Spectral lady hitches ride, vanishes
It happened like this: Shortly after midnight on July 11, a police officer in Mechanic Falls stopped to check on a teenage driver who was frantically flashing his headlights. When the cop approached the car, he found a 16-year-old named David who was badly shaken. The kid was in tears and babbling about something that happened moments ago in Poland. The story David told was a crazy one but not unique. For generations, travelers through this dark place have told tales of a young lady dressed in white hitchhiking along Route 26. Sometimes she's dressed in a prom dress and sits quietly in the passenger seat. Other times, she is a bride dressed in white or a morose young woman with a cautionary message to deliver...
A spooky night at Stevenston Beach
Imagine the shock a Stevenston mum got when a photograph of her daughters appeared to have an extra person in it. Charlene Wieringa is the latest Three Towns resident to have one of her pictures occupied by a 'ghostly' figure...
Is Bigfoot's footprint preserved in stone?
A potential Bigfoot mystery's afoot after a northeastern B. C. resident found what looks like a four-toed footprint embedded in a rock. Neil Bitterman found the watermelon-sized rock while mowing his lawn in Hudson's Hope, about 1,000 kilometres north of Vancouver. Before tossing it, he noticed odd toe-like indentations. "My size-10 foot fits in there perfectly," said Bitterman, 48...
Bear, Bigfoot or hoax? Monstrous handprint spooks local family
When Joye Edwards walked out of her Ennice, N.C. home and saw the giant, dirty handprint on the back of her vehicle, the first thing she felt was anger. She’d just spent the prior evening washing and polishing the blue Jeep to a sparkling shine. As she got closer to the vehicle though, her anger quickly turned to confusion, fascination and fright. About 10 inches in length, the handprint seemed to dwarf the taillight of her car...
Police turn to Reidsville, N.C. psychic for help solving crimes
Investigators around the nation are turning to a Reidsville psychic to help them solve crimes. Deborah Heinecker says it all starts will a vision in her head. Then investigators ask her questions about the environment and objects she sees. Heinecker says she was just an accountant, until she helped police find a missing canine in 1991. That's when investigators started calling her a psychic...
Did psychic save Bush’s life?
Can a premonition change the future or is it purely a “vision” of an event that will inevitably occur? It’s an intriguing question and one that I ask because of a recent report that US Secret Service agents changed the route of a 1992 presidential motorcade after being warned by a psychic of an assassination plot. The astonishing claim is contained in a new book, In the President’s Secret Service, by veteran author Ronald Kessler. Its long sub-title – “Behind the scenes with agents in the line of fire and the Presidents they protect” – explains precisely what the book is about...
Do you believe in miracles?
These days most people think it unscientific to believe in "miracles", and irreligious not to believe in them. But would the occurrence of miracles really violate the principles of science? And would their non-occurrence really undermine religion? David Hume and Richard Dawkins have attempted to answer these questions in their different ways, but I am not convinced by their arguments, and for me they remain open questions...
UFO or bizarre natural phenomenon?
An image of a boulder-like object that appears as if suspended mid-air has China’s paranormal researchers totally stumped...
John Lennon and the psychic
On August 23, 1980, Lee Spiegel, who hosted an NBC radio show Unexplained Phenomena, was interviewing psychic Alex Tanous for a show that was to be broadcast later. The interview took place at the American Society for Psychical Research at West 73rd Street in New York, directly across the street from the Dakota Apartments. Spiegel asked Tanous to predict something that would occur in the next few months that would be of interest to the many rock fans in the audience...
Bigfoot and gamecams, again
Blogsquatcher: I've mentioned before that I hear researchers tell of trouble getting gamecams to work in situations where they believe a bigfoot is probably taking their bait. The camera is set up properly, it takes pictures of other creatures, but…. Here is a good example from Washington researcher BH...
National frenzy over 'Crying Boy' cursed paintings
In 1985, The Sun ran a story about a number of cursed paintings in Rotherham, known as the 'Crying Boy Paintings.' The story followed the aftermath of a house fire in Rotherham, in which a chip-pan blaze gutted the terraced council house of Ron and May Hall. Only this chip-pan fire was different - hung in the badly damaged downstairs of the house was the framed print of a toddler with tears rolling down his face, completely untouched by the blaze...
Wales’ favourite haunts
Any castle that can boast a drowning pit, whipping pit and torture dungeons is, quite frankly, asking to be haunted. Add the execution of a jealous wife who murdered her husband’s lover with an axe and the chance of the place not bursting at the seams with wailing ghosts is practically nil. It’s not surprising then that Ruthin Castle in North Wales is one of the leading beneficiaries of a new wave of “haunted tourism” sweeping Britain...
