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Wednesday, March 3, 2010


Bright Lights that Hypnotize: Mysterious Aerial Illuminations

Micah Hanks writes about the Brown Mountain Lights.
— Mysterious Universe

How optical illusion triggered plane panic

Environmental factors contributed to the illusion that a plane crashed.
— ABC.net.au

Snake Caught Attacking Dinosaur-- First Fossil Proof

Hunter and hunted were frozen in time at key moment.
— National Geographic News

Biblical fragments reunited after centuries

Pieces of 1,300-year-old manuscript displayed together for first time.
— Associated Press

Boy develops fish scales at 14 months old

Boy born without pores in his skin has baffled medics.
— The Telegraph

Top 10 spooky sleep disorders

Exploding head syndrome and night terrors are just two of the ailments profiled.
— MSNBC

Fish Fall at Lajamanu

Loren Coleman relays a recent incident of "raining fish" in Australia.
— Cryptomundo

Haunted hotels' ghost stories good for business

An in-depth look at how hotels handle ghostly encounters of their patrons.
— USA Today

Veil Lifts Slightly on Secretive Blue Origin Rocket Project

Commerical space company provides scant details about its operations.
— Space.com

Did Saddam Hussein model himself on Darth Vader?

Examining the stylistic similarities between the Iraqi dictator and the Star Wars villain.
— New Scientist

UFO reports to be destroyed in future by MoD

The British Ministry of Defence will destroy all future UFO reports it receives so it does not have to make them public.
— The Telegraph

Learning to see and sense ghosts

Doc Edwards explores methods and techniques through which everyone may one day be able to sense ghosts.
— Unexplained Mysteries

A CoGeNT result in the hunt for dark matter

An underground experiment may have detected a type of dark-matter particle.
— Nature

Canadian Researcher Snaps 'Sasquatch' in Vancouver

According to Pravda, cryptozoologist Randy Brisson researcher managed to photograph the face of the legendary hairy giant.
— Pravda.ru

Scientist eyes 39-day voyage to Mars

Physicist Franklin Chang-Diaz says reaching the Red Planet could be dramatically quicker using his high-tech VASIMR rocket.
— AFP

Antarctic spits out iceberg the size of Luxembourg

Scientists warn that the creation of the iceberg could disrupt global ocean patterns and weather systems for decades.
— Times Online

Deer Creek Victim Says He Dreamed About School Shooting

14-year-old Matthew Thieu said months before it happened, he had a premonition about the shooting.
— TheDenverChannel.com

New Zealand company to make personal jet packs

Personal jet packs are about to hit the shelves courtesy of New Zealand's Martin Aircraft Company.
— The Telegraph

Missing actor's body found in Vancouver Park

Andrew Koenig, son of Star Trek's Walter Koenig, had been missing since February 14th
— CNN

Parents Choosing More Unusual Baby Names

Study shows that giving children unique names is a cyclical trend.
— LiveScience

Tech of the Times: Tracking the Unexplained in the 21st Century

Micah A. Hanks looks at how technology is changing the esoteric research community.
— Gralien Report

Ghost hunting in Edinburgh's South Bridge vaults

A reporter's first hand account of exploring one of Scotland's most haunted locations.
— The Scotsman

Loud crash at 3 a.m.? It may be your exploding head

'Exploding head syndrome' is a rare and relatively undocumented sleep phenomenon.
— MSNBC

Cell phones show human movement predictable 93% of the time

Using data culled from cellular service providers, researchers looked at how customers moved around.
— Ars Technica

Plastic rubbish blights Atlantic Ocean

Region is said to compare with the well-documented "great Pacific garbage patch."
— BBC News

China to release pollution-fighting fish in lake

20 million algae-eating fish will help clean up scenic lake ravaged by pollution.
— AFP

CERN on trial: could a lawsuit shut the LHC down?

In various countries, plaintiffs have sought court orders to halt the operation of the Large Hadron Collider.
— New Scientist

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