Skunk Ape: Area's own stinky Bigfoot
Florida's answer to Bigfoot is a 7- to 12-foot, 300- to 700-pound human-ape thing that really stinks. It supposedly hides in muddy, abandoned alligator caves, thus the smell. For more than two centuries, people have sworn they saw it dash across the Everglades or retreat from a rural road...
(Also read: Smelly Bigfoot: The Skunk Ape)
Bigfoot kin may have made tracks for sunny Arizona
The Mogollon Monster is Arizona's version of Bigfoot. It supposedly lives, as you may have guessed, along the Mogollon Rim, although it has allegedly been spotted around Prescott and in the Grand Canyon. It seems to be a shy thing, but every now and then, it tears up a campsite or takes the campers' food...
Spooked out at a Shropshire castle
Shropshire Star writer Ben Bentley joined a group of ghost hunters for a moonlight tour of a county castle. At Whittington Castle, near Oswestry, it’s approaching midnight: Time to talk to dead people. Seated around a table in a ‘chapel’ lit only by moonlight from a nearby window, I am part of a group of paranormal investigators taking part in the first late-night vigils of their kind at the castle, attempting through a series of experiments to make contact with spirits and energies of people who lived and died here...
Photo spooks experts in hunt for ghost of Tantallon Castle
New evidence which appears to back up claims that a ghost is stalking a Lothians castle has been uncovered. Speculation over the presence of a ghost at Tantallon Castle in East Lothian was sparked by a picture released last week as part of an online experiment into the photographic evidence of the paranormal...
Night lights a mystery again
It now appears that Sunday night's celestial light show in the eastern sky along the East Coast came compliments of Mother Nature and not the Russians. "The bright light that was reported was not the result of any trackable manmade object," Lt. Justin Jessop, spokesman for the 30th Space Wing at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, said yesterday...
Mike Conley's Tales of the Weird: Ghosts on the coast and great balls of fire
For many years, Wilmington's official welcome center was also one of the coastal city's most famous haunted houses. Today, the Price-Gause House is now the home of an architectural firm but residents say it is still inhabited by the spirits of men who were hanged long ago. Located in Wilmington's historic district at 514 Market St., the Price-Gause House has been considered by locals to be haunted ever since it was built in 1843. The reason is the house was built on the site of Gallows Hill, the place of countless hangings...
Podcast: Psychic detective, Vicki Warren
Guest: Vicki Warren, Psychic Detective and author of “Coffee, Doughnuts and God”...
On the trail of mythical beasts
What makes so many people want to believe in fabulous creatures? Chris Lavers and Joshua Blu Buhs set out to explore this question, and although one tackles an ancient myth and the other a modern one, they come up with remarkably similar answers...
What lurks in the 'Vampire's Crypt'?
In every community there are areas of local legend that attract teenagers who use the creepiness of the locality as a sort of rite of passage for the new members of their inner circle. Here in Erie there are many such places for the teenagers to test their will, but one of the strangest is located in Erie Cemetery. Erie Cemetery sits in the center of town and was founded in1851...
