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Astrologer was spot on with quake prediction
It is a case of your word against mine. While science still grapples with the unknown, with seismologists nonchalantly declaring quakes as unpredictable, it is time for astrologers to say, "We had told you so." The latest doing the rounds is Liliya (Amreli)-based astrologer Jaiprakash Madhak's predictions of a "strong possibility of a quake on January 26" that appeared in the local eveninger Aaj Kaal from Rajkot on January 13, two weeks before the quake. The headline also declares "The earth will shake up on January 26th."

Past-life regression stirs up the present, too
Jessie Milligan of Star-Telegram Staff Writer visits a past-life regression therapist and takes away some unexpected self-discovery...

Office workers scared off by ghost
Workers in a Glasgow city center office are too scared to work late - because they're convinced it's haunted. They claim kettles are switched on and off, one room is always freezing cold and there are strange noises. Now workers like Kerr Armstrong at recruitment firm Melville Craig are afraid to be alone after dark in the office...

Preacher claims invisibility got him to meet Bush
The man who slipped past Inauguration Day security to casually shake President Bush's hand says he was delivering a message from God and was granted a mystical ability to pass undetected...

"Rod" videotaped in Texas
Do rods come in various forms? Do they grow from small to large? This photographer out of Texas is discovering swarms of rod-like objects near a transformer and several electrical lines close to the tree where the first rod image was recently filmed. What are we seeing? Baby-rods? Are rods being produced by high voltage or are they attracted to it? More evidence to contemplate...

Bar staff spooked by saucy ghost
Bar staff at the 15th century Boot and Slipper pub in Rickmansworth Road, Amersham, are convinced a resident ghost brushes past them, mutters to itself and puts its hand on their shoulders. Bar assistant Simon Kemp said: "Staff are too scared to go down to the cellar as there has been times when they feel something brush past and one guy felt a hand on his shoulder." Such experiences appear to be happening on a regular basis in the Old Town...

Strangest story ever told
It’s a story of Jesus Christ, and it goes a little something like this: Jesus didn’t die up on his cross at Golgotha. That was his brother. Christ himself fled across Siberia and, after a brief detour through Alaska, landed in Japan - where he got married and raised a family. The town, Shingo, calls itself Kirisuto no Sato: Hometown of Christ. Not many burgs outside of Bethlehem make that claim...

On the trail of Yowie: Bigfoot down under
I didn't really expect us to see a yowie - Australia's own version of Bigfoot. But as the night dragged on, all ears straining to identify every sound in the night and rustle in the bushes, I did begin feeling a twinge of guilt: Somewhere out there among the eucalyptus and surrounding scrub, my wife was acting as bait. A few hours before, as the sun was setting and we were lathering up in bug repellent, it had seemed like a reasonable idea...

Anti-gravity guru
He is not an academic, but he brought scientists from around the world to Brighton to discuss some of the weirdest ideas in modern physics. James Meek meets Graham Ennis, the man who believes it is possible to defy gravity...

Vacant, except for the spook
Buyers who unwittingly purchase a house with a reputation for being haunted have a right to legal redress. Failing to disclose the presence of a poltergeist may not sound the most promising basis for a legal action but a leading academic lawyer, relying on American authorities, has suggested such failures could end up in the courts...

"Baby trade" couple hired ghostbusters
The British couple who bought American baby twins over the Internet had their home investigated for spirits. Alan and Judith Kilshaw called in paranormal investigators to their their north Wales farmhouse. The BBC has shown film of the couple speaking about different spirits seen in their farmhouse home. One of the couple's two young sons talked of "The Milky Man," a ghostly apparition of an old man in a white milkman's coat...

Everest mountaineers insure against Yeti attack
Broken limbs? No problem. Lost luggage? Sure. Attacks by Yeti? Pardon? But if you're a passionate mountaineer who believes in the large hairy creature, and you're heading up beyond the snowline, it makes sense to be ready for anything. So when climber Nigel Gifford planned to take a group of fellow mountaineers to Everest, he got insured for "Yeti attack resulting in accidental death or permanent disability from own occupation"...

The Father of Atlantis
When archaeologists think of the legendary island of Atlantis, their thoughts usually turn to Plato, the ancient savant believed to have written the story around 360 B.C. But among pseudo-archaeologists, Atlantis brings to mind another, more recent writer — a man with the impressive name of Ignatius Loyola Donnelly...

Stephen Hawking debunks astrology
British physicist Stephen Hawking debunked astrology - along with some of Albert Einstein's theories - in a lecture Wednesday in the capital of India, where most Hindus consult star charts and astrological signs for decisions on marriage and other matters...

