Welcome to Electronic Shuffle, home for the mysterious, strange & unusual.
I’m Gideon Holt Boyd; writer, wanderer, and chronic overthinker. This is my digital workbench: a collection of short essays created from obsessive observations and deep dives into things that keep me awake at night.
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The Whispering Desert: Mexico’s Zone of Silence
Radio Blackouts, Alien Encounters, and Secret Rockets Deep within the Mapimí Desert, where the Mexican states of Durango, Chihuahua, and Coahuila converge, lies a patch of arid wilderness shrouded in modern myth: La Zona…
5–8 minutes
Also this week
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The Flannan Isles Lighthouse Mystery
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The Marree Man
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The Legend of Friskney Decoy Wood
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More reading
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The Rougham Time Slip
The House That Isn’t There If you were driving down the quiet country lanes near Kingshall…
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The Portals of Hessdalen
The Mystery of Norway’s Floating Lights Deep in the quiet Hessdalen Valley of central Norway, something…
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The Livingston Alien Assault
Inside the UK’s Only UFO Criminal Investigation On a damp Friday morning in November 1979, a…
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The Harperrig Reservoir Abduction
Scotland’s Most Bizarre Declassified UFO Incident On the damp, pitch-black night of August 17, 1992, two…
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The Baltic Sea Anomaly
Deep-Sea Spaceship or Glacial Illusion? In June 2011, a Swedish ocean exploration and treasure-hunting team called…
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The Bristol Crocodile
How A River Avon Mystery Became a Modern-Day Legend In early 2014, a strange story emerged…

About me:
I’m Gideon Holt Boyd. This is my digital workbench: a collection of short essays born from obsessive observations and deep dives into mysterious, strange, and unusual occurrences in the UK and around the world.
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