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September 24, 2011

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UK paranormal research gets professional
ASSAP -- the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena -- had let it be known they had a major announcement to make, and there was much speculation as to what it would be. The secret was finally revealed on Saturday, 10 September 2011, at ASSAP's 30th anniversary conference. The Association -- an education and research charity interested in all manner of strange goings-on -- announced that it had been officially recognised as a professional body for investigators of anomalous phenomena by no less an entity than the UK government!..

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The Yeti is alive, or at least discussed in Tashtagol
Many local residents in Tashtagol regions believe that there are still many Yetis or Almas or Bigfoot exist and live around the regions of Tashtagol. Once there was a case when the governor of Kemerovo region Aman Tuleev offered cash prize to whoever catches the Yeti...
(Also read: Yeti photograph)

TV crew looks for Bigfoot, aka 'Big Rhody,' in Rhode Island
Bigfoot could be on the loose somewhere in the woods of western Rhode Island. And an investigative team and camera crew are tracking him down. Finding Bigfoot, a TV series on Animal Planet, is in West Greenwich on Thursday, looking for the so-called Sasquatch, hoping to capture the creature on film, or at least capture the comments of people who've reported sightings...

Argentina: The anthropomorphic phenomena of Santa Isabel
In 1972, Mr. Teodoro Merlo discovered the presence of a "person" of considerable size and pointed ears in a dressing room of the Ika-Renault Auto Plant. Simultaneously, the lights on the premises turned on and off inexplicably. The entity vanished all of a sudden. Witness experienced aftereffects...
(Also see: Strange Humanoid Encounter)

GHOSTS, HAUNTED PLACES AND POLTERGEISTS:

'X Factor' recap: Paula Abdul sees ghosts
Contestant Ashley Deckard, 14, insists that she can see ghosts, but that's not really the scary part. Paula Abdul says she can see them too. How and why this confession was glossed over, we're not sure -- but it could explain a lot about her time on American Idol...

Hong Kong girls taken to hospital after seeing ghosts
Two Hong Kong schoolgirls were taken to hospital after collapsing in terror claiming they had seen the ghosts of Japanese soldiers from World War II, a news report said. The girls were among a party of 12 exploring the site of an abandoned school in the New Territories, which is rumoured to be haunted, when they claim they saw an apparition of a marching army...
(Also read: Ghost Soldier)

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September 13, 2011

GHOSTS, HAUNTED PLACES AND POLTERGEISTS:

Ghostly goings on at Manor House
Tour guide staff at Sandwell's haunted Manor House have been spooked by the latest ghostly apparition. The Grade I listed building in Hall Green Road, West Bromwich, dates back to the 13th century. It is said to be haunted by three different spirits, including a bearded man and two young girls, who are said to appear on the kitchen stairs. But last week the three regular tour guides were really spooked by the latest incident...
(Also read: The World's Most Haunted Places)

Lydia believes her house is haunted and that is OK
Could the little house on Fontanero and Weber streets be haunted? Its owner, Lydia Klingensmith, thinks so. And she's OK with that. In fact, Lydia is convinced the previous owner, Emma Walker, has been hanging around since her death in 1985, perhaps unable to rest in peace after a life filled with tragedies...

Must visit haunted places in New York City
There are several buildings and important places in New York City famous for their haunted history. From ghosts shaking hands to jumping off the building these haunted places in New York City have plenty of paranormal activity to explore...
(Also read: Shadow People in New York)

Ghosts uncovered: the hidden world of paranormal nudism
There is one insuperable obstacle to a belief in ghosts. A ghost never comes naked: he appears either in a winding-sheet or "in his habit as he lived." To believe in him, then, is to believe that not only have the dead the power to make themselves visible after there is nothing left of them, but that the same power inheres in textile fabrics...
(Also read: Why Are Ghosts Seen Wearing Clothes?)

TIME AND SPACE:

Anchors aweigh: Sky ships and storm wizards
In the centuries before phrases like "flying saucers" and "Unidentified Flying Objects" became common vernacular, thousands of people claimed to have witnessed bizarre lights and strange boat-like vehicles traversing the heavens. Skeptics dismiss these reports as misidentified natural phenomenon like comets and meteors, but ancient alien theorists are equally convinced that these odd objects prove that our world has been receiving extraterrestrial visitors for generations...

