Sunday, September 4, 2011

Miraculous Photos

Miraculous Photos
This is the time of year when many of us consider the possibility of miracles. Some even claim to have captured miracles on film. Here is a selection of those photos, and the stories behind them.
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Do you believe in miracles? Many fervently believe in the miracles related in both the New and Old Testaments of the Bible - the parting of the Red Sea, Jesus' healing of the blind and raising of the dead, and. of course, the virgin birth.

But those miracles took place thousands of years ago. Do miracles still occur? Do the powers of Heaven make themselves known in unexplained ways even in the 20th and 21st centuries? Following are what many consider to be photographic evidence that miracles remain a part of our lives.


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Heavenly Figure in the Night Sky
This interesting photo was taken, so the story goes, by a pilot flying a high-altitude reconnaissance mission somewhere over the North Pole. Being a photography buff, he always carried his camera with him. It was the dead of night when he suddenly heard a gentle voice tell him to get his camera and prepare to take a picture. The apparition shown here allegedly then took shape before him, and he photographed it. Many believe it is an apparition of Jesus.

Our Lady of Fatima Statue
In 1997, a pilgrim to a shrine to Our Lady of Fatima in Conyers, Georgia, handed her young daughter a camera with which to take a picture of the statue of the Blessed Mother. A week later, when the photo was developed, a strange, multi-colored glow seemed to emanate below the bouquet of roses in the statue's arms. "I have seen numerous images with unusual characteristics, in many instances, these characteristics could be explained away as lens flare," wrote the girl's father. "This is certainly not the case here! I have had a handful of photographic experts look at the photo with no explanation being offered. As I have come to understand over time, I do not question how such a thing could happen, I simply thank Our Lady for this beautiful gift she has given us."


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Mysterious Crosses of Light
Unexplained crosses of light have been appearing in churches and non-religious settings around the world for more than 10 years, according to the Elk Transmission Mediation Group. One of the first appeared in 1988 in the bathroom of an apartment in El Monte, California. Since that sighting, other crosses of light have been documented in the Philippines; Knoxville, Tennessee; Altadena, Calif.; Vancouver, B.C.; a suburb of New Orleans, Louisiana; as well as France, Germany and New Zealand. According to the reports, no sources could be found to reasonably account for the images. "The crosses are indeed in the windows at the Copper Ridge Baptist Church," wrote The Greenville Sun columnist Bob Hurley about the Knoxville apparition. "That is a fact. It doesn't matter if you believe it or not. There at first, I was a bit of a skeptic myself. But now that I've seen the crosses of Copper Ridge with these two eyes, I'm a believer."

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Utah Bigfoot videoIt's definitely Bigfoot season. This latest video come from a couple of guys who were fishing, target shooting and camping in the mountains of Utah when they say they scared a creature from the trees. They captured these video images.

Is it a genuine Sasquatch? The movement, hair color and possible size fit common descriptions of the elusive creature, but it is too distant and obscured by trees to help us make a conclusion one way or another.

Near the end of the video, the guys also "discover" a small structure made of tree branches, which might or might not have anything to do with the creature. The possibilities are:

  • It was built by other campers (it looks man-made)
  • It was built by the guys who took the video to further a hoax
  • It was built by the Sasquatch, which, if it did, is an indication of higher intelligence than previously known

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Saturday, September 3, 2011

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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...
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(Also read: Mysteries of Ancient Peru)

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Strange light bubble vver China draws astronomers into debate over its origin
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Sasquatch claims draw TV show to Minnesota
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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)

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Bigfoot hunter in the spotlight
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Sasquatch claims draw TV show to Minnesota
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Thursday, September 1, 2011

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Experts to probe ghost reports at Naples museum
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