Chance to win historic pub that comes with its very own resident spirit
With tales of glasses flying through the air and feet being tickled by invisible fingers, it is fair to say there is more than alcoholic spirits to welcome any new landlords to one Hampshire pub. Screams have often been heard crying out from the vaulted cellar as staff find themselves locked inside while footsteps roam the floorboards of the Hiltonbury Farmhouse...
The prehistoric alignment of world wonders : The Great circle
Great circles are straight lines that go all the way around the center of the earth. Other than the equator and meridians of longitude that run due north and south, any great circle reaches its maximum latitudes at two locations that are 90° of longitude east and west of the two locations where the great circle crosses the equator...
Overlooked aspects of the alien presence
Aliens are sophisticated nonhuman entities. Technological superiority is their least important advantage; what matters more is their dimensional superiority. Their native state of existence transcends the limitations of space-time...
The haunting hangman
Be afraid, be very afraid. One of Britain’s most notorious hangmen is back with a vengeance and could be haunting his former shop in Lowerplace. John Ellis was Rochdale’s last public executioner and after a well-documented lifetime of dispatching others, he brought his own days to a gruesome end when he committed suicide in 1932...
The sign of the Son of Man
Once again all nations have rung in another New Year. For many, 2008 may seem no different from any other moment in time. As time goes, there really is no difference. But for those who look forward, beyond the now, to new expectations, there is an undeniable breeze or stir in the air that doesn’t want to go away. The uneasiness is fabricated mostly by politics: Rumors of war, terrorism, inflation, currency devaluation, and political shifts in the Middle East, Russia, and other parts unknown that promise only further instability...
Lake Erie UFOs are stars on YouTube
Waves of UFO sightings over the waters of Lake Erie are earning the great lake a reputation as a UFO hot spot. But the lake's new popularity may have more to do with a string of popular videos on YouTube than sightings of little green men. "It's a hot spot," declares local ufologist Aaron Clark about the beaches of Lake Erie near Cleveland, Ohio. "Some believe there's a UFO base on the bottom of the lake."..
Hunting ghosts
It’s just after 8 p.m. Saturday and while many people were out getting a bite to eat or taking in a movie, others were trying to catch ghosts. The group, which is affiliated with TAPS or The Atlantic Paranormal Society, is called Louisiana Spirits and its members were responding to a call from Michelle and J.D. Kirkwood...
Tooth reveals deep roots
Brian Kemp learned a lot from one 10,300-year-old tooth. The Washington State University researcher identified a previously unknown pattern of relationships among Native Americans - suggesting that humans arrived here more recently than previously believed and migrated down the western coastlines from Alaska to the tip of South America...
Lies, damn lies and 'counterknowledge'
Outright fiction is being peddled as historical and scientific fact, warns Damian Thompson in an extract from his provocative new book...
Moa hunting resumes after fresh 'evidence'
Photos of "moa" footprints in Fiordland and evidence elsewhere in New Zealand have reignited claims the supposedly extinct birds are still roaming the countryside...