Hundreds see Jesus on Muslim's house
Hundreds of Christians in Indonesia have gathered around a house in the capital Jakarta to catch a glimpse of what they say is an apparition of Jesus Christ. Christians claim the stained white wall in front of a small house, which is owned by a Muslim, shows Jesus looking toward heaven with outstretched hands. However, not everyone in the crowd was convinced. Some people said they could not see anything on the wall, which is discolored with light brown water marks...

Science stunned by scene found in Virgin of Guadalupe's eyes
Digital technology is giving new leads in understanding a phenomenon that continues to puzzle science: the mysterious eyes of the image of Virgin of Guadalupe. The image, imprinted on the tilma of a 16th-century peasant, led millions of indigenous Indians in Mexico to convert to the Catholic faith. Last week in Rome, results of research into the famed image were discussed by engineer José Aste Tonsmann of the Mexican Center of Guadalupan Studies during a conference at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum...

Meet the real vampires
Vampire religionists were feeding off human energy long before spate of movies made vampires cool. Nicolas Strathloch begins his day early, around 6 or 7 a.m. He rises and showers, dresses in jeans, T-shirt and hiking boots, and drives to a print shop in northern Los Angeles, where he works as a foreman. At lunchtime, he often ventures to a nearby park. There, among the quiet ambience of nature and a few barking dogs, he will spot humans and feed off their energy...

Clerk keeper of magical stone
The Essex County, Virginia, Circuit Court Clerk does more than file papers. She's also the keeper of the "Mad Stone." The stone has been in Essex County for more than 200 years. It purportedly cures rabies and heals the wounds from a variety of animal bites. Most people in Tappahannock don't even know it exists, although school children or local historians will occasionally ask to see it. The new court clerk, Gayle Ashworth, didn't even know that keeping the stone was part of her job description until shortly before she was elected...

Legend of Bigfoot put to test
All things considered, 2000 was a rather big year for Bigfoot researchers. In April, two fly-fishermen reported huge, humanlike footprints 7 miles apart along the banks of Colorado's Eagle River. Bill Heicher, a wildlife biologist at the Colorado Division of Wildlife, evaluated the evidence and drew two conclusions: The tracks weren't faked, and they weren't made by a bear. Says Heicher: "It's no animal that we know of"...

Colorado sightings, tracks hard to ignore
A pair of hikers emerged from the Snowmass Wilderness last summer with a wild tale. Several Bigfoot shadowed them for two nights, they said, peering into their camp and even walking right up to the tent as they listened in fear and awe...

Nessie and the bigger issue of "proof"
No doubt you have seen it in many films, the image of the attorney who stalks the courtroom and declares: "We will show beyond a shadow of a doubt..." You will also often have read: "Scientific research has proved..." Both these phrases allege a hold on the truth but lawyers and scientists go about achieving "proof" in different ways. This is illustrated by the work of the two principal investigators of the Loch Ness monster phenomenon...

Seeking the healing vision
Author says people have lost touch with "the soul's path." In Minnesota, more than 30 percent of 2,000 Christians surveyed by a Lutheran minister and a sociologist reported they'd had dramatic visions, heard heavenly voices or experienced prophetic dreams. In California, researchers at the University of California in San Diego found compelling evidence that the human "brain may be hardwired to hear the voice of heaven"...

Miraculous flowers sprout on gold statue
"Flowers that bloom only once every 3,000 years are budding on the head of a sacred Buddhist statue." Buddhist priests in South Korea "say the legendary flowers blossoming on the forehead of Kian Yin the Compassionate" only appear "when the 'Sage King of the Future' comes into the world," which one Buddhist leader called, "a delight that gives joy beyond description."...

Amazing New Patterson Bigfoot Film Overlay
Wait for the download, then roll your mouse over this blow-up of the face of the mysterious creature from the famous Patterson film. Cool.

Chilean locals being paid in exchange for silence on Chupacabras
The blazing hot summer experienced in the southern cone (temperatures in excess of 100-110 F) has been worsened by a renewal of Chupacabras activity in Calama. Unnamed agencies have been buying the silence of local residents, but "the truth will out," as they say...

New hints about how Easter Islanders moved their gigantic statues
An enduring mystery of Easter Island is just how the islanders managed to move great stone heads - some weighing up to 90 tons - from a volcanic quarry to the ceremonial centers on the coasts. New excavations of ancient roadways are revealing tantalizing hints about the process, although the puzzle apparently is not yet solved...

Religious figure seen in cream cheese
"I can't believe it's not Buddha." An Edgware woman claims a prophet from one of the world's oldest religions has manifested himself to her in a tub of cream cheese. Bhavni Shah peeled back the lid of Kraft Philadelphia on Friday night to reveal what she believed was an intricate imprint of Lord Neminath, the first cousin of Krishna and 22nd prophet of the Jainism religion. Since the discovery, hundreds of people have flocked to her family home in Hartland Drive to catch a glimpse of the image...

