Would Christian theology be rocked to the core if science someday found a distant orb teeming with little green men, women or other intelligent forms of alien life? Would the church send missionaries to spread the Gospel to aliens? Could aliens even be baptized? Or would they have had their own version of Jesus and have already experienced his universal or galactic plan of salvation? The Catholic News Service reports.

I have been scouring all known earthly networks to bring you the freshest reports on paranormal, extranormal, and outright surreal events. This week:

• A Malaysian man haunted by a hungry ghost who has demanded sex from him every night for the past 16 years seeks help through medium. Read more.

• A woman receiving treatment for diabetes at a state-run hospital in eastern India lost one of her eyes after ants nibbled away at it.
  

Picture in your mind’s eye a violent alien creature. Odds are quite high that this image is in no small way shaped by the visionary surrealist painter and sculpter, H.R. Giger. His unmistakably strange and futuristic style was most popularly exhibited in the horrific, Oscar-winning film Alien. The Alien was his creation. Through this, he forever altered science fiction and permanently etched this creature into our collective imagination.