Planet Weird and Nick Groff (Ghost Adventures) take a tour through one of the most heavily haunted locations in the US, if not the entire world. Bobby Mackey's is infamous for its unusually strong and disturbing ghostly manifestations most notably witnessed by "Ghost Adventures" in 2012. GA's initial investigation of Bobby Mackey's led some to believe that a spirit or two took an interest in the guys and followed the crew home, causing chaos for months afterward. Planet Weird assures us that the spirited residents of Bobby Mackey's are still very much active and even talkative (as evidenced by a very clear EVP that hopefully Planet Weird will share with the rest of us soon). Meanwhile, Mark Russell Bell describes the intensive methods of Testing the Voices Heard on Leslie Flint Seance Tapes, methods that were a bit on the dramatic side--Flint was bound and gagged to prevent him from speaking or moving during the channeling sessions--but still seemed to produce results. And while we're being dramatic, it doesn't get much more drama-worthy than The Legend of the Ghost That Helped Solve Her Own Murder. Micah Hanks revisits the tale of Elva Zona Heaster, locally known in West Virginia as the "Greenbriar Ghost" who was murdered in 1897 and revealed her murderer and cause of death to her mother via a series of dreams...before the autopsy results were revealed...Across the pond, The Sentinel's Damon Simms is collecting firsthand ghostly encounters in Staffordshire, England and shares an experience from 1998 involving ghost lights that terrified teenage campers, which ended in tears after the rowdy group of kids were apparently told to shush in a terrifyingly eerie ghost light sort of way. (MB)

Here we go again. If we were keeping count, this would be #348 on the list of articles saying the exact same thing. Others have said it better and also we consider their #1 reason totally cheating. Riding in on Mulder and Scully's business suit coattails, the CIA declassifies hundreds of UFO documents. Again. This time the collection is from the 1940s and 50s and likely contain more black bars in the documents than UFOs in the photos. Actually, they've released all this before. They are just being X-Files cool these days, noting the documents that would be of interest to Mulder and those Scully would prefer to cite: Take a Peek Into Our “X-Files” . (MB)

Paul Kimball shares a particularly memorable investigation he conducted in Nova Scotia at a very isolated farm in which he and his fellow investigators encountered one of creepiest of all creepy ghost tropes--a phantom crying baby. Meanwhile, as a relocated Paranormal investigator from Leicester [starts] new life in the States, Richard Estep gets a hearty taste of the States' best offering of ghostly encounters, including Waverly Hills Sanatorium where he witnessed slamming doors, footsteps, voices and physical scratches. After explaining his own very precise methodology for ghost detection, Estep wryly observes, "There's an old joke in this field that the least effective way to encounter a ghost is to actually try to see one." And now here to offer up a taste of less than precise, scientifically proven but always entertaining hauntings, is Beachcombing with An Outstanding Italian Ghost Story from the 1880s that's full of Victorian gothy gore; and a downright weird account of a haunted jail cell where supposedly a spiteful Ghost [Hung] Four in New Orleans. (MB)

Hooper, Colorado is conveinantly located right along the "Cosmic Highway" (or Highway 17, if you're feeling less than cosmically inspired.) Hooper is also home to the infamous UFO Watch Tower where hundreds of people gather to spot UFOs and/or talk about their previous experiences. Meteor showers are a common sight along with the usual UFO zipping past...Nick Redfern discusses UFOs, JFK, and an Enigmatic Character-- the enigmatic character being Guy Banister who is linked as a possible co-conspirator in more than one alternate theory about JFK's assassination. It seems that Banister lived within his own episode of the Twilight Zone as he was also an investigator on several UFO cases under the direction of J. Edgar Hoover back in the 1940s. Speaking of that magical combination of conspiracy theory and UFOs, Irish UFO spotters hoping return of 'X-Files' revives interest in the UFO phenomenon across the UK. They aren't the only ones, as Grant Cameron points out a Possibly Important UFO Development from the White House itself in the form of CIA releases on the subject. Is this another tiny step on th path to disclosure? (MB)

Looking through the correspondence of John Keel, Doug Skinner wonders if the son of the novelist Manly Wade Wellman may not be responsible for a Man In Black encounter. In Some Ideas About Digging, Billy Cox wonders why we still allow the dead WWII crowd who made the original classification decisions regarding UFO matters to keep telling us what we can and can't handle? And Astronomers say a Neptune-sized planet lurks beyond Pluto, but is it Nibiru, the "12th planet" and home of the Annunaki as mentioned in Sumerian texts? (PH)

