Ghost hunting in Texas.

[via KTAL-TV, Channel 6]

Crop circles in Indiana.

[via the Chicago Sun-Times]

Haunted Railroad Track

[via Star of Mysore]

Nessie news…sort of

[via eMediaWire]

2005 Roswell UFO Festival

[via Yahoo!]

Looking for ghosts in Wisconsin

[via The La Crosse Tribune]

“Meat-eating giants - Grandfather Sae and Grandmother Sae”.

[via MCOT]

Ghosts in Green Bay?

Promoting the 2005 Green Bay Unexplained Conference.

[Via The Green Bay Press-Gazette]

Ghosts haunt the Aussie cricket team

[via The BBC]

Create your own alien photo and win prizes.

[via Webuser]

Political aliens in Mexico?

[via azcentral.com]

Another Aussie cricket ghost article

[via The Telegraph]

The Aussie cricket team finally wins.

[via Reuters]

Related…
Times Online

Recycled story from a few days ago, but they changed a few things

[via The Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter]

Some UFO history

[via The Triangle]

Ghost movies were popular among Myanmar people, who are generally superstitious, before the genre was banned in the late 1960s by the late socialist dictator Gen. Ne Win.

[via Hindustan Times]

Bermuda Triangle theory

[via Cardiff University]

“Shower Jesus” sold on eBay…to the usual winner of odd auctions.

[via The Post Gazette]

Once while in Dallas I had a couple ask me to take their picture on the “Grassy Knoll”, which I though was odd at the time. Maybe the area is prone to oddness…if you know of any other stories, let me know.

Anyway, yet another odd eBay purchase by the casino.

[via The Dallas Morning News]

The Masonic Temple and the New England Ghost Project are hosting the first-ever Berkshire Paranormal Conference in July.

[via The North Adams Transcript]

Sutherland believes the crop circles are some sort of landmark, left by beings in UFOs. They may be signs that spacecraft landed, flattening the crops with some kind of electromagnetic energy. She also believes that the crop circles are a sign that a race of beings that spent time on Earth thousands of years ago are returning. She connects the crop circles to Stonehenge, the pyramids and burial mounds.

[via The Journal Times On-line]

Media fascination with the ‘exorcism scandal’ continued last week, however, reaching an almost hysterical pitch and leaving one police officer feeling he was ‘in the middle of a medieval witch-hunt’. Others wondered whether they were edging towards ‘another Orkneys’ - an alleged child abuse scandal on the islands that never was.

[via The Guardian]

You know it’s a weird week when you open the paper and read they’re serving whaleburgers at a fast-food chain.

[via The Cincinnati Enquirer]

“Everything had to do with his escape from the hemadrones,” said Nevada County District Attorney Michael Ferguson. “According to the defendant, he wasFkF afraid they were going to put him in cargo and ship him to China to be eaten.”

[via CourtTV.com]

“We’re being communicated to by a higher intelligence — no doubt — and we’re basically ignoring it,” said Robert Nichol. “So that’s my motive for doing the film. … I’m really pleased to spread the good news that we’re not alone in the universe.”

[via The Santa Fe New Mexican]

Now, visitors to the Capital are being offered the chance to learn all about the mystery of Nessie in a new visitor attraction on the Royal Mile.

[via Scotsman.com]

The Ministry of Public Health today expressed concern over the widespread belief in the Thai-Myanmar border area that malaria was caused by ghosts, noting that patients were being put at risk by attempts to treat the disease using spirit worship.

[via MCOT]

Trevor, Wisconsin, U.S.A.

What could have used such force to push the stalks over in such a delicate and elaborate manner? Was this a man-made design? Or is this crop circle part of some extraterrestrial activity here in Wisconsin?

[via The Journal Times Online]

Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.

“It’s only natural that Charlie Carlson would write a book on Florida oddities, because he can spend all day telling tales of the bizarre.”

[via The Orlando Sentinel]

Think of the sighting like a crime. Though the only crime being committed is the one our government commits by its unwillingness to openly investigate such sightings, I say think of it as a crime because you never know what is going to happen, and you need to remember exact details of the event for recall at a later time. The information that follows is designed to help you help investigators.

[via The San Francisco Chronicle]

Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.A.

Even before he moved into his 1895 chateau-like mansion, Domine learned he might not be the only person residing there. Despite some frightening encounters with unusual phenomena, Domine, a university professor, remains a skeptic, but that’s an asset. He doesn’t just relate stories told him by others; he’s done hundreds of hours of research in local archives to determine if there’s any corroborative evidence to support their stories. His conclusion? There usually is.