Highways to high strangeness
We've all driven in the dark of night. There are parts of the world, however, where driving is truly an adventure. Highways stretch though the emptiness for hundreds of miles, bereft of services, with only the moon providing the least bit of illumination. These are the distant roads that beckon to us as we seek the unknown.....

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September 10, 2011

GHOSTS, HAUNTED PLACES AND POLTERGEISTS:

Researchers seek Vivian Vance's ghost
A team of paranormal researchers said they are trying to determine whether the ghost of comic actress Vivian Vance is haunting her former home in Connecticut. Members of the Norwalk (Conn.) Paranormal Research Group said the current owner of the Stamford home, Melissa Leigh, asked them to investigate reports of ghosts in the house and determine whether any of them belong to Vance, who was best known Ethel Mertz, Lucille Ball's sidekick on 1950s sitcom I Love Lucy...
(Also read: Ghosts of Hollywood Legends)

A Sacramento haunting
The occupant Michelle Laney says: I moved into this home last year around September. The activity started almost immediately. Michelle found her parakeet mangled in its birdcage. On one night she saw a little African American boy standing near her bedside. We were all out in the garage talking and then all of sudden her table lifted off of the ground. All 4 legs were hovering in the air and it gently went back on the ground. The activity according to Michelle usually starts at 9pm and ends around 5am...

Claudia Schiffer moves family into ghost-free country house
Model Claudia Schiffer has moved back into her country home in Suffolk with her family after ridding it of ghosts. The German star and her husband film director husband Matthew Vaughn have been living in London recently, because they had to call in an exorcist to banish a ghost from their ￡5million country mansion...

Cardiff ghost hunter lifts lid on spooky Wales
A ghost-hunting vicar has lifted the lid on Wales' haunted hotspots - and claimed the nation is the UK's most haunted. The Rev Lionel Fanthorpe, a judo black-belt, motorcycling, ex-headteacher has been tracking paranormal mysteries since his retirement...

TIME AND SPACE:

Swirly moon markings remain mysterious
Peppered around lava flats and mountaintops all over the moon are strange sinuous shapes known as lunar swirls. Their winding, dusty curves are brighter than the surrounding area and, so far, their formation remains a mystery to scientists...
(Also read: Strange Things on the Moon)

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September 6, 2011

GHOSTS, HAUNTED PLACES AND POLTERGEISTS:

Is a Stratford-upon-Avon hotel Britain's most haunted?
Is this Britain's most haunted hotel? Built in the 12th century, Ettington Park, near Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, is one of the oldest buildings in the Midlands. And things, it seems, regularly go bump in the night...
(Also read: The World's Most Haunted Places)

5 most haunted places in India!
Here are the places where the restless spirits of the night linger. They manifest as eerie voices and strange moves. In the five places listed here, people claims that the ghosts sometimes really do seem out to get you and they will leave you unconscionably struck with fear. These are the places tagged as most haunted places in India...

Ghosts of Beachy Head
Beachy Head near Eastbourne has been the scene of numerous suicides over the years. So many deaths have occurred here that it isn't any wonder that the place has been witness to numerous ghosts. Records state that a mysterious black monk has been seen in the area. Most reports have him standing at the foot of the cliffs, beckoning to those at the top of the cliffs to jump to their deaths - whether this has any true bearing on the actual deaths of those who have jumped, we'll never know...

TIME AND SPACE:

Scientist claims he's built a working time machine
What person hasn't dreamed at least once of returning briefly to a favorite era in the past or seeing a real glimpse of a fantastic future hundreds, even thousands of years from today? Despite a spate of articles claiming that travel to the past is flatly impossible, physicists like Stephen Hawking and others say it's not. And now an engineer named Vadim Alexandrovich Chernobrov claims to have accomplished what others say cannot be done-he's built a working time machine...
(Also read: Time Travelers)

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August 30, 2011

GHOSTS, HAUNTED PLACES AND POLTERGEISTS:

Kate Middleton and Prince William: Ghost tours launched at royal couple's home
She's brought fresh spirit to the Royal Family - but Kate Middleton also has to shack up with some old ghosts. Kensington Palace, where she lives in London with new husband Prince William, is rumoured to be haunted. And now bosses are opening up the historic home - first bought by King William III and wife Mary in 1689 - for a series of spooky ghost tours...
(Also read: The Haunted Tower of London)

