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Jul 30 2006
Opening the door on the paranormal
The three ghost hunters knew who to call. They just didn’t know what they’d unearth once they got there. “We’re not here to try and find a ghost. We’re here as skeptics as well.” So said Justin Yates, paranormal investigator and co-founder of the Havelock-based North Carolina Ghost Hunting Society, speaking Monday before a panel of impromptu spirit stalkers assembled after hours in New Bern Historical Society’s administrative offices on Pollock Street…

Cape Cod haunted map unveiled
More than 72 haunted locations populate the map. All are drawn from the extensive body of literature on Cape Cod's ghostly folklore…

Preston couple thinks its inn has ghoulish aura
Carol Matsumoto tells her guests the shower curtain in the second floor bathroom is "glued and screwed." Matsumoto and her husband, Ted, own Captain Grant's Inn at 111 Route 2A in Poquetanuck. They purchased the 18th-century home in 1994. Carol Matsumoto said she's only seen the shower rod fly off once. But guests who use the bathroom in the house's Adelaide Grant bedroom have reported the shower rod twisting and flying off the wall 30 to 40 times …

Extraterrestrials, Mars meteorite

Pyramid way to happiness
Sales executive S. Dinnesh from Penang is enjoying higher energy and self-esteem levels since he started carrying Pyracards. He sent me an e-mail saying that his life has taken a 180° turn for the better because of the pocket-sized pyramids that he now carries with him at all times…

Bigfeet fanatics meet in northern New York
The 60-odd people who convened in a northern New York R-V park yesterday afternoon weren't interested in finding a yeti, or the Loch Ness monster even. They were looking strictly for Bigfoot. Members of the national Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization met in Whitehall yesterday to discuss encounters and tales of the mythical beast…

Testing psychics
Perhaps one of the more difficult challenges we may face in developing spiritual awareness and psychic abilities is that of being tested by unbelievers…

Multiple UFOs photographed in Greece

Strange lights in the Phoenix sky

Ever decreasing crop circles
Supernatural energy is, apparently, buzzing all around us from beneath the flattened wheat. John Latta from Seattle is wandering round in a trance-like state. Katharyn Henderson, 24, a teacher from New Zealand, is lying on the ground, lost in a cosmic daze…

Rosslyn ghost sighting spooks Festival actors
Actors rehearsing at Midlothian's Rosslyn Chapel for a Festival play claim to have spotted two ghosts in the famous building. A cast member reported seeing a "fairy-like" figure in the grounds of the Chapel, while another said they spotted a person inside the building itself…

On lookout for ghost stories: Paranormal sleuths to visit Library Park
If you believe in ghosts, you may want to steer clear of Library Park. A Westport-based paranormal investigation society, the Smoking Gun Research Agency, said it has received several reports of ghostly activity in the park on Grand Street. The group plans to "spook" around the area this afternoon at 3 if the weather cooperates, said the agency's director, Jon Nowinski…

Real monsters of Madagascar

Who you gonna call?
A Waynesboro, Va., family claimed a demon possessed their daughter. They also said people were literally stepping out of paintings into their living room. He said the daughter, 17, was alleged to have participated in a double-homicide a couple weeks prior. Allegedly, she aided and abetted a convicted murderer by stealing a car, before both were apprehended in a high-speed chase in Florida. Bradley added that they also found a marijuana cigarette in the open in the house…

RU Sirius interviews ex-USWeb CEO who claimed extraterrestrials had visited Earth
There's an interview with Joe Firmage on this week's RU Sirius Show. Firmage became legendary when he retired as CEO of USWeb in 1999 after claiming that extraterrestrials had visited earth. And Jamais Cascio, cofounder of worldchanging.com, talks about "the participatory panopticon" on this week's NeoFiles…

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