The Official Loch Ness Monster Sightings Register has published its first “official” sighting report of 2024. Nessie—as the monster is affectionately known—was reportedly seen on April 4th by Parry Malm and Shannon Wiseman, a Canadian couple living in London, who were visiting Loch Ness with their children. The family was near Urqhart Castle, a purported hotspot of Nessie activity, when they spotted something unusual in the water. "We just started watching it more and more, and we could see its head craning above water," Malm told The Canadian Press. "And then it was swimming against the curr ..read more

Lon Strickler of Phantoms & Monsters recently spoke with Joseph Palau, a Brooklynn, New York resident and union official for the United States Postal Service (USPS), who said that he saw the “Chicago Mothman” outside of his hotel window while visiting Chicago for a convention in 2016. "Eyewitness Joseph Palau, an NPMH union shop steward and World Trade Center 9/11 survivor, who was representing his Local Union (USPS, NYC) was attending the 2016 National Convention, which was scheduled to take place at the Fairmont Millennium Park Hotel in Chicago, Illinois, during the week of August 22nd ..read more

Lon Strickler of Phantoms & Monsters recently received the following report from a man claiming to be a former security guard at a building in downtown Chicago. Hello, sir. In the spring of 2021, I was working as a security employee in downtown Chicago, Illinois. On this specific night at around 1:30 a.m., I had completed my usual rounds and then settled into the monitor room to check the footage. After about an hour, I took a walk to start my next round. Sitting all night can get tiresome and I needed to stretch my legs occasionally. I would start at the ground floor, then up the stairw ..read more

A new piece of legislation introduced to the Tennessee state senate by Republican Steve Southerland will effectively ban chemtrails in the skies over the Volunteer State. Due to an amendment added in February, the bill—which passed in the house earlier this month with a vote of 70-22-1 and is currently headed to Governor Bill Lee for approval—will prohibit “the intentional injection, release, or dispersion, by any means, of chemicals, chemical compounds, substances, or apparatus within the borders of this state into the atmosphere with the express purpose of affecting temperature, weather, or ..read more

An enlarged still of the object. (NeedthatCheese / Reddit) A video posted anonymously to social media site Reddit last week shows what appears to be a saucer-shaped unidentified flying object over New York City. According to the poster, the video was recorded by a friend flying back to New York City from Florida. It is, they said, “By far the clearest video I’ve ever seen.” In the video, an object can be seen flying past the plane at a seemingly incredible speed; so fast, in fact, that it only fully appears in four frames. However, given that the object seems to be moving opposite the plane ..read more

A series of recently released images taken several years ago at Loch Ness are “the most compelling surface images of the [Loch Ness Monster] phenomenon” seen to date, according to one researcher. The photographs were taken on August 13th, 2018, by Chie Kelly, 52, who was visiting Scotland’s Loch Ness with her husband, Scott, 69, and daughter. Chie was reportedly taking photographs at Dores Beach when she and her husband saw what they described as a "strange creature" moving from right to left in the loch, covering a distance of roughly 100 meters. (Chie Kelly) (Chie Kelly) (Chie Kelly) (C ..read more

A family from Magwegwe North in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, claimed recently that they are under siege by a troupe of invisible goblins, reported iHarare earlier this month. The family, three children aged 13, 12, and eight, along with their elderly grandparents, said that the strange incidents have continuously escalated since they began last November, and include unexplained noises in the walls, objects mysteriously vanishing, doors and windows moving on their own, lights flickering, food disappearing while its cooking, and the children being physically assaulted by invisible forces. “We don’t know ..read more

Reports from the Void is a repository to share those stories for which we do not have enough information to make a full report. This is usually because of little or no communication from the witness following their initial submission. The Singular Fortean Society will always provide as much information as possible regarding any correspondence resulting from attempts to speak with those involved. This series is meant only to present you with the full breadth of information sent to us or our investigatory partners and makes no judgment regarding the veracity of any stories shared within it. Lon ..read more

A new report from the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) released last week claims the office found “no evidence that any [United States Government (USG)] investigation, academic-sponsored research, or official review panel has confirmed that any sighting of a UAP represented extraterrestrial technology,” and furthermore, has found “no empirical evidence for claims that the USG and private companies have been reverse-engineering extraterrestrial technology.” UAP is the current government nomenclature for UFOs. These findings stand in stark contrast to the testimony given b ..read more

Investigators break through the frozen lake in search of a UFO. (UFOvni2012 / YouTube) Norwegian UFO investigators are searching a frozen lake for a mysterious object said to have crashed there 77 years ago, reported RTBF News last week. The UFO reportedly crashed in 1947 in a lake near the town of Røros in Norway and was witnessed by the town's mayor, who lived close to the crash site. "It looked like a rocket, and it made a lot of noise. It turned 180 degrees and landed in the lake behind us," photographer Rue Røstad said of the object. A popular and enduring mystery, the story has been pas ..read more