Everyone knows about the thylacine, potentially lurking in Australia’s outback, but it’s time to become acquainted with Japan’s own cryptic canine. Yes, we know thylacines aren’t members of the genus Canis. Anyway, the Shamanu has been extinct for more than a century and Doc Karl Shuker’s heard through the grapevine how there may be some […]

Brent Swancer reports on a wave of strange reports from 1965 which read like the cheesy sci-fi novels so many of us cut our paranormal teeth on, purchased from the used book seller whose shop smelled like pot and patchouli. Fantastic and freakish, we leave it to our readers to decide which incidents were real […]

We lead off with more weirdness from the guy who brought you “Vegetable Men” and “Space Fairies.” Here Brent Swancer presents “robotic sunflowers” with sinister intent and an assortment of jelly men, colorfully-attired mobile tree stumps, and a “hairy octopus” that played “dodge-’em” with a truck on a mountain road in Spain. Nick Redfern continues […]

Quite often an article’s headline is much zanier than its text. Such is emphatically not the case here. Brent Swancer provides a potpourri of cases that “fully catapult themselves into the furthest reaches of the extreme fringe of the bizarre, hovering out beyond all attempts to comprehend or explain them.” The first thought upon reading […]

Gold is a huge trend this summer after it appeared everywhere on the catwalk, from Vuitton to Valentino. LIZ JONES gives her verdict on which are the hottest golden gowns on the red carpet.

The early days of Amazon were brutal. As Brad Stone writes in his 2013 book, “The Everything Store,” there was no explicit rule that you couldn’t take a day off on the weekend, but the assumption was that you wouldn’t. This was in the mid-90s, after venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers invested $8 […]

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 […]

1- i was in my front yard with my friend. we were observing the sky with my telescope. the conditions were clear. 2- since we were stargazing, i was already looking at the sky. i suddenly noticed what looked like cgi graphics floating through the sky. a moving transparency. 3- i thought it was otherworldly, […]

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Solemn in the face of tragedy, President Donald Trump visited hospital bedsides and a vital police base in stricken Las Vegas on Wednesday, offering prayers and condolences to the victims of Sunday night's shooting massacre, along with the nation's thanks to first responders and doctors who rushed to save lives.

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