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By Stephen Wagner, About.com

Rabbit calls police to home
Police officers forced entry into a home in a bid to help a women heard crying only to find it was her rabbit who had called for attention. Operators from a telephone monitoring service connected to the house told Bromley Police they could hear a woman crying and whimpering down the line in Shurlock Drive, Orpington. It was believed the resident was in need of immediate help...

Illinois Boy finds 1-in-a-million blue-eyed cicada
It was a one-in-a-million find. Literally. Most of the 17-year cicadas that have emerged in recent weeks in parts of the Midwest have red eyes. But a 6-year-old boy in this Chicago suburb found a rare blue-eyed one in his backyard Friday...

New Mt. Hood mystery photo
As the code tells anyone, this photograph was taken on June 7, 2007, at 7:11 p.m. by the same people who have had some luck with pictures from this same location. What do you think this latest trailcam image shows?..

Mysterious noise creates a tense situation in Sri Lanka
A tense situation was created in some areas in the Gampaha and Kurunegala districts last night following a mysterious noise similar to an explosion. However later it was revealed that the noise and the light could be from a falling meteorite of some magnitude...

Black triangle sighting in Alabama

New book - Alien Autopsy Inquest

Giant ice cube smashes roof
An Angus couple are recovering from shock after a giant ice cube plummeted from the sky at hundreds of miles an hour and smashed into their roof...

See monsters?
When strange blobs of rotting animal flesh wash ashore, Sidney Pierce usually gets a call. Pierce, a University of South Florida biologist, has analyzed "sea monster" samples from Chile, Tasmania and Bermuda, plus one piece of carcass found on a beach in St. Augustine, Fla., that spent more than a century in storage at the Smithsonian Institution. But in every case, DNA analysis has revealed the mystery mush to be highly decomposed whale blubber. "It's getting a little tedious now because it's always the same thing," Pierce said. "I keep hoping for it to be a monster, but it hasn't so far."..

Patent sought on 'synthetic life'
Scientists working to build a life form from scratch have applied to patent the broad method they plan to use to create their "synthetic organism"...

Spoon bending boy in 1976

Men of Cryptozoology: Chad Arment

Into the Unknown with George Noory
Linda Moulton Howe: The SciFi Channel tries out a new TV pilot on Wednesday, June 13, 2007, at 11 PM ET / 10 PM CT, that features George Noory interacting with a live studio audience. The SciFi website describes the subjects in the half-hour TV pilot as ghost events and a near-death experience reported by screen actor, Gary Busey. This week I talked with George Noory about the pilot, his goal to host a "Tonight Show" version of Coast and what happened to Gary Busey...

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