Peru's Real Felipe fortress has history and ghosts
Rodney Dodig: We entered a door into a winding narrow corridor of the Real Felipe fortress. The further we progressed, the darker it got until finally there was no light at all. We were immersed in darkness, a black so dense that at one moment it seemed to stretch into eternity and the next to press against your face in a smothering mask. The guide told us the place was haunted by the ghosts of those men who had died imprisoned here...
(Also read: Mysteries of Ancient Peru)

EARTH MYSTERIES:

Strange light bubble vver China draws astronomers into debate over its origin
The huge, glowing UFO spotted hovering above Shanghai, Beijing and other regions in China on Saturday evening has led to a debate among astronomers who are trying to explain the phenomenon. The "white ball" was spotted about 9pm above Shanghai by pilots who reported the sightings to the East China Air Traffic Control Bureau. At almost the same time, residents in Beijing, Shanxi and Anhui provinces and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region also witnessed and photographed the similar, round bubble-like object rapidly expanding in the sky...
(Also read: Spooklights: Where to Find Them)

CREATURES:

Bigfoot hunter in the spotlight
In his seven year quest to prove to the world that the legendary primate known as Bigfoot truly exists, Calgary's Todd Standing has relayed stories that many people would consider to be outrageous...

Sasquatch claims draw TV show to Minnesota
Add Bigfoot to the list of possible wild animals to call northern Minnesota home. In recent years, there have been multiple claimed sightings of a tall, hairy, long-limbed creature in Carlton County...

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August 30, 2011

GHOSTS, HAUNTED PLACES AND POLTERGEISTS:

Kate Middleton and Prince William: Ghost tours launched at royal couple's home
She's brought fresh spirit to the Royal Family - but Kate Middleton also has to shack up with some old ghosts. Kensington Palace, where she lives in London with new husband Prince William, is rumoured to be haunted. And now bosses are opening up the historic home - first bought by King William III and wife Mary in 1689 - for a series of spooky ghost tours...
(Also read: The Haunted Tower of London)

Peru's Real Felipe fortress has history and ghosts
Rodney Dodig: We entered a door into a winding narrow corridor of the Real Felipe fortress. The further we progressed, the darker it got until finally there was no light at all. We were immersed in darkness, a black so dense that at one moment it seemed to stretch into eternity and the next to press against your face in a smothering mask. The guide told us the place was haunted by the ghosts of those men who had died imprisoned here...
(Also read: Mysteries of Ancient Peru)

EARTH MYSTERIES:

Strange light bubble vver China draws astronomers into debate over its origin
The huge, glowing UFO spotted hovering above Shanghai, Beijing and other regions in China on Saturday evening has led to a debate among astronomers who are trying to explain the phenomenon. The "white ball" was spotted about 9pm above Shanghai by pilots who reported the sightings to the East China Air Traffic Control Bureau. At almost the same time, residents in Beijing, Shanxi and Anhui provinces and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region also witnessed and photographed the similar, round bubble-like object rapidly expanding in the sky...
(Also read: Spooklights: Where to Find Them)

CREATURES:

Bigfoot hunter in the spotlight
In his seven year quest to prove to the world that the legendary primate known as Bigfoot truly exists, Calgary's Todd Standing has relayed stories that many people would consider to be outrageous...

Sasquatch claims draw TV show to Minnesota
Add Bigfoot to the list of possible wild animals to call northern Minnesota home. In recent years, there have been multiple claimed sightings of a tall, hairy, long-limbed creature in Carlton County...

