Basements of the damned
Strange things lurk in the dusty storerooms of great museums -- rarely-opened boxes stuffed with freaks and mermaids, fish that have fallen from the sky and the fragmentary remains of unknown animals. While the few objects the curators deem worthy of exhibit sit in the public galleries, awaiting new admirers, their damned brethren rot below them in the dark, still vaults, crumbling slowly into nothingness...
Sighting a sea serpent
Kent-based cryptozoological researcher Neil Arnold recently passed on to me, with kind permission from its source to publish it here, a remarkable, previously undocumented sea serpent sighting from the late 1950s. Neil's source was a correspondent called Nick (whose email address I have on file), and one of the eyewitnesses in question was his father. Nick is anxious that the sighting be preserved, so here is his account of it...
Apparition and orbs at hotel bar
I was at a restaurant/bar located in an old hotel one Saturday night. It was late and the restaurant itself was empty, and the patrons were slowly drifting away as the last call approached. On my way to the restroom, I looked down an empty section of the restaurant. I had a camera with me to take some pictures and I decided to take a picture of the empty seating area. The right side of the wall had a mural on it, and all the tables were all empty...
Hoosier State Paranormal group investigates book at DePauw library
On a crystal clear night with outside temperatures hovering around 10 degrees, a group of investigators from Hoosier State Paranormal were carrying heavy electronic equipment across the DePauw Quadrangle. They entered the Roy West Library and headed up to the second floor where a very special book is locked away in the Archives and Special Collections area...
The Devil's Triangle and that mysterious fog!
It is interesting on how UFOs and USOs (which are probably one and the same) are attracted to areas like the Bermuda Triangle and Devil's Triangle. Could it be that these areas are high energy sources for UFOs? Energy that UFOs can use as a fuel source to power their ships? Is the fog or mist that is seen, some kind of electrical or magnetic discharge? When the electrical magnetic forces pushes towards a high crescendo, it emits a fog like substance? Is that the reason why some UFOs are seen with a mist surrounding their ship?..
Mark Twain writing from beyond the grave
In October 2006, "From the Shadows" brought you the story of Emily Grant Hutchings, a struggling novelist, teacher and writer for St. Louis newspapers, and Spiritualist medium Lola V. Hays. The women claimed Twain dictated a novel, "The Coming of Jap Herron," and two short stories, "Daughter of Mars" and "Up the Furrow to Fortune," to them one letter at a time between 1915 and 1917 through a Ouija board...
American ghost hunters: best evidence - St. Nazianz, WI
Father Ambrose Oschwald came from Germany in 1854 to what would have been a wilderness community to build a seminary here in southwestern Manitowoc County. Some say he left Europe due to his radical ideas on spiritualism and faith healing. Others say Oschwald (1801-1873) has never left - with ghostly sightings and strange sounds on the property he once called home...
The workings of an ancient nuclear reactor
Two billion years ago parts of an African uranium deposit spontaneously underwent nuclear fission. The details of this remarkable phenomenon are just now becoming clear...
Mysterious creatures and UFO sightings baffle Pennsylvanians during 2008
During 2008, there were numerous reports of UFO sightings and other strange incidents reported from across the Keystone state. Reports of unusual incidents originated from 50 counties in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. That is an increase over 2007, when such reports were received from 37 counties. Some of the strange incidents reported included sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects, strange sky illuminations, Bigfoot, giant birds, mountain lions, strange sounds and mysterious footprints...
Is there a Planet X?
If we know enough to say the solar system is a filigree construction, we might reasonably assume we know where all its bits are. But lurking in the solar system's dark recesses, rumour has it, is an unsighted world - Planet X, a frozen body perhaps as large as Mars, or even Earth...
