Barry Levinson and Paranormal Activity producers head to a zombified Bay
Eric Walkuski: I can't really think of a less likely director to be tackling a zombie outbreak thriller than Barry Levinson, but that's exactly what the Rain Man director is doing with The Bay, which was known as Isopod only a few weeks ago. Flick is going to be a Paranormal Activity-style horror flick, which is fitting as the producers of that low-budget blockbuster are assisting on this one...
The Algonquin Hotel "orb" footage
Paul Kimball: One of the most satisfying parts of conducting an investigation of an allegedly paranormal incident or place comes when you actually manage to obtain some "hard" or "real" evidence, as opposed to just the stories of people who claim to have seen or experienced something unusual. In my opinion, the best type of evidence that can be obtained of any alleged paranormal activity - short of actual physical evidence of an alien spacecraft, or a ghost - is photographic or video evidence of something which may be anomalous...
Father-son experience missing time in remote Michigan area
What started out as a father-son business trip through Michigan's remote Keweenaw Peninsula turned into a frightening encounter with strange lights and eventually missing time on August 18, 2010, according to testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database...
Mohawk punk "time traveler" caught at Banana Pier in a 1905 picture
'Sea serpent' captured, never identified
Before dams upstream could regulate the Savannah River's flow, Augusta pretty much had to take whatever the Good Lord put in the river. Sometimes it was high water. Sometimes it was low water. And on a warm day in 1820, it was something else. "Sea Serpent" says a headline in a September edition of The Augusta Chronicle...
Paul Cropper wonders whether this could be the earliest printed reference to Irish lake monsters
Sliders: when the lights go out...
Nick Redfern: When Patrick Huyghe of Anomalist Books recently mailed me a copy of their latest release, Hilary Evans' Sliders: The Enigma of Streetlight Interference, I thought to myself: well, this is all very interesting. But a full-length book on people who seemingly have the ability to affect streetlights as they walk under, or near, them? Surely, such a subject-matter would be far more suitable for a 10- or 20-page-long paper, not a 192-page book, right? Wrong!..
Witch curse blamed for Wirral Magazine pub fire
The landlords of a Merseyside pub, which was almost destroyed by a fire, believe a mysterious curse is to blame. The blaze at the 250-year-old Magazine Hotel in Wallasey caused £200,000 worth of damage and left managers Linda and Les Baxendale living in a caravan for three months. A small fabric witch figure which hung from the ceiling of the main bar was stolen two nights before the fire...
