“what on earth is going on?”

Starting on Christmas morning of 1964, residents in and around Warminster in Wiltshire heard a loud noise in the sky that they described as being like a loud clatter or crackling associated with a hum

A cough. A splutter. A jet of flame for good measure and the Merlin is prised from its slumbers and into rambunctious life. Many of you, perhaps even most, will have heard one of these engines, at Goo

On 19 October vet Andrew Melville-Smith was driving near the Spencer Gulf in South Australia in his new Tesla Model Y when there was a deafening explosion and he and his passengers were showered with

It was a hot day in one of the hottest and most uncomfortable summers of recent years. I was standing in a small upstairs bedroom of a house on the outskirts of a modern estate in the borough of South

Reading Laura Mauro’s “Japanese Toilet Ghosts” [FT459:30-35], reminded me of a less well known fear in the Western world, which –according to the modern rabbinical Internet resource site TheTorah.com

While the original National Folklore Survey from the 1960s was unscientific and open ended, simply asking random people “what do you know to be true?”, its 21st century successor is a very different b