Bigfoot sighting on Highway 101
During the height of the smoke from Mendocino Lightning Complex fires, a Laytonville man had an encounter with an apelike creature while driving north of Willits on Highway 101 near Shimmins Ridge Road. "This animal stepped onto the southbound lane near where the guardrail stops," says LoPinto. "It was very smoky and incredibly hot, at least 100 degrees but still daylight. It ran really fast, directly into the path of a small truck, which had pulled out to pass me, after the lanes had expanded from two lanes to four...
B.C. psychics' condo haunted by 'malevolent' ghosts
Christophir and Crystell Regan are certain their New Westminster, B.C., condo is haunted. "Incredibly haunted," stresses Crystell. The husband and wife psychics say they always expected to meet a few spirits when they moved into a condo complex a year ago, but not to the magnitude that they have...
Paranormal investigations and technology: where ghosts and gadgets meet
Meet one type of specialist whom you may never have hired or outsourced—ghost hunters. Whether you've got a ghost in the machine or in the house, these paranormal investigators can bring a technology tool chest with everything from thermometers to blimp cams...
Bigfoot: man, myth or monster?
It wasn't until 1803 that a majority of scientists were forced to accept the existence of meteors. Until then, stories of stones falling from the sky were widely ridiculed as tall tales by the ignorant and impressionable...
Why I believe in ghosts
Paranormal proponent grew up fascinated by the unexplained…
Local family learns to live with haunting house stories
The Schwartz family's East Toledo house is ready for Halloween. Among its many decorations is a sign above the front door: "Enter if you dare." Like others who've transformed this time of year into a $5 billion-plus annual seasonal bonanza, Ron and Cyndy Schwartz and three daughters still living at home go all out - but that sign may be more fair warning than decoration. During the 17 years the family has lived in this story-and-a-half house (longer for Cyndy, whose childhood home this is), they've shared the place with "it," or "him," or "that." A presence, they call it. A ghost, if you will...
The haunted home of Joan Crawford
Few actresses have rivaled Joan Crawford for star glamour and staying power as one of Hollywood's top movie queens. Her stardom spanned an amazing five decades and included such films as Our Dancing Daughters (1928), Rain (1932), Johnny Guitar (1954), and her Academy Award-winning performance in Mildred Pierce (1945)...
'Most haunted' French Quarter home for sale
Current owner Nicolas Cage asking $3.9 million. Sidney Smith has experience with haunted homes in New Orleans, as the owner of Haunted History Tours. But he said out of all the homes, one stands above the rest. It's the LaLaurie House, on the corner of Royal Street and Gov. Nicholls Street. "And we kind of call it ... one of the most horrific stories that have happened in our city's history," Smith said...
Spooky stories based on true events
Spooky tales to make your blood run cold still are still spun on the Shore. Some, while ominous, are just rehashed old wives' tales. But other ghost stories, based on true events, are far more chilling. In Snow Hill, locals say a home dating to the 1830s is supposedly haunted by the ghost of a 22-year-old medical student who took his own life in 1904...
Over decades, ongoing tales of the Billiwhack Monster of Santa Paula cast long shadows of doubt
Everyone loves a great story, especially when it's accompanied by a good scare. And nothing is more frightening than when the object of these stories is right in your backyard. The Pacific Northwest is home to Bigfoot sightings, New Jersey is the birthplace of the Jersey Devil, West Virginia has Mothman and its so-called prophecies, but here in Ventura County, we've got our very own legend...
Crash revives talk of Taiwanese Bermuda Triangle
The two-seat Taiwanese fighter jet disappeared last week during a routine training mission over the Taiwan Strait. Debris and body parts were found the next day, but authorities are at a loss to explain what happened. The Oct. 20 crash revived decades-old speculation: Are Taiwan's Penghu islands the Bermuda Triangle of Asia? "The Bermuda terror," boomed a headline in the United Evening News, a Taiwanese newspaper. "Three hundred dead or missing in 40 years over here."..
