Sightings of kangaroo have been reported in the Mayama mountain district of Osaki city, about 200 miles north of Tokyo. There have been some 30 reports since December, but rumors of kangaroos in the area started about seven years ago. At that time, television crews and newspapers set up hidden cameras in the area, but have failed to capture an image of a kangaroo. Elsewhere, The Beast of White Lake Ontario and the Burlington Name Game, and in Something on the Prowl in East Texas Neighborhood, a farmer shows off a photograph of a claw print that he says proves that something strange is on the prowl on his land. Is it a mountain lion?

A team of scientists from the University of Padova report that deforestation has revealed what could be a giant impact crater in Central Africa. The circular feature is 36-46 kilometers wide; there are only about 25 terrestrial impact craters of comparable size or larger known to exist. The object causing the crater is estimated to have been about 2 kilometers in diameter, and the date of the event appears to post-date the Jurassic Period.

For the past year, a horn resembling a goat's has been growing on the forehead of Chinese grandmother, age 101. It is now 2.4 inches in length. It appears to be a cutaneous horn, which are made up of compacted keratin, the same protein that's in our hair and nails, and forms horns, wool, and feathers in animals. Another horn appears to be emerging from the other side of her forehead. With pic. Elsewhere, Robert Bartholomew, the co-author of Outbreak! An Encyclopedia of Extraordinary Social Behavior, writes about the fad of goldfish swallowing, which first burst into public consciousness in 1939 when the fad swept the United States, but has recently popped up in Hamilton, New Zealand.

A witness in California reported watching a bright light the size of a dime, which then emitted smaller objects and "flaming objects" into the night sky. Elsewhere, A UFO Flies in Brooklyn, and a viral video with a UFO twist: Pink UFO? Consider alien technology already in use - and dance to the beat

A post abbout the paranormal in relation to quantum science and the validity of EMFs in investigations: "More and more I see a great divide in the paranormal community between those willing to believe and those looking for a reason to believe...Does our search for answers and our reliance on specific research techniques actually affect the phenomena in such a way that the evidence is only there because of our belief in the methods we use to acquire it? In other words, do EMF detectors register spikes because we believe they should?" Elsewhere, Jerry Smith Dies. Smith's interests included HAARP, black helicopters, and Loch Ness.

The last post from Jason Offutt's paranormal journalism class includes "Yes, Extraterrestrials Are Here, and Yes, Nasa’s Covering It Up" by Micheal Clements; "Jenna’s Predictions" by Marylouise Balano; "The Ghost Of ‘Little Tico’" by Logan Campbell; "Second Chance" By Joel Epley; "Mind Your Studies" by Jeremy Werner; "The Phantom Girl In The Hall" by Jackie Walter; and "When Grandmother Left Us" by Bethany Rowell.

Large triangular objects continue to be reported across the U.S. In this case, which occurred on on March 7, a "very large" triangle-shaped UFO, which banked right and "stopped moving," seemed to be following a traditional aircraft. That same night a Witness reports triangle UFOs frequent New Cumberland, PA night skies. Elsewhere, Argentineans wonder: is this the "Best Photo of the Decade"?

There have been more than 100 sightings of exotic and unidentified animals in England since 2005, according to Natural England, a government agency responsible for investigating such incidents. Of these, 38 were "big cats" reports. Though their investigations have yet to find conclusive proof of the presence of the mysterious creatures, they show the extent to which Natural England takes the reports seriously. Other reported animals include 14 coypus, a large South American rodent; 28 wild boar; and 2 cases of raccoon dogs, which are native to Asia and Russia. Elsewhere, we have an noted Englishman on expedition after the Texas blue dog in The Texas Chupacabras Y’all and a media report on a previously reported cryptid sighting in Maine: Coleman dubs new sighting 'Leeds Loki'.

Skeptiko host Alex Tsakiris leads a lively debate between biologist Rupert Sheldrake and telepathy skeptic Richard Wiseman, and not surprisingly reveals wide rift between skeptics and psi proponents. They do agree on some points, however. Says Sheldrake at one point: "It’s a funny thing. Richard, when I talk to you privately, you seem totally reasonable but your public persona seems quite different. When you become a showman who’s doing stunts that seem to me designed to try and undermine any belief in people who like having scientific validity of psi."

