Iceland's equivalent to the Loch Ness monster has apparently been pictured on footage taken by an amateur cameraman.

The video, taken by Hjörtur Kjerúlf at the glacial river Jökulsá í Fljótsdal, east Iceland, appears to show the serpent-like monster known as Lagarfljótsormurinn, or Lagarfljót's Worm.

Belief in the existence of the worm, which is said to reside in the lake Lagarfljót, can be sourced back to at least 1345. Sightings of the beast are considered a bad omen.

Legends say the monster began life as a tiny worm which a girl placed on a ring of gold to make the it grow, according to Iceland Review Online.

But when the owner of the ring returned she found that instead of making the gold grow, the worm had grown into a giant snake.

In her terror, she flung both into lake Lagarfljót, where the worm continued to grow and eventually became a fearsome dragon.

Residents in the remote village of Chelyabinsk, Russia, were interviewed on national TV about a UFO they'd witnessed recently. The footage does show a circular, unidentified flying object ringed by flashing lights which doesn't look like any known aircraft.

The remoteness of the area makes the possibility of some kind of private advertising service, or sky writing, unlikely. What is the object which has the citizens of the village too scared to sleep at night?

In the TV news piece, naturally in Russian, it's clear what the witnesses are saying to the reporter, even without translation. A news crew films the area in which the UFO was flying at night and shows that, in the daylight, it's obviously a frozen wilderness and not any kind of an airfield.

The witnesses (an elderly farmer and a worried husband and wife with several children) appear to be remarking how the object was circular and that they feel a bit spooked by the incident. In the description written by the YouTube poster, there is the comment that the villagers are losing sleep over the encounter.

The source of a strange booming noise heard in the Milford Haven area last night (Thursday) remains a mystery.

The noise started at around 10.30pm and lasted for two minutes.

"It was unlike anything I have ever heard," said one resident.

Pembrokeshire County Council confirmed that it received three complaints about the booming noise.

Environment Agency Wales said that they had investigated the incident and had not discovered anything untoward.

Residents living near an Army barracks say their village green became a mysterious 'Bermuda Triangle' after their remote-control car door locks were by jammed by radio interference.

Motorists in Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire, say the locks on their cars refused to work when they parked at the village green. Modern push-button ignitions were also scuppered by the unknown, eerie interference.Radio experts first noticed the problem when they met in the village pub last week and discovered they were all locked out of their vehicles. Some members of the group had to get lifts home and return with manual overrides.

On the morning of January 12th, village Rubezhka's local ranger, Paul Singilevtsev, was checking the area when he saw a clearing in the middle of the wide, entirely frozen and thick ice covered river Ural. The clearing was completely free of ice (its length was 100 meters, the width 6-10 meters) and in the center were huge piled up chunks of ice that, according to the witnesses, weighed approximately 200-300 kilos each.

Some of the chunks were scattered 10-20 meters from "the epicenter". According to the authors of the articles, in order to produce such an effect, one would require either a strong explosive or a serious blow with something heavy and quick. Also, the cracks had some sort of geometric consistency and were mostly even angled triangles. The outer edges of some of the ice chunks appeared to be "black", as if burned. There were traces of sand on some of the chunks, as if the water from the bottom had risen very quickly due to an impact.

On January 27, 2012, residents of Russia who live along the Ural River reported finding extraordinarily large chunks of ice in the river. These blocks of ice defy explanation, leaving some locals to speculate that their appearance may be linked to UFO or alien activity.



The enormous ice blocks were found in a relatively small area 20 meters (.0124 miles) in radius. Paul Singilevtsev, one of the locals, said he had never seen anything like it even after living in the area for 50 years. Another local actually phoned emergency services to report the unusual incident.

The Truth Behind the Scenes website reported, "Eyewitnesses say that this is nothing more than tricks of the aliens." Aliens and UFO activity are not the only explanations being suggested for the anomalous blocks of ice. At least one person has suggested that the blocks of ice may have come from an ice hotel in Russia.

August 23, 2011

Councillor wants Ottawa to address cross-border rumble.

An unexplained rumbling disturbed hundreds of Windsor, Ont., residents this weekend to the extent that some thought it was an earthquake, prompting calls for Ottawa to step in.

City Coun. Al Maghnieh said he was inundated with telephone calls, emails and Facebook messages this weekend after the so-called "hum" returned, louder than ever.

"Between the sound and the vibration, it was just very, very bad," Maghnieh said. "A lot of people are frustrated and to a point ... demoralized."

Residents across Windsor and neighbouring LaSalle began reporting a noise they describe as similar to an idling train or semi-trailer in February 2011.

Maghnieh said a "low-frequency rumble" seemed to peak early Sunday morning, calling it "really harsh."

He wasn't alone in this complaint.

Scientists rule out possibility that jelly-like marbles that fell in Dorset garden could be living material.

They have provoked much speculation - some serious, many tongue-in-cheek.

But scientists believe they are close to solving the mystery of the blue balls that (apparently) rained down on a garden in Dorset.

Bournemouth resident Steve Hornsby reported how the sky turned dark, then yellow, then blue, transparent, "jelly-like" balls began falling out of the sky during what he thought was a hailstorm.

He wondered if they had dropped out of a plane. Others thought they may have been eggs from a marine animal, possibly dropped by a bird. Some of the more fanciful suggestions were that they might be the bodily secretions of angels while others began to prepare for an alien invasion.

People in Dorset in South-West England have been left puzzled following a hailstorm that rained mysterious blue jelly-like balls from the sky.

According to a report by the BBC, the strange jelly balls, having a diameter of around 3 cm each, came raining down after a hailstorm on Thursday afternoon.

The balls were reportedly spotted by a resident named Steve Hornsby who collected the balls in a jam jar.

"[They're] difficult to pick up, I had to get a spoon and flick them into a jam jar," Hornsby told the broadcaster. He further mentioned that the sky was dark yellow in colour that afternoon following which there was an instant hailstorm. As he walked across his garden, he found strange blue spheres scattered across his garden.

The strange phenomenon mystified onlookers and numerous theories and speculations were made regarding the nature and constituents of the jelly-like balls.

However, the Met Office confirmed that the substance was "not meteorological".