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By Stephen Wagner, About.com

Oct 1 2006

Happy birthday, Cryptomundo!
It is a few minutes beyond midnight in the East, and a year ago today - on September 29, 2005 - Cryptomundo was born. Thank you everyone, for a wonderful first year of Cryptomundo! The images here are a quick trip down memory lane...

Timothy Good and Graeme Base
Timothy Good has been studying UFOs for half a century, combining his passion for UFOs with a successful career as a violinist. While many people may remain sceptical about whether or not UFOs actually exist, Timothy says that he's uncovered military and intelligence reports that do indeed prove UFOs are 'out there'. His seventh book on the subject has just been released; it's called Need to Know: UFOs, the Military and Intelligence...

Nanotech gone bad: Who you gonna call?
While one would hope that the slightly eccentric and amoral mad scientist is a thing of fiction, the possibility for scientists to get it wrong, or to lose control of their new creations, remains grounded in reality. History has shown us that the development of new materials and technologies has led to the disruption and destruction of countless lives. But what can we do? Nobody has a crystal ball...
(Also read: "Impossible Science")

Zorgy Award nominations
Vote for your favorite paranormal media...

Occult claims clamor for serious study
A hundred years ago, one of the most ambitious of research projects was launched, a study that linked scholars and mediums on three continents. Its purpose was to discover whether living humans could talk to dead ones...

Hunt for a ghost with a haunting snore
Ghost hunters are to check out stories of a phantom snorer at an old house in Wootton Bassett. For years, stories have surrounded the old Lime Kiln House, once the home of radio station GWR FM. Claims of ghostly snoring from a man who fell down the stairs, and a cellar door, usually locked but occasionally found wide open, have all been claimed but never confirmed...

Psychic called in to help solve Durham slaying
Durham police asked a woman who claims she is a psychic to help try and solve the murder of a young, pregnant mother...

Giant insect terrorizes Germany?

More on the Mars “face”
Much ado over the new ESA Mars Face images has centered on the odd, steeple-like protrusion seen in the image above. As the steeple, or "horn," only detracts from the Face's resemblance to a humanoid face, it would seem to be good evidence that the controversial Face mesa is indeed nothing more than a lumpy hill. But only if the horn is a genuine formation...

Yarram Ape or Yowie?
Aussie cryptozoologist Mike Williams shares the following story he ran across in his recent travels through Victoria with the readers of Cryptomundo. Is this a photo of a Yowie, or is it some other type of Australian Mystery Ape?..

Meetings with remarkable aliens
Jim Sparks describes his life-changing encounter with reptoid aliens, whose message for saving planet Earth may veil their true intentions...

Cheese worker says there was a rub to $208 million jackpot
The 100 cheese company workers who won a Powerball jackpot worth $208.6 million tried a number of things to increase their luck -- and finally won when they rubbed the belly of a small statue of the Buddha...

Old Salem Insane Asylum

Brunei Bigfoot trackway photo
In an earlier blog, Liew Kim San’s discovery of unknown tracks was mentioned here. The prints were said to have been found along the Andulau forest area in Labi, Brunei, which according to Liew Kim San (”Lim”), the footprints “do not resemble human or animal footprints”...

Antimatter discovery could alter physics
The discovery that a bizarre particle travels between the real world of matter and the spooky realm of antimatter 3 trillion times a second may open the door to a new era of physics, Fermilab researchers announced Monday...

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