Is our pub ghost a former regular?
Is there anybody out there... who knows the identity of a ghost believed to be haunting a Preston pub? When they took over running the Hand and Dagger pub, Preston, Pam Mobbs and partner Dave Eyre knew that serving spirits was going to be part of the job. But the couple didn't expect them to be of the non-alcoholic kind!...

Russian fisherman haul up dead plesiosaur?
Fishermen from the island of Sakhalin in the Russian far east found the remains of an enormous unknown marine creature, according to Vladimir Bedzhisov, director of the Sakhalin region’s department of culture. "One of the fishermen managed to identify the find with the aid of an encyclopedia and, much to his surprise, learned that the animal resembles a a plesiosaur (prehistoric marine reptile)," said Bedzhisov in a statement to the Interfax news agency…

Dead psychic's sketch of JonBenet killer revisited
Psychic Dorothy Allison believed she knew what JonBenet's killer looked like and provided a sketch to the Ramsey family, based on her visions. The Ramsey family Web site published the sketch, asking the public, "Have you seen this man? This man may have been in the Boulder area in December 1996." The sketch was also given to Boulder police, who continued to insist that nobody outside the family was likely involved in the crime. A comparison of the sketch side-by-side with that of a picture of suspect John Karr appears to show remarkable resemblance…

Hawaii UFO looked like a wayward missile
No one Thursday was claiming ownership of a tubular flying object that buzzed a Hawaii airport this week and looked a lot like a missile. Officials at the Pohakuloa Training Area told the Honolulu Star-Bulletin that there were no military exercises involving missiles taking place when the object was spotted Tuesday over the Hilo Airport on the Big Island. Witnesses told the newspaper the silver object was silver and emitted a vapor trail; however it had no apparent fins or markings on it…

Top 10: weirdest cosmology theories

Exhibit eyes record for 2-headed animals
Officials of the World Aquarium at the City Museum subscribe wholeheartedly to the maxim that two heads are better than one. If they're on the same animal, that is…

Scientists study Pioneer anomalies
U.S. scientists say mysterious changes in acceleration seen in NASA's Pioneer 10 and 11 space probes might point toward new ideas in physics. During the 1980s, NASA researchers noticed the Pioneer 11 spacecraft was slowing more quickly than expected as it neared the edge of the solar system…

You decide: Ghosts caught on tape?
NBC 10's Tim Furlong sat down with a local Ghostbuster to review photos and videotape of possible paranormal activity at Phoenixville Library…

Circles crop up across county fields
Whether it is little green men or hoaxers, mysterious circles and geometric patterns are cropping up in fields across Oxfordshire. First a 54-foot-wide crop circle was discovered in a field by a church in Toot Baldon, near Garsington, which baffled locals…

Bond crew terrified of 'haunted' plane
Crew members working on new James Bond movie Casino Royale staged a mutiny when they were asked to spend the night on a haunted plane. Several scenes for the upcoming spy movie, which stars Daniel Craig as 007, are being shot on a decommissioned jumbo jet at Dunsfold Aerodrome. And both cast and crew are convinced the passenger jet is haunted by a woman who died of a heart attack during a flight, after reported sightings of her ghost…

Celestial sight remains a puzzle
The two boys can hardly contain their excitement. "At first, we thought it was just our imagination," says 13-year-old Anthony Crivea. "But then other people saw it, too!" exclaims 11-year-old Jason Dean. "And it started going in figure-eight shapes," says Crivea. "So then we thought it was a UFO." The two friends claim they saw something strange in the sky late Sunday night, while they were watching the Perseid meteor shower at Dean's house on Vanneck Road near Komoka…

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