Round and round in circles
Tim Matthews: It takes two months of practice to move from making your first half-decent crop circle, perhaps a 30ft creation that can be made in 15-20 minutes, and something rather more spectacular. I know this because I have done it. Most people who make crop circles do so because they are told, by an increasingly isolated minority of desperados and New Age whackos, that they “cannot be made” at night with a small team of up to four individuals working together. Of course they can and always have been but it amazes me to discover, when for example speaking with work colleagues, how they just don’t get it, at least not to begin with...
Giant and out-of-place reptiles in Oklahoma
An ice storm, the flu, and a computer virus have kept me out of the blogsphere for a while—when it rains, it pours (and in this case it rains ice). But one good thing came out of trekking twice a day to the only outlet still serving food: about two days into the storm one of my fellow refugees approached me during dinner with a very strange story...
The ghost in Conser Lake
It’s no surprise Oregon has its share of Bigfoot encounters; including paranormal Bigfoot events. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the town of MIllersburg, Oregon, (about forty five miles north of Eugene) experienced some very strange events involving a white Bigfoot or “BHM” (Big Hairy Monster) with a lot of high strangeness surrounding the encounters...
Haunted highway has a tombstone every mile
Those words from the song "A Tombstone Every Mile" refers to the isolated highway in Maine that most folks called the Haynesville Woods. Country singer Dick Curless recorded this song in 1965 and it proved to be his biggest hit. For many years, this section of Route 2 has made its way through some lonely and remote parts of Maine. Truck drivers and motorists alike dreaded traveling through the Haynesville Woods, especially during the cold and snowy New England winters. The place naturally developed a sinister reputation...
Ghost hunters out for answers
As a boy growing up in Arkansas, Rob Stone thought the old woman he saw at his grandparents' farmhouse was just an “imaginary friend” - until a photograph of his dead great-grandmother revealed a strikingly similar appearance between the two...
Is a puma on the loose at Thundridge 'Devil Tower'
A sinister growl at an abandoned church tower in Thundridge could be a puma, according a big cat expert. The 'Thundridge Thundercat' theory is a new development in the saga, which has seen a young Cambridge couple and pensioners from Hoddesdon fleeing the ruined church tower in terror fearing paranormal phenomena. The site is well known for attracting occultists and is rumoured to be haunted by a number of apparitions. The Herald visited the site in an attempt to track down the source of the sound, now it seems the disturbance could have a feline explanation...
Council house haunted by Roman ghost
The strange tale of a Roman ghost in a Lancaster council house is to be included in a new book by a local author and TV presenter. The book will be a collection of "true accounts" of encounters with ghosts and spirits throughout the city and its villages...
