Vatican paper set to clear Knights Templar
The mysteries of the Order of the Knights Templar could soon be laid bare after the Vatican announced the release of a crucial document which has not been seen for almost 700 years...
Bigfoot epistemology
When you talk about bigfoot, you are always talking from a certain philosophical position. Since these positions are unstated, it is sometimes difficult to have conversations with others when they are coming from a different point of view. Let’s have a look at some of them...
A man and his (weird) museum
Hair from Sir Edmond Hillary's Yeti expedition, water from Loch Ness, a 9-foot latex pterodactyl, Loren Coleman's got it all...
Found: Long-lost asteroid, dangerous to Earth
For more than 40 years, an asteroid believed to be potentially dangerous to Earth has been essentially lost to view. But no more. The so-called 6344 P-L was first spotted in 1960, and given the designation Potentially Hazardous Asteroid – meaning that its orbit took it within .05 astronomical units (about 4,650,000 miles) of Earth's orbit. But astronomers lost track of it; left behind was only a number and a vague sense of threat...
Pear Cable CEO calls James Randi's $1 million offer a hoax
Last week, magician and paranormal debunker James Randi (pictured above left) offered the makers of Pear speaker cables $1 million if they could prove in double-blind testing there was a difference between their $7,250 cables and ordinary Monster Cables. Now, Adam Blake, CEO and co-founder of Pear Cable, has called Randi's offer "a fake" and a "joke"...
Ghost walk: More to Lewiston than meets the eye
As twilight began to creep across the evening sky, I found myself standing among a crowd of about 30 other ghost seekers at the Lewiston Visitor’s Center with camera in hand, anxious and uncertain of what would unfold in the next 90 minutes...
Ghost stories haunt American culture
The horror film "Poltergeist" is being re-released in theaters today to celebrate its 25th anniversary. The film, which is considered a classic and was nominated for three Oscars, has a lesser-known legacy: it strongly influenced the public's views about real-life ghosts...
Lottery win for 10 childminders
A childminder has scooped a share of a £2m lotto jackpot just days after her husband predicted the win in a dream...
Searching for spirits
For some people, ghost hunting ends when they find the perfect Casper costume for their kindergartner to wear to school. For others, it's a nightly job. "I'm part of a group of paranormal investigators called Unknown Utah, and we basically try to figure out if certain places are haunted," said Tom Young, producer of TV commercials by day and a ghost hunter by night...
The legend of Bessie
When Bob Bartolotta sailed on Lake Erie, he often saw what appeared to be a long, thin creature swimming through the water. Bartolotta, a student in the 1970s at Ohio State University Stone Laboratory on Gibraltar Island near Put-in-Bay, watched the object hopefully, waiting to see if the snakelike head of a sea monster would emerge...
The hat man
The tumor was large, about the size of a chicken egg. In the spring of 1971, a surgeon removed the cancerous mass from 11-year-old Rob Langevoort’s brain and Rob spent months undergoing radiation therapy. So, when Rob started seeing things that didn’t belong in his home, he didn’t know if they were real or imaginary. His first encounter was summer 1971...
