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In the 1960s, Don Elkins was a respected physics professor and commercial airline pilot living in Louisville, Kentucky. But behind closed doors, he was leading secretive groups who believed they were in contact with the occupants of UFOS. Decades before the term “non-human intelligence” made headlines, Elkins was recording hours of sessions with a human “instrument”—conversations he believed were real, urgent, and meant for humanity.In 1984, after years of increasingly strange behavior and growing isolation, Elkins died by suicide following a six-hour standoff with police and ...

On August 26, 1980, 14-year-old Ronda Blaylock disappeared shortly after leaving her high school. In the days to follow, her family and friends searched for her in the area of her hometown in Rural Hall, North Carolina, hoping to bring her home alive. Shockingly, Ronda’s partially clothed body was found three days later in a town called Pilot Mountain, with deputies saying she’d been raped and brutally stabbed to death. As an appalled community wrapped their minds around the vicious crime, detectives released information on a suspect. The killer, however, remained at large. More than three...

Le 18 novembre 1992, à la suite d’une envolée depuis la Colombie digne d’un scénario hollywoodien, l’avion de Raymond Boulanger se pose sur une piste d’atterrissage de la région de la Haute-Mauricie. L’arrestation du pilote et la saisie de son bimoteur - une véritable bombe volante transportant pas moins de 4000 kilos de cocaïne et 45 barils d’essence - a marqué l’histoire criminelle du Canada.