A striking coincidence is much like a small drama: the participants arrive exactly on cue, wear the right makeup, know their lines, and.....

The source of fairies is amongst the most discussed questions of folklore. In support of their arguments, researchers have turned to....

In many parts of the world, frogs and toads have also fallen numerous times and in monstrous numbers; and so have winkles, worms, and snakes

A fall of stones in a military context occurs in the middle of the sixth century, when the Abyssinian Army, laying siege to Mecca, was put..

The heavens have always been a screen on which people projected their deepest beliefs and hopes in the order of the cosmos. Weather might be

Mysterious detonations—booming noises apparently unrelated to thunder or earthquakes—are among the most widespread and puzzling phenomena of

Count Saint Germain was a confidant of two kings of France, a dazzlingly rich and gifted social figure, the subject of a thousand rumors...

Spontaneous human combustion was such a well- known phenomenon during the late 18th and 19th centuries that a number of authors used it to..

n 1847 a French couple was indicted for murdering the man’s father and burning his body to conceal the crime. They claimed that the 71-ye...

Stationed in Asia on a U.S. government assignment during 1960 - 1961, Mr. and Mrs. John Church spent their vacation in India. It was while..

Robert Nixon, a rural visionary who, by reputation, was held to be mentally retarded, was born around 1467 on a farm in the county of...

In 1809 England sought to persuade Austria to join the confederation opposing Napoleon. Benjamin Bathurst, a 25-year-old diplomat who had al