Until recently, the strange claim to fame for La Grange, Kentucky, was having railroad tracks running through the pavement of downtown making freight trains mingle with rush hour traffic. But for the past three months, the city has turned into a scene straight out of The Birds. Thousands of blackbirds descend upon three miles of [...]
Over the past 10 or so years, ghost hunting has gone from fringe counterculture to mainstream hobby. Somehow, paranormal turned “cool” and all the stylish people started doing it; some even managed to turn it into successful television careers. But through all the hype and popularity, the new high-tech gadgets like the Ovilus and full-spectrum [...]
It’s dark, disturbing, and greasy. No, not boiled eel. Not Severus Snape either. Meet Malaysia’s least popular legend: Orang Minyak, better known as “Oily Man”. He wants to meet you. Of course, if you believe what locals say about this monster, he more than wants to meet you. Prowling at night dressed in nothing but [...]
Spending Christmas with family can be agony, but for one teenage boy it turned into torture — quite literally. 15-year-old Kristy Bamu of Paris, France, was visiting his sister in her East London apartment in Hathaway Crescent for the holiday when the festivities turned to heated argument. Kristy’s brother-in-law Eric Bikubi, 23, accused him and his [...]
People see the strangest things in the most unlikely places. From the Dutchess of Cambridge on a Jelly Belly to varicose veins that spell, we see what we want to see; and it seems a whole lot of people want to see Jesus. He is everywhere, after all. Even on Walmart receipts, apparently. But where [...]
It was just another night in northeast Ohio until the calls came in about lights in the sky. Roy Anne Rudolph was fielding the usual 9-1-1 calls at the dispatch office for Liberty Township Police on the night of December 14, 1994, when she received a couple of strange calls. People were seeing something hovering [...]
First it was using “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas; now there are people fighting to remove nativity scenes from public places and government buildings. These are just a few deeds snagged by a new wave of conspiracy theorists as proof of a “war on Christmas” perpetrated by those mean, ungodly non-Christians in their Grinch-like [...]
An interesting photograph circulating for a few years now on websites and blogs is purported to be a ghostly figure at the White House. Near the center of the photo you can quite clearly see what appears to be a man; the only problem is that you can see through him. According to sources, the [...]