[via The Courier-Journal]

Lake Okeechobee, Florida, U.S.A.

Saltwater sharks in freshwater Lake Okeechobee?

With video footage.

[via The Sun-Sentinel]

Hong Kong

Worries about another deadly tsunami are keeping many tourists from Phuket, the premier resort island of southern Thailand. But hordes of Asian vacationers are staying away for another reason: Fear that the ghosts of thousands of victims may be haunting the beaches and bungalows.

A widely held superstition in Chinese societies holds that if bodies are not recovered and properly buried, the spirits restlessly wander the world. Some believe the lost souls try to drag living beings into their spiritual limbo land.

[via The Guardian & Times Daily]

Anxiety deepened when the players came across the hotel newsletter. Tracing the tragic tale of Redworth’s 18th century landowner Lord Surtees and his mentally ill child, it claimed that: “The laughter and crying of children is often heard in the great hall area.”

[via The Telegraph]

Davis has written a book called “Stanley Ghost Stories,” due out in July. She collected about 50 stories from people who have seen, heard or felt something inexplicable — including the mysterious visitor and the tumbling books.

[via The Daily Reporter-Herald]

Many will stake out the corner of William and Murray Sts. late into the night tonight in hopes of catching a glimpse of the legendary Griffintown prostitute, said to return every seven years to where she was murdered on June 27, 1879.

“I don’t expect to see Mary Gallagher, but there are people who claim to have seen her,” said Rev. Thomas McEntee, 81, who marks the spectre’s septennial visits with a commemorative mass near the site. “Seven years ago, when I left the scene at 10 o’clock at night, people stayed there waiting for her to appear.”

[via canada.com]

The management of Circus New York says the 26-year-old African elephant which gored a Kerryman in Tramore, Co Waterford, yesterday will continue to perform at the circus.

It says the animal poses no threat to the public.

The injured man, who is not the elephant’s trainer, is said to be critical but stable in hospital.

[via RTE News]

Detectives on Sunday evaluated leads in the wake of a shooting at the midway carnival while Mayor John M. Fabrizi planned discussions that might lead to banning the annual attraction at Seaside Park.

[via The Connecticut Post]

Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A.

A carnival to raise money for the Holy Redeemer Catholic Church ended in bloodshed Saturday night when a 21-year-old man was fatally stabbed in the back.

[via The Detroit Free Press]

Probably one of the most famous haunted towns in the World, Sleepy Hollow village 25 miles outside New York seems to live up to its ghostly reputation. The village dates back to the 1640s, though no one is certain of exactly when Europeans first settled in the area. The towns name was derived from the name given to it by Dutch settlers: Slapershaven (”Sleepers Haven”). For most of its existence, the town was actually part of North Tarrytown and was not actually renamed Sleepy Hollow until 1996.

[via Pressbox.co.uk]

Loch Ness, Scotland

For several months rumors have been swirling around Loch Ness about a 4-inch barbed tooth, possibly belonging to a giant mutation of an eel species that inhabits the waterway, found in the mutilated carcass of a half-eaten deer back in March by two American college students. Now, several boat operators have come forward to speak with Nessie Investigator William McDonald, confirming the area where the deer was located is known to locals as a “kill-zone.”

[via PR Web]

Referenced site, http://www.lochnesstooth.com/.

Mr Poussaint sees nothing wrong with what he does. It is, he insists, work that has to be carried out.

“If the child is not exorcised then it will grow up to be horrible. I get results,” said the 75-year-old, who is originally from Benin in West Africa.

[via The Telegraph]

This is the first I’ve personally heard of “exorcism” outside of the Christian & Catholic realm (in this case Voodoo), but I guess that shouldn’t come as a shock since during the slave days Catholic beliefs were melded with ancient voodoo (more of a disguise…Wikipedia has more background info if you’re curious).

Extra police officers were drafted into a Shropshire carnival after gangs of youths gathered on the streets, frightening hundreds of visitors to a street fair.

[via The Shropshire Star]

What’s up with all of the carnival crimes this past weekend?

Each week, the Ghost Hunt team will use a combination of technological gadgets and old fashioned bravado in their pursuit of paranormal activity. They will explore a number of spooky locations, including an abandoned psychiatric hospital, the Waitomo Caves hotel, Riccarton House in Christchurch, Vulcan Hotel in St Bathans, St James Theatre in Wellington and Kinder House in Parnell.

