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Paranormal News and Views for September 11, 2012

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The Grim Reaper

The Grim Reaper

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

PSYCHIC PHENOMENA:

Knowing when your time's up: curious cases of presentiments of death
In 1912, timber worker William Toogood had a vivid prophetic dream of his impending death and the gruesome way in which it would occur. The following day William told his workmates of the disturbing dream, describing how logs had to be lifted to recover his battered body. Later that day, William Toogood died, precisely in the manner in which his dream had foretold...

GHOSTS, POLTERGEISTS, HAUNTINGS:

Dead hubby appears on wife's bedroom wall
Shocked Andrea Samuels saw a stain suddenly appearing on her bedroom wall - and realised it was her late husband Brian's face. The 41-year-old, who lost her hubby four years ago, told yesterday how she went on to spot another in the bathroom - which was her dead dog. Spooked Andrea decided against calling a damp specialist to her home - and got an exorcist round instead...

TIME AND SPACE:

Shirley MacLaine regaled Downton Abbey cast with tales of UFO encounters
Couched in another otherwise lovely article about Dame Maggie Smith's illustrious career on the London stage is a little gem about her new Downton Abbey co-star, Shirley MacLaine and how she regaled the cast with tales of UFO encounters...

Alien life to be discovered within 40 years, says former Royal Society president
Lord Martin Rees, former president of the Royal Society, believes that extraterrestrial life could be found within forty years. Rees commented on extraterrestrial life during an event to launch theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking's television series Stephen Hawking's Grand Design on the Discovery channel in the UK...

HUMAN MYSTERIES:

An interdimensional vision? Strange experience in Chile
Strange report about tall, white-skinned males with nearly automatic movements, straight backs, whose ages ranged between youth and middle age. Their clothing was commonplace. The napes of their necks could be seen in a straight angle, which is not customary, with flat occipital bones. Another characteristic was their thinness: normal features, hair running from black to dark blonde, combed backward. Angular faces, average height, but rather tall and with somewhat elongated noses...

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