The scene: the Everglades, mysterious in the darkness. Four college kids, armed only with a night-vision camera, trudge through a palmetto thicket, guided by a snake-booted man who claims to have had multiple encounters with the state's most elusive creature. They seek a half-man, half-simian, fully reeking legend known as the Skunk Ape...
(Also read: "Smelly Bigfoot: The Skunk Ape")
‘Ghost ships’ beach on Malaysian coast
Two huge Singapore-registered barges have been found, empty and abandoned, after mysteriously beaching on the Malaysian coast, a report said Tuesday...
The mystery of ever-burning lamps
Imagine that you find a small burning lamp hidden deep in an ancient vault. This mysterious lamp, which is in perfect preservation, has burned continuously without fuel for the last 2,000 years. What would you think of your remarkable discovery? Most likely you would wonder whether the precious lamp that you are holding in your hands is a magical object, a work of God, or perhaps some evil powers. Could this ancient treasure be a proof of highly advanced technology? Did our ancestors discover the secret of eternal light?..
n the sky! A bird? A plane? A ... UFO?
It sounds like a tired joke--but a group of airline employees insist they are in earnest, and they are upset that neither their bosses nor the government will take them seriously. A flying saucerlike object hovered low over O'Hare International Airport for several minutes before bolting through thick clouds with such intense energy that it left an eerie hole in overcast skies, said some United Airlines employees who observed the phenomenon...
Sighting of UFO is reported at O'Hare; FAA is unconvinced
Call it a close encounter of the O'Hare kind. Some airline workers reported seeing a mysterious, elliptical-shaped craft over O'Hare International Airport last fall but say their bosses and the government wouldn't take them seriously. The Federal Aviation Administration has dismissed the reported Nov. 7 sighting by United Airlines employees as a likely weather phenomenon...
Singing Sasquatches
The Texas Bigfoot Research Center has used gibbon whoops in our research. We have gotten return vocalizations when broadcasting these calls in Southeast Texas...
City office haunted? Odd occurrences can’t be explained, employees say
Haunted houses are nothing new in Starr County. At the historic La Borde House, which is home to county offices, a restaurant and a hotel, the locals say things go bump in the night — and during the day. At the county courthouse, lawyers and clerks tell stories of whispering ghosts in the halls. But knowing about these haunted buildings didn’t lessen the surprise of the county’s compliance and collection department when pictures started falling off the walls of their new office space in a small house on East Street...
(Also read: "Office Haunting")
People seeing Saddam’s ghost in Baghdad public areas
In a most bizarre stories ever heard, some people in Baghdad are claiming that they are seeing Saddam’s ghost in Baghdad public areas. Sources say, this may be a plot by the Baathists to keep Saddam ‘alive’ among the Sunni communities. Some claim he is seen in restaurants, markets and so on. It is possible many Saddam look-alikes are now more prominent and people are mistaking these look-alikes as possible Saddam. It is also possible that Saddam was such a threat that people just cannot believe he is dead and not coming back...
(Also read: "Saddam Hussein and the Paranormal")
The secret of psychic music healing
Psychic music as a topic of parapsychology was the focus of amazing research by D. Scott Rogo. We have a very limited concept of music while in nonwestern cultures music is used for psychic healing. What is missing from the West is this: sound resonates into ultrasonics which resonates with chemicals to produce electromagnetic energy and light as information -- sonoluminesence...
Ghosts in the machine
The human brain is, in surprising part, an appliance powered by electricity. It constantly generates about 12 watts of energy, enough to keep a flashlight glowing. It works by sending out electrical impulses — bursts of power running along the cellular wires of the nervous system — to stimulate muscles into motion or thought into being. We’re mostly aware of this when the machine falters, when it short-circuits into epilepsy or frays into the tremors of Parkinson’s disease...
Free will: Now you have it, now you don’t
Experiments suggest that the conscious choice is an illusion, but some choose to disagree...
France to publish UFO archive online
The French space agency said it will publish its archive of UFO sightings and other phenomena online, but will keep the names of those who reported them off the site to protect them from pestering by space fanatics. Jacques Arnould, an official at the National Space Studies Centre, said the French database of around 1,600 incidents would go live in late January or mid-February...
The mathematics of cloaking
The theorists who first created the mathematics that describe the behavior of the recently announced "invisibility cloak" have revealed a new analysis that may extend the current cloak's powers, enabling it to hide even actively radiating objects like a flashlight or cell phone...
Snakes in China 'predict quakes'
Scientists in China say they have developed a new way of predicting earthquakes - by observing erratic behaviour in snakes...
