Knebworth House is haunted by novelist says Lord Cobbold
The pen is mightier than the sword - an iconic proverb coined by Victorian novelist, poet and playwright Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1839. It's a phrase which makes regular appearances to this very day; just like its creator, the ghost of whom is said to haunt the gothic Times Territory stately home where he once lived...
Kiesha premonition led to torso find
A woman who found a dead woman's torso wrapped in plastic at a reserve in Sydney's west says a premonition about missing youngster Kiesha Abrahams led her there. She made the grisly discovery at Nurragingy Reserve in Doonside about 6.30pm (AEST) yesterday. The woman told police she had a feeling she would find something of interest in the area, but had actually thought it would relate to six-year-old Kiesha's disappearance...
Ten of Scotland's most haunted hotels
With their luscious green gardens, seemingly endless banqueting halls and countless bedrooms it is unsurprising that many of Scotland's best-known castles are now luxury hotels. But have some of their previous occupants, who have witnessed the colourful and sometimes gory elements of their past , remained to haunt the hotel guests that now frequent their former homes?..
"Devil attacks livestock" farmers claim. "El Chupacabra" others say
Macashca Peru- Unusual what is happening to animals in the upper part of the Commonwealth of Macashca where villagers came forward because of the animals found dead in a very strange way. It's incredible I have twenty dead hens in the yard, and headless sheep beside them, They have been completely drained of blood and are just skin and bones. This has scared us, "so we got a shotgun to kill this devil that is killing our animals" we find this very frightening said Fernandez, a life time resident of the area...
Unlucky for some: Lightning strikes 13-year-old boy at 13:13 on Friday the 13th
For some people 13 is an unlucky number. St John Ambulance volunteers improved the luck of a 13-year-old boy when they treated him after he was struck by lightning - at 13:13 on Friday 13. The boy was struck at Lowestoft Seafront Air Festival today, Firday 13th, and it was only while the ambulance team was treating him that they noticed the time - 1.13pm...
The wicked witches of the west
Witches could be stalking the streets of rural Wales - if calls to Dyfed Powys Police are to be believed. The force, which covers Mid and West Wales, has received 86 reports of witches in the last five years. The force's police incident log reveals details of the calls. One caller reported "that one individual is a witch and had attended at the house to put salt around the bed"...
On the trail of the Houston Batman
Certainly one of the most bizarre of all the many and varied strange beings that haunts the lore of Texas is that which became known, albeit briefly before it vanished into overwhelming obscurity, as the Houston Batman. The quintessential encounter, as reported within the pages of the Houston Chronicle newspaper at the time in question, took place during the early morning hours of June 18, 1953...
