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A while ago we asked members to keep a look out for UM being mentioned in the media, whether it be on a TV series, a radio show or somewhere else. This next one comes courtesy of Ebonykrow who heard us being mentioned by Ghost Hunters Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson on their TAPS Para-Radio show, the pair read out a news story we featured a while back about Jack the Ripper.

In continuation of our efforts to offer new ways for visitors to keep track of what's happening on UM and to follow on from our Twitter page we've now launched an official Facebook page. The Facebook page will give visitors the chance to keep track of the latest news offerings and catch up with other members via Facebook.

Our Facebook page can be found here.

Our Twitter page again can be found here.

In keeping with our goal to implement additional ways for visitors to keep tabs on the latest UM updates our own Twitter page has now been launched. Twitter is a social networking site in which participants can 'Tweet' small messages to keep others appraised of what they are up to, in our case we'll be Tweeting our latest news updates as well as other bits of news here and there pertaining to the site and what's happening in the world of the unexplained.

http://twitter.com/unexplainedmys

So feel free to follow us and also to "reTweet" any of our postings to help spread the word.

One thing we'll be doing over the next little while is implementing new ways for visitors to keep up to date with the latest news and happenings on UM. At the moment other than visiting the site directly the only other way you can follow us is via RSS feed, in the age in which mobile phones and other portable devices with internet connections are becoming more and more commonplace we'd like to offer a few more ways for visitors to keep up to speed with the site both while at and away from your computer. We'll be launching the first of these in a few days time.

The official UM blog has now been relaunched to better focus on bringing you exclusive news about the site, previews of upcoming new features and other behind the scenes information that you wouldn't normally hear about. It is where i'll be posting about UM itself as a site, a resource and as an internet community.

You'll be able to keep up to speed on what's happening and on what's coming up, new features and additions will be posted about here before they appear on the site giving you the chance to comment on what you think of them and what you want to see and in so doing help shape the site as we move forward in to our ninth year on-line.

We've got some great new things in the pipeline - so watch this space.

On September 5th search engine giant Google changed their "Google doodle" to show a UFO abducting the letter "o", clicking on the logo brought up a search for the term "unexplained phenomena" which lists us as the first entry on the results page. Because of this UM received a huge influx of traffic over a very short period of time, more than our poor servers were able to handle and resulting in some slow loading until the Google logo was changed again a day later.


Image Credit: Google

It turned out that this was to be the first of a series of unexplained themed doodles that would appear on their home page, after a lot of speculation amongst the on-line community Google finally revealed what they were about:

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A noble sentiment indeed.

Perhaps not quite as good (or bad depending on how you look at it) as appearing in a certain Lindsey Lohan movie earlier this year, Cryptoman spotted us featured on the SciFi Channel series 'Destination Truth', this time printed out on some pieces of paper being browsed through by host Joshua Gates during a plane trip. The episode was investigating the wild man of Cambodia and Mokele Mbembe.

Here's a still from the episode courtesy of Legatus Legionis on the forums:



If anyone comes across any other television shows where UM has made an appearance please do let us know.

If you plan on going to see the new Lindsey Lohan movie I know who killed me keep your eyes open for the scene where Dakota looks up the internet for 'unexplained bleeding', UM is the site that comes up in the search results and she clicks through to it.

I haven't seen the movie yet but big thanks to Finsup22 for confirming that we are indeed in it, the folks behind the film contacted us a few months back to ask permission to use the site in the movie but I wasn't sure if they'd actually use us in the final cut.

The movie has only been released in the US as far as I know, but if you go to see it look out for us there.

Here's a clip courtesy of Jesspy, we turn up at around 2:40