About Side Quests of Reality

Most things get explained. Eventually the noise resolves into signal, the mystery collapses into cause and effect, and the story gets filed away.

This publication is about the cases that didn’t collapse.

Side Quests of Reality covers anomalous events, unexplained phenomena, and the edges of the documented record. Not the sensational. Not the fabricated. The ones with paper trails, witness testimony, physical evidence, and official acknowledgment that something occurred, paired with official silence about what that something was.

The approach here is simple. Read the primary sources. Follow the documents. Take the witnesses seriously without taking their interpretations as gospel. Apply the same skepticism to the debunking as to the claim. And when the record is incomplete, say so.

There is no agenda here beyond the honest one: to look carefully at things that deserve careful attention, and to report what the looking finds.

Who is Craig Evans

Craig Evans is a writer and independent researcher with a background in investigative documentation and narrative nonfiction. He has spent years studying cases at the intersection of government secrecy, anomalous phenomena, and institutional response, with a particular focus on events that generated official records but never received official resolution.

He does not believe everything. He does not dismiss everything. He reads the documents.

What SQR Is…

Side Quests of Reality is a multi-format publication. Cases are explored through long-form written investigations, audio, and video, depending on what the material calls for. Some cases are single entries. Some will build across multiple installments as the evidence accumulates.

Each case is filed with a reference number. The archive grows over time.

The cases will eventually start talking to each other. That is when it gets interesting.

What SQR Is Not…

This is not a conspiracy theory platform. It is not interested in unfalsifiable claims, in content designed to provoke outrage, or in the performance of belief. If a case has a credible conventional explanation, that explanation will be presented fully and fairly.

The standard here is the same one that should apply to any serious investigation: follow the evidence, acknowledge uncertainty, and never mistake the absence of an answer for the presence of one.