A curious bit of video that hit the internet on Friday shows strange "orbs" floating through the New Zealand sky.

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The survivor, Ms Clara Banda, who escaped with visible minor burns and eye injury, says the blast occurred soon after her counterpart, 24-year-old Speakmore Mandere, popularly known as Sekuru Shumba, beheaded the goblin.

She claims to have miraculously escaped after failing to land the major role of conducting the ceremony. In a state of shock, she ran to her nearby home soon after the blast.

According to Ms Banda, transport operator Mr Clever Kamuyedza approached Mandere seeking help to dispose of the troubling goblin. He was to pay $15 000 for the ritual.

"The tragedy fell upon us while we were conducting the ceremony to dispose of the goblin that this businessman brought to Sekuru Shumba," said Ms Banda.

According to the traditional healer, Mr Kamuyedza acquired a money-spinning goblin from a nearby country to boost the fortunes of his transport business.

He, however, decided to dispose of it after it started "to make extreme demands.'' Mandere is said to have assembled a team of traditional healers including Ms Banda, to assist in conducting the ceremony. "After assembling the team, Sekuru Shumba invited Mr Kamuyedza, his wife and two of their associates to his home for consultations," said Ms Banda. "The consultations lasted three days during which we discussed whether or not we could handle this kind of ritual."

Crop circles are not the work of hoaxers and aerial photos of the Black Country can prove it, says Australian boffin.
An Aussie historian believes he has buried forever the 'cereal' lie that crop circles are the work of hoaxers - by unearthing Black Country images of them dating back to 1945 and beyond.

It's 'barley' believable, but Greg Jefferys has also uncovered evidence of the phenomenon in scientific documents dating back to 1880.

The boffin, from Hobart, Tasmania, says his findings prove there's more to the mysterious circles than hoaxers playing silly tricks.

"This discovery proves that claims by various artists to be the sole creators of crop circles are themselves a hoax," he says.

"It just goes to show that the circles remain unexplained.

"I hope this discovery will stimulate renewed interest in crop circles by serious scientific researchers who have been fooled by the hoax claims."

Greg, aged 59, who cut his teeth locating shipwrecks, used Google Earth's new 1945 overlay - images of places taken 68 years ago - to make the breakthrough.

Not since Roger Patterson's 1967 encounter has there been so much hype over the possible discovery of Sasquatch, better known as Bigfoot.

In the deep woods of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest there could be a very real Bigfoot lurking in the night, belting out its blood-curdling serenades to all those who wish to lend a listening ear. And one local resident has garnered audio-proof that something unknown is calling out from the brushy swamp area east of Pendleton, Oregon.

The sounds emanating from the woods have been occurring since at least November and range in tone from high-pitched cries to deep-bodied roars. Sylvia Minthorn told The Oregonian newspaper that the late-night shrieks are so piercing that even the hair on grown men will stand at attention.

Several local sources have already attributed the noises to those of foxes or coyotes. But some local residents are not so sure, and believe what they are hearing are the cries of the Bigfoot.

"It's causing an uproar around here," said Minthorn, who lives in a tribal housing unit near the swamp, where she used to play as a child.

The shrilly-night cries have been captured by Colleen Chance, a tribal housing authority employee, who recorded them on her iPhone.

"It's kind of spooky," she said. "Some say it's foxes, some say it's a female coyote and some say it's Sasquatch. I don't know what it is."

While everyone has their own opinions, so far no one has pinpointed the source. The Reservation covers some 178,000 acres and extends into northeastern Oregon's Blue Mountains. About 1,500 people call the area home.

In 1975, Jim Sullivan, a promising musician, mysteriously disappeared without a trace just outside the town of Santa Rosa, New Mexico. To this day, no one knows where he went or what happened to him and his body has never been found. It's almost as if he was sucked into space..

