Tree-Climbing Bigfoot, Aliens Extracting Teeth, Mysterious Scottish Hum, Mexican Goblins Walking and More Mysterious News Briefly

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

A recent story about a group of people in Colombia who claimed that in March 2025 they spotted a spherical UFO flying overhead, followed it to a field where it landed, picked it up and took it home just added a new chapter when one of them, David Velez el Potro, claimed in an interview with journalist and UFO researcher Jaime Maussan that another in the group felt sick for days after touching the object, and  Velez el Potro poured water on it which caused it to smoke and vaporize the water instantly, indicating the interior was hot and exterior cold; he gave the sphere to Maussan, who claimed he had it analyzed by scientists who reported it had three layers of metal-like material and 18 microspheres surrounding a central nucleus they are calling 'a chip' but showed no seams or welds, indicating to them that “It is of artificial origin”; they claimed they examined the engravings on the sphere and used AI to assist in deciphering them, which interpreted a message which said: “The origin of birth through union and energy in the cycle of transformation, meeting point of unity, expansion, and consciousness—individual consciousness”; the researchers claimed this is “a message to humanity, encouraging a collective shift in consciousness to help Mother Earth—especially considering the current issues with pollution and environmental decline”; as always, more inspection is needed by independent researchers without government connections. Which movie should they watch first – ‘Andromeda Strain’ or ‘Contagion’?

The UK has long admitted its Ministry of Defence had a group investigating UFOs but the information released is believed to be only a small part of its files, so UFO researcher and filmmaker Mark Christopher Lee has created the UK Disclosure Group to pressure the UK government to open its X-files; to give the group a big name, he’s recruited singer Robbie Williams, who has publicly revealed his encounters with a UFO so close he could almost hit it with a tennis ball, and an alien “gold ball of light” in his studio; Nick Pope, who was for a long time head of the MoD UFO research desk, has also agreed to join the UK Disclosure Group to demand that the government declassify more documents, investigate recent drone-like sightings with transparency and create whistleblower protection laws for those both reporting and investigating. They might have better luck if they made it a competition with the U.S. to see who reveals the existence of aliens first.

One can see plenty of strange beings in New Orleans during the Mardi Gras celebrations, but the rest of the state of Louisiana has them the rest of the year, as seen in a local news report from Carencro where homeowner Rudy Begnaud posted a video on social media of two strange four-legged creatures running through his backyard; commenters immediately ‘identified’ them as Chupacabras of the Texas kind because of their furless skin, long ears and pointed noses; others suggested that, like Texas Chupacabras, these are more likely to be young or sick coyotes, but some also said young deer or goats. If they’re goats, real goat-suckers might want to take a trip to Louisiana.

Those in the market for a haunted mansion might want to check out the Lumber Baron Inn in Denver's Highlands neighborhood which is up for sale for $3.2 million; the three-story Victorian mansion is currently a B&B and is recognized as one of Denver’s most haunted buildings, which may be due to the ghost of the 10-year-old son of lumber magnate John Mouat, who built the property in 1890; the son was fatally stabbed inside the home by a grocer; or it could be the ghosts of two young women were murdered there in a double homicide in the 1970s, a case that is still unsolved; if the new buyer wants to renovate the haunted Lumber Baron Inn, they can get some tips from the Haunted House Renovator, a new simulation game developed by the Polish company ImagePower which has players repair and remodel haunted houses while dealing with unwanted ghost - or wanted ones, if the owners are planning paranormal investigations or sleepovers. The first step should be to ask the ghosts if they mind or the remodeling could result in a few more murders.

From the ‘Unusually Shaped UFOs‘ file comes two sightings – the first was in Twentynine Palms, California, where a witness told the National UFO Reporting Center about a hexagonal-shaped UFO with “great brightness" that "seemed to move arbitrarily with no clear path. The movements were jerky and at varying speeds"; the witness sent a 15-minute video to NUFORC showing what could be a drone, a rocket launch, or something else; the second was reported by a Texas couple visiting Lake Okeechobee, Florida, where they told NUFORC and local media they saw a reddish-orange oblong UFO with a "leaf shape" pointed end hovering at about 1,000 feet; the witnesses claimed the object was outlined by dots of light and never flickered or moved; as they watched it, it “twisted” and then “just evaporated”; the witness did not photograph the UFO but called the FAA because it looked like “50 drones at one time, completely controlled by a computer” that could have been a danger to airplanes. It’s becoming safer to report unusual UFOs like these to the government and to UFO researchers, but those giant smoke rings in the sky like a recent one in Kansas are probably just aliens letting us know they haven’t yet elected their pope.

