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By Stephen Wagner, About.com

Parapsychology research lacks good data
Dr. James Alcock explains why he remains skeptical of parapsychology research, and why parapsychologist don’t garner attention from academia: "… if one could come up with good data that showed there’s something to it, the parapsychologists would be trampled by psychologist and physicists rushing to the study of it."..

Silent lucidity
Lucid dreaming is a phenomenon that many discredit, naming it a hoax and naturalist mythology despite the fact that it has strong scientific evidence supporting it as a real occurrence. With a devoted training regimen, most anyone can learn to harness their own subconscious to experience surrealistic events and places. In a controlled dream, one can pursue anything from the cessation of nightmares, to investigating problems, to engaging in sexual fantasies, to my personal choice—jetting around the skies like Superman...

Flashback: thirty years ago - South Dakota Bigfoot

Castle's ghostly reputation leads to expansion plans
Chillingham Castle is increasing its guest accommodation to cater for the growing number of ghost seekers visiting the medieval fortress. The 14th century castle's reputation as one of Britain's most haunted houses has grown in recent years as a result of cult television shows such as Living TV's Most Haunted. As a result, owner Sir Humphry Wakefield has decided a conversion of the 1799 coach house is required to meet demand...

'Ghosts' halt Himachal water supply
Taps run dry after dark in several villages of Himachal Pradesh only because no one is brave enough to operate the pumps that are situated next to a cremation ground...

It had thunder of a sonic boom, resident says
The explosion was heard miles away. At Pineda Crossing, near the Suntree subdivision, John Panik said he was having trouble sleeping, got out of bed and turned on the television just before 3 a.m. “I was sitting there and suddenly there was a loud boom,” Panik said. “It shook the windows — not like a big rattle, but a little one. I thought, ‘That’s not normal.’”..

Oglala Sioux police talk: Bigfoot update
The Oglala Sioux Pine Ridge Reservation was the site last year and at the beginning of this one of several close encounters with what appeared to be a large Bigfoot (often called “Big Man”)...

Now, what about the Ape-Women?
Some researchers call Bigfoot an ape-man. But what is an ape-man, really? You'd think the term would refer to an ape who walks upright like a man. The term often gets used in that manner. So what does the dictionary tell us?..

A medium’s life
A medium’s life is not much different than others live except that we are constantly seeing and hearing ghosts. At least I am. I might meet a new person who doesn’t know I’m a psychic/medium and stand there talking with them without their ever being aware that I’m also talking to the ghost or two standing beside or behind them. It’s not unusual for me to even finish their next sentence because the ghost has already told me what they’re going to say...

Waiting for Bigfoot
This is the first in a two-part series on Kansan Randy Harrington’s quest to find Bigfoot...

Fed nominee has Bigfoot links
You’ve seen the photograph. It is one of the more famous single Bigfoot tracks, a print with a distinctive midtarsal break, as Jeff Meldrum terms it. A simple “photo by Lyle Laverty” is usually placed casually underneath it, acknowledging the credit line of this semi-public official who snapped the picture. Now, Laverty is in the news again, as an up-and-coming Bush political appointee to the Department of Interior...

First 2007 crop pattern in United States
The first unusual downed crop in the 2007 American season was discovered on March 25, 2007, by Michael A. Polani, a resident of Chandler, Arizona. It is very similar to the first American cases of randomly downed crop I investigated fifteen years ago in the neighbor communities of Linfield and Limerick, Pennsylvania, where odd patterns were found in different fields on May 24, 1992...

Stonehenge amulets worn by elite
Forget dressing for success: Clothing ornaments thought to confer supernatural power were all the rage among chiefs and other important people in England 4,000 years ago, say scholars. A recent find indicates some of these fashion trends might have originally been designed by Stonehenge leaders...

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