'Living fossil' confirmed in New Zealand
A reptile with lineage dating from the dinosaur age has been found nesting in New Zealand for the first time in 200 years, sanctuary officials said. The greenish brown tuatara is the world's only remaining lizard-like reptile from the Sphenodontia order that flourished in the Mesozoic Era, known as the Age of Reptiles, about 225 million years ago...
Supernatural cleaning methods
The chill of autumn has arrived, and it’s time to make your home cozy and snug. Replace those broken shingles, seal the window frames, start the water boiling and throw in some scented nutmegy things, or a rabbit if you’ve been disappointed in love. But what to do about that ghost that has been making such a racket, scaring the guests and making it impossible to sleep?..
Birth of Bigfoot
Maybe it was bad light or bad mushrooms. Maybe it was someone in a stitched-up bear skin creeping up on the bonfire to scare the wits out of his brother. Or maybe it really was a rare primate that wandered near camp in the dark several thousand years ago that caught someone's eye...
'Ghost hunter' looks to understand paranormal
For the past seven years, Steven Smith of Bennington has been stopping by local cemeteries with his camera and tape recorder. Smith said he is trying to collect photographic evidence of the paranormal. He said he first got the idea in the 1990s when shows about supernatural investigations and "ghost hunting" first became popular...
A chilling remembrance: Swampee the Skunk Ape
Reports of the Skunk Ape were particularly common in the 1960s and 1970s close to Halloween. The Skunk Ape or (hominid cryptid) is said to have been sited and documented as far north as North Carolina and as far west as Arkansas. Swampee as I called the first one I ever saw was a large reddish haired, biped mammal that inhabits swampy areas in the southern United States, including the Florida Everglades in Lostmans River...
Paranormal center first of its kind in Mass.
Bigfoot. UFOs. Ghosts. For decades, residents in Greater Taunton have heard tales of such paranormal activity everywhere from Bridgewater to Freetown. Well, now a group is going to study this paranormal activity — right here in the city. The center is the first of its kind in the state to offer a wide variety of classes and services for the paranormal enthusiast...
The haunted high desert
Debbie Hoffman is very spiritual, and the video evidence of the blue mass has made believers out of friends and family, including her husband, Jim Hoffman...
Who needs Halloween? Estonia has real ghosts
Residents of the tiny Baltic republic of Estonia have a reputation for being practical, down-to-earth, and forward-looking. The country boasts one of the world's highest rates of mobile phone and computer use. The coding for Skype was written here. But allow the conversation to turn to the supernatural and the stereotypical, and the sober-minded Estonian disappears in an instant. "Of course we have a ghost! This is Tallinn!" Anne Orro, a gray-haired receptionist in the medieval capital, exclaimed one rainy October evening recently. "It's not normal not to have a ghost."..
Skeptics, debunkers and believers
Followers of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence – whether “mainstream” exobiology or the marginal exploits of “ufology” -- are routinely confronted with three terms that quietly challenge assumptions of reality: “skeptic,” “debunker” and “believer.”..
The enduring reign of The Jersey Devil
As urban legends go, you will not find anything in North America even approaching the enduring terror of the "Jersey Devil" - the supposedly demonic 13th child of the evil Mrs. Leeds, the former Deborah Smith, who, the story goes, placed a curse on her own offspring the moment he was born, offering the child to Satan, in exchange for escaping the responsibility of raising yet another baby...
