Bigfoot study highlights habitat modelling flaws
Climate change, it turns out, is going to be a mixed blessing for the sasquatch. The legendary American apeman will lose some of its existing habitat in the coastal and lowland regions of the northwestern United States, but gain a lot of new land in the Rocky Mountains and Canada. So say biologist Jeff Lozier of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his colleagues, in an analysis just published in the Journal of Biogeography...
Bigfoot’s favorite haunts revealed
A team of scientists has applied ecological niche modelling to predict the mythical Bigfoot’s favorite haunts in the United States...
Ogopogo tissue sample?
Kelowna, British Columbia’s Daily Courier is reporting two scientists have agreed to analyze the remains of a mysterious-looking specimen found along the shore of Okanagan Lake. A tissue sample of the creature will be sent to a researcher in Ontario for DNA testing, and the carcasitself will be examined by a scientist in Alberta. The remains were found two weeks ago by Kelowna resident Dan Poppoff as he paddled his kayak near the far end of Lakeshore Road. For now, he’s still got the carcass, which measures more than a metre-long in his freezer at home...
Magic salary for live-in witch role
A tourist attraction is advertising in the Job Centre for a witch to live in one of its caves and is offering a £50,000 salary. Wookey Hole Caves, near Wells, Somerset, is looking for a new witch to teach visitors about witchcraft and magic after its previous employee retired...
Cop charged with trying to exorcise boy's demons
A policeman has been stood down after being charged with trying to perform an exorcism on a teenager at a church youth camp in South Australia. Senior Constable Roger Sketchley, 28, has been charged with two other adults over an alleged incident at a camp run by the Lutheran Church in the Barossa Valley in April. Sen-Const Sketchley and other adults allegedly restrained a boy, 15, after he complained of stomach pains in an incident that allegedly went for about 12 hours...
Paranormal investigation at Constantine Theater reveals findings
The Constantine Theater in downtown Pawhuska once having hosted Vaudeville acts, silent movies, operas and original showings of movie classics such as “Gone with the Wind,” is now said to host ghosts. In fact, it is one of the top haunted sites in Oklahoma. People have reported hearing the sound of opening and closing doors, footsteps going up and down the stairs and once reported was a mist seen drifting in the crawl tunnel underneath the theater’s stage. Because of the strange experiences at the building, it has been investigated a number of times, with some of the investigations resulting in recordings of footsteps, a gunshot followed by a gasp and laborious breathing...
Argentina: on-site report on cattle mutilations
Crucesita Tercera in the department of Nogoyá is located some 50 kilometers from the provincial capital. Its habitual peace and quiet were disrupted by reports from a livestock owner involving the apparition of mutilated animals on his property and neighboring ones as well. Another situation that added further mystery to the event was the total emptying of a nearby lagoon. News of these events reached Diario UNO in the city of Paraná, which attracted the locals’ curiosity...
Humanoid sighting in Oregon
From the MUFON open sighting files comes a remarkable account from a man in Oregon. On 06-16-09, he went outside to smoke a cigar. His dog went with him. Soon, he began to notice flashes of light in the sky. It was cloudy at the time, but there were no thunderstorms brewing at the time. The lights seemed to be in, and under the cloud cover. They did not, in any way, look like lightning. While he was watching the lights, he heard a car coming down the road in front of him. Both he and his dog looked in the direction of the vehicle...
