The haunting: Ghost causes havoc on film set
Producers of a new Irish series have hit a stumbling block on set with what appears to be a ghost causing havoc with props. The series called A Tangled Web is set to air next spring and is currently being filmed at a house in Ranelagh. Creators have described the series as being similar to American sitcom Friends but with a great deal more reality as well as a murder mystery to solve...
Prehistoric child is discovered buried with 'toy hedgehog' at Stonehenge
This toy hedgehog, found in a child's grave at Stonehenge, is proof of what we have always known - children have always loved to play. The chalk figurine was probably a favourite possession of the three year old, and placed next to the child when they died in the late Bronze Age or early Iron Age, around 3,000 years ago...
A haunted bed and breakfast
There's a story that's been circulating among guests at the Phoenixville bed and breakfast The Manor House for a number of years. According to most versions of the story, guests occasionally stop cold at the bottom of the stairs to the house's third floor, hearing the eerie echoes of children happily playing, though there are no children in the house...
Top 10 most wanted monsters cryptozoologists want to net
Cryptozoology is the science and study of unknown creatures not as yet catalogued by conventional science. Even so, that doesn't stop these strange beings from making their appearances all about our world, sometimes intruding into your own neighborhoods...
The police and the paranormal
Ten years ago, Taoist medium Lou Ai Pang was approached by a frantic housewife who told him that her husband had disappeared after leaving Singapore to seek his fortune. Mr Lou, 61, said his psychic powers revealed that the man was alive and in Thailand...
Spooky turns can leave theatre patrons going cold
There was a moment, during a tour of the Edinburgh Playhouse a few years ago, that I was filled with a feeling of dread. We were talking about the theatre's ghost at the time, when all of a sudden, the air turned icy. Spooky...
'Bigfoot' cop wants job back
The Clayton County police officer, who perpetuated a Bigfoot hoax, is fighting his firing. Matthew Whitton has filed an appeal of his termination, asking to be reinstated to his job as a uniformed patrolman. Whitton, 28, was fired in August, after he attracted international media attention with claims he had the body of a dead Bigfoot...
Some musings on a spectrum of ghosts
Spirits spook at Dean College
Even after a century, members of the philanthropic Ray family may still be hanging around their old haunts, according to staff at Dean College...
Scene of grisly mob slaying has haunted past
It is a fitting backdrop for a ghost story: An old mansion on a secluded hilltop sits empty, save for a caretaker who lives upstairs. A no-trespassing sign is staked near the locked metal gates, and the stately grounds are covered in thistles. Over the years, visitors to the Victorian-style home on Staten Island told of strange happenings, odd clanging noises and weeping sounds late at night, supposedly conjured by the spirits of people who died on the land long ago...
On parched farms, using intuition to find water
Phil Stine is not crazy, or possessed, or even that special, he says. He has no idea how he does what he does. From most accounts, he does it very well. “Phil finds the water,” said Frank Assali, an almond farmer and convert. “No doubt about it.”..
