A medical mystery emerges that is both a medical miracle as well as being sad, moving and tinged with hope and joy - where can you get a bundle like that eh? Brooke Greenberg is the size of an infant, with the mental capacity of a toddler. She t...

After a long break, the CoC returns with a brief look at some arboreal delights and wonders: Earth's oldest living inhabitant, Methuselah, is a bristlecone pine nearly 3,050m (10,000ft) up in California's white mountains. It was found in 1957 and is...

A strange story emerges from Fiji, where a man has been burning footprints in the grass he walks on (like I do when I step on consecrated ground). However, there is no obvious cause and nothing in the local legends, leaving everyone more mystified than...

Well it has been a while since The End is Nigh 3 but here comes TEIN 4, with a lovely cover from Defoe artist Leigh Gallagher: I've got a piece in it on the gathering storm that is global warming (and the dangers of trying to fix it with...

Werewolves are one of the most commonly reported phenomena in Britain, of which the Cannock werewolf is the most famous (or is it something weirder?). Now a special Halloween fieldtrip on the Wrexham-Flintshire border has uncovered reports of a...

Transubstantiation is one of those core principles of Catholicism - water into wine, that kind of thing. But the Eucharist into heart tissue? Actual heart tissue? It'd certainly put an overly-literal, even Sam Raimi-like, spin on my years of...