Keeping tabs on tabloids' predictions
An earthquake will destroy Los Angeles and San Francisco? Prince Andrew and Fergie will remarry? Space aliens would sleep in the Lincoln Bedroom at the White House? Of the many bold or bizarre events self-styled psychics predicted for the year 2000 in the pages of supermarket tabloids, certainly those three didn't come true - none of them...

Ancient crystal questions Earth's history
Scientists may have to rewrite theories on what the Earth was like four billion years ago - after new research by geochemists at Edinburgh University. Until now, scientists had believed that the planet was a boiling ocean of magma. But by studying minerals, the researchers have found that the Earth was cool enough to have had water, continents and even to support life...

Woman will rise from the dead, says exorcist
The pastor who carried out the exorcism of a woman who died in an Auckland house believes she will be resurrected. Pastor Luke Lee, of a religious group called "Lord of All," said God told him the Korean woman, known as Joanna, would rise again one month after December 9 - the day she died in the lounge of the rented house in suburban Mt Roskill...

Your voice clue to moles?
What possible association could there be between the voice of a person and the moles on his or her body? Put this question to Rajan Damani. When you do so, he will immediately point out the moles on your body. Your voice is enough for him to do so...

Sideshows of science
As knowledge expands, so do the ranks of believers in fakery. There have long been hoaxers and jokesters in science, true believers in pseudo-science, and the end is not in sight...

Oil oozing out of Virgin Mary statue in Beirut
Oil has been oozing from a miniature statue of the Virgin Mary by the coastal entrance to northern Beirut, sparking a religious fervor. The faithful have arrived en masse since Friday, clutching candles and crucifixes in hand and chanting blessings. They have also stopped their cars on the road in order to witness the miracle, creating a traffic jam in the process...

At remote forest lake, monstrous legends
Lake Elizabeth's surface is smooth. No scorched trees in the surrounding forest, not a single giant footprint on shore. But you've driven 30 minutes along windy mountain roads to this lake in the Angeles National Forest. You've got to ask. Try the men casting into the dark waters. "Ever seen a dragon in the lake?" Long silence. "Been fishing here for 25 years, and I've never seen nothing like that," the one with the camouflage vest says, pushing his toe into the gray sand beneath his feet and looking at you like you're holding a crayon and coloring book, not pen and pad...

Ruling on how to hunt for Nessie
As if there weren't enough rules and regulations for dealing with everyday life, a government-funded conservation group is to produce a code of conduct for dealing with a mythical dilemma. Scottish Natural Heritage is to set up a panel of environmental experts to form a Loch Ness Monster Board. This august body will spend its time scrutinizing applications for Nessie hunts and drawing up a list of guidelines to show hunters the best way to look for the mythical beast...

Swedes join hunt for Loch Ness monster
A Swedish search team plans to use a net to capture the legendary Loch Ness monster, the fabled creature which many believe possibly lives in the depths of one of Scotland's deepest lakes. Jan Sundberg, of the Global Underwater Search Team, said Operation Clean Sweep would begin in the lake on March 20, and was confident his four-strong crew would find any large creatures living in the loch...

Hindus "beat Columbus to America"
An Indian political group claims Christopher Columbus was beaten to America by Hindu explorers. The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), or National Self-Reliance Society, also claims Indians invented chess, wireless technology and dams. Hindus also discovered the law of gravity long before Sir Isaac Newton, the society claims...

Irish saint predicts new pope and end of world
The 900-year-old prophecies of an Irish saint have suddenly become new year's reading among Roman Catholics wondering who might be the next Pope - and worried about Armageddon. Bishop Malachy O'Morgair had a vision on a pilgrimage to Rome in 1139 which prophesied that the successor to the current pontiff, John Paul II, would be the second last to reign before the world ends...

Uri Geller's Predictions for 2001
What would January 1 be without predictions for the new year and beyond? Here's a transcript of an interview with psychic Uri Geller...

Boy turned into a yam by witchdoctor
Nigerian police are investigating a bizarre claim that a boy has been turned into a yam by a witchdoctor. Officers have even taken a large yam - a staple of African diet - into custody. Three schoolboys in Maiduguri told their headteacher their friend had been transformed into a vegetable in front of their eyes after accepting a sweet from a stranger...

In a turbulent market, psychics see the future
At a time when the markets have been sending shock waves through the business world, it should probably come as no surprise that some CEOs and investors are turning to a new form of irrational exuberance: the universe of the so-called sixth sense. If there was any doubt about the trend, GotMarketing.com, which offers do-it-yourself online marketing tools to small and midsize businesses, recently unveiled a popular new feature: a business psychic named Imara who dispenses advice three times a week on its Web site...

