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Case file 012Space & Beyond

Who Spoke for Ashtar?

A voice claiming to represent the Ashtar Galactic Command interrupted British television, leaving a trail of frightened callers, rival transcripts and disputed suspects.

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A geometric 1970s television shows an anonymous newsreader while sound marks emerge beside its speaker

Case file 012Space & Beyond

Who Spoke for Ashtar?

A voice claiming to represent the Ashtar Galactic Command interrupted British television, leaving a trail of frightened callers, rival transcripts and disputed suspects.

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Case file 011Forgotten Histories

The Stone That Wouldn’t Sink

Six sailors died bringing Cleopatra’s Needle to London. The obelisk survived abandonment at sea, but was its notorious voyage cursed or dangerously mismanaged?

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Case file 010Culture & Legends

The Play That Fooled London

A young clerk produced Shakespeare’s lost papers and an unknown play, until a disastrous London performance exposed the fiction behind a celebrated discovery.

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Case file 009The Unexplained

The Ghost They Invented

A Toronto séance group invented a dead man, then reported knocks and moving tables: had they created a ghost, or misunderstood what answered them?

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Case file 008Power & Secrets

The Typewriter Was Listening

An extra coil inside an American embassy typewriter exposed Soviet bugs that could betray documents before the words ever reached a cipher.

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Case file 007Space & Beyond

A Signal from Proxima

A strange radio signal from the direction of Proxima Centauri survived the first tests for alien technology, but its closest matches were on Earth.

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Case file 002Ancient Mysteries

Mystery of the Crystal Skulls

Crystal skulls promised lost civilisations and deadly powers, but a trail through antique shops, auction rooms and laboratories exposed a very different history.

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Case file 001Crime & Mystery

Bella in the Wych Elm

Four boys found a woman’s skull inside a Worcestershire tree, beginning a mystery of anonymous messages, suspected spies and alleged witchcraft.

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