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Mystery in the Northwest Territories, Canada: The Strange Case of the Missing Tourist

Brent Swancer
Mysterious Universe
Sat, 04 Nov 2017 00:00 UTC
Atsumi Yoshikubo
Yoshikubo seen on CCTV footage at a gift shop shortly before her disappearance.
At some point in our lives we all seek some sort of adventure, perhaps some escape from our usual lives to shuck off our day to day identities and go off somewhere far away to do and experience new things. For some people who actually go through with this plan of escaping unfettered from the mundane they know, this is an enlightening experience, yet other have gone off to just keep on going to become unsolved mysteries. One such case is that of a brave Japanese woman who made a journey to a faraway land only to vanish and proceed to weave a web of strange mysteries and vault into the pantheon of great unsolved crimes.

On October 17, 2014, a 45-year-old psychiatrist from Japan by the name of Atsumi Yoshikubo found her way across the ocean to the cold, icy landscape of Yellowknife, in the Northwest Territories, Canada. The brave woman had booked the trip by herself through a tour company and come here to this remote, faraway world on her own, perhaps seeing it as the adventure of a lifetime and a chance to see the Northern Lights, as many Japanese tourists to the rugged region did.

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Missing 411: Search for missing Uintas hiker scaled back, 'limited resources'

Bob Mims
The Salt Lake Tribune
Mon, 07 Aug 2017 00:00 UTC
Missing hiker
After a week of extensive searches on the ground and in the air, efforts to find a 74-year-old Arizona man were scaled back on Monday.

Summit County Sheriff Justin Martinez said that while the search for Melvin Heaps would continue in the Crystal Lake area, it will be "with limited resources."

"The Summit County Sheriff's Office and Search and Rescue [teams] have worked diligently, and have exhausted many resources in hopes of finding Melvin," the sheriff stated.

In addition to the county's deputies and search and rescue team, personnel from the U.S. Forest Service, Utah Highway Patrol, the Utah Search Dogs and Great Basin K9 organizations, Air Force and Civil Air Patrol planes and 1scores of volunteers have attempted to find Heaps since he went missing on July 31.

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Bigfoot and a bizarre vanishing in the North American wilderness

Brent Swancer
Mysterious Universe
Fri, 03 Nov 2017 00:00 UTC
Bigfoot sign
One of the most famous legendary creatures of all, the massive, hairy ape-like beast known as Bigfoot or Sasquatch has been reported to be lurking and stalking about in just about every expanse of wilderness in North America. While these sightings are strange enough, the creatures themselves have been mostly said to be shy, reclusive, and peaceful. Yet every once and a while a truly sinister report will come in of these creatures not being any of those things, and one very strange disappearance has managed to combine all of the oddness of a violent Bigfoot encounter and a mysterious vanishing.

On June 1st, 1987, 16-year-old Theresa Ann Bier, of Fresno, California, went off on a camping trip to the rather remote area of Shuteye Peak, in the scenic Sierra Mountains approximately 25 miles northeast of Bass Lake. Her companion on this particular trip was a 43-year-old Russell Welch. It was well known at the time that Welch was an avid Bigfoot enthusiast, in fact a self-proclaimed expert on the creature, and the two allegedly had embarked out into the wilderness on a quest to find the legendary beast. This is not so strange in and of itself, as the Sierra Nevada Mountains are quite the hotspot for Bigfoot activity, with Welch even claiming he had seen them several times in the region, but it was a bit weird that he believed he was in actual continuous contact with a whole group of them, and also perhaps a little odd that Bier's parents would let her go off alone on a camping trip alone with a much older man on what many would have considered to be a crackpot quest. Nevertheless, they went off on their adventure and only one of them would come back.

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Has the mystery of Britain's Roswell finally been solved?

Jon Austin
Express
Wed, 08 Nov 2017 19:24 UTC
Rendlesham file
Andrew Pike, a qualified astrophysicist, writer and broadcaster specialising in astronomical anomalies and the history of science, has penned a new book questioning just what could have happened at two US Air Force bases by Rendlesham Forest, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, in December 1980.

The Rendlesham File - Britain's Roswell? is a detailed scientific study of the astonishing three-day period witnessed by US Military personnel.

The Rendlesham legend, which took place around neighbouring bases RAF Woodbridge and RAF Bentwaters, has been dubbed Britain's Roswell, in a nod to the mystery of the UFO crash said to have taken place outside the town in New Mexico, USA, in July 1947.

The UK suspected alien event saw three US officers based at RAF Bentwaters claim a "triangular-shaped craft" landed in neighbouring woods in the early hours of December 26, 1980, after seeing a strange series of lights in the sky and forest.
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Get a room! Ghost hunter claims to have seen two ghosts having sex in museum bathroom

Ankita Mehta
International Business Times
Wed, 08 Nov 2017 22:35 UTC
ghost painting
© ReutersAn artist performs as an Indonesian ghost Kuntilanak during the Jakarta Contemporary ArtSpace Fiesta in Jakarta's old city, March 13, 2014.
In an unusual encounter, a ghost hunter claimed he saw two spirits having sex in a museum's toilet. Stephen Briggs from Horncastle in England says that he had more than 100 supernatural encounters, including two spirits having sex.

The 38-year-old said that a ghost assaulted him once. The paranormal enthusiast has kept a record of his encounters and will soon describe each one of them in detail. In his revelations, he said that he was a kid when he had his first paranormal encounter.

