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Paranormal News and Views for August 7, 2012

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Alberta Bigfoot

Bigfoot... or a bear's hind end?

Penny

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

CREATURES:

Trail cam from Alberta snaps surprisingly clear image of.. Bigfoot?
This image, snapped by an as of yet unnamed game trapper from Alberta, certainly appears to be a rather good snap of what looks like some kind of big primate lounging around in the forest; a far cry from the usual "blobquatch" images of blurry brown specs viewed through leaves and digital zoom. The photo is so striking, in fact, that one could easily wonder if it wasn't actually an image of a gorilla snapped in a preserve somewhere. The woman who uploaded the photo to Facebook a few hours ago, Penny, swears that isn't the case...

Argentina: A strange creature reported in Salta Province
A woman identified as Pascuala Alzogaray, who lives in El Divisadero in Rivadavia, in the middle of the Saltean "chaco", rode her horse 25 kilometers in the middle of the night to request assistance from the police officers at the small community of La Union, since, as she claimed, all local ranchers are frightened by the recurring presence of a strange, hairy humanoid of considerable size...

The Mongolian Death Worm - A shocking surprise in the Gobi?
It's not every day - or every expedition - that begins with a request from a country's head of government formally requesting that a specimen be captured of a creature so elusive, and deadly, that western science does not even recognize its existence. And the creature that the Mongolian premier instructed him to procure? None other than the lethal allghoi khorkhoi - or, as it is nowadays commonly referred to throughout the world, the Mongolian death worm...

Mystery shark found in lake
A surprise discovery at Alabama's Lake Guntersville prompted a multi-agency response Wednesday. A man found a small, dead shark at a Guntersville boat landing. It's unknown how the shark got there or how it died...

The creature in the castle
Situated just west of Forfar, Scotland, Glamis Castle is referred to by Shakespeare in Macbeth; Macbeth of its title having killed King Duncan there in 1040. And it is also at the castle where assassins murdered King Malcolm II in 1034. In addition, Glamis Castle was the childhood home of both Queen Elizabeth II and the Queen Mother, and the birthplace of Princess Margaret. And then there is the castle's very own monster...

GHOSTS, POLTERGEISTS, HAUNTINGS:

Tales of ghostly encounters
Ghost stories have always fascinated audiences around the world and no matter where we come from, there's nothing like a good ghost story to spice things up. For the upcoming six-episode My Ghost Stories Asia, some 'unfortunate' souls as well as celebrities share their personal encounters with the paranormal...

Ghosts: How do they see, hear and feel us?
When it comes to psychic mediums there are those that can see, hear, feel and communicate with the spirits and then there is a higher level that can additionally have the spirits come to them, ask for their assistance and get it and communicate with them in a manner that provides for an insight from their own existence...

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