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The happiest man in the world?
To scientists, he is the world's happiest man. His level of mind control is astonishing and the upbeat impulses in his brain are off the scale...

The Loch Ness Monster and other mysteries of motherhood

Polling Japanese students:
Do you believe in ghosts? What about UFO's? Have you seen one?..

Mystery death of seagulls remains unexplained
The strange death of 11 seagulls in Aylesbury remains unresolved this week, despite investigations by wildlife experts...

Austin's 63 dead birds

Be not deceived: Psychics are in it for the cash, nothing more
Remember that moment last year when it was announced they had come up with a vaccine that blocks nicotine addiction? How about when the troops began returning home from Iraq? Not to mention the Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Lopez pregnancies, and the surprise defeat of Gov. Schwarzenegger in California. What's that? You have no memory of any of those events taking place in 2006? I suppose that's because they never happened -- despite the psychic powers of Sylvia Browne, who last January predicted all those things and many more events that did not occur...

Baby mind reader rises to the challenge
Derek Ogilvie, a British medium who claims to be able to read babies' minds - a sort of "child whisperer" - is eager to relieve the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) of $1 million by proving his psychic abilities are real...

James Randi attacks Uri Geller again
James Randi is a stage magician and the most known sceptic of any paranormal phenomena. He is also the head of an international association of skeptics. In the past Randi has furiously attacked Uri Geller, along with other people who claimed to be psychic. Randi even wrote a whole book on Uri Geller titled Truth About Uri Geller. In this book Randi describes how all of Geller's "tricks" can be performed using ordinary stage magic...

'Tear miracle' in temple
A large number of devotees thronged a local temple after reports that tears were rolling down the eyes of Lord Hanuman's idol, shrine officials said on Sunday...

Dark visitors: Puerto Rico's Moca Vampire
"You're looking for what?" Perhaps telling the gas station attendant that I was on a quest to find of the ancestor of Puerto Rico's Chupacabras hadn't been one of my better ideas. The paranormal predator had caused enough damage in its short-lived range to cause the locals not to want to hear its name mentioned in jest. Yet here was someone looking for an even shadier entity, in fact, the traditional "scariest monster of them all" - the one that cannot be seen or felt, but whose trail of destruction is all too real and painful...

Teackle ghost hunters find unexplained event
A group of paranormal investigators think the legends of Teackle Mansion ghosts could be true, particularly in a part of the house where their equipment batteries died and they felt a cold spot. "There's enough evidence to be suspicious," Christine Power, co-director of Eastern Shore Paranormal, said at a recent meeting of the Somerset County Historical Society...

Some rumors are out of this world
Reverse engineering of flying saucers captured at Roswell, the development of energy weapons and weather control, time-travel technology, a shadowy one-world government -- these are a few of the rumors floating around about Area 51...

A two-faced, four-eyed pig

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