Yeti Meets Exorcist, Haunted Bridal Doll, Area 51 Dangers, UFO Summoners and More Mysterious News Briefly

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

In his new documentary, ‘Project: Alien Earth’, filmmaker and UFO researcher Mark Christopher Lee says that the Tic Tac-shaped UFOs tormenting US Navy personnel and pilots have been around since 1561, which means they’re not modern aircraft designed by humans: “We’ve been seeing these ‘Tic Tac’ shaped craft for centuries, and I believe it’s time to face the truth. The idea that they are man-made simply doesn’t hold up”; the 1561 incident he refers to occurred in Nuremberg, Germany, when hundreds of people were said to have seen a ‘battle’ in the sky between spherical, cross-shaped “Tic Tac”-shaped objects; Lee also refers to an incident in the US in the 1890s when it was reported that thousands of people saw a metallic capsule-shaped object in the sky’; Lee calls this “continuity over centuries” which suggests “an intelligent, non-human presence operating outside the boundaries of our understanding”. If only we had a time machine to go back and see these incidents for ourselves – unless the Tic Tacs ARE time machines.

Shane Frakes is a U.S. Air Force veteran and self-proclaimed “extrasensory metaphysical investigator”, clairvoyant, psionic asset, and philosopher who has claimed that he participated in ultra-secret military programs focused on psychic abilities and anomalous phenomena, and that he knows of projects to use directed energy weapons (DEW) against humans to beam large language models (LLMs) or super artificial intelligences directly into brains; in a recent social media post, he updates this by claiming that this project was successful and the world’s first transhuman has been created – he compared the process to torture and says the person nearly died, but is now alive and recovering from the mental trauma caused by an AI which tortured this combat veteran with fear, pain, and emotional confusion. If there was one, there are probably more – are they already on the battlefield, hiding among us or playing football?

Actress Wynona Ryder has appeared in ‘Beetlejuice’, ‘Edward Scissorhands’, ‘Bram Stoker’s Dracula’ and the 2009 Star Trek movie reboot, so it should come as no surprise she has had paranormal and UFO experiences; one occurred “when I was about seven or eight, me, my brothers and my sister were sleeping on the roof and we think we saw a UFO. “There was a boomerang going back and forth, but it could have really been anything. It could have been a light, but we were convinced it was a UFO”; the second occurred the day before Samantha Smith, a young girl who became famous for letters she wrote to Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev asking for world peace, died in a plane crash – Ryder says, “The night before she died, I had a dream that I was on a plane sitting next to her – and something was wrong. I woke up and I went into the kitchen and told my parents, but I guess it had just come on the news because my mom dropped her coffee cup’; Ryder then believed that ”I was psychic and that every dream meant something, but it never happened again”. That’s the kind of experience that would make you shake, señora.

A strange UFO encounter was reported by commercial pilots on two flights for the Brazilian airline Azul Linhas Aéreas Brasileiras near the cities of Itapipoca and Aracati in the state of Ceará in northeastern Brazil; flight AZU 2527 was traveling from Campina Grande to Fortaleza and flight AZU 2906 was enroute from Fortaleza to Belém around 8:40 pm on July 7, 2025, when the pilots reported strange lights which resembled “aircraft headlights”; nothing was detected by the TCAS anti-collision system on the planes, nor by their radar; the FAB (Brazilian Air Force) said there were no other aircraft in their immediate airspace; the lights were at the same altitude as the planes, ruling out drones; the audio from the plane of the pilots talking to military air traffic controllers was uploaded but no video, and no updates since. Brazil is more open with its reports on UFO encounters but this hasn’t helped identify any of them – it’s too bad we can’t join forces and create a worldwide database.

The notorious haunted doll Annabelle has been dominating the news with the unexpected death of one of the people on its tour around the U.S with other members of the New England Society for Psychic Research, but a new possessed doll story has edged it out with the report from paranormal investigator Lee Steer that a haunted bridal doll he owns is possessed by a ghost named Elizabeth and has fallen in love with him and is so jealous of his human girlfriend, Sarah Carter, that it is making scratch marks on her neck and back gave her red, blotchy skin; Lee claims Elizabeth also scratched his neck at The Haunted Objects Museum in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, where she’s on display and visitation records show that guests reported scratch marks after visiting her display; Lee claims 15 men say they’ve received scratch marks from the man-hating doll; finally, Lee says Elizabeth is jealous of another haunted doll and allegedly broke her leg even though she was in a locked room. Maybe she just wants a dream house and a pink Corvette like Barbie – you never see Ken with scratches

Paul Hynek, the youngest son of J. Allen Hynek, the astronomer, UFO researcher, head of Project Blue Book and consultant on ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’, revealed in a recent podcast details about his own close encounter with a German woman who claimed she was “a nanny on a spaceship for human-alien hybrid babies", working 9-to-5, five days a week, and described it as a good but mundane job, even though she had no medical insurance – instead, the aliens “sort of healed” her when she was sick; Hynek said the German nanny's calm demeaner when describing her alien babysitting job made her that much more believable.  Steven Spielberg – this sounds like a plot for a sequel.

