It's not exactly a seminar at Hogwarts. But Harry Potter devotees would still feel right at home with the scholars gathering this week to discuss the philosopher's stone, arsenic and the finer points of transmuting lead to gold. Welcome to the first major conference on alchemy in nearly 20 years…
(Also read: "The Real-Life Wizard Behind ‘Harry Potter’")
Throw back spirits on ghost tour
Even summer evenings can be spooky, says Kim Harris, co-owner of Nashville Ghost Tours. Self-proclaimed "ghost story junkies," Harris and her husband, Frank, hit on their unique business concept four years ago after moving to Nashville. Their latest specter specialty is Haunted Tavern Tours, recreational walking jaunts to several downtown Nashville bars and taverns…
Pig circle that's top of the crops
For years they have been heralded as evidence of alien life on Earth. But when it comes to patterns etched into farmers' fields, it looks like it's humans this time who have gone the whole hog. For the world's first pig crop circle has been discovered deep in the English countryside…
Silly season's on: time for crop circles
Hundreds of tourists and UFO enthusiasts are coming to Southern Poland to see new crop circles which were discovered inn a field near Piekary Śląskie – a city in Silesia. Is it an alien visit and a chance to estabilish contact with an extraterrestial civilization, or a joke?...
Ghost hunt of a haunted house (with video)
Do ghosts really exist? Melanie Wallwork went on a ghost hunt to a haunted Lancashire house with a team of experts to find out. As I arrived at Mains Hall I had rather mixed feelings about what I wanted to see. The journalist in me wanted to see ghouls and ghosts, maybe a zombie or two, but the real me wasn't so sure. Back in the newsroom, concern had been expressed about the possibility of me being satanized, and I certainly didn't want that…
Haunted house for sale in Central Florida
A historic home believed to be haunted by the ghost of an elderly woman who moves items and slams cabinets shut is for sale in Sanford, according to a Local 6 News report. Realtor Ronda Christiansen said a woman apparently haunting the 1921 home is friendly and has listed the home as being a home with a ghost…
Mysterious Indiana tree boulder falls
One of the strangest sights in Indiana is no more, but the mystery about it continues. It's a century-old chestnut oak tree that held a giant rock wedged in its branches. The 400-pound sandstone boulder was about 40 feet off the ground…
Is the lighthouse haunted? Paranormal researchers visit Sheffield Island
A young girl trapped on an island by two fighting adults sounds like a nightmare. But that is the drama played out day and night on Sheffield Island. But it's not with living beings -- it's with ghosts from a bygone era, an East Haven paranormal investigator says. Christine Kaczynski, who founded Connecticut Paranormal Research and Investigations last year, visited the Sheffield Island Lighthouse earlier this month with 18 other paranormal researchers equipped with digital cameras, video recorders, sound equipment and meters that can pick up "electrical magnetic energy fields”…
(Also read: "Haunted Lighthouses")
Demolition may knock ghosts out of old home
Ghosts may soon be chased away from a historic building in Broadview Heights. Demolition began Wednesday at a former hospital and home for the mentally ill…
Bigfoot search in Lamar County
Is it an elaborate hoax? Or has a team of investigators found actual proof that "bigfoot" is roaming the woods of north Texas. According to researchers, and even game wardens in Lamar county, sightings of a "hairy giant" have been reported periodically for the last 15 years. In just the last week, residents near Paris, Texas reported sightings at a remote area called Lamar Point. That's near the abandoned "camp Maxey" army base, 10 miles north of Paris…
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Crop circles continue to mystify Mezőkomárom
If you're driving through southern Fejér County and see locals wearing aluminum foil helmets, it's not the weather they are protecting themselves against. Last week a pair of crop circles, one about 14 to 18 meters in diameter, and another roughly twice that size, appeared in a field somewhere between Mezőkomárom and Lajoskomárom…
Gifted, talented students take on vampires, werewolves
Sitting around a table, a group of young people discuss with almost Talmudic intensity whether vampires, werewolves, and even UFOs are real. As they do so, they're conducting research, forming opinions and learning about fear — and how a little knowledge can conquer it. Not a usual classroom session. But Hardin-Simmons University's Threshold program isn't the usual classroom…
