A dark figure haunts visitors to Oxford Castle Unlocked
A photograph, which has captured a dark figure taken in the foreboding underground Crypt at Oxford Castle Unlocked, has revealed the paranormal does exist and confirms beliefs that the Castle is haunted. The photograph was taken on Friday 16 May by a member of the public at a ghost hunt organised by Fright Nights, the UK's leading ghost hunt specialist...

Welsh police helicopter spots 'unusual aircraft'
UFO enthusiasts got a boost Friday when Welsh police confirmed that one of their helicopter crews had spotted an "unusual aircraft" flying over Cardiff earlier this month. An investigation into the sighting had been launched, they said. The police clarification came after tabloid newspaper The Sun reported a UFO had "attacked" a police helicopter, following it for several miles over the Bristol Channel...

Southern Fried Bigfoot
Nick Redfern: I received in the mail this morning a copy of a DVD titled Southern Fried Bigfoot that, as you will probably deduce from its title, focuses on man-beast reports in the southern states of the U.S...

Pi-eyed at new crop circle
American tourists, mystic gurus and hoards of hippies have been making the pilgrimage to a possible alien landing site near Barbury Castle. Crop circle enthusiasts believe the circular formation found near Wroughton is the genuine article - and is one of the most mathematically accurate crop circles ever seen.

Boffins have concluded the shape of the flattened barley stems represents the mathematical constant Pi...

Weather Eye: crop circles are nothing new
This is the season for crop circles, and each year their designs seem to grow more elaborate. But they have been around for centuries...

Something 'Weird': Author scouts strange Mass. spots
Local author Jeff Belanger likes to say that life in Massachusetts was pretty normal until about 10,000 years ago - when the first people showed up. Since then, the Bay State has been a hotbed of paranormal activity, mysterious land formations, quirky inventions, UFO sightings, buried-treasure rumors, swamp creatures, curses, sea serpent sightings and, of course, mass production of plastic pink flamingos...

Man didn't shoot Sasquatch
Ever since he was a boy, William Roe enjoyed spending time outdoors and observing wild animals in their native habitat. He even helped support his family by hunting and trapping wild game. But the most incredible experience he ever had with a creature occurred in October 1955 in British Columbia, Canada. Two years later, he would give a sworn statement to a Canadian official about his weird encounter...

The CFZ quest for the Almasty begins
CFZ zoologist Richard Freeman and his team head off to the wilds of Russia in search of the hairy, man-like Almasty...

The Creature in the Black Ravine
Deep in the West African savanna of Burkina Faso near the small mud brick and sheet metal village of Koro there is a mystery. The place is called Dafara. It is an anomaly in the flat landscape that stretches for miles in all directions. It is as if the earth collapsed here, like God punched a hole in the ground and the darkness came flooding in...