Calling all UFO callers - Malcolm Robinson of Strange Phenomena Investigations is organizing a team of paranormal investigators to meet in Scotland at the site of the Dechmont Woods UFO incident  where in 1979 forestry worker Bob Taylor claimed he saw mysterious dome-shaped objects land in a clearing, then extend metal spikes which ripped his pants before he passed out; investigators were unable to resolve the torn trousers or the unusual marks left on the ground, so Robinson wants to bring experienced summoners to the site in an attempt to call the UFOs to return and answer some questions; Robinson claims a test run brought “flashing lights” to the site. If it works, maybe they can ask the aliens about crop circles and the Loch Ness monster too.

David Crete, a former Air Force Sergeant who worked at the Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR), the home of Area 51, in the 1980s, has come forward to reveal that over 490 people he worked with at NTTR have since died and he himself developed more than 20 lipomas (non-cancerous tumors) on his body, ranging from his forehead to his arms to his torso, including one the size of a grapefruit that was removed from his back; he noted that one veteran who didn’t develop any tumors nonetheless had a son who was born with one; NTTR was known for nuclear testing since the 1950s, both above and below ground, for highly classified military operations, but the illnesses and deaths of the personnel have never been recognized as being caused by it until Crete and others came forward to testify. Are you still thinking about storming Area 51?

In a recent podcast, U.S. Senator Mike Rounds of South Dakota, a member of the Armed Services and  Intelligence Committees, was asked if he has talked to any whistleblowers who’ve claimed to see recovered UFOs and he responded that “I’ve talked to individuals who have seen materials that they were analyzing, but they did not know what it was from”; when pressed for his opinion, he said: “A lot of it, I suspect, is part of stealth materials that have been developed by different organizations within the federal government”; when asked if it was from Lockheed Martin, he replied: “Well, they have stealth technology, just like some others do. Look, I just simply don’t know.” They should have asked him who DOES know and interviewed them next.

Germany joins the ranks of countries promoting UFO data collection and disclosure with the announcement that the University of Würzburg will be home to an official office to collect reports of unidentified aerial phenomena observed by commercial and military pilots Professor Hakan Kayal, an aerospace technology expert and Head of the Interdisciplinary Research Center for Extraterrestrial Studies (IFEX), will head the project which has the support of the German regulatory body, the Luftfahrt-Bundesamt; Kayal says it’s time to end Cold War secrecy about UFOs and “it's time to look at the sky with scientific eyes and an open mind"; he wants pilots to feel comfortable in reporting any anomalies they see, like the pilots at the national airline Lufthansa who reported luminous phenomena and maneuvers impossible for any known aeronautical technology. They want to end Cold War secrecy – have we ended the Cold War yet?

Gary Heseltine, a well-known British UFO researcher, especially on the Rendlesham Forest incident, and publisher of UFO-related magazines, thinks it is time for President Trump to be “the 'disclosure' President and acknowledge visits by extraterrestrials, stating that “such a revelation might galvanize nations away from the polarization we see currently” because it would be “the most profound moment in human history"; in fact, he reveals in an interview that “We know from fast developing events in the US that it (disclosure) is seemingly just around the corner” and urge President Trump to reveal the existence of non-human intelligence (NHI) soon or “risk causing major public panic with a 'Catastrophic Disclosure' event.” We saw Catastrophic Disclosure open for Black Sabbath (RIP Ozzy Osbourne).

The Newall Boulder at Stonehenge has mystified researchers ever since it was excavated at the site in 1924 as archaeologists argued for nearly 100 years about whether it was brought to the Salisbury Plain by neolithic humans or carried there by prehistoric glacial ice; the argument ended recently after the study, "The enigmatic 'Newall boulder' excavated at Stonehenge in 1924: New data and correcting the record" was published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports; the study determined that the Newell Boulder originated at the Craig Rhos-y-felin rocky outcrop on the north side of the Preseli Mountains in Wales and was moved more than more than 125 miles (200km) by Neolithic people – how they did this is still a topic for debate. Think about that the next time you can’t find any friends to help move your apartment.

A new survey of 4,000 Britons found that nearly four out of ten believe in ghosts, while 20% believe in witches, 12% think the Loch Ness monster is real, and 5 percent each believe in vampires and werewolves; a different survey by the same organization found that 60% believe that hypnosis probably works, far outpolling beliefs in karma (38%), astrology (23%) communicating with the dead (20%) and magic (19%). Do the ghosts of people who drown while searching Loch Ness believe in the monster or is it just karma?