[via TVNZ]

Sounds like an interesting series. Hopefully it will make it to the States or someone in New Zealand is kind enough to pass some recordings my way.

A woman, accused of practising witchcraft, was publicly beaten up and her face blackened following the death of a girl at the holy town of Trimbakeshwar.

[via The Hindu]

A little over 300 years ago we would have thought nothing of this in the “New World” and we all would probably be cheering them on.

In Alaska, thousands of mysterious lakes are all the same shape and have grown steadily for thousands of years, the geological record shows. They are the fastest growing lakes known in the world.

Scientists have tried various ideas to explain the steady growth — the lakes expand up to 15 feet every year — and the lakes’ consistent shape and orientation, but no theory has held up.

[via MSNBC]

Cape Coral, Florida, USA

University of South Florida researches say they have finally identified the source of a thumping noise that has confounded Cape Coral residents for decades.

It’s the mating call of a fish.

[via WKMG]

Late Friday night, 19-year-old Clarence Mills was shot to death in the midway. Police on Monday said they are following some leads, but don’t have any suspects in the shooting.

…

Ironically, it was a fatal shooting that ended the Barnum Festival’s participation in the midway carnival in 1984.

[via The Connecticut Post]

An incident in which a man was seriously injured by an elephant at a circus in Ireland on Sunday (June 26th) has prompted animal rights campaigners to call for a ban on this type of use of animals. The employee of Circus New York, which was at Tramore in County Waterford, was trampled and gored by an elephant after it became unsettled. After undergoing emergency surgery at Waterford Regional Hospital the man’s condition was described as ’serious’.

[via Green Consumer Guide]

This 1999 graduate of Maryville High School and a classmate, Forest Gregg, have started their own touring show aptly named The Runaway Circus, and they have been from East Coast to West. Juggling, riding unicycles, clowning around, balancing and acrobatics — what they do best — is all part of the high-energy act.

The troupe now includes five members. Meghan Holtan, Shawn Lavoie and Eden Reinstein have joined in the antics, who fellow fun-seekers Johnson and Gregg have met on their incredible journey. The Loose Cabooses, a group of puppeteers and musicians, also travels and performs.

Have bus, will travel

[via The Daily Times]

It may not have the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle, nor of the area called the Devil’s Sea by Japanese and Filipino seamen, also known for inexplicable disappearances.

But on a busy road in the shadow of the Pentland Hills lies the Covenanters’ Wood, an area that appears to possess the same magnetic characteristics. There have been eight road accidents in 12 months at exactly the same spot on the A720 Edinburgh bypass.

[via The Herald]

John Fiedler, a stage and screen actor, who grew up in Wisconsin and won fame as the voice of Piglet in Walt Disney’s Winnie-the-Pooh films, died from cancer, according to his brother, James Fiedler.

He was 80.

Fiedler died Saturday in New York; a day after the death of Paul Winchell, 82, who created the lispy voice of Winnie the Pooh’s animated friend Tigger in the Disney films.

[via EiTB24]

When it comes to dabbling in the black arts, former U.S. President Bill Clinton has much in common with deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

Saddam reportedly wore a stone around his neck to ward off evil. When he was ensconced in his Iraqi palaces, he summoned up the jinn (genies) to do his bidding.

According to historian Joel A. Ruth, a Voodoo sorcerer, supplied to Clinton by the exiled-by-coup John-Bertrand Aristide, once put a curse on incumbent President George W. Bush, “by manipulating a doll made in the president’s image.”

[via Canada Free Press]

Eugene police officers and Lane County animal control officers responded to a report of a “small alligator” at large in northeast Eugene on Friday.

[via Oregon Daily Emerald]

It’s not that I believe in ghosts. I’m just afraid of them.

So before I prepared for sleep at the Skagway Inn Bed and Breakfast, I took precautions. That white guest robe dangling

from the clothes stand had to go—it looked too much like a wraith. Filmy drapes? Must draw tightly to hide any glowing red eyes peering through the window. The bathroom door—better shut it, given the shenanigans with plumbing I’d heard about.

[via Alaska Magazine]

A Halloween committee has been established for Coles County, which will try to bring in more business to the area during the spook season.

During the last six months the committee has been working hard trying to get local business’ support with the upcoming Halloween festival, according to Scott Kelly, a committee member.

