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Loch Ness Monster - May 2011

Loch Ness Monster - May 2011

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

July 23, 2011

GHOSTS, HAUNTED PLACES AND POLTERGEISTS:

South Park school has haunted history
With as long a history as many buildings in the Pittsburgh area have, it's no wonder that some people have tales of hauntings...

Haunted Scranton shakes up non-believers
Claimed to be the most haunted city in America, Scranton is filled with a history of coal mines, unexplained and tragic deaths and series of hardships that lead to its local hauntings...

CREATURES:

After a 45-year hunt, walker claims to have photographed elusive creature
At first glance it looks like another dark ripple on the water. But study the photograph more closely and a dark hump and tail can be seen poking through the water's surface, or so a life-long hunter of the Loch Ness monster hunter claims...

Chinese villagers mistake atrophied ape for alien
This ape made a monkey of Chinese villagers who feared it was a visitor from another world. Locals panicked when Mao Xiping, a housewife from the village of Gezhai, in Henan province, central China, found the scraggy simian stealing cucumbers from her flat...

The Chupacabra
Nick Redfern: For years, controversial tales have surfaced from Puerto Rico describing a killer-beast creeping around the landscape, while simultaneously plunging the population into states of deep fear and apprehension...

2nd annual Bigfoot Bash to feature testimony on Sasquatch sightings
The second annual Bigfoot Bash takes place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. July 30-31 at Michigan Magazine Museum, 3319 N. Abbe Road, in Comins...

PSYCHIC PHENOMENA:

Psychics peer into Palmgren case
More than 100 psychics from around the world have peered into the case of a missing Signal Mountain woman in hopes of providing investigators with clues...

MAD SCIENCE:

How to be in two places at the same time
An ambitious experiment to make a glass sphere exist in two places at once could provide the most sensitive test of quantum theory yet...

MEDIA - BOOKS, MOVIES, TV, GAMES:

Animal Planet renews "Finding Bigfoot"
Having been eluded by the mythical beast this year, Animal Planet's "Finding Bigfoot" true believers will be back for a second 10-episode season...

The Haunted Castle
An incredible ninety years old, "The Haunted Castle" predates what is arguably director and auteur F. W. Murnau's best-known work, "Nosferatu" (1922) and also diverges from it in style in several ways...

Not-so-friendly ghosts return in new "Paranormal Activity 3"
Those pesky ghosts are back for another round of hand-held found footage horror fun in "Paranormal Activity 3," and Paramount has just released the film's first trailer...

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