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Up-to-the-minute accounts of the paranormal, enigmatic and the unexplained

By Stephen Wagner, About.com

Monsters from beneath the Bermuda Triangle
In the permanently dark waters beneath the Bermuda Triangle, scientists have uncovered a remarkably diverse range of extraordinary sea creatures

How Lena’s dream saved Tony’s life
Lena McGregor had a vision which saved the life of a stranger. For three days and two nights, 79-year-old dementia sufferer Tony Poboka lay helpless and dying alone in a dry creek bed after disappearing on Friday afternoon from his granny flat near Nimbin…
(Also read: "What To Do with Your Premonitions")

Mysteriouser and mysteriouser
The Museum of Jurassic Technology holds cabinets of curiosities, worlds of mysteries, and baffling phenomena explained in scientific, if gently obfuscatory, terms. From a humble storefront in Culver City, the MJT has created some of the most interesting artistic-technological-confusing exhibits and ideas circulating today. Maybe that's why the MacArthur Foundation gave its proprietor, David Wilson, one of those genius grants in 2001…

Yellow dust plague mystery

UFO mind-melting in government report
Did you see these headlines this week? "Secret report says UFOs DO exist", screamed one. "UFOs don't exist, says MoD", said another. Confused, intrigued and potentially a little disappointed, I tried to find out what was behind the flurry of flying-saucer excitement

Stalked by a UFO outside Of Houston, B.C.
It was 2:00 a.m. and I was headed East on the Yellowhead Highway, Hwy 16. I was just a few miles outside of Houston. I had traveled this highway lots of times and usually stayed in Vanderhoof or Quesnel but the road had been bad coming down the Cassiar Hwy and had slowed me down. My traveling companions besides the 5 equines consisted of my SharPei dog (CharChar) and 1 cat (Sally). It was my traveling companions that alerted me to something unusual in the beginning. Char started howling in a strange way and was looking out the rear window. I could see a strange white glow on her when I turned around…

Hairy hominoids killed and captured
The events in Malaysia are only the latest in a long history in Asia of interactions between humans and unknown hairy hominoids. Often, especially in times of war, the encounters have not been peaceful ones for the "Wild People." Sometimes these incidents have been covered up for years, due to the military involvements, from regional fighting to the stories we are only recently hearing from the Vietnam War era…

Team goes where g-g-ghosts may reside
A little background: Save the "Ghostbuster" jokes. Natalie Boswell has heard them all. She's an investigator for the Des Moines Iowa Extreme Paranormal Advanced Research Team. The 12-member unit uses parabolic microphones, EMFs (more on those later) and other specialized equipment to root out the reason things go bump in the night. The Villisca hatchet-murder house, the Kasier Bevington manse in Winterset, the Jordan House in West Des Moines; if there’s something creepy going on, Boswell and company will happily come out to assess the situation…

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