On the night of November 8, 2016, a good friend of mine, Denise Rector, flew into Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport to spend seven days with me. It was a week dominated by a fun road-trip that took us from my Arlington, Texas home to Austin's Museum of the Weird, from Austin to San Antonio, and then back to Arlington. One of the things I did while Denise was in town was to take her to see what I call "The M.I.B. Grave." You may well wonder what it is! No, it's not the final resting place of a pale-faced, fedora-wearing Man in Black. You might, however, be forgiven for thinking that that is exactly what it is.

Western Heights Cemetery is located at 1617 Fort Worth Avenue, Dallas, Texas. It's a tiny, blink and you'll miss it type of place that is sandwiched between two small, old roads. Not particularly well looked after, the cemetery has most definitely seen better days. It has, however, a notable claim to fame. Or, rather, a claim to infamy! It just happens to be the final resting place of Clyde Barrow - as in Bonnie and Clyde, the infamous gangsters who lived and died by the bullet on May 23, 1934. Actually, by a hell of a lot of bullets. As for Bonnie, she is buried in Dallas' Crow Hill Memorial Park Cemetery, which is just a short drive from Clyde's grave. It so happens that buried next to Clyde are the remains of his brother. His name was Marvin, and he too came to a bloody end. To his friends, Marvin was known as Buck.

As we drove to the cemetery, I told Denise why I call Marvin's final resting place "The M.I.B Grave." The answer is very simple: Marvin's full name was Marvin Ivan Barrow. In other words, his initials are M. I. and B. And, there is a small headstone at the grave which reads, in capital letters, "M.I.B.," and nothing else. We were soon at Marvin's grave, which, like that of his brother, Clyde, now pretty much languishes in obscurity - unless, that is, you have a yearning to find it and see it.
As we stood around the graves and looked around, I told Denise how, on several occasions, odd synchronicities had occurred in relation to Marvin's grave and the real MIB.

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A video of a UFO over Warminster, one of many sites seemingly vying for the title of "UFO Capital of the UK," has many in the area remembering another famous UFO seen in the same area over 50 years ago that was given the nickname "Warminster Thing." Has the 'thing' returned? Will Warminster take the unofficial title away from Cornwall?

"I had never seen anything like it before. It really caught my eye. It went on for quite some time before flying off into the distance towards Longleat."

The following account, sent to me by a Facebook friend in 2015, is without doubt one of the most disturbing and chilling stories of the Men in Black/Women in Black kind that I have on record. It begins as follows and relates to events which occurred in late 2008: "Dear Mr. Redfern, I have an interest in Forteana and 'high-strangeness,' but I've always been a skeptic and only researched the subjects from a folklorist's point of view. However, I have had one experience which a friend of mine said I should send to you, so here it is. I was speaking at the IAFA (International Association of Fantasy in the Arts) conference this March and attended a speech of a friend who spoke on high-strangeness in the desert and MIB. I told her of my experience, and she said, 'You NEED to tell this to Nick Redfern!' I had read some of your blog posts about the nature of Bigfoot-type entities (I agree with you there is more to them than an unknown ape, but I won't digress) and knew you had written books on the subject of MIB.

What do you think of when you envision the word "zombie?" Is it a snapping, ravenous flesh-hungry beast? An aimless, lost soul wandering about, yet still a ravenous beast? These are all images that Hollywood has implanted in your head, the end result of decades of spooky lore and fictionalization, yet you may not be aware that the modern zombie as we know it has its origins in something every bit as strange, and if you believe the locals, far more real. Here actual zombies have a long tradition, with many odd accounts of their existence encompassing many aspects of the bizarre, and remaining largely unsolved.

On the island nation of Haiti, the religion of Vodou, also commonly spelled "Voodoo" in the west is estimated to be practiced or at least believed by some 80 to 90 percent of the population. It is a unique faith in that it is comprised of an eclectic mix of various African folk beliefs brought over by slaves by the French, as well as a pinch of Catholicism thrown into the fray, which was largely the result of trying to camouflage Voodoo customs when efforts were made to stamp out the more traditional practices in a drive to convert these people. The Voodoo religion places great emphasis on the nature of spirits and their interaction with the world around them, with earthbound spirits supposedly being capable of bringing good fortune and luck, or conversely misfortune, madness, and misery, and it is in this particular belief where we can find the origins of the zombies.

It's just days before an eclipse of a lifetime and as the world readies for the sight and some for the energetic shifts, a new crop circle has appeared in a field at Sutton Hall near London Southend Airport. The circle was discovered on August 17, 2017 but it's meaning, if any, is not yet fully understood. A crop circle with meaning you might ask? Yes, evidence has shown time and time again that many of these circles have incredible scientific anomalies and thus people believe the formations come from somewhere or something else.

On the scientific side, the electromagnetic field over the area where a circle appears is usually electrostatically charged. There is also a rare form of electromagnetic energy called an "ionized plasma vortex," also known as ball lighting, involved with these formations.

