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The Japanese Jesus trail
A Japanese legend claims that Jesus escaped Jerusalem and made his way to Aomori in Japan where he became a rice farmer. Christians say the story is nonsense. However, a monument there known as the Grave of Christ attracts curious visitors from all over the world…
Idols emit water, 'miracle' draws devotees
Just weeks after claims that idols of Lord Ganesha were drinking milk, a large number of people on Saturday flocked a Jain temple here after some of the devotees claimed that the idols were emitting small droplets of water…
Mystery tracks of Arkhangelsk
Remember the James Bond movie GoldenEye? Well, it begins at a dam by a chemical facility near Arkhangelsk. Known to the Vikings, called Archangel by the English, Arkhangelsk is a historically significant port in Eurasia. Now, from Russia with love comes a strange but remarkable record of new footprints found near Shogorka, Arkhangelsk Oblast. Of what could these be a record, in spite of the following headlines? You be the judge…
Battle with sea serpent
Five men who went fishing yesterday* on the launch Rita assert they had an encounter with a sea serpent at the Grouper banks, eighteen miles off shore. Guy Griffith and James Harvey were of the party. "The monster was about forty feet long," said Griffith, "and about fifteen feet back from the head it had a big dorsal fin. The head was as big as a barrel and brown with eyes as big as my fist and it moved from side to side. The tail was like that of a porpoise. We first sighted the thing 100 feet away…
(Also read: "Sea Monster ")
Why villagers fear rare burst of pink blossoms
In the jungle-clad hills of northeastern India, they call it simply mautam. Once every 48 years, the bamboo forests that cover much of the region burst into flower, scatter their seeds, then wither and die within a few months. The mysterious phenomenon, known as "gregarious flowering", is happening this year, in the state of Mizoram, on the Indian border with Burma…
Missing man's family says his spirit contacts them
On a warm June afternoon, Freda Wheeler stood on the porch of her trailer, smoked a cigarette and gazed across a field sprouting dandelions, staring past the spot where she says her husband's ghost likes to sit. Michael, her husband, left the trailer distraught three years ago and never returned. No one knows if he is dead or alive - there is no evidence either way. She keeps a tape of the ghost cued in the videocassette recorder in her bedroom. A shadowy figure on the edge of a couch resembles the shape of a man sitting, crouched…
(Also read: "Father Communicates ")
Woman in vegetative state communicated through her thoughts
A woman who had suffered severe brain injury in a car accident and was in a vegetative state managed to communicate just by using her thoughts, say scientists from the UK and Belgium. They scanned her brain and discovered that she was able to understand verbal commands - she could even visualize herself playing tennis when verbally triggered to do so by the scientists…
(Also read: "Coma Visitor")
Scientist: Planet going back to dinosaur era
Global warming over the coming century could mean a return of temperatures last seen in the age of the dinosaur and lead to the extinction of up to half of all species, a scientist said on Thursday. Not only will carbon dioxide levels be at the highest levels for 24 million years, but global average temperatures will be higher than for up to 10 million years, said Chris Thomas of the University of York…
Expert says space aliens didn't damage Crawford County fields
The aliens have not landed in Crawford County. That's what one authority on crop circles confirmed. Roger Sugden, of Fort Wayne, Ind., a member of the International Crop Circle Research Association, said earthbound pranksters are responsible for the some half-dozen crop circles recently spotted by farmers in the south central part of Crawford County and central area of Marion County…
