Hairy tales of the Northwest’s mythic man
It’s been close to a decade since I started exploring the outdoors, and I have come a long way from the city girl who had never set foot in a canoe or off a well-signed, gravelled trail—yet the true backcountry still unnerves me. As beckoning as nature is, it also boggles with its sheer adversity, challenges with its imperviousness, and taunts with its secrets. Our Northwest wilderness harbours histories that reach back at least as far as the end of the last ice age, ten to twelve thousand years ago...
Video: strange alien-like being captured in Santa Rosa de Quives, Peru - dubbed 'The Man' by locals
Salma Hayek Star's baby daughter 'can see ghosts'
Salma Hayek is convinced that her baby daughter can see ghosts. The actress is believes 16-month-old Valentina has a sixth sense which allows her to communicate with spirits and admits her child's behaviour scared her...
The spirit attacks
Something uninvited resides in the house in Independence. Eighteen-year-old Michelle’s family has lived there for 12 years, and she knows it’s a spirit. It touches her. “Before I go to sleep I can feel it,” Michelle said. “I look at my closet and I can tell when it’s going to happen.” Michelle’s room sits over the furnace and is warm in the winter, unless the unseen thing is there...
'Angel' saved man in fire
A ceramic Jesus with a charred hand reminds Ruby Brown of how lucky she was to escape a blaze that took everything but her family. The figurine is all Brown has left from her Newport home. Brown, 82, credits Jesus and an angel in the form of a mysterious stranger for why she and her daughter and son survived a fire that destroyed her Newport home Jan. 30...
Bigfoot lives!
Don't laugh. The quixotic quest for beasts of lore is not far from what drives zoologists to find new and incredibly rare creatures today. Last year when a
couple of Georgia men claimed to possess a Bigfoot body on ice, a
surprising number of news outlets covered the story. CNN and CBS,
National Geographic and Scientific American interviewed Bigfoot "experts," such as members of the Bigfoot Field Researchers
Organization -- experts more likely found on "Monsterquest," a TV show that covers werewolves and vampires. Plenty of readers expressed their outrage on comment
boards. "Were you recently purchased by the National Enquirer?" wrote
one reader to Scientific American. Another wrote, "This is far beneath what I expect
to read about in SciAm."..
The Mongolian Death Worm
The Mongolian Death Worm spewed out a liquid from it's mouth and the skin of the Gazelle appeared to turn yellow and bubble. Ilhan was shocked to watch the Mongolian Death Worm digest the Gazelle, it appeared that the Gazelle was melting and the Worm was drinking the melted flesh of the Gazelle...
Cancer miracles
A cancer patient, given just months to live, stages a miraculous recovery. Doctors dismiss it as a fluke. Yet the mystery may offer crucial clues to fighting cancer...
Lunacy and the full moon
Does a full moon really trigger strange behavior?..
