The X-Men movies, based on the enormously popular comic book, feature a collection of human mutants who were born with extraordinary and sometimes bizarre powers. With such names as Wolverine, Storm, Cyclops, Magneto and Mystique, they bound around making blades spring from their knuckles, conjuring hurricanes from the sky or manipulating their environment through telekinesis. Would you believe there are real X-Men? They may not be genetic mutants, in the strictest sense, but they are extraordinary... not at all like you and me. Here's our own gallery of real-life super-powered characters.

This picture was sent to us by Sarah, who says, "Please take a look at this shot that was caught on cctv," says Sarah. "The picture quality might not be brilliant, but this is because I took a picture off my mobile phone from the computer screen while watching the cctv footage as it was happening."

The picture was taken at that Station Hotel in Birmingham, England during a ghost investigation. Is that really the face of something demonic-looking on the left side... or is it merely an illusion in a low-resolution photograph?

Look at the picture in the Gallery and read my comments.

• Then tell us what you think.

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"I was at home and my friend left his jacket hanging on the back of my bedroom door," reports George. "A few days went by and my friend phoned and said, 'I'm near your house now. I'm coming to get my jacket.' So I went to get it from the back of my bedroom door... and it wasn't there. I looked everywhere. I thought I was going mad. (I was the only one in my house at the time.) I just told my friend that if it turned up, I'd phone him.

"I then went to take my dogs out. When I got back, one of the dogs ran into my bedroom. I went after him because it was dirty -- and there was the jacket hanging on the back of the door! Other things have happened, like the TV changing channels on its own. Can someone tell me what is going on?"

Thanks for that report, George. Strangely, this is a relatively common phenomenon. It's been called the "borrower" phenomenon or DOP (for disappearing object phenomenon), when things suddenly go missing and cannot be found despite a thorough search, then mysteriously reappear, often in a spot that was carefully searched.

Usually the objects in question are relatively small -- like keys, jewelry, a hairbrush, or pen -- and psychologists have rationalized the "mystery" as cases of temporary, object-specific blindness. The object is really there, but for some reason, psychological or otherwise, the brain chooses not to register it.

The explanation becomes harder to accept (but not impossible) with bigger objects, such as your friend's jacket, which would be really hard to miss, and especially since you knew it had been there for a few days and you specifically went to get it. The phenomenon is even more puzzling when two or more people are involved in the search and they don't see it either.

One paranormal explanation would be poltergeist phenomena, which might also account for the TV switching channels on its own, but we would probably have to have more evidence for that. So, for your case I think we'll just have to file it as "unexplained."