Every year in The Netherlands 20 to100 crop circles mysteriously appear in wheat fields. They remain a mystery, but new research, reported in the scientific journal Physiologia Plantarum, may help clear up their origins.
Dr. Eltjo Haselhoff is the author of the article. He?s a physicist and also a member of the Dutch Center for Crop Circle Studies (DCCCS), who looks into the phenomenon in his spare time.
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English Ministry of Defense documents about Britain?s best documented UFO landing have just been released. The secret papers on the incident at the U.S. Bentwaters base in Suffolk in 1980 were uncovered by the author David Clarke, a researcher at Sheffield University, who is writing a book on the subject.
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Hairul Hambali, a spiritual healer, or bomoh, in Malaysia, who claims to have caught a shape-changing vampire the size of two tennis balls, has made prime-time television and newspaper headlines.
The vampire resembles a big wad of cotton with a little face. Hambali says it took about an hour to catch the creature, whose body is covered with what looks like cotton. The vampire will eventually be thrown into the sea to prevent it from harassing humans, he says.
A Note from Whitley Strieber: I am, naturally, disappointed that this vampire turns out to look like a wad of cotton. A far cry from the beautiful Miriam Blaylock in my new novel, the Last Vampire. But then again, maybe this vampire could at least be of some use to Miriam, perhaps as a makeup remover…read more
Thousands of dead fish are washing up on the shores of Lake Erie and the cause of the deaths is unknown. Fish carcasses lie rotting in coves and on beaches. The stench has gotten so bad that it?s forced homeowners to keep their windows closed.
?It?s a very interesting mystery,? says Bill Culligan, an aquatic biologist who heads the Lake Erie Fisheries Research Station. Scientists are looking into whether a virus, bacteria, weather-related events or zebra mussels may be to blame.
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