Reporter films China's own Loch Ness monster: report
A television reporter claims to have discovered China's answer to the Loch Ness monster, state press reported Sunday. Local journalist Zhuo Yongsheng shot footage of six "seal-like" creatures in the northeastern Tianchi lake, which local legend has long said is home to Loch Ness-style monsters. "They could swim as fast as yachts and at times they would all disappear in the water," the Xinhua news agency quoted Zhuo as saying. "Their fins, or maybe wings, were longer than their bodies."..
The ghosts of the Empire
While I've previously looked at Sunderland's Cauld Lad of Hylton Castle, another landmark building in the City - the Empire Theatre - has also found itself to be at the centre of ghostly goings-on. It has been host to a multitude of star acts in its time, from Chaplin, Dietrich to The Beatles and has even managed to get an Oscar-winning actor to perform in its annual pantomime later this year!!..
Aliens or “imps” seen in Argentina
From South America comes an interesting story of small beings walking around in front of surprised residents. The continent has always been a source of strange stories that don’t conform to the ufological cultural imperialism of the U.S...
Review of “Unleashed”
“Unleashed: Of Poltergeists and Murder: The Curious Story of Tina Resch” is a captivating narrative of the highly publicized events surrounding Tina Resch, from the bizarre occurrences of apparent poltergeist activity in her Columbus, Ohio home, to the mysterious murder of her daughter less than six years later. These events had been previously documented in the form of newspaper articles and conference proceedings, as well as in a segment of Unsolved Mysteries...
Ghost busted
Shea's Corner Pub is imbued with spirits, some say, and not just the drinkable kind. Yet Shea's, which is in a soulless Boynton Beach strip mall by a Domino's and a Dunkin' Donuts, doesn't feel spooky. It's homey, thanks to touches such as dark-green walls with pastoral pictures and comfy chairs by a brick fireplace...
Chris de Burgh: The Lady in Red faith healer
If you're like us, then for the past two decades or so you've been publicly mourning the apparently deceased music career of Chris de Burgh. It appears that we shouldn't though, because with one swift touch he can bring it back from the dead Lazarus-style. He sang the song “The Lady In Red” back in the day, and now he's a faith healer with the formerly infirm ready to testify as to his remedial touch...
The CIA considers UFOs
1918-1939 is sometimes called “the golden age of aviation” because of the much technological advancement made in aircraft. With World War II came better, faster airplanes and more experienced pilots. By the time the war was over, air travel was becoming firmly established across the world. The skies became the highways of the future. People started looking up in curiosity. What they saw in the skies was sometimes mundane, but sometimes astonishing. The UFO age had begun...
Horned horror
1873: The people of Jonesboro, Tennessee, are in a turmoil of terror over the appearance of a fearful and wonderful animal which is depredating in the State. A gentleman recently from the Shelton Laurel district of North Carolina, some forty miles from this place, informs us that the people in that “densely thicketed” country are greatly excited in regard to the appearance, upon several different occasions, and in several different places, of a huge mountain monster, the species of which are [sic] unknown...
(Also read: "Ramic - The Horned Entity")
'Makeover' starts on family's new haunt
Some folks around this Down East town might be happy to see an aging farmhouse demolished to pave way for a new home being created by Ty Pennington and the cast of ABC's "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition." It turns out the farmhouse where two local teachers and their three young children had resided since the 1990s was haunted, according to a professor...
Seeing the future – or just dreaming?
Can Chris Robinson see the future? He says he has been predicting events for 20 years with clues that come to him in dreams. If true – and he has many supporters – then he undoubtedly deserves inclusion in the UK’s Five TV documentary series “Extraordinary People”, screened on 10 September, 2007, six years after an American professor witnessed Robinson predict the US terrorist attacks in New York...
(Also read: "What To Do with Your Premonitions")
Medium research and the battle between science and religion
Guest: Marcel Cairo, Los Angles Psychic and Medium, suggests the root cause of science’s skepticism of the paranormal is the battle between science and religion: "We’re getting caught-up in the intricacies of psi research when really what’s going on is a battle between creationism and evolution."..
