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Up-to-the-minute accounts of the paranormal, enigmatic and the unexplained

By Stephen Wagner, About.com

Jul 3 2009
Is Bigfoot living in the forest above Marysville, CA?
There's a big mystery in our backyard tonight. Is a Bigfoot living in the forest above Marysville? A local couple has found big prints in those woods and experts are saying it may not be a hoax. It was just after a rainstorm, a great time for hunting deer. It was a perfect place, high up in the dense woods of the Plumas National Forest. Chuck and Michelle Padigo had been down the logging road lots of times, including just a few days earlier. Past two gates, about three miles from the highway, in a recently logged area, Michelle looked down and spotted something very strange. What the Padigo's say they encountered was more than three dozen huge footprints spread out over a hundred yards or more...

If a tree falls on Mars...
Do these photos show trees on the surface of Mars?..

Astronomical odds
About twice a year, an asteroid smashes into Earth’s atmosphere with the force of a Hiroshima-size atomic blast. And those are small ones, scientists say; the space rocks vaporize before they can do any harm. When the big one hits, we won’t be as fortunate...

Skeptics spit in my face
Featured Interview: Dr. Marilyn Schlitz explains how controversial science research remains a taboo subject with many of her peers : “Where people really get animated is in the unofficial domains of after-hours. Either they admit to having some kind of experience they don’t want to admit to publicly, or they just get irrational. I’ve had people spitting in my face because they were so angry with the idea that we could do science on parapsychology”...

Chile: ghostly image captured on cellphone
The time was 11:02 pm on February 4, 2007 when after a family get-together in a house at Villa Cap, a 25 year-old man tried to take a photo of his mother with his cellphone camera. All of the guests were gone and only the young man and his parents were in the house. It was for this reason that uncertainty gripped them all when they saw the images that the cellphone had captured...

Hypnotherapy, ritual abuse, and alien abduction
Even as the Philadelphia-based False Memory Syndrome Foundation (FMS) continues its efforts to put checks-and-balances on therapists who elicit mind-boggling accounts of ritual abuse and alien abduction from their clients, there continues to be a market for books extolling the benefits of recovering past trauma using hypnosis - this in spite of the fact considerable doubt has been cast upon the idea that it is "normal" for humans to repress deeply traumatic memories to the point that they have absolutely no conscious recollection of the trauma in later life...

Defying extinction and celebrating the strange

Of dragons and dinosaurs
Thus announced the December 8th, 1901 edition of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, telling the strange story of a hunter's discovery in the Florida Everglades of what appeared to be an actual living dinosaur. Interestingly enough there is a dash of what seems like conspiracy thrown into the equation as well...

Fossil hunting on Mars
Hunting for traces of life on Mars calls for two radically different strategies, says ASU professor Jack Farmer. Of the two, he says, with today's exploration technology we can most easily look for evidence for past life, preserved as fossil "biosignatures" in old rocks...

Airships, swamp gas, and saucers: The old and the new

Another hand of unknown origin?
The actual hand was found caught in a gate in North Qld. The night before, all the stock were clearly spooked and screaming and roaring could be heard. Next day the farmer finds this hand! It was JUST before DNA was introduced here (wouldn’t you know it)...

Extraterrestrials in our oceans
Have aliens established secret underwater bases on our planet? Is it possible that an extraterrestrial civilization has co-existed with humanity for thousands of years? Numerous world-wide sightings of USOs (unidentified submergible objects) suggest extraterrestrial presence in our water...

Ghostbusters wanted: A haunted police station?
Is Birkirkara facing an eerie mystery? A few weeks ago, a man sitting in the town police station’s corridor saw a lady in black walk towards a door, and head straight through it… without opening it...

Cruisin’ the Sasquatch Highway

Jesus: tales from the crypt
Brace yourself. James Cameron, the man who brought you 'The Titanic' is back with another blockbuster. This time, the ship he's sinking is Christianity. In a new documentary, Producer Cameron and his director, Simcha Jacobovici, make the starting claim that Jesus wasn't resurrected --the cornerstone of Christian faith-- and that his burial cave was discovered near Jerusalem. And, get this, Jesus sired a son with Mary Magdelene. No, it's not a re-make of “The Da Vinci Code”. It's supposed to be true...

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