A psychologist saw a living pterosaur
A psychologist at a university in Central China asserts that he saw, in 1971, a prehistoric-looking creature flying in Papua New Guinea. Brian Hennessy of the Chongqing University of Medical Sciences described the creature as black or dark brown with a "longish narrow tail" and a beak that was "indistinguishable from the head."..
Archaeologists discover Iron Age Mickey Mouse
Swedish archaeologists have uncovered signs of a Viking precursor to Mickey Mouse. Among the objects found during excavations at Uppåkra in southern Sweden is an iron age figure bearing a strong resemblance to the classic cartoon character...
Investigators check reports of a haunting
Corpus Christi Spook Central, a local paranormal investigation group, will lug a parabolic microphone and audio recorders, infrared digital video cameras and electric magnetic meter into the shadows of the Berclair Mansion tonight to prowl for ghosts...
Search for Bigfoot in Meghalaya's jungles
Indian authorities have announced a scientific study to ascertain bizarre claims by tribal villagers encountering mystical monsters in the jungles of this northeastern state...
What’s happened to MJ-12?
The documents purporting to show a government-instigated “flying saucer” study group, The Majestic Twelve, aka MJ-12, have been put on the ufological back-burner it seems...
Counting sheep a nightmare
Something's killing Lee Straw's sheep. Most of his flock is kept safe on remote islands, just off the rugged New England coast. But many of the rest, over the past week, have been slaughtered by a mysterious and vicious killer...
Northeast banks on a mythical monster for tourism turnaround
When an adventurers’ group called A’chik Tourism Society (ATS) proposed marketing a hairy, ape-like monster known as “Mande Burung,” Meghalaya Tourism officials felt it was an idea worth pursuing...
Dark green blood in the operating theatre
The unusual case of a man who produced green blood when undergoing a operation is analysed in a Case Report in this week's edition of The Lancet...
Find ghosts with your mobile
In what may be the single greatest mobile application of all time, the Discovery Channel is offering downloads of a ghost detection program for compatible cell phones. The download is free, as long as you sign up for a subscription to its Most Haunted website...
Neuroscience of déjà vu
MIT researchers report the identification of a mechanism in the brain that's tied to the experience of déjà vu, French for "seen already." The neuroscientists studied how subregions of the hippocampus--a part of the brain responsible for creating memories--contribute to our ability to differentiate between distinct places that are very similar. To conduct their study, the scientists observed the behavior of genetically-engineered mice in similar chambers, one with a floor that could shock them...
UK animal mutilations
A couple of days ago someone asked if Britain was home to cattle and animal mutilation reports and incidents that were similar to those which have been reported from the United States in the last forty years? Well…we certainly do get reports of animals mutilated in a distinctly sinister fashion in the UK...
