Usenet has always been the diversity of views it promotes known among its users. Some of these opinions are better known as “out there” section. If you are interested in more information about phenomena like crop circles, aliens, UFOs, Bigfoot and everything else, you can discuss some of the new USENET newsgroups devoted to topics that are usually around Halloween or on shows like X-Files.

Hierarchies

A warning about the examination of some of these newsgroups is that you go in the alt hierarchy. Unfortunately, the old hierarchy known to be a lot of spam and a lot of unmoderated groups. There are moderate versions of these groups, the reading is much more interesting. If you’re searching for in your news reader groups on all paranormal topics in which you are interested, look for those with “moderate” in their name. There are other options, of course, and a good spam filter is useful when browsing some of these groups.
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