China tells living Buddhas to obtain permission before they reincarnate
Tibet’s living Buddhas have been banned from reincarnation without permission from China’s atheist leaders. The ban is included in new rules intended to assert Beijing’s authority over Tibet’s restive and deeply Buddhist people. “The so-called reincarnated living Buddha without government approval is illegal and invalid,” according to the order, which comes into effect on September 1...
(Also read: "Reincarnation: Best Evidence")
Scholar revives ancient subject
Did sailors study cosmography to help develop navigation skills? A Swansea University historian hopes to discover more about an ancient discipline which may have provided "the GPS system" of its day, 500 years ago. Dr Adam Mosley will study cosmography, a subject believed to combine geography, history and astronomy...
Pencil removed from German's head
A woman in Germany who has spent 55 years with part of a pencil inside her head has finally had it removed. Margret Wegner fell over carrying the pencil when she was four. It punctured her cheek and part of it went into her brain, above the right eye...
UFOs with Tom Snyder, J. Allen Hynek, and Peter Gersten
Three video segments of a Tom Snyder show about UFOs from our archives: The first is the opening of the NBC show (1981) with J. Allen Hynek. The second is a continuation of that show with Peter Gersten and J. Allen Hynek...
Dulce New Mexico’s alien-friendly underground base
The X-Files were right, apparently. Well that's what some would have you believe anyway. Those are the people who believe firmly that the United States government is working in collaboration with extra terrestrials in a secret underground base in Dulce, New Mexico. And what projects are people and ETs standing side by side working on? Why, the genetic alteration of captive human beings in a torturous manner, among other things...
(Also read: "Mysterious Tunnels")
Mobiles at manor house capture ghostly images
Children who visited Samlesbury Hall got more than they bargained for when they captured ghosts on their mobile phones. The pupils from Walton-le-Dale Arts College and High School, near Preston, were on a trip to the 14th century manor house on the outskirts of the city when they noticed the 'orbs'. Teacher, Joy Elliott, said: "They couldn't believe it when they looked at their phones...
(Also read: "Cell Phone Mysteries")
The day jellyfish reached the skies over Britain
Unusual jellyfish clouds have been spotted floating across the skies thousands of feet above Leicestershire...
(Also read: "Clouds of Suspicion")
Phantom hounds of the woods
In his definitive book Explore Phantom Black Dogs, English author and researcher Bob Trubshaw wrote: “The folklore of phantom black dogs is known throughout the British Isles. From the Black Shuck of East Anglia to the Mauthe Dhoog of the Isle of Man there are tales of huge spectral hounds 'darker than the night sky' with eyes 'glowing red as burning coals.'..
Greatest mysteries: does alien life exist?
Life can be found in almost every nook and cranny of our planet Earth. Leaping, swimming, flying, sprinting, slithering, crawling or rooted firmly in place, organisms appear, die, and are replaced by new generations and new species...
