–hardening back to what got Drudge famous to begin with in the late 90s..
Meanwhile Trump raised eyebrows along with the volume at the White House…
Politico correspondent Jake Taylor noted on Friday afternoon that music from “The Phantom of the Opera” was playing so loudly it could be heard outside the White House. The president is said to be a notorious fan of Broadway show tunes and enjoys playing DJ at events.