Interested in purchasing a piece of Yeti history? Check out the new auction on eBay for an authentic 1960 scientific sample from the Hillary-Perkins’ World Book expedition…
Ghost tours torment residents
Ghost tours are haunting Gettysburg's Baltimore Street homes with noise and litter, two residents told the Gettysburg Borough Public Safety Committee on Monday. Gettysburg officials, who don't have any regulatory ordinances in place to control the ghoulish guides, are struggling to ensure a growing number of companies follow a voluntary compliance policy. Many ghost tour companies are also complaining that their competition is giving them all a bad name…
(Also read: "Ghost Walks and Tours")
“The Devil is a Gentleman” explores religious fringe
It isn’t every day you get invited to a slumber party with the Church of Satan, as Chris Hallman discovered while researching his latest book “The Devil is a Gentleman.” Published in May by Random House, the book follows the Margaret Banister Writer-in-Residence on a coast-to-coast odyssey as he spends time with — and sometimes joins the ranks of — American fringe religious groups…
Thousands flock to see “Hanuman avatar”
Thousands of people are flocking to a village in West Bengal to worship a man they believe possesses divine powers because he climbs up trees in seconds, gobbles up bananas and has a "tail". Devotees say 27-year-old villager Chandre Oraon is an incarnation of the Hindu monkey Lord Hanuman -- worshipped by millions as a symbol of physical strength, perseverance and devotion…
Front garden yields ancient tools
Tasmanian tiger “sightings”
Tasmanian tigers are said to be roaming the outskirts of Portland. Four sightings of one of the world's most fabled creatures have been reported to an independent researcher in the past three months. The last sighting was in early May by a Portland resident, Anthony Ersello, who said yesterday he saw the strange dog-like animal sitting in the middle of the Princes Highway on the outskirts of town near the Shell service station…
God, UFOs and the Great Pyramid
New documentary looks at who built Egypt's monuments. Who really built the great pyramids of Egypt? In school, students are taught that the pharoahs used slave labor and existing technology to build tombs for themselves. But is there more to the story? How could the precise measurements have been calculated? How could massive stones be cut with such precision? How could they have been quarried and moved into place?...
UFO pictured in carnival flypast
Amateur photographer Ray Gilbert reckons he caught more than one flying object on camera when a Dakota aeroplane completed a flypast over Grantham Carnival on Saturday. Mr Gilbert, of Montrose Close, Grantham, discovered a mysterious dot on one of the digital pictures he took of the flypast. He said the dot has a flat top and a red rim around it only visible when he zooms in on it on his computer…
Did Gary McKinnon uncover a U.S. off-planet space navy?
"What was the most exciting thing you saw?" I ask. "I found a list of officers' names," he claims, "under the heading 'Non-Terrestrial Officers'." "Non-Terrestrial Officers?" I say. "Yeah, I looked it up," says Gary, "and it's nowhere. It doesn't mean little green men. What I think it means is not earth-based. I found a list of 'fleet-to-fleet transfers', and a list of ship names. I looked them up. They weren't US navy ships. What I saw made me believe they have some kind of spaceship, off-planet”…
