From all appearances yesterday, Shannon Sylvia might have been any homeowner giving a visitor a guided tour. That is, until she paused by a large porcelain vase just outside a bathroom and said: "That's the vase that moved." It did so, she insisted, without anyone touching it. In the same area, Sylvia said, she sometimes hears faint voices in the condo when no one is talking. Pointing to the bathroom, she contended that its light bulbs often unscrew themselves...
Microbe experiment suggests we could all be Martians
Life on Earth may have announced its arrival billions of years ago with a whistle and a thump, according to planetary scientists.
Experiments by an international team of researchers back a controversial theory that life flourished on Earth after primitive organisms arrived aboard a meteorite, itself gouged from Mars by a giant impact...
'Dracula Castle' put up for sale
The descendants of the Habsburg monarchy have confirmed they want to sell a Transylvanian castle mythically linked to the fictional Count Dracula.
The family were turfed out of Romania's 14th-Century Bran Castle by the communists after World War II...
Campaign to pardon the last witch, jailed as a threat to Britain at war
Salem experts support appeal to overturn 'ludicrous' conviction...
Searching for the Ropen in New Guinea
Haunted halls?
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...
How controversial science is debated
Featured interview: Dr. Rupert Sheldrake. Is science news dominated by a few loud voices? On this first episode of Skeptiko we’ll explore how controversial science is debated...
Jan. 13, 2004: Duck!
2004: Astronomers come within minutes of alerting the world to a possible asteroid strike. The asteroid, designated 2004 AS1, was given about a one-in-four chance of hitting the earth somewhere in the Northern Hemisphere. Although the asteroid was small, measuring roughly 30 meters in width, the potential for local devastation and loss of life was real enough that astronomers seriously considered contacting the White House...
Professor re-examines mysterious document
Ten meters long and at least 1,000 years old, the Joshua Roll is one of the most mysterious documents in history. The sheepskin scroll, which dates back to the Byzantine Empire and is inscribed with pictures and Greek text from the book of Joshua, is the only scroll of its kind. No one knows for sure why it was made or even when it was created...
The alien abduction cult
Here's the uncomfortable truth - the abductionologists, feted at UFO conference after UFO conference, are the problem, not the solution. It isn't little green / grey men from some other planet that are causing pain to the people "studied" by Hopkins et al - the pain, the damage, is being caused by the "investigators" themselves, feeding questions, and then answers, to people who may have real problems...
