Spider "Resurrections" Take Scientists by Surprise National Geographic News

From today's offerings of maverick science: Scientists wondered about the underwater abilities of spiders. So, in an experiment reminiscent of the old parlor trick of drowning and reviving a fly, scientists drowned some spiders and watched them come back to life. Meanwhile, there's a report indicating scientists know the age of our closest star, seen in Dust Older Than the Sun Found in Earth's Atmosphere. Elsewhere, at TPOD, Stephen Smith points out some interesting characteristics presented by a Hubble Space Telescope image of The Sombrero Galaxy. Are we looking at a heavenly representation of Michael Faraday's homopolar motor?

The Fairy Thief of the Wilderness The Paranormal Pastor

Pastor Robin Swope, a former missionary himself, relates a tale told by an American missionary who served with her husband in the jungles of northern Thailand. With the caveat offered by the good pastor, "Sometimes odd things happen when you are hundreds of miles away from civilization", here is Mrs. Johnson's tale of the Naang Maai Paa, "the little fairy of the wild forest." Compare Mrs. Johnson's tale to the report Nick Redfern leads us to through his Man-Beast U.K. blog, Police Launch Hunt for 'Wolfman' Behind Mini Crimewave Who Lives on Rabbits and Berries in Woods.

It's Plainly Obvious That It Is All in Your Mind The Blogsquatcher

A review of the press releases of two books, Michael McLeod's Anatomy of a Beast: Obsession and Myth on the trail of Bigfoot and Buhs' Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend, takes on the premise put forth by both authors that indicates the Bigfoot phenomenon is the product of something other than true observation. Meanwhile, at Cryptozoology Online, guest blogger Neil Arnold reports on a Rhode Island case in which fishermen dredged up The Block Ness Monster; and Jon Downes handles the duties in presenting the 26-minute video of the May, 2009, Centre for Fortean Zoology production of On the Track of Unknown Animals.