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By Stephen Wagner, About.com Guide to Paranormal Phenomena since 1998

Digital Evidence; Nature of Ghosts; Physics and NDEs

Friday June 30, 2006
Some interesting links I've found this week: • Digital Cameras: No Longer Ghost Hunting At its Worst? – Digital cameras save ghost hunters a lot of money, but this author could ... Read More

The Truth About the Superman Curse

Thursday June 29, 2006
Much has been written about the so-called "Superman Curse," especially after Christopher Reeve's 1995 tragic accident and his unfortunate death. Tabloid writers drew comparisons with 1950s TV Superman George Reeves' ... Read More

News - Yeti Evidence; Fairy Phenom; War Ghost

Wednesday June 28, 2006
Man claims to have evidence of Yeti's existence... Mysterious object runs rings around onlookers... Revolutionary ghost (photo)... Mystery object drops in Nigerian village... King Tut's necklace shaped by fireball... Tribal ... Read More

Inhuman Bunkmate

Tuesday June 27, 2006
"I was staying at this hostel in downtown Toronto, Ontario, just for a few days before my new job started the next week," writes Tommy. "When they called that the ... Read More

Case File: The Strangling Entity - Feature Article

Sunday June 25, 2006
Tanya and Nat have been best friends since childhood. It seemed only natural that when they reached their early twenties that they would find a place to live together. And ... Read More

News - Haunted Hotel; Voodoo; Animal Telepathy

Sunday June 25, 2006
Haunted hotel: Do you serve spirits?... Ghost's presence creeps out the office... Lynn McKenzie can communicate telepathically with animals... Voodoo still shrouded in mystery... Ghost Watchers explore paranormal... Secret flying ... Read More

Crop Circles: Best Evidence

Saturday June 24, 2006
They began as simple circles laid down in fields of wheat, corn and other crops. Then the formations became more complex, some taking the form of pictograms that seemed to ... Read More

Orb Debate; Telekinesis; Time Tunneling

Friday June 23, 2006
Some interesting links I've found this week: • Orbs or Dust? – Dust – the bane of the paranormal investigator. There have been many controversies over whether an anomaly in a ... Read More

Apartment Spooks

Thursday June 22, 2006
People often photograph reflections in mirrors and other surfaces that can look like ghosts or something else strange. Most often these can be ruled out as mere reflections that coincidentally ... Read More

News - Tasmanian Tiger Sighted; Space Navy

Wednesday June 21, 2006
Tasmanian tiger “sightings” near Portland... Buy a piece of Yeti history on eBay... Ghost tours torment Gettysburg residents... “The Devil is a Gentleman” explores religious fringe... God, UFOs and the ... Read More

Lizard Man in Texas

Tuesday June 20, 2006
"My grandpa had taken us hunting up near Big Springs in west Texas," writes The Kid. "I strode up the mountain and I carried with me only my shotgun and ... Read More

News - Mysterious Prints; Baby Whisperer; Bigfoot Photo

Sunday June 18, 2006
Mysterious footprints create speculation.. UFO sighted hovering over Clovis skies... Sweden’s lake monster... Medjugorje 25 years later: Apparitions and contested authenticity... Visitors from another world?... Surviving in Bigfoot's backyard... Idaho ... Read More

Ouija Poll

Saturday June 17, 2006
Poll: Should Ouija boards be sold in toy stores? (Cast your vote by clicking one of the links below.) Yes, no problem. No, they should not be sold in toy stores. No, they ... Read More

Children and Ghosts; Prophecies; Psychic Truth

Friday June 16, 2006
Some interesting links I've found this week: • Children and Ghosts – Can babies and children see angels, spirits and ghosts? Yes, this article says. When a child comes into this ... Read More

Paranormal Bookshelf

Thursday June 15, 2006
New and noteworthy books: • Beyond Reincarnation – Experience Your Past Lives & Lives Between Lives, by Joe H. Slate Ph.D. Exploring past lives is not only possible, this book says, ... Read More