Was the “abuse panic” of the '80s and '90s--in which a child’s memories of sexual aggression could be repressed for years, then pop out at the bidding of a therapist,sending blameless caretakers to prison--all “ado … about nothing”? Ross Cheit, professor of International and Public Affairs and of Political Science at Brown University, says the consensus wisdom about this episode is wrong. Cheit argues that there was real sexual abuse going at the time, and that to dismiss all these cases as “witch hunts” and “moral hysteria” is a shameful distortion of reality. It's worth noting that the alien abduction phenomenon peaked in the late 1980s and through the 90s, lagging about 5-7 years behind the popular acceptance of the idea of repressed memories of sexual abuse, which might lead some to think that evidence for both types of cases have delusional foundations. But blogger David Halprin believes that "that sexual exploitation of helpless children certainly happens in the real world, while UFO abductions (in my opinion) don’t." We wonder how many alien abductees he has encountered. Has he ever spoken to Chris Holly or people like The Abductee Holly writes about in her latest post? (PH)

Two psychotherapists take epigenetics, consciousness, and after-death communication to the next level. They have shattered the traditional family therapy model by incorporating the body of evidence suggesting consciousness extends beyond death and that those who are deceased may still be among us. Does that mean we have to worry about our unseen intergenerational relationship with some great-great-grandfather we never met? "Definitely," they say. All this would probably not phase psychologist Stanley Krippner, who is interviewed by Carlos Alvarado in People in Parapsychology: XXVII. An amazing man. (PH)

Following up his post on Skepticism vs. Pseudoskepticism, Kevin Randle, the author of Reflections of a UFO Investigator, presents the case of Chiles and Whitted, two airline pilots who saw a cigar-shaped craft with a row of windows that flashed by their aircraft in 1948. Given that others have since described known bolides as cigar-shaped object with windows, Randle believes the skeptical explanation for this case is a valid one. Rich Reynolds, on the other hand, regards the pilots' testimony as accurate, that what they saw was a manufactured craft and not a collide: The 1948 Chiles-Whitted sighting per Kevin Randle. In another post entitled Ufology and the Facebook debacle Reynolds bemoans the low quality of UFO debate these days, with Facebook becoming the place for UFO reports and commentary. How do you "like" it? (PH)

As the title tells us, if you've got a Maine Bigfoot story, there's a writer who's keen to hear about it. Michelle Souliere, author of a book and blog entitled "Strange Maine," is gathering material for a new project and she wants to hear from those who've seen something hairy in the woods. (She also runs a terrific bookstore in Portland: The Green Hand Bookstore.) Meanwhile across the Pond in Wales, even Bigfoot might seem normal compared to ghostly nuns who change into rabbits as big as sheep. Yep, you read that right, so check it out here in A Ghost Rabbit as Big as a Sheep. (LP)

Another tall tale of a lost city in the jungle, but in the White City of Honduras, the devil dwells in the details. The development of airplane-mounted 3d topographical laser scans lay the secrets of Central America's ancient jungles bare. Giant mounds and buried stones could corroborate what 16th century legend and some explorers profess still lies concealed by a crawling vastness of living green. The finds have been dated as 1,000 to 1,500 years old. Older still is the Prosthetic Leg with Hoofed Foot Discovered in Ancient Chinese Tomb. A 2,200 year old man of modest means once sported a prosthetic leg made of poplar and horse hoof due to an extraordinarily deformed left leg. The unfortunate appendage's patella, femur, and tibia were fused together and fixed in the bent position, pointing towards the individual's rear. The horse hoof foot of the ingenious leg provides support and, in my personal opinion, a bit of style as well. (MS)

In my world, the only dangerous number is zero when it applies to my bank account, but in the physics community there are two which set those boffins' knees knocking. It's all to do with the numbers attached to Higgs boson and Dark Energy; one's too small and the other's too big. Honestly, there's no satisfying these brainy types. And for those of you who are so busy you need to be in two places at one time, this might be a step in the right direction: Teleportation of Bacteria's Memories Made Possible By Schrodinger and His Cat. Based on Schrodinger's theory in which that darned cat may be both dead and alive, Chinese physicists are hoping to put the memories of an organism into a state of Quantum Superposition, which would enable it to be in two places at the same time. Brings new possibilities to the idea of leading a double life. (LP)

Well, lightning comes to mind. Check out the rather unimpressive vid in this report from the Nottingham Post. You've really got to Want To Believe to make anything exciting out of this, but the reporter seems to think that because lights were seen in "an abandoned block of flats" that same evening, something newsworthy has arisen. Slow news day in Robin Hood county, methinks. (LP)

