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Weird Nature: Your True Tales
True stories from readers.

Animals Sealed in Stone
Amazing, true cases of living frogs and toads found encased within solid rock.

Clouds of Suspicion
When is a cloud not a cloud? Perhaps when it behaves so strangely - even to the point of attacking people - that it becomes a truly puzzling manifestation.

Hail of Stones from Nowhere
Stones and rocks rain down from clear skies on houses and people, seemingly materializing out of nowhere. What could be the cause of this bizarre phenomenon?

The Ice is Falling! The Ice is Falling!
In early 2000, mysterious falls of large chunks of ice rained down on Italy and Spain. But these are just recent instances of a phenomenon that has occurred at least for centuries.

Killer Fog
The eerie shroud of water vapor can and does kill. That’s the fog we’re familiar with. There are also more mysterious forms of fog that materialize from dimensions unknown.

The Mystery of Ball Lightning
Bizarre, personal encounters with the most puzzling of all weather phenomena. From your About.com guide.

Mysterious Tunnels
Expeditions exploring tunnels around the world return with strange tales of subterranean civilizations and advanced, ancient technology. From your About.com Guide.

Mystery Spots and Gravity Hills
Cars and balls seem to roll uphill, people appear able to stand at impossible angles - all in contradiction to the laws of gravity and physics. What's really happening at these curious locations?

Paranormal Hot Spots
There are many places around the US that seem to be focal points of high strangeness - vortexes of bizarre sightings, unexplained encounters and eerie events.

Rods: 20 Questions with José Escamilla
José Escamilla has caught on tape strange flying rods with undulating appendages. Are they living creatures? From your About.com Guide.

Secrets of Coral Castle
Did a Latvian immigrant rediscover the secrets to the building of the pyramids? His amazing "castle" may hold clues to long-lost powers. From your About.com Guide.

Spooklights: Where to Find Them
Are they ghosts, UFOs or some unexplained natural phenomenon? Perhaps you'd like to go observe one and decide for yourself.

Top 10 Earth Mysteries
From animals encased in stone to unexplained hums and lights to perplexing flying rods, here are 10 of the most baffling Earth mysteries.

The Tunguska Mystery
Ninety years ago, something exploded in an isolated area of Siberia. Was it a meteor, a comet, or something even more incredible?

Weird, Weird Rain
Heads up! There's all kinds of strange stuff falling from the sky: frogs, sardines, jellyfish, alligators and maybe - just maybe - cows! Here are some documented cases of really weird precipitation.

When Nature Goes Nuts
Incredible yet true accounts of rain, clouds, lightning and storms that behave in a way that seems downright impossible!

The Alahoy Vortexes
A vortex is the result of a tremendous circulatory energy phaseout, as if you didn't know. And this site lists dozens of them all over the U.S. and Canada.

Anomalous Transparency
In 1997 and 1998, Dr. S.P. Faile, a materials research engineer, began recording observations of a curious effect: common, normally opaque objects seemed to turn partially transparent.

Away with the Faeries
Long before crop circles caught the headlines there were fairy rings. Fortean Times explores the legends and lore of this mysterious phenomenon.

The Back Beyond: Mysteries of the Superstition Mountains
There are strange things up in those mountains - including, perhaps, a race of pygmies.

Ball Lighting Page
Everything you ever needed to know about this mysterious form of plasma can be found through this page.

The Bennington Triangle
Ten people mysteriously vanished in the haunted wilderness of Glastenbury Mountain, Vermont, famous for sightings of strange lights, ghostly figures and monsters.

The Bridgewater Triangle
The Massachusetts' paranormal "hot spot" with a history of low-flying UFOs, Bigfoot creatures, cattle mutilations, Indian curses and ghostly apparitions.

The Campeche Lights
Weather balloons? Flares? Ball lightning? Angels? Aliens? The Internet has been ablaze with pros and cons involving the bright spots of light captured through infrared photography.

The Coral Castle Mystery
On average, the weight of a block used in the Coral Castle was greater than those used to build the Great Pyramid - 1,100 tons of rock. What was Leedskalnin's secret?

Coral Castle - Sweet 16
The most impressive stone site in America was built in the 20th Century: Coral Castle, near Homestead, Florida is a mind-blowing mystery. It has been called the 8th Wonder of the World.

The Brown Mountain Lights
New video evidence may finally provide more clues to potentially solve the mystery.

The Curse of Palmyra Island
Can an entire island be haunted or cursed? This tropical island is the site of many weird and grisly occurrences.

Death in the Pasture
UFOs/Aliens guide Loy Lawhon investigates who or what is mutilating America's cattle with a rundown of common mutilation features and some possible answers.

The Dulce Book
Complete text of book online: Did something significant and horrifying take place near Dulce, New Mexico? Phenomena seem to converge into one vast scenario of high strangeness.

Entombed Animals
Stories of animals found alive locked deep within stone or wood, with no observable way they could have entered.