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August 27, 2011

GHOSTS, HAUNTED PLACES AND POLTERGEISTS:

Experts to probe ghost reports at Naples museum
Officials at the Naples National Archaeological Museum in Italy said experts are being brought in to investigate reported paranormal happenings at the facility. The museum said the experts, identified only as university professors, will arrive in September to investigate claims of supernatural activity...
(Also read: Aircraft Museum Ghost)

Haunted road?
Mary Jane McLeod used to live down the road from the Old Orchard Road home where human bones were unearthed last week. She is not surprised these remains were found and says the entire area is a Native burial site...
(Also read: Ghost of Morrow Road)

EARTH MYSTERIES:

Sentient ghost lights?
In May 2006, it was announced that after decades of secretly investigating UFOs, the British Ministry of Defense had finally come to the conclusion that aliens were not visiting our planet. The MoD's assertions were revealed within the pages of a formerly-classified document that had been commissioned in 1996 and that was completed in February 2000. Titled the Condign Report, the 465-page document demonstrated how British air defense experts had decided that UFO sightings were the result of "natural but relatively rare and not completely understood phenomena" - such as plasmas...
(Also read: Spooklights: Where to Find Them)

CREATURES:

Bigfoot through the ages
The Bigfoot legend isn't new. American Indian folklore in the Pacific Northwest includes rumors of a man-ape beast. Sasquatch, another name for Bigfoot, is a Salish Indian name meaning "woodland wild man." The Ojibwe tribe, whose people have lived on the land that is now Minnesota and Wisconsin for hundreds of years, have their own words for the woodland wild man. The most common of those is "bagwajanini," which also means "wild man."..
(Also read: Are We Closing In On Bigfoot?)

Looking for Bigfoot: Two local nurses are planning quite an adventure
Two enterprising Bladen County women have devised a plan to search for Bigfoot, a.k.a. Sasquatch. Linda Durden and her friend, co-worker Janette Skinner plan to spend some time in September in the Uwharrie National Forest near Asheboro on a mission to gather concrete proof Bigfoot exists...

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August 23, 2011

GHOSTS, HAUNTED PLACES AND POLTERGEISTS:

Southside Saloon has long, possibly haunted history
Chattanooga business owner Shane Hendrix recently purchased the restaurant formerly known as The Red Lantern and found out the building has a long, unique history. "My understanding was that it was originally built as a saloon and bordello," Southside Saloon owner Hendrix said. Hendrix said there are supposedly three ghosts, one of whom employee Darlene Wallace has named George...
(Also read: Another Haunted Restaurant)

Haunted History Tour brothers report "extreme paranormal activity"
They did their homework before entering into the possibly haunted building in Old Town Pocatello last Monday, knowing that years ago someone had overdosed on drugs, never to step foot onto Main Street again...

Thought to be possessed by ghost, man gets more earthly diagnosis
A 65-year-old man in Tainan who shouted, yelled, punched and kicked his way to sleep every night scared his family to the point it thought he was possessed by a ghost. But after repeated consultations with gods at local temples were unable to cure the man, his family decided to bring him to Tainan Municipal Hospital...
(Also read: Exorcism in Russia)

CREATURES:

Reindeer herder finds remains of baby mammoth in Russia's Arctic
A reindeer herder in Russia's Arctic has stumbled on the prehistoric remains of a baby woolly mammoth poking out of the permafrost, local officials said Friday. The herder said the carcass was as perfectly preserved as the 40,000-year-old mammoth calf Lyuba discovered in the same remote region four years ago, authorities said, adding that an expedition had set off hoping to confirm the "sensational" find...

Idaho - Bear Lake Hot Springs
Utah Bigfoot: Last week I met a man at Dave's Bigfoot Show who related an experience he had up near Bear Lake several years ago. I asked him to write down his experience so that I could go and make a photograph later this fall. Here is his account...
(Also read: Bear Lake Cryptid)

Alternative info on the orang pendek
While browsing the internet and looking for folk art of Indonesian Nagas, I came across an art dealer's site which displayed this little woodcarving of a "Dwarf" (Pygmy)from the Banyuwangi region of Java: and the Banyuwangis claim to have been the ancestors of Balinese art...

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Paranormal investigation: From Bigfoot to aliens
If legends and even many eyewitness accounts are to be believed, since ancient times we have shared our planet with various "man-beasts" - monsters that are more or less in our image. While monsters are often consigned to ancient legend and literary fiction, many are held to be in some sense real. Such paranormal beings (those beyond the normal range of science and human experience) include supernatural ones, such as the werewolf, as well as others (like the Yowie, Australia's version of Bigfoot) that, if they indeed exist, could be perfectly natural creatures...

Possible twist revealed in the 'Sierra Kills' Bigfoot incident
Mike Rugg of the Bigfoot Discovery Museum is discussing the Sierra Kills episode and reveals a tale told to him by a customer not long after the news broke on the incident. Supposedly it involves hunters who killed two black bear (an adult and a juvenile) on the same day and in the approximate area where the 'Sierra Kills' incident occurred...

