July
• Prophetic Mice. Japanese researchers tried to find out how mice were able to "predict" earthquakes. Mice have been seen to behave strangely before quakes. (more)
• Chinese Man-Beast. An investigation was begun after the sighting of a strange man-beast in the forests of Central China. It was described as a grayish "mythical ape-like animal," 1.65 metres tall with shoulder-length black hair. (more)
• Mystery Blob. A mysterious blob of something washed by on the shores of Chile. Experts think it might have been whale blubber or a giant octopus, but no definitive determination was made. (more)
• Crop Circle Hoax Hoax. Four teenagers claimed to have created dozen of crop circles in California. Some investigators doubted their claim. (more)
• Nessie Bones. Gerald McSorley claimed to have found the bones of a 150-million-year-old plesiosaur on the shores of Loch Ness. Although the bones were authentic, experts believed McSorley brought them to Loch Ness. (more)
• Yeti Proof. Explorers found good evidence for a Yeti-like creature in Sumatra. They believe they found hair samples and footprints of the island's legendary Orang Pendek. (more)
• Champ Noise Recorded. Researchers working in the Button Bay area of the lake said highly sensitive sonar equipment on their boat captured underwater sounds similar to those emitted by a Beluga whale or dolphin. They think it might be Champ, the famed "monster" of Lake Champlain. (more)
• Ants Crawl from Eye. An 11-year-old boy was admitted to a hospital in India when it was noticed that black ants were coming out of his left eye, which was red and swollen. (more)
• Norway's Nessie. Norway's version of the Loch Ness Monsters - Selma, the Seljord serpent, was sighted. (more)
• House of Blood. The walls of a house in India mysteriously oozed human blood. (more)
• Weirdest Story of the Month. Emphasizing the perils of pierced tongues, a woman's tongue stud was struck by lightning. She survived the electricity surging through her body. (more)
August
• Chinese Lake Monster. A group of about a dozen soldiers claimed to have spotted China's "Loch Ness Monster." It was the second sighting of the mysterious animal in less than a month. (more)
• Canadian Lake Monster. The sighting of a mysterious creature reignited talk of whether Newfoundland's Crescent Lake has its own version of the Loch Ness Monster. (more)
• Chicago's Ghost Planes. They're spooking pilots and air traffic controllers alike - images of airplanes that either do no exist or are very far away are popping up on radar that controls traffic at O’Hare International Airport. (more)
• Cryptozoology Museum. Cryptozoologist Loren Coleman opened the museum in Portland, Maine, to house his collection of four decades worth of paranormal pieces. (more)
• Weirdest Story of the Month. An 8-year-old girl hooked a fish with apparent legs and a horn growing out of its head. (more, with photo)
September
• Asteroid Collision Predicted. A giant asteroid is heading for Earth and could hit in 2014, U.S. astronomers warned British space monitors. (more)
• Mystery Metal Object. A foot-long piece of black metal, an inch thick, "burning hot" and shaped "like half of a wheel," crashed through the roof of Lin Shi Ying's three-bedroom home in San Francisco. (more)
• NDEs Studied. Scientists probing the paranormal say they hope to set up a major experiment in Britain trying to find out once and for all whether the mind can step outside the body at the brink of death. (more; and some results)
• Abominable Snowman "A Bear". A Japanese mountaineer attempted to settle once and for all the decades-long debate over the existence of the Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas, claiming that his years of study have shown that the legendary apelike monster is in fact a brown bear. (more)
• Kangaroo Hero. Farmer Len Richards may owe his life to his pet kangaroo Lulu, which alerted the family after he was badly injured by a falling tree branch. (more)
• Weirdest Story of the Month. Surgeons in eastern Turkey have removed a 2kg hairball from the stomach of a 17-year-old girl, the remnant of a childhood eating habit. (more)
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