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Paranormal News and Views for August 21, 2012

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Loch Ness hoax

Yup, it was just another hoax.

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

MYSTERIOUS CREATURES:

Latest Loch Ness Monster photo claimed as hoaxed
From the National Geographic, a photo of the model which was towed behind the boat on a line, as it sits on the dock in preparation for the hoax to follow...

Mysterious finned creature sighted
A mysterious sea creature captured on video off the Skegness coast has been intriguing marine experts and beach-goers alike. The footage, shot on Sunday, shows several fins bobbing up and down in the choppy water, just metres off the coast where children can be seen paddling in the shallow water...

'Sasquatch Watch' researcher keeps on looking
Pete Wilson is a patient man, and patience is a useful virtue for a Bigfoot researcher. After years of working in the field and investigating reported bigfoot encounters by others, Wilson has been rewarded with seeing a few likely footprints and hearing what he thinks was the howl of a sasquatch...

The possiblity of mosasaurs breeding off the New Zealand coast
There have been many encounters with unknown creatures off the coast of New Zealand, with the East coast being particularly favoured. There is a very good reason for this, running parallel to New Zealand's coastline is the Hikurangi Trench. A deep gouge on the ocean floor, that descends in places to depths of 3,750 metres (12,300 ft)...

GHOSTS, POLTERGEISTS, HAUNTINGS:

Family at house of the dead call in ghostbusters
The tenants of a Christchurch home where three members of a family died have called in paranormal investigators. The family of six moved into the house in January, and say coffee tables have moved, wardrobe doors slam by themselves, the shower turns on and off, they hear footsteps on the stairs, and the children have seen "apparitions". In May 2010, a mother and her two teenage daughters were found dead in the two-storey Avonhead house. Four days later, the father was found dead in his car nearby...

Hotel Hell: Chef Ramsay battles to save haunted hotel
Chef Gordon Ramsay's latest challenge took him to New York State, just a couple hours outside of New York City, to the historic Cambridge Hotel, an establishment that opened its doors in 1885 and was the literal birthplace of the homemade apple pie a la mode. But unlike his first task, that of turning around the Juniper Hill Inn in Vermont, this hotel seemed to always have an occupant, regardless if anyone was actually on the premises or not. The Cambridge Hotel was haunted...

Zimbabwe family flees home haunted by goblins
A Zimbabwean man from Zhombe area who went to South Africa and acquired goblins ( Tokolotshe, zvikwambo) in order to be rich has fled his home after the "money-spinning" goblins turned against him and his family...

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