From Stephen Wagner,
Your Guide to Paranormal Phenomena.
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Jun 6 2006

Tips on how to predict psychic scams
Psychics and mediums may be in hot demand, but a shrill chorus of naysayers warns that many of them are out to snow you. It was only four years ago that Miss Cleo, the infamous television infomercial psychic who promoted psychic hotlines for two Florida corporations, was exposed as a fraud in a series of lawsuits and blaring headlines. Although she was put out of business, more scam artists have stepped into her wake, investigators say…

Physicists generate ball-lightning in the lab
Scientists in the joint study group of Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik and Berlin’s Humboldt University have generated ball-lightning in the laboratory - or, to be more precise, ball-lightning-like plasma clouds. The physicists produce luminous plasma balls above a water surface which have lifetimes of almost half a second and diameters of 10 to 20 centimetres…
(Also read: "The Mystery of Ball Lightning")

Mini-planet systems get stranger
Mini planetary systems may orbit cosmic objects that are 100 times smaller than our Sun, research suggests. Discs of gas and dust, the ingredients needed to create such systems, have been seen circling these relatively small objects, dubbed "planemos"…

UNESCO to take a look at Bosnia's mysterious pyramid
Bosnia’s mystery pyramid is to be investigated and inspected by a team of experts from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, it emerged yesterday. Semir Osmanagic, an amateur archaeologist, has caused a stir with his find at Visocica hill in the centre of Bosnia, although local and European archaeologists denounce it as nonsense…

666 woman's car-free birthday
June Dumas said she would not be driving on her birthday. A woman born weighing 6lbs 6oz on 6 June at 0600 BST, and who is 66 on 6/6/06, is refusing to drive on her birthday to help avoid accidents…

Is the Devil in the details of D.C. streets?

Lake monster may be myth, but exhibit is real
Bigfoot is back. And he's in Texas. To be exact, he's back in an animated version, standing between fake Big Thicket trees in a museum and welcoming tourists to an exhibit where even the name is skeptical: "Bigfoot in Texas?" As it turns out, experts and hobbyists now track the mythical swamp beast's Texas appearances back to 1969 -- and Lake Worth. No kidding. Our very own Lake Worth Monster -- the "Goat-Man," if you prefer -- is now considered the most famous of all Texas Sasquatch sightings…

Jupiter's red spots are nearing each other
Jupiter's well known Great Red Spot storm, and its newly formed Oval BA (aka Red Jr.) are about to sweep past each other, and astronomers aren't quite sure what's going to happen…

The demon fish of South Atlanta
Dr. Paul J. Camp at Spelman College's Department of Physics in Atlanta, wrote about a Fortean-style mystery involving fish that seemingly teleport in his ponds…
(Also read: "Psychic Teleportation")