A ghost of a young woman waiting for her soldier husband to come home and a mischievous little girl are just two of the strange goings on at a haunted pub, according to its landlords. James and Linda Merchant heard rumours about ghosts at the Cock Inn, Stansted Road, Bishop's Stortford, which dates back to 1540, when they first moved into the pub two years ago...
(Also read: "Soldier's Ghost")
Look down, look up, look out!
The weather in space is controlled by events at the centre of the Earth. A pity, then, that the magnetic field generated there may be about to go into reverse...
(Also read: "Pole Shift!")
Stretch of I-4 believed to be haunted built over graves
A small stretch of Interstate 4 between Daytona Beach and Orlando where motorists have reported unexplained, ghostly sightings was built on top of four graves, Local 6 News reported...
Woman with no sign of pregnancy gives birth to a baby boy
Baffling her husband and others, Sriyani (32), a woman without the normal signs and characteristics of pregnancy, has given birth to a baby in the bathroom of her house near here...
The dark final days of SITU
Did you know that the vast files and library of a great cryptozoological and Fortean organization were raped clean in their final days? If you read closely through the long list of cryptozoology books being offered for sale by Robert Girard, you will note that some are marked with “S. I. T. U.” in them. A few have “ex S.I.T.U. library, their stamp on title page,” reports Girard...
Why crypto animals of today aren’t the monsters of yesterday
I’ve often wondered why most of cryptozoology seems to want all its unknown animals to be creatures that once existed rather than new, completely unknown forms. Most of the crypto ‘experts’ who write books, create web content or produce videos insist on wrapping their monsters in skins of animals long gone. Sea serpents are plesiosaurs, Bigfoot is gigantopithecus blacki, Mokele-Mbembe is an Apatosaurus and so on...
A quirky look at our quirky species
Did you know that fruit and vegetables have personalities? According to research carried out by Robert Sommer at the University of California, Davis, in 1988, lemons are seen as dislikable, onions are stupid, and mushrooms are social climbers. Sommer is not alone in his fascination with the stranger corners of the human mind...
Crop circles
The small farming community of Epps has found itself in the spotlight after a series of crop circles appeared in a local wheat field. Until now northeast Louisiana farmers never had to deal with the crop circle craze...
English occult
This grand old country of ours is steeped in history and legend. But you Americans always assume we're a sensible race - a bit quiet, slow to change maybe, not given to absurd flights of fancy. How wrong you are. In fact England is positively crawling with witches, warlocks, wizards and water diviners...
