September 2026 - Strange Happenings

Flaming supernatural Eye of Sauron atop the dark fortress of Barad-dûr, casting a glowing beam of light over the volcanic ash landscape of Mordor.

The Eye of Sauron: What Tolkien Actually Wrote vs. What the Films Show

Mubashir RazzaqSeptember 4, 2026September 4, 2026030 mins

Picture the villain of The Lord of the Rings and most people see one image: a giant flaming eyeball on a black tower, sweeping a searchlight over Mordor. That exact image is not how Tolkien wrote Sauron. It isn’t a mistranslation of the books and it isn’t a myth either; it’s a real design choice…

Project MKUltra CIA mind control experiments shown alongside imagery inspired by Stranger Things

MKUltra: The Real CIA Mind Control Behind Stranger Things

Mubashir RazzaqSeptember 3, 2026September 3, 2026056 mins

In April 1953, CIA director Allen Dulles approved a program that operated with limited oversight and secrecy that placed many of its human experiments outside the safeguards expected in modern research. That program was MKUltra, the agency’s decade-spanning attempt at CIA mind control during the early Cold War. It used LSD, hypnosis, electroshock, and sensory…