Liu Chuanyi, a Chinese citizen fell into an old well while hiking in the countryside, in rural South-East Asia. In spite of shouting for help, he wasn't rescued because the local villagers (who did not speak Chinese) thought his cries were coming from a ghost and were too afraid to approach the...

I always thought it was amazing the number of people who have told me that they also used to believe as children that dragons slept under mountains and hills and recently watching the film, Reign of Fire, has remined me of this. It is a known fact that children see things that adults don't...

I was in idle conversation with a journalist from my local 'paper today (the Yorkshire Evening Post), and the subject of macabre stories came up... He recalled an incident from his early days, "..about 30 years ago..", when a pot-holer had got himself stuck underground and could not be moved...