UFO enthusiasts urge Obama to release X-Files about alien sightings
UFO aficionados are urging Barack Obama to release classified documents about sightings of alien spacecraft, spurred on by support from within his own White House team. They have written to the president-elect, pressing him to reveal the contents of America's X Files. In a letter, the Extraterrestrial Phenomenon Political Action Committee asks Mr Obama to 'end the six-decade truth embargo regarding an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race'...
Connecticut cop also on the paranormal beat
After patrolling Bridgeport for 11 years, Police Officer James Myers has found another calling: the spiritual realm. Break-ins at the downtown complex of the shuttered Savoy Hotel and the Poli Palace/Majestic theaters got him inside the rundown buildings, where he took photos, an old hobby for the 38-year-old father of three. But these photos were different from other abandoned buildings he's shot. "Things started to show up on my camera," he said...
Eerie episodes haunt Kiwi castle
When the crew of TV2 series Ghost Hunt filmed at Larnach Castle in 2005, the ghostbusters captured what looked like a spectre on camera. And when fellow Kiwi show Spookers holed up in the "haunted stables" one night in June, they got so scared they moved sleeping quarters in the small hours. You could put these eerie experiences down to a bunch of overexcited TV personalities and a trick of the light, but there's a few other encounters to explain...
Pining for Mars
Does this NASA photo from the rover Opportunity show a wooden log on Mars? Hard to tell? Then look at the zoomed-in image, and ask again: is this a log (petrified or otherwise) on the surface of the Red Planet? Duh. No. But if you read some websites, you might think it is. So what’s going on here?..
“Sherlock Holmes” set haunted?
Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes may be able to claim commonalities with The Omen, Rosemary’s Baby and Superman. Reports allege that the set may be cursed. The rumors started when star Robert Downey, Jr. was knocked out while filming a fight scene with a seven-foot wrestler. A source said, “Robert was accidentally caught on the chin by a thundering hook. He went flying and was out cold.”..
Horror at Ealing
It reads like a 1960s Hammer Horror episode set in the borough of Ealing, West London. A photographer, keen to set up his own studio, moves into a half-derelict house, bringing with him his staff, who although slightly unnerved by the setting, settle in comfortably. Until that is, the noises start...
