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A Stormy Mystery...

Maybe someone can answer this for me: not a paranormal mystery, but still something a bit odd. As you might have seen, we had major storms here in the Dallas, Texas area last night, with some areas getting tornadoes.

I woke up around 2AM when the storm was at its worst. Not long after, the electric went off for a couple of hours.


But, when I woke up this morning my microwave clock and alarm clock weren't flashing, as they usually do when the electric goes off and comes back on. 


Instead, they had re-set themselves, but - with the electric having gone off - both were approx a couple of hours off, so i had to manually change them.


I spoke to a couple of friends this morning and they had the same: no flashing, just clocks that had reset themselves. I am sure that it is all easily explainable, with something to do with the electric company etc, but if anyone has an answer let me know!

Is Bigfoot A Skillful Swimmer?

That's the question I ask in a new article...

Profiling The U.K.'s Phantom Social Workers

In  a new article, I take a look at the creepy and disturbing phenomenon of the U.K.'s "Phantom Social Workers..."

High-Strangeness in Defiance, Ohio

My two latest articles at Mysterious Universe have a connection: the location. Namely, the small city of Defiance, Ohio, the population of which is around 17,000.

In the 1960s, Defiance was visited by a mysterious Man in Black and in 1972, a werewolf prowled around the area by night and for a couple of months.

Yep, seriously weird!






That's me hanging out - last summer - at the site where the werewolf was mainly seen - an old stretch of railroad tracks...

A Shape-Shifter in the Lone Star State

At Mysterious Universe , I share the strange story of a shape-shifting wolf in 1930s Texas...

Immortality of the Gods - CD Version

For those who may be interested, my Immortality of the Gods book is now available in a 6-CD audio version.

The Problems With Lake Monsters

That's the subject of another new article from me , which deals with some of the stranger aspects of lake-monsters.

Here's how it starts:

"F.W. 'Ted' Holiday was the author of three notable books. We begin with 1968’s The Great Orm of Loch Ness. It was followed, in 1973, by The Dragon and the Disc. And, finally, there was The Goblin Universe. The latter was published in 1986, seven years after his death. Holiday had a deep interest in accounts of lake-monsters, and particularly so the creatures of Loch Ness. Holiday wrote other books, too, but the three above are the ones of particular relevance to this article.

 "Holiday’s early work and research at Loch Ness led him to conclude that whatever the creatures were, they were flesh and blood in nature. As the years progressed, however, Holiday’s views changed. And they changed radically. Strange synchronicities at Loch Ness, a chilling encounter with a Man in Black, rumors of a dragon-worshiping cult in the area, seances at the loch, and much more had a major effect on Holiday. Indeed, The Great Orm of Loch Ness and The Goblin Universe could not have been further apart, in terms of theories, concepts and ideas. The former was the kind of Cryptozoology championed by Bernard Heuvelmans . The latter was full-on John Keel."

A Weird Side of Ufology...

A new article from me on one of the stranger aspects of Ufology. It starts like this...

Last year I wrote an article here at Mysterious Universe titled “ UFOs: Extraterrestrial? Probably Not .” One of the reasons I gave for suggesting that the UFO phenomenon is far stranger than anything of an E.T. nature, is the fact that many UFO incidents seem to be staged for the benefit of the witness. As if “they” are trying to convince us they are extraterrestrials. But, they are trying way too hard. I made mention of one particular angle of the UFO phenomenon that, in my opinion, is a perfect example. I wrote:

QUOTE: “There’s the nature of the entities themselves: they practically overemphasize who, or what, they claim to be. Take, for example, all those ‘soil-sampling’ aliens of the 1950s and 1960s. You know the ones: someone is working in their field, or driving down a stretch of road, when they encounter a couple of diminutive aliens collecting specimens of local plants, flowers, and vegetables. E.T. on a scientific mission, right? No, not in my view.

"The Hugest Monster In The Sea"

Yep, another article, this one on the legendary Kraken...

"A Surviving Form Of A Giant Ape"

No, not the Yeti or Bigfoot. This is another one...

You can read about it in this new article from me .