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Teddy Roosevelt

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Up-to-the-minute reports of paranormal activity and news from around the world

Presidential Bigfoot
Just 100 years ago, Theodore Roosevelt was the country's chief executive and favorite son. In 1893, he published a lengthy and most entertaining narrative entitled The Wilderness Hunter: An Account of the Big Game of the United States and Its Chase with Horse, Hound, and Rifle, a memoir of sorts of his days in the territories. Among the stories recorded here is what seems to have been a 19th-century Bigfoot encounter...

Ghostly goings-on at Chorleywood Memorial Hall
Ghosts are writ large in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, but when Talkwood Productions started rehearsals for their production at The Chorleywood Memorial Hall, they found they had one spook too many...

Are spaceships set to invade Earth in 2012?
UFO encounters became especially frequent in the middle of the 20th century, when it became impossible to disregard incidents of UFO sightings anymore. Special services started establishing special departments for air defense troops, secret laboratories were organized to study the phenomenon. It is not ruled out, that secret services have already had chances to study fragments of alien spaceships or even aliens themselves...

Top ten cryptozoology stories of 2010
Loren Coleman: The Year of 2010 may be remembered, in popular culture, cryptozoologically, for its series of stories of cryptids such as a blond Bigfoot named Knobby, on misidentifications of common animals, of announcements of a few remarkable discoveries, and about groundbreaking new concepts on tribal Sasquatch and extraordinary True Giants...

Christmas miracles are forever
Thomas Tanke left his home back in Missouri back in the Spring of 1875 to find gold in Colorado. It was everyone's dream to strike it rich, and most had headed for California, but Thomas wanted to find more than just gold. He wanted to find a place in the mountains to trap for beavers and to settle down and raise a family. He had always loved the mountains, and although Missouri and the surrounding country had a few small ones, he had always dreamed of living in Colorado...

The swamp monster hysteria of 1938
In February 1938 the seaside districts of Pensacola, Florida, were held in the grip of a most peculiar case of mass hysteria. This was the reign of a six-armed, six-legged, panther-headed gorilla called the Goon of Guillemard Street. The sewer monster made most of its rumoured appearances on Guillemard and Romana Streets. People were afraid to leave their homes, partly due to fear that the monster would drop off a roof or from a tree limb and attack them...

Scientists find evidence for 'chronesthesia,' or mental time travel
The ability to remember the past and imagine the future can significantly affect a person's decisions in life. Scientists refer to the brain's ability to think about the past, present, and future as "chronesthesia," or mental time travel, although little is known about which parts of the brain are responsible for these conscious experiences...

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