Located near the harbor in Kinsale, Charlesfort plays host to the White Lady of Kinsale, one of Ireland's most famous and tragic ghosts.

Charlesfort, or Dun Chathail in the Irish language, was built between 1677 and 1682 during the reign of Charles II as a fortress to defend against attacks from enemies approaching via the sea. William Robinson, who designed the Royal Hospital in Kilmainham in Dublin, is credited with the design of the fort.

According to legend, one of the fort's soldiers married a local girl and they stayed at the fort for their wedding night. The soldier had watch duty that night and a bit drunk from the day's celebrations, fell asleep. Other soldiers in the fort found him asleep while on duty and following the protocol of the day, shot him at his post. After hearing about her husband's death, the bride flung herself to her death from one of the fort's walls.

Every now and then I'll happen upon an internet video from an obscure part of the world (or not so obscure, Montauk Monster?) where from the depths of the ocean, an un-identifiable creature has washed ashore. It appears that yesterday's heavy rainfall has left behind a similarly un-identifiable creature-of-the-unknown right here in Carroll Gardens on Court St. near Luquer St.! Ok, not really. It didn't appear to be alive, but whatever it was (rain-matted shag carpet covered something?) it gave reason for passers-by to comment and excite their imaginations...

Kirtland, Ohio - Believer or not, the image behind Erin Potter, a Kirtland girl battling leukemia, is stunning. It certainly stunned her mom.

"My reaction immediately, it's Mary, they hear us, she's there," Jen Potter said.

The picture of Erin, running with sparklers, was taken in her backyard by a friend just after the family learned that Erin's cancer was back, for the third time, and she was facing a second bone marrow transplant.

"I didn't necessarily see it as a sign that Erin is fine and is going to walk out of this, but it's a sign that we're watching over her," Jen added.

Daughter of Naoise O'Muiri claims she saw a ghost.

The Lord Mayor of Dublin has claimed the Mansion House is haunted. Fine Gael Councillor Naoise O'Muiri has told the Irish Sun that his daughter was once spooked by a ghost in the iconic building which dates back to 1705.

He says the 4-year-old experienced the encounter as she walked from her room through the sitting room and into her parent's room in the middle of the night.

She said she saw a girl with dark curly hair watching TV and the Mayor is adamant that it was a ghost.

Teachers at Mathiba Primary School in Maun had to abruptly end classes last week Friday after students reported seeing a hairy little creature.

Regional Director for North West District in the Ministry of Education and Skills Development, Acro Maseko said that they had to send students back home after Standard 6 and 7 students claimed to have seen 'a black little hairy creature which resembled a human being.'

The incident which happened around 12 noon culminated in ten students treated for shock at a local clinic and released the same day.

"We will be holding prayers in the school soon after meeting parents and chiefs but for now we had asked for professional councillors to help. "

Maseko further said that although teachers did not see anything, students screamed and ran amok while others fainted which made it hard for classes to continue with classes on that day.

"Standard 7 students are about to start exams and events of such nature which spark mass hysteria sometimes happen to them in this area," a teacher said.

When quizzed about past incidents, Maseko said that he was new in the area and was not familiar with past incidents.

A green UFO that lit up the night sky over Ipswich has the man who saw it and experts in the field baffled.

"I've never seen anything like it before," UFO Research Queensland president Sheryl Gottschall said.

Booval's Arthur Sollitt took a video recording of the bizarre object and after replaying the video many times he is still none the wiser.

"As far as I am concerned it is an unidentified flying object, but whether it is earth-made or something from outer space... you just wouldn't know," he said.

The QT has seen Mr Sollitt's video recording and it can be found on our website.

The green UFO swoops across the sky with what appears to be a set of wings at times before morphing from other angles into a saucer shape.

A white light moves around the UFO.

Mr Sollitt, a former speedway racer who won the world derby in 1980, was moved to come forward with the recording after the QT received texts and a letter about strange lights in the sky.

If you're abducted by alien beings, are you physically absent?

This happens to be an important issue for the media-shy people gathered one afternoon last July on the porch of Anne Ramsey Cuvelier's blue Victorian inn on Narragansett Bay, in Rhode Island, once called "the most elegantly finished house ever built in Newport." Co-designed in 1869 by a cousin of Ralph Waldo Emerson's, it has been in Cuvelier's family since 1895, when her great-grandfather bought it as a summer getaway from his winter home blocks away, just as the Gilded Age cottages of the Vanderbilts and Astors began springing up across the island, redefining palatial extravagance. Still imposing with its butternut woodwork, ebony trimmings, and four-story paneled atrium frescoed in the Pompeian style, the harborside mansion turned B&B seemed a fittingly baroque setting for the group of reluctant guests Cuvelier describes as "not a club anyone wants to belong to."

