by Warren Riddle on May 25, 2010 at 06:40 PM

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Lazy horror movie creators definitely overuse the haunted gadget routine. Tapping into people's mistrust of technology and their fear of the unknown, directors frequently regurgitate stories involving cursed televisions, radios, movies and cell phones. One of those film themes may be experiencing a mysterious reversal in reality, though, as a Bulgarian mobile firm has reportedly suspended ...
by Amar Toor on March 12, 2010 at 12:45 PM

At a recent online auction in New Zealand, two glass vials containing neon blue liquid sold for $1,983. Oh, and they also contained ghosts.
As we reported a few days ago, an anonymous person originally placed the two vials up for auction last week, claiming they contained the souls of an old man and a little girl, both of whom used to live in the sellers' current house. Now, after the winning ...
by Tim Stevens on January 14, 2009 at 09:31 AM

Despite their green appeal, there are a lot of people out there who aren't too pleased by the increasing prevalence of wind turbines. People say they kill birds, ruin views, make irritating noises, and are a general menace. Some residents in a sleepy town in England are wondering if visitors from other planets hate the things, too, and are indicating that one of their wind turbines was destroyed ...
by Will Safer on December 2, 2008 at 07:01 PM

Trying to parse the vagaries of the economic future may be as difficult as peering into a fortune teller's crystal ball – but many Japanese are forking over their hard-earned Yen to do just that, even while cutting back on other expenses. Zappallas Inc. is a Japanese company that operates a huge network of fortune-telling Web sites for mobile devices with names like "Your Future in Three ...
by Tim Stevens on July 25, 2008 at 12:54 AM

Do aliens exist? Most scientists will tell you that it's hard to imagine there not being life somewhere out there, given the vastness of the universe. The more controversial question is whether that alien life is coming to visit us here. According to Dr. Edgar Mitchell, astronaut aboard the Apollo 14 mission to the Moon, not only has alien life been here to Earth, but our government is covering it ...
by Will Safer on May 26, 2008 at 02:33 PM

While moviegoers will be filling multiplex seats this weekend, hoping to be transported to a place of adventure and a little fantasy with the latest 'Indiana Jones' blockbuster, Steven Spielberg is busy working up another kind of transporting experience, this one more in line with themes from his sci-fi classic 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.' 'The Rising' (the Web site is currently just a ...
by Terrence O'Brien on March 6, 2008 at 09:12 AM

Rumor has it that Steven Spielberg is getting ready to prove that you really can have a social network for just about anything. His latest online project started out with Yahoo!, but has since found a home with an independent company after the mega-portal shelved the movie director/mogul's idea of a social network dedicated to those who have had or want to share a paranormal or extra ...
by Tim Stevens on January 24, 2008 at 11:40 AM

You know that UFO that was spotted in Texas last week? The one that was supposedly a mile long and traveling at 3,000 miles per hour while being chased by military F-16's? Well, the military has a fairly simple explanation. It turns out it wasn't a UFO that was being chased by F-16's, it actually was F-16's -- ten in fact -- flying in formation with lights on that may have created the illusion ...
by Tim Stevens on January 16, 2008 at 09:42 AM

Wondering how yesterday's MacBook Air got so thin? Some, of course, think it was just the result of decades of research by Apple techies. We think we have a better explanation, though: alien technology. Don't believe us? According to the Stephenville Empire-Tribune, several witnesses say they spotted something mysterious in the air over Texas last night. Said unidentified flying object (UFO) ...
by Terrence O'Brien on June 26, 2007 at 09:18 AM

Wired is celebrating 60 years of flying saucers with an article giving a brief overview of the history of UFOs, aliens and conspiracy theories -- everything from Roswell to tales of abduction to the 1995 Fox special 'Alien Autopsy' is covered. Apparently, even the Spielberg film 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' was initially subject to suspicion. UFO enthusiasts believed the film was part of ...
by Terrence O'Brien on May 24, 2007 at 12:36 PM

A user on Flickr, rajman1977, has stirred up a bit of interest with a series of photos called "Bizarre Thing in Sky". The photos were supposedly taken by rajman while visiting his fiance's parents in California. They show what he describes as a "bizarre thing in [the] sky." It gets more interesting: Last month, someone names Chad claimed he saw a similar object while hiking near Lake Tahoe, a ...