The Eltanin Enigma
In 1964, an Antarctic research vessel photographed a mysterious and unidentifiable object on the sea bed. This two-part investigation explains how the "Eltanin antenna" generated a soap opera from another Universe.

An Essex Mystery
Speculates on why three pubs in Essex, U.K. - all named The Compassses - are in a straight line 10 miles long. How odd. But what does it mean?

The Enigma of Coral Castle
Edward Leedskalnin erected his "castle" single-handedly, using coral rock, some of which weighed more than 30 tons! How did he do it?

Evidence of Vast Network of Underwater Topographic Lines
Many critics have debated the very existence of the Underwater Network of Lines first discovered by Satellite Discoveries. Welcome to the unexplained!

An Experimental Analysis of the Marfa Lights
A progress report submitted by The Society of Physics Students at the University of Texas at Dallas. Results: All of the mystery lights observed by this group could be reliably attributed to automobile headlights.

Falling Stones
At a little after 11 p.m. in a garden in a French country village, several people were pelted with stones inexplicably falling from the sky. They even seemed to communicate.

Floating Cities, Phantom Armies and Ghost Ships
History records battalions of soldiers that simply appeared unexpectedly from nowhere, or floating cities that hover above water for hours at a time. What are they?

Forest Rings
These have nothing to do with crop circles. Forest rings are best appreciated from a light plane. Hunters and hikers in Canada's boreal forests walk right across the rings without noticing them. But from the air, they are striking apparitions.

Fortean Falls: Ice From The Sky, and Global Warming
Weird rains of toads, fish, blood, straw, sand, etc. are well-documented. But are falls of large ice chunks a sign of global warming?

The Giants of Blythe
Nazca is famous for the figures that dot its landscape. However, few people are aware that the American Southwest is also home to a large number of figures and shapes carved into the desert floor.

Green Flashes
Examines the phenomenon of green flashes seen at sunrise and sunset, which usually lasts only a second or two. Includes photos and possible explanations.

Ground Zero - Siberia
This site explores a possible connection between the Tunguska explosion and UFOs.

The Hebron Light and Others
Investigates some mystery lights: the Hebron Light (Hebron, MD), Elsey's Light (Crisfield, MD), and Cal's Light (Andrews, MD).

The Hessdalen Phenomena
Mysterious lights have been seen flying over the Hessdalen valley (Norway) for over 100 years. This is a report of a 24 hour surveillance study that's been ongoing since 1998. (PDF)

The Hornet Spook Light
An intriguing enigma that appears in southwest Missouri and northeast Oklahoma. Testimony from witnesses in provided here.

ignis fatuus: The Foolish Fire
About.com's UFO Guide Loy Lawhon examines the many reports of "spook lights" around the U.S., and what might be causing them.

Investigation of Photographic Orb Phenomena: Two Experiments
One common claim of ghost-hunting is photographs that show "orbs" or "globules." Here are two experiments investigating the weird phenomenon.

Jerry's Run Ice Fall
On June 26, 1990 in Wood County, West Virginia, from a clear, cloudless summer sky fell a 50-pound chunk of ice.

The Lake Michigan Triangle
Is there a time anomaly on Lake Michigan? A sailor relates a bizarre tale of missing time and a group of very confused sailors on this Great Lake.

The Ley Hunter Journal
A list of ley lines in Great Britain, and the buildings, structures and monuments that have been built on them.

Leys
Good background information on the patterns of invisible tracks or lines thought to have a power in the ground which seem to link sacred places and natural magical sites.

Lost Love, Coral Castle, and the Case for Anti-Gravity
There may be a link between the ancient Egyptians, a tourist attraction in Florida and the flying saucer phenomenon -- Coral Castle - the work of a man called Edward Leedskalnin.

Megalithic Mysteries
A photographic guide to many of the unexplained megaliths in England and Scotland.

Megalithic Pages
A pretty good site devoted to megaliths all over the world, including photos, theories, a timeline and even a glossary.

Mexico's Zone of Silence
A strange place where radio and TV signals are gobbled up, hot pebbles fall from a clear sky, and strange lights dance in the sky.

The Midway Rods
Does this site prove once and for all that "rods" are no more than insects? See the photos and text and decide for yourself.

Missing: 500,000 Tons of Copper
For 1,800 years, beginning about 3000 BC, someone mined 500,000 tons of copper in what is now Michigan. Who were they, and what happened to all all that copper?

The Missing Science of Ball Lightning
One of the main problems in understanding ball lightning, this article says, is that its properties, taken together, seem to be inconsistent with the laws of physics. Yet there it is.

The Moving Rocks of Death Valley
Extreme weather could explain this enigma in which rocks seem to move by themselves across the desert, leaving a trail behind them.

Mysteries of Siberia's "Valley of Death"
Across a vast area of sparsely populated Yakutia in Siberia can be found strange metallic structures and evidence of devastating nuclear-type explosions every six or seven centuries.

Mystery Brown Substance
In January, 1998, a home in York, Penn. is splattered with a strange brown substance from the sky.