Jim's debut album, which was released in 1969, was entitled U.F.O.. Jennifer Maas writes an intriguing article about Jim and defines U.F.O as, "a slice of American pop music filtered from the murky depths of Los Angeles, by way of the deep- south." Now I'm no music buff or anything, nor do I delve deep into the hidden meanings of songs or anything like that. I simply call it like I see it. Or in this case, like I hear it. Listening to this song I could only hear a hippy. However, the tune is actually quite catchy. You can hear the entire album at Light In the Attic, a great site that re-leases hard to find music and gets them the attention today that they deserved yesterday.

Here's some lyrics from the title track:

Bigfoot in Oregon? Strange sounds emanating from a swamp seem to point to the existence of Sasquatch, according to some locals. In a report updated on Jan. 25, 2013,The Oregonian claims the "eerie late-night serenades" can be heard at the Umatilla Indian Reservation east of Pendleton.


The roars and screams first heard last month have resulted in a flurry of phone calls to the tribal housing authority located near the swamp. The housing authority is home to approximately 1,500 people, but there have been only six reported incidents of the mysterious noise. Do a half dozen reports of strange sounds in a swamp prove the existence of Bigfoot in Oregon? Obviously not. However, that hasn't stopped speculation about the swamp's potential inhabitants from becoming national news.

Colleen Chance, a tribal housing authority employee, is so intrigued by the cries and shrieks that sometimes disturb the darkness at the Umatilla Indian Reservation that she keeps a recording of the sounds on her iPhone. However, when it comes to the identity of the creature, or creatures, making the sounds, she has decided to reserve judgement. "It's kind of spooky," she said. "I don't know what it is."

The sixties had started with the resonating bang of the Watts riots in Los Angeles. The streets of L.A. were lit up by structure fires that destroyed several homes and businesses. The riots lasted only six days but by the end of that tumultuous decade, another fire had been burning for some time.

Rock & roll was infiltrating the L.A. airwaves with the fury of a firestorm. By 1969, Los Angeles had become the mecca for rock music. Recording, producing, writing and collaborating is what most musicians and celebrities began doing throughout the sixties. Jim Sullivan had just gotten his foot in the door when he recorded his first album.

Jim Sullivan had just released his debut album titled U.F.O., in 1969. It was well received by many and catapulted Sullivan into the small limelight as he hung out with celebrities and other musicians. The album contained songs that Sullivan himself had written. Songs that talked about highways, U.F.Os, long travels and isolated deserts.

U.F.O

Shakin like a leaf on the desert heat,
his daddy's got a bog that's hard to beat
Bought me a ticket got a front row seat.
I'm checkin out the show with a glassy eye.
Looking at the sun dancing through the sky.
Did he come by UFO?

Animal Planet's Finding Bigfoot aired a very interesting episode last week. The team recently traveled to Colorado to review a fifty year old film that supposedly shows the elusive creature. The grainy filmy predates the famous 1967 Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot film by five years.

Filmed by Gary Bouvier's father, the film shows a large humanoid figure walking in the snow. The mysterious being is seen jumping from boulder to boulder in the rocky hillside. The Bouviers kept this a family secret for half a century. Take a look:

A security guard in the Thai city of Pattaya is being held at a local police station after "going mad" in a temple. The cause? He was being continually stalked the ghost a woman in a white dress.

When police arrived on the scene, they found a group of monks restraining a terrified Phonsiri Janthamas, a 45 year old security guard from a local department store. Phonsiri was bleeding heavily from his left arm, an injury he sustained from punching a large mirror until it shattered.

Some experts in the UFO world are saying Google Street View may have captured evidence of the second sighting in as many months. The sighting in question was photographed as a pink triangular shape floating in the evening sky over St. Peters, Missouri.

Interestingly, the same colored shape was reported no little then three miles away from the initial sighting, by the National UFO Reporting Center. Even stranger, a similar object was photographed this past September in Jacksonville Texas. The consistencies of these sightings have been raising eyebrows in the UFO community, some experts even going so far as to dub them a "legitimate craft".