During this ghostly season, tales of the boogie man and ghouls are slightly more believable, but for one Lehi mother of two it was the month of February that changed her view on the paranormal. Seeing floating balls of light in their hallway and hearing her 2-year-old daughter screaming "scary" in an empty room isn't something Melissa Troutwine bargained for when she moved into her new home in January...
Man Bat sighted by LaCrosse area man and son
Imagine driving down a dark country road and having the above, man-sized creature fly at your windshield, stare in at you and then swoop upwards into the night sky. This actually happened to a 53-year old LaCrosse man who prefers to be known only by his Cherokee name, Wohali, and the man's 25-year old son. Their reaction? Immediate illness. In seconds, both became physically ill, and the son, who was driving, swerved and then pulled the truck over into the ditch so he could vomit. The son, who wishes his identity kept private, vomited six or seven times. Wohali retched, as well, and both remained sick for an entire week. The son was so frightened by the encounter that he refuses to discuss it. But Wohali told me he feels it's important for people to "know what is out there," and wants the story to be told.The Man Bat...
(Also read: "Unsolved: Flying Humanoids")
Does Bigfoot scare you?
A Bigfoot sighting can evoke a lot of emotions in people, such as surprise, shock, fight-or-flight emotion, and yes, fear. One particular individual, Dr. Matthew Johnson, had to evacuate his bowels because of the fight-or-flight response, and he was there to protect his wife and children. One recent witness, Sean Forker (who actually did not see anything) had the fight-or-flight response quite strongly in a possible encounter (not sighting)...
(Also read: "When Bigfoot Attacks")
Spooks and thrills: Woman says house is haunted
After grieving the passing of her mother, Pauline Bartel, local writer and president of Bartel Communications, based in Waterford, thought she was finally getting on with her life when she purchased a 1930s bungalow in Waterford. 'I named it 'The Maryline' in honor of my mother, Mary, and the last part of my name,' said Bartel...
Do-it-yourself ghost busting
Do you suspect someone other than your teenager is ripping through your cupboards late at night? A restless spirit may be to blame. Before you hire a team of ghost busters to camp out in your creaky New England home, however, you might want to price some of the sensors the "experts" use to mark the cold corners and magnetic fields they say suggest the presence of ghosts...
Do the ghosts of prisoners haunt the old W. Virginia Penitentiary?
Convicts serving afterlife sentences keep things lively in West Virginia's creaky, creepy old penitentiary. A forlorn monolith of stone near the Ohio River, the West Virginia Penitentiary was closed in 1995, a decade after courts ruled that doing time in its cramped steel cages, where sewage dripped from pipes and bugs wriggled in food, constituted "cruel and unusual" punishment. But some rogues still prowl the gothic fortress in spirit form, say visitors and former administrators...
Ghostly art lines Utah canyon walls
All through southern Utah's rugged terrain, visitors find awe and mystery in the scattered ancient rock-art panels on remote canyon walls. But some of the art seems more mysterious -- even ghostly. There are images of distorted humanlike figures. Others, in the Barrier Canyon style, are as tall as people, a few with enormous, hollow eyes. Triangular figures, horned beings and slithering snakes dot other styles of Southwestern rock art...
Little Green Men: The cover-up continues
As any UFO researcher will tell you, the roadblocks set up in his or her way in seeking to understand the subject are numerous. The roadblocks set up to confuse and delude the interested public on the other hand, are often even more insidious and certainly equally as effective...
Terrifying trend: Halloween takes off in China
A spine-tingling statistic: China's ghost population will boom tomorrow. But there is no need to be frightened. This is only because Halloween is becoming more and more popular, with hordes of revellers dressing up as ghosts, goblins and witches...
Ghostly cries haunt cemetery at fairgrounds
A ghostly little footnote was left out of my story back in the summer regarding the pioneer cemetery that has been preserved in the middle of the Kentucky State Fair midway. At that time I had not heard about the ghost of a baby...
'UFO' caught on film
Italian UFO buffs are excited about a mysterious ball of light caught on film in Sicily at the weekend. The phenomenon was spotted by a restaurateur and his wife as they were driving home from work in Sicily's famed Valley of the Temples on Friday night...
