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Roswell Slides/Not Roswell Slides

Kevin Randle, at his A Different Perspective blog, gives us the latest news on the "Roswell Slides," which, apparently, we shouldn't be calling the "Roswell Slides," after all. If you're confused, you're definitely not the only one...

A Woman In Black

If you know your Men in Black lore and history, the name of Albert Bender will be instantly familiar to you.

But, what of the Woman in Black of the Bender family?

That's the subject of my new Mysterious Universe feature.

The WIB are also the subject of a full-length book I'm now close to completing.

Nessie and Giant "Worms"

My latest Mysterious Universe article follows on further with the "giant worm"/lake monster issue...

The Roswell Religion

Over at his UFO Conjecture(s) blog, Rich Reynolds has a very interesting new article on the parallels between the Roswell affair of July 1947 and Christianity. Check it out here...

Profiling The Linton "Worm"

A study of British folklore will reveal a number of intriguing, centuries-old reports of giant "worms" roaming around the countryside - and usually causing mayhem and death and doing battle with valiant knights and heroes of old.

Over at Mysterious Universe , I profile one such story, that of the wriggly beast of Linton, Scotland . And here's how it begins: 

"Our world has no shortage of modern day monsters – Bigfoot, the Chupacabra, and the Yeren of China make that very clear. The world of the past had no shortage, either, as the strange saga of what became known as the Linton Worm makes very clear. It’s a tale that has fascinated me for many years, and which dates back to the 1100s.

"It tells of a horrific, man-eating, giant, worm-like beast that terrified the good folk of Linton, Roxburghshire, which is located on the Southern Uplands of Scotland. Interestingly, and as will soon become apparent, the monster has parallels with a number of Scottish lake monsters, and particularly so Nessie of Loch Ness and Morag of Loch Morar."

Mothman and the Silver Bridge Collapse

There's a new e-book out right now from George Dudding, on the subject of the December 1967 collapse of the Silver Bridge, Point Pleasant, West Virginia, which plays a central role in the Mothman controversy.

I write about Dudding's book (titled The Silver Bridge Tragedy ) at Mysterious Universe , and here's the link.

One to check out!

Bigfoot, Caves, and a Monster-Movie

And one more new Mysterious Universe article from me, this one focusing on a certain horror-movie, cave-dwelling monsters, and parallels with the Bigfoot mystery...

The Narrabeen "Thing"

Over at Mysterious Universe I focus on a very weird case of cryptozoological proportions from 1968. It involves the sighting of a strange creature that seems to have been several parts of several animals - if such a thing were even possible!

Anyway, whatever "it" was, it scared the life out of the witness, an Australian woman named Mabel Walsh.

Phantom Hounds in Latin America

My new Mysterious Universe article is a review of a cool booklet on "Phantom Black Dogs" that was published a few years ago, but which is now available as a free download.

While most people associated the PBD phenomenon with the UK, as Simon Burchell (the author of Phantom Black Dogs in Latin America ) notes, there is an amazing and extensive body of data on near-identical beasts in Latin America.

A fascinating study of an under-appreciated aspect of the PBD mystery!

Here's the link.

A Paranormal Hot-Spot

What do (a) a controversial "crashed UFO story; (b) anomalous black cats; (c) Bigfoot; (d) a werewolf; (e) a band of occultists; and (f) weird, flying balls of light all have in common?

The answer: they have all been seen/encountered in the direct vicinity of the small Texas town of Aurora.

In other words, we're talking about one of John Keel's "window areas."

It's a story I tell over at Mysterious Universe.