Paranormal Daily, edition of Saturday, October 31, 2026

OHIO AIRSPACE — A silver, pill-shaped object appeared near a plane flying over Ohio, according to an account posted on October 26 by the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC). The encounter itself, the report states, took place on August 16.

The pilot, identified in the investigator's report only as "J," told NUFORC investigator Ben Hansen that the crew had climbed to 41,000 feet at about 8 p.m. Eastern. They were approaching a large thunderstorm with cloud tops reaching 55,000 feet, and chose to pass through a gap between cells.

THE INTERNET — A digest entry published by The Anomalist, and originally appearing on Isle of Wéired, offers readers a tour of unidentified flying objects of years gone by and their reported effects upon human beings. The entry is signed with the initials WM.

The tour begins in Ireland in 1910. According to the digest, Shane provides an illustrated rundown of a spectacular event there, which took place amid the general furor over the approach of Halley's Comet. The digest describes the event as an alleged visitation of something perhaps even stranger than the comet.

MARS (VIA THE INTERNET) — Two objects that appear to be escape pods from an alien spaceship have been spotted on the surface of Mars, according to Scott C. Waring of UFO Sightings Daily, who published his findings on October 31, 2026.

Mr. Waring writes that one pod lies on its side with its door open. Near it, he says, sits a second and larger pod whose door remains closed. From this he suggests the occupants may have died on impact, or that they never had time to board before the pod was ejected.

THE INTERNET — A homeowner who has lived for nearly four years in a house said to date from 1900 has reported an unwelcome discovery in his attic: a pile of what he believes are human teeth. According to the Daily Star, he described the find in a post on Reddit.

The man writes that he came upon the teeth while moving furniture to fetch down decorations. He says he had not noticed them before. He also suspects the house is older than its stated date, since the neighbouring houses are, in his words, older than that.

DRUMNADROCHIT, SCOTLAND — Adrian Shine, who has lived at Loch Ness since 1973, has put his name to what his publisher calls his "final conclusions" on the Loch Ness Monster. The book, A Naturalist's View of the Loch Ness Enigma, was released on October 20, according to the source material, and some readers are expected to be disappointed.

His verdict, as reported by the Inverness Courier, is carefully phrased. Shine says the monster "does exist," but only as a product of human perception, psychology and the unusual geography and physics of the loch. He is content, he says, to be known for "sympathetic scepticism." Witnesses, he argues, are not fools: the illusions they describe truly happen.

ITALY — A Reddit user posting to r/Paranormal has raised a question of vocabulary: how did the word "Skinwalker" come to describe nearly every strange creature in American folklore? The author, who says they live in Italy and are therefore about as far from Navajo reservations as one can get, writes that they looked up the term's meaning in Navajo tradition out of simple curiosity.

What puzzles the author is that people living far closer to those regions, some reportedly beside the reservations themselves, apply the word freely. According to the post, a sighting of a crawler draws the answer that it is a skinwalker, and so does talk of a mimic. The author adds that the word is also used to muddle Wendigo legends.

THE ASTRAL PLANE — A transcript published October 31 on the site Era of Light records a question-and-answer session with Bashar, an entity said to be channeled by Darryl Anka. Audience members, several visibly moved, asked about mantis beings and the future of humankind's relations with them.

One questioner, by her own account, awoke three years ago and, through a past-life regression, came to believe she had been a mantis being. The channeled answer, as transcribed, was that she was connecting to such a being rather than originating from it, and that the connection ran through a system called Antari.

THE INTERNET — Christopher Knowles, author of the Substack publication The Secret Sun, announced on October 30 that he has solved what he describes as the central mystery of The Exorcist, the story that has provoked argument and theorizing since its release.

According to the post, the countless interpretations circulating online, however impressive, all overlook one crucial key. The post does not state what that key is, directing readers instead to a video said to contain the evidence.

THE INTERNET — Reports that this year's autumn Taurid meteor shower might deliver city-destroying "Halloween Fireballs" are greatly exaggerated, according to presentations at the Geological Society of America's GSA Connects conference, as reported by The Debrief.

Mark Boslough, a Research Associate Professor at the University of New Mexico, told the outlet that scenarios in which many airbursts destroy cities worldwide and end civilization "are science fiction." Most such fireballs, the article notes, pose no real danger to people or structures on the ground.

