London, England -- A fascination with the paranormal is at an all-time high, with TV programs like the Walking Dead and Supernatural, dozens of ghost-hunting reality shows, and big box-office horror movies.

And along with this comes a growing number of single people of all ages who want to meet others who share their unique interests.

If you like hunting for ghosts or exploring old graveyards, but you're tired of doing it by yourself, then Spookydate may be the place for you. It's a dating site for people into everything from Jack the Ripper to zombies. Spookydate's members' idea of a romantic evening isn't dinner and a movie, unless it's a horror movie.

But despite popular perception, these are just normal people with not-so-normal interests, insists Spookydate founder Tony Hart-Wilden. He says they take long walks on the beach and gaze at the sunset, just like anyone else, but the difference is they may be looking for UFOs at the same time.

Tony Hart-Wilden's own adventures have taken him everywhere from Dracula's castle in Transylvania to Area 51 in the Arizona desert, monster hunting on Loch Ness, and paranormal investigating in India. But he acknowledges that none of this would have been possible if it wasn't for research projects, preservation, and awareness created by documentaries and films that led him there. So, unlike other dating sites, part of Spookydate's profits will go back into its own community to support anything from cemetery restoration to financing independent horror films.

Spookydate members can browse any of eight different categories: Zombies, Vampires, Horror Movies, The Paranormal, Unexplained Mysteries, UFOS, Monsters, and Urban Exploration in search of their perfect match. And another unique feature of Spookydate that sets it apart from other dating sites is that they don't have gold memberships, only silver ones. Because, as Tony Hart-Wilden says, "everyone knows that silver is more effective against werewolves.

After receiving calls reporting dog cries in the area, a police officer in Anderson, South Carolina, arrived at the scene to investigate. Upon discovering that the cries came from a lost dog in the North Pointe Creek ravine, Officer Michelle Smith found something even more surprising. The small dog had with her a new friend: a kitten.

It turns out, writes the Huffington Post, that the "dog was actually calling for help on behalf of the small kitten it was protecting." Smith says that she thinks the dog stayed down in the ravine because it was unable to bring the kitten out with her, and wasn't willing to leave it behind.

To people in the world of British gardening, the announcement was as startling as if the authorities at Wimbledon had suddenly decreed that players could compete in cutoffs and sequined tank tops.

So it was not surprising that the staid Royal Horticultural Society's decision to allow garden gnomes - creatures commonly associated with the landscapes of the unrich, the unfamous and the untasteful - at the Chelsea Flower Show this year elicited a variety of responses.

We always talk about and are lectured to about how "weather is not climate". Of course that's a flexible meme, because now when the weather turns hot or bad, climate is to blame.

I had to go to Walmart today to pick up something, and as I walked down the aisles looking for things, this jumped out at me. Unfortunately, it was so ridiculous, it made me laugh out loud, and I got stares. So, I'm sharing this humor with you.

I suppose it was only a matter of time before some enterprising company did this.

Gotta love that "defend your hair against bad weather" line. Now even when CO2 or weather modification driven hordes of tornadoes descend upon us in retaliation for our climate sins, we can avoid bad hair days.

Of course, shampoo only goes so far. They need "climate control body spray" to really be effective.

One well-meaning NYPD officer got into a little bit of trouble while attempting to get a cat out of a tree.

After kids from Public School 213 in Oakland Park, Queens, convinced a cop to save the kitty in question, the cop got stuck himself and had to get saved by the FDNY.

"You gotta get the cat! You gotta get the cat," they kids reportedly told the police officer. But, as soon as the officer climbed higher up the tree, the cat did as well. And when the cop attempted to follow the cat, well, he got stuck.

When Internal Revenue Service agents decided to target conservative groups with "unnecessary" information requests, they probably weren't expecting Marion Bower, an Ohio woman who in 2010 founded her own Tea Party group.

"I was trying to be very cordial, but they wanted copies of unbelievable things," the 68-year-old founder of American Patriots against Government Excess told ABC News Tuesday. "They wanted to know what materials we had discussed at any of our book studies."

Yes, when applying for the group's tax-exempt status, the IRS actually asked her for information regarding the books she and her colleagues read.

"They wanted a synopsis of all the books we read," she said. "I thought, I don't have time to write a book report. You can read them for yourselves."

So she sent the IRS official handling her tax-exempt request in Cincinnati a copy of "The Five Thousand Year Leap" (a Glenn Beck favorite) and a paperback version of the United States Constitution.

A neighbor called police complaining Debbie Alsip was jamming out to loud music, but it turned out to be the neighborhood frogs who were getting down.

Twice this month a neighbor has called Baraboo police to complain about loud music coming from the backyard of Debbie and Jeff Alsip's Rivercrest Drive home. The responding officer found the culprits weren't the Alsips, but frogs sounding mating calls at full throat. Among amorous amphibians, the Alsips' koi pond is Baraboo's answer to Studio 54.

"Every spring, this happens," Debbie Alsip said. "It has woke (sic) us up before, if we have our windows open."

Alsip said the frogs emit a loud, shrill sound as they seek out mates. When officer Mike Pichler arrived Sunday, he found about a dozen frogs at the pond.He saw a couple of them develop large bulges in their throats as they croaked to one another, and spotted one pair of horny toads mating. "You don't see that many frogs at one time unless they're mating," Alsip said.

Witches flying broomsticks in Swaziland above 150 metres will be subject to arrest and a hefty fine of R500 000, civil aviation authorities said, according to a report.

Witches' broomsticks are considered similar to any heavier-than-air transportation device that is airborne, reports The Star.

"A witch on a broomstick should not fly above the [150-metre] limit," Civil Aviation Authority marketing and corporate affairs director Sabelo Dlamini told the newspaper.

No penalties exist for witches flying below 150 metres.

The report said it was hard to say how serious he was, but witchcraft isn't a joking matter in Swaziland, where the people believe in it.

The New York Public Library has published an unretouched, un-Photoshopped photo from 1939 that features a guy who looks remarkably like Jay-Z.

The library said the image, "Harlem Loiterers" by street photographer Sid Grossman, "created quite a stir" since being posted on NYPL Schomburg centre for Research In Black Culture's Facebook page the other day.

"I was immediately struck by the similarity to Jay-Z and actually laughed out loud," Schomburg's Curator of Digital Collections Sylviane A. Diouf, who found the photo, said. "I still hope somebody will tell us who that young man really was."

Where exactly do babies come from? And how are they really made? Mixing humorous animation and interviews, Oscar winner Jessica Yu poses these questions to a variety of adults and youngsters who explore their earliest understanding of sex.