Matter of Fact: A play on "matter" (physics) and "facts" (news).

In September 2021, a Wisconsin farmer discovered a Mercedes SUV abandoned in a cornfield containing the bodies of four victims who had been fatally shot at close range. Investigators used surveillance footage and cell phone signals to track the movements of the primary suspect, Antoine Suggs , and his father, Darren Suggs , who assisted in transporting the bodies and disposing of evidence across s...

In November 2018, 18-year-old Samantha Guthrie was reported missing by her father, a gang member, triggering an investigation that revealed she was shot by career criminal Danny Hamby at a drug house in Akron, Ohio. Witness testimonies detailed how Hamby and his girlfriend Tony placed the still-breathing Samantha into a car trunk and fatally stabbed her after she began to scream, eventually dumpin...

On March 19, 2024, 14-year-old Carly Gregg shot and killed her mother, Ashley Smiley, in their Mississippi home after her mother discovered Carly’s drug use and a secret phone. Following the murder, Carly used her mother's phone to lure her stepfather home and shot him (he survived), and she also invited a school friend over to view her mother's body while showing no apparent remorse. Alth...

True Crime Story updates on several high-profile cases, including the Idaho University murders where Bryan Kohberger’s defense claims a night-driving alibi and the Angela Chao drowning , which was officially ruled an accident caused by intoxication. Recent legal resolutions include a 35-year prison sentence for Qinxuan Pan for the murder of Yale student Kevin Jiang and a permanent life sentence fo...

On September 6, 2018, Dallas police officer Amber Guyger shot and killed 26-year-old accountant Botham Jean after mistakenly entering his apartment, which she claimed she believed was her own,. During the trial, evidence revealed that Guyger was distracted by a lengthy phone call with her colleague and lover, leading her to miss multiple physical cues—including a distinctive red floor mat and diff...

In February 2007, a horrific mass murder occurred at the "Nian Yu Jiu Lou" Chinese restaurant in Sittensen, Germany, resulting in the deaths of the owners and five employees who were bound and shot during a robbery. The perpetrators, a group of five Vietnamese men including a former employee, targeted the restaurant to steal money to cover gambling and drug debts , though they spared the...

In January 2019, Danielle Redlick called 911 to report the death of her husband, Michael Redlick, initially claiming he suffered a heart attack before admitting they had a violent altercation involving a knife. Investigators found a cleaned crime scene smelling of bleach and discovered that Danielle had waited eleven hours to report the death, during which time she searched for suicide methods and...

In April 2011, the bodies of Agnès Dupont de Ligonnès and her four children were discovered buried under their garden terrace in Nantes, France, having been drugged and executed while the primary suspect, the father Xavier , vanished. Investigations into the family's private life revealed that Xavier was a man of aristocratic descent struggling with extreme financial debt and a double life, po...

On June 12, 1977, three young girls—Lori Farmer, Michele Guse, and Denise Milner—were sexually assaulted and brutally murdered at Camp Scott in Oklahoma during their first night of summer camp. Investigators soon focused on Gene Leroy Hart , a local fugitive and convicted rapist, after discovering a nearby cave containing stolen items from the camp and newspaper scraps that matched evidence found...

Brian Steven Smith , a South African immigrant living in Alaska, was sentenced to 226 years in prison for the murders of Kathleen Henry and Veronica Abouchuk. The case was cracked after a woman discovered an SD card containing graphic videos of Smith torturing a victim, which led to a search of his home where police found dozens of storage devices and eventually secured his confession. Investigato...

The Sanxingdui civilization is presented as a mysterious, advanced society that suddenly buried its unique bronze treasures approximately 3,000 years ago in what the sources suggest was a hurried attempt to protect them from an impending threat. These people are identified as members of the Shakya tribe , who reportedly fled a massacre by King Virudhaka and migrated over the Himalayas to Sichuan,...

The mystery of Japan’s three sacred artifacts , which are claimed to be over 2 million years old and represent a divine lineage that commands absolute loyalty from the Japanese people. These legends are linked to ancient Sumerian and Egyptian civilizations , suggesting that Japanese gods like Izanagi and Izanami share a common origin with global myths like the "World Tree" and the Fuxi-N...

