Real Life X-Files
Most of you are, or at least used to be, fans of The X-Files. And we all come across weird news stories from time to time that seem to be prime examples of the kinds of cases Mulder and Scully would investigate. So if you're short of ideas for a fic or just want to read about weird shit happening, I'd advise you to look under the cut.
Goblins terrorise school girls
Goblins which appear as extremely short human beings before turning into baboons are reportedly terrorising girls in Zimbabwe.
Blood bubbles from drains
After bubbling out through holes in the covers, the blood formed a river of red that flowed along a road in a small Polish town forming large bloody puddles.
Will we soon be able to fire laser beams from our eyes?
By day, Seok-Hyun Yun and Malte Gather are physicists at Massachusetts General Hospital. But at night, for the past four years, they worked on making a human cell behave like a laser.
Mysterious 'space ball' crashes in Namibia
A strange metal ball dropped out of the sky and slammed into the remote grassland of northern Namibia recently, according to press reports.
Jerusalem stone carvings baffle archaeologists
Israeli archaeologists excavating in the oldest part of the city discovered a complex of rooms with three "V" shapes carved into the floor. Yet there were no other clues as to their purpose and nothing to identity the people who made them.
Mysterious whale graveyard discovered in a desert
Scientists play detective after 20 "perfectly intact skeletons" of ancient sea mammals are found thousands of feet away from the Pacific Ocean.
I'm dating father's goblin
When Tsitsi Dzengerere was asked by police why she had abandoned her six-month-old baby girl she told them: 'I dumped the child because I am now having a relationship with my father’s goblin.'
Mysterious structures in the Chinese desert
Perhaps it’s some kind of targeting or calibrating grid for Chinese spy satellites? Maybe it’s a QR code for aliens?
Seven-year-old weeps stones
Kura Nitya, from a village near Hyderabad, has been weeping about 12 to 25 stones a day.
White House denies contact with E.T.
Trust no one.
Best excuse for beastiality
A man caught having sex with a donkey stunned a court in Zimbabwe by claiming that the animal was in fact a hooker he pulled from a nightclub that had changed into a donkey.
Scientists reconstruct Black Death genetic code
The genetic code of the germ that caused the Black Death has been reconstructed in the lab.
Russia and USA team up against Yeti
At a special conference in Siberia, scientists will share previously secret information on the existence of humanoid beasts.
Turks install mortuary alarm
A local council in central Turkey has built a morgue with a warning system, in case apparently dead bodies come back to life.
First death by spontaneous human combustion in Ireland
The fire which killed Mr Faherty was confined to the sitting room. The only damage was to the body, which was totally burned, the ceiling above him and the floor underneath him.
English-speaking boy emerges from German forest
An English-speaking teenager who walked out of the forest near Berlin told police he had been living in the woods for five years with his father, but had no idea who he was or where he came from.
Killer phone call panic sweeps Nigeria
Nigeria's authorities have been forced to reassure the public that a mobile phone number cannot kill, after rumours were spread by text messages. Viral text messages had warned that several people had died when they answered calls with the ID 09141.
Swamp monsters in New Zealand
A mythical swamp monster "hiding" under Auckland is threatening to derail a project to improve the New Zealand city's traffic gridlock.
Flatworms could hold key to immortality
Researchers believe that the worms could live forever after examining their ability to repeatedly regenerate.
Rise of the robotic bees
Researchers at Harvard have come up with a novel manufacturing process for building robotic bees.
Man calls 911 to report being invisible
A 28-year-old called 911 and said he was invisible; 'not an emergency situation', say EMS personnel.
The African Chupacabra?
Dog-headed pig monster spooks a village in Namibia.
Ghosts can't be bothered haunting anymore
Poland's only registered ghost hunter has accused the spirit world of giving up on mankind.
Saint's heart vanishes from cathedral
The 900-year-old heart of St. Laurence O'Toole has vanished from Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin.
Scientific ghost town in New Mexico
A scientific ghost town will be built in New Mexico with the latest next-generation technology - but no people.
Vampire skeletons in Bulgaria
Archaeologists find two skeletons pierced through the chest with iron rods to stop them from becoming vampires.
Mermaids do not exist
A US government scientific agency denies existence of mermaids.
Roswell UFO was not from Earth
Ex-CIA agent claims there were alien bodies aboard.
Suspected rapist turns into baboon
On the way to the police station, it is alleged that the man turned into a baboon, sending three Neighbourhood Watch Committee members scurrying for cover.
Supernatural occurrences in Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire police received 97 calls about aliens, monsters, werewolves, zombies, and witches over the last three years.
