4 and 20 blackbirds, and 3,000, dead in the sky
Researchers say fireworks probably startled thousands of blackbirds that fell dead from the skies in a small Arkansas town shortly before midnight on New Year's Eve. Townspeople in Beebe, Ark., northeast of Little Rock, spent the holiday weekend cleaning up more than 3,000 carcasses. Necropsies performed Monday showed the birds suffered internal injuries that formed blood clots that helped kill them...
Mystery of 100,000 dead fish which washed up on Arkansas river bank
Over 100,000 fish have been found washed up on the river banks on a 20-mile stretch of the Arkansas River, near Ozark. Officials are investigating the eerie happening but experts believe that disease is most likely to be the cause...
Christian movement says end of days in May
If there had been time, Marie Exley would have liked to start a family. Instead, the 32-year-old Army veteran has less than six months left, which she'll spend spreading a stark warning: Judgment Day is almost here. Exley is part of a movement of Christians loosely organized by radio broadcasts and websites, independent of churches and convinced by their reading of the Bible that the end of the world will begin on May 21, 2011...
Ancient aliens and the Ark of the Covenant
Fairy death in Ilkley
There is a melancholy time in rural communities when belief in fairies dies - a moment in a village life comparable to the moment in a child's life when he sees his grandfather's face behind the Santa beard. Wentz examined this fairy death in Ireland and Scotland and Wales in The Fairy Faith in Celtic Lands (another post another day), while in much of England the death of the little folk was connected with the Reformation...
Owlman oddities
Nick Redfern: Just recently, there has a been a veritable rash of high-strangeness concerning Owls and England's Owlman. For those who aren't aware of the saga of the Owlman, check out this link at Kithra's Krystal Kave for the lowdown on the winged-monster that loomed out of the woods of Cornwall, England in the 1970s. And I also recommend a full reading of good mate Jon Downes' The Owlman and Others...
MEDIA: BOOKS, MOVIES, TV, GAMES
Somers Point man self-published trilogy about his haunted Somers Point home
"A Father A Son And a House Full of Ghosts" is the true story about a father and son who unsuspectingly purchase a 100-year-old house in Somers Point which is the home to three ghosts. This is the first of the three-book series self-published by Gregory Young, of Somers Point...
Sneak peek at John Carpenter's The Ward brings shower ghosts
We've all been waiting patiently to see John Carpenter, the master of horror, return to the big screen with The Ward. Finally a small bit of footage has been released, revealing steamy shower encounters with ghosts and crazy hotties...
