News of the Weird

Egypt Prepares New Probe of Mystery Pyramid Shafts
Egypt will send a robot up narrow shafts in the Great Pyramid to try to solve one of the mysteries of the 4,500-year-old pharaonic mausoleum, Egypt�s top archaeologist said on Monday. Zahi Hawass told Reuters he would this week inspect a robot designed to climb the two narrow shafts which might lead to an undiscovered burial chamber in the pyramid of Cheops at Giza, on the outskirts of Cairo. Hawass said the shafts and stone panels which block them could mark the location of the burial chamber of Cheops, also known as Khufu. That would mean none of the chambers already discovered in the pyramid were the pharaoh's real tomb.

Panther or puss? Claws Out Over Big Cat Claims
The claws are out as wildlife experts again argue the truth of one of Australia's great legends: giant cats roaming the woods of New South Wales and Victoria. The stories have surfaced for more than a century, gaining some official backing but never providing sufficient scientific evidence to move from myth to fact. Now a Melbourne hunter, Kurt Engel, has told ABC radio he shot dead a black puma near the East Gippsland town of Sale in June, providing photographs, a tail and samples of fur as confirmation.

Small Town a Bastion of Bigfoot Belief
A few months ago, the big news in this village of 2,053 residents was that its lone men's barbershop had closed after 42 years. As the summer wore on, however, many locals found themselves bantering about a more exotic topic: Bigfoot. For better or worse, Seneca has become a veritable Sasquatch Central following a flurry of investigations conducted by a member of the California-based Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, which bills itself as "the only scientific research organization exploring the Bigfoot/Sasquatch mystery."

Croats Donate Blood to See Key Soccer Game
Croatian soccer fans rushed to donate blood this week in exchange for tickets for the national team's decisive World Cup qualifying game against Sweden, the Vecernji List daily reported Friday. The game's organizers set aside 300 tickets for the occasion but the number of volunteer blood donors in Zagreb was several times higher. Students cut classes and employees used their lunch breaks to queue in the hospital, the daily said.

Dinosaur-Bird Flap Ruffles Feathers
But most authorities on dinosaurs will tell you these creatures' direct descendents strut, screech and squawk among us today -- as birds. In fact, an entry on theropods from the Web site of the University of California, Berkeley's Museum of Paleontology attests that "recent studies have conclusively shown that birds are actually the descendants of small, non-flying theropods." However, a study in the October issue of the Journal of Morphology suggests that theory may be, well, for the birds.

Brazilian UFO Crash in the Spotlight Again
Tracie Austin-Peters, host of Let's Talk...Paranormal, interviews Dr. Roger Leir about his research into an alleged UFO crash at Varginha, Brazil, in 1996 - the complete details of which can be found in Leir's book, UFO Crash in Brazil.

Worker 'Stole Human Brains'
THE QUEENSLAND state government has said it would investigate allegations that a forensic laboratory worker stole parts from human brains so they could be injected into racehorses to make them run faster.

Don't Blame the Devil This Halloween
On December 7, 1982, Richard Delmer Boyer of El Monte murdered an elderly Fullerton couple, stabbing Francis Harbitz 24 times, his wife Aileen 19 times. During trial Boyer blamed his actions on drugs and horror films.



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