News - Bigfoot Photo Hoax?; Looking Back to the Future

Wednesday June 14, 2006
Oklahoma Bigfoot game camera photos: fake?... Bigfoot hunters claim another sighting... Ghostly tales from tour of country’s buildings... Pyeongtaek's mystery ball in the sky... Andes people look back to the ... Read More

Visit of Pure Evil

Tuesday June 13, 2006
"My family and I use to have our own house until we lost it," writes Karina. "Strange things had always happened to me in that house but, not like my ... Read More

Developing Your Psychic Abilities

Sunday June 11, 2006
Every once in a while, you get the feeling that the phone is going to ring... and it does. Or you know who it is that is calling... and you ... Read More

News - Lake Worth Monster; Scotland's Nostradamus; 666 Jinx

Sunday June 11, 2006
The Lake Worth Monster... Record meteorite hits Norway... Japan's legendary Holy Grail... Man wants cash for mystery skull... Mysterious Pioneer anomaly... UFO abducted town’s residents... Host with the ghost?... Brown ... Read More

ParaCon 2006

Sunday June 11, 2006
The 2006 ParaCon paranormal conference is taking place June 16-18. Sponsored by the Smoking Gun Research Agency (SGRA), the conference is being held at the Howard Johnson Hotel in Milford, ... Read More

Ark Battery; Alien Skulls; Mystery Fires

Friday June 9, 2006
Some interesting links I've found this week: • Re-Engineering the Ark – From Exodus to Indiana Jones, the Ark of the Covenant has been described as possessing awesome destructive powers – ... Read More

Ghost Among the Deer

Thursday June 8, 2006
Do ghosts linger in the area where they left this life? One of our readers, Barb, thought she was just taking a picture of a pair of deer at the ... Read More

Amazing New Ghost Video

Wednesday June 7, 2006
Really good, compelling ghost videos are rare indeed. But our friends at Western New York Paranormal seem to have succeeded recently during an investigation at the historic ghost town of ... Read More

News: Ball Lightning in Lab; 666 Woman; Pyramid Mystery

Wednesday June 7, 2006
Physicists generate ball-lightning in the lab... Tips on how to predict psychic scams... Mini-planet systems get stranger... Bosnia's mysterious pyramid... 666 woman's car-free birthday... Lake monster may be myth, but ... Read More

Family driven out of haunted house

Tuesday June 6, 2006
Ghostly apparitions, poltergeist activity and even attacks by the unseen have driven a Scottish family from their home. The mother, Gillian Walker, has reported an onslaught of terrifying events, including ... Read More

All About the Djinn - Feature Article

Sunday June 4, 2006
In the Western world we have grown up with the concept of demons and devils – the evil beings of the spirit world, according to traditional Christian beliefs. In Islam, ... Read More

News - Ball Lightning; Swamp Ape; Afterlife

Sunday June 4, 2006
Ball lightning: A shocking scientific mystery... Smoking Gun Research Agency's eighth annual Paranormal Convention... Giant crater beneath the Antarctic ice?... That’s one small step – on Mars?... Green Swamp Ape... ... Read More

Your True Tales: June Stories Now Online

Saturday June 3, 2006
The June edition of Your True Tales is now available for reading. This month there are 28 great true stories from readers telling their experiences with monsters, ghosts, psychic phenomena, ... Read More

Moon Anomalies; Spooklights; Telepathy

Friday June 2, 2006
Some interesting links I've found this week: • The Moon and Its Rilles – Planetary scientists describe it as a stupendous channel cut by flowing lava. But on closer examination, Schroeter's ... Read More

Spooky Face on TV

Thursday June 1, 2006
It is theorized that ghosts and spirits dwell in a dimension parallel to our own. Is it possible that electronic devices, such as audio recorders and TVs, allow these entities ... Read More

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