California's Underwater UFO Base, Planet Nine Evidence, Tattooed Tardigrades, Super-Powered Hair and More Mysterious News Briefly

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

According to a new poll from NewsNation/Decision Desk HQ of U.S. Democrats, Republicans, independents and others, 44 percent of Americans believe that the government is concealing UFO information, while 28 percent disagree and another 28 percent are unsure, with 49 percent of Gen Zs and 48 percent of millennials believing in government UFO coverups, compared to just 34 percent of baby boomers; the poll also showed that men were more likely than women to believe in a UFO concealment, urban residents more than rural residents, and Republicans far more than Democrats (48% to 39%). Before you get excited, most American politicians regard these polls the same way they see UFO photos – blurred at best, fake at worst.

The search for a giant Planet Nine (or Ten or X, depending on your math and preferred numbering system) may have been narrowed down considerably by an international team from Taiwan, Japan, and Australia who released a paper on their study (not yet peer-reviewed) using 40 years' worth of data from the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS), launched in 1983, and AKARI, a Japanese satellite which made space observations between 2006 and 2007, to identify a potential candidate one potential object approximately 46.5 billion to 65.1 billion miles away from the sun, making it almost 20 times farther away than Pluto is; based on the gravitational pull, they believe it has the mass of seven to 17 Earths or roughly the size of Uranus or Neptune; the 23-year gap between the two observations which showed a unique pattern of movement a gravitational effect that scream “Planet Nine!”, although they still don’t have enough data to confirm it or map its entire orbit. Meanwhile, Pluto keeps craving the attention it once received.

Matthew Brown, a former U.S. national security official and author of the Immaculate Constellation Field Report which alleges the Executive Branch has been secretly coordinating UFO and alien research for decades without congressional oversight, revealed on a podcast that he now fears for his life, even though he discovered references to Immaculate Constellation accidentally in 2018 while reviewing classified materials at the Pentagon; he said the program’s goal is to achieve global surveillance of all UAPs worldwide and he chose to reveal it because “Ultimately, my biggest fear is what humanity will do to itself out of fear and greed”; that fear and greed could result in “life imprisonment and the possibility of execution” for him; he believes we are not alone and suspects that RVs (reproduction vehicles) and ARVs (alien reproduction vehicles) have been built by governments to replicate the capabilities of UFOs. If we’re not alone, why aren’t the aliens protecting the whistleblowers in the name of saving humanity from itself … or don’t they care?

Psychics may know what is going to happen to the rest of us but they sometimes do poorly predicting their own future, as a TikTok astrologer who goes by the name of ‘John Moe The’ found out when he predicted that "every city in Myanmar" was going to be hit by a massive earthquake just two weeks after a magnitude 7.7 earthquake killed over 3,500 people in that South East Asian nation; the psychic’s video got 3.3 million views and caused widespread panic by urging people to “take important things with you and run away from buildings during the shaking" and do not stay in tall buildings during the day, but the earthquake never occurred; what did happen was that Myanmar authorities arrested John Moe The for making "false statements with the intention of causing public panic". Can an astrologer on trial for a prediction bring in a ‘star’ witness?

Scotland is famous for its Scotch whiskey and its Loch Ness monster and now Scottish whiskey maker Domhayn has combined the two by placing casks of Scotch in the deepest regions of the loch (702 feet deep) where the extreme pressure of the water creates what they call a pioneering hydrostatic diffusion technique that alters the spirits molecular profile and gives the whiskey a “unique flavor” which Domhayn calls a potential game changer for the industry; however, they can’t call it ‘Scotch’ because of this strange aging technique, so it is being marketed as a single malt barley spirit and will be sold only at auctions. If it has a hint of Nessie poop flavor, we may finally have 80-proof proof.

Internet pioneer, astronomer and UFO researcher Jacques Vallee recently told investigative reporter George Knapp of his experiences with UFOs causing human deaths, saying: “I can tell you that in my files… some of which I contributed to the database of, there are at least half a dozen well-documented cases where the injuries that resulted in death were deliberate”;  Vallee was once part of the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP) in Las Vegas and Knapp says Vallee investigated “the real-life health consequences for humans who come into contact with UFOs” that were not accidental, and “AAWSAP investigators traveled to Brazil to obtain government files related to hundreds of Brazilians treated for injuries after being targeted by UFOs”: Vallee says he fears a panic when the truth of these injuries and deaths comes out and the announcement should be structured, but “the structure hasn’t been invented yet”. The cat is out of the bag and it’s armed and killing humans.