She had gathered them to compare experiences as, well, "experiencers," a term they prefer to "abductees," and to socialize free of stigma among peers. Cuvelier, an elegant and garrulous woman in her 70s, isn't one of them. But she remembers as a teen in the 1940s hearing her father, Rear Admiral Donald James Ramsey, a World War II hero, muttering about strange flying craft that hovered and streaked off at unimaginable speed, and she's been an avid ufologist ever since. "I want to get information out so these people don't have to suffer," she says. "Nobody believes you. You go through these frightening experiences, and then you go through the ridicule."

So, for a week each summer for almost two decades, she's been turning away paying guests at her family's Sanford-Covell Villa Marina, on the cobblestoned waterfront in Newport, to host these intimate gatherings of seemingly ordinary folk with extraordinary stories, along with the occasional sympathetic medical professional and scientist and other brave or foolhardy souls not afraid to be labeled nuts for indulging a fascination with the mystery. I had been invited as a journalist with a special interest who has been talking to some of them for several years.

Perched on a wicker settee was Linda Cortile, a mythic figure in the canons of abduction literature, whom I'd come to know by her real name, Linda Napolitano. A stylish young grandmother in a green T-shirt, black shorts, and a charcoal baseball cap, she had agreed to meet me months before at Manhattan's South Street Seaport to point at her 12th-floor window overlooking the Brooklyn Bridge, where, she says, one night in 1989 three small beings levitated her "like an angel" into a hovering craft in view of horrified witnesses, including, it was said, a mysterious world figure who might have been abducted with her. "If I was hallucinating," she told me, "then the witnesses saw my hallucination. That sounds crazier than the whole abduction phenomenon."

Astronomers across the world make a game of spotting secret government spy satellites, tracking them, and sometimes sharing the information with plausible deniability. Not everything in Earth orbit has a prosaic explanation like this object.

First publicized in Disneyland Of The Gods, John Keel wrote of an object observed in polar orbit. Its size was beyond the known means of any terrestrial space program and once in the public consciousness more observations were recorded. Some ham radio operators, precursors to today's basement-dwelling neckbeards, claimed eavesdropping on strange signals from the satellite dubbed "The Black Knight". From the ground it was a glowing, red object moving in an east-to-west orbit contrary to contemporary satellites. Life gets more interesting as humans take their first steps into space.

First known observation of TBK from orbit was by Gordon Cooper bringing forth explanations that Gordo was tripping balls from a build-up of carbon dioxide, but the sightings didn't stop there. One of the more famous photos floating around the internet is from STS-088 (1 2 3 4 5 6), spied from Endeavor back in 1987 long before Photoshop was a twinkle in a pervert's eye.

Did a woman unwittingly capture the creeping presence of an alien creature lurking outside her vehicle? Or is it something else entirely?

This eerie photograph popped online today, inciting some heated debate rational explanations for what certainly looks like a bug-eyed figure peering through a car window.

"My friend took a picture in the car... there's nobody outside the car," user cblmnop posted to reddit.

Instantly, the comments lit up with possible explanations for the image. Photoshop, pareidolia, and fog were popular choices, with "billboard of a woman wearing sunglasses" ranking pretty highly. Anyone who dared even mention anything paranormal was downvoted into oblivion.

Dog walkers are demanding floodlights be installed at a local cemetery because it can be "spooky" at night - and their fears were confirmed by an expert in paranormal activity.

Sue Hamparsum is one of many pet owners who walk their dogs among gravestones that date back hundreds of years at the oldest cemetery on the north shore, Saint Thomas Rest Park, in Crows Nest.

Dozens of pet owners visit the park during the daytime but most are quick to scurry home at sundown, when the area becomes a bit eerie.

"There are rumours the park is haunted," Ms Hamparsum said.

"(Over the years) some of the headstones have been removed but the people are still buried there."

In response to these tales, The Daily Telegraph invited Janine Donnellan, from Soul Searches Paranormal Investigations, to test if the park was haunted. Ms Donnellan has been investigating spirits for more than 15 years and has a certificate of Advanced Achievement in Parapsychology from the Australian Academy of Applied Parapsychology.