As much as I love stories from "The Twilight Zone," sometimes they cannot compare to the real-life experiences with the unexplained - simply because they're true. Presented for your consideration, the case of the simple child's toy that seemed to have a will of its own; an otherwise ordinary construction of painted plastic, wires and whirring electronics that defied all attempts to silence it. Perhaps because behind the goofy smile of the familiar cartoon character - somewhere deep inside - stirred a component that could only have been manufactured in... The Twilight Zone. Read more.

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.

	Haunted hospital ghost pic - The ghostly image of a young boy appears above a vapor trail in the vaults of Whittington Hospital. .
	Thunderbird sightings - Adding to the catalog of sightings, two recent cases of a huge black bird in Illinois and Wisconsin.
	White blackbird - You've heard of the "we only need one white blackbird" for paranormal possibility? Well, here it is.

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