"I have had so many I don't know where to start. Some are the most bizarre and amusing, but ghosts aren't always scary. The first one I can remember was when I sat on my mum's knee waiting for my dad. There was a gentleman in a coat and he just disappeared."
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F-15s and commercial airlines involved in encounter with mysterious aircraft over Oregon

Tyler Rogoway
The War Zone
Wed, 15 Nov 2017 00:00 UTC
F-15C Portland Oregon
© Tyler RogowayAn F-15C belonging to the 142nd Fighter Wing blasts out of Portland International Airport on a typical rainy day in the Northwest. Portland Air National Guard Base (PANG), which is co-located across from PDX's passenger terminals, is seen in the background. The 142nd's Eagles cover the airspace from northern California to the northern tip of Washington State and sometimes beyond. Two primary fully armed jets are always on quick reaction alert (QRA) and can launch within a few minutes of the klaxon howling. An armed spare jet is also usually available as well as one armed with a full magazine of 940 20mm cannon shells.
Something quite out of the ordinary occurred in the skies over Oregon on October 25th, 2017. A mystery aircraft was flying in daylight hours among the steady stream of airliners that traverse from south to north, between locales in California and Nevada and cities like Portland and Seattle and beyond. The incident began, at least as best we can tell, around 4:30pm near the California-Oregon border and resulted in multiple pilot eyewitnesses, recorded air traffic control audio, and eventual confirmations from both the FAA and North American Aerospace Command (NORAD) that it did indeed occur.

The first inklings of the story came to me shortly after the incident occurred from friends of mine in the aviation world. Sparse on details at the time, it sounded like it was probably just another one of the often misconstrued incidents that happen in the skies around the US everyday-ones where aircraft with inoperable radios or transponders stray into areas they shouldn't. And sometimes these occurrences result in local fighter jets paying the wayward aircraft a visit at the direction of NORAD. But days after initially blowing off the incident, it later began to seem that there was indeed more to the story than just than another "NORDO" private aircraft or lackadaisical pilot.
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2017 sees rise in sightings of legendary Loch Ness monster


RT
Fri, 17 Nov 2017 14:14 UTC
Loch Ness monster
© Global Look PressLoch Ness monster
More people claim to have caught a glimpse of the legendary Loch Ness monster in 2017 than in any other year this century. Up to eight official sightings of the fabled creature were recorded in Scotland's most famous waterway this year alone.

The most recent sighting came in early November when genetic scientist Dr. Jo Knight, of Lancaster University, spotted something "very dark" while monster hunting with her son in Urquhart Bay, a favourite haunt of Nessie.

But, after taking hundreds of pictures, she concluded it might not actually have been the legendary leviathan after all.
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Teleportation in Argentina: The quandary of Route 5

Sebastián Aranguren
Inexplicata - The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
Tue, 07 Nov 2017 00:00 UTC
Argentina teleportation
To drive along the segment of National Route 4 connecting Trenque Lauquen and Santa Rosa can lead to unforeseen situations, such as instantaneously going from kilometer 460 to the kilometer 580 marker, a circumstance that leads to surprise, incredulity and even fear -- all of this arising from an experience that UFO researchers have dubbed teleportation.

In truth, the episodes regarding this phenomenon, which affects conventional vehicles and trucks alike, still has not been given a definite explanation by ufologists, who acknowledge that this segment of the highway is an area in which teleportation occurs and has considerable history.

There was a free for all of case histories of these events between January and December 2012, after which teleportation reports subsided and ceased to be of interest to the media. However, no one can say they do not occur, or that those who experience them refuse to tell their stories.

Luis Burgos of Investigadores de Campo Unidos (ICOU) believes teleportation is a phenomenon anchored to Route 5, which has historically been the epicenter of prominent UFO cases, although there is a lack of probative elements that can serve to build a theory aimed at explaining the anomaly.
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China Lake, California: 'Most controversial UFO photo on record'


Sputnik
Tue, 14 Nov 2017 22:25 UTC
UFO China Lake
© YouTube/Aban Tech/Keith Bradshaw
Remarkable pictures of what appears to be an alien spacecraft hovering over the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake in California have the UFO community mesmerized.

The pictures were reportedly taken by Keith Bradshaw in 2007, but he was too nervous to reveal them to the world until this week. Bradshaw claims that he went out to the desert after an old friend working on the base told him about the mysterious sighting. "This thing would wobble along close to the ground, very unstable," he told the Daily Star. "Then it would freeze in position, go up to a certain height and sit there for a few minutes, perfectly still. It made no noise that I could hear."

Bradshaw also claims to have heard a helicopter as he walked toward the base, before seeing the silver craft. He watched the UFO for approximately 10 minutes and noticed the military helicopter flying around near the craft at the same time.

"I don't believe anyone could have been riding on the inside, but I got the idea the helicopter was somehow remotely controlling it," he said. "It looked like whoever was controlling it was having fun with it, sometimes because they would do little tricks with it."

Bradshaw sent his pictures to the world's top UFO experts, who are unsure whether the photos are real or not. British UFO hunter Philip Mantle said, "This could turn out to be one of the most controversial UFO photo cases on record," adding that he has never seen anything like the images in his more than 40 years of research.
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Chinese villagers left baffled by mysterious disk-shaped cloud hovering in the sky

Tiffany Lo
The Daily Mail
Tue, 07 Nov 2017 16:51 UTC
ufo china
Villagers in China were left baffled by a strangely shaped cloud that appeared in the sky last week.

Incredible footage captured on mobile phone shows the orange-hued cloud floating in a clear sky. The clip was posted on Weibo, a Chinese social media site. Rumours of UFO sightings have been circulated since the cloud was seen on November 2.

According to a report on iFeng.com, the unusual sighting appeared above a village at Shaoyang town, Shangrao of Jiangxi Province.

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