Long-necked sea serpents in the Viking age
In his 1555 work History of the Northern Peoples, Olaus Magnus gives the premier description of the Norwegian sea serpent: Those who sail up along the coast of Norway to trade or to fish, all tell the remarkable story of how a serpent of fearsome size, 200 feet long and 20 feet wide, resides in rifts and caves outside Bergen...

TIME AND SPACE:

Comet Elenin won't kill us, says NASA
You may have seen the scary headlines. You may have read those alarming emails. But do you believe it? Just in case, NASA has issued the facts about a comet called Elenin. And no, these aren't the "facts" doomsayers will tell you...

EARTH MYSTERIES:

Mel Waters and the Devil's Holes
Somewhere in the wilds of Washington State is a bizarre geographic anomaly that locals believe may well be a gateway into another dimension. While the legend of the Devil's Hole allegedly goes back for decades… if not centuries… the public at large did not become aware of the phenomenon until 1997, when legendary radio host and paranormal enthusiast, Art Bell, invited a man named Mel Waters to be interviewed on his globally syndicated radio program Coast to Coast AM...
(Also read: Mysterious Tunnels)

PARANORMAL MEDIA:

Spirit Voices
Spirit Voices is most certainly not your average book about chain-rattling spooks, shrieking specters and things that go bump in the night. Rather, it's a very readable, highly engaging, and thoughtful study of one man's quest to seek out the truth about life-after-death, the nature and heart of the phenomenon, and its reported interactions with our plane of reality...

Review: The Bigfoot Hunter: Still Searching
Paranormal documentaries are just about a dime a dozen in todays world and finding a good one can be quite difficult. Luckily I had the opportunity recently to check out an early screening of the excellent film The Bigfoot Hunter: Still Searching. The documentary tells the story of Timothy Holmes founder of Southern Tier Bigfoot Watch and the Who Forted? Gang, in an earlier incarnation known as GHI or Ghost Hunters Incorporated, who joined him in the woods of southern New York in order to hunt the elusive cryptid...

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Paranormal investigation: From Bigfoot to aliens
If legends and even many eyewitness accounts are to be believed, since ancient times we have shared our planet with various "man-beasts" - monsters that are more or less in our image. While monsters are often consigned to ancient legend and literary fiction, many are held to be in some sense real. Such paranormal beings (those beyond the normal range of science and human experience) include supernatural ones, such as the werewolf, as well as others (like the Yowie, Australia's version of Bigfoot) that, if they indeed exist, could be perfectly natural creatures...

Possible twist revealed in the 'Sierra Kills' Bigfoot incident
Mike Rugg of the Bigfoot Discovery Museum is discussing the Sierra Kills episode and reveals a tale told to him by a customer not long after the news broke on the incident. Supposedly it involves hunters who killed two black bear (an adult and a juvenile) on the same day and in the approximate area where the 'Sierra Kills' incident occurred...

Long-necked sea serpents in the Viking age
In his 1555 work History of the Northern Peoples, Olaus Magnus gives the premier description of the Norwegian sea serpent: Those who sail up along the coast of Norway to trade or to fish, all tell the remarkable story of how a serpent of fearsome size, 200 feet long and 20 feet wide, resides in rifts and caves outside Bergen...

TIME AND SPACE:

Comet Elenin won't kill us, says NASA
You may have seen the scary headlines. You may have read those alarming emails. But do you believe it? Just in case, NASA has issued the facts about a comet called Elenin. And no, these aren't the "facts" doomsayers will tell you...

EARTH MYSTERIES:

Mel Waters and the Devil's Holes
Somewhere in the wilds of Washington State is a bizarre geographic anomaly that locals believe may well be a gateway into another dimension. While the legend of the Devil's Hole allegedly goes back for decades… if not centuries… the public at large did not become aware of the phenomenon until 1997, when legendary radio host and paranormal enthusiast, Art Bell, invited a man named Mel Waters to be interviewed on his globally syndicated radio program Coast to Coast AM...
(Also read: Mysterious Tunnels)

PARANORMAL MEDIA:

Spirit Voices
Spirit Voices is most certainly not your average book about chain-rattling spooks, shrieking specters and things that go bump in the night. Rather, it's a very readable, highly engaging, and thoughtful study of one man's quest to seek out the truth about life-after-death, the nature and heart of the phenomenon, and its reported interactions with our plane of reality...

