Paranormal Daily, edition of Monday, October 12, 2026

ARAB AL-ARAMSHE, ISRAEL — An alert sounded at 19:57 on Saturday, Oct. 10, in Arab al-Aramshe, a community in the Western Galilee near the Lebanese border, according to a Reddit user posting to r/UFOs. Forces were called out and began a search, the post says, after which there was no word for several hours.

At 23:42, the post continues, the Israel Defense Forces spokesperson issued an update stating that observation teams had detected an unidentified aerial object near the border and that forces were still searching. The statement, as relayed by the author, reported no unusual findings and gave no instructions to civilians.

EARTH'S SUN — A craft some two and a half miles long was caught on camera near the Sun on the night of October 3, according to Scott C. Waring of UFO Sightings Daily, who published his account on October 12.

The object appeared in a single frame from Helioviewer.org, a solar imagery source, the author writes, having passed the satellite's view at what he calls tremendous speed. He gives its dimensions as about 2.5 miles across and half a mile wide.

MARS — A structure described as a doorway measuring three miles by one mile has been reported at the bottom of a crater on Mars, according to a post published October 12 by UFO Sightings Daily.

The author, Scott Waring, writes that he came across the feature on October 11 while using a new Mars map, which he identifies as an interactive project hosted at explore-mars.esri.com. He gives no coordinates, crater name or image description in the post as it appears here.

HERTFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND — Count Dracula, though widely supposed to have introduced the vampire to English soil, arrived rather late, according to an article by Sam George, Senior Lecturer in Literature at the University of Hertfordshire, republished by The Daily Grail from The Conversation. Bram Stoker's novel appeared in 1897, and the author notes that the first vampire in English literature was John Polidori's Lord Ruthven, in 1819, modelled on a portrait of Lord Byron.

Beyond fiction, the author describes a number of local legends. The Croglin Vampire, said to have appeared in Cumberland in the 1750s, was retold by the clergyman Augustus Hare in 1871. In that tale, a creature scratches at a window and vanishes into a vault, where broken coffins are found, and one intact coffin holds a mummified figure. The author states the story has never been verified. In Renwick, Cumbria, villagers were once nicknamed "bats" after a creature said to have flown from a rebuilt church's foundations in 1733.

THE INTERNET — A new episode of the paranormal anthology program Weird Darkness, aired as part of its Midnight in the Macabre series on October 12, offers listeners a domestic horror story titled "Stick Man: A Mother's Secret And The Boy In The Mudroom."

According to the episode description, the central figure is Martha Whitman, a mother who does not believe her six-year-old son, Osmond, is as ill as his doctors and his father maintain. The description states that she proposes a bargain to the boy: she will dispose of his pills down the kitchen drain, morning and night, and he is to tell his father that he has been taking them.

RAFFADALI, SICILY — A Reddit user posting to r/Humanoidencounters reports that a tall, human-shaped figure appeared in video taken during a violent storm in the Sicilian town of Raffadali.

According to the post, a large tornado has lately brought destruction to parts of Sicily, and the storm reached the author's small town just as a group of friends was filming the thunderstorms to share with a group chat. Someone then pointed out the outline of a figure, which the author estimates stood taller than three metres.

THE ARABIAN DESERT — A Reddit user posting to r/HighStrangeness has set out an account of Ilm al-Raml, or "the Science of Sand," a form of fortune-telling the author describes as some 1,200 years old and rooted in the deserts of the ancient Middle East.

According to the post, the practitioner, known as a rammal, would lead a client into the desert at night and, beneath the open sky, recite incantations to enter a trance. He would then strike a stick into the sand to produce 16 rapid rows of random dots. In desert folklore, the author writes, the rammal was not alone: a jinn, an unseen spirit, was believed to possess or guide his arm and dictate the number of dots.

THE ASTRAL PLANE — A channeled message titled "Three Different Earths," published on October 12 at the Era of Light website, offers its audience a parable of a musician born in the jungle. The speaker identifies itself as Kryon of Magnetic Service.

According to the message, the listener is asked to imagine an isolated tribe with no contact with the outside world. One member of it senses that he can play the piano, knows the chords and dreams of the keys, yet never sees an instrument. This, the message states, is the condition of humankind on Earth: born magnificent, equipped for mastery, and without opportunity.

THE INTERNET — In his Sunday Matinee column for October, Christopher Knowles of The Secret Sun recommends the 1968 British horror film The Crimson Cult, also known as Curse of the Crimson Altar, as a rainy-afternoon diversion. According to the post, the picture is available in full on Tubi.

