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Idea of heaven for pets gets scholarly look
Dozens of books with titles like "Cold Noses at the Pearly Gates" affirm what 43 percent of Americans believe: pets go to heaven. While it sounds like a whimsical topic, the question of pet heaven actually offers a window into modern Americans' urban lifestyles and to their views on God and death, says John Ferre, a University of Louisville communications professor...

The Yowiehunters
Mike Williams talks to author Tony Healy about his newly released book, co-authored with Paul Cropper - The Yowie: In Search of Australia's Bigfoot...

Priest bids to count ghost out
They may be more used to dealing with superannuation than the supernatural, but a Scottish financial advice firm has been forced to call in a priest after being targeted by a suspected ghost. Several of the 40 staff at Alan Steel Asset Management in Linlithgow say they have witnessed an elderly man wandering around or heard a male voice when no-one is there, and books have fallen off shelves. They say such incidents have become more frequent in recent months, which is why Alan Steel, the company chairman, brought in a local historian and a priest, believing an exorcism could be the answer...

The Washington County Bigfoot is not a Bigfoot!
Much ado about something...but NOT a Bigfoot! Two Milwaukee TV stations, WTMJ ch. 4 and WISN ch. 12, reported Nov. 9 and 10, 2006, that Steven Krueger, a contractor bearwolfwho picks up roadkill for Washington and several other counties in southern Wisconsin, had an encounter with a Bigfoot. After a lengthy phone interview with Krueger on Nov. 10, I found out that he did have a strange experience with an unidentifiable creature, but it was NOT a Bigfoot...

TV tests Sheldrake's paranormal theories
RupertSheldrakeTV1.jpgLONDON. Scientist and author Dr Rupert Sheldrake had his theories on the paranormal put to the test by ITV1 London region on 7 November. Though the entertaining programme couldn't hope to prove anything, it did an excellent job of putting Sheldrake's theory of morphic resonance across in layman's terms and demonstrated how its implications could be put to the test. In the first of a new series of Reel London, titled The Man with the Extended Mind, reporter Jes Benstock recreated some of the biologist's experiments and participated in in one of them...

Slave ships' apes
Could the "North American Apes" (Napes) have come over from Africa via slave ships?...

11/11 winged weirdies
November 11, 1995, Zacapa, Guatemala - During a spate of bizarre animal killings in the area, Alicia Fajardo encountered a strange winged creature on her property at around one o'clock in the morning. She described it as about four feet tall, with large bat-like wings, huge oval-shaped eyes, and a large mouth with huge protruding fangs...

Is UFOlogy a legitimate scientific endeavor?
There was a time, quite a few years ago, when I would have argued that Ufology has the potential to be scientific. However, I was deluding myself into thinking that if you throw some math at an anecdotal report, or a host of anecdotal reports, it somehow takes them out of the realm of hearsay, and into the realm of physics. But the data that physics is based upon is nothing like the "data" that ufology is based upon. Physics is not based on "hearsay." Ufology is...

Flying object spooks man
Former naval intelligence crypto-tech Brad Luker is a down-to-earth kind of guy. At 40, he's a father and a husband, works as a power plant operator, and walks the straight and narrow. He doesn't believe in Bigfoot, aliens or the Loch Ness monster. So when he saw strange bright lights in the sky above him Tuesday night, he assumed it was a helicopter, or maybe a small plane. Only when he opened the door to his truck, expecting to hear the whir of chopper blades above him, did he start to wonder what the craft could be...

Lublin possible UFO Video [2005]
On 8th day of February 2005, Mr. Dariusz M. saw via the window of his house a strange object suspended in the sky. After a while another one appeared so the amazed witness grasped a video camera and began recording.When he realized that the observed phenomenon is a something rather unusual, he decided to notify the Army...

Sasquatch: legend meets science
Talk of the Nation, November 10, 2006 • Anthropologist, author and scientist Jeff Meldrum talks about the evidence for (and against) the existence of Bigfoot. Are there animals hiding in the woods that we know nothing about? Meldrum's new book is Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science...

Professor produces e-book on Bigfoot legend
Folklore or real creature, the mysterious South Arkansas Fouke monster seems to emerge from time to time in various forms. Now the legendary Bigfoot has made its way into a new e-book by an El Dorado native. Daniel G. Ford, who lives in Gillham, published "Littlefoot-Bigfoot"...

Southeast Texas police officer sees Bigfoot
The Texas Bigfoot Research Center received an interesting report a few days ago. The witness's statement follows...

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