Let's have a closer look at this and imagine for a moment. In this particular formation, it appears the overall appearance resembles a "radio broadcast tower" with a "satellite dish" near the top. In this case, its "satellite dish" resembles the usual symbols for a "solar eclipse." Interesting considering we will have the Great American Eclipse in just a couple days on August 21, 2017.

In 1951, a British explorer named Eric Shipton looking for an alternative route up Mt. Everest found a footprint that appeared to be hominoid. He took a picture, and the mystery of the Yeti-a Sherpa word for "wild man"-cast a spell over the world. Daniel Taylor, author of Yeti: The Ecology of a Mystery, has been searching for signs of this "Abominable Snowman" in the high Himalayas since he was a child.

Talking from his home in West Virginia, Taylor explains what he thinks made that human-like footprint, how his search eventually led to the creation of a national park, and why, in an age where we have become disconnected from nature, we have a deep need to believe in mysteries.

In November 1682, Francis Fey was a 20-year-old servant in the service of Philip Furze, a landowner who lived in the little English village of Spreyton. One day, while in a field near his employer's house, Francis was puzzled to see Philip's father outside. The elder Furze was walking with his staff, and like the many moles he'd once whacked, had long been dead.

Fortunately, Old Furze's ghost had no intention of whacking Francis. Instead, Furze had returned from the dead to sort out some problems with his will. He explained that two beneficiaries were each owed ten shillings, and a sister in the near-by town of Totnes was owed twenty. So long as all three beneficiaries got their money, Furze promised not to haunt Francis.

Francis ran to the first two beneficiaries without any problems. Furze's sister in Totnes was a bit more difficult; she refused to take her share, suspecting it'd been sent by the Devil. That night, Furze appeared to Francis again, telling him to buy a ring worth twenty shillings. Furze's sister had no qualms with the ring, so Francis figured he was free and headed back home.

UFOs in the Western Corridor: Experts explain the reason behind sightings in Greater Buenos Aires.

In an interview with Viví el Oeste, Luis Burgos, president of the Fundacion Argentina de Ovnilogía, stated that the "Western Corridor", as he terms the area covering La Matanza, Morón, Hurlingham, Merlo, Moreno, San Miguel, Ituzaingó and Luján, is an area that repeatedly features sightings of unidentified flying objects.

Luis Burgos is a UFO researcher whose interest in the phenomenon was awakened at age thirteen by the arrival of man on the Moon. His work - and that of his team around the country, which numbers over 150 researchers - consists in visiting areas from which calls are received.

The "hotspots" are Olavarria, Punto Indio and the Western Corridor, which includes areas ranging from Ramos to Luján, predominantly La Reja, Morón and Castelar, which have witnessed sightings since 2008, captured on video, photographs and eyewitness testimony.

Demons, The Devil, And Fallen Angels is the new book from Marie D. Jones and Larry Flaxman. It's a book which is published by Visible Ink Press and that runs to 368 pages. I finished reading the book a couple of nights ago and I can say it certainly makes for great reading. It's important to note that you don't have to be of a particular religious persuasion to enjoy the book (or, like me, of no religious persuasion). Why? Because the book is refreshingly free of any kind of agenda to indoctrinate the reader to one particular belief-system. Of course, I knew that Marie and Larry wouldn't do that anyway, but for those who may not have read their previous books, it's important to note that they simply go where the data takes them - which is the best that any of us can do.

The book begins with a good, solid study of such issues as "original sin," the concept of - and theories surrounding - the nature of Hell and the soul, and how different cultures embrace different ideas and concepts. As a perfect example of just how wild some of the theories are for where Hell may be (if such a place exists...), our authors note, "During the eighteenth century, Englishmen suggested that Hell might be on the moon, or even Mars, or possibly outside the confines of the known universe. Before then, Hell was thought to exist on some deserted island, out at sea, or at either of the Earth's poles, before humans ventured there and discovered it wasn't there!" In other words, not exactly the fiery pit far below us that so many people think of.

In a section titled "The Devil and His Counterparts," Larry and Marie provide important data on the nature of the Devil, his various names and much more. They also, in skillful fashion, explain the many misconceptions concerning who, exactly, the Devil is said to be. Abaddon, Beelzebub, Lucifer, Satan, the Tempter: are they all based on one entity? Or, are we looking at multiple entities? If you don't know your devils, you certainly will by the time you finish Demons, The Devil, And Fallen Angels.

Stan Michalak can still vividly remember when his dad came home sick and injured after something happened in the Falcon Lake woods in Manitoba on the May long weekend of 1967.

It was something that put his family life into upheaval and remains one of the world's best-known UFO encounters.

"I recalled seeing him in bed. He didn't look good at all. He looked pale, haggard," said Michalak, who was nine years old at the time and was allowed to see his dad for a couple of minutes on the day after what soon become known as the Falcon Lake incident.

Then there was the smell.

"When I walked into the bedroom there was a huge stink in the room, like a real horrible aroma of sulphur and burnt motor. It was all around and it was coming out of his pores. It was bad," said Michalak, who co-authored the book When They Appeared with Winnipeg UFO researcher Chris Rutkowski.