Mr. Knowles describes the film as a Swinging Sixties scarefest featuring Christopher Lee, apparently warming up for his later role as Lord Summerisle, and Boris Karloff. Its plot, he writes, is as muddled as any Hammer production. An antique dealer, played by Mark Eden, searches for his missing brother and accepts lodging from the sinister lord of the manor, with predictable consequences. The film is billed as a loose adaptation of Lovecraft's Dreams in the Witch House, though Mr. Knowles says the resemblance is so slight that someone had to tell him.

THE INTERNET — A teaser published by the website Ancient Pages, under the byline of Ellen Lloyd, announces a tale of a nocturnal encounter with giant "Blue Men," though the full account lies behind a membership wall and was not available to this newspaper.

According to the preview, a man who as a boy stood in a field at night with his brother kept the experience from his father, fearing he would not be believed. He is said to have spoken of it only later, in what the site calls an official testimony. The brothers, it states, came face-to-face with god-like figures wielding unknown powers. The preview gives no place, date or further detail of the encounter.

EXETER, ENGLAND — A train due to leave Exeter at 10:05 p.m. sat motionless for 16 minutes, and a new study says it did so seven years later than science has long supposed. According to the report, the delay was caused by a disturbance from the Sun that upset the railway's telegraph.

The tale traces to an 1871 article in Nature, which described a "very intense magnetic disturbance" on Oct. 18, 1841, along the South Devon Railway. Per the account, the instruments behaved so wildly that the Exeter superintendent suspected a prank, and officials held the train because they could not confirm the track near Starcross was clear.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The long-awaited UFO documents promised by President Trump have been released, but according to a report on Unexplained Mysteries, many of the files arrive without context, and the video clips are said to lack much of their relevant metadata.

The result, the report states, is that much of the material is being offered in a vacuum. A clip described as a strange object over the Middle East, it notes, has limited significance without knowing the particulars of the circumstances behind it.

THE INTERNET — A Reddit user posting to r/UFOs has put a question to the forum's readers: does the latest interview given by David Grusch on the Joe Rogan Experience make the so-called 4chan whistleblower more believable? The post, published on October 11, 2026, notes that the interview is currently going viral.

According to the post, the portion of the interview in which Mr. Grusch mentions bases in the ocean "directly coincide" with claims made by the anonymous 4chan author. The poster does not quote either source at length, nor does the post supply a transcript, timestamp or link to the original 4chan writing.

NORTHERN CASCADES, WASH. — A woman who says she walked the Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada in 2018 has asked the readers of r/Paranormal to explain a sound that, by her account, shadowed her party for four consecutive nights in Washington State.

The author, a Reddit user posting to r/Paranormal, writes that she had grown accustomed to the noises of the woods over 2,650 miles, among them falling pinecones, bears in the brush and marmots chewing gear. Danger, she says, had generally come from people in trail towns rather than from the wilderness. By Washington she was travelling with four other hikers, covering about 35 miles a day.

FALLON, NEV. — A driver traveling Highway 95 between Fallon and Lovelock, Nevada, on the night of October 11 reports a brief encounter with two tall, gray, human-shaped figures, according to a post on the r/Humanoidencounters forum on Reddit.

The author, a Reddit user posting to that community, writes that a semi-truck was following about 200 feet behind when a sudden sense of dread, unlike any the writer had felt before, came over them. Moments later, the post says, the truck's brakes were applied sharply, and the driver glanced in the mirror.

THE ASTRAL PLANE — A Reddit user posting to r/Experiencers has described a pair of visions in which beings commonly called "Reptilians" appear to have made their presence known, according to a post published on October 11.

The first vision, the author writes, took place a couple of days earlier and showed a hand. The fingers and part of the palm looked almost human, the poster says, though the nails were coarse and dark and the remainder of the hand was scaly. The author notes having seen such beings before, but never in complete form.

THE INTERNET — The podcast Weird Darkness has released an episode whose lead segment, according to its show notes, concerns Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapova, conjoined twins born in Moscow in January of 1950. Their mother, the notes say, was told the girls had died of pneumonia, while Soviet scientists kept them for experiments.

The notes state that physiologist Pyotr Anokhin was among those who used the sisters, packing one in ice while taking the other's temperature and shocking them in time to a metronome. British journalist Juliet Butler, who befriended them in 1988, came to believe that Masha had all the traits of a psychopath and that Dasha had become an empath. Dasha died in 2003, about seventeen hours after her sister, the summary says.