The spectre of reason
One claimed she could make people urinate with the power of her mind while another confidently predicted an asteroid would destroy Bowen, in far north Queensland. The long list of failed challengers for James Randi's $US1 million prize is as entertaining as it is bizarre...
Is the old jail haunted by ghosts?
The Great Falls-based Montana Association of Paranormal Studies placed cameras and audio and video recorders in the ancient Cascade County Jail to try to spot ghosts earlier this year. "They asked to come into the jail and set up cameras," said Commissioner Lance Olson Sunday. During a pair of visits in January and February, the group brought some of its equipment into the 1909 jail, and then brought in a more extensive video surveillance system, recalled Brad Clark, the county's building maintenance supervisor...
The Jersey Devil
Cryptozoology has a stuffed-full menu of weird creatures that have had dozens of sightings all over the world. The Jersey Devil has got to be one of the best known, but it seems it's sightings don't happen quite as much as others in its great big monster family. Once though, almost a hundred years ago, a whole bunch of firemen hosed one right off a roof...
More earthquake light sightings
More people have been in touch to say they saw mysterious light as the earthquake hit on February 27.
Zoe Pope, 28, of Manby, said she was not sure what she had seen until she read the Leader last week.
As reported, Jean Howard of Tathwell and a Sleaford couple reported seeing flashes of light as the earthquake – with its epicentre in Market Rasen – rumbled across the country. Elvira Witney saw an even stranger phenomenon known as ball lightning in her Westgate home...
East Texans organize for Bigfoot search
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the woods, East Texans prepare for another expedition to find Bigfoot in East Texas. A professional and well equipped group says it's ready to prove the mysterious hairy giant is roaming our neighborhoods...
A brief history of time machines
The dream of time traveling, to the past or future, is probably as old as the human imagination. When H.G. Wells published The Time Machine in 1895, he called it a "scientific romance" because no one knew whether time travel was possible. A mere 10 years later, Albert Einstein would put forth his theory of special relativity, and part of the question would be answered--to the astonishment of many--in the affirmative...
Haunted house lawsuit settled
A couple sues a Dubuque woman and her Realtor, claiming they were haunted by a suicide at the home...
50 people looking for solar image of Mary lose sight
At least 50 people in Kottayam district have reportedly lost their vision after gazing at the sun looking for an image of Virgin Mary...
