Sam Hemingway writes in The Burlington (VT) Free Press that researchers have recorded underwater sounds from Champ, the Nessie of Lake Champlain, using sonar equipment. They’re a rapid series of ticks similar to sounds made by whales or dolphins?only ten times louder.

“What we got was a biological creature creating biosonar at a level that only a few underwater species can do,” says Elizabeth von Muggenthaler. Champ’s existence has been debated since the publication of Sandra Mansi’s 1977 photograph of a serpent-like creature. Over the years, hundreds of Champ sightings have been reported by fishermen and boaters.
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Rowan Scarborough writes in The Washington Times that captured Saddam Hussein loyalists in Iraq are able to beat lie-detector tests. This is frustrating our attempts to find hidden weapons and to learn what happened to Navy Capt. Michael Speicher, who has been missing since the Gulf War.

How do they do it? U.S. officials think that lying may have been so routine in Saddam?s government, that the lies don’t show up on a polygraph. It’s also known that Iraqi intelligence trained some people to “beat” the machine.
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Michael Flannery writes in abcnews.com that 10-year-old Ryan Reynolds of Cincinnati, who recently died from a brain tumor, could see his guardian angels?and his mom took photos of them.

“We had first thought that it was something to do with the developing,” says Ryan?s mother Shirley. So she was careful to use three different cameras and three different kinds of film, and have the photos developed at three different places. Despite this, they all have transparent white shapes in them.
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Andrew Griffin writes in thetowntalk.com about two Air Force pilots who may have been abducted 50 years ago. Canadian UFO investigator Gordon Heath has been trying to find out what happened to Air Force pilot 1st Lt. Felix E. “Gene” Moncla Jr. and 2nd Lt. Robert Wilson. After he read about their possible abduction on the internet, he went to Avoyelles Parish to look for local newspaper coverage and interview Moncla’s friends and family.

Moncla was stationed at Kinross Air Force Base in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula when the abduction occurred. On the night of Nov. 23, 1953, Moncla and Wilson were ordered to go up in their Northrup F-89 jet to identify a UFO flying over restricted airspace near the American-Canadian border.
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