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Paranormal News for January 21, 2012

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CREATURES:

The Mounties and Sasquatch
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) is the Canadian national public safety service for all of Canada. It provides national, federal, provincial and municipal policing, including services to 184 Aboriginal communities and three international airports. Their duties are varied, and sometimes, rather odd. The last weekend of October 1974, a witness in Mackenzie, BC saw what he first thought was a large black stump leaning against the trunk ofa large pine tree about 500 to 600 feet away. As he approached, the tall black haired creature on two legs moved to hide behind the tree...

Howling noises bigfoot or hoax?
Two videos of howling noises have been recorded in Canada, leading some to believe it may be a bigfoot, or yeti. The Huffington Post reports the first video was posted on January 13 and it recorded strange sounds in a remote forest north-east of Edmonton. The noises, which sound like they may be just an elaborate hoax, have racked up more than 500,000 video views online. Another video surfaced on January 15 and included similar noises but it was recorded more than 1000km away...

Sasquatch: Not just an animal?
Those of you that believe in Bigfoot/Sasquatch/Yeti/All-Those-Other-Names, what do you think of the possibility that Sasquatch is not just an animal, that the Sasquatches are, in fact, people, even if they are not Human?..

Is This The Minnesota Iceman?
Are these photographs of the original "Minnesota Iceman" or the model that was used to replace it? Remember, it was not shown in "carnivals" but at state fairs and stock shows. Frank Hansen was not a "carnie," but had previously displayed antique tractors at state fairs when he was asked to show the original and then a copy of this mysterious exhibition around the country...

PSYCHIC PHENOMENA:

Psychics ready to divulge unknown
When you go to see a psychic, you discover that you already know the answer to your question, says world-renowned psychic Cassandra Eason. World-renowned psychic Cassandra Easton uses multiple techniques to find out the answers you seek. "They (clients) discover the answers are what they saw all along but didn't trust," she said...

EARTH MYSTERIES:

Did the oldest tree east of the Mississippi spontaneously combust?
"The Big Tree," the oldest tree east of the Mississippi, was reduced to little more than a pile of ash this week. But unlike most forest fires, this tree burned from the inside out, leaving Florida officials struggling to explain the fire's cause...

MEDIA - BOOKS, MOVIES, TV, GAMES:

Welcome to Benjy's Mansion - a spooky haunted house where you are the first visitor for a generation
Microsoft and Zoe Mode have announced that Haunt, a new Xbox 360 game with Kinect support developed by NanaOn-Sha, is now available via Xbox LIVE, priced 800 Microsoft Points. Haunt leverages the power of Kinect to enable you to freely explore a spooky haunted house using just your body as the controller...

This is one ghost story that guarantees you'll be spooked
In his latest book, The Night Strangers, Chris Bohjalian uses this same storytelling strategy, but applies it to ghosts instead of midwives. A side plot about New England herbalists, who may or may not be witches, just adds to the suspense. A spellbinding story with all sorts of explanations, both eerie and earthly, is the result...

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