Enigmatic object baffles supernova team
An astronomical enigma has been spotted by a team hunting for very distant supernovas for their studies of the early universe. At first glance, the object discovered on 22 February in the constellation Bootes resembled an ordinary supernova. But it kept growing brighter for much too long, and its spectrum was abnormal…
Paranormal is normal for ghost investigators
In the world of orbs and electronic voice phenomena, Dennis Pearce is tops. The Poughquag resident and founder of Hudson Valley Paranormal Investigations has been awarded first prize in a contest for Best Ghost Picture sponsored by the Sci Fi Channel. The picture, "Woman Peering Out the Window," captured a ghost on film, Pearce claims. Ghost buffs and fans of the Sci Fi Channel program "Ghost Hunters" agreed…
Walking ghost caught on tape?
Valentown is a Historical Museum located in Victor, New York, containing local historical artifacts of Victor and Rochester, New York. Originally built in 1879 as a shopping plaza and community center by Levi Valentine, today Valentown stands as a monument to Valentine's inspiration for building a town on top of his own family farm land…
Deaths prompted psychic research
The deaths of four Brewer High School students a few days before their graduation a century ago cast a pall over the city. Lawrence Aiken, Winfield Brown, Norman Herrick and Lamont Parker drowned during a class outing after their sailboat capsized and sank on June 12, 1906, on Hymes or Hines Pond, known today as Brewer Lake. The next day, while searchers looked for the bodies, bells tolled at City Hall and at the fire station. Graduation was canceled. One thousand people attended a funeral for three of the victims at the First Congregational Church…
Flashback: Houston Bat Man
Fifty-three years ago on this date in 1953, a mysterious encounter occurred at 118 East Third Street, Houston, Texas. The sighting will forever be characterized as the “Houston Bat Man.” Is it more bat or man? Even thoughts of Mothman flitter about, as the thing was first compared with a moth. The story has been mixed up in the lore of “winged weirdies” and, probably inappropriately, within the David Grabias 2002 documentary, In Search of the Mothman…
Paranormal packs halls, sells books and floods airwaves
The special events hall at the Jacob Javits Convention Center is not an easy space to fill. But on a balmy spring night, Sylvia Browne packed the 30,000-square-foot space as easily as a global trade show or a jobs and careers fair. And her product? Immensely more entertaining. Browne is a psychic-medium, meaning she -- at least according to her -- receives information beyond her five senses and hears the musings of the dead…
Famous British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking says pope told him not to study beginning of universe
Famous astrophysicist Stephen Hawking said Thursday that the late Pope John Paul II once told scientists they should not study the beginning of the universe because it was the work of God. The British author _ who wrote the best-seller "A Brief History of Time" _ said that the pope made the comments at a cosmology conference at the Vatican…
Peru - Daylight UFO
photographed over Ubinas volcano
According to the preliminary report by Dr. Anthony Choy, this UFO was photographed by Marco Antonio Zeballos, a member of the Civil Defense Regional Committee (CRDC), when the witness was in the town of Matalaque preparing to evacuate families affected by the volcano. Researcher Choy says that the photo has not yet been subjected to detailed scrutiny. However, in his opinion, there is a high likelihood that it is an anomalous object that crossed the camera's field of view, without entirely dismissing that it could be an insect or bird that flew past quickly, causing distortion in the image…
