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Crop circles, called corn circles in the U.K., are geometric designs of crushed or knocked-over crops.
These strange things were initially made by two Englishmen in the late 1970s, who thought up the idea in a pub when they should have been reminiscing about the good times with their beshhtt friend evah.[1] The phenomenon grew — thanks to publicity in the tabloid press and many copy-cat pranksters — and although now widely known to be hoaxes, they were often used as evidence for alien visitations during their heyday in the 80s and 90s.
People who specialize in the study of them are known as "cereologists". People who think they are alien artefacts are typically referred to by less charitable terms. It has to be admitted though, that some crop circles are pretty cool works of art, no matter who, or what made them.


The Bermuda Triangle is an area near Bermuda where many ships, planes and people are said to have have mysteriously disappeared, with no trace of them ever being found. Over the years, a mythology has built up around these events, which have been attributed to almost every pseudoscientific phenomena imaginable. In most cases, the Devil’s Triangle is synonymous with the Bermuda Triangle. Some commentators use this moniker to refer to a similar area in the Pacific Ocean near Japan, but the latter area is more commonly known as the "Devil's Sea."


The Cottingley fairies was a hoax which demonstrates that being a famous novelist doesn't prevent you from being credulous. In short, Elsie Wright, a wacky art college student, persuaded her ten-year-old cousin, Frances Griffiths, to pose with some cardboard cut-out fairies for a photo in 1917. Later photographs were taken using a double exposure technique to super-impose fairy like creatures onto photographs. Five photographs were taken in total.


Yeti, sometimes called the Abominable Snowman, is a bipedal ape-like cryptid said to inhabit the Himalayas. It is in a class of semi-fictitious beasts we share our planet with, one of several that are ape-like and usually very large compared to humans. The Yeti is typical of the Himalayan region. Its brown-furred relatives are usually found in remote, inaccessible areas on most of the other continents. Some people claim that the Yeti is a descendant of Gigantopithecus. Although Gigantopithecus did probably live in the Himalayas, that still doesn't prove that the Yeti exists: it would only provide a place to put the Yeti in the evolutionary tree in the event we happened to find substantial evidence of the Yeti's existence.