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The Hollowfield Institute Catalogues Things That Never Happened

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A fictional Washington archive documents genuine American folklore, including hoaxes, sightings, and the people who kept writing them down.

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The site builds an entire institutional history around eleven witnesses, a hardware-store meeting, and a machine called V.E.R.A. Its best trick is treating the Hodag, Jackalope, and Chupacabra with equal archival seriousness—while plainly admitting that the Institute itself is invented.

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Thirty Patents for the Grave

August 13’s newborn domains include 30 safety-coffin patents, lost notices for false teeth and a box of hair, short films playing in 100 Tokyo taxis, and a Queensland river view arranged gauge by gauge downstream.

This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-13 Domain Arrivals issue.

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The Museum of Hopeful Machines museumofhopefulmachines.com

An illustrated archive of ingenious machines whose promises exceeded their proof, drawn from historical patent records.

 TAXIATER: The Festival That Turns Taxis into Cinemas taxiater.com

TAXIATER is a Japanese short-film festival that uses screens in 100 Tokyo taxis as a moving cinema.

 Wishes of Tomorrow, the Game Boy Advance adventure built the long way round flatfootlabs.com

A free handmade pixel-art adventure set beneath Mt. Fuji, playable in a browser through a local patcher.