What happened here between mid-January and mid-December 1977 that would lead some to call this case "The British Roswell"? Apparently in this rather isolated area of South Wales, there are a number of high security (top secret?) military bases close by. UFOs were reported over these bases and apparently the military were involved in some "unusual" activities and searches. Among sightings by the public, 14 schoolboys saw a landed UFO near their school and a "silver" figure near the craft. Elsewhere, Larry W. Bryant files FOIA Request to U. S. State Dept. for "all U. S.-embassies-dispatched, worldwide UFO-encounter reports during the year 2009," and Nick Redfern announces the long awaited book by the late Mac Tonnies in The Cryptoterrestrials: Available!

In this blog post and series of videos, Autumn Williams presents her case for leaving the field of Bigfoot research. Her long diatribe on the ills of Bigfoot research ends with Williams revealing that she no longer desires to be known as a Bigfoot researcher and that she will reveal her anecdotal evidence in a book. But is there something more personal involved? The blogosphere comments in OK....So You're Writing A Book and Story Telling and Dramatics in Bigfootery?

The Belogradchik Municipality wants to add another world-class tourist attraction (after its miraculous rock formations and the prehistoric Magurata Cave paintings) to its portfolio: the Monster of the Rabisha Lake. There are various legends about this lake monster, the most “credible” one dating back to the 18th century. What it describes is no dinosaur, however. It's more of a minotaur. The Rabisha Lake Monster, the so called Water Bull, has the head of a bull, the body of giant strong man, and the tale of fish. Could the legends have grown out of the real water monsters in the lake -– the gigantic wels catfish that have been caught there? Elsewhere, the question is asked: Is This a Chupacabra? The answer is: no, it's a raccoon with a very bad case of mange.

The second issue of this science magazine that breaks the mold contains a mind bending article on healing, a close look at claims of free energy from the vacuum, and considers the possibility that cold fusion has been vindicated. Published by the Society for Scientific Exploration, this issue, like the first, is available as a free pdf download or can be purchased as a print magazine for a nominal charge.

Looks like we weren't the only ones to wonder about this. Images from the Mars Orbiter, which shows traces of frozen ice deposits underground, look suspiciously like the so-called canals of Mars reported in the 19th century. It was an Italian astronomer named Gionanni Schiaparelli who first used the word "canali" to describe these channels or grooves but the phenomenon was popularized by American astronomer Percival Lowell.

In the let's-set-the-record-straight department: It turns out that an earlier UK tabloid story about a builder snapping a picture of a ghost boy was nothing more than the product of a 99 cents iPhone app called "Ghost Capture" which inserts a ghost of your choice into any image. Such pranks won't help the current climate of paranormal acceptance, which comes under scrutiny in No Longer Spooked by Ghostly Goings-on. Has belief in the paranormal become acceptable?

A plague of poltergeitsts? Just two week after the case that inspired the movie The Exorcist, and only 60 miles away, in the small rural town of Lively Grove, Illinois, another case occurred, this time involving an 11-year-old boy. The events would occur after the boy went to bed. The most interesting aspect of the case is how the spirit would reply to questions posed by the family and an investigating priest who would leave paper and pencils and crayons out for its answers.

Dale Drinnon revives the tale of a curious marine animal supposedly sighted in 1890 by a schoolteacher in Australia. Though the schoolteacher had other sightings of less anomalous creatures that went unquestioned, this sighting drew many skeptical charges. Was the moha moha a real beast? With images.

Considered one of the most haunted places in America, the Myrtles Plantation in Louisiana has a long history and, perhaps, an even longer list of haunting incidents. Ronald Wolf brings you up-to-date on the history, legends, and lore of a very spooky antebellum location. Elsewhere, some ghosts haunting a New Zealand home got their comeuppance, and the homeowner got a new hobby, if we're to believe the auction item For Sale: 'Two Captured Ghosts Trapped Inside Bottles of Holy Water to Make Them Sleepy'.