Review: The Bigfoot Hunter: Still Searching
Paranormal documentaries are just about a dime a dozen in todays world and finding a good one can be quite difficult. Luckily I had the opportunity recently to check out an early screening of the excellent film The Bigfoot Hunter: Still Searching. The documentary tells the story of Timothy Holmes founder of Southern Tier Bigfoot Watch and the Who Forted? Gang, in an earlier incarnation known as GHI or Ghost Hunters Incorporated, who joined him in the woods of southern New York in order to hunt the elusive cryptid...

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August 20, 2011

GHOSTS, HAUNTED PLACES AND POLTERGEISTS:

Paranormal researcher claims to catch spirit on camera
The Sun Inn in Bethlehem has long been the subject of tales of the supernatural, but one paranormal researcher said he caught what he believes to be a spirit on camera last month...
(Also see: More ghost videos)

Haunted houses of Wales: Where you're most likely to spot spooks
After the tragic tale of a servant's suicide emerged this week with a hoax picture of a ghost outside the historic Llanelly House, revisit some of Wales' supposedly haunted buildings...

Top 13 best haunted houses for 2011
Whether you're getting geared up for Halloween or just love the thrill of haunted houses, thanks to a new website, now there's a way for you to know without a shadow of a doubt, the most terror-rich haunted houses to explore in America...

Haunting photos taken at gym
Fitness fans burning calories are not the only energy source inside the old Royal Hotel, with a medium claiming the building has "spiritual movement". The hotel was transformed into Bodyworks Fitness Centre three years ago, but several visitors have claimed spirits still linger...
(Also read: More ghost pictures)

The Amityville Horror haunted house for sale
Those who were fans of 1979 shocker, The Amityville Horror can now get pretty close to the cultural phenomena: by owning the New Jersey house where the movie was filmed. That is, if they have a couple million lying around...

Amityville haunting survivor breaking his silence on 'The Amityville Horror'
Amityville haunting survivor Christopher Quaratino aka Christopher Lutz is one of the three children of George and Kathy Lutz. Christopher is breaking his silence taking issue with the facts regarding his fateful 28 days in what became known as "The Amityville Horror."..

Sitting in haunted room? Not a ghost of a chance, say cops
Police personnel here fight armed bandits and notorious gangsters but they just don't seem to have the spirit to occupy a room at a police station believed to be haunted for 10 years by a cleric who died in a road accident...

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August 9, 2011

GHOSTS, HAUNTED PLACES AND POLTERGEISTS:

The real Entity case
Dr. Barry Taff: Contrary to what many people believe, the case of Doris Bither, that later became the novel and motion picture "The Entity," was not, in my professional opinion, the result of spectral rape, .a.k.a. spectrophilia, but a rather disturbingly real poltergeist outbreak...
(Also read: Incubus)

Police employed "to guard haunted house"
Two Serbian police cars were seen parked in front of a house in Novi Pazar, southwestern Serbia, whose owners reported it was haunted by a supernatural being...

The ghosts of Wilson's Creek
Over the weekend of 12-14 August, the Wilson's Creek Foundation will mark the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Wilson's Creek with a major re-enactment of the engagement, and once again the ground and trees will shake to the roar of cannon and the clatter of muskets. If some of the stories told about the site are to be believed, however, the fighting never fully went away...
(Also read: Battlefield Phantoms: Ghosts of War)

Spirit "captured" in photos during ritual
A group of friends had a shock of their life when they found that they "captured" images of a spirit in the photographs they took during a Hungry Ghost ritual recently...
(Also see: More ghost pictures)

CREATURES:

Lost "Thunderbird" photo
Loren Coleman: Cryptomundian momerath brings this photo to the attention of Cryptomundo. So what is the origin of this photograph of some kind of giant flying reptile (not a "Thunderbird") with humans? No info on the actual source...
(Also read: Did Pterosaurs Survive Extinction?)