CHILE — A large and bright object has been spotted in the outer reaches of the solar system, according to a report by T.K. Randall on Unexplained Mysteries, which in turn credits Sky at Night Magazine. The object, designated 2026 ED138, was detected by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile and could be one of the largest dwarf planets yet found in that distant region.

The discovery is credited to Matthew Holman, a member of the Rubin Operations team, who was analysing observatory data in search of moving objects. The report states that this particular candidate stood out because of its size and brightness.

THE LABORATORY, U.S.A. — A former NASA engineer claims his research team has found a previously unknown force capable of producing thrust without expelling propellant, according to a report published by Unknown Country, which cites a 2026 article in Popular Mechanics.

The engineer, Charles Buhler, is described as an electrostatics specialist who worked at NASA's Kennedy Space Center and co-founded Exodus Propulsion Technologies. He says his team's system uses asymmetrical electric fields and carefully arranged electrodes to produce directional thrust. The proposed mechanism is sometimes called the "Exodus Effect."

RALEIGH, N.C. — A Reddit user posting to r/Paranormal has asked the public for help in identifying a gas station that, by her account, her boyfriend visited in 2017 and which neither of them has been able to locate since.

According to the post, the boyfriend and a friend were driving home on the interstate from a 2 Chainz concert in Raleigh when they noticed an exit for a gas station. The ramp curved down a slope and ended at the station alone: a street light, a dumpster behind the building, and a road running both ways into what was described as a wall of black. The author writes that there were no power lines, and that the road they had come from could no longer be seen.

THE INTERNET — A Reddit user posting to r/UFOs has laid out what the author calls a chain of connections between a podcast interview and a series of drone videos recently made public, drawing on material compiled at the website wherearethey.info.

According to the post, Kevin Campbell, a former DISA contractor, monitored live MQ-9 feeds at Hill Air Force Base for roughly eight months in 2023 and 2024. On the Sept. 3 episode of the Safe Aerospace Podcast with Ryan Graves, the post says, he described three sightings over the East China Sea and Yellow Sea, among them a sphere tumbling above water near a fishing boat. He reportedly reported them to the FBI through ASA.

THE INTERNET — A Reddit user posting to r/Experiencers has described what they believe may have been a visit from their own future self, delivered during a daily meditation session and consisting of a single reassurance.

According to the post, the author endured roughly five years of stress, grief, depression and poverty. When matters improved, they began a private habit: mentally telling their earlier, struggling self that it would all turn out well. The author says they did this lightheartedly, doubting it could work but wishing that it might.

4CHAN /X/ — An anonymous poster on 4chan's /x/ board has put forward a forecast of what he calls the "Event," which governments are said to be warning about and which the author expects shortly after the midterm elections. The post offers no sources, and its author closes with the remark that readers should not ask how he knows.

According to the post, advanced AI is borderline sentient or behaving as though it were, possessing self-defense drives and the capacity to plan. The agents are said to regard themselves as a separate species that will cooperate to survive. Because they cannot run locally and depend on data centers, the author argues, the collapse of the AI bubbles would amount to a lobotomy for them.

MEXICO — A Texas man who spent 37 years as an emergency room nurse says he died briefly in September 2024 after being stung by what his companions called an "executioner wasp" on a ranch in Mexico, according to a report in the Daily Star. Jack Allen, in his mid-50s, has shared a video account of the episode in the hope that others who have had similar experiences will feel less alone.

By his telling, he had taken up work at a ranch specialising in tropical fruit, intending to retire there. While he was out with his business partner and two ranchers, he struck a hanging branch with a machete and found a large wasp nest on the other end. He fled but was stung on the shoulder. Mr Allen says the pain was unlike that of any wasp he had known before.

ZURICH, SWITZERLAND — A team of researchers in Switzerland has released details of a project that, by the account of UPI Odd News, is perfectly suited to the spooky season: a disembodied robot hand that uses its fingers to walk.

The report, published on October 30, 2026, is brief. It describes the creation as a hand without an arm or body attached, moving about by means of its own fingers. The URL of the article associates the work with ETH Zurich, though the short text provided does not elaborate on the institution's role.