Police documents from 1938 that were only recently discovered show that Inverness-Shire chief constable William Fraser believed that “there is some strange creature in Loch Ness” but his department’s power to protect it was “very doubtful” and he was concerned that, since the first photo of the alleged Loch  Ness monster surfaced in 1933, people like “a Mr. Peter Kent and Miss Marion Stirling, both of London, are determined to catch the Monster dead or alive” because “Mr. Peter Kent visited Fort Augustus on Friday, 12 August and was seen there by my Officer stationed at Fort Augustus. To whom he stated that he was having a special harpoon gun made and that he was to return with some twenty experienced men on the 22 of August for the purpose of hunting the Monster down’; Fraser said he warned Kent to leave the creature alone “but whether my warning will have the desired effect or not remains to be seen”; the 1938 police report was found by Kenny Welsh of The Loch Ness Centre in Drumnadrochit. Are the local police still this concerned about the Loch Ness monster or are they too busy dealing with shoplifters at the Inverness souvenir shops?

A man camping at the Carson River Resort campground in Markleeville, California, south of Lake Tahoe, recorded what he believes was a Bigfoot climbing a tree on a ridge; he told the Rocky Mountain Sasquatch Organization that he felt “like someone or something was watching me up on the ridge" and recorded the location but saw nothing unusual; however, when he told his tale to his daughter, she zoomed in and spotted a large figure walking in the woods, then quickly moving up a tree until it disappeared into its branches; the witness suspected it was a Bigfoot because of its size and speed – not to mention the fact that that park has a warning sign about it being a “Bigfoot breeding area” and cautioned against making eye contact, which the man couldn’t do because it was so far away; commenters on the video favor Bigfoot over a bear. Or was it a Bigfoot escaping a bear? Who would win this encounter and would you watch it on pay-per-view?

One photo drove the UFO community wild recently because it was held up for display by Lue Elizando, former head of the Department of Defense now-defunct Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), at a UAP Disclosure Fund-organized panel where he described it as “Captured near Four Corners at FL20 — estimated 600 – 1,000 ft in diameter, silver-hued, disc-shaped” by a commercial airline pilot in 2021 flying at 21,000 feet; while not questioned at the hearing, the photo was quickly attacked when made public and eventually identified as a Google satellite photo of a field in Colorado Springs with two adjacent naturally-formed crop circles; the circle that looked like a shadow of a flying saucer was said to be an optical illusion; Elizondo issued a statement acknowledging the misidentification and explained that he had received the photo from a pilot before presenting it at a forum, defending it as a way to get more pilots to come forward with UFO photos and accounts. Credibility these days is rarer than clear UFO photos.

In a recent interview, Russian singer Katya Lel gives advice to people who fear being abducted by aliens – she qualified to do this because the 5-year-old claims she herself was abducted at age 16 and her teeth were extracted in a bizarre trade that she alleges saved the world from nuclear war; she assures that extraterrestrials "will return you safely" and not do anything without "consent"; however, she says “you need to immediately define the boundaries. And categorically forbid the aliens to take anything from you” – she wishes she had known this so that she wouldn’t have lost her teeth; Lel has come forward at this time to assure more people that extraterrestrials are real, saying: “It is time to wake up, awaken and work on yourself, raising your level of consciousness. First of all, in order to understand what is in this Universe and what is not”. In other words, aliens are OK but keep your dental insurance.

Not all robots are docile, subservient vacuum cleaners as a recent video shows two unidentified men seemingly working in a factory near a humanoid robot when the robot suddenly appears to animate on its own, raising its arms and waving them around quickly haphazardly as it begins to walk away from the stand it is attached to; the men seem clearly afraid and move away as the robot destroys a computer monitor and wreaks havoc until one man grabs the stand, upon which the robot seems to stop moving. The intelligence may be artificial but a swat from a robot will definitely leave a real bruise.

