From Stephen Wagner,
Your Guide to Paranormal Phenomena.
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May 16 2006

Johor Bigfoot found, then what?
What’s that sound? A heavy breathing is heard. Sweat falls from the brows onto the heaving chests as the chase picks up speed. Footprints have been found, the live capture gear is at hand. The moment is here. Shooting to kill has been rejected. The searchers round a corner, and are met with an image of an unknown hominoid not unlike Peter Loh’s latest best rendering above. The realization is startling. It is a Bigfoot-cum-Mawas in Johor that the local scientists have been tracking for three nights through the steamy rainforests. What now? And what happens when the creature is captured?...

How smart are animals?
There is always someone popping up with new evidence that beasts have intellectual capacities traditionally thought of as exclusively human. Researchers from St Andrews University, for example, have just reported that bottlenose dolphins use "signature whistles" to identify each other, just as humans use names. Nor is this ability confined to mammals with large crania…

Ghost hunter finds his ghoul
Hearse owner and self proclaimed horror historian Jack Sim was dressed in black. Standing among the weathered tombstones of the South Brisbane cemetery, this powerfully built man in trilby and trenchcoat was difficult to see in the darkness. Sim's attire, he explains, reflects his admiration for celebrated 1930s English ghost hunter, Harry Price…

On Ancient Walls, a New Maya Epoch
On the sacred walls and inside the dark passageways of ancient ruins in Guatemala, archaeologists are making discoveries that open expanded vistas of the vibrant Maya civilization in its formative period, a time reaching back more than 1,000 years before its celebrated Classic epoch…

Is there Bigfoot in Georgia?
Sometimes in this world there are certain things we just can't explain. Ghost sightings, the Loch Ness monster, and what about Bigfoot? Well, Bigfoot, that's one we may be able to help you with. Did you know there have been over fifty Bigfoot sightings in Georgia? In Coweta County, the site of the most recent sightings in Georgia, we spoke with locals as well as a Bigfoot researcher to find out if Bigfoot really is living among us…

Dan Aykroyd: unplugged on UFOs
Okay, I'll admit to being the sucker for a good UFO documentary. Much like the slogan plastered across Mulder's poster: I want to believe. After all, the universe is a very, very big place, and I just can't imagine God being one for wasted space. But just exactly what makes Dan Aykroyd the go-to guy for paranormal phenomena? Did someone think his stint in "Ghostbusters" was for real? Do they think he has inside information because he married Kim Basinger in "My Stepmother is an Alien?"…

Fighting fire with rice, mystics take on Mount Merapi
The eruption of Indonesia's reawakened Mount Merapi intensified to its highest level today with red-hot boulders and searing gas clouds surging down its slopes. The evacuation of villages surrounding the crater has been stepped up but some 200 people still refuse to comply with urgent warnings to leave, citing ancient mystical beliefs as they attempt to assuage the volcano's fury with incense and ritual…

NASA tracks cataclysmic asteroid
Mark your calendar for Sunday, April 13, 2036. That's when a 1,000-foot-wide asteroid named Apophis could hit the Earth with enough force to obliterate a small state. The odds of a collision are 1-in-6,250. But while that's a long shot at the racetrack, the stakes are too high for astronomers to ignore. For now, Apophis represents the most imminent threat from the worst type of natural disaster known, one reason NASA is spending millions to detect the threat from this and other asteroids…
(Also read: "4 Scariest Predictions for Our Planet")