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Latest Paranormal News, Sightings & Supernatural Stories
From small-town Maine to the war rooms of the Pentagon, from a haunted Georgian farmhouse in Somerset to booms rattling windows across three continents, this week's headlines refuse to sit still. A cryptid caper collapses into comedy, the US military drops another slab of UFO paperwork, a family's years-long haunting resurfaces, and a mystery older than living memory still has no explanation. Welcome to this week's Haunted Headlines — where the unexplained is never far away.
Bigfoot Costume Causes Chaos in Maine: “Case Closed, Bigfoot Is Not Real”
Panic swept the small coastal town of Damariscotta, Maine, on Tuesday 2nd September when police were flooded with calls reporting a Sasquatch-like figure prowling Main Street — and, most alarmingly, lurking near the local school on the first morning drop-off of the new term. Officers described an unusually high number of reports before Officer William Smith finally tracked the creature down.
The culprit turned out to be a local resident in what Police Chief Erik Josephson called a “very convincing costume” — a face familiar to some from a past television appearance. No charges were filed, and the department closed the case with a flourish on Facebook: “Bigfoot is not real… Bigfoot remains at large, provided he puts his costume back on.” Some residents stopped for photos with the costumed cryptid; others, disappointment written all over their faces, had rather hoped the legend was true.
Source: Boston.com – “Bigfoot sighting was just a man in a costume, Maine police department assures residents”
Pentagon's Fifth UFO Files Drop Reveals Gunship Stand-Off and an Afghan “Triangle”
The Pentagon has released its fifth batch of UAP files, a 41-document tranche spanning 1950 to the present day and drawn from the Pentagon, FBI, CIA, the State Department and the Executive Office of the President. The centrepiece: six videos of a September 2021 incident over the Gulf of Oman, in which a US Special Operations AC-130J gunship crew reported roughly twenty-five unidentified objects moving between 250 and 1,300mph in formation — and apparently reacting to cannon fire.
Elsewhere in the files, a former military pilot's 2024 FBI interview describes a 2002 sighting over Afghanistan: “something huge went overhead… an equilateral triangle shape,” some 500 feet across, moving silently at 150 knots. His colleague's reported reaction has become something of a headline in itself: “did you see that?” The Pentagon insists “unexplained” is not the same as “extraterrestrial” — but a formation allegedly shrugging off cannon fire will take some explaining away.
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“We Felt Pure Fear”: Somerset Family's Years in a Haunted Georgian Home
Caroline de Gier and her three children spent years living alongside something they couldn't explain in their 300-year-old Grade II-listed home near Bruton, Somerset. According to the family, a dark female figure repeatedly appeared in the children's bedrooms, ornaments leapt from the walls, and unexplained scraping sounds echoed through the house. One of Caroline's sons said the figure would “take his breath away.”
The case took a stranger turn when a local resident revealed that a previous occupant, a woman named Marnie, had a daughter also called Isobel — confined, by all accounts, to that very same bedroom. Psychologist Dr Nilu Ahmed offers a more grounded reading, pointing to the family's divorce at the time and the well-documented effects of stress and disrupted sleep on perception. Paranormal or psychological? As ever, the truth may be somewhere in that unsettling middle ground.
The Booms Nobody Can Explain: Skyquakes and the Mystery of the Seneca Guns
For well over 170 years, people around the world have reported sudden, thunderous booms — strong enough to rattle windows and shake buildings — with no storm, earthquake or aircraft in sight. They go by different names depending on where you stand: “Seneca guns” near New York's Finger Lakes, “mistpoeffers” in Belgium, “uminari,” or cries from the sea, in Japan. Novelist James Fenimore Cooper was writing about the phenomenon as early as 1850, declaring it beyond any “known laws of nature.”
The mystery hasn't gone away. A 2020 University of North Carolina study searched for a seismic signature to match reported booms and found essentially nothing, pointing researchers toward an atmospheric rather than geological cause. Sonic booms, meteors and undetected small quakes have all been proposed — but centuries on, “skyquakes” remain one of the rare mysteries that mainstream science still can't fully close the file on.
Source: Weather.com – “America's Mystery ‘Skyquakes’: Unexplained Booms Have Rattled Windows for Centuries”
From costume capers to booms with no explanation, the line between the ordinary and the unexplained keeps blurring. Haunted Headlines — your weekly paranormal report by Paranormal Portal UK.
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