Paranormal News

Today’s article serves to demonstrate the extent to which belief systems in the world of UFOs can change. You may recall that last week I wrote an article on how Gordon Creighton (a long-time editor of Flying Saucer Review magazine) came to believe, by the latter part of the 1970s, that the UFO phenomenon had

A decade ago, a band of astronomers set out to investigate one of the oldest questions taunting philosophers, scientists, priests, astronomers, mystics and the rest of the human race: How many more Earths are out there, if any? How many far-flung planets exist that could harbor life as we know it? Their tool was the

If someone asks you to name one good thing to come out of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic, you now have an answer – Japan’s dreaded Namahage monster has been shut down and won’t be eating any human children for the foreseeable future. Wait … what? “In response to the spread of the new coronavirus infection,

I received a message from another Nessie fan, Paolo Boccuccia, about a story he heard back in 1983. This was Paolo’s second visit to the loch in four years and he wanted to ask various local people who were older whether they had seen the monster. One lady, who Paolo thinks was a Mrs. McKenzie

The saga of the Flying Saucer began with the pilot Kenneth Arnold, whose 24 June 1947 encounter at the Cascade Mountains, Washington State, kicked off the modern era of UFO sightings. At approximately 3:00 p.m. on the afternoon in question, Arnold was searching for an aircraft that had reportedly crashed on the southwest side of

When a team of paranormal investigators were exploring an allegedly haunted Victorian graveyard in Sheffield, England, they captured footage of what appeared to be a ghostly apparition. The Retford Ghost Hunters were live-streaming their investigation of the Sheffield General Cemetery on October 17th when a viewer pointed out the ghostly figure that floated by the

Now that Donald Trump appears on track to be leaving the White House in January, many are pointing to the possibility that the president will declassify intelligence files on many mysterious issues, including UFOs. “Trump is still POTUS. He can release any information he wants via Twitter. Literally it’s legal for him to drop anything

It started as a pretty typical street crime. In 1999, a young woman was walking alone at night through a Walmart parking lot in Roeland Park, Kansas, when a man approached her and grabbed her purse. Although she was able to hold onto it, he managed to run off with her cellphone, in the process

Enlarge / The CHIME telescope has proven adept at picking up fast radio bursts. Andre Renard / CHIME Collaboration Today, researchers are announcing they’ve solved one of the questions that has been nagging them over the past decade: what exactly produces the weird phenomena known as fast radio bursts (FRBs)? As their name implies, FRBs

In recent weeks, two very interesting and mysterious sonar images were taken in the waters of Loch Ness that may have been the elusive monster. Both sightings were captured by Cruise Loch Ness that is run by Ronald Mackenzie. The first sonar image was captured on September 30th when Mackenzie took some passengers out on

You may know of the company that was first launched with a press conference about their plan of using UFO technology to build a spaceship. Led by a maverick artist, its members included some former US government employees, most prominently, a former military intelligence agent. To raise capital for their venture, they sold stock in

ONE of just six ultra-rare black tigers known to exist in the world has been miraculously snapped by an amateur photographer. Soumen Bajpayee took the pictures of the melanistic tiger, whose thick black stripes hide his orange fur, in eastern Odisha, India. 5 The ultra-rare black tiger was spotted in IndiaCredit: Caters News Agency 5

Sightings and reports of lake-monsters, sea-serpents and other similar, unidentified creatures date back hundreds of years. Their names include Ogopogo, Manipogo, Champ, the Loch Ness Monster, Morag, and even Big Wally. Yes, I know: the name of the latter beast hardly provokes thoughts of a savage, marauding beast! In fact, Wally sounds quite the opposite.

