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By Stephen Wagner, About.com

Dec 12 2006
Crop circles - makers or fakers?
This past weekend I was lecturing along with ghost-hunter Josh Warren and 9-11-conspiracy author Jim Marrs at a gig in Kansas City. We’re hoping to expand this initial gig into a full-blown U.S. tour next year, and I’ll keep you posted on that. However, there’s something else that I want to discuss with you. While I was at the Dark 30 conference, one of the audience came up to me and said that he had heard that reports of Crop Circles had declined in England this year. I nodded, and said that, yeah, he was absolutely right...

Frozen frog comes back to life
A tree frog has miraculously come back to life after being accidentally frozen solid in a freezer in Australia. The tiny frog was found covered in a layer of ice in a walk-in freezer - at -18C - at a Darwin cafeteria. But - after defrosting - it fully recovered and started breathing again...

Mysterious object brightens night sky
Deputies with the Natrona County Sheriff's Department responded to numerous calls of a large fireball streaming through the night sky early Friday morning, but were unable to find any trace of the object...

Russian squirrel pack 'kills dog'
Squirrels have bitten to death a stray dog which was barking at them in a Russian park, local media report. Passers-by were too late to stop the attack by the black squirrels in a village in the far east, which reportedly lasted about a minute...

Would-be ghost busters busted
Two women, a man and a 17-year-old boy were arrested by the Meeker County Sheriff’s Department early Monday morning after a ghost hunt turned into an alleged burglary. The Sheriff’s Department was called around 2:20 a.m. after a local resident heard the Ness Church bell ring and saw a vehicle leaving the church grounds in rural Litchfield, according to a news release from the Meeker County Sheriff’s Office...

Top scientist says Mars lurking with killer aliens 'frozen' in subterranean 'oceans'!
A top UK space scientist Dr. John Murray has said that Mars could be lurking with killer aliens lying frozen beneath its surface. He has said that bringing them to Earth will be catastrophic, as they will wipe out humanity. Now Dr. Murray, who is also UK lead scientist with Europe's Mars Express mission, has said he has overwhelming evidence of the life surviving in the frozen ocean near its equator, where simple life could thrive as microbes...

Strange weather - ball lightning
Very interesting and rare weather caught on video! Though the young man in the video seems to think these balls of light are some sort of alien craft, they look like what is called ball lightning to me. He is right to be scared, though as it is very dangerous...

Self-concept and body investment in out-of-body experiments
Prior research has found that people who have had out-of-body experiences (OBErs) report higher levels of body dissatisfaction than people who have never had an OBE (non-OBErs). Previous studies of the general public have shown that people with higher levels of body dissatisfaction also tend to score higher on measures of social anxiety. However, this does not appear to be the case for OBErs. A study completed by researchers at the University of Manchester (UK) and published in the European Journal of Parapsychology was designed to investigate this apparent discrepancy...

Gorbachev and Reagan: an alliance vs.a hypothetical alien attack

New theory: Bigfoot was “cradleboarded”?
People put out press releases, make statements, and I ask the questions. When I zipped off questions to Greg Long and Kal Korff, about how inconsistent some of their initial and later statements were before and after their Bigfoot book was published, about why were they carrying out a character assassination of Roger Patterson, people applauded me...

Bigfoot’s vocal mimicry
Vocal mimicry in bigfoot has been talked about among researchers. However it is difficult enough to recognize a bigfoot sound let alone a bigfoot imitating birds or other animals...

Ancient computer provides more questions than answers
The island of Antikythera lies 18 miles north of Crete, where the Aegean Sea meets the Mediterranean. Currents there can make shipping treacherous -- and one ship bound for ancient Rome never made it...

Ghost hunter
Vince Wilson has a theory about ghosts: They're a misunderstood part of the natural environment, phenomena that can be discerned and explained through the careful application of science. Which is why he's wheeling several thousand dollars' worth of homemade ghost-detection equipment into the Westminster Presbyterian Church and Cemetery in downtown Baltimore. "Even ghosts would have to obey the fundamental laws of physics," Wilson says. His quarry are like the giant squid, he insists, creatures that scientists once derided as folklore but whose existence has since been proven...

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