Cat predicts 50 deaths in RI nursing home
A cat with an uncanny ability to detect when nursing home patients are about to die has proven itself in around 50 cases by curling up with them in their final hours, according to a new book...
Believing in Bigfoot
Sasquatch draws a metaphorical line in the sand and, like other "monster" sightings, beckons the masses to cross the line and assert their belief or stand in opposition to it. Upon reading the word "Bigfoot" most people automatically kick into one of two modes: rabid believer or dismissive...
Big cat sightings
People have been reporting panther like creatures here since the 19th century. There are myriad fuzzy photos, anecdotal reports and animal attacks, but like Bigfoot in the US and the Loch Ness Monster in Scotland there's never been any incontrovertible proof that such an animal exists in the south eastern Australian wilds...
Historic house site of new paranormal research facility
With all the tales of ghosts in our area, a new paranormal research and training facility will be opening up in Harpers Ferry to track them down. The Booth House, which dates back 180 years, is the new site for the Haunted Cottage. Vince Wilson, a paranormal researcher, says, "We will actually re-educate people on the history of the paranormal going back from ancient Babylonia to demonstrate for centuries, millennia even, human beings have believed in an afterlife, a spiritual side to this universe."..
Sam Raimi may direct 'The Shadow'
With Sam Raimi (Drag Me to Hell, Evil Dead) out as director of Spider-Man 4, perhaps his involvement in the reboot of The Shadow will be a bit more hands on?..
Bigfoot filmmaker sets sights on Humboldt
A resident of Nevada City, Calif., William Barnes is a modern-day explorer whose strong sense of wonder fuels his drive to uncover age-old mysteries that have haunted humankind for centuries. While some have written off Big Foot as a corny hoax after the Roger Patterson film of 1967 was widely discredited, many go on in search of the allusive man-beast, undeterred in their quest for cryptozoological truth...
In search of 'Squatch
He stands 9 feet tall with stringy brown fur all over his body and glowing red eyes, and if he truly does exist, he probably lives in a forest near you. The ape-like beast known as Sasquatch is mere legend to skeptics, but to members of the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, he is a legitimate scientific conundrum...
Hunting Marfa Lights
Marfa is a small community in the west of Texas noted for the appearance of strange lights. For some these lights are a paranormal visitation, for others merely the misperception of the lights of distant vehicles. Retired NASA engineer James Bunnell has spent 8 years studying these lights, and concludes that while many can be explained in terms of well understood causes, others are much more puzzling. He has managed to obtain films and/or spectrographical analysis of some of these lights, which seem to rule out some of the more obvious explanations...
Lair of the Beasts: Walking with Monsters
Neil Arnold is one of Britain's leading and well-respected full-time seekers of mysterious animals and monstrous beasts - a cryptozoologist, in other words. The author of such well-received books as Monster! and The Mystery Animals of the British Isles: Kent, Neil has devoted many a year to chasing down reports of big-cats on the loose in his home-county of the aforementioned Kent...
Creative 'aliens' spruce up pal's paddock
When Andrew Kerr woke up yesterday morning, he felt a bit alienated from the rest of Albury in south Canterbury. Not because he's an Englishman in a country full of Kiwis, but because a large crop circle had appeared on his farm. The unusual pattern had him wondering whether his insurance cover had an "alien policy". But Mr Kerr's friends were the creative culprits. "I was annoyed this morning but now I have to just have a laugh about it."..
