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Almost certainly a powered sailplane of some type; the protrusion under the fuselage looks like the single centreline landing wheel typical of gliders. Compare here: (although this craft has an unusual fully extendable landing gear) http://www.glidingmagazine.com/FeatureArticle.asp?id=28

From the Slemen site: Were there detectives in 1817? Or even police?

http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_13159.aspx

It Came From Beneath the Sea is my favorite. Harryhausen at his best, a giant octopus wrecking the Golden Gate bridge! (Well actually a hexapus) And what would a fifties horror movie be without Kenneth Tobey?

http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/articles/6459292.html

Supposedly another witness, but the story is confusing. Despite the headline and the photo caption "Canoist Michael Bentley who has seen the mysterious creature in Windermere", it appears that he didn't see anything at all. Westmoreland Gazette (via Cryptomundo )

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Guitarfish. More pics here: http://swampgasbooks.com/blog1/2007/02/ ... sh-aliens/

Her birthplace is listed as Manvers, Ontario. I don't know if it's significant, but there seems to have been a lot of religious conflict in that area around the time she was born. http://www.generations.on.ca/business/sher-books3.htm

http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_8185.aspx

http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_8140.aspx

The Brazilian case: -------------------- magonia.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/mboct66.htm Link is dead. The article quoted above can be accessed via the Wayback Machine at: https://web.archive.org/web/20080117093712/http://magonia.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/mboct66.htm --------------------...

The group photo appeared on the cover of a 1974 book, 'Beyond Earth: Man's Contact with UFOs' by Ralph and Judy Blum, which mainly dealt with the Pascagoula incident. http://www.biblio.com/books/12724860.html I was always under the impression that it had been created for the book, but my...

At a charity bookstore I picked up a copy of 'Casebook of the Unknown' by John Macklin, one of those 'strange-but-true' paperbacks that proliferated in the 60s and 70s. One chapter, The Hounds of Hell, deals with the village of Saebo, "on the northern shore of Sicily between Palermo and...

Some deserts look so weird, it can be hard to tell what planet you're on. "-And He Built a Crooked House-" by Robert Heinlein:

I saw that documentary too - it was David Attenborough I think. The bird is a Lammergeier.

I wonder if any spiritual signifance would be attached to such an event. Since incorruptibility was seen as a sign of holiness, would especially foul decompostion indicate the opposite?

I recall that the bright nights were also mentioned in the Tunguska episode of Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World. They quoted newspaper accounts of people having difficulty sleeping because it was so bright, and of night trains in Scotland being able to run without lights.

There are still a lot of unanswered questions, like why did they leave in the middle of cooking a meal, who sent the bogus tips and cryptic notes over a period of 20 years, and what led the cops to search that particular area of the lake? (Although TBH the 'unfinished meal' detail is such a...

San Antonio Express-News, from Cryptomundo.com

http://www.canoe.ca/OntQueTicker/CANOE- ... Choke.html

That's definitely an F89. I don't necessarily agree with their conclusion that the left wing is broken off. The plane appears to be tilted slightly to the left and the wing may be covered by silt. The intact state of the plane (whether or not it is missing a wing) is odd. A plane that...

foxnews.com/story/0,2933,206349,00.html Link is dead. The MIA webpage (quoted in full above) can be accessed via the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20070523015206/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,206349,00.html

I always wondered what happened to this case. It caused quite a local sensation in 2003 when two men walked into a Toronto bank branch and tried to cash $25 million in bonds on which the word 'dollars' was misspelled. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story ... id=3532004

Petroglyphs in Painted Cave, near Santa Barbara, California, are said to depict a solar eclipse that took place in 1677. http://www.thing.net/~grist/l&d/ancestors/chuma01.htm

Giant human skulls were supposedly found on the Alaskan island of Shemya during the construction of an airfield in World War 2: http://www.bigfootencounters.com/biology/chapters.htm (Scroll down to the last chapter.)

WOW! That entire Canyons Worldwide site is a treat... I've never seen anything like these rock arches from the lost world of Venezuela. http://www.canyonsworldwide.com/tepui/tepui1a.html

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I thought Long Meg was a cannon...but that's Mons Meg. Perhaps at some point the name got started from an actual person, like 'Big Bertha' Krupp.

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I always liked this one, since I saw it in Life magazine when I was a kid. It was said to be the first colour UFO photo, although I'm not sure if this is correct. http://ufologie.net/htm/bluebookpics9966.htm Scared me a little back then, because it sort of reminded me of the Martian...

There is one of these places not far from here, at Elora Gorge (Ontario), with the standard legend of an 'Indian maiden' who jumped because her father, a chief, forbade her to marry the man she loved. People do commit suicide there from time to time, most famously Joe Fisher, author of several...

That was Clint Malarchuk of Buffalo - ironically the team is called the Sabres. There are horrific pictures of him clutching at his throat while blood pours out like something from a slasher movie. He survived but never played well again and is now a coach. Goalies now wear Kevlar neck...

An earlier Ivan Ivanovich had a more successful career: http://www.astronautix.com/astros/ivaovich.htm

Re: Second World War lasted Longer than You Thought I too had some confusion about when and where World War 2 had taken place. In our local town hall (in suburban Toronto) there was a circular area on the ceiling where the plaster had been repaired at some time. Other kids told me - and I...

It was Buzz Aldrin, not Armstrong, who took the flag. A picture of the flag: http://www.srmason-sj.org/council/journ ... /moon.html More on Mason astronauts: http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/masonicmu ... s_fdcs.htm

Harry Oakes made his fortune in the gold fields of northern Ontario. At one time he was the wealthiest man in Canada. The only man ever tried for the murder, Oakes' son-in-law 'Freddy' de Marigny, was acquitted, and the case remains unsolved. Crime Library

http://german.about.com/library/blgermyth06.htm

In the letters of Pliny the Younger there is an account which, though presented as a ghost story, sounds almost like an alien encounter. (taking hair samples for testing?) General Letters Part X: LXXXIII Pliny the Younger: Selected Letters c. 100 CE

Even Gordon Cooper, the most pro-UFO astronaut, said the same thing as Mitchell: - Gordon Cooper, Leap of Faith: An Astronaut's Journey into the Unknown

There actually were 'Werewolves' in WW2. Fortuantely not very successful ones, although in some ways as shocking as any horror story: Wikipedia: SS Werwolf Wikipedia adds this footnote:

The Wolf's Hour by Robert McCammon is about a Russian werewolf who works as an Allied secret agent.

Some of that sounds disturbingly familiar... Crack in the World

As many as 150 Canadian prisoners were killed in Normandy, mostly by the 12th SS Panzer (Hitlerjugend) Division. http://grad.usask.ca/gateway/archive9.html

I recall a very old black-and-white film of a battle between a shark and an octopus. I don't know the original source, but it appeared as stock footage in The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms.

I heard a somewhat similar story about the Space Mountain ride at Disney World. Supposedly a group of astronauts were given the honour of the first ride; they returned safely but recommended that the ride be slowed down as it was too wild for the general public.

Lake Simcoe is so crowded with motorboats and Jet-skis that any self-respecting monster has probably long since fled. ...which might explain the decline in sightings after the 1970s.

Building inukshuks at the roadside seems to have become quite a fad lately. Driving through northern Ontario, every place the road passes through a rock cut, there are inukshuks, sometimes dozens of them.

The dispute between Canada and Denmark over Hans Island has stimulated interest in other obscure conflicts: http://www.outwestnewspaper.com/pigwars.html

There was a dog that disappeared in a green fog... http://www.forteantimes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4630 (Link is dead) That thread was merged into this larger one...