As we start another year, I know there are at least a few among us who will look back at 2006 and say, "Whoa, what a weird year that was!" In fact, 2006 might be the year that puts the Coulee Region on the map ... for weirdness. By far the weirdest news of the year was something we haven't reported on ... UNTIL NOW! Now it can be told, the strange, bizarre and kinda spooky story of the Beast of Briggs Road, the Man Bat...
Psychic called in to help find pet parrot
A family who received sickening threats to pull their missing parrot's wings off and bake it in the oven, has consulted a psychic in a bid to find the bird...
Untangling the Mystery of the Inca
People claim seeing a UFO in Istanbul
Mysterious lights seen in Istanbul skies have baffled people on Wednesday night. Witnesses have claimed that the lights were coming from a UFO...
Enigmas beg question of extraterrestrial interventions on human society
From the perspective of conventional archaeological and anthropological thinking, the origins of humankind and the emergence of civilization from the Stone Age remain enigmatic. We have incontrovertible proof our ancestors could not have built the Great Pyramid with the tools and methods they possessed. Yet official science simply ignores or tries to explain away many serious questions and issues such as how the Great Pyramid - the world's largest precision-engineered stone structure - was constructed using only hammer-stones, ropes, manpower and sledges...
Historic Strickland house up for sale
The historic Strickland house is up for sale. For $3.5 million, a buyer gets a restored Victorian, three acres of commercial property and a ghost...
Ghosts are all in your mind
When scientists wrote in a recent issue of the journal Nature that they could induce phantom effects - the sensation of being haunted by a shadowy figure - by stimulating the brain with electricity, it made perfect neurological sense. One could even argue that the existence of such sensations explains away the so-called supernatural. But to those inclined to believe as much, it can also look like proof that ghosts are real entities...
Moving tombstones
Hazel Ridge Cemetery can't be seen from the highway. Ghost hunter Ryan Straub visits the cemetery often. The cemetery never gets tiresome to Ryan because it's never the same. "The environment seems to change," Ryan said. "I've been to that place 500 times and every time it's different. The whole environment changes. The trees move. The tombstones move. I know it sounds weird, but … I've got every section mapped out and they're not the way they were."..
UFO cult predicts end of the world in July 2007
The Church of the SubGenius has announced that the end of the world will take place on Thursday, July 5, 2007. In preparation for the fulfillment of this doomsday prophecy, the Church is requesting that all of its members participate in a festival with rock concerts and blasphemous rituals taking place in upstate New York, during the final weekend before the arrival of the apocalypse...
To kill or not to kill?
Hypothetically, for the sake of argument, I'm going to temporarily step away from the disbeliever's side over to the believer's side and accept the possibility that every listed cryptid exists. Now that I've done so, I want to catch one for research and money. So which way should I approach the problem: Should I capture it alive, or kill it? Let's weigh some of the advantages and disadvantages of each method...
Nessie: echoes of the past
There are few mystery creatures that have captured the public's imagination in the way that Nessie has. For generations, people have stood on the shores of Loch Ness and peered into the depths hoping to catch sight of this elusive creature. For many years, people have speculated what this strange creature might be, with explanations ranging from a genuine monster to the theory that we are witnessing a replaying of past events locked within the memory of water, a theory that is looking increasingly plausible...
