Paranormal Daily, edition of Friday, October 16, 2026

ROSWELL, N.M. — A former Pentagon UFO investigator has revived one of America's most durable mysteries, claiming in a memoir that beings recovered from the 1947 Roswell crash were briefly alive in military hands before dying, according to the Daily Star.

Jay Stratton, who the report says served as chief of air and space warfare for the Defense Intelligence Agency and as first director of the Pentagon's Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, writes in Out of the Shadows that an unnamed source told him a craft broke in two near Roswell. The military, the informant said, retrieved the wreckage and non-human bodies, and several occupants were still living.

SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO — A month of reported aerial visitors over Puerto Rico in November 1973 has been revisited by the blog Inexplicata, which this week published an excerpt from the casebook of ufologist Noel E. Rigau. The editor's introduction notes that activity began in October, with a humanoid incident at El Yunque and a photograph taken in Mayagüez, and that such events in the region ran into 1974 and 1975.

The entries begin early in the month, when, according to the casebook, a 55-year-old woman and her neighbors, praying in a backyard, watched a round object with green and yellow lights spin about 30 feet overhead for fifteen minutes. On November 2, witnesses in Toa Alta described an oval craft flying low and nearly silent. Its pilot, they said, wore a helmet and goggles and waved. The casebook adds that witnesses reported a warm, ash-like dust on the ground, though the compiler could not obtain a sample.

WESTERN GALILEE, ISRAEL — An unidentified aerial object detected near Israel's border with Lebanon has prompted fighter jets, checkpoints and ground searches, and its identity remained unsettled several days later, according to a report in The Debrief.

The alert began at about 8 p.m. local time on Saturday, October 10, near Arab el-Aramsha in the Western Galilee, the report states. Military surveillance systems flagged the object, and searches continued through the night and resumed at first light. Authorities were said to be concerned about a drone or a low-flying powered paraglider. Searches later widened to other points along the border. The Israel Defense Forces reportedly found nothing unusual in its first sweep, and no special instructions were issued to civilians.

LEITH, SCOTLAND — A familiar figure of Ferry Road in Leith, known as the Catman, is the subject of a new article on the Spooky Isles website, which describes reports of sightings that followed his death by murder.

According to the piece, written by John S. Tantalon, the man was a well-known presence in the district during his lifetime. The brief summary supplied with the article states that his killing was a tragic event, and that subsequent reports of sightings have made of it what the author calls a baffling mystery.

THE AZORES, ATLANTIC OCEAN — The brigantine Mary Celeste was found drifting between the Azores and Portugal on December 5th, 1872, by the crew of the Dei Gratia, according to a Weird Darkness podcast episode. Her cargo and the crew's belongings were reportedly still aboard, but there was no trace of Captain Benjamin Briggs, his wife, their two-year-old daughter or the seven crew.

The episode, first aired in June 2024, relays the theory of documentarian Anne MacGregor, who holds that all ten people took to the lifeboat bound for Santa Maria Island after the pumps clogged. The notes say experts remain unsure what became of them.

CLERKENWELL, LONDON — Daniel Craig, 58, the actor who most recently portrayed the secret agent James Bond, has purchased a historic public house in London, according to reports cited by Unexplained Mysteries, which in turn credits the Evening Standard.

The establishment, The Horseshoe, is said to date back some 250 years and stands in the Clerkenwell district. According to the report, it also carries a haunted reputation, with former employees telling of a spirit said to lurk in the cellar.

IRELAND — A Reddit user posting to r/Experiencers has shared a memory from roughly thirty years ago, in the early 1990s in Ireland, that he says remains as sharp as the night it happened. According to the post, he woke as a child to find a figure standing at his bedroom door.

The author describes absolute terror, screaming, and somehow crawling up the wall in fear. The next thing he recalls, he writes, is waking in his own bed. He does not remember how he reacted the following day, nor whether he told anyone what he had seen. He has attached an image which he calls the closest representation he has managed of the sight.

TEXAS, U.S.A. — Researchers at Colossal Biosciences, a Texas company, report they have moved a step nearer to reviving the dodo, the flightless bird that vanished from Mauritius in the 17th century after human settlement, according to The Debrief.

The company's tool is an artificial intelligence platform called GenoMorph. By its account, the system combines comparative genomics, developmental biology and three-dimensional measurements of the bird's anatomy to find the genetic changes behind the dodo's body and beak. A preprint on the server arXiv describes the work.

THE INTERNET — A cheaply made science-fiction picture of 1977 has drawn the attention of Christopher Knowles, author of The Secret Sun, who argues in a new post that bad movies sometimes say more about reality than good ones. His subject is End of the World, starring the late Christopher Lee.

