[inspic=15,right,,thumb]Up to 25 people where injured at this years annual Cheese Chase at Cooper’s Hill in Brockworth, Gloucestershire (UK). Some 3000 spectators watched this years event, cheering on contestants from as far afield as Australia, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden and the United States, as they raced 200 metres down a steep slope after the wheel-shaped Double Gloucester cheese, decorated in a blue and red ribbon. Out of the 25 people hurt, 12 were spectators, one [...]

[inspic=29,right,,0]It has been over 4 years since Hollywood resident and Rock and Roll Historian Brett Meisner first noticed a strange image in the background of a photo taken of him at the gravesite of former Doors’ front man Jim Morrison at the Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, France. After having the photograph and original negative analyzed by dozens of paranormal and photographic experts, there is still little explanation as to how or why the ghostly [...]

[inspic=30,right,,thumb]There just has to be a Cryptozoologist out here somewhere! Lets face it, if there really are unknown creatures, even presumed extinct animals still out there – hiding from the intrepid Cryptozoologists, and I guess they must be hiding, as no, notable Cryptid has ever been found! So why do the Cryptozoologists bother? Why do they go to such lengths to try and prove the existence of something when it obviously doesn't want to be [...]

It appears to contain almost every myth, legend and ghost story ever told in England… A magnificent county-by-county exploration of England’s legendary past, from the field of the forty footsteps in London’s Bloomsbury to the Derbyshire tale of Haddon Hall.

Today is Book Review Day here at Cryptoworld. I’m not sure where the idea came from, but I thought it would be useful to point out a few weird and wonderful books on Adventure Travel, Cryptozoology, Myths, Lost Legends and the like… From a Cryptozoology point of view, On the Trail of Ancient Man appears to contain the first account of the Allghoi Khorkhoi, the Mongolian Death Worm. On the Trail of Ancient Man is [...]

[inspic=45,right,,thumb]South Africa’s News 24 web site was bombarded by 30,000+ visitors over the weekend after it published a story of an alleged UFO crash off the coast of Port Shepstone (see map). Witnesses, including pupils and teachers at a school sports event, even fishermen were convinced they saw an Unidentified Flying Object crash into the just behind the breaker line. Some witnesses even claim to have seen flames and smoke coming from the object. One [...]

[inspic=54,right,,thumb]The Space Shuttle Discovery has been moved onto its launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center, in Florida, as part of its preparations for a July lift-off. Mounted on the Mobile Launcher Platform and carried by the mammoth crawler-transporter, Discovery emerged from the assembly building, and was moved the 4.2 miles at less than one mile an hour, arriving at the launch pad early Friday evening. This mission will continue the evaluation of flight safety [...]

[inspic=27,right,,thumb]This week, the Egyptian geologist Dr Aly Abd Barakat visited central Bosnia, to give his views on the hills that amateur archaeologist Semir Osmanagic claims are 12,000 year old pyramids. After visiting all three sites, named by Osmanagic as the Bosnian Pyramids of Sun, Moon and Dragon, Dr Aly Abd Barakat said the hills did appear to be primitive human-made pyramids of uncertain age. Huge stone blocks have been found at the sites and it [...]