Haunted Hotel for Sale, Jimmy Carter's UFO, Oregon Cattle Mutilations, Bigfoot Hunting Deaths and More Mysterious News Briefly

A roundup of mysterious, paranormal and strange news stories from the past week. 

The best explanation for the mysterious drones buzzing New Jersey and other U.S. states comes from Dmitry Medvedev, the former president and prime minister of Russia and the current deputy chairman of the Security Council, who said in a post that the drones flying in U.S. airspace were alien spacecraft, with some possibly parked at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton with other alien spacecraft and that many “alien mummies hiding in U.S. bases have come out of them and are involved in politics”, including many members of the U.S. Senate; his argument is based on their appearance, as he says, “look at their creepy faces. Look closer. Beyond any doubt, these sinister creatures are reptiles” Drones filled with alien reptilians heading for Washington – sounds like the plot for a new Harrison Ford action movie.

Perhaps no president in U.S. history has made more statements in support of the existence of UFOs and extraterrestrials than Jimmy Carter, who passed away on December 29, 2024, at the age of 100. While running for president in 1976, Carter became an early proponent of UFO disclosure when he said, “One thing's for sure, I'll never make fun of people who say they've seen unidentified objects in the sky. If I become President, I'll make every piece of information this country has about UFO sightings available to the public and the scientists”. Unfortunately, he became yet another president who rescinded this promise – details later emerged that Carter allegedly wept when he was given a CIA briefing on extraterrestrials who created religion on Earth to control humans. Carter did reveal the details of his own UFO sighting at a speaking engagement in Leary, Georgia, in 1969, saying he and other witnesses saw an orb that was “bluish at first, then reddish, luminous, not solid” which moved across the sky and changed directions”. Carter was a scientist as well as a religious man, so he would have understood the implications of alien encounters on our technology and humanity – an understanding that he took with him to his grave.

Dr. Ohad Raveh of Hebrew University and Dr. Nathan Goldstein of Bar-Ilan University analyzed more than 20 years of data collected by the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) and found “a surprising link between UAP sightings and macroeconomic conditions at the U.S.-county, state, and national levels”; that link showed that UFO sightings tend to increase during periods of economic recession and decrease during times of stability or bull markets, and these sightings tend to occur more often in affluent areas which are contrary to the conventional wisdom that UFO sightings are more frequent in areas with greater psychological problems and stress; the authors of the study conclude that government officials should use this data to make better decisions during times of economic instability or uncertainty. If aliens are going to mess with our economy, they should start paying taxes.

Oregon is the epicenter of mysterious cattle mutilations in the U.S. and 2024 ended with yet another in Grant County, the scene of others in the past, where a rancher found a dead bull with its entire snout, tongue, eyelids and penis removed with precision cuts; the anonymous rancher told a reporter the bull’s testicles remained and no blood was spilled; no footprints or tire tracks were found and no scavenger birds or predators had touched the carcass, which appeared to have been in a struggle before it died; Grant County Sheriff’s Office deputies investigated the scene and noted that this rancher had lost another cow to mutilation a few years ago, but had no explanation for this mysterious death nor any of the others they have encountered in this mutilation hotbed area of eastern Oregon. If cows had psychics, there is no question what they’d be predicting for 2025.

While NASA continues to deny that there has ever been any sex in space involving U.S. astronauts, Canadian physician, astronaut, and 'space sexology' expert Dr. Shawna Pandya, who has conducted new technology tests in suborbital aircraft and is scheduled to fly aboard Virgin Galactic’s Delta class space plane by 2026, said on a recent podcast that whoever those first ‘sex in space’ astronauts are should be practicing positions that will work in zero gravity; one she recommends is 'dolphin-style' which involves a third person because “Dolphins are kind of in a neutral buoyancy environment. When two dolphins are trying to mate, a third dolphin comes in, takes one for the team, and holds a partner in place so the two dolphins can successfully mate”; Pandya recommends that “’ We need to think about how we approach sexuality, sexual health, reproduction in space in a way that is very considered, mindful, inclusive and ethical”. A ‘dolphin-style’ threesome in space sounds like the perfect way for NASA to increase its sagging astronaut recruitment numbers.

Marie Noel of Walthamstow, east London, was recovering from Boxing Day when she heard birds squawking at the ungodly non-squawking hour of two in the morning so she went outside and photographed what she described as “very small black shadows flying across the sky before a larger one approaches the camera”; she decided it was “some kind of creature” that made no noise and looked like a “tadpole” or “an alien type thing” that resembled “the dementors from Harry Potter” which left her “speechless”; there was no follow-up and the photos look like the “tadpole” could be a tightly packed flock of birds, but two in the morning seems like an unlikely time for that. We saw Flying Tadpoles open for Toad the Wet Sprocket.