In the interest of aiding cryptid research, we bring you the story of a strange hairless animal seen and recorded on video in the city park of Songdo International City, Incheon, South Korea the animal was captured on video by Yonhap News cameras near a riverside walkway in Songdo and social media comments on the video quickly called the creature a “Chupacabra" of the Texas kind, which are hairless and have exposed fanged teeth; Seo Mun-hong, an environmental researcher at the National Institute of Biological Resources, examined the video and photos and diagnosed the animal as a raccoon infected with a "larva migrans" parasite that causes itching and scratching leading to the animal losing all of its fur and have an angry and pained look; there may be more than one because the disease is contagious and raccoons use common latrines. A real Chupacabra would be sucking the blood out of the raccoon.

Pablo Schmithalter, a soybean farm contractor threshing a field near Rafaela, Argentina, was surprised when he reviewed photos of the operation later and saw something hovering in the sky above the field around sunset that looked to him like a flying saucer; he shared the images with local media and said: “What appears in the images looks like a flying saucer. I want to clarify that the photos were not edited …  we didn't see anything at the time”; after the images were published, he received messages from several people saying they had seen a strange figure in the same area on other occasions around dusk; other than the flying saucer, Schmithalter said that the soybean threshing season was going well and “Yields are better than expected”. Are aliens watching over the field to load up on tofu for the ride home?

If you’re not convinced there is a market for de-extincting wooly mammoths and other extinct animals, Creative agency VML has joined forces with The Organoid Company and Lab-Grown Leather to make “T-Rex leather” by using fossilized T. rex collagen found in skin and connective tissues to engineer synthetic DNA which is then incorporated into Lab-Grown Leather’s proprietary cell cultivation process known as Elemental-X which allows cells to create their own natural structure, resulting in material structurally identical to natural leather which they will then use to make luxury handbags, luggage and other leather goods and give them a unique piece of the $780 billion global leather industry. Sounds like we’ll soon be buying designer leather purses from Dior-nosaur.

According to a study published by the American Chemical Society, scientists in China tattooed microscopic images on tardigrades, those indestructible microbial water bears that have been found living on the outside of the International Space Station and may be living on the Moon after the crash of a probe carrying them, by first dehydrating them into a cryptobiotic state, cooling them to -226°F, then using a focused electron beam to tattoo simple microscopic patterns like lines, dots, and logos onto their frozen bodies; only 40 percent of the tardigrades survived rehydration but none of them seemed to mind their new tattoos; while it seems like a frivolous activity to give tardigrades microscopic tramp p stamps, the scientists say this technique can someday be used to etch microrobots onto living tissue to deliver medications or identify diseases. We saw Tattooed Tardigrades open for Alien Ant Farm.

In celebrity ghost news, supermodel Claudia Schiffer admits in a new interview that her Tudor mansion - Coldham Hall - in Suffolk, England, is haunted, but the ghosts are “friendly” and have been encountered by Schiffer, her husband, filmmaker hubby Matthew Vaughn, and their three children regularly since they bought it 23 years ago; Schiffer says the house was once a safe haven for Catholic priests during the Elizabethan purges and got its name when Queen Elizabeth I visited and was shocked to be served “cold ham”; one ghost is believed to be that of a young nun named Penelope Rockwood and, although Penelope and the other spirits are friendly, Schiffer once brought in an exorcist just to be on the safe side. She moved in after breaking up with magician David Copperfield, who probably would have charged more than the exorcist.

