Too often in our anomalous world we become accustomed to the strange, taking it for granted and growing a little blind to its esoteric qualities. Brent Swancer changes that with this rather quease-inducing piece. Hope you don’t have problems with anything resembling maggots…Next, Swancer keeps us on our toes with Mystery Beasts of Japan’s Southern […]

Easter weekend is on course to be one of the coldest in recent history, with lows of -9 predicted in parts of the country. The news comes after Britain has grappled with its coldest March on record.

Do unicorns exist? Of course not, but what about sasquatch? One’s less impossible from the other, but how do humans come to this conclusion? Aristotle puzzled over this conundrum, and Kathryn Schulz runs with it straight into the 21st century. One chilling effect is the possibility of cryptids becoming less fanciful and more mundane. Also […]

A sample size of two is small, but if the two matriarchs are representative of their species, African elephants may be the shortest-sleeping mammals on Earth, the researchers said. “Elephants really don’t sleep all that much, and this appears to be related to their large size,” said study lead researcher Paul Manger, a professor in […]

Karl Shuker wants to know more about the origins of both the object and the source material of this pottery elephant figurine. The object was found near Lake Titicaca in Bolivia and was recently discussed in a lecture given by Russian historian Andrey Zhukov. Is it a fake, or a genuine ancient representation and if […]

The 51-year-old refused to talk about the president elect as she promoted the Harry Potter prequel with star Eddie Redmayne at a press conference ahead of the premiere in New York on Thursday.

Quite a round-up of crypto-stuff today, kicking off with alleged sightings of Bigfoot in Scotland, compiled by Micah Hanks. In Britain there’s long been gentle joking about hairy Scotsmen, but perhaps there’s more to the story if these numerous reports are accurate. Brent Swancer takes us from two to four-legged mysteries in his look at […]

The residents of the Forest of Dean are being terrorised by merciless marauders: huge, hairy, 20-stone wild boar, who venture out of the forest to wreak havoc.

Derek Gobbett made the discovery after being hired by American hunters to record their trek in South Africa, he claimed groups pay thousands to track and kill beasts that are kept in captivity until a day before.

For Tara Zieleman (pictured), it was a chance to realise her dream of creating a new Utopia. With 22 other idealists, disillusioned with the modern world, she hoped to ‘start again’ on Eden.