Haunting Alton: One mansion's history, treasures and tales of the supernatural
Believing in ghosts and haunted houses is perhaps a stretch for some people, but how about an entire haunted town? If you're a skeptic, perhaps you can suspend your disbelief as you read this story of the supernatural...
Possible paranormal activity is picked up on Times video camera
Bigfoot creature sighted near Silver Lake? December 2002
Clearly a land-mark issue, as this article and accompanying picture created a nation-wide controversy, driving many to visit the shores of Silver Lake themselves…maybe you were one of them! Maybe you, too, felt the lure of the Bigfoot! A thick, low mist covered the valley, with not a hint of a breeze rustling the dry leavess. The stillness and silence was rather eerie, the birds weren't even singing. Hanging from the low branches of the Douglas fir trees were dew-covered spider webs. But the spiders weren't there. It was as if all wildlife were in hiding...
CIA's psychic spy files at STARpod.org
Although the public is more aware today than they were in 1995, when the CIA finally owned up to the existence of "U.S. government phenomenology projects," only part of the truth behind "strange goings on" has been revealed. The United States had been secretly conducting research into the use of the paranormal: to spy on the Soviets, the aliens, and more...
Bluehenge unearthed: Prehistoric site that could be famous stone circle's little sister
Archaeologists have discovered Stonehenge's little sister - just a mile from the famous monument. The prehistoric circle, unearthed in secret over the summer, is one of the most important prehistoric finds in decades. Researchers have called it 'Bluehenge' after the colour of the 27 giant Welsh stones it once incorporated - but are now missing...
Mythical Southwestern beast? Mere monkey? Police searching for clues
A citizen insisted the animal was a legendary, blood-sucking creature called a chupacabra, and a subsequent press release said it resembled a monkey. But nobody really knows what sort of animal a man saw as he was walking through some fields at a White Plains farm Sept. 19, according to Charles County spokeswoman Crystal Hunt...
Psychic sued for $80,500 after failing to heal marriage
A Hartford woman says a Sioux Falls psychic adviser who promised to bring her estranged husband back scammed her out of $30,500. Jane Stockwell filed a lawsuit last week in Minnehaha County Circuit Court against Katherine Adams, who used to run Psychic Experience in Sioux Falls. Stockwell wants her money back plus at least $50,000 in punitive damages...
The dogu have something to tell us
They are, according to their kanji, part earth and part spirit, somewhere between animal and human. They are dogu, the most remarkable products of Japan's Jomon Period, a Neolithic era before the advent of rice cultivation, when the Japanese archipelago supported higher population densities than any other pre-agricultural society in the world...
