Physicists discover inorganic dust with life-like qualities
Could extraterrestrial life be made of corkscrew-shaped particles of interstellar dust? Intriguing new evidence of life-like structures that form from inorganic substances in space are revealed today in the New Journal of Physics...
Making our presence known
Caroline Watt: As an academic in the field of parapsychology, I have watched with interest the raised eyebrows that greeted this week's reports of university research into paranormal phenomena. At the Koestler Parapsychology Unit, where I work, parapsychology is defined as the scientific study of the capacity attributed to some individuals to interact with their environment by means other than the recognised sensorimotor channels. The neutral term "psi" is used to denote this hypothesised capacity, though no assumption is made as to the mechanisms underlying people's psi experiences...
Psychic probed for Queen Mary spirits
Peter James played with dead children. When he was 8 years old, James said he encountered the ghosts of three young victims. They were from an apartment fire 35 years earlier in the building where he lived in Rochester, New York. They would be his playmates for three years...
Bahia horned bipedal beast photo
Loren Coleman: Here’s an alleged horned biped creature on a South American riverbank just in that I find intriguing, if not curiously prosaic. Needless to say, in these days of photoshopping, frame captures from sci-fi films, and animation that nearly looks real, anything is possible as an origin of any new photo. But what is this? Does it look familiar to anyone?..
Hecate Hill: Where the Bigfoot lurk
Barely sixty minutes before the witching hour struck on the cold night of Saturday 28 October of last year, my wife, Dana, and I entered the Pocket Sandwich Theatre in Dallas for a date with something monstrous...
The Ghost and Miss Chicken
Are the spooks in the house or bats in the belfry?..
Tutankhamen-like Curse Killed Nepal's Royal Family?
One of the most gripping tales to have captured public imagination is the legend of Tutankhamen's curse, the superstition that the mummy of Egypt's boy-king took its revenge on the violators of its tomb, causing the death of the British excavators who discovered the grave in 1923. Though the tales petered out in the 80s, after the woman who was the last link to the expedition died, a similar myth has now sprung up in Nepal, still regarded as a mysterious land that opened up to the outside world only in 1950...
Crop circles to be debated
Crop circles enthusiasts in Wiltshire have been overwhelmed by this year's harvest of unexplained activity. A well-timed crop circle conference has been organised for this weekend, which will give visitors the opportunity to view some of the designs that have cropped up across the county...
Seven Fortean Wonders of the World
Peacocks, crypto and Forteana
A phantom peacock that only appears on Halloween is being blamed for near-misses on a country road. The peacock has appeared on the A267, south of Five Ashes village in East Sussex, between midnight and 1am on the last two nights...
Ad campaign puts out call for Alberta sasquatch sightings
If you've seen any hulking hairy beasts or unexplained gigantic footprints lately, a group of sasquatch seekers wants to hear from you. The Western Canadian Sasquatch Research Organization hopes a newspaper advertising blitz this summer will help sniff out reports from witnesses who have encountered the legendary hairy giant...
Haiti UFO video
Watch video footage of UFOs purportedly shot over Haiti on the evening of August 6, 2007...
Lost dog 'crosses Menai Strait'
A dog is believed to have swum through treacherous currents in the Menai Strait in a 12-mile journey to get back to its owners. Nine-year-old Tami had run away from its walker in a forest near Llanddwyn Island, Anglesey on Tuesday, 31 July. The cocker spaniel then spent four days finding its way home to its owners in Caernarfon, Gwynedd, while they mounted a search across the two counties...