Elf lobby blocks Iceland road project
Elf advocates have joined forces with environmentalists to urge authorities to abandon a highway project that they claim will disturb elf habitat, including an elf church.
Goblins terrorise school girls
Goblins which appear as extremely short human beings before turning into baboons are reportedly terrorising girls in Zimbabwe.
Blood bubbles from drains
After bubbling out through holes in the covers, the blood formed a river of red that flowed along a road in a small Polish town forming large bloody puddles.
Will we soon be able to fire laser beams from our eyes?
By day, Seok-Hyun Yun and Malte Gather are physicists at Massachusetts General Hospital. But at night, for the past four years, they worked on making a human cell behave like a laser.
Mysterious 'space ball' crashes in Namibia
A strange metal ball dropped out of the sky and slammed into the remote grassland of northern Namibia recently, according to press reports.
Jerusalem stone carvings baffle archaeologists
Israeli archaeologists excavating in the oldest part of the city discovered a complex of rooms with three "V" shapes carved into the floor. Yet there were no other clues as to their purpose and nothing to identity the people who made them.
Mysterious whale graveyard discovered in a desert
Scientists play detective after 20 "perfectly intact skeletons" of ancient sea mammals are found thousands of feet away from the Pacific Ocean.
I'm dating father's goblin
When Tsitsi Dzengerere was asked by police why she had abandoned her six-month-old baby girl she told them: 'I dumped the child because I am now having a relationship with my father’s goblin.'
Mysterious structures in the Chinese desert
Perhaps it’s some kind of targeting or calibrating grid for Chinese spy satellites? Maybe it’s a QR code for aliens?
Seven-year-old weeps stones
Kura Nitya, from a village near Hyderabad, has been weeping about 12 to 25 stones a day.
White House denies contact with E.T.
Trust no one.
Best excuse for beastiality
A man caught having sex with a donkey stunned a court in Zimbabwe by claiming that the animal was in fact a hooker he pulled from a nightclub that had changed into a donkey.
Scientists reconstruct Black Death genetic code
The genetic code of the germ that caused the Black Death has been reconstructed in the lab.
Russia and USA team up against Yeti
At a special conference in Siberia, scientists will share previously secret information on the existence of humanoid beasts.
Turks install mortuary alarm
A local council in central Turkey has built a morgue with a warning system, in case apparently dead bodies come back to life.
First death by spontaneous human combustion in Ireland
The fire which killed Mr Faherty was confined to the sitting room. The only damage was to the body, which was totally burned, the ceiling above him and the floor underneath him.
English-speaking boy emerges from German forest
An English-speaking teenager who walked out of the forest near Berlin told police he had been living in the woods for five years with his father, but had no idea who he was or where he came from.
Killer phone call panic sweeps Nigeria
Nigeria's authorities have been forced to reassure the public that a mobile phone number cannot kill, after rumours were spread by text messages. Viral text messages had warned that several people had died when they answered calls with the ID 09141.
Swamp monsters in New Zealand
A mythical swamp monster "hiding" under Auckland is threatening to derail a project to improve the New Zealand city's traffic gridlock.
Flatworms could hold key to immortality
Researchers believe that the worms could live forever after examining their ability to repeatedly regenerate.
Rise of the robotic bees
Researchers at Harvard have come up with a novel manufacturing process for building robotic bees.
Man calls 911 to report being invisible
A 28-year-old called 911 and said he was invisible; 'not an emergency situation', say EMS personnel.
The African Chupacabra?
Dog-headed pig monster spooks a village in Namibia.
Ghosts can't be bothered haunting anymore
Poland's only registered ghost hunter has accused the spirit world of giving up on mankind.
Saint's heart vanishes from cathedral
The 900-year-old heart of St. Laurence O'Toole has vanished from Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin.
Scientific ghost town in New Mexico
A scientific ghost town will be built in New Mexico with the latest next-generation technology - but no people.
Vampire skeletons in Bulgaria
Archaeologists find two skeletons pierced through the chest with iron rods to stop them from becoming vampires.
Mermaids do not exist
A US government scientific agency denies existence of mermaids.
Roswell UFO was not from Earth
Ex-CIA agent claims there were alien bodies aboard.
Suspected rapist turns into baboon
On the way to the police station, it is alleged that the man turned into a baboon, sending three Neighbourhood Watch Committee members scurrying for cover.
Supernatural occurrences in Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire police received 97 calls about aliens, monsters, werewolves, zombies, and witches over the last three years.
Elf lobby blocks Iceland road project
Elf advocates have joined forces with environmentalists to urge authorities to abandon a highway project that they claim will disturb elf habitat, including an elf church.