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By Stephen Wagner, About.com

Oct 7 2006
Abducted by aliens? Seek compo
A German lawyer says he hopes to drum up more business by pursuing state compensation claims for people who believe they were abducted by aliens. “There's quite obviously demand for legal advice here”, Jens Lorek said...

"Monster" fossil found in Jurassic graveyard

“Gigantic black” UFO sighted over Minnesota

Did Jimmy Carter withold information on a 1956 UFO incident?
In 1973, Jimmy Carter, then the governor of Georgia, filed a form with the NICAP to report a UFO sighting. Carter said that if he became president, he would make every piece of information this country has about UFO sightings available to the public. But this was not to be. And one of the UFO incidents that the government continued to hold from the American people took place in Jasper, Colorado, in 1956, the subject of "The Top Secret UFO Project," filmmaker R. J. Thomas' parody of UFO documentaries...

Close encounter of the third kind in Oswiecim area
An elderly woman living In the Upper Silesia region relates her strange encounter with an Extraterrestrial Being that took Place in 1980’s. The short, seemingly friendly being with greenish-gray skin and eyes resembling those of a cow, who seemed to be very confused with the encounter, disappeared shortly after with its metallic, shell-like craft...

Laugh at the ghost stories, then listen to the 'voices'
Brent Crank, special events coordinator at the EarlyWorks Museum Complex, isn't saying he believes in ghosts, but this really creeped him out. There have always been stories about the Historic Huntsville Depot being haunted, but like everybody else, Crank just laughed them off. The depot, built in the 1860s, is one of the nation's oldest remaining railroad structures, serving as a soldiers' prison, infirmary and means of transportation during the Civil War and years after...

First teleportation between light and matter

George Noory interview
George Noory is the voice of Coast to Coast AM, the syndicated late-night radio show whose millions of devoted fans put the normal back in paranormal. Callers from the future, alien abductions, NASA's coverup of strange structures found on the moon—nothing's too "out there" for Noory's audience...

Poltergeist may haunt city bar
A bar in York's city centre is to be investigated for ghostly goings-on, which may be malevolent, before Halloween. Preparations are well under way for the city's annual festival of the paranormal. The highlight of this year's spine-chilling festival will be a paranormal investigation of Thomas's Bar, in Museum Street, York...

Demons, ghosts and goose bumps? All in a day’s work
When it comes to ghosts and paranormal activity, people either believe or they don’t. Maybe some have had experiences where they’ve had a feeling that something was near them, the hair on the back of their neck stood up, or they suddenly got a chill up their spine. Or maybe some have actually seen apparitions with their own eyes...

Wild things: the weirdest facts from the animal kingdom
Did you know that trout fake orgasms, or that frogs swallow with their eyes? Matt Walker scours the latest zoological research to find the interesting facts...

Mexico: Thoughts on the Paredon Entity
Those of us who live in Coahuila know that the Paredon Region, right up to "La Muralla" (part of the mountain range) is a hot zone as regards paranormal events and UFO sightings. There was a time when people traveling along the Saltillo-Monclova road would metnion a half-man, half-horse creature. UFO sightings at Hacienda de Guadalupe are also common. A couple with whom I spoke told me of the following experience...

Unidentified flying idiots
Bob Dylan once sang, “We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it.” While this might have been a reference to God, Dylan’s lyric often gets me thinking about how utterly abandoned we are here on Earth – and it’s not just by some illusory God. We haven’t heard so much as boo or moo from anyone, namely extraterrestrial intelligences (ETIs)...

About things that go bump in Talladega nights
Talladega Superspeedway is a huge, 2.66-mile track that's noted for its alleged jinxes and curses. Some believe it might even be haunted...

U.K.'s last 2006 wheat formation - A Mayan "Lamat"?
October 5, 2006 Mexico City, Mexico - The beginning of the Mayan "Long Count" or "Great Cycle" calendar is variously located between August 6 and August 13, 3113 B. C. on the Christian calendar. In Mayan chronology, the beginning date is written 13.0.0.0.0...

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