One of the strangest of all Cryptozoology-driven cases from the U.K. occurred in January 1879. The location: Bridge 39 that spanned (and that still spans) the old Shropshire Union Canal, England. There are a number of online articles on the affair – that involved the sighting of a large, chimpanzee-like animal that bounded across the

If the name ‘Denver Riggleman’ rings a bell, it could be because he’s a U.S. representative from Virginia. It could be because he appeared recently on “Meet the Press” about his battles with QAnon supporters. It could be because you’ve downed a shot or two of his craft whiskey. However, if you follow the paranormal

Genetic and environmental factors contribute to schizophrenia.  Science has not yet determined how these two factors interact to produce the diverse array of behavioral and neurochemical changes in the brains of these patients.  During the past few years, scientists have focused on the role of the gut microbiome as an underlying cause of some aspects

In the late spring of 2015, my brother-in-law paid a visit to my sister’s grave, in a lush meadow cemetery amid the Gatineau Hills of southern Quebec. My sister had been dead, at this point, for seven years, and the couple had been separated for twelve. Doug sat in the grass among planted geraniums for

Some parents don’t need spooky stories or horror movies. The real terror already lives within the walls of their homes. To be clear, I’m talking about little children. Kids can be incredibly eerie. They seem innocent but sometimes appear highly sophisticated. And when they communicate, it’s often in such a simple, uninhibited way that many

Sonar reading taken by Ronald Mackenzie. Picture: Ronald Mackenzie/Cruise Loch Ness Another startling image of a large creature inhabiting the depths of Loch Ness have been captured on sonar. It follows the revelations last month of the “most compelling” and startling evidence of the existence of a Loch Ness Monster after an unusual recording more

Who doesn’t like a good scary movie? Or a tale of adventure that spans the dimensions of time and space? The Chinese Communist Party routinely censors movies, newspapers, television and social media within China that criticize its repression in Tibet, its crackdown in Tiananmen Square and, of course, its censorship. But why would the CCP

Not just one or two individual Bigfoots -  but how about Bigfoot families living in the Pine Barrens? Eric Spinner is a local South Jersey Bigfoot Researcher who was recently interviewed by Eric Mintel, a Pennsylvanian who studies Bigfoot and everything weird and paranormal – when he’s not playing jazz music. Mintel recently interviewed Spinner

Tales of an alleged, massive, multi-leveled underground base at the town of Dulce, New Mexico abound. Largely, the stories began during the controversial saga of Paul Bennewitz, a scientist based in Albuquerque, New Mexico at the time. We’re talking about roughly from 1979 to the mid-1980s. Bennewitz was subjected to a wave of UFO-themed disinformation

Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Robert Nicholls/Wikipedia. For the entirety of my career as a journalist covering paleontology, I’ve been wanting to know: What does a dinosaur’s butthole look like? When I wrote My Beloved Brontosaurus, a book about dinosaur biology, the chapter on reproduction required a lot of time imagining the nature of

After millenniums of careful slicing and dicing, it might seem as though scientists have figured out human anatomy. A few dozen organs, a couple of hundred bones and connective tissue to tie it all together. But despite centuries of scrutiny, the body is still capable of surprising scientists. A team of researchers in the Netherlands

Just a few weeks ago I was contacted by a Los Angeles-based painter named Jo. She is intrigued by the Men in Black phenomenon, as well as the issue of the Black Eyed Children. Jo has an interesting (intriguing, even) theory concerning why the MIB, the BEC, and the Women in Black, seem to spend

James Randi, a famed magician known as “The Amazing Randi” and a scientific investigator who debunked sensational claims of paranormal and occult occurences — has died. He was 92. The James Randi Foundation announced his passing in a tweet, saying he died of “age-related causes” on Tuesday. Randi was remembered on Wednesday by magician Penn

Replicability Crisis and Psi Research The replicability crisis has been illustrated by the results of nine experiments conducted by Bem (2011) and reported in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology as supporting the existence of precognition. As Romero (2019) explains “although the finding persuaded very few scientists, the controversy engendered mistrust in the ways

Alien encounters can truly run a wide range, from the almost believable to the outright absurd, and sometimes these encounters can happen to otherwise sane and upstanding witnesses. In some cases even the most upstanding and believable of witnesses have come forward with accounts that seem to veer right off into the outer edges of

The Majestic 12 documents, alleged alien autopsies, ufologist Bill Moore, crashed UFOs, a program designed to destabilize scientist/UFO researcher Paul Bennewitz, and the FBI’s file on Stan Friedman: they have all been under my microscope – so to speak – over the last week. Now, it’s time for me to wrap up this strange saga

Three fossils found in a lignite mine in southeastern Yunan Province, China, are about 6.4 million years old, indicate monkeys existed in Asia at the same time as apes, and are probably the ancestors of some of the modern monkeys in the area, according to an international team of researchers. “This is significant because they