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By Stephen Wagner, About.com

Film focuses on man who claims to have seen mythical lake creature Ogopogo
Break out the popcorn and get ready for Ogopogo, the movie. Principal photography is supposed to start this summer on a movie about the search for the mythical lake creature in B.C.'s Okanagan. Independent production company Provost Pictures is bringing a crew to Kelowna to shoot the film The Beast of Bottomless Lake. Producers call the flick a 'mockumentary,' in which everything goes wrong as they try to locate Ogopogo and claim a $2-million reward…

“Ghostly teenager gave me the shivers”
Another spooked-out driver has said that he too has seen the mysterious ghostly figure wandering across Caterham's bypass in the early hours. Daniel Southwell, who lives in South Croydon, has seen a girl walking up steps into the woods off the A22 on five separate occasions. The 32-year-old was sniggered at when he told friends what he had seen. But he was astounded after reading the Surrey Mirror report on a full-scale police hunt sparked by drivers who had spotted a girl wandering across the road in the dark

UFOs do exist, insists watcher
He claims to have seen spaceships soaring across the city's skies and crop circles 300ft-wide, so it will take more than an official report to convince this Oxford UFO expert aliens don't exist

Anomalies, forbidden science and a Fortean love story
This year’s shindig for lovers of all things weird, the annual general meeting of the Fortean Times took place in London recently. The Unconvention (Uncon) meets once a year so that the motley gang of people interested in unusual and anomalous phenomena can gather together and share theories and ideas…

Are Eastern Bigfoot aggressive?
I was talking to Roger Knights today, about the August 13, 1965 story of Monroe, Michigan, when Christine van Acker and her mother Mrs. Ruth Owens, had an encounter with a black 7-feet tall Bigfoot. The Bigfoot reached inside their car, giving Christine a black eye. Knights reminded me that it might not have been an “unprovoked assault” from the Bigfoot’s point of view, because their car had “brushed past” the Bigfoot before coming to a stop…
(Also read: "When Bigfoot Attacks")

Man photographs mysterious animal
Is it a lion? A coyote? Or is it just an extremely large cat? Central Ohioans have a variety of opinions about an animal that has been seen in the area for the last two years. Bob Lombardo, of Lewis Center, e-mailed nbc4i.com some pictures of an animal that emerged from the woods near his home on Saturday night…

Earliest sighting of Chase Bigfoot
Not only are the Americans getting a tad jealous over the fact we've got our own Bigfoot, they've also got to put up with the fact our man-beast was spotted first. For records unearthed by The Post reveal people were seeing Bigfoot on, or near, the Chase in the late 1800s. The news will be a bitter blow to paranormal investigators over The Pond who have derided a string of Chase Post exclusives about sightings over the beast on our doorstep…

Former owner of Amityville horror house dies in Las Vegas
George "Lee" Lutz, whose brief stay in an Amityville, N.Y., home spawned one of the most famous haunted house stories ever, has died of natural causes. He was 59. Lutz, a Las Vegas resident, died Monday, his lawyer, Larry Zerner of Los Angeles, confirmed Wednesday. The Clark County coroner listed Lutz' cause of the death as heart disease…

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