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Sharon of the Strange Times

@sharonahill.bsky.social
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Strange Claims Adjuster | Spooky Geologist Weird news, strange animals, natural anomalies, pop cryptids Author: Scientifical Americans Writing at SharonAHill.com Lives at mstdn.social/@idoubtit

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Sharon of the Strange Times @sharonahill.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
'Cyanide & Happiness' Creators Target Cryptid Mythology in New Animated Comedy 'America’s Next Cryptid' #popcryptid www.bubbleblabber.com/2026/09/cyan...
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'Cyanide & Happiness' Creators Target Cryptid Mythology in New Animated Comedy 'America’s Next Cryptid' - Bubbleblabber
Seems cryptid.
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Sharon of the Strange Times @sharonahill.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Funny that I posted about this same topic, same examples a few days ago. sharonahill.substack.com/p/spooky-geo...
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Spooky Geology: Curse of the Souvenir Rock
The idea that rocks or objects taken from a certain place can bring bad luck is more widespread than ever.
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Sharon of the Strange Times @sharonahill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I spoke with Devon while she was working on this book. It's one of only a few books that frames them as the Pop #cryptids that they really are. Spokane-raised Author Devon Kelley has new PNW cryptid book www.inlander.com/culture/spok...
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Spokane-raised Author Devon Kelley brings new PNW cryptid book to Auntie’s
At the edge of the forest near Mount St. Helens, the wind may carry the ghoulish howls of something lurking in the shadows. Mysteriously large footprints hidden within the brush
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Sharon of the Strange Times @sharonahill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Reddit said RSS support will cease on November 13. Reddit is already SO terrible that it's not worth the effort anymore. Like all the rest of decent news sources on the internet, it's been ruined. I won't visit the pages just to browse when RSS goes. It's the final straw for quitting.
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Sharon of the Strange Times @sharonahill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Myth of Chernobyl's Black Bird #mothman #Fortean sharonahill.com/the-myth-of-...
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The Myth of Chernobyl's Black Bird
Sources on the Internet have used the Mothman framing of sighting a weird thing before a tragedy to spread stories about events worldwide, including a manufactured story about the black bird of Cherno...
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Blue Wave @votebiue.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Welcome to Wawa by the sea in Wildwood. Damn. Nobody can get in or out of Wildwood. Full moon and high tide are killing it.
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Sharon of the Strange Times @sharonahill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
New discovery is not news for cryptozoology sharonahill.substack.com/p/new-discov...
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New discovery is not news for cryptozoology
New animal discoveries are not bolstering cryptozoology. As scientific as it may feel, it is not a sound argument to say that a new discovery is a good sign for finding cryptids.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 25/09/2026
Pour yourself a cup of ambition. It’s Dolly Parton Day.
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It's officially Dolly Parton Day, with parades, pink lights and book drives
Communities worldwide are dedicating Friday to honoring Dolly Parton. The day falls on Sept. 25, a wink at her hit song “9 to 5.”
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Sharon of the Strange Times @sharonahill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I HATE when guys say "Just Joking". They aren't, they are trying to cover up their dickishness when you push back.
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Sharon of the Strange Times @sharonahill.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Guy on a motorcycle, no helmet or protective gear, gets mad because we're all going 42 in a 35 mph zone. Guns it and weaves through cars. Now there is a good use for cameras in crime prevention. I wish I was able to report this dickhead to his insurance company because he's a hazard to everyone.
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memsomerville.bsky.social @memsomerville.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#Wellness kills another one. Don't let cranks give you injections. #GiftArticle www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/n...
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Woman’s Death After Wellness Spa Injection Is Ruled a Homicide (Gift Article)
Elizabeth Baron died from a cardiac air embolism shortly after an intravenous infusion. Prosecutors can now seek more serious charges against the man they say performed the procedure.