Stories occasionally emerge of psychics providing helpful clues to the police, but the antidote to such wonders appears to be this item from the county of Devon in England. Lots of clairvoyants offer info to these Boys in Blue, but not one tip has been found valid. On the other hand there's the case of a Psychic Who Had Vision About A Murder 17 Years Ago Was So Accurate He Was DNA Tested As A Suspect. Was it just "routine" to obtain a DNA sample of someone who provides information related to a crime? (LP, PH)

Everyone's asked this question at one time or another. Any who deny it are liars. Mark Haddon finds himself deep in the warrens of the hard problem of consciousness, with each twist raising a new question. He's certainly less prickly, and more personable, than Michael Graziano's jeremiad declaring Consciousness Is Not Mysterious. What else could one expect from a biological robot anyway? On the other hand Peter Hankins has No Problem picking apart Graziano's allusions and assumptions in a measured fashion. The hard problem remains resolute, despite screeds attempting to oversimplify and diminish the phenomenon. (CS)

Russian scientists have excavated a mammoth from a frozen bluff on the Yenisei Bay in Arctic Siberia with wounds unmistakably caused by the hand of man. Anthropologists previously had not suspected that humans had followed the wooly beasts into the Arctic before 30,000 years ago. The discovery also potentially pushes back the conventional date of humankind's trek into North America across the Bering land bridge. (MS)

Probably not. Could this be the result of a whole bunch of blurry shots being taken as someone tries to play photographer after one too many drinks and then forgetting about it the next morning? Highly likely. Here's another even less likely experience courtesy of The Sun, a fine, upstanding bastion of good British journalism...‘We had sex with aliens... and gave birth to their babies’: Girls make bizarre UFO abduction claim. These women appear to be right out of Central Casting for a call for "generic yet attractive college girls." Our best guess is that this is a hoax or viral marketing for an upcoming movie or tv show. This report, however, is a lot more substantial and impressive not to mention unexplained: What were these military planes chasing? Mystery surrounds images of two fighter jets following a UFO in Bulgaria. The craft has the classic flying saucer shape but is it simply a military drone or even balloon used in training? (MB)

Bob Gimlin is starting his year off with a bang after doing lectures at recent Bigfoot conferences and now announcing an educational series aimed at kids to familiarize them with the concept of cryptids. But What’s In A Name? Bigfoot goes by several different ones according to the location, and Nick Redfern discusses one of the more famous--the Yeti of Nepal. Meanwhile, Glasgow Boy intrigues us with two interesting bits of Loch Ness news. First up, a promising Poll on Existence of Loch Ness Monster conducted by a Scottish newspaper reveals that almost half the people questioned believe that Nessie is real. And researchers have managed to reach a New Record Depth for Loch Ness, which is 135 feet deeper than the previous record. Is this the site of Nessie's underwater hideaway? (MB)

What happens when Bob Gimlin himself joins Bill Munn and Jeff Meldrum in the same room to discuss the most famous Bigfoot evidence in the world? Click over and take a look. Mysterious Universe takes another look at another unsolved cryptid mystery of the large-footed kind--The Mysterious Rock Apes of the Vietnam War. There's plenty of eyewitnesses to these encounters with the elusive but curious reddish-brown bipedal primate including reports of sightings well before the Vietnam War brought in thousands of troops. Rock apes aren't nearly as tall as their Sasquatch-ian cousins but they seem to possess the same power of invisibility whenever a camera shows up. Back here in the US, Mississippians share Bigfoot stories with "Finding Bigfoot," adding a few more encounters to the case files that almost always share the same characteristics of a classic Bigfoot sighting...Meanwhile, Glasgow Boy shares some More on Gordon Holmes and Giant Eels, a theory that just might explain a few things about Nessie. (MB)

Many thanks to our eagle-eyed Anomalist viewer R. Cannon who brought this possible UFO caught on video to our attention. Check out the video at around 1:27 and take a close look over the shoulder of that construction worker on the roof. UFO or airplane in the distance? We can't tell for sure but we don't see wings. Let us know what you think! Moving on to other otherwordly topics, Now, UFO conspiracists spot Angkor Wat-like temple on Mars. Well, thank goodness for that. At least now all the rats, lizards, tiny humanoids and Alien facehuggers have some shelter...Admittedly, that IS a rather odd structure-like object to find on the surface of Mars where sharp angles and edges are a little out of place. And here's yet another report of OBOLs (orange balls of light), those now ubiquitous flying objects that are becoming more and more common as Minnesota witnesses watch small orbs move out of UFO. (MB)