More than one cryptid has reportedly been creeping around a boggy and heavily wooded area of Androscoggin County, ME, known as the Turner Triangle. Following reports of a February sighting of a Bigfoot-type creature in the area, Loren Coleman and Jeff Meuse investigate. With images and video. Elsewhere, Lindsay Selby continues to search for cryptids wherever they may be lurking, including Mysterious Lewis, while Richard Muirhead offers Lake Monsters and Meteorology Part One. Meanwhile, there's an Oklahoma oddity to report, with photo, in Hairless Raccoon Causes Stir in Claremore, and some surreptitious braiding comes under investigation in Straight From the Horse's Mane. Who - or what - is braiding the manes of Britain's horses?

Can playing with a Ouija board or holding a UFO watch lead to unexpected and dire consequences? Paul Schroeder believes these supposedly harmless pastimes are dangerous diversions that, in the case of Ouija boards, invite "dark force entities to approach directly", and, in the case of UFOs, could allow the occupants of those aerial phenomena to "read your consciousness from great distances, hone in on it and follow you home." There's much more to Schroeder's warning that may make you think twice about breaking out the Ouija board for a parlor game or camping out under the stars to observe UFOs. Meanwhile, Jon Ronson talks with Frank Drake, a man who might want to think about Schroeder's advice, in First Contact: The Man Who'll Welcome Aliens. Are Schroeder's aliens a totally different sort of being than the beings Frank Drake is seeking?

Justin Wirth: "It started off (slowly), as most demonic hauntings do." The slow start to the haunting of the Wirth's home rapidly escalated, as author Jason Offutt (Darkness Walks: The Shadow People Among Us) relates in passing along the tale of the demonic haunting that began when Justin Wirth was eight years old. What haunted the hallways and rooms of the home, frightening the Wirth family and their guests and impacting the unsuspecting lives of two other families who lived there? Elsewhere, there's a collection of recordings in EVPs - APRA Presents 10 Best Collection, video depicts what happens during The Otherside - Paranormal Investigation at Providence Cemetery, and there's more paranormal footage in Video: Anomalies Captured at Haunted McKinstry Rectory.

A photograph of the object accompanies this declaration of an event over the Chinese city of Huaian on February 27, 2010, that supposedly involved a disc-shaped, metallic UFO. Chinese meteorologists say it was spotlights reflecting off the clouds. What do you think? The Chinese photo can be contrasted against a photo snapped in South America and presented in Argentina: More Aerial Enigmas. Meanwhile, Rick Popko explains why he thinks a god of the ancient Aztecs was really an extraterrestrial vehicle in Quetzalcoatl Was an Alien Spacecraft. Elsewhere, the loss of a stalwart among the Roswell Incident skeptics is reported in Charles B. Moore Atmospheric Physicist, UFO Witness & Roswell Detractor Dies....

The Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) database has released several new unedited eyewitness reports, including this one reported by a driver who said the sudden appearance of an "unusual shaped object" on the highway as he was traveling between Oklahoma City and Elk City in November caused him and a truckdriver to have to slam on their brakes to avoid a collision. In other MUFON reports: Dublin, TX, Witness Reports More Than 30 'Huge Lights' in Sky and Texas Witness Reports 'Bird Formation' Disappearing and Reappearing in Clear Sky. Elsewhere, Rick Phillips is seeking input about a California video in Daytime 'Portal' UFO Video.

Chris Holly, interviewing a man who uses the name Mer-Amun and claims to be a traditionally trained witch, asks an unusual question. And she gets what she considers and unusual answer. Do the practitioners of Wicca have a school of thought concerning the UFO/Extraterrestrial presence? Is Mer-Amun's opinion on the subject of aliens and UFOs shared throughout the community of traditional witchcraft practitioners?

