About 60 miles straight east of Bismarck, North Dakota, is the small farming community of Tappen in Kidder County. From a USGS TerraServer satellite, Tappen's farmland looks like an odd game board because crops are planted in circles to make center pivot sprinkler irrigation easier. There have been many unusual animal deaths and disappearances in the region. Not far to the northeast is the Chase Lake National Wildlife Refuge where 29,000 American White Pelicans disappeared from the refuge in May 2004...
Mummified man found in his apartment sitting down for 6 years
Dwellers of an apartment building in the city of Tula, central Russia, were horrified to learn of a discovery made in one of the apartments. The mummified body of a tenant was found in a sitting position in the kitchen of his apartment. The tenant had been dead for six years...
Second O'Hare Airport photo surfaces
Now there is a second photograph in the public domain that was allegedly taken during the O'Hare Airport UFO Sighting on November 7, 2006. I have posted a cropped image here. The first photograph is being called by a hoax by some, yet many are still claiming that it might be the real thing...
Devil's chair at union cemetery?
Guthrie Center is featured in a newly released book, The Iowa Road Guide to Haunted Locations. And, the book makes no reference to a fictional creature of the farmland slews west of Guthrie Center which many natives would view as the most intriguing folklore...
Massive duck die-off
Another duck die-off hit the waters of Clear Lake this weekend, claiming 1,145 waterfowl as of 4 p.m. Experts are tentatively saying avian cholera is the culprit this time, pending lab confirmation...
Aliens are snow joke
More than 35 people called police on Wednesday night to report seeing UFOs during heavy snow. The callers, including a traffic cop, said 50 orange lights hovered in the sky for 15 minutes before drifting into the night. Moira Dawson, 57, said: "We thought they were fireworks but they didn't make any noise. They just floated in the snowfall."..
Archaeologist digs for proof of Sasquatch
By day she’s the Stanislaus National Forest's archaeologist. With a master's degree in anthropology, she makes sure prehistoric Native American sites in the woods are protected. She's also the forest's liaison with the Me-Wuk tribe. But it's what Kathy Strain does in her spare time that separates her from Forest Service colleagues. She's a Bigfooter. A student of Sasquatch. A yearner for Yeti. A true believer...
UFO crash in Central Iran
Reliable sources indicate An Unidentified Flying Object crashed in Barez Mounts in the central province of Kerman early January 2007. Deputy Governor General of Kerman province Abulghassem Nasrollahi told that the crash which was followed by an explosion and a thick spiral of smoke has caused no casualties or damage to properties...
Stax Records and a paranormal connection
I’ve always believed that every studio has its own flavor, due to the collective consciousness and spiritual vibrations from all those who have poured out their hearts and souls within its walls. This place was no exception. I walked around mesmerized with the sounds of the late Al Jackson, Jr.’s solid drumbeat from, “Hold On I’m Comin’” running through my head. I even had the urge to yell out, “Play it, Steve!”, but I restrained myself!..
Geography professor studies the paranormal in unique class
Determined to show, "that geography can be a fun and relevant subject," Dr. Charles "Fritz" Gritzner, Professor of Geography at South Dakota State University has begun a new class called, "Geography of the Paranormal"...
Big fuss over Bigfoot on campus
The doctrine of academic freedom is so important that I believe it should be violated only in extreme and rare cases. Studying a subject that is a little weird is not one of those cases. Recently, Dr. Jeff Meldrum of Idaho State University’s Department of Biological Sciences, has become a figure of some controversy for his study of bigfoot. Meldrum, an associate professor of anatomy and anthropology, leans toward belief in the hairy man-giant and has just penned a new book about his views, “Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science.” Some of Meldrum’s fellow professors are not pleased...
What we don't know
How did life begin? What's the universe made of? Why do we sleep? 42* of the biggest questions in science...
Jesus in a saucer: more memes from chronic skepticism
R. Lee: I recently wrote about a new “meme” pursued and disseminated with persistence by chronic skeptics; the idea that the term UFO really means aliens from outer space. (”A New Meme: We All Know UFO Really Means Aliens From Outer Space.”) I’ve noticed another meme that is eagerly transmitted by anti-UFOists (and a few supposedly pro-UFO people) and that is ‘UFOs are/as a religion.’..
