If there is something strange in your neighbourhood there's only one person to call... Oxford's very own ghostbuster. David Vee, of Temple Road, Cowley, describes himself as a fully-fledged professional ghost hunter prepared to seek out paranormal behaviour wherever it may be…
Filmmaker offers millions for legitimate Elvis sighting
More questions and answers on paranormal phenomena
‘Ghost Hunters’: seeking science in séance
In the late 1880s, shortly after he helped found an organization to research the supernatural, William James confidently predicted that within 25 years science would resolve once and for all whether the dead could speak to the living. He — and a handful of other brilliant 19th-century intellectuals — was also fairly confident that the answer would be yes…
Tech stomps Bigfoot rumor
The South Dakota School of Mines & Technology does not have Bigfoot. And the Rapid City school issued a news release last week to emphasize the point. “I’ve done some checking, and we have no Bigfoot,” Breanna Bishop, Tech’s public-information coordinator, said. Rumors have circulated on the Internet that the elusive creature known as Bigfoot was killed on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and then was taken to the Rapid City school for further inspection…
Tests on mysterious stone could rewrite history
What's certain is that something's written in the stone. What's less certain is whether the markings have any historical significance. Now, University of Illinois scientists have agreed to examine the limestone slab some believe proves French explorer Robert Cavelier de LaSalle was the first white man to see the upper Mississippi River in 1671 -- two years before Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet made their famous trek. The foot high, 8-inch wide stone, which was found by a farmer in the early 1900s in Ellington Township north of Quincy, has prompted speculation for decades…
Mass draws 200 who find inspiration in comatose girl
Jon Pescheta said he was always a skeptic when it came to miracles and the like. But that changed three years ago when he was hired to help clean up the Tatnuck Square area home where Audrey Santo lives. The Millbury man spent some time scrubbing a wall in the ranch home’s breezeway that had been soiled by an oily substance that had supposedly seeped from a religious statue…
Psychic shares her thoughts on city’s future
Ghosts at the library?
Investigators from the Chester County Paranormal Research Society gathered in the Phoenixville Public Library on Saturday to collect evidence relating to the possible presence of ghosts inside the library walls. CCPRS Founder Mark Sarro began the investigation and research group last September. He said he's always had an interest in the subject of ghosts, and both he and his wife Katherine felt the need to step up and create a team of researchers into the paranormal…
New group on the hunt for hauntings
For Lisa Hoskins, the truth has always been out there. "I've never been a skeptic," the Hamburg Township resident said. "I've always believed there is another side. I've always believed that when you die, that's not the end of it. I do believe in spirits, so that's never been an issue”…
