The eighth-period bell rings. Chemistry students rush into their seats just as their teacher, Scott Maruna, finishes looking into the sink on his front desk. Facing up, a large computer monitor rests in the sink’s basin. Maruna, a chemistry, physics, geometry and religion teacher at Routt Catholic High School in Jacksonville, is a writer of the paranormal and “just plain weird” stories around central Illinois. His latest book is called “Unexplained Mysteries of Jacksonville and the Surrounding Areas,” published by Swamp Gas Book Co...
Face of the spider
We took this photo on our porch. It is as is. No Photo Shop or changes of any kind. This spider has a human head --A bit devilish !!!..
Why do we like Halloween?
Halloween comes halfway point between the autumnal equinox and winter solstice. Celts (as well as traditional Japanese culture) considered equinoxes and solstices to be the middle of a season...
(Also read: "The Lost Meaning of Halloween")
Lincoln 'brimming' with ghosts
A new book highlighting Lincoln as a hub of ghost activity. 'The Ghosthunter's Guide to England', written by Rupert Matthews from Grantham, was published this week and contains chronicles of ghost stories and paranormal activity at various locations across the country...
What in the world?
A mysterious gelatinous ball has puzzled and fascinated researchers after undersea photographer Rudolf Svensen spotted it while diving at the mouth of the Matre fjord in Hordaland, western Norway...
Gorebridge, Edinburgh UFO hotspots?
Andrew was at his back door at approximately 7:25 p.m. He often stood here, watching the sky for UFOs. He lives in Gorebridge, which is 15 miles South of Edinburgh, Scotland. It was October 29, 2006 and he was starring at the sky with his neighbor K*. It was K that first spotted the strange light in the sky. It stood out because it wasn't flying the same way planes normally did...
English couple spot Loch Ness phenomenon
The Highland News out of Inverness is reporting that an English couple twice spotted something in Loch Ness during a visit to the area. Here’s the report in full followed by my comments. By, the way, this is the same publication that brought the August sighting of an unknown object off Dores to the attention of the world and led me to investigate...
Dinosaurs lived for 300,000 years after Mexican meteor strike
Dinosaurs were killed off by a meteor that hit the Earth 300,000 years after the one blamed for their extinction, a scientist has claimed. Dr Gerta Keller, from Princeton University, New Jersey, insists the Chicxulub impact off the coast of Mexico 65 million years ago could not on its own have wiped out the dinosaurs...
UFO careens from sky, onlookers say
Michael Buantello admits he could be wrong, but he's pretty sure he saw a genuine flying saucer at about 10:30 Monday night...
Ghost stories at the Houston Library
On a dripping, windless night, darkness swamped a jewel-box ceiling high above the Ideson Library’s top floor. Forty windows, each with eight panes glowing like opal in moonlight, crowned the walls. Downstairs, a dead girl gazed morosely from a framed photograph on the wall. In a portrait in the hall, a librarian gone from this life for 60 years sternly surveyed her domain...
Britain's spookiest roads
The M6 has been named Britain's most haunted road in a new Halloween survey. The M6's spooky reputation follows with reports of phantom Roman soldiers, a ghostly woman and a lorry driving against the flow of traffic. Motorists have also reported eyes looking out from bushes in Platt Lane, Leigh, Manchester - the scene of a mining disaster years previously...
Ghostly beings
Do you believe in Mary Worth? Schoolchildren of varying generations might have heard that one around the autumnal playground or, more appropriately, in the dimly lit rooms of a slumber party. It was a purportedly fact-based tale of an evil spirit who would claw your face or worse if you professed belief in her before a mirror...
(Also read: "The Scariest Games")
Scientist finds 100 million-year-old bee
A scientist has found a 100 million-year-old bee trapped in amber, making it possibly the oldest bee ever found...