Space scientist Catharine Conley was NASA's 6th Planetary Protection Officer from 2006 through 2018 has now revealed in an interview her belief that she was fired for criticizing the way the Mars 2020 rover was cleaned before being sent to the Red Planet to collect samples and determined that it had a 0.1% chance of contaminating any individual sample, which meant that the 40 samples to be collected would have “a 4 per cent chance of having Earth contamination”; Conley says, “That was not something that the people at headquarters management wanted to hear and they took the steps that they thought were appropriate” in firing her; Conley also warns that these and other contaminated samples from future missions will make it difficult to determine what astronauts will encounter when they step on Mars and wonders, “if astronauts get sick after contacting Mars and we can't figure out why, should they be allowed to return?”; finally, she criticizes Elon Musk’s plans to send humans to Mars because “SpaceX doesn't seem to be developing long-term life support systems along with their rockets” and warns that “I have serious doubts about whether anyone would be alive when the spacecraft gets there”. This sounds like someone who should get a promotion, not a pink slip.

Abbey Clancy, the British model, TV personality and spouse of footballer Peter Crouch, revealed she was driving home on the A3 when she saw "rectangle lights" moving across the sky; she noted that "It wasn't a sunny day, and it hadn't been raining. It couldn't have been some sort of reflection. Seconds later, they all zipped off in a different direction"; unfortunately, Clancy didn’t take any photos or videos, just like British actor Michael Sheen, who also reported recently about an experience he had at age 12 after being dropped off by the school bus – he claimed “I saw something come around the edge of the mountain off in the distance - a light coming round” which had “two lights behind it and then three lights behind it and then I saw a phalanx of light coming from behind the mountain and floating out over the sea”; Sheen didn’t have a camera (this was pre-cell phones) and didn’t tell anyone to come out and see the UFOs, even though this was in Port Talbot, Wales. Which is known for numerous alien sightings. When it comes to UFOs, if you see something, yell something and grab something that takes photos.

Bigfoot continues its quest for normalization this week with the announcement by the Unicode Consortium that the Unicode 17 collection of officially approved emojis will include a Bigfoot emoji; while it looks like Bigfoot, the Unicode Consortium refers to the cryptid emoji as a "Hairy Creature" so as not to offend other hairy cryptids such as the yowie, yeti, nuk-luk, hibagon, orang pendekor and almas; Unicode 17.0 will be released on September 9, 2025, so there is still time to lobby for the “Hairy Creature” to be called “Bigfoot”. We’ll know Bigfoot really exists when they release a Bigfoot poop emoji.

Most ghost sightings are of the misty, wispy, shadowy type, but British actor, comedian and television host Matt Lucas claims he was once confronted by a green ectoplasmic ghost resembling Slimer of the Ghostbusters movies; Lucas revealed recently the story of a trip to Paris with his local synagogue when he was 13; he explains he was staying in a room in a run-down hotel when he woke up and “sat upright” because there was a “greeny white, glowing ectoplasm, suspended in front of my face"; he remembers that he "wasn't remotely scared. It wasn't like a scary ghost. I was just like, ‘Yeah, okay, I guess this must be kind of a ghost, I suppose”; when he turned on a light, the apparition disappeared, but he was still “100 percent sure” what he saw was a ghost, not a dream or hallucination. When there’s something strange in your Parisian neighborhood, you call Le Ghostbusters.

Brazilian psychic Athos Salomé calls himself the Living Nostradamus but he’s acting more like a Baba Vanga wannabe recently with a prediction that eerily matches one by the blind Bulgarian mystic – namely, that 2025 will be the year that aliens make contact with Earth; Vanga’s description of the event is more interesting – her prediction is that first contact will occur at a “major sporting event”, so believes are scoping out prime ET-watching seats at the Women's Euro final, the Women's Rugby World Cup and major Formula 1 races; meanwhile, Salomé’s predictions sound more like press releases on NASA activities or conspiracy theories, saying that “Thanks to the James Webb telescope, humanity might finally get the answer to the existence of alien life, while governments like the US may declassify UFO files.” Sorry, Salomé – ‘May’ is a month, not a strong prediction; we’ll stick with the real Baba Vanga and Nostradamus.

In a story involving the unlikely combination of Catholic seminarians, a Yeti and an exorcism, the Archdiocese of Denver is dealing with a controversial “blood oath” ceremony involving a vice rector and seminarians studying at Denver’s St. John Vianney Theological Seminary while on a ski trip in 2024; according to The Pillar, the seminarians were woken up in the middle of the night and invited to swear a “blood oath” in a ceremony involving a dagger and a man in a yeti costume – a ceremony that was recorded so the world could see the yeti and these seminarians screaming, holding a bloody cloth wrapped around their hands and their mouths taped shut; the diocese investigated the strange event and claims it was a “prank” perpetrated by  then-vice rector of the seminary Fr. John Nepil, who took responsibility for it; however, it was also reported that the exorcist of the archdiocese was brought in and “All the seminarians [involved] were to meet with the exorcist, who prayed over them, and they made a formal renunciation of this blood oath that they had made.” Just when Pope Leo XIV thought things had settled down in his home country, he becomes the first pope to have to deal with a yeti cover-up.