Episode 64: Record-breaking Arctic Temperatures, US Army Info Leaked to Satanic Neo-Nazis, New Discovery Near Stonehenge

The Arctic is experiencing record-breaking highs as human settlements reach an unprecedented 100 degrees Fahrenheit. A soldier in the US Army has allegedly been caught leaking classified military info to a group of satanic neo-nazis known as the Order of the Nine Angles. A new discovery near Stonehenge raises more questions than answers. Join Ben Bowlin for more Strange News Daily, and share your stories on Twitter: #strangedaily.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Strange News Daily. It's a production of I Heart Media.
In a world full of bizarre events, unsolved mysteries, and
a billion stories from all corners of the globe, some

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news gets lost in the shuffle. This is your gateway
to the stories on the fringe of the mainstream map.
These are your dispatches in the dark. I'm Ben Bolin,
and this is the Strange News Daily, our first story today.

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Things are heating up in the Arctic. The small town
of Vihansk in Siberia recently reached one point four degrees fahrenheit.
That's thirty two degrees above the normal high temperature. Once
this is verified, it is likely to be the hottest
temperature ever recorded in Siberian history, and also the hottest

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temperature ever recorded north of the Arctic Circle. Very is
at sixty seven point five degrees north latitude, and the
Arctic Circle itself begins at sixty six point five degrees
north latitude. This tiny town is located about three thousand
miles east of Moscow, and it's even further north than Fairbanks, Alaska.

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On Friday, over in the US, the city of Caribou, Maine,
tied an all time record high at nineties six degrees fahrenheit,
and once again reached the nineties on Saturday. To put
all of this into perspective, let's consider the city of Miami, Florida.
It's only reached one hundred degrees one time since the
city began keeping records of temperatures all the way back

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in eighteen This town in Siberia is usually one of
the coldest places on Earth. For instance, this past the
November the area reached nearly sixty degrees fahrenheit below zero.
It's one of the first spots to drop that low
in the entire winter. Of reaching a hundred degrees fahrenheit

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in or around the Arctic Circle is almost unheard of.
There's one unverified case back in nineteen fifteen in the
town of fort yukon Alaska. That's a little further south
than Virheonsk, but this town was said to have reached
somewhere near a hundred degrees Again back in n a

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town just a few miles south of the Arctic Circle
over in Russia also reached a hundred degrees fahrenheit. So
the question becomes is this a one off phenomenally or
is this part of an emerging pattern that will see
become normalized in coming years. Our second story Today, one

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U s Army soldier is facing charges that they allegedly
leaked classified military info to a white supremacist group with
Satanic leanings. The charges alleged this soldier gave information about
US troops stationed overseas to an organization called the Order
of the Nine Angles or OH nine A. The Southern

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Poverty Law Center describes this group as an occult neo
Nazi organization. Over in the UK, British lawmakers have called
for the group, which was founded there, to be banned.
The UK group Hope Not Hate, in its annual State
of Hate report, cited the Order of Nine Angles as
a huge influence on Nazi terrorist groups both in Europe

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and in the United States. In this year's report, the
group specifically said OH nine A seeks to harness supernatural
forces and overthrow the alleged Nazarene slash Magian or Jewish
influence on society, reduced the population of quote Mundanes through
acts of extreme barbarism, and usher in a new imperial

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eon or age, ruled by race of Satanic superman who
would later go on to colonize the solar system sometimes
it seems the truth is stranger than fiction, and will
update on this story as the charges proceed to court.

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Our third story today comes from Seawan w on Twitter.
It seems that archaeologists have discovered something new about the
ancient monument known as Stonehenge. There's a wide circle of
deep pits that were discovered nearby, and this opens the
door to many future investigations into the origins and the

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meaning of this mysterious prehistoric monument. Most people are familiar
with Stonehenge. It's one of the country's most recognizable landmarks,
up there with Big ben Visitors from across the planet
come to see the standing stones at Stonehenge, and while
some are tourists, other people are searching for deeper spiritual

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connections with the past. Even today, in scientists aren't a
hundred percent sure what the stone's purpose was. This new
discovery of the pits came about due to the work
of a team of archaeologists from several different universities. What
they found is a one point two mile wide or

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two kilometer wide circle of shafts that surround a settlement
at Durrington Walls. This also included a hinge, which is
just another word for a circular structure, but this one
was made of timber posts, not stone. The site itself
is about a little more than three kilometers northeast of Stonehenge,
and so far the evidence suggests the pits date back

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to the same time period, around four thousand, five hundred
years ago, when Stonehenge itself was first built. Archaeologist Nick's
Noschel of the National Trust that's the body that runs
and supervises the Stonehenge historical Site, had the following to say,
as the place where the builders of Stonehenge lived and feasted,

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Durrington Walls is key to unlocking the story of the
wider Stonehenge landscape. He went on to say, this astonishing
discovery offers us new insights into the lives and beliefs
of our Neolithic ancestors. So why is this significant? Well,
even if we don't consider the association with Stonehenge, this
circle of pits is pretty much larger than any comparable

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prehistoric monument ever found in Britain. Researchers have found twenty
shafts so far, but right now their estimating there may
have been more than thirty. Originally, each one of these
is about ten ms across and five is deep. So
how did they find these after so much time had passed?
The answer lies and remote sensing technology. Think of things

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like lidar. It's a way to search the ground pretty
thoroughly before ever having to put the shovel into the soil.
Vince Gaffney, a professor of archaeology at the University of
Bradford and also one of the lead researchers on this investigation,
says that this discovery shows us quote the capacity and
desire of Neolithic communities to record their cosmological belief systems

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in ways and at a scale that we had never
previously anticipated. That's all for now. We've been asking you
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our research associate Sam T. Garden adds, most importantly, thanks

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to you. I'm Ben Bullen. Will see you tomorrow. Until then,
stay strange.