On this anniversary, my congratulations, once again, to two gentlemen for obtaining the best single, multifacted piece of evidence for the classic North American Sasquatch. Like a fine California wine, my sense is this one grows better with age...
Home for sale, cleansed
The house on N 14th Street was built in 1924. Mark Nottingham bought it in 2005. After a year of renovation, Nottingham was ready to sell, but the real estate market had slowed. He needed help. A friend suggested a spiritual finishing touch: a woman who cleanses energy in homes using the Asian art of feng shui...
Utah yields another Cretaceous-era creature
Exotic underground bacteria thrive on radiation, not sunlight
Residents share details of reported UFO encounter
A man and woman in Billerica claim their lives have been altered since a huge, luminous object they said appeared over their porch one winter evening, levitating the woman, blistering the man's hand, and leaving white, powdery material that quickly disappeared afterward...
New Skunk Ape photo
During its brief, sporadic emergences from the wilds of Southwest Florida, the skunk ape has a habit of showing up just long enough to get its picture taken. Each new image of a blurry biped reinvigorates an old debate. Is there really a Bigfoot in the Everglades or is it just a prankster with a gorilla costume and a lot of patience?...
Devil of a good tale
The very name The Devil's Stone Inn sends a chill down the spine and it comes as no surprise that the well-known Shebbear hostelry has a reputation as one of the most haunted pubs in England...
Parkersburg tour a popular haunt for ghost hunters
The first time Susan Sheppard says she saw a spirit she was 4 years old, playing on the lawn at her grandmother's house in Doddridge County. "I looked up on the hill and there were two Indian braves looking back at me," Sheppard said. "They had the headdresses and ashes smeared on their faces, very primitive looking. They were like no Indians I'd ever seen before”...
D.A. won't alienate man over close encounters
Some attorneys might shy away from using a witness who says he has been abducted by bizarre creatures that repeatedly return at night to poke tiny holes in his chest. But a Santa Barbara County prosecutor said Wednesday that he intends to present testimony from just such a witness next week in a civil case against the owner of the county's largest land-based oil and gas producer...
They ain't afraid of no ghost
The moon is full, and the October night air chilly as three intrepid ghost hunters wait to witness the unexplained. They are exploring the dark recesses of the Shelburne Art Center, a 290-year-old building that was a church parsonage during the 1800s and a library for most of the last century...
Calling teaspoon benders! Geller seeks "heir" on TV
After four decades of bending spoons, halting clocks, reading minds, and penning metaphysical thrillers, Uri Geller is seeking a paranormal protege. A reality television show being produced in Israel, where Geller grew up, will feature 10 contestants vying for the title of "heir" to the world-famous celebrity psychic...
The ghost stories of Alcatraz
Years after "The Rock" was closed as a prison, stories persist that Alcatraz is haunted. Ghost hunters have said they feel parts of the island and areas of the prison evoke a certain "strangeness," but it was mostly employees, working in areas of the prison alone, who have reported most of the unexplained events that haunt the dark corridors of Alcatraz...
