A monster event
Thailand¹s Loch Ness monster, the mythical serpent Naga, will arrive on cue in October (if a 100-year history repeats itself) hurling egg-sized fiery red balls hundreds of metres into the air along a stretch of the mighty Mekong River in North Eastern Thailand. The phenomenon, which attracts thousands of tourists (and sceptics) each year, coincides with the end of the Buddhist Lent Festival...
MSU researchers track ‘killer lightning’
The violent thunderstorms that have rolled across Minnesota have been a treasure-trove of information for a group of researchers hunkered over computer monitors in a basement room at Minnesota State University. Through a high-powered, light-sensitive camera mounted on the roof of Armstrong Hall, graduate student Josh Jans and others train the camera on the strongest storm fronts...
A mystery in the Green Mountains
Deep within the Green Mountain National Forest, an enormous pile of rocks has people puzzled. In "Hidden Landscapes," a documentary screening twice this weekend during the Lake Champlain Maritime Festival on the Burlington waterfront, a group of scientists are seen observing this 20-by-30-foot cairn...
Mysterious noise annoys Anderson couple
To Paul Porcaro, it sounds like the idling engine of a faraway car. His wife, Sadie, hears moving water. However it is described, “The Sound” can’t be found. For the past two years, the Porcaros have been troubled by a strange and unexplained noise at their home on Anderson’s east side...
Roadside 'mystery spots' invite wonder, skepticism
West Virginia has a mystery hole. Santa Cruz, Calif., has mystery spot. Gold Hill, Ore., has a vortex. The stories behind them are all mysteriously alike: a UFO or strange magnetic force has pulled a wooden shack down a hill, and everything in the now-crooked building is topsy-turvy...
Mounting mysteries at Saturn keep scientists guessing
Humanity has known of Saturn since prehistory, but enigmas about this ringed world still abound-from new mysteries concerning a baffling hexagon of clouds on the planet to perennial puzzles concerning its famous rings...
The top 20 most bizarre experiments of all time
To research my new book, Elephants on Acid, I scoured scientific archives searching for the most bizarre experiments of all time — the kind that are mind-twistingly, jaw-droppingly strange... the kind that make you wonder, "How did anyone ever conceive of doing such a thing?"..
The Mayan long count calendar and 2012
December 21st, 2012 is just over five years away. Are you ready? Are you prepared for the end of the world as we know it? That might depend on if you believe in the prophecies that supposedly come with the end of the 5,200-year-old Mayan long count calendar. A new long count calendar begins the next day, but the time period before and after the day of turnover is said to come with powerful force. A force that could change the world as we know it...
NDE research from a Christian perspective
Moses and Ramses, together again
Michael Prescott: A reader pointed me to the Montague Keen Web site, one of the stranger afterlife sites I've seen. Keen himself was a well-known researcher into the paranormal, and though I have my doubts about some of his investigations (notably his seance with David Thompson), I never doubted his seriousness. His posthumous site, on the other hand, is hard to take seriously. It consists, in part, of messages supposedly delivered by the discarnate Keen. The messages are taken down by his widow, Veronica, through automatic writing...
Exploring the veridical cases of psychic detective Dorothy Allison
Dorothy Allison was first known to display Psychic Ability at the age of 14 when she correctly predicted the untimely death of her perfectly healthy father of pneumonia shortly before he unexpectedly caught it and passed away...
A pub full of spirits
A licensed ale house since 1730, the Rummer Tavern is believed to be one of Cardiff’s most haunted pubs. Legend has it that the old inn in the shadows of the castle is haunted by an angry mariner, who died of jealousy after catching his wife in bed with another man...
