Even here at the threshold of the 21st century, the debate continues over whether mankind should or should not collect a "dead" specimen of any previously unknown animal. Until it is proven to exist and is recognized as an endangered or vanishing species, wildlife laws offer no protection to any cryptid from being killed. For example, should scientists searching for the noted marine creatures seen from time to time at Loch Ness in Scotland or Lake Champlain in upstate New York hunt these animals and kill them on sight to prove their existence? More to the point of my interests, should field researchers be plotting ways to capture or kill a Bigfoot creature? Is the best aim for our research to collect a specimen; dead or alive?..
(Also read: "When Bigfoot Attacks")
First crop circle of 2007 reported in Hoeven, Holland
Description: One large 7m-diameter circle with two smaller 1m diam. satellite circles spaced 12-m distance from larger circle. The two smaller circles placed like "ears" on one side of the larger circle. All circles were swirled counter-clockwise...
'Cave entrances' spotted on Mars
Scientists studying pictures from Nasa's Odyssey spacecraft have spotted what they think may be seven caves on the surface of Mars. The candidate caves are on the flanks of the Arsia Mons volcano and are of sufficient depth their floors mostly cannot be seen through the opening...
Immense ice deposits found at south pole of Mars
A spacecraft orbiting Mars has scanned huge deposits of water ice at its south pole so plentiful they would blanket the planet in 36 feet of water if they were liquid...
Man or beast?
One question that continues to plague bigfoot researchers is, "What is this animal, is it a man (albeit different or primitive) or is it just an ape?" Man has always had to cope with uncertain feelings when it comes to apes and monkeys. We can not gaze into the eyes of a chimp at the zoo and not have some thoughts about our similarities...
Oak Island expedition heads to the jungle
The alleged discovery in Oak Island of a capsule containing bones and relics of an ancient patriarch (reference installments one, two and three of the ongoing story) has taken a dramatic new twist. The expedition, which started in Oak Island before moving to Auckland and finally London (where the discovery was analysed) is now headed to Panama City where a dig is planned in the ancient jungles nearby...
Lee farmer offers reward for information in cattle slayings, mutilations
A Lee County farmer is offering a $500 reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the weekend killing and mutilation of one of his cows. Meanwhile, authorities are seeking information on the perpetrator of that crime and the possibly related killing and mutilation of another cow a month ago in another field nearby...
Weird weekend tickets are now on sale
This year's event will be on the 17-19 August in Woolfardisworthy, North Devon. The Weird Weekend is the largest yearly gathering of mystery animal investigators in the English-speaking world. Having run unbroken for seven years, the convention attracts speakers and visitors from all over the world and showcases the findings of strange phenomena investigators...
Family's fear as UFO heads for their home
A family feared they would be "wiped out" when a UFO plummeted from the sky, heading straight at their Hertford home. Reports of the bizarre phenomenon poured into the Mercury after the cylindrical object was spotted on Monday at around 4pm. But none was more dramatic than that by mum-of-four Maxine Abbess, 44, of Pages Road on the Sele Farm estate. She said: "My little boy was lying on his back on the trampoline in the garden when he said, 'Look at that black spot in the sky, Mum'...
Cryptographer solves psychic challenge
In January, James Randi secured a mystery item in a specially designated locker in his Florida office, and challenged clairvoyants everywhere to use their remote viewing skills to divine its nature and claim a million dollar prize. As usual with Randi's contests, there's weren't a lot of takers in the professional psychic biz. But for perhaps the first time in the history of the supernatural challenges issued by the 79-year-old skeptic, there was a winner of sorts. Cryptographer Matt Blaze and a colleague correctly identified the contents of Randi's black box from a thousand miles away, using only the powers of their minds...