In a new interview, Dr. Gregory Rogers, a former NASA chief flight surgeon and Air Force major, revealed that in 1992 he saw a classified video feed of a 20-foot "flying saucer" being removed from a hangar in Cape Canaveral, Florida; he claims he had been invited into a locked room by another Air Force officer to watch the video feed and saw that the flying saucer had U.S. Air Force markings but “There were no antennas, there were no flight control surfaces. Everything was very smooth and blended. I saw no rivets, no seams — nothing”; he claims he watched as men in lab coats and hazmat suits suddenly left the area, after which he saw what looked like “electromagnetic charges coming off this vehicle”, and then “All of a sudden it just lifted up, as smooth as could be. Once it got up maybe 3 feet above the concrete surface, it rotated completely around, clockwise, one revolution, then it revolved counterclockwise, one revolution”; he said the other Air Force officer told him this was based on alien technology; Dr. Rogers is now retired and currently is on the board of directors for the International UFO Bureau, which made him more comfortable about finally coming forward with his experience. Kudos to Dr. Rogers for coming forward, but a demo or a copy of the video would have been nice.

It’s been a while since we had news about a ‘mysterious hum’ but that dearth ended with recent social media reports from Scotland's Outer Hebrides islands about the "Hebridean Hum" which seems to have begun in February 2025 on the Isle of Lewis and is described as “a persistent, environmental tone that can be heard indoors and outdoors in multiple areas"; it has been measured at 50 Hertz using a spectrograph and, although it falls below the hearing range of many people, is extremely disturbing for those who are sensitive to it; while the social media group dedicated to it says the "Hebridean Hum" is human-made, no one has identified its cause and local officials have done nothing to resolve it. When on the Isle of Lewis and someone asks you about a song you’re not familiar with, don’t ask the to “hum a few bars”.

A new study of snuff tubes carved from hollow bones found around monumental stone structures at Chavín de Huántar, a prehistoric ceremonial site in the Andes mountains in Peru analyzed residue in them and isolated traces of nicotine from wild relatives of tobacco and Vilca bean residue, a hallucinogen related to DMT, that it appears leaders of the Chavín Phenomenon society, which predated the Incas, used for personal visions and to display their authority by controlling access to visions they claimed were from the supernatural world; they used the psychedelic in rituals that helped convince the public that their elaborate artistic projects were good ideas supported by the gods; this is the earliest evidence of psychedelic usage in ancient Peru. Would it be a good thing to have our current leaders take psychedelics – or are they using them already?

Security cameras serve a useful purpose but in León, Guanajuato, Mexico, they’re scaring people with videos of what many believe to be goblins walking across a deserted street at night; the video making the rounds on social media shows a small dark silhouette crossing the road, then after a pause another one follows it; in a culture steeped in mythology, many immediately identify the images as goblins, ghost or some other supernatural entities, but others suggest the video has been modified or a glitch in the camera has combined two videos into a confusing double exposure. Can we devote some research money to better security cameras or are supernatural entities withholding the funding to keep their existence a secret?

Chemtrails are a favorite topic for conspiracy theorists and their alleged existence has had an effect on politicians in Florida who proposed a new bill that will make it illegal for aircraft to release any sort of chemicals in their vapor trails for the purpose of geoengineering; while there is no proof that this is actually occurring, the conspiracy theory convinced Tennessee officials to pass a similar law in 2024, so Florida politicians are fairly confident they will win. This won’t end the crisscrossed trails covering the skies over the Sunshine State but it may make true believers feel better about taking a deep breath of humid Florida air.

Egyptian mummies have been studied to death (no pun intended) and researchers have a good idea what mummification techniques were used to preserve them, but an 18th century naturally-preserved mummified body stored in the church crypt of St Thomas am Blasenstein in Austria, believed to be the remains of vicar Franz Xaver Sidler von Rosenegg who died in 1746 at the aged of 37, have baffled scientists because of its “air-dried” state; that mystery has been solved as recent research determined that the body was embalmed when the abdominal and pelvic cavities willed filled through the rectum with wood chips, fragmented twigs, fabrics such as hemp and silk, and zinc chloride; these materials then absorbed fluids from inside the body; a partial autopsy and CT scans showed a well-preserved upper body but decay to the face, lower legs and feet; researchers suspect the unusual mummification was done either to stop any infection from spreading to the living, or to make the body easier to transport to the vicar’s his home monastery of Waldhausen. This technique could not have been helpful in recruiting embalmers.