UFO hunter Scott Waring is convinced newly discovered photos, taken by NASA’s Spirit Mars rover are evidence of extraterrestrials living on the Red Planet. One rocky outcrop appears to like a being, Waring alleges. If the objects were just a one-off, Warring implies that he’d be accepting of NASA’s findings, […]
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Etchings: The Eagle has not landed on this golf course
Leave it to Donald Trump’s supporters to pick up on his conspiracy theory ravings after his Scotland golf course, located in Turnberry, was paid a visit by four lights. Newsweek scraped up the barnacle of news and was quick to tie it together with the 45th President of the United […]
Being employable haunts us, prevents us from opening up about the unknown
In my investigations of Canadian folklore and supernatural stories, one recurring theme has seized potential interviewees: the risk to their being employable. Their concern with getting a job is warranted, because, should it get out that they’ve witnessed a ghost or bigfoot, they could be seen as odd. I get […]
Etchings: Wolf-like animal shot by rancher is … a wolf
The critter that had Twitter in a tizzy back in mid-May has been tested, and guess what? It’s a gray wolf. Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks in Helena released a news release in Jue. Somehow that was missed by most media that followed Twitter’s response to the lupine form shot by a […]
Etchings: In Search Of … Returns
Star Trek actor Zachary Quinto is following in his predecessor’s footsteps with the reboot of In Search Of, which premiered July 20. Quinto will host the third iteration of the show, which has been hosted by, Rod Serling, Leonard Nimoy and Mitch Pileggi in the past. The bulk of the […]
Etchings: What happens in Vegas …
WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS … TAKES A LITTLE LONGER Call it a time warp, or perhaps a money pit, but one paranormal investigator in Nevada alleges to have found a space-time abnormality. Joshua Warren, a History Channel personality, said in a statement that he detected the time warp in a […]
States of Being in the Western States, Part Three: The Air Down There
Mojave had been on R-Three’s bucket list for as long as he had been fascinated with aviation, which has been just about all his life. He knew this place as one of the rare graveyards for obsolete aircraft, well before it achieved status as a launching pad for civilian space […]
Beliefs aren’t at play when reporting on the supernatural
Sometimes, when I was out-of-line as a kid, my mom would warn me she’d make me read the Bible. One other time, when I was older, it was Bible camp — a passing moment where I made a glib comment about the Faith Baptist bus scooting by. I’m sure those […]
ETCHINGS: The Wolfman Taketh Social Media
Much to the bemusement of Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks staff members, social media lit up with full moon fever when a large wolf-like animal was shot and killed May 16. The quarry was bagged by a rancher near Denton, Mont, and it still has officials wondering just what it […]
States of Being in the Western States, Part Two: Oddities
How did we get here, from … here? We were on a father-and-son cross-America trek to celebrate a milestone birthday for R-Three. It was designed to be a full family adventure, but an eleventh-hour circumstance tethered my wife to the workplace, leaving R-Three and me to strike out by ourselves […]