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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.)

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

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

http://moon.google.com/ Zoom all the way in to find out the truth about the moon, and be sure to click on "More About Google Moon":

That Google Sightseeing site is fascinating. Who knew there was an Uffington White Horse in Juarez, Mexico?

A strange, sad story from British Columbia, about a logger who, after some kind of spiritual experience, became a radical environmentalist, cut down a 300-year-old sacred tree, then disappeared. The Globe and Mail

Depending on who you ask, the Pheylonians of Marlbank, Ontario are a weird religious sect, a 1960s style commune, or just an extended family working at traditional crafts. From Mysteries of Ontario by John Robert Colombo: The Pheylonians website: http://www.philoxia.com/origins.htm

This superstition seems to be widespread. How did it originate? Not just statues of religious figures or others that might be thought to confer a blessing - four generations of Toronto parents have encouraged their children to touch Timothy Eaton, founder of a department store. Usually, a...

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The car involved is supposed to be cursed: From Snopes "...General Potiorek became the next owner of the car. Several weeks into the war his armies suffered a rout at the hands of the ill-organised army of Serbia. The General was summoned back to Vienna by the Emperor Franz Josef I. And...

Drums, songs lure orca from scientists http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2004/06/16/canada/orca_drums040616 GOLD RIVER, B.C. - Plans to capture Luna the killer whale have been thwarted by First Nations protesters who have led the orca away from the pen set to trap him. Officials with the...

Builders of ancient tombs, temples followed the stars http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0404/01builder/ Two studies of ancient monuments in southwest Europe reveal the influence the Sun and stars had on their builders according to Dr Michael Hoskin, a historian of astronomy at Cambridge...

http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2004/02/19/brain_chip040219 CALGARY - Canadian and German researchers have grown snail nerve cells on a microchip and showed the cells have memory and can communicate. The researchers say this melding of machine and biology has a wide-range of potential...

http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2004/02/16/border_explosives040216 VANCOUVER - One of Canada's busiest border crossings was closed for about an hour Monday after Canada Customs officials found a grenade in a car. The grenade was found in the glove compartment of a car at the Peace Arch near...

http://north.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=19jan04cold Too cold for igloos, Kivalliq in deep freeze RANKIN INLET - Cold weather in January isn't unusual in the north, but it's worse than usual in the Kivalliq. Bitter temperatures are keeping people indoors and many traditional...

http://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=263b399b-ea46-4708-be6e-9a2193269324 An injured duck appeared to seek help from a North Bay, Ont., police officer who was operating a radar trap last week. Constable Marc Ethier was in his cruiser when he noticed the duck in a...

These pics were posted on a photography forum: http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1010&message=7072175 The link is good, but the photos in question are no longer visible at the target site. There are no clues as to what they were. If this effect, whatever it is (much...

source Tim Szauter was digging in his vegetable garden when he found a stranger's Christmas present. What Szauter unearthed when his trowel went clank in the soil of the Markham-area farm where he was living was a large medallion with the portrait of a man, the inscription "Fegan's Homes,"...

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/jupiter_dark_spot_031023.html Astronomers have spotted a strange, obvious and inexplicable black spot near the equator of Jupiter. A picture of the object was circling this planet electronically this week as researchers scratched their heads about what...

Monkey mummy found in building http://www.canoe.ca/EdmontonNews/es.es-10-16-0048.html PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. -- A 30-year-old mystery was solved this week when a construction crew found the mummified body of a monkey above the ceiling of a downtown building being renovated. The squirrel...

Largest dinosaur dropping found http://www.canada.com/national/story.asp?id=3A07A900-8C82-414E-8AB5-556D1B6EB1B4 World's largest dino dung T. rex left an ancient calling card, writes Jacob Berkowitz. Jacob Berkowitz The Ottawa Citizen Mountains, beavers and the Maple leaf. And...

http://www.canada.com/health/story.html?id=3A0F3479-37BE-4886-8C98-0D8B373A0281 'Hamburger thyrotoxicosis' joins list of bizarre cases OTTAWA - A Timmins physician with a knack for spotting unusual cases has made the pages of the Canadian Medical Association Journal for the third time in...

Last week's blackout was preceded by a rash of UFO reports in Ontario. Coincidentally (or not!) the 1965 blackout also occurred in the midst of a UFO flap: http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/mufonontario/archive/blkout.htm UFO FLAP SWEEPS ONTARIO...

The KGC were a Confederate secret society during and after the American Civil War, and possibly into the 1900s. Membership is said to have included John Wilkes Booth, Jesse James, and prominent Scottish Rite Masons. A new book suggests that KGC agents, such as Albert Pike, a leading Mason...

http://www.zwire.com/site/tab4.cfm?newsid=8149132&BRD=2553&PAG=461&dept_id=506086&rfi=6 Astronomer dies suddenly at home Astronomer Gerald S. Hawkins, 75, died suddenly on May 26 doing what he loved: flying his remote-controlled model airplanes in the fields at his Rappahannock farm...

Last night, Discovery Channel showed a French-made documentary called 'Cryptopuzzle'. It described (and showed brief excerpts from) a show made by Bernard Heuvelmans in the early 1960s, called 'Sherlock au Zoo'. (Sherlock at the Zoo). I've never heard of this show before, has anyone else? Has...

