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By Stephen Wagner, About.com

If looks could kill, the evil eye throughout history
They've always said that the eye is the window to the soul. Perhaps the real truth is that it is the window of intent...

No lights, camera, action!
The most sensational interview in television history: some time in the near future, for the very first time in television history, a professional, open minded skeptic television investigator - with a professional track record of successful television interview shows, will be interviewing a materialized entity from the afterlife...

The Mongolian Death Worm
The Mongolian Death Worm lives in Mongolia, obviously, and is so named because it spits lethal concoctions of poison and/or electricity on whatever it pleases. The creature's never been officially documented, but locals have seen it - lots of locals. It's even 'real' enough that the 1922 Prime Minister of Mongolia asked a man to bring one in. Did the man succeed?..

Somerville’s ghost hunters
Conley Ransom doesn’t believe in ghosts. So he didn’t know what to make of the array of strange happenings that haunted his home on Gravel Ridge Drive. Some things were not as bothersome, such as the muffled coughing that sounded like his father, Woodrow Wilson Ransom, who died in the house 41/2 years ago. And when the front door routinely swung open, even though Ransom, 49, was fairly certain it was locked, he would jokingly invite the invisible guest to enter...

Bigfoot film takes top award
Congratulations to The Long Way Home: A Bigfoot Story, produced, written and directed by James “Bubba” Cromer of Columbia, South Carolina, for winning big honors in the Big Apple. In New York City, on Friday, April 17, 2007, The Long Way Home: A Bigfoot Story won “Best Narrative Feature” for the entire New York International Independent Film & Video Festival 2007. As a reminder, this is a movie about a reporter (played by Cromer) for the Miami Herald who tries to resurrect his failing career by catching a Bigfoot...

Bill Wangemann column: Were UFOs already flying around in 1897?
Most of the column's I write are on local history and pertain to people and happenings in Sheboygan and Sheboygan County. However, sometimes research comes across happenings that involved not only Sheboygan and Sheboygan County but also the entire state and sometimes the entire Midwest...

Author takes another look at valley's many mysteries
Former San Luis Valley resident Christopher O’Brien has released his third book about strange stuff in this area. No other region in North America features the variety and intensity of unusual phenomena found in the world’s largest alpine valley. Since 1989, Christopher O’Brien has documented hundreds of . . . strange reports of UFOs, ghosts, sorcerers, crypto-creatures and cattle mutilations, as well as portal areas, secret underground bases, mystery choppers and covert military activity...

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