LEMMiNO Documentaries

As computers grow more powerful and complex, the plausibility of simulating an entire universe grows less absurd. In fact, many now believe that our universe could be a vast computer simulation. In this video I explore the relatively new field of digital physics, the plausibility of a simulated universe, and how we may one day create our own universe.

While much of the internet is readily accessible, certain parts lie hidden beneath intricate layers of obfuscation. This dark side of the web provides a much greater level of anonymity and privacy and in this video I explore why it exists, what it contains, and whom it appeals to.

In 1959 a group of Russian hikers mysteriously died while traversing the snowy mountains of Siberia. Their deaths remain unexplained to this day. In this video I examine the available criminal case files, autopsy reports, and photos taken by the hikers themselves in an effort to unravel this mystery. Correction: After reexamining some of the medical reports, it appears none of the hikers were intoxicated. The mistake was due to a mistranslation from Russian to English.

A video about spiders and how no one knows if someone once said we swallow them or not. Correction: Made a mistake at 2:50. Meant to say arachnids and not arthropods.

Intelligent machines are no longer science fiction and experts seem divided as to whether artificial intelligence should be feared or welcomed. In this video I explore a broad range AI research while attempting to envision a future where man and machine can coexist.

I was feeling a bit down so I made a video on how the world almost ended to cheer myself up. At any given moment, a number of cosmological phenomena could suddenly wreck havoc on our floating orb of stuff. But the cosmos better hurry as humanity seem keen on destroying itself long before any ill-meaning asteroid or solar storm gets the chance.

The Bermuda Triangle is a triangular region of the North Atlantic ocean said to be abnormally prone to nautical vanishments. In this video I explore plausible explanations for some of these vanishments while demonstrating how the legend was merely invented by authors of fiction.

The Mandela Effect is when a large group of people misremember the same experience. However, many claim misremembrance is an insufficient explanation and choose to invoke the paranormal. In this video, I carefully analyze a number of popular Mandela Effect examples in an effort to determine if this paranormal invocation is truly necessary.

In this video I delve into the expansive and complicated history of American UFO research. More precisely, the government sanctioned undertaking known as Project Blue Book. Many hundreds of cases were left unresolved upon the project's conclusion in 1969. These were dubbed the unknowns. As someone who is largely unfamiliar with UFO history, I explore a select few of these unknowns in order to understand what makes them so mystifying.

In this video I explore an elaborate cryptographic internet puzzle orchestrated by a mysterious individual or group known as Cicada 3301.

On a cloudless night in early 1942 the skies above Los Angeles erupted like a volcano when antiaircraft batteries unsuccessfully tried to shoot down one or more unidentified flying objects. The incident has since become a staple of UFO mythology while skeptics claim it was nothing more than misidentified weather balloons. In this video I delve into the available evidence to better understand what makes this case so mysterious. Long story short; it was probably weather balloons.

For the past half-century, humanity has been listening for alien radio transmissions but so far we appear to be the only ones broadcasting into the void. Astrobiologists now seek to narrow down the search by looking for other technological and biological signatures. In this video, I explore some of the methods by which they hope to do so and why the great silence of the universe is such a mystery.

On the 8th of March, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 vanished during a routine flight between Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Beijing, China. The case has since grown into one of the most puzzling mysteries in aviation history. In this video, I examine the findings of the official investigation and explore some of the leading theories.

People from all over the world have been drawing this S-shaped symbol for decades yet no one seem to know anything about it. In this video I explore some of the popular origin theories and showcase my own findings after five years of on and off searching.

Near the end of the 16th century, more than 100 men, women, and children sailed across the Atlantic to establish the first permanent English colony in America. Three years later, the colony had disappeared. A secret message, carved into a tree, was one of the only clues left behind at the scene. Now, more than four centuries later, a recent discovery may finally shed some light on this age-old mystery.

The day before thanksgiving, 1971, a middle-aged man hijacked a Northwest Airlines flight en route for Seattle, Washington. The man identified himself as Dan Cooper and after extorting $200,000, he parachuted from the aircraft, never to be seen again. In this video I explore the subsequent manhunt, the skyjackers fate, and a handful of potential suspects.