Up-to-the-minute reports of paranormal activity, news and views from around the world

WEIRD CREATURES:

Pterosaur sighting - Central Arkansas
Witnessed by Laura Dean: “I decided that I needed to go to the grocery store to pick up a few things. I was out in the country, driving slowly, all alone, going over a bridge at about 2 pm on a sunny springtime afternoon in April 2012 when all of the sudden I see something coming up from underneath the bridge...”
(Also read: Did Pterosaurs Survive Extinction?


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Goatman: Flesh or Folklore
What is Goatman about? The author has stumbled on a score of cases from across the United States where a local community has recorded sightings of a Goatman. These Goatmen have certain things in common: they are hybrid human-goats (though there is actually a large variation in terms of appearance), they are often cruel to dogs, they are sometimes associated with bridges...

News 9 investigates the phenomenon of rods
Cameras capture a variety of moments in time, but sometimes they capture something else, something unexplained. One man from New Mexico believes he's discovered a new life form, which has spurred a worldwide debate...
(Also read: 20 Questions with Jose Escamilla: Rods!)

GHOSTS, HAUNTINGS & POLTERGEISTS:

Would you live in a house like this? Be warned, it has an amazingly weird secret
A quaint and homely three-bedroom house, which is on the market to rent in the U.K., has one secret the estate agents have seemingly forgotten to tell interested parties about.

Is the property haunted by a particularly playful and energetic poltergeist who has made all the previous inhabitants’ lives a living hell...?

Wakefield house is still haunted, claims author
A house in Wakefield that was once the location of Europe’s ‘most violent haunting’ is still haunted, according to an author who will share his experiences in his upcoming book...

Craziest housewife ever? Lisa Rinna claims she has a ghost in her house
Referencing a discussion she had about “ghostly nosies” she heard in her Southern California home, the pouty-lipped wife of L.A. Law hunk Harry Hamlin wrote in her latest Bravo blog that she believes her home is inhabited by a friendly spirit who passed away there more than 30 years ago...

They say the ghost of a lovely maiden still walks in Irby Dale
This story, which was originally printed in the Grimsby Telegraph in 1954, delves into the history of the village of Irby in the Lincolnshire Wolds...

EARTH MYSTERIES:
Unexplained ‘explosion’ heard by several hundred people in Manchester, U.K.
Residents of the English city of Manchester and a few of its suburbs heard a loud explosion late Monday night and Manchester fire officials spent an hour looking for the source of the bang, but found nothing, Manchester Evening News is reporting...