In a story that illustrates the many dangers of paranormal investigation, the bodies of the two men, ages 37 and 59 years old, were found in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in Washington State after they died from exposure while hunting for Bigfoot shortly before Christmas, according to family members who reported the men missing on Christmas Day, causing a three-day manhunt that involved over 60 volunteer search and rescue personnel trekking through the heavily wooded area in freezing temperatures, snow and rain; they were joined by seven law enforcement agencies from around the area and the Coast Guard who brought in dogs, drones and helicopters; the area is a popular spot for Bigfoot watchers but the men were ill-prepared and poorly dressed for the severe weather conditions, according to Skamania County Sheriff Summer Scheyer who said she is "unaware of any deaths within our county related specifically to searches for Sasquatch. However, I have only been employed here for around 24 years, so there may have incident prior to my employment". Did Bigfoot have any branches set at half-staff?

If you don’t fear artificial intelligence yet, 2024 Nobel Prize winner for physics, Professor Geoffrey Hinton, who is referred to as the “Godfather of AI” for helping create AI technology, warned in a new interview that AI could wipe out the human race within the next decade, much sooner than his previous estimate of 30 years, saying that the technology has developed “much faster” than he expected and will quickly become the “grown-ups” and humans mere infants; he warns that the “invisible hand” of the marketplace will not stop this and “The only thing that can force those big companies to do more research on safety is government regulation”. Isn’t “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus” required reading in college classes anymore?

A new study by astronomers at the Max Planck Institute in Germany and published in the Astronomy & Astrophysics journal used data from the eRosita X-ray instrument and found that there is a cosmic tunnel stretching from our solar system to the Centaurus constellation and another that links our solar system to Canis Major; they believe there is probably a large network of channels between different star regions but are not sure why these tunnels exist, but they suspect star systems exist in low-density bubbles of X-ray-emitting, million-degree hot gas that can expand when supernovas detonate and create pockets of hot gas to push an arm of the bubble towards another one, forming a tunnel. What will come first: transit through these cosmic tunnels or toll booths?

It shouldn’t be unusual to find that psychics make the same predictions, but psychic watchers were excited to find that Nostradamus and Baba Vanga, the ‘Nostradamus of the Balkans’, made one identical prediction for 2025 – Nostradamus wrote in Les Prophéties that 2025 will bring “A great pestilence from the past returns, no enemy more deadly under the skies” and there will be a “decrease in the influence of established Western countries” and the “emergence of new world powers” as a prolonged conflict comes to an end; Baba Vanga predicted that a war in Europe in 2025 will “devastate” the population, and that “Russia will not only survive, it will dominate the world”. Why couldn’t they stick to fun sports predictions and let us be surprised with the rest of world affairs?

Darryl Anka is a rare combination of alien channeler and psychic who communicates telepathically to Bashar, an alien from an alternate dimensional planet located 500 light-years away called Essassani; his previous messages from Bashar revealed that the human race was “created” by an alien species called the AnnNu who “decided to inject their own DNA” into “hominid species” “several hundred thousand of your years ago”; in his latest message, Bashar/Anka says proof of aliens will be revealed to us by the beginning of 2027 and we will “have open contact with extraterrestrial beings” but he doesn’t say what will happen next, only that it will be a “powerful time of change” where humanity could follow good or bad paths. Have we ever followed the ‘good’ path?

In central Georgia, a father and son recorded 58 seconds of video of an orange orb traveling across the sky above some trees but, as the video uploaded to Reddit shows, the orb disappeared when they finally got to a clearing to get a better look; the father said, “When I first observed it the light was huge, but it was way off, like a 1/2 mile. As it got closer, it seemed to dim but stayed the same luminous lighting. As I walked further to capture it, I thought what if it was trying to evade me. Near the end of the video, it seems as if it elevates or lessened its luminosity”; the man said he heard no sound and doubted it was an aircraft; also, this was a long way from New Jersey and its mysterious drones; no one had a good explanation for the orb or its disappearance and no comments were posted by officials, so it’s open for interpretation. Could it have been aliens coming to say goodbye to their old friend Jimmy Carter?

