Tales of the Odd: A Dose of the Unexplained

Construction on this building started in 1873 and ended in 1891. Bringing it back to life called for a lot of attention to details. The building was originally built as St. Vincent’s Hospital after the Civil War. It’s official title was St. Vincent’s Hospital for the Insane. It held hundreds of patients or inmates for almost 100 years.

But this building’s past lead a pair of filmmakers to come here to make a movie about how this building is supposedly haunted. The movie tells the st...
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"However, what allegedly happened on May 19 is very different. In this case, the UFOs were allegedly summoned (or predicted) by a man named Robert Bingham, who says he is in contact with extraterrestrials. They told him (and he told dozens of others) where and when to look in the skies to see them. If that is true, why wasn't the video better composed? Or, why didn't he bring in local news teams, with their high-quality professional cameras?"
UFOs 'Summoned' and Videoed Over L.A.?
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Did the Germans launch a crewed rocket into space in 1933?

Bruno Fischer and the three officials then retired to a small hollow in the ground about two hundred yards away and Fischer closed the switch that sent the rocket on its journey. There was a blinding flash and a deafening explosion, and the slim torpedo-shaped body was gone from the steel framework in which it had rested.

Did the Germans launch a crewed rocket into space in 1933?"A few minutes later it came into sight again, floatin...
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Historic L.A. hospital site to be turned into senior apartments

Although the hospital closed in 1991, the six-story complex survives with its dignity mostly intact — with peeling paint and roosting pigeons adding to tales of sudden chilly drafts and paranormal activity inside.

That's because Linda Vista is one of L.A.'s most popular filming locations. It was daunting enough to stand in for a squalid mental asylum in a Duran Duran music video, and it has been the subject of televised paran...
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ET Hunter Calls it Quits -- Search for Funding Instead"

“We’re spending between 12 and 16 hours a day looking at the Kepler planetary systems. That won’t change. What Gerry is trying to do is add new software clients that look for different kinds of patterns than we’ve been able to do,” Tarter said. Tarter plans to spend her time putting together a cadre of people who believe that “SETI is too important to fail.” She wants to establish an endowment that will cover SETI’s $2 ...
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Bigfoot and Yeti DNA Study Gets Serious

"It would be wonderful if one or more turned out to be species we don't know about, maybe primates, maybe even collateral hominids," Sykes told LiveScience. Such hominids would include Neanderthals or Denosivans, a mysterious hominin species that lived in Siberia 40,000 years ago.
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Mysterious Marine Monster Caught in Video

Others note that the video seems authentic, and that a hoaxed video would likely be much more dramatic. Scale in the video is unclear, and without more information about the drill site (for example the diameter of the pipe the animal moves in front of), it's impossible to know exactly how big it is.
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A Cambridge, Ontario couple reports photographing an apparent Pyramid-like UFO moving rapidly over the city around a cloud cover on 3 May 2012 according to testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database. Cambridge is a Canadian city that is west of Toronto.

UFO: Couple reports Pyramid-like object over Cambridge, Ontario
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Brenda Salveson found a meteorite potentially worth $20,000 in a local park where she brings her kids and dog, a local TV station in Sacramento reports.

“I was lucky, blessed, good karma,” Salveson told CBS Local. “It was sitting there at my toes like an Easter egg.”

The rock is one of many meteorites that fell from outer space, peppering Gold Country with primitive space rocks on April 22.

Brenda Salveson Stumbles Upon Meteorite Worth $20,000 In Local California Park
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