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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I wrote about why the anger-addicted far-right added Tillamook Cheese to their endless list of companies they're boycotting and products they bought that they're now throwing out for reasons they don't understand. This is a free piece, but I hope you'll subscribe. www.patreon.com/posts/169937...
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Now They're Mad at Cheese | Mike Rothschild
This piece is free for everyone, but paid subscriptions are my biggest income stream after the Eaton Fire. I'm way down for this month, and
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Sharon of the Strange Times @sharonahill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I am a Disney hater. US media entertainment is now ruined like US science and US products. Greedy bastards. Read books instead.
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Sharon of the Strange Times @sharonahill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Everyone's so creative!!
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Sharon of the Strange Times @sharonahill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A PERFECT day for this mashup. September x September Ends (Mashup) | Pat & Sean Kelly - YouTube Tag: @hollywoodsteve.bsky.social @jdryznar.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWqj...
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September x September Ends (Mashup) | Pat & Sean Kelly
YouTube video by Pat & Sean
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Sharon of the Strange Times @sharonahill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
There is a serious hazard with #geomythology "A myth from one culture is sometimes like a window that allows someone from outside that culture to see things from that culture's perspective…," phys.org/news/2026-09...
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The monsters that weren't: Dinosaur and tusked-beast claims in San rock art unravel
For decades, an idea has grown in paleontology that, long before scientists began digging up and reconstructing dinosaur bones, the Indigenous San and Basotho in southern Africa noticed them too, inco...
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Sharon of the Strange Times @sharonahill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Have a good dance break. #September21
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Sharon of the Strange Times @sharonahill.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Spooky bits – new book and feature article | Sharon A. Hill sharonahill.com/spooky-bits-...
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Spooky bits – new book and feature article | Sharon A. Hill
The Unexplained and Spooky Geology feature.
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Sharon of the Strange Times @sharonahill.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Philadelphia book stores are doing good business as people want to escape the doomscrolling and support local business (instead of the horrid Amazon). #books www.inquirer.com/business/ret...
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Philadelphia's bookstores are booming, with readers seeking an 'escape'
Across Greater Philadelphia, bookstores are back. Sellers say screen fatigue, a hunger for community, and a desire to support local businesses are fueling the surge.
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Sharon of the Strange Times @sharonahill.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Another reason to dislike the Capitals. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
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Ovechkin appears in Putin campaign ad. NHL says nothing
Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin has appeared in a campaign commercial backing Russian President Vladimir Putin's political party, United Russia. The NHL has avoided commenting on the ad, say...
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Sharon of the Strange Times @sharonahill.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Blueberry cheesecake KitKats. I’ve not tasted something quite like this before. Interesting. Yes, they are blue and white.
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Sharon of the Strange Times @sharonahill.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Get ready to submit your best Bigfoot fakery to win $1 million – Modern Cryptozoology moderncryptozoology.wordpress.com/2026/09/19/g...
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Get ready to submit your best Bigfoot fakery to win $1 million
An alcoholic beverage brand seeks evidence of Bigfoot for a $1 million prize.
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Sharon of the Strange Times @sharonahill.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on #AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab." And whose fault REALLY? People.
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Sharon of the Strange Times @sharonahill.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Oh. My. Gawd. Someone get this for me!!!! #cryptid #horse www.breyerhorses.com/products/cry...
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Cryptid | 2026 Freedom Series Halloween Horse
Glows in the Dark! No fable or folklore could prepare you for the sight of Cryptid! With his red eyes watching you from the shadows with an unsettling look, you ask yourself, “Is this real?” but in th...
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Sharon of the Strange Times @sharonahill.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I don't want Hellebuyck in Buffalo. He's pissing me off. A contract is a contract, you asshat. I hope he's left to sit for a spell. I am itching for the #hockey season to get started. #GoSabres
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Sharon of the Strange Times @sharonahill.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
You can now buy an authentic replica of the #Mothman statue from Point Pleasant. Just be aware that it's an imaginative interpretation. The original mothman was described as a big bird. www.herald-dispatch.com/business/mot...
