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Sep 19 2009
Bigfoot an 'endangered species'
Bigfoot, the legendary hairy man-like beast said to roam the wildernesses of North America, is not shy, merely so rare it risks extinction and should be protected as an endangered species. So says Canadian MP Mike Lake who has called for Bigfoot to be protected under Canada's species at risk act, alongside Whooping Cranes, Blue Whales, and Red Mulberry trees...

Melody deciphered in ‘Da Vinci Code’ chapel
Like a plot from “The Da Vinci Code,” a team of code breakers claims to have found music hidden for 500 years in intricate carvings at the church where author Dan Brown set the climax of the best-selling book...

Possible sasquatch sighting
A Cranbrook resident says he was just beginning his early-morning shift as a sand truck/snowplow driver for a highways maintenance contractor when he saw what he now calls “the beast.” Gord Johnson says he was barely out of the Cranbrook city limits, heading west, when his headlights illuminated what he thought was a human figure some 150 metres away...

Castle hosts ghost 'interviews'
Paranormal investigators at a 15th century castle want volunteers to help them 'interview' resident ghosts. Bodelwyddan Castle in Denbighshire is said to have a number of spooks who make their presence known. But as castle records were destroyed by fire in the 1920s, no-one knows if the spirits are from a former school in the grounds or a wartime military hospital...

'Here Be Dragons' exhibit studies dragon myth across cultures
Countless cultures across the world share a common knowledge of a beast that never existed. From Apr. 22 through Nov. 4, The University of Texas at San Antonio Institute of Texan Cultures (ITC) will explore the origins, symbolism and cultural significance of the dragon through history in a family-friendly exhibit called "Here Be Dragons!"..

Bigfoot & me
Tony Martin was digging in a clay bed beside Coos Canyon, rock hounding up the road in Byron, when he pulled a pair of odd-shaped stones from the muck. Each weighed about 5 pounds, stretched 12 inches long. After a quick dunk in the Swift River, he saw what could pass for curved insteps and blunt heels...

'Woodhenge' at Fort Ancient raises interest in ritual past
During a remote-sensing survey of the Fort Ancient Earthworks in 2005, Jarrod Burks of Ohio Valley Archaeological Consultants discovered a circular pattern in the soil that stretched nearly 200 feet in diameter. Fort Ancient is a massive earthwork in Warren County that was built more than 2,000 years ago by the Hopewell culture...

Air Force confirms Bolivian UFO crash
New information has been released from the Air Intelligence Agency, part of the US Air Force through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) that further confirms the August 1979 crashes of a pair of weird spheres near Santa Cruz, Bolivia...

Lab analysis on first 2007 crop pattern in U.S

New Mexico’s Bighoot
In the piney mountains and desert mesas of southcentral New Mexico, citizens of the Mescalero Apache Indian Reservation still tell legends of an enormous and evil bird: Big Owl. The Jicarilla Apaches, along the state’s northern edge, also talk of Big Owl-near slickrock canyons and beneath the gray bluffs of their reservation-but in their stories Big Owl will often paralyze humans just by staring at them, and after doing so swallows them whole, just as smaller owls swallow mice...

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