flaps & panics

I think this is the first time I've read about this panic. What was behind the garrotting panics of London? 5 hours ago By Bethan Bell,BBC News Getty Images A robber seizes a man from behind while his companion threatens him with a club The 19th Century saw London became the world's biggest...

Authorities temporarily suspend suspicious international parcels on safety concerns 21:05 July 21, 2023 SEOUL, July 21 (Yonhap) -- The Postal Service temporarily suspended suspicious international packages, as concerns were growing over some random parcels that might contain an unspecified...

I've mentioned this one previously, but thought I would open a separate thread as I find this a particularly interesting set of 'sightings', sitting as it does in the grey area between ufology and other types of Fortean phenomena. Also it took place almost exactly a hundred years ago, around the...

Uncontacted tribes and an Indian military base. Did a ‘spy’ balloon snoop on the Andaman and Nicobar islands? Analysis by Rhea Mogul and Andrew Raine, CNN Updated 8:33 PM EST, Fri February 17, 2023 When a strange white sphere appeared in the skies above the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in...

The US are saying they have shot another object down over Alaska

Beware of Sino-Seeds!

Maybe this should move to urban legends and folklore... A new internet game scaring the kids. Seemingly a WhatsApp number that you call leading to a response from a distorted faced girl who encouragea you to kill yourself. Allegedly several kids around the world have done so and many more have...

Roswell Revisited (don't yawn...) Could somebody please tell me what really did happen at Roswell? I tend to vascillate between something strange and something banal. I've heard that the material displayed in those famous "it's only a weather balloon!" army base photographs really is the...

We will be running a piece on the Liverpool Leprechaun panic of 1964 in the next issue, and need help sourcing images of the fokllowing locations: Jubilee Park, Kensington, Liverpool St Chad's Church and churchyard, Kirkby Learn Farm Lane/Roman Road Junior School, Felling, Gateshead...

Frederick Valentich This is a case that's always fascinated me, and is perhaps the most convincing case of a possible alien abduction, certainly when compared to the hypnotic regression and rectal probe gang. The details are posted here, in particular the transcript of the conversation between...

dont know if this has been discussed here or not, but in the us, theres all this controversy surrounding the release of the harry potter movies with some churches holding youth services as an alternative to the movie, some denouncing the books completely, etc etc... i just didnt know if there...

Satanic Abuse? Thought this one was long dead and put down to overheated social workers fuelled on US horror tales. The following however appeared in the Middleton Guardian in July of this year. [**Actually it appeared on 27th July, 2000 - the site has a somewhat confusing layout and...