Theodore Roosevelt - monster hunter?
The year is 1918 and some thing is stalking the woods around Knoxville, Tennessee. The mysterious beast is killing farm animals - hogs and calves and the occasional hunting dog - and residents are afraid to leave the house at night. Children are kept home from school. Local efforts to stop the beast have failed so desperate residents make a plea to America's foremost outdoorsman and big game hunter to come to their aid...
The goat woman: Chinese grandmother, 101, grows mystery horn on forehead
An elderly Chinese woman has stunned her family and fellow villagers by growing from her forehead a horn than resembles a goat's. Grandmother Zhang Ruifang, 101, of Linlou village, Henan province, began developing the mysterious protrusion last year. Since then it has grown 2.4in in length and another now appears to emerging on the other side of the mother of seven's forehead...
Is the paranormal a victim of our own "quantum belief"?
The paranormal is a topic that has long persisted not only because of the overwhelming amount of firsthand accounts of the bizarre, but because of a leap of faith on the part of those willing to believe. The paranormal, in that regard, is a two way street. So where are we in regards to putting our belief aside and focusing on the science. Likewise where are we in regards to letting ourselves use our subjectivity and passion to fuel our research? More and more I see a great divide in the paranormal community between those willing to believe and those looking for a reason to believe. One question however lingers with me: Does our search for answers and our reliance on specific research techniques actually affect the phenomena in such a way that the evidence is only there because of our belief in the methods we use to acquire it? In other words, do EMF detectors register spikes because we believe they should?..
Post-plastic surgery Heidi Montag hires psychic
Her first order of business? Firing her husband! That's right -- the plastic blonde bombshell gave Spencer Pratt the axe. Instead, she opted for a manager with a little more foresight. Yes, she picked a psychic. Montag hired seer Aiden Chase, and the telepathic guru will now be making all of her business decisions...
Fire damages Missoula home with haunted past
The turreted Queen Anne home on Missoula's Fifth Street - the one with the haunted past - caught fire on Friday night, but firefighters promptly snuffed out the blaze and confined the damage to the uppermost floor...
Catching the spirits
Tony Deyal: I have always known that spirits come in bottles, and I have had my share of them in my time. More than once upon that time, like 'Drink and Drunk' in Sparrow's calypso 'Drunk and Disorderly', I would spirit away spirituous liquors with almost spiritual fervour. But ghosts? Sometimes when one is in high spirits or high in spirits, these things happen as in the case of Minnie Driver, the British actress. She claimed that during a visit to Mexico in December 2004, she saw a ghost...
