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Strange, mysterious and unexplained things on our planet.

Animals Sealed in Stone
Amazing, true cases of living frogs, toads, lizards and other creatures found encased within solid rock. From your About.com Guide.

Clouds of Suspicion
When is a cloud not a cloud? Perhaps when it behaves so strangely - even to the point of attacking people - that it becomes a truly puzzling manifestation.

The Ice is Falling! The Ice is Falling!
In early 2000, mysterious falls of large chunks of ice rained down on Italy and Spain. But these are just recent instances of a phenomenon that has occurred at least for centuries.

The Mystery of Ball Lightning
Bizarre, personal encounters with the most puzzling of all weather phenomena. From your About.com guide.

Mysterious Tunnels
Expeditions exploring tunnels around the world return with strange tales of subterranean civilizations and advanced, ancient technology. From your About.com Guide.

Mystery Spots and Gravity Hills
Cars and balls seem to roll uphill, people appear able to stand at impossible angles - all in contradiction to the laws of gravity and physics. What's really happening at these curious locations?

Paranormal Hot Spots
There are many places around the US that seem to be focal points of high strangeness - vortexes of bizarre sightings, unexplained encounters and eerie events.

Rods: 20 Questions with José Escamilla
José Escamilla has caught on tape strange flying rods with undulating appendages. Are they living creatures? From your About.com Guide.

Secrets of Coral Castle
Did a Latvian immigrant rediscover the secrets to the building of the pyramids? His amazing "castle" may hold clues to long-lost powers. From your About.com Guide.

Spooklights: Where to Find Them
Are they ghosts, UFOs or some unexplained natural phenomenon? Perhaps you'd like to go observe one and decide for yourself.

Top 10 Earth Mysteries
From animals encased in stone to unexplained hums and lights to perplexing flying rods, here are 10 of the most baffling Earth mysteries.

Weird, Weird Rain
Heads up! There's all kinds of strange stuff falling from the sky: frogs, sardines, jellyfish, alligators and maybe - just maybe - cows! Here are some documented cases of really weird precipitation.

When Nature Goes Nuts
Incredible yet true accounts of rain, clouds, lightning and storms that behave in a way that seems downright impossible!

The Alahoy Vortexes
A vortex is the result of a tremendous circulatory energy phaseout, as if you didn't know. And this site lists dozens of them all over the U.S. and Canada.

Anomalous Transparency
In 1997 and 1998, Dr. S.P. Faile, a materials research engineer, began recording observations of a curious effect: common, normally opaque objects seemed to turn partially transparent.

Away with the Faeries
Long before crop circles caught the headlines there were fairy rings. Fortean Times explores the legends and lore of this mysterious phenomenon.

The Back Beyond: Mysteries of the Superstition Mountains
There are strange things up in those mountains - including, perhaps, a race of pygmies.

Ball Lighting Page
Everything you ever needed to know about this mysterious form of plasma can be found through this page.

The Bennington Triangle
Ten people mysteriously vanished in the haunted wilderness of Glastenbury Mountain, Vermont, famous for sightings of strange lights, ghostly figures and monsters.

The Coral Castle Mystery
On average, the weight of a block used in the Coral Castle was greater than those used to build the Great Pyramid - 1,100 tons of rock. What was Leedskalnin's secret?

Coral Castle - Sweet 16
The most impressive stone site in America was built in the 20th Century: Coral Castle, near Homestead, Florida is a mind-blowing mystery. It has been called the 8th Wonder of the World.

The Brown Mountain Lights
New video evidence may finally provide more clues to potentially solve the mystery.

The Curse of Palmyra Island
Can an entire island be haunted or cursed? This tropical island is the site of many weird and grisly occurrences.

Death in the Pasture
UFOs/Aliens guide Loy Lawhon investigates who or what is mutilating America's cattle with a rundown of common mutilation features and some possible answers.

The Dulce Book
Complete text of book online: Did something significant and horrifying take place near Dulce, New Mexico? Phenomena seem to converge into one vast scenario of high strangeness.

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