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By Stephen Wagner, About.com

Aug 5 2006
Ghost hunters say Wood Island is haunted
Ghost hunters from the New England Ghost Project spoke to a packed house Saturday night in Biddeford Pool about the signs of haunting they found on Wood Island after spending a night out at the lighthouse and keeper’s house last fall…

UFOs over Poland
Recently the attention of many people in Poland was drawn by crop circles that began appearing since the first days of July 2006. But it doesn't mean that anything else occurred. For a long time Poland - Slavonic country in the heart of Europe, torn between East and West, was a stage of various UFO events. 2006 also abound in UFO observations…

Do witches, sorcerers and soothsayers really exist?
In books like Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Peter Pan, King Solomon’s Mines and most fairy-tales, witches, diviners, sorcerers and soothsayers are mentioned. In the movie ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest’, there’s a very flamboyant soothsayer called Tia Dalma, played beautifully by Naomi Harris. So do these people with supernatural powers really exist? Do they really perform ‘magic’?...

An alien abductee shares proof that we are not alone
Craig Jacocks’ Aware of Their Presence is set to be the first major book about alien abduction since Whitley Streiber’s best seller Communion. But, Jacocks has something even Streiber did not: proof. In the book, Jacocks recounts details from the many times he was abducted by aliens, beginning when he was a young child. He details how the encounters grew in intensity and how he began to realize he was dealing with humanoid beings with amazing abilities…

In pursuit of the paranormal
“Four of us happened to be looking towards the hallway windows and doors as a blond woman in a gown holding something over her mouth passed in front of one of the windows. She appeared to have a glowing effect to her, but what threw me the most was that she only passed in front of ONE of the windows, not the doors, or any of the other windows. All of us immediately commented, ‘Did you see that?’ and one of our group ran to the hallway to find her, but there was no one there. … None of us had our cameras at the ready, it happened so fast, but it was the kind of thing that I don’t need to prove to anyone. I know what I saw”…

Crop circles gain perspective
Crop circles have started appearing again in the English countryside, but this time in a new permutation. A crop circle in a complicated three-dimensional design was discovered in the first week of July near Ashbury, Oxfordshire. The exaggerated perspective of the formation, which is approximately 360 feet in diameter, suggests a bird's-eye view of a group of skyscrapers, as though the viewer was looking down on a city center from directly overhead…

Big Brother housemates get spooked by ghost
As if being watched by millions of people live on television isn't scary enough - now it seems that the housemates are being spooked by a BB ghost. Sitting bolt upright in bed, a dishevelled Aisleyne shouted: "Oh my God, Imogen! I saw the ghost!" Welsh beauty Imogen has already claimed there's a spook haunting the BB house, but no-one else had seen it. Until now…

UFOs are not what you think
Not beings from outer space but beings from another dimension — fallen angels, in fact — are responsible for UFOs. And they’re up to no good. The creatures (one of them described above) can do almost anything, including walking through walls and taking on human form, except overcome the Fundamentalist Christians who oppose them. With God’s help, of course…

Generation X-Files
The psychic schools have never been so busy, and it's not the Doris Stokes brigade who want to learn, but the young, the prosperous and the educated. Stephen Armstrong uncovers a paranormal boom…

'Buddha rays' spark statue-gazing
Thousands of Sri Lankans gathered at temples today after media reports that coloured images of the Buddha had begun emitting miraculous rays…

I was Marilyn Monroe in a previous life, claims singer
We've had countless memoirs from Marilyn Monroe's "secret" lovers. We've been regaled with conspiracy theories that the iconic actress did not commit suicide but was murdered by a cabal including anyone and everyone from the Mob to the Kennedy brothers. Now, with the 44th anniversary of Monroe's death looming, comes a different twist on the old obsession: a psychologically troubled Canadian singer who claims she was Monroe in a previous life, and whose claims have been championed by a Californian psychiatrist in a newly published book…

Psychic says she can replace your CRM

African desert has its own X-files
This is when you'll see them, round barren patches devoid of plants and rocks. Perfectly circular and mostly equidistant, they pockmark the landscape like Leopard's spots. The Himba people, native to the Namib Desert, believe they have always been there, much the same way a zebra has always had its stripes…

Real-life werewolves

UFO filmed from an aircraft

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