News of the Weird
Interesting Items From Around the World
ATS Weekly, Edition 025, March 30, 2006
Residents Warned of Roaming Tiger
An adult tiger has been reported roaming in the Berlin community of Cullman County, prompting warnings on what to do if the big cat appears. "You
shouldn't approach the animal, but you don't want to run from it either," said animal control officer Tim McKoy. "Fleeing identifies you as prey
and could trigger the tiger's predator instincts.
MUFON Discusses Time Travel, Aliens,
Government Coverups
Are unidentified flying objects real or just the product of overactive imaginations sparked by pop culture? Millions of Americans believe that
extraterrestrials regularly visit Earth. The UFO industry has evolved over 50-plus years, starting in 1947 when pilot Kenneth Arnold flew near Mount
Rainier in Washington State and spied nine crescent-shaped metallic objects in the distance traveling at speeds he estimated to be 1,000 mph.
Checking Out The Spirits
Whisperings, ghost sightings and the sounds of footsteps are regular occurrences at the Guild Inn Closed in 2001, the inn appears to still have a few
guests who refuse to leave, Bill Taylor writes...
Strange But True Sightings
Last year was a banner year for cryptozoology, which is the study of elusive animals presumed to exist. In September 2004, a giant squid was captured
on film for the first time in its deep-water environment by Japanese researchers.
Malaysia to Send
Expedition Into Rainforests to Find Bigfoot
Malaysia's Johor state government is mounting a scientific expedition next month to track down a gap-toothed Bigfoot, or ape man, in the 248
million-year-old rainforests near Singapore. The hunt was sparked by reports last year of three strange creatures spotted walking beside a river by
workers in Johor, which revived tales of Bigfoot sightings in the jungle among the indigenous people who live in the forests.
Debating The Reality of ESP
Though ESP and parapsychology are slowly being considered legitimate science-based topics, many people do not believe they actually exist. “The most
fascinating and frustrating aspect [of my parapsychology study] is the emotionally fierce reactions of people who have decided, based on nothing but
prejudice, that the results of parapsychological experiments cannot be what they appear to be,” Radin said.
Mothman Has His Own Museum
The Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot and the Jersey Devil are names recognized worldwide, hunted by those with an insatiable curiosity. For residents of
West Virginia's own Point Pleasant, there is another name that should be on that list: Mothman. The reported sightings of the large, winged creature
with red glowing eyes started in the late 1960s, coinciding with many strange happenings in the area, including some saucer-like unidentified flying
objects and climaxing with the collapse of the Silver Bridge in December 1967 that killed 46 people.
10 Great Hoaxes
Fooled Most of the People
This was the "missing link" between man and the apes, and it allegedly was recovered in 1912 near Piltdown Quarry in Sussex, England, by amateur
fossil collector Charles Dawson, reports the Institute for Creation Research. The Piltdown Man hoax was so successful that its bones were enshrined
for years in the British Museum in London. But in 1953 the hoax was exposed -- Piltdown Man was a composite of a human skull and the jawbone of an
orangutan.
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