Nicolas Cage spooked by haunted home
Actor Nicolas Cage's home in New Orleans, Louisiana has him so spooked he refuses to sleep there, despite paying nearly $3.5 million (GBP1.9 million) for the estate. Cage bought the legendary LaLaurie Mansion last year (07) - reportedly the most haunted home in the historic city, constructed during the 1830s. He says, "(It's) in the Vieux Carre - which is called the French Quarter. It's a very notorious house, it's a very famous house - meaning it's allegedly the most severely haunted house in the United States of America... that's what they tell me. So at any given moment, I have five or six ghosts surrounding the house, all looking up at this haunted temple, and I'm in there...
Oldest gecko fossil ever found, entombed in amber
Scientists from Oregon State University and the Natural History Museum in London have announced the discovery of the oldest known fossil of a gecko, with body parts that are forever preserved in life-like form after 100 million years of being entombed in amber...
Young Dutch medium with extraordinary abilities
As far as is known Robbert van den Broeke, a young Dutchman who lives in the southern Netherlands' village of Hoeven, is singular in his ability to consistently and accurately predict the appearance of new crop formations in his general vicinity. Now 28 years old (2008), he has since early adolescence experienced "visions" which contain both the location and the design of the new crop circle-accompanied by a clear sense that the new formation is either occurring at that precise moment or that it will occur soon. In the days just prior to these experiences he generally feels a build-up of physical and/or mental "angst" (nervousness and tension) which dissipates once the crop circle has actually formed...
Doomsday rescheduled: Launch of the Large Hadron Collider postponed until October
The launch of the Large Hadron Collider which was supposed to take place Friday, August 8th, was postponed until the end of October. The most complex scientific project of today, construction of which took almost 14 years and over $8 billion of investments in hardware and brain power, continues to raise public fears and cause lawsuits against European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). The LHC team has rescheduled the launch of the most ambitious and unprecedented science experiment ever devised. The first attempts of smashing protons in the world's largest particle accelerator will take place on October 21, 2008. The energy of protons is expected to reach values that existed during the Big Bang...
Ghost stories of Mid Sussex
Paranormal investigators Scott and Rebecca Simpson were called to Cuckfield in search of ghosts. Ye White Harte Inne in Cuckfield was built in 1881, but is the site of two much older cottages dating from the 14th century and is reported to have its own resident ghost...
Strange formation of ice-circles discovered in Russia
As circles and rings in ice-covered lakes and river-bays have become a relatively numerous documented phenomenon - especially in Scandinavian and other northern European and American countries, the latest case of an ice-circle in Russia (exact location and date of discovery unfortunately unknown) just adds another case of this most likely naturally caused circle-phenomenon...