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Mothman legend lives on with businesses launched by sculptor's daughter
POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. — Kelly Roach Miller, daughter of the creator of the Mothman statue in Mason County, has opened a new store, The Mothman Statue Legacy, at 326 Main
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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Okay so @defector.com has had an odd glitch since the site redesign a couple of weeks back where the wrong photo and headline are often put together on the main page and I was going to ask them about fixing it but this just happened and as far as I'm concerned they have to leave it as is.
Screenshot for a Defector podcast episode with the headline "Consider the Emotional Lives of Scallops" only the accompanying photo is a white gormless stubbled red-headed UK singer of recent notoriety giving a flat smile to the camera while wearing a washed out peach top as beige as he is against a flat background. So, actually, probably a scallop anyway.
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Sharon of the Strange Times @sharonahill.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Bucket List item achieved last night. Iron Maiden concert.
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Sharon of the Strange Times @sharonahill.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Check out the October issue of Rock & Gem magazine for a Spooky Geology feature!
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Sharon of the Strange Times @sharonahill.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I updated this page of the website. It's actually quite hard to define a subject/field of study when it was not well defined in the first place, never institutionalized, and has changed over time. What is cryptozoology? – Modern Cryptozoology moderncryptozoology.wordpress.com/what-is-cryp...
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What is cryptozoology?
The answer to that depends on the lens you use to view cryptozoology. There are different versions of “cryptozoology” – as a field of study, a subject, or an idea. Generally, cryp…
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Sharon of the Strange Times @sharonahill.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
World's tallest living horse based in Towcester 'still growing' www.bbc.com/news/article...
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World's tallest living horse based in Towcester 'still growing'
Hugo the shire horse enters the record books as the world's tallest living horse.
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Sharon of the Strange Times @sharonahill.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Capturing Bigfoot releasing Oct 20: What will the fallout be? – Modern Cryptozoology #cryptid #Bigfoot moderncryptozoology.wordpress.com/2026/09/10/c...
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Capturing Bigfoot releasing Oct 20: What will the fallout be?
The film that exposes the Patterson Gimlin film hoax to be released on October 20, 2026.
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Sharon of the Strange Times @sharonahill.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Wordpress just instituted a "Newsletter" option in Jetpack and my subscriptions went crazy from that. But then a new post sent 4 of the same emails to a subscriber address. Seems broken with no way to find out what happened. I'd rather people use the Mailpoet option on the site instead.
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Sharon of the Strange Times @sharonahill.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Alien head concretion donated to the public Preserving an odd specimen for the public good benefits everyone. I was excited to donate my alien head concretion to a good home. sharonahill.com/alien-head-c...
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Alien head concretion donated to the public
Preserving an odd specimen for the public good benefits everyone. I was excited to donate my alien head concretion to a good home.
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Sharon of the Strange Times @sharonahill.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The Michigan Dogman may seem like a thoroughly modern monster. But werewolf legends have haunted the same landscape for more than three centuries. #cryptid thunderbirdphoto.com/f/the-detroi...
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The Detroit Werewolf
The Michigan Dogman may seem like a thoroughly modern monster. But werewolf legends have haunted the same landscape for more than three centuries.
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Sharon of the Strange Times @sharonahill.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I'm super frustrated with the @pcaaca.bsky.social. I can't get access to the journals via my membership and they won't answer emails or messages. Is anyone steering the boat there?
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Sharon of the Strange Times @sharonahill.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This one unfortunately didn’t go over well with one of my (now former) subscribers who was a hard core skeptic. Unexamined disbelief is equivalent to uncritical belief. You miss a lot. sharonahill.substack.com/p/dismissing...
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Dismissing the dismissive Skeptic
Rejecting an interesting mystery out of hand is unhelpful. Occasionally, an unusual case leaves us wondering what really happened.
