Between 1977 and 1995, the CIA wasn’t just busy with Cold War espionage—it was dabbling in psychic phenomena, too. Enter Project Stargate, a top-secret program exploring the mysterious world of remote viewing, the ability to “see” distant locations and events using nothing but the power of the mind. The goal? To uncover military and intelligence secrets—and maybe a few cosmic ones, too.

In a scientific development that sounds like it's been copied from the pages of a science fiction novel, researchers are entertaining the notion that our universe might have a shadowy counterpart — a parallel dimension where dark matter follows a bizarro version of our physical laws.

Twitter is an uncivilized wilderness of weirdness. The latest, greatest descent into the rabbit hole of the Twitterverse comes courtesy of a viral video of a lady on a plane aggressively accusing her seat mate of being “not real.” On the surface, it could be relatively easy to dismiss the clip as a case of too much booze before boarding, or even a medical episode of delusion. But in the days since the original video first emerged, this particular rabbit trail has gotten curiouser and curiouser.