Hoaxer's confesses to faking Borley ghosts
The most haunted house in history is to be unmasked as Britain's biggest hoax. A new book written by one of the hoaxers will outrage believers and delight those who seek to disprove the existence of psychic phenomena. In We Faked the Ghosts of Borley Rectory, Louis Mayerling - for whom the house was a second home until its destruction by fire in 1938 - reveals for the first time how the "hauntings" were created by the rectory's various inhabitants. He describes how they watched in amazement as the world fell for the elaborate hoax...

Faith healers make inroads in Holland
The blue-robed faith healer spread her arms over the operating tables and told the patients that white phantoms using invisible surgical equipment were healing them. "Do you feel them? Do you feel those hands at work inside you?" she asked the dozen patients on stage in this southern Dutch town as an audience looked on. Jomanda, a 52-year-old former ballet dancer, is one of a host of healers, New Age and other, who are using radio and television and making inroads into Dutch society, deeply influenced by Calvinism...

Ghostboosters promote spooky sites in the U.K.
The British National Trust is hoping to increase tourism with a series of "Ghostboosters." Phantoms and ghouls which are said to haunt historic trust properties are being heavily promoted by the organization. They include Buckland Abbey on Dartmoor in Devon where the ghost of Sir Francis Drake, driven in a black coach by headless horses, is said to haunt the moors...

"Curse of the mummy" unwrapped
It's an English invention. A British scholar has traced the origins of the curse of Tutankhamen, the Egyptian pharaoh who died more than 3,000 years ago, and found that the legend of King Tut's curse began not in ancient Egypt but in 19th-century England...

Holy Grail and Ark of the Covenant hidden on Baltic island?
The Holy Grail and the Ark of the Covenant may have been hidden by a secretive religious order of crusaders, the Knights Templar, on the Baltic Sea island of Bornholm some 830 years ago, according to a new book. The whereabouts of the grail and the ark - legendary religious relics of immeasurable value to Christian and Jewish believers - have intrigued historians and archaeologists for centuries and films about quests to locate them, notably the "Indiana Jones" series, have thrilled movie audiences worldwide...

Night sky boom rattles Australians, baffles police
Australian authorities were baffled by overnight reports of bright lights and booming noises in the sky which shook some houses and prompted fears of falling space junk or meteorites. Police said they received numerous reports of "explosions in the sky, sonic boom-type noises and flare-type lights" over a two-hour period night from residents along a 124 mile stretch of the country's east coast...

Mystery rock puzzles experts for decades
In the early 1940s, Donald C. Riggle of Medical Springs was examining traps he set along Curick Creek near Thief Valley Reservoir. Suddenly something partially buried in the middle of the creek caught his eye. Riggle uncovered the object. What did he find? Six decades later, nobody really knows...

Mysterious cross appears In Louisiana home
Dorothy Miller eagerly throws open the side door to three strangers who make their way through the living room and into a dark back bedroom, where husband Roy Miller exclaims, "You won’t believe it when you look at it." Through the multipaned opaque glass seems to appear a bright, haloed white cross, stretching across the back yard and reaching into the night sky. To the right appear two to three smaller crosses, one of which takes on a reddish glow...

Bigfoot's buttocks
The imprint of a hairy backside in the mud of Washington state is the strongest hint yet that Bigfoot is roaming the North American far west, according to researchers who made the discovery. Many people doubt whether the giant primate, commonly known as Bigfoot, actually exists. Hundreds of its supposed footprints have been photographed and cast, but this is one of the few body impressions of the hypothetical creature...

The cat came back - psychically
Well, ye of little faith, consider the story of a Montreal couple who asked an "animal communicator" in Texas for help in finding their missing cat. Taiway, the temperamental 10-year-old that had disappeared during the summer, showed up in early November after Peter Edwards and Rona Harun had a phone conversation with Sonia Fitzpatrick, who channeled messages from the lost cat...

Champ spotted
A sighting of Champ - the legendary Lake Champlain monster - this fall in Willsboro Bay startled a woman as she ate breakfast at her summer home. Seasonal resident Elizabeth Wilkins told the Press-Republican this week that she saw a large humped, crocodile-like creature swimming in the lake Nov. 26 and quickly grabbed a pair of binoculars to get a better look. "It appeared to be about 30 or 40 feet long," Wilkins said. "After about 20 minutes, it slowly began to move northward, leaving a fine wake behind"...

A lady with a healing touch
A healing touch of her hand with a few drops of water is sufficient for the cure of all ailments. There is no need for medicines and surgery at all. Does not it sound strange in this age of advanced medicine? She is Maan Jasjeet from Lucknow who claims that she received the supernatural power from the almighty to serve the mankind...

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