“We are trying to get as many people involved as we can,” said Kelly. “Our goal is to make Coles County the Halloween capital of Illinois. Our job as a committee is to advertise the festival to as many people as we can.

“Currently, Arcola’s Broomcorn Festival is the largest Halloween festival around here,” said Kelly.

[via The Daily Eastern News]

Cape San Blas, Florida, USA

A 16-year-old boy who lost a leg following the second shark attack in three days along the Florida Panhandle was in critical condition Tuesday and facing more surgery.

Craig Adam Hutto, of Lebanon, Tenn., was fishing in waist-deep water about 60 feet from shore with his brother and a friend Monday when the shark grabbed his right thigh, nearly severing the leg, said Capt. Bobby Plair of the Gulf County Sheriff’s Office.

[via The Sierra Times]

Two recent shark attacks in the Florida Panhandle, including one that cost a 16-year-old boy his leg Monday, threaten to bring back the media frenzy of 2001, dubbed the “Summer of the Shark” by Time magazine.

The Carolinas are in the top five nationwide for shark violence. But unlike the attack that killed a teenaged girl Saturday, bites are rarely fatal.

[via Charlotte Observer]

Belgium plans to stop Boy Scouts from slaughtering chickens and other small animals at summer camp, despite Scout leaders’ defense of the practice as a lesson in wilderness survival.

[via Reuters]

NEW DELHI - Women in an eastern Indian forest are stripping naked to distract police and to help a criminal gang avoid arrest while illegally chopping down trees, the Hindustan Times reported Tuesday.

[via Reuters]

South Bend, Indiana, USA

“I didn’t believe him,” animal control officer Sumyr Springfield said.
Then Springfield, who was first on the scene, saw the top of the kangaroo’s head. It was time to call for backup.

[via The Indianapolis Star]

Related…
Blimey, mate. It was a kangaroo

Two of the birds fly away from their exhibit. The Sedgwick County Zoo is hoping you’ll see them and call.

[via Wichita Eagle]

Beijing - An 18-year old student celebrating the end of his school exams was attacked and killed by three lions in a zoological park in northeastern China’s Heilongjiang province, state press said on Wednesday.

The student was one of 10 young men who climbed over the 2m fence surrounding the lion compound at the Northern Forestry Zoological Park near the provincial capital of Harbin on Tuesday, the Beijing News said.

The students, who had been drinking following their exams, illegally entered the zoo and climbed over the fence despite signs warning of the danger, the report said.

[via News24]

NORTH ROYALTON, Ohio - Hollywood has taken interest in a suburban Cleveland woman paid to talk to the dead. Mary Ann Winkowski’s paranormal experiences as a ghostbuster for hire have inspired CBS to create “Ghost Whisperer,” starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, which is part of the network’s fall lineup.

Winkowski, a paid consultant to the show, doesn’t have a listing in the phone book, but is booked four months in advance chasing unwanted ghosts from people’s homes.

[via Tahlequah Daily Press]

God only knows if there’s life on other planets.

“War of the Worlds,’ which opens in theaters today, is sure to stir meta-planetary curiosities among more than just UFO spotters and “X-Files’ fanatics.

Many Christian, Jewish and Muslim leaders say the revelation of extraterrestrial beings would not contradict their theological beliefs. Rooted in the dogma of Mormons and Seventh-day Adventists is the existence of aliens.

And one group believes the God of Genesis was a group of space-traveling scientists.

But is the truth really out there?

[via San Gabriel Valley Tribune]

A collection of 10 stories about Luton is being launched in an attempt to improve its image after it was voted “crap town” of the year last year.

[via BBC News]

THE usual cry among UFO experts is ‘look to the skies’, but you may actually help Mid Cheshire researchers more by looking at the ground.

Ufologist Eric Morris is asking the public and farmers to report any un-usual crop circles in fields.

Eric, 51, is carrying out an investigation on the phenomena with other members of the British UFO Studies Centre - the organisation he founded in Northwich 20 years ago.

Eric believes they may be close to finding the true cause of crop circles.

‘I wouldn’t say they’re caused by alien intelligence. What we’ve been researching over the years is to do with the weather,’ he explained.

The likely cause, according to Eric, is a phenomenon known as ‘fair-weather whirlwinds’.

[via icCheshireOnline]

Inverness, Scotland (PRWEB) June 29, 2005 — A Police officer stationed in Inverness, Scotland, has contacted Nessie investigator William McDonald with knowledge about a 4-inch barbed tooth, found in a mutilated deer carcass at Loch Ness back in March by two American college students. The officer, who refused to be identified, stated that he was present in mid-March when the two students entered police headquarters on Perth Road in the early morning hours.

