Haunted dolls have become big business on sites such as Etsy and eBay-- the bidding for one particularly menacing looking troll reached beyond $1,400. Down on the bottom of Lake Michigan, shipwreck explorers have solved the mystery of what sunk the freighter, the William B. Davock, 75 years ago. Linda Moulton Howe shares a follow-up to her recent report on John Burroughs' classified medical records related to his injuries from the Rendlesham UFO incident.
An Indian man named Rajan Mahadevan accurately recited 31,811 from memory back in 1981, while a few years later a man in Japan rattled off 40,000 digits. Live Science looks at memory techniques that such people use to train themselves to pull off these seemingly amazing feats. Why do severed goat heads keep turning up in Brooklyn? Adrian Chen probes the ghoulish mystery for New York's Daily Intelligencer. Sadly, a 5-year-old boy is dead following a horrifying incident in Vietnam where the child was swept more than 60 feet into the air by a giant kite.