Exhumed

‘It’s not a landscape that’s there for people to go and look at,” says Richard Skelton. The countryside around the Anglo-Scottish border doesn’t share its secrets willingly, but a few hours spent in the passenger seat of Skelton’s MG hatchback reveals some of its strange charms. Wide, arrow-straight roads are a mesmerising constant that switches one’s focus to the granular details – the textures of the road surface, the ditches flanking each side, and the occasional cartoonish tree. The effect is hypnotic. “It’s kind of…

Johnny Bocktune Lew reported his Mercedes-Benz stolen from a shopping center in Stanford in 1992. Image: Grzegorz Czapski (Shutterstock)The scariest part of Palo Alto used to be the number of failed tech startups, until now. Last week, authorities dug up a car in the backyard of a Silicon Valley mansion which only led to more questions about the car’s contents and owner.Landscapers in Atherton—an affluent California suburb located in Silicon Valley—made a startling discovery in the backyard of a mansion according to The…