Cooking with Qi
A mystic claims he can cook fish – using only the power of his mind. Chinese He Tieheng – who calls himself ‘The Fire God’ – says he uses a technique called Qigong to channel his brainwaves on to food...
Outing the Ozark Howler
Ten years later, the “Ozark Howler” still haunts the world of cryptozoology, and everyone from adventurous artists to Wikipedia writers continue to get it wrong. Here we go again. A new example has popped up in the modern blogsphere...
Debate over ‘little people’ intensifies after recent island discovery
The bones and a single skull of these “little people” are believed to be remains of a separate species of the human family that lived about 18,000 years ago on an island in Indonesia, as the scientists who made the sensational discovery concluded in 2004...
Ontario lake reveals mysterious structure
In the spring of 2005, diving was conducted in MacDonald Lake as part of a unique submarine project at the Haliburton Forest and Wild Life Reserve. Repeatedly staff of Haliburton Forest would stumble upon an unusual stone structure, perched on top of a rock ledge at a depth of 40 feet below the present lake level. Initially the structure was considered a complex version of a 'perched erratic', those monstrous rocks, ferried by the glaciers thousands of years ago and dumped where they happened to melt at the end of one of the recent cold-freezes...
International interest for Leader lightning story
A Louth Leader story about mysterious lightning seen during February's earthquake has sparked national and international interest. The Times newspaper quoted the story on Saturday in its Weather Eye section. It reports how people told the Leader they saw flashes of light at the time of the earthquake at 12.56am on February 27. There is also a mention of the sighting of ball lightning in the Westgate home of Elvira Witney...
Nostradamus delusion ends with man killing family member with bayonet
A man so devoted to the writings of Nostradamus he read copies of original transcripts in medieval French was yesterday ordered into psychiatric care for killing step-grandfather with a bayonet...
New kidney 'changed my whole personality'
A woman claims to have undergone a complete "personality transplant" after receiving a new kidney. Cheryl Johnson, 37, says she has changed completely since receiving the organ in May. She believes that she must have picked up her new characteristics from the donor, a 59-year-old man who died from an aneurysm...
Why won't people take Fergie seriously? Ask Eric, her ghost
The flab-fighting Duchess of York knows who to turn to when life weighs her down... the ghost of a dead monk called ERIC who looks like Friar Tuck. Former royal Fergie speaks to a psychic every day—and through her gets guidance from the saintly spectre whenever she has to make big decisions, we can reveal...
More than 50 Bigfoot sightings tallied in W.Va.
The Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, an Internet scientific community charged with unraveling the mystery of Sasquatch, lists more than 4,000 sightings and trackings of the furry fellow throughout the United States and Canada. The Web site www. bfro.net has documented more than 50 sightings in West Virginia alone since 1975, with a majority of them occurring in southern West Virginia. The most recant Bigfoot sighting occurred last summer in Monroe County...
130-yr-old patient puzzles doctors
An ascetic admitted in the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) claims to be 130 years old, but the doctors at the premier hospital are taking it with a pinch of salt...
Do meteors create life?
Meteorite impacts are often associated with huge disasters, mass extinction and why the dinosaurs disappeared from the face of the Earth some 65 million years ago. However, the opposite may also occur – that new and more varied animal life arises following such a catastrophe, is shown by new research conducted by the Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen...
Meditation can lower blood pressure, study shows
Transcendental Meditation is an effective treatment for controlling high blood pressure with the added benefit of bypassing possible side effects and hazards of anti-hypertension drugs, according to a new meta-analysis conducted at the University of Kentucky...
