For eons, folklore has blamed the Moon for everything from lunacy to bad luck. And, for the last few centuries, scientists have scoffed. Now, according to new research they're not so sure. The Moon may not be made of cheese, but it seems to influence a lot more down on Earth than we previously thought...
(Also read: "What's on the Far Side of the Moon?")
Wonder boys
Not the least of wonders is the revival of interest in Kircher, a seventeenth-century German Jesuit priest. A human search engine, Kircher published dozens of volumes on matters both large—astronomy, Egyptology, cryptography, botany, geology, geography, magnetism, and linguistics—and small, such as the real size of Noah’s Ark. Travellers from all over Europe came to see his collection of marvels and oddities in Rome, at the Museum Kircherianum...
Uri Geller accused of TV trickery
Uri Geller has scored a TV hit with his search for a successor
A hit Israeli TV show starring celebrity spoon-bender Uri Geller has come under fire from magicians for being full of "tricks and stunts"...
Uri Geller TV show spooks Israeli magicians
Death on the high seas
When the QE2 docked at Southampton on January 2, the liner was one passenger short: a 62-year-old German woman was missing. She is just one of a growing list of people who have disappeared from cruise ships in mysterious circumstances. Some of these deaths may be suicides, writes Gwyn Topham, but others appear more sinister. And of course there are no police out on the ocean...
(Also read: "Vanished - Into Thin Air!")
Iranians report 'radiant UFO'
A UFO omitting a "yellow ray" has been seen across Western Iran, the Fars News Agency claimed in a report recently. "Witnesses told FNA (Fars News Agency) that the object has been observed for more than an hour," the report said, adding: "In a similar incident last Monday, an Unidentified Flying Object was witnessed in the same area and at the same time." According to eye witnesses, "the UFO has been as big as a ball, with a yellow ray and a bright reddish color in the center. They also stated that the object has been flying at a very low altitude."..
Stolen Bigfoot statue leaves only tire tracks
Bigfoot has gone missing in Federal Way, leaving no massive footprints in sight. It isn’t a hoax. An 8-foot-tall, wooden carving of the fabled Northwest beast was reported stolen Monday from a chiropractic office on Southwest Dash Point Road...
Dinosaur may have resembled the biplane
When the Wright Brothers first took to the sky in a biplane, they were using a design nature may have tried 125 million years earlier. A new study of one of the earliest feathered dinosaurs suggests it may have had upper and lower sets of wings, much like the biplanes of early aviation...
Video: The Hollywood UFO murders
US journalist and TV star Dorothy Kilgallen had uncovered the alien secrecy of Roswell 1947. Her quest for the truth had taken he to England in the spring of 1955 as she followed up her leads to the 1954 UFO cover up at Caldbeck in Cumbria. These secrets were shared with her close friend Marilyn Monroe and this would lead to the infiltration of the corridors of power and ultimately take them to the sad events of their murders...
