[Mystery #2] Black Knight Satellite

Day 2,904, 07:12 Published in Argentina Canada by New Faustian Man

[ Article #1 Recap ]

The previous article (and first in the series), The House That Bled, was won by CheetahCurtis for his suggestion that foul play was involved, specifically that one of the couple's children may have been culpable, motivated by some unresolved issues in the family. According to CC:

"..the child who had hospital access purposely put the blood around the house to scare the Winston's. They would have easy access to blood. The blood type would be easy to obtain. The motivation (family problems) is there. The Winston's would have been asleep (and deaf?) so wouldn't have noticed someone in the house, especially since the child might not have had to break in."

Whether the above theory is genuinely correct is ofcourse moot, the explanation as supplied is just, imho, the best solution guided by what we know actually happened, that doesn't rely on anything too odd or paranormal. Personally I think it may have been a "prank" pulled by neighbourhood kids, but the couple's children is a good substitute and perhaps the more likely scenario, though it's a pretty weird prank for all that (and yeah, I have no idea where neighbourhood kids would get that much human blood)

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[Mystery #2] Black Knight Satellite

Black Knight satellite in orbit


The second video involves the "Black Knight satellite", an anomalous object that's supposedly orbited the Earth for thousands of years (if you believe the fringe theories). Watch this video in it's entirety, -- then, in the comment's section below, give what in your opinion is the most credible explanation for the Black Knight satellite.

What the Black Knight pilot probably looks like


My take:
I think the most credible theory is ofcourse spacejunk (perhaps a scorched part of a rocket or shuttle), however for spacejunk it's had an uncanny knack of maintaining it's orbit for the best part of the last one-hundred years. There are plenty of NASA and Soviet-era imagery of the satellite, and both professional and amateur astronomers have claimed to have observed it, and some to have detected radio signals emanating from it, so I don't think there should be any doubt regarding it's existence, the question rather is what it is, what material it's constituted of, and how it came to assume it's strange polar orbit around Earth (and how it maintains said orbit). Also, considering the recent report on KIC 8462852, I don't think the extraterrestrial-in-origin explanation is as outlandish as once upon a time (though yeah, er, unlikely).

Black Knight satellite from above


⏩ ⏩ The best/most interesting/most well-thought-out explanation (according to me) wins 10 Gold. ⏪ ⏪


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