Bigfoot spotted here
Unidentified flying objects, little green men, spirits of those who passed away and legends of haunted houses don't interest Marc DeWerth because he's never encountered any of them. What does interest Marc is Bigfoot, because he claims he's seen one in Ohio...

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August 9, 2011

GHOSTS, HAUNTED PLACES AND POLTERGEISTS:

The real Entity case
Dr. Barry Taff: Contrary to what many people believe, the case of Doris Bither, that later became the novel and motion picture "The Entity," was not, in my professional opinion, the result of spectral rape, .a.k.a. spectrophilia, but a rather disturbingly real poltergeist outbreak...
(Also read: Incubus)

Police employed "to guard haunted house"
Two Serbian police cars were seen parked in front of a house in Novi Pazar, southwestern Serbia, whose owners reported it was haunted by a supernatural being...

The ghosts of Wilson's Creek
Over the weekend of 12-14 August, the Wilson's Creek Foundation will mark the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Wilson's Creek with a major re-enactment of the engagement, and once again the ground and trees will shake to the roar of cannon and the clatter of muskets. If some of the stories told about the site are to be believed, however, the fighting never fully went away...
(Also read: Battlefield Phantoms: Ghosts of War)

Spirit "captured" in photos during ritual
A group of friends had a shock of their life when they found that they "captured" images of a spirit in the photographs they took during a Hungry Ghost ritual recently...
(Also see: More ghost pictures)

CREATURES:

Lost "Thunderbird" photo
Loren Coleman: Cryptomundian momerath brings this photo to the attention of Cryptomundo. So what is the origin of this photograph of some kind of giant flying reptile (not a "Thunderbird") with humans? No info on the actual source...
(Also read: Did Pterosaurs Survive Extinction?)

Bigfoot spotted here
Unidentified flying objects, little green men, spirits of those who passed away and legends of haunted houses don't interest Marc DeWerth because he's never encountered any of them. What does interest Marc is Bigfoot, because he claims he's seen one in Ohio...

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August 6, 2011

GHOSTS, HAUNTED PLACES AND POLTERGEISTS:

Ozarks paranormal team claims it caught photo of ghost
The Ozark Mountain Paranormal Investigation Team has explored some of the areas most haunted homes. Their skeptical team members always take hundreds of pictures in the dark. But their most recent trip brought back a shocking image that is making believers out of the biggest of skeptics ..

Thriller cast creeped out while filming at haunted hospital
The cast and crew of new thriller Insight were left spooked during night shoots while filming at an abandoned hospital, which has been listed as one of the most haunted sites in Los Angeles...
(Also read: The World's Most Haunted Places)

Haunted house of Jumeirah scares its occupants
Located deep in the heart of Jumeirah 1, there's a huge villa where a number of eerie incidents have left the occupants scared and shaken to the core...

Are ghost hunters afraid?
We've all been afraid of the boogeyman in the closet and so called monster under our bed, but we theoretically "grow" out of it when we've received the rational explanation or reason for our fear...

EARTH MYSTERIES:

Did giant reptiles share the earth with giant humans?
Brad Steiger: The notion that early humans might have been contemporaneous with the giant reptiles has stoked the creative fires of many a fantasy and science fiction novelist. In "Worlds Before Our Own" (Anomalist Books, 2007), I pose a two-pronged question: Did a race of early humans exist during the Age of Reptiles, something like 70 million years ago; or did a certain number of the giant reptiles survive until a few thousand years ago?..

End times? Texas lake turns blood-red
A Texas lake that turned blood-red this summer may not be a sign of the End Times, but probably is the end of a popular fishing and recreation spot. A drought has left the OC Fisher Reservoir in San Angelo State Park in West Texas almost entirely dry. The water that is left is stagnant, full of dead fish - and a deep, opaque red...

CREATURES:

Russia's Loch Ness Monster
The Brosno Dragon, also known as Brosnya, is the name given to a lake monster which is said to inhabit Lake Brosno, near Andreapol in West Russia. It is described as resembling a dragon or dinosaur, and is the subject of a number of regional legends, some which are said to date back to the 13th century...

LOST WORLDS:

The massive European network of Stone Age tunnels that weaves from Scotland to Turkey
Stone Age man created a massive network of underground tunnels criss-crossing Europe from Scotland to Turkey, a new book on the ancient superhighways has claimed. German archaeologist Dr Heinrich Kusch said evidence of the tunnels has been found under hundreds of Neolithic settlements all over the continent...

