PSYCHIC PHENOMENA:
Actor Bill Roache hires psychic to talk to dogs
Corrie's Bill Roache has admitted to using a psychic - so he can communicate with his dogs. The soap's longest-serving actor, 79, revealed he had contacted Jackie Weaver, who claims to be able to talk to animals. He says Jackie can tell him how Poppy, Oliver and Harry are "feeling"...
Truly Amazing: At 77, Kreskin still travels the world astonishing audiences
The day after Friday the 13th and two days after his 77th birthday, mentalist and late night show staple (of Johnny Carson, David Letterman, Conan O'Brien, the list goes on), the Amazing Kreskin, arrives at the Zeiterion. A superstitious person's bound to get nervous...
LOST WORLDS:
Once hidden by forest, carvings in land attest to Amazon's lost world
Edmar Araújo still remembers the awe. As he cleared trees on his family's land decades ago near Rio Branco, an outpost in the far western reaches of the Brazilian Amazon, a series of deep earthen avenues carved into the soil came into focus...
HUMAN MYSTERIES:
Read a real-life medical report on three cases of Haitian zombies
Zombies may seem like the purview of AMC dramas nowadays, but in 1997, English medical journal The Lancet published an intriguing set of case studies detailing three reports of zombification in Haiti. What caused the dead to walk in these instances? Well, let's just say reality is far less lurid than George Romero flicks...
EARTH MYSTERIES:
It rained fish in Agusan del Sur
Small fish of still unknown species mysteriously fell from the skies over Loreto town in Agusan del Sur Friday afternoon during a heavy downpour, leaving residents and officials baffled and amused. Blance Gobenciong, Office of Civil Defense (OCD) director in Caraga, confirmed the phenomenon but offered no explanation...
PROPHETS & PROPHECIES:
Gold rush linked to prophecy
As tales surrounding the discovery of alluvial gold in Kwekwe continue to unfold, reports have emerged the deposits were discovered by a leader of an apostolic sect through a vision...
MEDIA - BOOKS, MOVIES, TV:
Cops and ghosts mingle on 'Alcatraz' and 'Lost Girl'
So there's this island where strange things happen and people who should be very old or dead show up unchanged nearly half a century later. And there's an underground lair filled with computers that may or may not be the source of the weirdness. And it stars Jorge Garcia, and it's created by J.J. Abrams...
