Roman ghost baffles club
A ghostly apparition which appeared on footage filmed by an amateur video club has left members mystified. George Gunn, a member of Outwood Community Video, captured the mysterious figure while filming on a local footpath. It was not until he got home to edit the footage that he noticed the figure, which he said seemed to resemble a roman soldier.
Mr Gunn, 75, said: "It's too weird. I can't explain it. "I wouldn't like to say whether it is a ghost or not. "Some of the club members said it was a trick of the light but some thought it was definitely a ghost. "A lot of people have said it was flare from the sun. What I can't understand is that it was underneath branches...
Bigfoot in the big city?
One evening in June of 2005, in a small town on the outskirts of Richmond, Virginia – close enough, really, to be considered part of the city itself -- a middle aged woman taking some children on an outing saw something she found hard to believe. Glancing down into a culvert, protected on three sides by the trees of a thicket beside the road, she noticed a large, man-shaped form squatting in the runoff...
(Also read: "Howling Thing by Moonlight")
Bigfoot or goatman?
Don't you hate it when casual cocktail hour conversation turns abruptly to the subject of cryptozoology and you don't even know the difference between a Sasquatch and a skunk ape? Embarrassing? You bet. But it doesn't have to be, because now you can arm yourself with Scott Francis' comprehensive new "Monster Spotter's Guide to North America"...
(Also read: "Goatman")
Tunguska party-time in Siberia in 2008
In July 2008 it will be 100 years since the Tunguska meteorite fall in Evenkiya (the Krasnoyarsk Region of Russia). The world practice shows that making business on travel to anomalous zones and places of UFO landing yields a profit. This is why the local authorities have decided to take the advantage of the human interest to all mystical and unknown and turn the place of the meteorite fall into a popular travel centre...
(Also read: "The Tunguska Mystery")
Paranormal social networking community springs out of popular paranormal website
ParanormalMeet.com is a new paranormal themed social networking community where paranormal enthusiasts, ghost hunters, ufo researchers and alternative news-hounds can meet, exchange comments and messages and collectively research a wide array of topics. The site also plans to feature member podcasts, video programming and weekly sessions where the community members can interact with well known paranormal researchers...
We take weirdness in stride
Jim Albanese: Don't know what it is about the supernatural and the unworldly, but some of us are more susceptible than skeptical, even if we haven't had our own mysterious encounter. Every Wednesday night, for example, my world stops and I'm entranced in front of my TV watching the SciFi Channel's "Ghost Hunters." The entire catalog of weirdness appeals to a large number of us, whether it be alien spaceship crashes, crop circles, cattle mutilations and now, most ominously, human abductions by space creatures. I'm not saying I believe; I'm just saying I don't disbelieve...
Makeup of potentially threatening asteroid determined
The mineral composition of a near-Earth asteroid with a slight chance of striking our planet in 2036 has been determined for the first time...
Kenya: flying objects force family to flee home
The cynics say it's just a clever way to get a bigger house but, if what Allison Marshall claims happened in her home in Carlisle is actually true, then you can hardly blame her for taking her children and fleeing into the night. Allison, aged 27, moved into the council house in Mardale Road four years ago and everything was fine until August 30 when a series of inexplicable events began as she relaxed with her boyfriend Liam Barnard, 21, and two friends...
(Also read: "The Terrifying Amherst Poltergeist")
The haunting
A pocket of cold air hits you, standing up the hairs on the back of your neck. Doors lock on their own. A light shines in the window of a room that has no electricity. The smell of a lady's perfume mysteriously appears and disappears in certain hallways. Encounters with the ghost of "Miss Kate" at the Sheridan Inn are too many to count. Some say she's still keeping watch over the historic hotel that was her beloved home for 64 years...
Worsening global warming catastrophe suggests intrusion from manipulative extraterrestrials
Critique of pure skepticism
Michael Shermer was once a born-again Christian and, during his days as a long-distance bicyclist, a patron of a bevy of quackish diets and therapies. Now he sees himself as a knight of reason squaring off against the tireless forces of superstition and unsupported belief. As such, he founded and edits The Skeptic, a quarterly magazine dedicated to casting a critical eye on the world of strange and bizarre beliefs...