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𝓦𝓲𝓵𝓵 & 𝕿𝖊𝖘𝖙𝖆𝖒𝖊𝖓𝖙 🔪🎃 @wor-will.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Jaws (1975) #FilmSky #MovieSky #Movies
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Sharon of the Strange Times @sharonahill.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Awesome new #cryptid book from Devon Kelley! Eager to read it.
A book titled "Cryptids of the Pacific Northwest" by Devon Kelley. The cover features an illustration of a man with a spear confronting an octopus, alongside text about various cryptids, including the Sasquatch.
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Sharon of the Strange Times @sharonahill.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Finally! Affleck and Aflac. It was only a matter of time. - Sep 5, 2026 newsroom.aflac.com/2026-09-05-A...
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Affleck and Aflac. It was only a matter of time.
The long-awaited partnership brings Ben Affleck and the Aflac Duck together on screen for the first time in a series of advertisement spots directed by Affleck. COLUMBUS, Ga., Sept. 5, 2026...
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Sharon of the Strange Times @sharonahill.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Here's a fun one! sharonahill.com/horse-visite...
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Horse visited by ghost girl
A security camera records what appears to be a little girl ghost visiting a horse.
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Sharon of the Strange Times @sharonahill.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I laughed so hard at this. I had to scroll past it the second time or I would die. Robot Olympics. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTUNYNMDn/
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TikTok video by Garron Noone
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Skye McDavid @skyemcdavid.com · 03/09/2026
SVP Sues the Trump Administration for Shrinking Bears Ears National Monument Now THIS is what I want my membership dues going towards @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social vertpaleo.org/svp-sues-the...
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SVP Sues the Trump Administration for Shrinking Bears Ears National Monument – Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
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Sharon of the Strange Times @sharonahill.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Love this for them. MapQuest app reaches No 1 on US Apple list after defying Trump’s Lake Ontario order They listened to the users. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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MapQuest app reaches No 1 on US Apple list after defying Trump’s Lake Ontario order
Navigating app surpasses Google and Apple Maps on top-downloaded US chart after posting ‘we’re not changing it’
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Sharon of the Strange Times @sharonahill.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Why the giant squid is not the kraken, or a #cryptid – Modern Cryptozoology moderncryptozoology.wordpress.com/2026/09/01/w...
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Why the giant squid is not the kraken, or a cryptid
The common association of the giant squid as the source animal of the kraken myth is oversimplified and erroneous. Giant squid were not only known by sailors but not seen as monsters.
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Sharon of the Strange Times @sharonahill.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Using thunderquakes to X-ray Earth – a new study shows urban seismology in action theconversation.com/using-thunde...
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Using thunderquakes to X-ray Earth – a new study shows urban seismology in action
With the help of thunderstorms and everyday fiber-optic cables, these scientists are revealing a hidden world underground.
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Sharon of the Strange Times @sharonahill.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
We need to make mass sociogenic/psychogenic illness a more mainstream concept. This article doesn't even say the term, but OBVIOUSLY that is what happened. It's so well documented but still ignored. So it keeps happening. people.com/6-students-e...
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6 Teen Girls Suffered Seizure-Like Episodes at School on the Same Day. It Wasn’t the First Time Such Had Happened
Six female students at Colbert County High School reportedly experienced seizure-like episodes on Aug. 24, resulting in one hospitalization. A similar incident occurred at the Leighton, Ala., school l...
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Sharon of the Strange Times @sharonahill.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Is there a #monster festival in your town? Check out why that is culturally important. #cryptids #tourism moderncryptozoology.wordpress.com/2026/08/27/c...
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Cryptid Town Festivals
Festivals celebrating local cryptids are proliferating and bringing attention and tourism to small towns.
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026
We're not changing the name of Lake Ontario. Name it whatever you want at your leisure: gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeontario (tag us so we can see your work 🙂)
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