Paranormal News

A rare sighting of a live coelacanth, captured off the coast of South Africa in 2019. Image: Bruce Henderson An analysis of coelacanth DNA suggests its genome has experienced some significant changes in recent evolutionary history, potentially dispelling the popular image of these iconic fish as being “living fossils.” The discovery of a live coelacanth
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Throughout history, every major culture has stories of reptilian monsters who threatened their livelihood. From the Egypt to India, and even the Sioux Nation, tales of these flying dinosaurs or winged lizards have filled the cultural imagination of societies throughout the ages. Today we explore the possible depiction of the pterodactyl, a genus of pterosaur,
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A fascinating poltergeist case in late 2019 had the Cropster packed and ready to head to Bhutan, a stunningly beautiful country tucked away in the eastern Himalayas between India and China. Mountains in Bhutan. Source: Wikipedia. For various reasons the trip never happened. As Covid19 was just about to hit big-time it was probably for
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A 62-year-old adventure mystery that has prompted conspiracy theories around Soviet military experiments, Yetis, and even extraterrestrial contact may have its best, most sensible explanation yet—one found in a series of avalanche simulations based in part on car crash experiments and animation used in the movie Frozen. In an article published today in the journal
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In our continuing investigation into the bizarre inventions of Dr. Salvatore Cezar Pais, an enigmatic aerospace engineer who works for the U.S. Navy, The War Zone has just obtained a wide range of documents detailing experiments that the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) conducted to test the core concepts and technologies underlying his
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One of the more unusual eventualities of artificial intelligence is that it may one day be used to resurrect the dead. Artificially, of course. Over the last several years, various companies have announced their intentions to “raise the dead” with chatbots and other strange business endeavors, and now it looks like Microsoft is throwing their
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24-year-old Lauren Nevil of Farmington, New York, contacted the Singular Fortean Society earlier this month to report a sighting of strange, white aerial lights seen during a power outage last November. The outage came as a result of a stormfront with high winds which knocked out power for thousands of residents in western New York
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Yesterday, plane spotters in the greater Los Angeles area caught glimpses of three mysterious Bell 407 helicopters painted overall in what looks to be a dark gray color, but with no easily identifiable markings. Covered in antennas that one might expect to see on examples in use by military or law enforcement units, but unlike
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You probably encountered the very idea of ‘urban legends’ thanks to the labours of Jan Harold Brunvand, retired Professor of English and eminent folklorist. He did more than anyone else to promote awareness of those short, perfectly-formed morality tales that were told as true, but whose ultimate source – a ‘friend-of-a-friend’ – was distant enough
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