The first ‘official’ Loch Ness monster sighting of 2025 as recognized by the Official Loch Ness Monster Sightings Registry occurred on March 22nd at around 7 pm when an unnamed couple from London were at “the point where the River Taff connects to Loch Ness, on the north bank” when they heard “a very quiet splash sound as if something was cutting stealthily into the water”; that drew their attention to the water where they “saw something moving through the water. Between 130 and 160 feet away from us” that was “paler than the jet-black water around it”; the couple said “It was large and alive and swimming in the water” and looked like a "hump" moving at “2 to 3 meters per second (4.5 to 6.7 miles per hour)”; they saw “a second mass in its wake” that was maybe 1.5 to 2 meters” behind the first hump; they watched as it “slowly submerged as it went and disappeared. It moved very gracefully and silently”; they believed it was “one long creature" but unfortunately did not get a video or photograph. Were they hunting for Nessie or whiskey?

Willard Library Evansville, Indiana, has long been rumored to be the home of a Grey Lady ghost first seen by a maintenance worker in the 1930s, and other sightings since then have added to the mystique of the 140-year-old building, but none of those compare to a recent incident picked up on security camera video of a locked door opening and closing after hours with no human intervention; the staff is certain the door was locked because the camera showed it being locked and “the alarm system will not arm unless all doors are properly latched”; while no one detected the smell of perfume or found books and furniture out of place, employees can’t come up with a legitimate reason for the mysterious door behavior other than the work of the Grey Lady ghost. She must have known where she was because they didn’t hear any noises either.

A 3,300-year-old Egyptian obelisk has stood since 1836 in Place de la Concorde in Paris and Egyptologists have studied its inscriptions ever since, but it was not until recently that Jean-Guillaume Olette-Pelletier, an Egyptologist and cryptologist from the Catholic University of Paris, found undiscovered secret messages visible only to someone reading the hieroglyphs horizontally rather than vertically while standing on scaffolding erected around the obelisk and viewing from an unusual angle; the “crypto-hieroglyphs” were used by the ancient Egyptian elite and only six Egyptologists in the world are able to interpret them today; Olette-Pelletier says they touted Pharaoh Ramses’ divine authority, but he says “These messages are a form of propaganda in favor of the builder of the site: Pharaoh Ramses II”. Propaganda from 3,300 years ago – is this obelisk the first example of cable news?

According to a famous movie, blondes have more fun, but a 52-year-old woman from Thailand’s Trang province claims she has let her hair grow uncut for over ten years until reaching 3.8 feet (1.17 meters) in length because it is supernatural ghost hair or “Pom Pee Chor”; she claims she dreamt an old man told her to fire a gun at it and the gun would jam, which she tried and, when it happened, was convinced it now had supernatural powers; hairdressers and spiritual healers agree since none have been able to cut through the solid mass of hair, with some allegedly becoming ill when they tried; she also claims she’s given stands of it to soldiers who believed it protected them in battle; for herself, she claims she has never been sick since she stopped cutting it. Is it an Irresistible Force Paradox if she takes her supernatural hair to Supercuts?

Sycamore Knoll, a mysterious underwater formation in the Pacific Ocean a few off the coast of Southern California between Malibu and Catalina Island just got more mysterious when the 3-miles-wide flat-topped structure which many believe to be a UFO base suddenly disappeared from Google Earth; sometimes called the biggest center of UFO activity found since Roswell, the National UFO Reporting Center has received many reports of UFOs over Sycamore Knoll, with some claiming the UFOs came up out of the water; however, the formation seen since 2014 at coordinates 34° 1'23.31″N 118° 59'45.64″W on Google Earth is no longer there; skeptics say it’s a sign Google Earth doesn't have enough data to properly map that area, but that doesn’t explain why it has had it since 2014. If we can’t trust Google, we might as well give up.

One of the drawbacks to the Big Bang Theory that the universe arose from a single massive explosion is that it won’t work without dark matter and dark energy but scientists have yet to be able to prove they exist, so professor Richard Lieu of The University of Alabama has countered with the Little Bangs Theory – he proposes that the cosmos began with a series of small rapid-fire bursts called 'temporal singularities' which shot new matter and energy out into space to become galaxies, stars, planets and everything else; these bursts continued throughout history, allowing the universe to expand rapidly without the need for dark matter or dark energy; unfortunately, these ‘temporal singularities’ happen rarely and quickly and dissipate before they can be detected with telescopes or other current technologies. Would ‘The Little Bangs Theory’ be as popular or as funny as ‘The Big Bang Theory’?