Jim Fletcher reviews Gary Bates' new book Alien Intrusion. Since Bates is the "U.S. director of the apologetics group Creation Ministries International," what explanation for the UFO phenomenon and the abduction reports can we expect to find in his book? And another UFO book figures into Loren Coleman's assessment of the latest case of a gunman gone mad in Pentagon Shooter J. Patrick Bedell Listed UFO Book. Was Bedell a "left-wing" radical, a "right-wing" radical, or just a disturbed man with a gun bent on suicide in a manner sure to put him in the news? Elsewhere, The Professor says there's Something Mediocre about UFOs. With images. Meanwhile, Michael Cohen offers up a video of two diamond-shaped objects, one orbiting the other, in Definitive Proof: Clearest UFO Ever Filmed in China. With video.

Sean David Morton has claimed, among other things, to be the "World's Foremost UFO Researcher." Nonetheless, it's Morton's alleged psychic abilities he claims have allowed him to pick all the winners in the stock market for 14 years straight that landed him in trouble for fraud. Greg Bishop has commentary on Morton, his follies and fortunes. There's more on the story in Self-Proclaimed 'Psychic' Charged with Investor Fraud. With image.

Among today's Fortean reports: The appearance of one the strangest looking fish from the ocean deeps along northern Japan beaches and in the nets of fishermen has some Japanese, keenly aware of their culture's traditions, bracing themselves for earthquake activity in what is the world's most earthquake prone nation. The giant oarfish are traditionally considered harbingers of earthquake activity to the Japanese. With image. Meanwhile, eyewitnesses claimed to have seen a light aircraft crash in Australia last Sunday, but authorities have been unable to find any signs of such an incident, as explained in Search Resumes for Mystery Plane. Elsewhere, Kentaro Mori has photos and video of a human project that turned out to be The Biggest Crop Circle Ever, and there's a cry of alarm from the Catholic community as a Spanish Exorcist Addresses Claims of Satanic Influence in Vatican.

Either Loren Coleman is attempting to inject even more science into his stellar blog posts on all things cryptid, or it's ratings week. Whatever the case, here are the comments of Dr. Jeff Meldrum, professor of anatomy and anthropology at Idaho State University, as he carries on a discussion with California registered nurse Bobbie Shortt. The exchanges that led up to the revelations by Dr. Meldrum, with diagrams, are linked in the post to bring you up to speed on the subject. A relevant question that appears to be only hinted at in the exchange is whether or not Neandertal Man had a bone in his penis? Elsewhere, an expedition is getting underway to ferret out information on the "Texas Blue Dogs," also known as the "Texas Chupacabras," and Nick Redfern has an update in CFZ in the USA.

Billy Cox sort of led up to the revelation in this post in a recent posting about the efforts of Pat Broudy to recover Veterans Administration benefits due following the death of her husband, Major Charles Broudy (USMC). So, what's the significance of the missing pages from the Department of Energy document that covered the Shot Koon nuclear test at the South Pacific atoll of Enewetak? Eleswhere on the UFO front, curious beams of light have been reported to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) from California witnesses twice in recent days. Now comes a Third California 'Beam of Light' Case Reported to MUFON. And in other MUFON news, Wisconsin Witness Wonders What 'Bright Light in the Sky' Was and Open Minds Radio Hosts New MUFON International Director.

Alyne Pustanio combines talents with photographer Gina B. Wright to bring the histories of some dolls that are said to be more than just the playthings of children, although that's how their "lives" may have begun. Have these dolls assumed a spiritual life, manifesting their wills on the areas surrounding them? Elsewhere, there's a seven-part video presentation assembled by the Oil Region Paranormal Investigation Team (ORPIT) and Sleepy Hollow Theater in Paranormal Pennsylvania: ORPIT Takes Us Inside; another video presenting a cabinet of curiosities, of sorts, in Gettysburg Paranormal Museum Housed in Haunted House; and an Ohio venture into the unexplained detailed on video in Living Dead Paranormal Group Investigates Private Residence in Lewisburg.

Michael Prescott presents an interpretation of history through the writings of a medium who claimed to have been present at several seances held at the White House at the time of national turmoil leading up to the Civil War. The issue at hand of whether or not Abraham Lincoln harbored any spiritual beliefs, including any religious beliefs, has long troubled historians. Here Michael Prescott presents some written evidence that can only point to the reader for a decision as to the Great Emancipator's trust in a higher power. Are the writings Prescott includes here to be believed? Elsewhere, Chris Cunnyngham takes a look at another historical mystery, one that just recently came to light, in "Templar Crucifixion Nail" Found in Imaginary Country - But Is It a Hoax? With images and video.