Mystery Hill: America's Stonehenge?
About 40 miles north of Boston is the oldest megalithic enigma of North America - a site that has puzzled archaeologists for almost a century.

The Mystery Hole
Just west of Portland, Ore. is a "mystery hole" inscribed with geometric codes, an obsidian mirror, a crystal tower and more oddities. Real or hoax?

The Mystery of Black Mountain
Known to the aboriginal Australians as Place of the Spears, the unknown depths of the mountains caves keep Black Mountain shrouded in mystery. Indeed few who venture into the mountains are ever seen or heard of again.

The Mystery Spot
Located in a redwood forest near Santa Cruz, this spot seems to defy the laws of physics! Go in and look at the photos.

The Mystery Spot Solution
A couple of "professors" want to go and spoil all the fun by proving that the weird attributes of The Mystery Spot are nothing more than a perceptual illusion.

A New Look at a Mystery of the Skies
So-called “chemtrails” that are seen almost everywhere in the skies of the world are an incredible phenomenon of our time. Colin Bennet asks: What's going on?

The Ninth Wave
What could be more terrifying at sea than a giant wave? Fortean Times reports on accounts of real monster waves.

Nuclear Tunguska
What was it that decimated an area in Siberia in 1908? This article explores the idea that it was a nuclear explosion – from a nuclear spacecraft.

Oak Island
Something is buried on Oak Island, Nova Scotia. No one knows what it is, who buried it or why. But it's in a pit more than 170 deep rigged with elaborate traps.

Oak Island Mystery Pit
More information about the pit with the unknown history. It was first discovered in 1795, and its mysteries are yet to be uncovered.

Odd Pics
Anomalies-Unlimited had put together a cool collection of weird photos. They are not all paranormal in nature, but they are all odd and interesting.

Phenomenon of the Vortex
Looks at some of the Earth's Vortexes - areas of high energy concentrations, originating from magnetic, spiritual, or sometimes unknown sources.

Rains of Fishes
From a 1921 issue of Natural History magazine, accounts of mysterious rains of fish through history and around the world.

Ringing Rocks
In Upper Black Eddy, Pennsylvania is a seven-acre, ten-feet-thick layer of stones, about 30% of which ring like bells when struck with hammers!

Rods
What are these strange flying things? Are they alive? Are they extraterrestrial? Whatever, they are mysterious - and there they are on film.

Singularity Trailer
Watch this very cool, short animated trailer depicting the Jackson/Ryan hypothesis of a microscopic black hole causing the Tunguska explosion of 1908.

Solid Ground
About.com's UFO Guide Loy Lawhon takes a look at the phenomenon of earthquake lights, including eyewitness descriptions and possible causes.

Spooklight
All about the nocturnal light with a 100-year history that glows along the Missouri Oklahoma border; other spooklights, too.

Star Gate 51
Something about a vortex opening in Lake Mills, Wisconsin - first established direct connection with the group who are creating the crop circles.

St. Louis Ghost Light
These pages are dedicated to the investigation of this spooklight. It includes photos and descriptions, stories about the light, myths and facts, and more.

Super-Sargasso Surfin'
Thoughts on rains of fish and frogs, cannonballs falling from nowhere, phantom boats seen in the sky, even human bodies falling from the heavens.

Tales of the Underground
Reports of cast underground tunnel systems in Wales, Egypt and many areas of North America. Very interesting. 

Taos Hum Homepage
The "Taos Hum" is a low-pitched sound heard in numerous places worldwide. Lots of info here - even .wav files.

Tornado Oddities
Wild and inexplicable stories reveal the freakish nature and amazing power of tornadoes.

Tunguska: Cosmic Mystery of the Century
What exactly exploded over the Tunguska region of Siberia on June 30, 1908 is still unexplained.

The Tunguska Event
A very good narration of what people experienced at the time of the Tunguska event, and the subsequent devastation found.

Underground Bases
Here is an extensive list of underground bases and what is currently known about them, culled from research. Includes a map.

Underground Bases
This site provides a list of entrances that allegedly lead down to underground bases around the world.

Unfriendly Fire
What’s the difference between ball lightning and a UFO? Good question. Fortean Times tries to find out why military scientists are taking an interest in the answer.

Up the Hill Backwards
All over the world, certain places are known for their weird gravity anomalies. Some of the most notable, and the folklore behind Florida's best known example, Spook Hill.

Vostok: The Lake of Shadows
An investigation of the mysterious lake at the bottom of the world.

Weird Wisconsin: Oddities
Takes a look at some of the unexplained things going on in Wisconsin, including falls of weird things, cattle mutilations, stolen skulls and more.

When Flesh and Blood Fall from the Sky
Falls of blood and even flesh have been chronicled throughout history from all over the world. These events were often seen as portents of ill luck or doom.

World Power Spots
The Earth, this site says, is covered in a tapestry of meridians - lines that connect the energy of the planet. You can help maintain the Earth's chakra balance, they say.