In April 2024, 19-year-old Sade Robinson disappeared after a first date with Maxwell Anderson, a case that came to light when her severed leg was discovered in a park and her vehicle was found intentionally set on fire. Investigators linked Anderson to the crime through surveillance footage showing him discarding remains, Life360 location data, and incriminating photos recovered from his phone tha...

The sources investigate Japanese Dogu figurines , 14,000-year-old clay puppets with non-human features that some believe represent ancient aliens or deities encountered during the Quaternary Ice Age. These artifacts, along with the legends of Queen Himiko and her relationship with a snake god, suggest that the distinct patterns found on Jomon pottery and human tattoos represent an ancient "Co...

The sources explore the theory that ancient dragonborn lizardmen have influenced global civilizations, citing evidence from Indian Vedic scriptures about the lost continent of Kumari Kandam, West African symbols like the "all-seeing eye," and Chinese oracle bone inscriptions that depict dragons as three-fingered humanoids. Historical accounts suggest these beings may have interbred with...

The Great Pyramid of Giza displays mysterious physical anomalies, such as thick salt crystals and 50-million-year-old marine fossils embedded in its stones, suggesting the structures may have been submerged during ancient floods and are far older than historical records indicate. This timeline aligns with prehistoric global heating events that some theories attribute to a binary star system featur...

Sakyamuni is depicted not as a typical human but as a Great Bodhisattva and supreme ruler of the universe who reincarnated from the Tusita Heaven to fulfill the ancient Lampburner Prophecy . His mother, Lady Maya, reportedly possessed non-human physical traits like a spiral-patterned neck and golden skin, while his conception involved a pyramid-shaped device that entered her womb to incubate the f...

The epic of King Gesar is presented as a lost ancient secret linked to the "Book of Giants" in the Dead Sea Scrolls, detailing a cosmic struggle involving giants, fallen angels, and divine intervention. Born to a human father and a dragon mother to combat earth-ravaging monsters, King Gesar grew at a supernatural rate and utilized high-tech divine armor to defeat demonic leaders like the...

Mount Kailash is described as a forbidden, potentially man-made pyramid that serves as the "center of the world," where legends and reported scientific anomalies suggest that time passes rapidly for those who attempt to climb it. The source posits that the mountain is a hollow base for ancient "dragon" or "lizardmen" civilizations who may have manipulated human DNA an...

The legend of Nirai Kanai , a lost ancient high-tech civilization that purportedly existed on a vast, lush plain in the mysterious waters east of Taiwan. Physical evidence for this theory includes the Yonaguni underwater pyramid , a massive stone structure discovered in 1986 featuring precise geometric cuts, smooth surfaces, and giant stairs that seem impossible for Stone Age humans to have proces...

A mystical and dangerous adventure involving a siren whose beautiful song tempts souls and a quest for the legendary Fountain of Youth . The narrative highlights the speaker's internal struggle and the emotional pain of carrying memories that others find impossible to believe. Ultimately, the speaker feels a profound duty to survive and return so he can share his extraordinary secrets with a g...

Taiwan is home to the Moshinna , ancient intelligent creatures or "lizard people" who reside in the mountains and utilize high-frequency sound waves to control human brains, leading to mysterious disappearances and hallucinations. The sources suggest that the island was once a high-tech base for the sunken Mu continent , with aboriginal myths and tattoos serving as ancient maps and recor...

The sources describe the Anunnaki , an advanced extraterrestrial race that descended to Earth hundreds of thousands of years ago and genetically engineered humanity to serve as laborers after a rebellion by the subordinate Igigi gods. This ancient history, preserved on Sumerian clay tablets, recounts catastrophic events including a Great Flood caused by the planet Nibiru’s gravitational pull and a...

British archaeologist Austin Layard discovered the ancient library of King Ashurbanipal in Nineveh, uncovering 30,000 cuneiform tablets that record the sudden birth of Sumerian civilization following a supernova explosion 6,000 years ago. The Enuma Elis tablets describe a metaphorical cosmic war between galactic systems, where the god Marduk utilized devastating "evil wind" weapons to de...

The discovery of lifelike artifacts and the unusual physical appearance of Pharaoh Akhenaten lead to theories that ancient Egyptian royalty may have been alien descendants who possessed advanced technology, such as high-energy lasers. Physical evidence of elongated skulls with non-human DNA found across different continents suggests that a race of highly intelligent giants influenced various ancie...