Hindu gods get summons from court
A judge in India has summoned two Hindu gods, Ram and Hanuman, to help resolve a property dispute...
Tweety, Donald Duck summoned to court
Tweety may get a chance to take the witness stand and sing like a canary. An Italian court ordered the animated bird, along with Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and his girlfriend Daisy, to testify in a counterfeiting case...
Haunted house stumps rationalists
Strange apparitions moving across rooms, a trail of water on the floor, beds and pillows getting wet - horror movie freaks may think this to be the plot of the next Ramsay Brothers' venture. However, this is little joy for the residents of a century-old building at Santragachhi, where these 'sightings' are taking place. The house has already acquired the unenviable title of Bhoot Bungalow...
Moon photo mystery solved
Some dogged sleuthing by a fellow space blogger has tracked down the truth behind the controversial first photo from China's moon orbiter. In the week since the picture was released amid much fanfare in Beijing, there have been widespread rumors that the photo was a fake, copied from an old picture collected by a U.S. space probe. The good news for the Chinese is that Planetary Society blogger Emily Lakdawalla's clears them of outright fakery. The bad news is, she found evidence that the photo was badly retouched for public release...
They're on a mission to find Bigfoot in California
A San Juan Capistrano man hopes to make history as the discoverer of Sasquatch and hosts trips for amateur Bigfoot enthusiasts to help make the find...
The 'Bermuda Triangle' started with a lost wing
In the years since his retirement as CEO of Kockums (previously Soderhamm) forestry products factory, Tom Richardson has taken up painting as a hobby. He's pretty good, too. He even won first prize at an arts fair in Florida, best of show out of about 300 pieces entered in the event...
Bermuda Triangle or tragic crash? 62-year-old mystery brings experts to Broward airport
The strange disappearance of five torpedo bombers and their crews in 1945 helped popularize the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle, the area between Fort Lauderdale, Bermuda and Puerto Rico where dozens of planes and boats have vanished...
San Francisco Conference on proof of afterlife
Forever Family Foundation, a non-profit, non-sectarian organization that supports the premise that life does not end with physical death, has announced a groundbreaking conference that will bring together world renowned scientists, medical doctors, researchers, and mediums with a goal of educating the general public...
(Also read: "The Afterlife Experiments")
Lost lands, forgotten realms
Atlantis! Lemuria! Shamballha! Shangri-La! The very names conjure up images of sunken cities or forgotten lands hidden in the impenetrable jungle or amongst mountain peaks somewhere beyond the edges of civilization. They also suggest ancient and powerful cultures and technologies long vanished from the world, remnants of which-if popular imagination is to be believed-may still lie slumbering in the caverns far beneath the earth. Is there any truth in such beliefs?..
Scientists see nothing - call it 'parallel universe'
Why is cosmology in a state of crisis? Some might doubt the tenability of this loaded question, but to many critics of standard cosmology, the question must be asked. New observations continually shock and disturb astronomers and astrophysicists...
Tuatha De Danann - ancient aliens?
UFOs and their occupants, have been described thousands of times in relatively modern history. There have been some accounts of UFOs seen in decades gone by, I wrote one a while back looking into this, called UFOs a Modern Phenomenon? Think again , but what follows are quotes and sections of information relating to Tuatha Dé Danann, who were ancient Irish deities. The name translates to "gods of Danu". Danu was the mythical mother of all Gods...
Centuries-old map baffles researchers
The only surviving copy of the 500-year-old map that first used the name America goes on permanent display this month at the Library of Congress, but even as it prepares for its debut, the 1507 Waldseemuller map remains a puzzle for researchers...
Ghosthunter mum chases Scotland's spooky past
With the kids in bed, most busy mums want nothing more than a couple of hours peace and quiet on the sofa. But with her working day at an end, mum-of-two Sharon McKee checks on her kids, kisses her husband goodbye and disappears into the night - ghostbusting. The 35-year-old business development manager likes nothing better than spending her nights in creepy castles or haunted hotels...
