Dragon boat festivals are once again underway all across Canada, and while tens of thousands of people will attend the events, very few are familiar with the ancient history of the tradition. The festivals, or rituals, started approximately 2500 years ago in southern China along the banks of the Yangtze River and were originally carried out to please the Asian water dragon deity. The rituals often included human sacrifices and violent battles between crew members of competing boats who hurled stones and struck opponents with bamboo sticks…
Cause and defect
Notice something wrong? Are our clocks ticking backward? The known laws of physics say there's no reason why the past, present and future must occur in that order. Backward works, too…
Conversations with extraterrestrials
One of the rarest types of UFO encounter is an onboard experience or a face-to-face encounter with an actual extraterrestrial. In my twenty years of UFO investigations, I have uncovered only a handful of these types of very close encounters. Surprisingly, in the vast majority of these encounters, there is little or no conversation between the humans and the aliens…
Pensioner's UFO plans scuppered
A pensioner went to the Appeal Court to have his design recognised - for a flying saucer. Bolton inventor Joseph Thompson, 83, believes his idea for a unique flying device challenges the accepted laws of physics and could revolutionise the world's travel industry…
Girl-haunting ghost’s terror strikes school
The terror of a ghost, who seems to love concentrating on girls only, has had everyone's hair on end since some days in Tribhuvan secondary school, Tilachaur, located in Mahendranagar municipality-8. Dozens of girl students in the school are falling prey to the ghost everyday. The ghost seems to have no use or time for haunting boys. Now, it has even begun targeting women…
(Also read: "The Grieving Ghost of Mary Jo")
Expedition to hunt monsters
Intrepid members of the Woolsery-based Centre for Fortean Zoology (CFZ) are setting off for The Gambia next month in search of two monsters. The centre's annual expedition is being carried out in memory of former Woolsery parish council chairman John Downes, whose son, Jonathan, is director of the CFZ…
Man claims psychic made off with $170K
Mummified Brachylophosaurus holds secrets millions of years old
The absolute latest in technology is helping solve a forensics mystery that is 77 million years old. Five years ago in the badlands north of Malta, paleontologists uncovered a mummified duck-billed brachylophosauruses so well preserved that much of its skin and soft tissue parts remained along with its skeleton…
What can a magnet tell you about rain patterns?
If someone said you can understand rain patterns and the dynamics of the atmosphere by studying magnets and magnetism -- and therefore make better predictions of the effects of global warming -- would you think he's crazy? Brilliant? The atmosphere spans the entire globe, while a magnet fits easily in your hand; can they really be so similar?...
Bigfoot sighting in Cass County -- fact or myth?
Remote Six Mile Lake Road in eastern Cass County (just west of Ball Club) experienced more than a normal share of traffic this week as curiosity seekers came in carloads to view the large, mysterious footprints left on the edge of the road. What made the footprints may be anyone's guess, but there are those, such as Bob Olson of Deer River, who believe the prints were made by that creature of popular lore, Sasquatch — or Bigfoot…