According to Mr. Knowles, the film wastes a passable cast, including Sue Lyon, who he says looks extremely bored, in some of the worst direction and production values he has encountered. He insists, however, that it is packed with High Weirdness. The plot, as he summarizes it, concerns an astronomer, played by Kirk Scott, who detects coherent signals from deep space that are received at a convent in Southern California, where Mr. Lee plays the monsignor.

KEKOVA ISLAND, TURKEY — Marine archaeologists have located what they describe as the world's oldest known shipwreck on the southern Mediterranean coast of Turkey, near Kekova Island, according to a report published by Ancient Pages.

The report states that the wreck dates to between 4,400 and 4,700 years ago, in the Early Bronze Age. The international expedition, led by the Mediterranean Archaeology Association, found the debris field at a depth of roughly 100 feet. Professor Hakan Öniz of Akdeniz University, who led the team, is quoted as saying the wooden hull has long since dissolved, while the durable cargo survived in a pocket of sediment.

THE INTERNET — The Anomalist, a digest of unexplained and unsettled history, has gathered a handful of recent reports on the ancient world. They begin with a question that has long troubled the schoolroom: why does Columbus receive the credit for reaching the Americas when others came first?

According to the digest, reporter Matthew Brown of the Washington Post quotes archaeologist John Steinberg as saying that "Columbus had better PR." Brown, the digest says, then surveys the history of the matter from the Viking era to the present, covering what is known, what is inferred and what is merely argued. The digest also recommends Patrick Huyghe's book Columbus Was Last, published by Anomalist Books, as a fuller treatment.

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN — A digest published by The Anomalist, summarizing a report from Sentinel News, says the astronomer Beatriz Villarroel, the researcher Stephen Bruehl and their colleagues continue to issue academic papers that the digest calls "eye-popping." The latest concern transient markings found on astronomical plates made before the launch of Sputnik.

According to the digest, both scientists consider the correlation between nuclear testing and the appearance of those markings to be more than chance. They regard it, the summary says, as indicative of an intelligence surveilling the planet in its early nuclear years. The digest presents this as the scientists' view; it offers no independent confirmation, and the source gives no account of rival explanations.

ROUNDWAY HILL, WILTSHIRE, ENGLAND — A Reddit user posting to r/HighStrangeness has advanced a theory that a celebrated crop formation, said to have appeared at Roundway Hill, Wiltshire, on July 23, 2011, was a deliberate message to mankind concerning the safety of its bread.

According to the post, the formation shows the chemical structure of melatonin, the hormone associated with sleep. The author insists that every atom fits, including the indole ring and the ethylacetamide side chain, and calls it a textbook depiction. The writer declares the resemblance no coincidence.

BROMSGROVE, WORCESTERSHIRE — A Reddit user posting to r/Humanoidencounters has described a night in 2020 when, by the account given, a silhouette walked repeatedly to the cot of the author's young daughter, as seen on a baby monitor in their council house near Birmingham.

According to the post, the family had lived quietly in the early-1960s house for two years before a spell of odd events began in the summer of 2020. The author lists knocking on walls and doors, a doorbell alert with nobody on the path, kitchen taps found running, and a phone that began playing a song from a late grandfather's funeral. Interference on the monitor and other devices is also reported.

THE INTERNET — A Reddit user posting to r/Glitch_in_the_Matrix has described an afternoon from his boyhood that, by his own account, he still cannot explain. The author was 13 and lived alone with his father, the post states.

According to the account, the routine was fixed. The boy came home from school around three, played Xbox or watched television, and expected his father back at five or six. On the day in question he was partway through a match of Halo 3 when the front door burst open and a man who appeared to be his father walked in. The boy was not alarmed, the author writes, as his father sometimes liked to startle him. What troubled him was that he had not heard the car, a loud BMW whose arrival was normally audible.

LONGLEAT, ENGLAND — A Reddit user posting to r/Paranormal has asked fellow members to examine a photograph taken outside Longleat House, saying an encounter there at Christmas 2022 remains unexplained. The author, who says they work at Longleat, describes themselves as a newcomer to the forum and a former non-believer in such matters.

According to the post, the author's shift ended at about seven in the evening on a night of pitch darkness and thick fog. Unable to drive, they waited away from the Christmas lights and music until, with their mother running very late, they walked to the front of the house so she could find them.

APPAJIPETA, INDIA — Residents of Appajipeta village, in Pimdi mandal of Anantapur district, Andhra Pradesh, say they have been living in fear after stones began striking their houses during the night hours, according to a report by Gulf Today.

The villagers state that the stone-throwing has continued for nearly a week, beginning soon after nightfall. Around 10pm the incidents are said to become especially frequent, with stones landing on rooftops at intervals of a few minutes.