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By Stephen Wagner, About.com

Sep 20 2009
Jackson doctor OK with such spiritual mysteries
Dr. Gift Eze has seen plenty of things in his medical career that happened without an explanation, or at least not one he could find in his medical journals. "I've seen it here, and I've seen it in my native country," said Eze, who is from Nigeria and now practices medicine in Jackson. "Things that don't seem to have any explanation except spiritual. But we must understand that there are a lot of things out there that we don't know, but they are happening”…

Rare natural events photographed on Oregon coast
It happened at two geographically divergent points on the Oregon coast – and it happened in two different realms of the scientific world. A woman in Seaside captured a photograph of the glowing sands phenomenon, and a man in Newport snapped a picture of the “green flash” at sunset – both events rare in this region. Both have given Oregon’s coastal tourism industry much to talk about for a time, with events so singular and odd they verge on the paranormal…

Extraordinary chance UFO in Mexico

Pursuit of Sasquatch: A Portrait of Dr. Grover S. Krantz
There is a new documentary in the works that will be of interest to Bigfoot researchers. From Walikos Productions, it is entitled Pursuit of Sasquatch: A Portrait of Dr. Grover S. Krantz, and due for release fall 2006…

Questions that call for a genius
Last week an eccentric Russian was tipped to win a 'Maths Nobel' for solving the fiendishly difficult Poincare Conjecture, one of seven major 'millennium' mathematical mysteries that have been earmarked for urgent solution. But these problems are just the tip of a scientific iceberg. Other fields are also beset by frustrating theoretical failures. Here Robin McKie highlights the most baffling of those questions and suggests how science will one day provide those elusive answers…

Scientists flock to test 'free energy' discovery
A man who claims to have developed a free energy technology which could power everything from mobile phones to cars has received more than 400 applications from scientists to test it. Sean McCarthy says that no one was more sceptical than he when Steorn, his small hi-tech firm in Dublin, hit upon a way of generating clean, free and constant energy from the interaction of magnetic fields…

‘Hobbit’ was a disabled caveman

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Author gives life to aliens Writer is convinced we definitely are not alone
If you’ve ever wondered if were alone in the universe, you may want to come to Tracy today and pick up a copy of Alien Log by Dr. Robert Farrell. The Arizona-based author will be signing copies of his book, which posits the theory that millions of forms of intelligent life are out there. Farrell, 66, a retired professor from Penn State University, where he helped start a plastics engineering technology program, said he wrote the book in the same vein as Michael Crichtons Jurassic Park — the fiction is steeped in scientific research…

A ghostly night in show caves
Paranormal experts convinced the National Showcaves of Wales are haunted by the ghost of a woman spent the night there last night. Members of South Wales Paranormal Research spent 24 hours underground at the caves at Dan-yr-Ogof in the Upper Swansea Valley. Their initial investigations managed to confirm "a presence" within the showcaves with a female voice being heard clearly as well as knocking sounds…

Mystery beast photos withdrawn
All of the photographs taken by Michelle O’Donnell of the "Mystery Beast" or "Maine Mutant" have been removed from Cryptomundo. This has been done at her request because she wants Cryptomundo to block anyone from pirating them. Ms. O’Donnell of Route 4, Turner, Maine, also wishes to be paid the sum of one hundred dollars per picture, if you want to order a copy of any of the photographs…

Lake Winnipegosis monster sighting

Uncovering the mysterious side of your pocket change
For more than 100 years, the myth surrounding the cornerstone of the Second San Francisco Mint was passed between coin collectors. There were rumors of its existence, but no one had ever actually been able to prove where it was, and more importantly, what was inside…

Police Chief confirms Pine Ridge Bigfoot sightings
Report via direct communication from the Chief of Police for the Oglala Sioux Tribe Department of Public Safety- the law enforcement agency for the Pine Ridge Reservation…

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