Life on Mars? Amazing photos from NASA probe reveal mystery figure on Red Planet
Perched on a rock, she could be waiting for a bus. But if so, she could be in for an awfully long wait. This photo of what looks remarkably like a female figure with her arm outstretched, was taken on Mars. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it has set the Internet abuzz with claims that there really is life on the red planet. Others may well feel that it is simply an optical illusion caused by a landscape...
Man wakes up at his own wake
An 81-year old man in the small Chilean village of Angol shocked his grieving relatives by waking up in his coffin at his own wake, local media said on Sunday. When Feliberto Carrasco's family members discovered his body limp and cold, they were convinced that the octogenarian's hour had come, so they immediately called a funeral home, not a doctor...
Texas UFO investigators in Stephenville seek images, video & witnesses
They're back. UFO investigators have descended on the town of Stephenville, Texas and they are planning on taking a very close look at what at least fifty witnesses say they saw in the West Texas skies on the night of January 8. It was just after dark when people began seeing strange lights in the sky. Some have described it as a craft, and others claim that military fighter jets were chasing whatever was moving through the sky...
Bigfoot stomps into 2008 campaign
Bigfoot believers
Larry Battson has seen the smirks, the winks, the rolling of the eyes.
But that doesn't bother him in the least. When you profess to believe in Bigfoot, that comes with the territory. "When I used to talk about Bigfoot at sports shows, I'd have skeptics," said Battson, a nationally known educator on wildlife, who was displaying rattlesnakes and other reptiles at the Kansas City, Mo., Sportshow recently...
Michigan Dogman to be featured on television
With 31 shows about cryptozoology under his belt with topics ranging from Bigfoot to Loch Ness, Doug Hajicek is no stranger to the world of the unexplained. As the creator/producer of the series "Monster Quest" on the History Channel, Hajicek is familiar with these types of unexplained oddities and on Wednesday he will be taking on the infamous ¨ Dogman. "Monster Quest" investigated events and sightings using scientific principles in Wisconsin and Michigan. Witnesses also were questioned using a polygraph, ¨ Hajicek said...
The truth is out there... and it's a bit of a letdown
The Ministry of Defence is about to open its UFO files, but the contents threaten to reveal more about Cold War blunders than extraterrestrials. The truth often has a habit of disappointing...
Neil Arnold and the New Jersey Devil Hunters
Neil Arnold, author of the excellent book Monster!, contacted me yesterday to let me know he had just posted to his Zooform blog a lengthy interview with Laura Leuter of the New Jersey Devil Hunters. Having read the interview, I can guarantee you won't be disappointed. I have copy-pasted below Neil's Introduction to the interview, as well as the first two questions and answers, which are followed by a link to the full interview...
Predatory curiousity
One of the chief difficulties in studying the Sasquatch AKA Bigfoot AKA Skunk Ape and so forth is the lack of context, self examination and humility in terms of developing a coherent humanistic philosophy toward our own actions in relation to the creature we pursue. In the compulsive frenzy to add another species to our collection, I have taken the unenviable role to step up to the docket and simply state let's all take a deep breath, and look at ourselves in this reciprocal relationship. In particular, our behaviors...
Rat-eating plant discovered
Geneticists discover a way to extend lifespans to 800 years
There is now a way to extend the lifespan of organisms so that humans could conceivably live to be 800 years old. In an amazing development, scientists at the University of Southern California have announced that they've extended the lifespan of yeast bacteria tenfold -- and the recipe they used to do it might easily translate into humans...
It's no secret: Clowns are scary
Clowns are scary. This is a universal truth. With their big shoes, their painted-on smiles, those braying laughs and their ability to squeeze into small cars with a multitude of their devilish brethren, clowns are not the happy things they appear to be. They are nightmarish creatures with unknown motives and horrifying secrets...
Nazis and the search for Yeti
Loren Coleman: I got to first thinking about Nazis, Tibet, and Yeti, three years ago, when I heard that famed mountaineer Heinrich Harrer, 93, died on January 7, 2005. The entire story does feel like it is straight out of Indiana Jones, of course...
New Alux sighting
Loren Coleman: Alux hominids are Proto-Pygmies. The Aluxob (plural Maya) are seen in the Yucatan, Mexico, mostly by the Mayans, but sometimes by Mexicans and United States tourists, quite regularly. People in the Yucatan see the Aluxob, and when I was there in the 1980s, I was able to interview informants (mostly Mayans) who had firsthand sightings. In my 1985 book, Curious Encounters, I devoted a chapter to the lore, legends, and legacy of these Little People in that corner of the world. Things do not seem to have changed there...
Bizarre weather sends hay bales up in flames
The recent unusual weather patterns have accelerated one of the strangest phenomena witnessed in the bush: an unprecedented number of haysheds have been spontaneously bursting into flames...
Mystery man's annual visit to Poe grave
Undeterred by controversy, a mysterious visitor paid his annual tribute at the grave of Edgar Allan Poe early Saturday, placing three red roses and a half-filled bottle of cognac before stealing away into the darkness...
South Jersey prison attracts paranormal attention
In the basement of the old jail in Mount Holly, John Kurkis probes the inky darkness with a sound recorder and an infrared thermal thermometer. He's hunting for ghosts. Every now and then, he snaps a digital photo, hoping to record an orb, a wisp of ectoplasm passing by, or even a rare vortex...