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By Stephen Wagner, About.com

9/11 creature
On the night of September 11, 1997, Ines Valdivieza and her 6-year-old daughter observed a small creature, brown in color with large red eyes, run from a pig-pen area in Colonia Revolucion Mexicana, Mexico. It made high bounding strides and disappeared into the dark. Five hogs were later found dead, completely drained of blood with strange scars on their necks…

$17 million for baby Bigfoot
Have you heard that the young Bigfoot caught in Maine has been sold to a mystery buyer for $17 million dollars? Don’t laugh. Yet. That’s what we’re being told has happened…

Biologist scuttles claim of Ogopogo skull found in Mexico
A Penticton man thinks pictures he took of a giant skull in a small-town museum in Mexico may solve a small part of the mystery surrounding Ogopogo…

How to keep an eye on deer – or Bigfoot

Talk of the Book Town Strieber transports fans in talk of aliens
About 80 devotees turned out at Powell's Books in Beaverton last week to hear Whitley Strieber, author and alien enthusiast whose voice occasionally crackles across the night airwaves on such radio programs as Art Bell's "Coast to Coast AM." The best-selling author of the horror novel "The Hunger" and the close-encounters memoir "Communion" had a new aliens-among-us book to promote, "The Grays," which littered the laps of those early enough to find seats…

Was Springheeled Jack a robot?
You don't hear much about Springheeled Jack these days because the last major sighting of the creature was in 1953 (and was linked to a UFO sighting). But in nineteenth-century Britain, he was very much the talk of the day…
(Also read: "Real House of Horrors")

A walking ghost on a killing spree in Orissa
Many people in a small hamlet of Khurda District of Orissa do not wish to come out of their homes after dusk. They are scared for getting killed by a 'walking ghost' believed to haunt the area…

Sensationalism in cryptozoology: Cause and Effect

Mysterious deaths have family on edge
Just after starting morning rounds feeding his family's goats, 14-year-old Brandon Asbell made a grisly discovery. A pregnant goat was found cornered and partially eaten in an old barn - slaughtered by an unknown predator…

The usual purple tinged hyperbole about UFOs

Duke scientists set sights on cloak of invisibility
After years of work, David Schurig and David R. Smith at Duke University will finish their research and have absolutely nothing to show for it: They're making a cloak of invisibility…
(Also read: "Spontaneous Human Invisibility")

Bigfoot habituation
Habituation is an interesting controversial subject in Sasquatch research. Over the years there have been several cases of people making claims of long term interactions with families of bigfoot. I have been fortunate enough to personally investigate two of these situations…

Ohio farmers frustrated by crop circles
Farmers are angry about an increasing number of crop circles popping up in their fields, costing them time and money. The circles — crops that have been flattened to form geometric patterns — have nothing to do with supernatural or extraterrestrial beings. Farmers say it's probably rambunctious teenagers vandalizing their fields…

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