For sale: historic hotel in New Mexico, where bullet holes and a ghost add to Old West feel
For sale: A bit of the Old West. The historic Eklund Hotel — complete with refurbished guest rooms, a saloon with bullet holes in the tin ceiling and a resident ghost — has closed its doors...
400-foot-long object hovers over Wisconsin driveway
New paper on fossils of “unknown ape” in Asia, has serious implications for cryptozoology
Fossil finds of early humans in south-east Asia may actually be the remains of an unknown ape. Russell Ciochon says that many palaeoanthropologists — including himself — have been mistaken...
Mom credits paranormal world on daughter’s recovery
A South Saint Paul family believes the world's paranormal community helped heal their little girl through the power of prayer. While most 8-year-olds are out enjoying their summer vacations, Gabby Mathis is stuck in the house. Last Sunday, Mathis was riding her bike down the alley to her grandfather's house when she was hit by a car...
In the field, June 20, 2009
Blogsquatcher: I went out on an investigation with Sasquatch Watch of Virginia yesterday and last night. Some folks from south of here had a sighting. It's a pretty interesting case in itself because it involved three witnesses, who were all willing to tell us what they had seen. Briefly, the trio saw a bigfoot-like creature walk across the face of the hill above the pond in this area...
Ghost hunters take crack at Lorain’s Moore House
For some time now, members of the Black River Historical Society have been hearing things. “They’re squeaks and noises and the sound of little things falling,” according to John McGarvey, chairman of the board of trustees of the society, which has called the West Sixth Street residence of former mayor Leonard Moore its home since 1994. A good number of the sounds seem to emanate from the attic, but, when anyone goes to investigate, everything appears normal...
Masonic Mormon martyrs?
There is something strange going on with a seemingly isolated story quietly occurring in Utah-Colorado. It has come to involve suicides, Indian artifacts, and perhaps, most covertly and confusingly, Mormons...
Maybe mokele-mbembes are mammals
If you saw this beast in a rainforest would you have departed carefully after taking photos, and described your encounter with a “dinosaur”? How about in Lake Tele in central Africa? For hundreds of years, stories and sightings of supposedly surviving dinosaurs have come out of the jungles of central Africa. The first printed reference, in a 1776 book, relates Abbe Proyhart’s discovery of giant animal footprints in west central Africa, tracks that he claimed were three feet across...
'Loch Ness monster of the Vosges' threatens French village
French police are on the hunt for an elusive creature dubbed the "Loch Ness monster of the Vosges" after residents have reported several sightings of a crocodile in a local pond. Xertigny, a village of some 3,000 inhabitants in the Vosges region in eastern France, has been transfixed by the unexplained sightings. Villagers tried to lure the beast out of the water by placing a chicken on the bank of the pond, but their overtures have failed to attract the animal so far. Local authorities are so worried that they are considering draining the pond after a special sonar device failed to clarify the situation...
Fishy and froggy falls continue in Japan
We saw a fall of tadpoles in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan a few days ago and they have kept falling, grown up rapidly into frogs and then got their silly selves mixed up with carp...
