News of the Weird
Interesting Items From Around the World
ATS Weekly, Edition 010, September 20, 2005
Mothman: Myth or Reality?
Standing at seven feet tall, the Mothman was first sighted in the TNT area of Mason County in November of 1966. The story goes: Two couples were
chased by the Mothman to their car. There were numerous sightings after that and also several UFO sightings. On December 15, 1967, the most
devastating disaster this small community has ever seen: The Silver Bridge collapse, where 46 people lost their lives.
UFO Enthusiast Shares His
Beliefs
William Roderick of San Leandro is wild about UFOs. "I go to Pete Stark's meetings to let people know that the Star Wars program designed in the
1970s exists only because we have hostile aliens that come to the planet every day and stuff," Roderick said, "and our government is trying to
combat them."
Filmmaker Looks at UFO Phenomenon
Something happened in the skies above Phoenix on the night of March 13, 1997. Thousands of witnesses reported seeing a set of mysterious lights moving
through the darkness. The official statement was that the lights were just flares, used by the military to light up the Barry Goldwater Firing Range
at night. Grass Valley film producer Steve Lantz doesn’t buy it.
Psychic 'Heard' Dead Woman in Italian
Lake
An Italian psychic who led police to the body of a missing woman at the bottom of Lake Como says an unworldly vision allowed her to unravel the
three-year-old mystery. "I went to the lake, and I saw where it happened ... I heard her, I saw her and I drew a map," Busi told Reuters. "Nobody
thought she was in the lake."
Pursuing Paranormal
Exposure
It's a chill on the back of your neck. Or maybe it's a set of misplaced keys. Perhaps it's an appliance that seems to have a mind of its own or a
sound in an empty attic. It could all be in your head. Or maybe it's an electrical short. But one Western Washington group says sometimes those
bumps, chills and power surges aren't an accident.
Haunted or
Not? Psychics Psyched
Ghost-busters are ready to hit Church Street. Since news went around the world that ghosts scared away the renter of a Church Street Station building,
self-styled psychics, mediums and paranormal investigators have been clamoring to get inside and talk to the spirits. "I've got people who want to
spend the night there and communicate with the ghosts. I've got people who want to go in there and debunk it," said attorney David Simmons, who
represents the building's owners. "They're coming out of the woodwork, and some of them are a little off the wall."
Florida Duo Making Film About Area
Werewolves
After setting up cameras and lights in the living room of Linda Godfrey's home on Friday afternoon, Steve Grabo and Jan Day asked Godfrey questions
while capturing her responses on film. They asked her about a topic on which she has become an expert-the man/wolf, as she prefers to call it.
NASA Planning Moon Launch for 2018
It will cost $104 billion over the next decade to send astronauts back to the moon, NASA's chief said Monday, defending the price tag as an
investment the nation can afford despite the expense of Hurricane Katrina. Described as "Apollo on steroids," the new moon exploration plan unveiled
by the space agency will use beefed-up shuttle and Apollo parts and aims to put people on the moon by 2018.
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