Has the Awful returned to Berkshire & Richford?
In 1925, renowned horror writer H.P. Lovecraft secretly traveled to Richford and Berkshire to investigate a strange phenomenon that was occurring in the two towns. Lovecraft had been visiting friends in southern Vermont when he first learned about odd sightings in Richford. Locals there were terribly afraid of a beast they had dubbed "the Awful." First spotted atop the Boright building at the corner of Main and River streets early one evening around dusk, the Awful, according to records of old, was a winged creature that resembled "a very large Griffin-like creature with grayish wings that each spanned ten-feet." The creature possessed "a serpent like tail that equaled its wing length" and "huge claws that could easily grip a milk can's girth"...
(Also read: "Six Weird Creatures You Don't Want to Meet")
Ghost stories from Korea
As the end of October rapidly approaches many of us in Korea, especially Westerners, begin to think of Halloween, and invariably thoughts of ghosts and other nefarious creatures cross our minds. Although Halloween is a recent introduction to Korea, its culture is filled with stories of ghosts. Most Koreans are familiar with the whimsical bathroom ghost that queries potential victims about whether they prefer red or blue toilet paper and, depending on their answer, kills them or lets them go...
1941: UFO crash near Sikeston, Mo.
A mysterious aircraft crashes in a rural area. The FBI recovers strange bodies. The wreck is whisked off by the military. Documents are missing. This isn't the story of Roswell, N.M. Linda Wallace was born in Sikeston, Mo., a town known for Lambert's Café, the home of "throwed rolls," and the Southeast Missouri Agricultural Museum. It's not known for a UFO crash. Information Linda has uncovered may change that...
Chupacabra sighting at Discovery Science Center
To lure kids into learning about real animals, the museum features a mythical one. Word traveled fast in Salvatierra, Art Guevara's hometown in Mexico. A chupacabra, a bloodsucking monster, slaughtered a neighbor's farm animals. Children who played on the farms and in the fields at night would be next, parents warned. But Guevara, then about 7 years old, and his friends planned to catch the menacing chupacabra with a net...
(Also read: "The Chupacabra's Laugh")
The Mad Gasser of West Bainbridge
After my first book, The Mad Gasser of Mattoon: Dispelling the Hysteria, was published, I heard from several individuals throughout the country about similar suspected gas attacks in their family's or town's history...
Viking landers may have found Martian life after all
A flawed test on NASA's twin Viking spacecraft may have fooled scientists into overlooking signs of life during their examination of the Martian surface 30 years ago. Researchers now say that one of the landers' experiments was not sensitive enough to find organic molecules in the soil, despite signs of life shown by another test. Other researchers say the team may also have been fooled by the strange forms that Martian life might take...
Rte. 65 trouble could be a supernatural matter
The massive landslide on Route 65 in Kilbuck Township remains a "who" or maybe "what" done it? The DEP is now drilling holes trying to determine if soil samples will solve the mystery. But that would be in the realm of the natural. People who've been living in the Emsworth area bordering the Wal-Mart property think the answer may be supernatural...
Bright lights mystery still unexplained
Something mysterious has been captured on film above the skies of Neath.Something glowing and flashing in the night sky. Something that has left Mike Davies and his wife Maureen baffled for years. And now that something has intrigued an expert on unidentified sightings...
Two ways to be fooled
Recently, a group of students from a well-known private college for women in Quezon City called me in connection with a research paper they were doing on telekinesis. They had heard of my course on ESP (extra sensory perception) that covered telekinesis, among other psychic abilities...
In 1925, renowned horror writer H.P. Lovecraft secretly traveled to Richford and Berkshire to investigate a strange phenomenon that was occurring in the two towns. Lovecraft had been visiting friends in southern Vermont when he first learned about odd sightings in Richford. Locals there were terribly afraid of a beast they had dubbed "the Awful." First spotted atop the Boright building at the corner of Main and River streets early one evening around dusk, the Awful, according to records of old, was a winged creature that resembled "a very large Griffin-like creature with grayish wings that each spanned ten-feet." The creature possessed "a serpent like tail that equaled its wing length" and "huge claws that could easily grip a milk can's girth"...
(Also read: "Six Weird Creatures You Don't Want to Meet")
Ghost stories from Korea
As the end of October rapidly approaches many of us in Korea, especially Westerners, begin to think of Halloween, and invariably thoughts of ghosts and other nefarious creatures cross our minds. Although Halloween is a recent introduction to Korea, its culture is filled with stories of ghosts. Most Koreans are familiar with the whimsical bathroom ghost that queries potential victims about whether they prefer red or blue toilet paper and, depending on their answer, kills them or lets them go...
1941: UFO crash near Sikeston, Mo.
A mysterious aircraft crashes in a rural area. The FBI recovers strange bodies. The wreck is whisked off by the military. Documents are missing. This isn't the story of Roswell, N.M. Linda Wallace was born in Sikeston, Mo., a town known for Lambert's Café, the home of "throwed rolls," and the Southeast Missouri Agricultural Museum. It's not known for a UFO crash. Information Linda has uncovered may change that...
Chupacabra sighting at Discovery Science Center
To lure kids into learning about real animals, the museum features a mythical one. Word traveled fast in Salvatierra, Art Guevara's hometown in Mexico. A chupacabra, a bloodsucking monster, slaughtered a neighbor's farm animals. Children who played on the farms and in the fields at night would be next, parents warned. But Guevara, then about 7 years old, and his friends planned to catch the menacing chupacabra with a net...
(Also read: "The Chupacabra's Laugh")
The Mad Gasser of West Bainbridge
After my first book, The Mad Gasser of Mattoon: Dispelling the Hysteria, was published, I heard from several individuals throughout the country about similar suspected gas attacks in their family's or town's history...
Viking landers may have found Martian life after all
A flawed test on NASA's twin Viking spacecraft may have fooled scientists into overlooking signs of life during their examination of the Martian surface 30 years ago. Researchers now say that one of the landers' experiments was not sensitive enough to find organic molecules in the soil, despite signs of life shown by another test. Other researchers say the team may also have been fooled by the strange forms that Martian life might take...
Rte. 65 trouble could be a supernatural matter
The massive landslide on Route 65 in Kilbuck Township remains a "who" or maybe "what" done it? The DEP is now drilling holes trying to determine if soil samples will solve the mystery. But that would be in the realm of the natural. People who've been living in the Emsworth area bordering the Wal-Mart property think the answer may be supernatural...
Bright lights mystery still unexplained
Something mysterious has been captured on film above the skies of Neath.Something glowing and flashing in the night sky. Something that has left Mike Davies and his wife Maureen baffled for years. And now that something has intrigued an expert on unidentified sightings...
Two ways to be fooled
Recently, a group of students from a well-known private college for women in Quezon City called me in connection with a research paper they were doing on telekinesis. They had heard of my course on ESP (extra sensory perception) that covered telekinesis, among other psychic abilities...
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