As a writer of fiction, I make up secrets for a living, so it fascinates me when real life hands me a better one. Picture this: you're on a tour in Egypt, visiting the most famous tomb on Earth, King Tutankhamun's. It was found in 1922, and it's been photographed and studied for a hundred years. But when you get there, it's taped off. Archaeologists are inside, and the mood is pure excitement. Why? Because this tomb has always been strangely small, especially for a pharaoh. T

If you’ve been hearing the word kratom lately and wondering what it is—or how to spell it—you’re joining a conversation humans have been having for thousands of years.

Jehovah’s Witnesses changed their blood transfusion policy again in 2026. But the larger question isn’t simply what changed—it’s what happens when we’re taught not to question.

What if Noah’s Ark were found tomorrow? Would it prove the Bible right—or simply give us more questions? A look at the latest investigation near Mount Ararat, the math behind the Flood story, and what such a discovery might really mean.

You’ve heard the name a thousand times, especially recently. El Niño. With growing concern about what some are calling a “Super El Niño” expected to persist through February 2027 and with the potential to become one of the strongest on record, I realized something. I had never once asked the obvious question... Who is the Niño? Turns out, he has a name. Jesus. I didn’t see that coming! The name goes back centuries to fishermen in Peru who noticed that around Christmastime, th

For nearly 2,000 years, people traveled to Eleusis, drank a mysterious ceremonial brew and experienced something that changed how they viewed life—and even death. What happened there was never adequately explained. Was it secrecy, ineffability… or something else? While writing Roots of Fear, I discovered that ancient mystery might solve a very modern problem of my own.

Why is it that when we were little, a dark bedroom could turn a coat hanging on the door into something enormous? The monster under the bed was real enough that you wouldn't dare let an arm hang over the mattress. And then there are the monsters we deliberately handed down to our children. Jack climbs the beanstalk—and finds a giant. King Kong. Godzilla. Goliath. Fairy tales are filled with enormous beings who eat children, destroy villages, and live just beyond the world we

They dug up a dead pope, dressed him in his robes, propped him on a throne—and put him on trial. Still not finished. Medieval Rome was about to get even more ridiculous.

If I handed you the biography of the most famous person in history... and I had torn out eighteen consecutive years, wouldn't your first question be:

What if some of what we carry didn’t begin with us? A strange story about the pain in my foot led me to epigenetics—and an experiment that made me wonder what our ancestors might leave behind.

In 1907, a respected physician attempted one of history's strangest experiments: to determine whether something leaves the human body at the moment of death—and if it does, whether it has weight.

Artificial intelligence has become the newest object of both fascination and fear. Some believe it will save humanity. Others believe it will destroy it. But perhaps we're asking the wrong question. People often ask whether AI could ever become spiritual. Could a machine possess compassion? Forgiveness? Love? Hope? Maybe. Maybe not. But here's the question that unsettles me more: How often do we perform those things without actually feeling them? We say, "I'm happy for you,"

Why are we so fascinated by secrets? Not gossip. Not spoilers. Not the kind of secret someone tells you while insisting you not tell anyone else, which is usually how twelve people find out before lunch. Close-up view of an ornate key resting on an ancient book I mean the deeper kind of secret—the kind that shapes history, protects power, or keeps ordinary people from asking the one question no one wants answered. Perhaps secrets fascinate us because we instinctively know the