[via PRWeb]

BERLIN (Reuters) - Hollywood actor Tom Cruise not only battles creatures from outer space in his latest film “War of the Worlds,” he also believes aliens really exist, he told a German newspaper Wednesday.

Asked in an interview with the tabloid daily Bild if he believed in aliens, Cruise said: “Yes, of course. Are you really so arrogant as to believe we are alone in this universe?”

[via Reuters]

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - An animal rights group has called on one of the largest aquariums in the United States to stop serving fish to its visitors, likening the practice to grilling up “poodle burgers at a dog show.”

“It’s easy to think of fish as swimming vegetables but of all the places in the country where fish should get a fair shake it’s an aquarium,” said Karin Robertson, manager of the Fish Empathy Project for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

[via Reuters]

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The mourning parents of a traffic accident victim who visited their son’s grave near Antwerp Friday evening were shocked to find the local gravediggers enjoying their annual barbecue at the graveyard.

Workers at the cemetery in Merksem had music playing and their children were running around near the graves, De Morgen newspaper said Wednesday.

[via Reuters]

PITTSBURGH, Pa. — Sure, the weather’s been rather tropical this week, but it’s still surprising to come across alligators in Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

A Pennsylvania man says he spotted one Monday night while driving in Butler County, outside of Pittsburgh.

[via WFTV]

FARMLAND, Ind. — Seven women who usually gather to play cards plan to strip down for a calendar as part of the fight against plans to tear down Randolph County’s 128-year-old courthouse.

The women ranging in age from their early 70s to older than 90 will pose nude — with strategically placed miniature replicas of the courthouse in front of them — in the fund raiser for the Save the Courthouse Fund.

“I don’t know how we’re going to look, but we’re going to pose,” 85-year-old Garnita Amburn told The Star Press of Muncie for a story today.

[via The Indianapolis Star]

For $10,000 and a brighter future for her son, Kari Smith on Wednesday became a real life pop-up ad for a virtual casino.

…

“I really want to do this,” she said. “To everyone else, it seems like a stupid thing to do. To me, $10,000 is like $1 million. I only live once, and I’m doing it for my son.”

Brouse didn’t understand it, either.

In his 24 years, he’s turned away a lot of customers who want to get tattoos that can’t be covered up with clothing. He and his staff spent nearly seven hours Wednesday trying to talk Smith out of it.

Her resolve won out. The one thing Brouse could do with inch-tall letters in the prominent spot was to make them less so by keeping them as close to her hairline for those occasions when bangs or a hat might be the more appropriate message.

[via Deseret News & The Salt Lake Tribune]

What is wrong with people? I don’t think I’d do that for a billion dollars, let alone the chump change of ten grand. But I guess she always has a future in the carnival.

Brian Hutto said contrary to some reports, neither he nor his brother had any bait in his pocket.

He said as they were walking to a sandbar, Craig felt a bump on his leg, and then the shark attacked.

Brian said he hit the shark repeatedly and tried to pull his brother away from its jaws.

The boys’ father waded into the water to help them, and together, the two managed to pull Craig away from the shark and get him to shore.

[via NewsChannel 5]

Next time I go to the beach I think I’ll be packing my diving knife.

HAZARIBAGH: Can witches survive in India. Not if they hail from Palani village in Jharkhand. For here, those identified or suspected as witches are thrashed black and blue with the connivance of the local police.

[via newindpress.com]

According to The Mirror, the words “Holy Ghost” will be dropped from religious lessons because they scare children, and the body and blood of Jesus Christ will not be described as Eucharist because it seems too cannibalistic.

[via NewKerala]

The Chicago City Council has banned marijuana-flavored suckers and other candies after criticism they may tempt young children to experiment with drugs.

[via WebIndia123]

Not that it will totally stop it, but I surely can’t blame the city for their stance.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fishermen in northern Thailand have caught the biggest catfish on record — a 646-pound (293-kg) giant the size of a grizzly bear — and eaten it, the WWF and the National Geographic Society said on Wednesday.

[via Reuters]

TAIPEI (Reuters) - It may take a strong stomach to eat curry or chocolate ice cream out of a toilet bowl, but a commode-themed restaurant in Taiwan does booming business serving up just that.

[via Reuters]