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Most ghost encounters are completely harmless, but every so often there are incidents in which spirits are blamed for slapping, pushing, scratching, strangling and even beating their victims. Here are some true stories from those victims.

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PARANORMAL NEWS for JAN. 28:
Open Season on Bigfoot?, Apollo 16 Moon Aliens, Mysterious Jelly Spheres

Saturday January 28, 2012
Tim Stover Bigfoot print Bigfoot sightings, hunted
- Bigfoot sighted in Ohio and California; also, should Bigfoot be hunted to provide definitive proof?
Apollo 16 Apollo 16 and moon aliens
- A group of remote viewers claims Apollo 16 astronauts found evidence of alien life on the moon.
Mysterious blue jelly spheres

Mysterious jelly spheres
- A man in Dorset, England  is mystified by tiny blue spheres that fell from the sky into his garden.

Plus: An interesting catch near Loch Ness... Family's haunted house gets second exorcism... A poltergeist in the milking shed... Do solar flares affect the paranormal?... Followed home by the ghost of Preston Castle... Jeane Dixon's prophecies... Morgellons disease exists "only in patients' minds"... Chinese boy can see in the dark... Strange noises reported around North Battleford... Strange sounds' mystery being blamed on secret U.S. programs... This week's podcasts worth listening to.
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Fran Drescher abducted by aliens?

Saturday January 28, 2012

Recently, actress Fran Drescher (The Nanny) disclosed that she believes both she and her ex-husband were abducted by aliens when in high school. Could it be true?

Guest house ghost

Saturday January 28, 2012

Frances Grimshaw ghost

Workers who were demolishing the Meadowbrook House guest house suspected it was haunted. One day as they were working, a chandelier began to swing mysterious on its own. And when one of the team took a photo of the building, the apparition in the window convinced them.

"That's my mother," said David Grimshaw. "I'm totally convinced. No one else looks like that." David's mother, Frances Grimshaw, worked at the guest house in Kendal, Cumbria, England -- and died about a year ago. David said she often stood for hours at that window taking bookings. "She would have been horrified if she had known the house was being demolished because it was beautiful," he told the Daily Mail. "So maybe that is why she's turned up."

The Toy That Wouldn't Die!

Friday January 27, 2012

As much as I love stories from "The Twilight Zone," sometimes they cannot compare to the real-life experiences with the unexplained - simply because they're true. Presented for your consideration, the case of the simple child's toy that seemed to have a will of its own; an otherwise ordinary construction of painted plastic, wires and whirring electronics that defied all attempts to silence it. Perhaps because behind the goofy smile of the familiar cartoon character - somewhere deep inside - stirred a component that could only have been manufactured in... The Twilight Zone. Read more.

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