Interesting news and articles - July 21, 2013

Archaeology

'World's oldest calendar' discovered in Scottish field

Long-Lost Pyramids Found?

Unearthed Mayan Tablet Tells of Power Struggle

Nok’s 500BC terracotta heads

2,000-Year Old Pyramid and Multiple Pre-Columbian Burial Sites Found in Veracruz, Mexico

Cryptozoology

Do These Striking Sasquatch Photos Snapped on July 4th Show a Lumbering Monster or Man in a Suit?

Lake Monsters: Where Are The Bodies?

Why blood-drained carcases are not the work of chupacabras or supposedly vampiric cryptids --Makes a decent case against cattle mutilations being caused by chupacabras, but does little to solve the mystery as to what really causes it.  Scroll down the Mysterious section for another article about mutilations.

Ghosts

Does reader pic capture ghostly apparition in Abergavenny's Skirrid Inn? --I'm skeptical...mostly because I don't see why the image should be as blurry as it is.

Mysterious

The man with no memory: Navy vet wakes up, speaks only Swedish -- Very bizarre.

Mutilations: Aliens? -- These livestock mutilations are one of the most bizarre mysteries to me.  We actually have the evidence to study, yet no one has been able to determine who (or what) the culprit is after all these years.

Was Charlotte once hit by 'ball lightning'?

Psychic Phenomena

How a Slate writer resorts to the old "it isn't true because it cannot be true" reasoning -- An excellent rant by Stephen Wagner.

Science

Inner speech speaks volumes about the brain

Neural Dust could give us artificial telepathy and telekinesis

Space

Alien Probes Could Be Surfing the Galaxy

UFOs

Strange Sightings in New Milford: Extraterrestrial or Not? -- They could have been drones.

UFO Cover-Ups Must End, Moonwalker Edgar Mitchell Says

Self-replicating alien space probes could already be in our solar system, say mathematicians

Alien spaceships abducted our pet dog and stole our car in Cardiff

Other topics of interest...

The Science of Miracles: How the Vatican Decides