Crop circles have appeared throughout the world long before the infamous Dave and Doug duo began misleading the world about their grain-stomping pranks in 1991. The earliest accounts of crop circle formations were documented by Robert Plot, then curator of the Ashmolean, in 1678. Dozens of eyewitnesses reported these crop circles forming in a matter of seconds as early as 1890.

To date some 10,000 crop circles have been catalogued worldwide, and their anomalous features continue to be irreplecatable: plants bent an inch above soil and gently laid down in geometrically-precise patterns with no physical signs of damage, light burn marks at the base of stems, altered cellular structure and soil chemistry, discrepancies in background radiation, alteration of the local electromagnetic field, depletion of the local watershed, and dowsable, long-lasting energy patterns, not to mention measured effects on the human biological field. So much, then, for two guys and a piece of wood. But thanks to a virtual embargo on research coverage throughout the media, a popular myth has developed that all crop circles have been nothing more than a prank with a plank.

The above quote was taken from an extract of Secrets in the Fields. Scientists believe that they may have the answer to the cause of these crop circle formation–sound. Click on the links to read about their discoveries.

Many witnesses have described hearing a trilling sound, followed by a sudden stillness in the air. They would watch the wheat heads bang together, despite this stillness. Then a whole section of crop flattens to the ground in a spiral pattern in less than fifteen seconds.

Can you imagine being there and watching this happen?

A very long time ago, I read Stephen King’s The Dark Half, where the protagonist had a tumor removed from his brain, which turned out to be his evil twin. This story is weirder.

The man above was feared to be carrying a gigantic tumor in his abdomen. When doctors opened him up, they found something more horrifying. An undeveloped fetus of his twin brother. I’m surprised the man was able to carry his brother for so long (36 years) without his body rejecting the fetus.

Source: ABC News

John Luckton, a 50-year-old advertising executive, runs Ghost Tours of West Virginia in Lewisburg and Beckley during the height of the state’s tourist season, which peaks around early September and ends around Halloween.

“Everybody’s favorite is the Greenbrier Ghost,” Luckton said, invoking the name of one of West Virginia’s most famous, or infamous, spirits.

The way Luckton tells the story, a woman named Zona Shue came back from the grave to visit her mother and reveal that she had been murdered by her husband. Her mother told the tale to anyone in town who would listen, and she convinced authorities to exhume her daughter’s body. The corpse was found to have had a compound fracture in her neck, and Shue’s husband eventually was convicted of her murder.

A plaque in Lewisburg now proclaims the case as the only one in which a person was convicted of first-degree murder based on the testimony of a ghost.

Luckton’s tours have become so popular that the State Division of Tourism has posted them in their events section of their website, which also lists fairs and festivals that have supernatural themes.

Source: Charleston Daily Mail

Lately, the JonBenet Ramsey case has been getting more coverage than the Middle East Crisis, now that they have found a possible suspect. The composite sketch below was drawn up nearly a decade ago, based on a vision by psychic, Dorothy Allison, who was met with considerable skepticism on the Leeza Gibbon’s Show at the time.

Quoted from Joe Nickell of the Skeptical Inquirer

Although she convinced many reporters and even police that she had a criminological sixth sense, skeptics observed that the Nutley, New Jersey, great-grandmother propelled herself into prominence by a tried-and-true formula: arrive on the scene of high-profile cases, make numerous vague pronouncements and, after the true facts become known, interpret the statements accordingly–a technique known as “retrofitting.”

Despite earlier skepticism, law enforcement has decided to take a closer look at Dorothy’s sketch. Perhaps this sketch will help solve a murder mystery that is long overdue for closure.

Psychic Sleuth Dorothy Allison & the JonBenet Ramsey Murder