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By Stephen Wagner, About.com

Nessie photo from March 2007

Possible Nessie photo from March 2007

Photo: Sidney Wilson
Sep 20 2009
Is this Nessie?
An English holidaymaker thinks he may have taken the first picture of the season of the elusive Loch Ness Monster. Sidney Wilson was in the city with his wife Janet when they decided on a cruise down the loch to take in the sights. And it was as they approached Urquhart Castle that he ended up taking this intriguing photograph. Sidney, who comes from Nottingham, said: "I was just taking pictures of everything as we sailed down the loch. "As we approached the castle, two power boats appeared and circled us at speed, leaving a large wash in their wake. "Thinking that it would make a good photograph, I fired off two quick shots and on the second, there appeared to be something in the water."..

NASA releases new photos of the Martian Face
NASA has released the new ultra high resolution pictures of the "face on Mars." For just a little bit of background, In 1979, scientists studying pictures of the Martian surface noticed that on the Cydonian plain, there stood out, what seemed to plainly be, a giant face staring out into space. Over the years, scientist Richard Hoagland has studied a series of NASA images. Richard and other investigators have postulated that this face is in fact, ancient architecture fallen into ruin. This structure is one square mile in size, and part of a larger complex which appears to be an ancient Martian city, all fallen into ruins...

Bigfoot and high strangeness: ridicule vs. integrity
Does fear of the C word ("crazy") compel researchers to censor sightings? If I came across a sighting that totally invalidated all my precious little theories, what would I do? I’d investigate it, assess the reliability of the witness, and then compare what I’d learned with what I knew already. Perhaps I’d need to change my theories. That would be fine with me. Learning is the goal—and the thrill—of any research...

The mystery of Maury Island
Like fog on a fall day, a haze of mystery still surrounds Maury Island nearly 60 years after a supposed spaceship sighting that's still not fully explained. It's been written about in books, even captured in the comics. But outside of hard-core mystery buffs, few people know about what may have happened two weeks before the most famous UFO sighting...

Early California Bigfoot-UFO story

Death call from the dark side’ spooks Karachi
Rumors of a ‘supernatural’ killer call on mobiles phones, that supposedly kills the person receiving the call by damaging their central nervous system and splattering the brain, have swept like wildfire among Karachiites...

Immaterial world
Reality is normally predictable, yet paranormal phenomena are possible. So there are "rules," but they can be bent or broken. This suggests two possibilities - that there is an objective external world that can be directly influenced by the mind, or that the world is subjective but relatively stable because of a consensus among observers or because of habitual thought forms...

Malaysian museum cancels ghost exhibition after fatwa
A Malaysian museum which had defied calls for it to stop a popular exhibition on supernatural beings Friday cancelled it after an Islamic fatwa, or religious decree, was issued, state media said...

Results of the first psi experiment
The following describes the results obtained from the first experiment...

Lonesome highway to another world?
From his trailer in the town of Rachel, Nev., Mr. Arnu is less than 10 miles from an unmarked military boundary, beyond which the top-secret Air Force base known as Area 51 sits on a dry salt flat guarded by big arid mountains and bleak desert on all sides...

The dark legacy of Carlos Castaneda
The godfather of the New Age led a secretive group of devoted followers in the last decade of his life. His closest "witches" remain missing, and former insiders, offering new details, believe the women took their own lives...

Do the aliens have an agenda?

Ghosts haunt only girls not boys
A school in Madhya Pradesh has called witch doctors to overcome ghosts that allegedly haunt girl students but mysteriously spare the boys...

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