Up-to-the-minute reports of paranormal activity and news from around the world
CREATURES:
The Yeti: DNA tests will finally solve a truly bizarre mystery
Set high in a remote Himalayan mountain range stands the Pangboche Buddhist monastery. The walls are lined with traditional Nepalese paintings depicting the treacherous tracks to the monastery. And among them are pictures of the legendary ape-like creature we refer to as the Yeti. This might seem fanciful until you learn that, for many years, a shriveled hand (about the size of an adult human's, with long, fat fingers and curling nails) was also on display in the monastery - and revered by the monks, who believed it protected them from bad luck...
Searching for Bigfoot in Texas
Bigfoot. Sasquatch. Skunk Ape. Yowie. Yeti. Abominable Snowman. In Texas you may have heard of the Caddo Creature, the Lake Worth Monster/Goat-Man or the Liberty County Monkey Man. There are many names for the hairy humanlike creature that walks on two legs and has eluded searchers for decades...
Button Bay Bobber: New Champ video?
Here's another YouTube video of an allegedly unidentified lake cryptid seen in Lake Champlain. It reportedly was shot by a teenaged individual at Button Bay in Lake Champlain, near Vergennes, Vermont, on July 30, 2011 (although it was only recently uploaded in November)...
(Also read: Champ - Lake Champlain Monster)
Zombie and UFO queries are wasting police time, warns chief
A police chief has hit out at cops being forced to answer "bonkers" questions from the public - such as how many werewolves, vampires and zombies have been investigated...
Alkali lake monster and Hall's horrors
About the time Ivan Sanderson died, there was an article in Pursuit by Mark A. Hall entitled "Horrors From the Mesozoic" which touched on two distinct matters actually: the Alkali Lake Monster reported in Nebraska and the Great Horned Alligator mentioned much more vaguely as centered around Texas. The latter is both the more definite cryptid and more spectacular, but the Alkali Lake monster became a point of confusion by being better-documented and better-described, with a similar overall description. It was however almost certainly a hoax from the beginning...
GHOSTS, HAUNTINGS, POLTERGEISTS:
Haunting tales of ghostly pets
The scratch of paws in an empty room, the brush of fur against the legs days after the death of a pet cat, the thundering hooves of a horse seen galloping along a deserted road which vanished before the eyes of astounded motorists...
(Also read: Animal Ghosts)
LOST WORLDS:
Is Machu Picchu a giant geoglyph of a bird?
Twenty years ago, architect Enrique Guzman bought a small-scale model of Machu Picchu at the National Museum. What he saw in the model would one day become the basis of his master's thesis at the National Engineering University. "The citadel was shaped like a bird," he said...
PSYCHIC PHENOMENA:
How to catch a psychic medium cheating
Danny Fredricks: I'm going to start this article off with a confession, and a revelation as well (just so you know where I'm coming from). I have absolutely no doubt that there are many amazing psychic mediums working today, who can give you honest, insightful access to your loved ones who have crossed over to the other side...
PROPHETS AND PROPHECIES:
For some, the world will end in 2012
Some people say the world will end in the coming year. There's actually a certain truth in that. Even if the apocalyptic Mayan predictions and Nostradamus prophecy do not occur, it is going to be the end of the world just the same for some people here. The death knell, one way or the other, will come with the 13th general election, which, as has been widely anticipated and figured out, is most likely to take place next year -- sooner rather than later. So for many, the world will end just before or just after this watershed event...
