Venus's double vortex mystery deepens
Newly released images of a double hurricane-like feature over Venus's south pole show that it is even more complex than first thought. Identifying the forces that shape it could help unlock the secrets of the planet's thick atmosphere, which keeps Venus scaldingly hot via a runaway greenhouse effect…
Nineteen-year-old says his touch can cure diseases
Adam Dreamhealer is not your average 19-year-old. This Canadian college student makes more than most doctors do. He says he can heal people with just his hands. ABC News estimates that Adam will make more than $1 million this year, and that doesn't include the income from his books, DVDs and $150 healing sessions he offers over the Internet…
Russian cameraman records flight of UFO
An unidentified flying object has appeared over the Yeysk Spit (Krasnodar region of Russia). According to the Russian Center TV station, inexplicable phenomena have occurred in Krasnodar Territory before, for instance, circles in fields that were allegedly not made by humans. But now the channel claims it has irrefutable evidence of non-human activity as a professional cameraman has recorded the appearance of a UFO over Yeysk…
McDonald’s is home base for “vampire hunter”
Superman is still cursed
Superman Returns director Bryan Singer has revealed how the so-called "Curse Of Superman" has struck the team putting together the forthcoming DVD of his summer blockbuster. A Hollywood jinx is said to have dogged the franchise ever since its first star, Bud Collyer, who voiced the role on radio, died from heart trouble…
Stuffed Sasquatch auction
On eBay, there is an auction ongoing for what is claimed to be a Sasquatch shoulder mount…
MSU comes up with procedure for unexplained symptoms
The Mayan Lord of Creation and 2012
Twentytwelvology. You won’t find it in Webster’s dictionary. Not yet. But believe me, before this decade is out, we’ll have that as well as plenty of 2012 -isms and -ographies. “The 2012 Phenomenon” was recently the subject of a paper written by anthropologist Robert K. Sitler.1 The sub-title of his paper brings focus to his approach: “New Age Appropriation of an Ancient Mayan Calendar.” In his assessment of the writings and statements of popular writers, New Age teachers, and independent researchers (including myself), he sorts the wheat from the chaff and exposes “merely tangential connections to the realities of the Mayan world.” To his credit, he distinguishes the serious work done by myself and Geoff Stray2 from the wild and unfounded speculations of other writers…
Researchers study mysterious mutilation
Almost a year to the day after a cow mutilation was reported near Paradise Hill, another case has surfaced, this time in the Hillmond area. A farmer near Hillmond discovered the animal on the evening of June 16 and contacted Maidstone’s Barb Campbell at the Saskatchewan Provincial Paranormal Research Centre the following day. Campbell says while the animal had been dead for between 10 and 20 days, all signs point to a mutilation…
Mystery object crashes to earth at Carson golf course
Was the chunk of metal that fell on the golf course space junk, part of an airplane or something more terrestrial?...
The monster detectives: on the trail of the ninki-nanka
Once, the komodo dragon was thought to exist only in folklore. What other mythical beasts might we find if we look hard enough? Helen Brown meets the man on the trail of the ninki-nanka…
Scientists question nature's fundamental laws
Sites under review for telescope that could detect alien TV
Astronomers are working to choose a site for a giant telescope that could read TV or radio signals from alien civilizations. The instrument, called the Square Kilometer Array or SKA, would be the world’s most powerful radio telescope and would begin operation by 2020, if all goes according to plan…
Another meteorite hits Norway
A meteorite weighing around two kilos landed right in the yard outside Bjørn Herigstad's home in coastal Jæren, western Norway, over the weekend. It's the second meteorite-landing in Norway in a month, and experts are calling the incident sensational…
