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Conference explores the unexplained
Phantom elephants wandering Brackett Avenue, a ghost jogging near Vine Street, vanishing werewolves and other mysterious reports from Eau Claire residents will be retold at Saturday's 14th annual Unexplained Conference. Started by Eau Claire native Chad Lewis, 34, the conference gathers a group of Wisconsin authors to recall their investigations into the paranormal.
"This year I decided to do it a little bit different," Lewis said. "They're certainly a little bit darker than most of my presentations, that's for sure."..
Texas woman claims she caught chupacabra in attic
Worker 'creeped-out' by 'fright' at Fort Knox
When the Cowardly Lion stood in the Haunted Forest wringing his tail saying, "I do believe in spooks, I do believe in spooks," he had good reason. He was surrounded by trees with faces, flying monkeys, a wicked witch and, yes, spooks. Now, Teddy Cooke, 19, of Verona Island has a good reason to say the same thing...
'Dying brain hypothesis' not dead
Interested to see The Skeptic magazine taking a pop at Pim van Lommel's hospital study of near-death experiences in its recent issue. This study, originally published in the medical journal The Lancet in 2001 has been hugely influential, so its not surprising the mag wants to cut it down to size. Van Lommel and his team spent 13 years interviewing patients in ten different Dutch hospitals who had been resuscitated following a cardiac arrest.
The aim was to see whether they had experienced an NDE...
What gives us the right?
It seems that in recent days the credentials of the staff here at Watchdog have come into question. Apparently, people who have received reviews, and those who follow them, want to know what our credentials are. What gives us the right to judge others in the field of paranormal research, investigation, entertainment, and the like? What makes us qualified?..
Film crew sets its sights on Ogopogo
Kelowna's famed Ogopogo might soon have nowhere left to hide. ''Monster Quest,'' a television program that airs on the History Channel and examines monster sightings around the world, will begin searching for the Okanagan Lake creature next week. Kelowna resident Arlene Gaal, who has written three books on the Ogopogo, has been hired by the History Channel as a project consultant. She said the search will utilize aerial photography, divers, a remote-controlled underwater camera and thermal imaging...
Mysterious monster hunts
If you think Bigfoot is a hoax, you're not alone. In 2003, the Seattle Post Intelligencer and the New York Times fingered deceased Washington state prankster Ray Wallace as the perpetrator of a decades-long Bigfoot sham; his family claimed he created the Sasquatch legend with suits and fake footprints. More recently, in August 2008 a news-making Bigfoot corpse in Georgia was revealed to be a gussied-up Halloween costume ordered on the Internet. But those reports haven't stopped people like Matt Moneymaker, president of the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, from seeking the big, hairy truth...
Cryptozoologists and ghost hunters gather in Watertown
Conference explores the unexplained
Phantom elephants wandering Brackett Avenue, a ghost jogging near Vine Street, vanishing werewolves and other mysterious reports from Eau Claire residents will be retold at Saturday's 14th annual Unexplained Conference. Started by Eau Claire native Chad Lewis, 34, the conference gathers a group of Wisconsin authors to recall their investigations into the paranormal.
"This year I decided to do it a little bit different," Lewis said. "They're certainly a little bit darker than most of my presentations, that's for sure."..
Texas woman claims she caught chupacabra in attic
Worker 'creeped-out' by 'fright' at Fort Knox
When the Cowardly Lion stood in the Haunted Forest wringing his tail saying, "I do believe in spooks, I do believe in spooks," he had good reason. He was surrounded by trees with faces, flying monkeys, a wicked witch and, yes, spooks. Now, Teddy Cooke, 19, of Verona Island has a good reason to say the same thing...
'Dying brain hypothesis' not dead
Interested to see The Skeptic magazine taking a pop at Pim van Lommel's hospital study of near-death experiences in its recent issue. This study, originally published in the medical journal The Lancet in 2001 has been hugely influential, so its not surprising the mag wants to cut it down to size. Van Lommel and his team spent 13 years interviewing patients in ten different Dutch hospitals who had been resuscitated following a cardiac arrest.
The aim was to see whether they had experienced an NDE...
What gives us the right?
It seems that in recent days the credentials of the staff here at Watchdog have come into question. Apparently, people who have received reviews, and those who follow them, want to know what our credentials are. What gives us the right to judge others in the field of paranormal research, investigation, entertainment, and the like? What makes us qualified?..
Film crew sets its sights on Ogopogo
Kelowna's famed Ogopogo might soon have nowhere left to hide. ''Monster Quest,'' a television program that airs on the History Channel and examines monster sightings around the world, will begin searching for the Okanagan Lake creature next week. Kelowna resident Arlene Gaal, who has written three books on the Ogopogo, has been hired by the History Channel as a project consultant. She said the search will utilize aerial photography, divers, a remote-controlled underwater camera and thermal imaging...
Mysterious monster hunts
If you think Bigfoot is a hoax, you're not alone. In 2003, the Seattle Post Intelligencer and the New York Times fingered deceased Washington state prankster Ray Wallace as the perpetrator of a decades-long Bigfoot sham; his family claimed he created the Sasquatch legend with suits and fake footprints. More recently, in August 2008 a news-making Bigfoot corpse in Georgia was revealed to be a gussied-up Halloween costume ordered on the Internet. But those reports haven't stopped people like Matt Moneymaker, president of the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, from seeking the big, hairy truth...
Cryptozoologists and ghost hunters gather in Watertown
