It's not what you know, but who you know. In 1973, Erich von Däniken, at the height of his fame following the success of Chariots of the Gods?, claimed that he had entered into a gigantic subterranean tunnel system in Ecuador, which he was told spanned the length of the continent—surely evidence that our ancestors were highly advanced, if not extraterrestrial? The structure was believed to house a library in which books were made out of metal—this in an area where today there is nothing but "primitive" Indian tribes with no written language. Evidence of a lost civilisation? It was a major claim, and it did not go unchallenged.

Bhind (MP) A “ghost” is playing havoc with the lives of villagers (or at least with their minds), of the Jouri Brahman hamlet in Bhind district. Many families feel that they have incurred the wrath of a ghost, due to which there have been deaths in their families and loss of live cattle-stock. Most of the ‘victims’ have left the village and let the ghost reign.