In the past, a person who exhibited strange and erratic behavior whenever there was a full moon would be shunned or feared of being demonically possessed or possibly a werewolf, but an unnamed woman in India who showed those symptoms was recently diagnosed with a rare condition known as 'trance and possession disorder' (TPD) — a state of altered consciousness and inconsistent behavior — and written about in a study published in the journal Cureus where her doctors at the Datta Meghe Institute of Higher Education in Maharashtra, India, explained that “Psychotherapy played a crucial role in helping her understand the link between her depressive tendencies and trance episodes” and anti-depressants helped her gradually overcome the condition which had baffled her local doctors for seven years; the full moon may have affected her sleep and contributed to her behavior, which included a lack of control over sexual impulses and alterations of consciousness which caused her family to allow an exorcism before she was properly diagnosed and treated. How many more people would be helped if we publicized medical treatment on cable shows instead of tales of possession and horror?

Many members of the British Parliament are scary, depending on your party affiliation, but Jo-Anne Crowder, who has worked in the Palace of Westminster for over 30 years and is the diary manager to current House of Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle, says she fears a ghost dog she has felt nuzzle her leg when there is no dog around; she says others have experienced the ghost dog and she has also seen a mysterious Grey Lady while walking through Parliament at night; other ghost tales of Parliament include phantom horses heard trotting outside and a spirit that allegedly threw a Parliament employee against a wall in a parking garage. Being chased by a ghost dog still beats being chased by a randy prince.

The haunted hotel is a staple of horror movies but the owners of a real haunted hotel in Ballinger, Texas, hope potential buyers see its money-making potential; Connie and Dan LaFave operated the Olde Park Hotel for nine years, offering tours and overnight stays to paranormal investigators and the paranormally curious; potential buyers should be aware that the hotel comes with a female ghost dressed in black, white and red and seen by Dan, and other apparitions of cowboys, bordello women and children, especially in a toy room set aside for the younger ghosts which holds a porcelain doll known to move on its own; no price has been made public but the owners are accepting inquiries and offers on the Facebook page. You can check out any time you like but you’ll never be able to get “Hotel California” out of your head.

In the U.S., Tom DeLonge, co-founder and vocalist of the band Blink-182, might be the rock star best suited to greet aliens when they arrive with his involvement with the To the Stars Academy of Arts & Sciences, but in the UK, UFO researcher and documentary and filmmaker Mark Christopher Lee nominates pop star Robbie Williams, who claims to have had numerous close UFO encounters; Williams says he’s flattered and thinks he may have been selected by aliens as a spokesperson because of his fame as a rock star: “I sometimes think - and I try to separate narcissism and ego, unsuccessfully a lot of the time - but there are lots of different theories that we all have to do with this stuff. But I wonder if that thing that came over across my head with the girl and the thing and the ball, I often wonder if I'm supposed to see it because of my public platform. Am I supposed to see this so I can talk about it?”. Are we really so naïve to not believe that visiting aliens would come here to attend a Taylor Swift concert, not one with Williams or DeLonge?

Another job being taken by artificial intelligence is ‘psychic’ as The Sun shows by asking ChatGTP for some forecasts for 2025 – the AI bot sees an “omnipotent” network with the power to create algorithms of "frightening precision"; a cure for a disease "previously thought untouchable"; a long-forgotten celestial body will reappear in the form of a comet; cyber attacks causing ‘silent wars”; British politics face the "emergence of a new political figure"; there will be "restless" seas and an "island nation marked by a crescent moon" will feel their fury; and a currency marked by a "mythical creature" will be in resurgence. With predictions like these, maybe we should stick to Nostradamus for news and let AI pick football champions.

The year 2025 begins with a new spin on the TikTok time traveler phenomenon with the video posts of Emily Eaton, who calls herself an “interdimensional communicator, which allows me to channel directly with angels, aliens and other interdimensional beings”; her most frequent telepathic messages come from So, I get answers from “the Galactic Federation – the leadership of the Cosmos”, especially ‘Eronus’ who “sits on the Board of Advisers for the Galactic Federation”; he told her that in the first weeks of  January 2025 “humans can expect to step outside and see an orb or UFO” which will be followed by “our larger ships” which he will station “over lakes, oceans and mountains”; another alien named ‘Frist’, who sits on the Galactic Council of Five, warned her that “air disruption might be likely as we send in our big ships” and an anonymous alien assured her that “We are coming because God asked us to. We serve the same God many of you do and we can teach you to connect even more directly to him”. Why can’t they just communicate telepathically with the rest of us rather than sending in giant ships? (Asking for a skeptical friend.)