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Who Is Ingrid Lane?
Every news article called her a 37-year-old bipolar Buddhist musician. None of them mentioned Sandia National Laboratories. None mentioned quantum computing. None mentioned the NNSA report with her name in it, published seven months before she vanished.
On October 15, 2023, Ingrid Coleen Lane disappeared in the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico. Her abandoned car was found on a remote forest road near the Valles Caldera, with a boulder through the rear window...
kristin0214
Jun 184 min read


THE FOLLOW-UP THAT NEVER CAME
In June 2025, a NASA materials scientist who helped invent an alloy critical to American rocket engines went hiking with two friends near Mount Waterman and vanished thirty feet behind them. In February 2026, a retired two-star general who once commanded the Air Force's primary research laboratory walked out of his Albuquerque home on foot and never came back.
fearandwinepod
Sep 305 min read


Saturn's New Decagon: The 100,000 Mile Shape That Appeared While Nobody Was Looking
Have you ever seen an image and just felt something in the pit of your stomach? That is how I felt when I saw the NASA image of The Saturn Decagon, so down the rabbit hole I went. On September 2, 2026, a paper in the journal Science Advances reported a second one. Not a hexagon. A decagon. Ten sides, at the south pole, roughly one hundred four thousand miles across.
The strangest part of the story is not the shape. It is when we found it, and what we were doing with the in
fearandwinepod
Sep 48 min read


The Cahill Thread: What a Classified Defense Researcher's Name Is Doing in a UFO Drawing's Metadata
The account, widely attributed to McCasland by independent investigators, posted thousands of times about electric field propulsion, plasma physics, and what the account described as the operating principles of classified transmedium vehicles. Then, in late July 2026, years of posts began disappearing from the account.
In August 2026, a Reddit researcher found a name that should not have been there.
fearandwinepod
Aug 168 min read


Cautiously Optimistic: Inside the 2026 Billy Mansfield Digs in Hernando County
In late June 2026, residents along Sunshine Grove Road in Brooksville watched a multi-agency operation move onto a ranch property. The Hernando County Sheriff’s Office, the FBI, the State Attorney’s Office, and forensic investigators from Florida Gulf Coast University were searching for additional victims of convicted serial killer Billy Mansfield Jr., forty-five years after four women were found buried on his family’s property.
kristin0214
Aug 97 min read


Joe Felz: The Solar Builder Who Believed Knowledge and Power Should Be Free
He spent his last public year telling people two things: that electricity was never anyone's to sell, and that old books were never anyone's to hide. On August 3, 2026, his partner announced that he was gone. He was 40 years old.
What follows is what can be verified about Joe Felz, what he was actually building, and why so many people refused to accept the ending. Reducing him to a "van life influencer" hides so much about who Joe Felz was.
fearandwinepod
Aug 85 min read
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