The Nazca Lines have been a source of mystery and dispute since their discovery in southern Peru nearly a century ago. So why should the latest find be any different? Japanese enthusiasts recently released new aerial photographs of figures etched in the ground of the Nazca region, adding a fresh dollop of wonder to the giant geometric patterns and animal drawings that scientists say the Nazca Indians created as many as 2,000 years ago…
UFO 'probably a small meteorite or something'
The search for an unidentified object that apparently crashed into the sea at Port Shepstone on Saturday will resume at the weekend as there were no bodies to search for, the National Sea Rescue Institute said on Tuesday…
Mystery robot said to solve crimes, find mines in Chile
Manuel Salinas, a 39-year-old inventor, claims he has built a machine that has extraordinary capabilities for finding buried objects. In less than a year, Salinas says, he has helped solve two of the highest profile criminal cases in this South American country. And now that university lab tests seem to confirm that his robot works, mining and oil corporations are flooding him with business plans, Salinas says…
Mystery: UFO or balloon
It was a story that made headlines and one that's still talked about today. But the question remains, what was Captain Thomas Mantell chasing that day? A 1956 documentary on UFOs detailed the Mantell case, which occurred in January of 1948. It happened just months after another celebrated incident in Roswell, New Mexico, where a UFO had reportedly crashed in the summer of 1947…
Slovak doctor says solar flares could raise strokes
Human beings may be at higher risk of strokes in years when the explosions on the sun peak, according to a neurologist who studied the records of 6,100 patients in Slovakia…
Col. Jesse Marcel, Jr., on & off the record
A new book by Col. Jesse Marcel Jr. – Roswell: It Really Happened - claims that the famous Roswell UFO event actually occurred, including the recovery of an extraterrestrial craft. Col. Marcel's father, Maj. Jesse Marcel Sr. was the lead military investigator into the crash of 1947 and is finally vindicated according to this book…
David Lynch on meditation
Yellow flowers on the fireplace and yellow flowers on the carpet. In the lovely, light flooded Rukmapura Park Hotel in Maharishi Vedic City, in Iowa, sits the master of darkness: Mr. David Lynch. In his movies he often portrays the human fear with his bizarre paintbrush. Now he offers a solution for them, a path to eternal bliss: Transcendental Meditation. When he speaks, his hands play a rapid air-piano until they glide in a decrescendo to his knees and he looks at you with playful eyes…
Pyramid is giant farming clock
The archeologist Bob Benfer will never forget the moment when he realised that a pyramid he had unearthed high in the Andes was the New World’s oldest alarm clock. On a barren hillside just north of Lima, he had found an observatory more than 4,000 years old that had been built by a lost civilisation with astonishing sophistication…
Husband has secret that's out of this world
If opposites attract, it was only a matter of time before Sherrie and Sandy Nichols collided. Early on, though, Sandy worried a little secret could unravel everything. "Two people couldn’t be more opposite. We like different movies, different books, different TV shows, different music, but somehow it works. It really works,” wife Sherrie said. There were surprises along the way. Every since childhood, Sandy says he has woken up with scratches all over his body. “There’s blood on the pillows, scratches there,” he said. It’s the work, he believes, of aliens who run tests on him in his sleep…
Local ghosts are up for sale
The Warehouse on the Canal -- a magnet for years for ghost hunters and psychics seeking proof of the paranormal -- is up for sale. The owners of the 19,000-square-foot, three-story brick building decided to close their Let's Mango Restaurant & Tavern about a month ago and sell because of health problems in the family. The 100-year-old structure overlooking the Ohio & Erie Canal will go to the highest bidder during a public auction Wednesday night at the site…
Photos of Pennslyvania lake monster?
For decades there have been many sightings of a creature in Huntingdon County’s Raystown Lake. Old photos show large shadowy figures just below the surface, boaters describing sudden water turbulence and strange appearances of a large water creature, Raystown Ray…