From today's maverick science reports: Michael Hanlon contributes an article concerning the evidence for extraterrestrial intelligence, in part using a review of The Eerie Silence by Paul Davies, a book that asks if we're searching for extraterrestrial intelligence in the wrong manner. What other manner of techniques would Davies suggest we use to locate alien intelligences? Meanwhile, Stephen Smith thinks astronomers are playing loose with the evidence when he says Black Holes Stretch the Truth, Mel Acheson explains why electrical theorists, unlike conventional astronomers, aren't surprised by what new images reveal in The Consensus and the Crab and takes exception to astronomers' claims in another instance with Hot Neon. Elsewhere, the possibilities associated with the findings of some etchings on fragments from 60,000 years ago have scientists believing the scratchings may indicate an effort at communication, as explained, with images, in Stone Age Engravings Found on Ostrich Shells.

Nuclear physicist Lachlan Cranswick, a Melbourne, Australia, native, has disappeared from his home and job in the tiny Canadian town of Deep River, Ontario, and all efforts to find what happened to him have been in vain. Canadian law enforcement officials admit they're baffled, and local residents and friends also come up empty when trying to discover a reason for Cransbury's disappearance. Key quote: "It's like he's been taken off the planet." Meanwhile, another disappearance case, this one from Henderson, NV, a suburb of Las Vegas, has led to a financial offering for information, as reported, with news video, in Family of Missing Man Offering Reward.

Tales from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) database released in the past 24 hours include this unedited account of how a man and his girlfriend were both left grasping for answers following an encounter they couldn't explain. In other unedited MUFON witness accounts, you'll find Diamond-shaped UFO Floating at Tree Line Over Small West Virginia Town and Second California Witness Reports 'Beam of Light'.

The Blogsquatcher shares some firsthand experiences in the search for the elusive manlike creature many people report having encountered around North America. One of the notable effects of a Bigfoot encounter is under review in this report, the effect referred to as "infrasound," the supposed ability of Bigfoot to project various sensations to witnesses, often clouding the witnesses abilities to make any sense of what's happening due to such things as overpowering sensations that don't seem to account well with the level of the encounter. Does Bigfoot have an ability to affect the mind and the sensations of witnesses? Elsewhere, Craig Heinselman of Peterborough, NH, is called on to serve as the guest blogger at Cryptomundo and offers up a look at the strange creatures that are reported from the northeastern corner of the United States in Maine Cryptids.

Tim Binnall talks with one of the key voices on the parapolitical scene, Kenn Thomas of Steamshovel Press, about a host of esoteric subjects from UFOs, Exopolitics and Disclosure to a variety of conspiracy theories. Thomas tells how Steamshovel Press came about and discusses the move of parapolitics from the magazine form to the Internet form. Downloadable podcast. Elsewhere, Gene Steinberg and David Biedny of The Paracast cover a long-standing mystery of UFOlogy with their guest as Researcher Scott Ramsey Reveals New Evidence in His Upcoming Book on the Aztec UFO Crash. Downloadable podcast.

Scott Corrales points you to photographic evidence filmed February 4, 2010, above Cordoba, Argentina, that appears to show an anomalous object shadowing a law enforcement helicopter. The images were posted by Mexico's Professor Ana Luisa Cid along with more photos seen in A Gallery of UFO Images. Meanwhile, Corrales continues to share information gleaned through contacts with the Chilean UFO investigations community regarding the conditions in that country after last week's natural disaster, as seen in Chile: 8.8 Degrees of Anguish. Meanwhile, Micah Hanks has taken note of the devastation in Chile and a lot of peripheral information, too, that he explains in Strange Earth-lights Preceded Chilean Earthquake? Is there evidence in the Chile and Haiti disasters that more rumblings are about be felt around the world?