Alfred Hitchcock's navel Today I got another one of those annoying 'Did You Know' lists of supposedly true facts. In amongst the usual stuff about swallowing spiders in your sleep and Coca-Cola originally being green was this gem: 2. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a bellybutton. Are they...

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/Midwest/02/28/mystery.flights.ap/index.html

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/lunar-03b.html "In the early morning hours of Nov. 15, 1953, an amateur astronomer in Oklahoma photographed what he believed to be a massive, white-hot fireball of vaporized rock rising from the center of the moon's face. If his theory was right, Dr. Leon...

We had a thread about human hair thieves but this seems more in the realm of livestock mutilations: http://canada.com/national/story.asp?id=1C6BBFD3-2618-47CD-A5C1-CB85C593F961

http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/South/12/08/noisy.neighbor.ap/index.html WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) -- Neighbors of Vice President Dick Cheney are being shaken and rattled at least once a day by mysterious blasts on the grounds of the U.S. Naval Observatory where Cheney lives. The Navy says the...

samuseum.org/exhibitions/focus/-6.html This link to the San Antonio Museum of Art website is dead. See later post for its full original content. "In 1899, Charles A.A. Dellschau was nearly 70 years old and about to embark on a project of a lifetime. One of thousands of Americans fascinated...

Space rock's impact blasted chunks all the way to Britain Margaret Munro National Post Scientists have discovered strange emerald green rock in England that they believe originated in Quebec and was blasted over to Britain by an asteroid or comet that slammed into Earth millions of...

While driving through northern Ontario last month, I stopped to see the Ojibway pictographs on Agawa Rock, overlooking Lake Superior in Lake Superior Provincial Park. In addition to the depictions of common animals like deer and bison, there is one that might be of cryptozoology interest -...

http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/meast/08/21/iraq.nidal/index.html Although not much in the news lately, Abu Nidal was as notorious in the 1970s and 80s as Osama bin Laden is today. His death was initially reported as a suicide due to terminal illness, but it now appears that he died as Iraqi...

Museum of stuffed gophers canada.com/national/story.asp?id=C41E0F4B-39F9-456A-9EB5-CC25BD42AA00 Link is dead. No archived version found. The albino gopher (actually a Richardson's ground squirrel) is the least strange thing in this story. There's the guy who shot it: "I heard an ancestor of...

OTTAWA - Kemptville-area farmer Jim Shaw couldn't believe his eyes when one of his prized Simmental cows gave birth to triplets. Mr. Shaw has witnessed the births of many calves. But never three at once. "It's extremely rare," said Mr. Shaw, a retired elementary school principal who has a...

On the Personal Superstitions thread, rynner wrote: "When I was at sea I subscribed to the sailor's superstition of not allowing whistling on board, which was thought to bring bad luck. There are a couple of explanations for this. One says that Finns (for some reason) are often witches who...

Mussolini vs. the Loch Ness monster Is it true that during World War II, Benito Mussolini boasted that his planes had killed the Loch Ness monster? When I read this in one of Jonathan Gash's 'Lovejoy' novels, I thought it was a joke, but Peter Costello's In Search of Lake Monsters also makes...

Amazingly, this story went unnoticed (or covered up) for 32 years. "In the summer of 1970 the Royal Navy was practising recovery of an Apollo boilerplate capsule as part of their assigned mission of recovering Apollo capsules in the case of emergency aborts or returns to earth. The capsule...

Not condoms for musk ox (they're endangered and we don't want them practicing contraception, do we) but musk ox flavoured condoms. Only they're not really musk ox flavoured... Musk ox flavoured condoms hit of Arctic Games IQALUIT, Nunavut (CP) -- Free condoms supposedly flavoured with...

National Post (Toronto) March 7 "The Canadian military's crack team of decontamination experts has set up shop at Canadian Forces Base Kingston, where they are excavating the dumpsite of a top-secret, Cold War era bio-weaponry lab. Before it moved to Ottawa in 1964, standard practice at...

Exorcism death LONDON ,ONTARIO-- During the three days it took Walter Zepeda to die, neighbours heard "many" voices chanting and praying in his family's apartment. Now police want to know how many people were inside to see the 19 year old strapped to a bed with neckties in what may have been a...

Kaspar Hauser is the most famous example of a person appearing under mysterious circumstances, unable or unwilling to give an account of himself. Less well known, but equally bizarre, is Jerome, the mystery man of Meteghan (Nova Scotia): "On Sept. 8, 1863 a fair-skinned stranger believed...

I remember this too. The airmen are awaiting rescue, not realizing they are ghosts. Years have passed and finally the wreckage and bodies are found. But they do not notice the body under the tail, and if it is not recovered, the man's ghost will be trapped there, alone... I'd thought it was a...

The disappearance of Ambrose Bierce was followed a few years later by the disappearance of Canadian millionaire Ambrose Small. http://www.torontoghosts.org/middlesex/ambrose.htm It was these two cases that led Charles Fort to speculate that somebody was collecting Ambroses.

The attempt to raise the sunken Russian submarine Kursk has renewed discussion about what might have happened. Was another sub or ship involved? Did a sailor go berserk? Were the Russians testing a secret weapon? Why were so many officers on board? Any good conspiracy stories going around...