PROPHETS AND PROPHECIES:

Prophecy claim: Vatican to be destroyed August 17
An extreme Marian organization behind the obscure Fatima Movement has claimed that, according to a new interpretation of the Third Secret of Fatima, the Vatican will be destroyed on August 17, 2011...

MEDIA - BOOKS, MOVIES, TV:

Official 'Twixt' trailer arrives, unleashing the horror and ghosts
Francis Ford Coppola's upcoming horror thriller "Twixt" has got its first trailer. It opens with a narration from Tom Waits who explains the place where the story begins. "There was once upon a time, a town not far from the big city. A road ran through it but it was a town of those who wanted to be left alone," he said in a voiceover...

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Paranormal News and Views

Up-to-the-minute reports of paranormal activity and news from around the world

August 2, 2011

EARTH MYSTERIES:

Crop circles 'created using GPS, lasers and microwaves'
Crop circles are now made using lasers, microwaves and GPS technology to create ever larger and more elaborate patterns, scientist claims as days of using planks and rope long gone...

Can physics explain mysteries of crop circles?
In this month's edition of "Physics World," Richard Taylor, director of the Materials Science Institute at the University of Oregon, claims every summer brings with it more mystery as to how the produce-punishing pranksters ply their trade to create crop circles...

CREATURES:

Proof of Bigfoot
Nick Redfern: Let's say tomorrow - and in an admittedly incredible stroke of luck - someone out in the woods stumbles upon the newly-dead body of a Bigfoot. They call the police, the FBI, the media, maybe even the White House! And, within hours, the entire world finally knows the amazing truth: Bigfoot is real. What would we do?...

Searching for Big Red Eye, the New Jersey Sasquatch
The search for North Jersey's Sasquatch, Big Red Eye, has been going on for years. Witnesses describe encounters with Big Red Eye and Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman of 'Weird NJ' also lend their expertise...

Giants in the Americas
Alexander Mackenzie and Simon Fraser, the first explorers to venture into the pathless northwestern areas of Canada, were cautioned by the native tribes he encountered that hideous, destructive creatures prowled the region...

The mystery over the existence of Bigfoot continues
A great mystery is unfolding in the world of cryptozoology that is as interesting as any plot found in your typical thriller novel. It has its unscrupulous villain, its weary protagonist, and a cast of witting and unwitting accomplices. It may even have two dead bodies...

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Up-to-the-minute reports of paranormal activity and news from around the world

July 30, 2011

CREATURES:

Ningen humanoid sea creatures of the Antarctic
Over the past few years, rumors have circulated in Japan about the existence of gigantic humanoid life-forms inhabiting the icy waters of the Antarctic...

Sasquatch game cam photo
Game cam in Vermont catches amazing photo of possible female Sasquatch with infant, bending down to pick up apples. White spots on back could be color or bald spots, mange or pigmentation variant...

Bigfoot in Kentucky
The search for the elusive beast known as Bigfoot spans decades. And some believe it lives right here in Kentucky. Blame Daniel Boone for starting the Kentucky Sasquatch rumor mill. The American pioneer once bragged of killing a 10-foot hairy giant he called Yahoo, possibly a nod to Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels...

Is Bigfoot real? Several sightings in Northern California
Lots of so-called sightings....including some right here in northern California. Rowena Shaddox introduces us to a local man who says he'll never forget his encounter with the beast...

Possible Bigfoot detected - Yadkin River, Davie County, N.C.

Odd aquatic creature in Loch Assynt,Scotland, 1837-1839
Strange animal a recent meeting of the Zoological Society, the secretary read a communication made to Lord Francis Egerton, by one of the agents on the Duke of Sutherland`s estate, respecting an animal said to have been repeatedly seen in Loch Assynt...

"Vampire" stalks Siberian livestock
A blood-sucking creature is preying upon goats near Novosibirsk. As rational explanations run thin on the ground, the specter of the so-called chupacabra raises its demon head...

GHOSTS, HAUNTED PLACES AND POLTERGEISTS:

Bucks County's haunted history
Bucks County's rich historical past has left behind some chilling haunted tales at its various historic attractions and lodging venues...

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