Among today's news of books and book reviews, John Morehead interviews Louis Proud, author of Dark Intrusions: An Investigation into the Paranormal Nature of Sleep Paralysis Experiences, whose own sleep paralysis experiences since childhood drove him to research the subject. Morehead has been exploring the subject himself on his weblog. In this interview, Proud reveals how his own Sleep Paralysis (SP) experiences had affected him to the point that he penned an autobiographical short story for a class assignment, included in his book, that described his own experiences and how he came to the realization there was a "spiritual" nature to what had become an all too common experience of nightly terror. Proud says he has concluded SP involves a sixth sense that has awakened him (no pun intended) to the realization "there's much more to reality than the physical world." Are the spirits Proud says people his SP episodes the spirits of the dead? Do they have evil intent? Elsewhere on the publishing front, Nick Redfern reveals the release of a reprinting of an "old and rare book on the Contactee issue" in Over the Threshold, the story of Dana Howard's experiences in contact with Diane, "the beautiful life form from another world." Meanwhile, at The Magonia Blog, Peter Rogerson reviews Heather Wolffram's The Stepchildren of Science: Psychical Research and Parapsychology in Germany c. 1870-1939 and Martin Bridgstock's Beyond Belief: Skepticism, Science and Belief in the Paranormal.

Loren Coleman invites debate along with presenting his side of the claim that a certain set of motion pictures concerning the legendary Sasquatch/Bigfoot served to form the now-prevalent impressions concerning research into the possibility a bipedal hominoid creature roams the woods of North America. Coleman sets forth his premise with images and a clip from the 1997 film "Little Bigfoot." Is Coleman right in his claim that children who viewed "Little Bigfoot" and "Harry and the Hendersons," as well as other Sasquatch/Bigfoot films and television shows of such nature, are part of a generation which had its "Sasquatch public consciousness and research" destroyed by the films? Let the debate begin. Meanwhile, Brent Raynes interviews a couple to whom Sasquatch and other high strangeness subjects have become a passion in An Interview with Bret and Gina Oldham: In Pursuit of the Paranormal, Bigfoot, and UFOs.

Joseph Capp has reports from the Laughlin, NV, 19th Annual International UFO Congress, including efforts he and others made to detect UFO activity using night vision devices. Capp includes images from the night vision device deployment, including results of the experiment, as well as plenty of video of a talk by famous alien abductee Travis Walton. Meanwhile, some unedited eyewitness accounts from the Mutual UFO Network database reveal Web Cam Photographer Captures 3 Cone-shaped UFOs and Florida Photographer Captures Object in Night Sky - What Is It?

From the maverick science news: Research conducted by the University of California suggests the news of impending layoffs appears to signal women with male fetuses in utero to spontaneously abort in numbers too significant to be ignored. Is this phenomenon a product of natural selection? Meanwhile, scientists are saying the Chile Earthquake May Have Shortened Day. Elsewhere, a few magazine articles inspire The Professor to examine a puzzle of human consciousness for which some researchers have theorized an exciting answer, as he reports in Where is the Mind?: Science Gets Puzzled and Almost Admits a Non-local Mentalscape.

Recent sightings of strange lights over the Williamsburg area of Brooklyn have caused a bit of an uproar in what is one of America's most famous neighborhoods. Here's what happened to begin the excitement and what's happening to keep the enigma circulating. Meanwhile, there's plenty of evidence of UFO activity away from Brooklyn, too, as evidenced by the Mutual UFO Network's database: California Witnesses Report Multiple 'White Beams of Light'; Silent, Transparent Morphing UFO at 400 Feet Over California; Roswell Witness Spots Small 'Metallic' UFO Above Main Street; and Two Florida Witnesses Report Multiple Incoming Orb UFOs. There's also a compilation, presented by Roger Marsh, in Video: Best UFO Footage from 2009.

Recent posts by Chris Holly and Doc Edwards, mentioned here on The Anomalist, inspire Rick Phillips to look deeper into the workings of the human mind, especially how the mind interprets what the senses perceive in terms with which the experiencer can identify. Would Phillips' reading of the situation mean both Holly and Edwards are right? Elsewhere, there's a poll being conducted to find out What Would It Take for You to Believe in UFOs and Aliens?