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Man tries to make sense of strange events
Unexplained flashes of light. Hairy beasts wandering through woods. Mysterious flying objects. Southwestern Pennsylvania is a hotbed for strange occurrences such as these and one man has dedicated his life to making sense of them. Since age 10, Stan Gordon has collected information, images and ideas about what is really out there. Today, he takes calls from witnesses across the region...

Mysterious creatures roaming Geauga County
They might be a kind of curly horned sheep. Of course, they could be a funky breed of mountain goat, too. Or . . . well, this sounds sort of silly, but the idea has been tossed out there . . . maybe they're mutant deer. But whatever they are, they're roaming the woods in this Geauga County community...
(Also read: "Monsters, Monsters Everywhere")

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Paranormal experiences and me
It's a sad matter of fact but the only people who believe people who have paranormal experiences are other people who have had experienced themselves. I'm willing to bet most of you who are reading this have never experienced anything out of the ordinary; I'm not certain if I envy you or pity you...

Deathbed revelations point to Roswell coverup
It was a stormy night in the New Mexico desert July 3, 1947, when something unusual happened not far from Roswell. Did an interplanetary craft crash and set off one of the most monumental cover-ups in history? Donald R. Schmitt is convinced it did...

The ghosts of Alcatraz
Each day at sundown, when the last tour boat departs this desolate, wind-swept outpost, one lonesome soul is left behind. He’s the night watchman of Alcatraz. Guided by the beam of his flashlight, Gregory Johnson inches down the gloomy infirmary ward of this retired prison, once home to the nation’s most malicious killers and psychotic criminal malcontents...

A cursed painting?
This is a strange story of a painting that seems to be cursed. Something is definitely wrong with this portrait, but no one knows what exactly. Is the painting cursed or is it haunted by a spirit? The painting in question is known as the Crying Boy. It is a mass-production, painted by Spanish painter Bruno Amadio, also known as Bragolin. This portrait was very popular in UK during the 1980s and many people owned one...
(Also read: "The Haunted Painting")

Understanding heaven via quantum physics
Many people think of heaven as a formless cloud where people will have a kind of blind, blissful awareness. Or they think of heaven as a vast plane with a ground and a sky, but their thinking doesn't go beyond this...

Mathematician suggests extra dimensions are time-like

Paranormal and lost objectivity. I’m not a “believer”
Certain subjects, such as Bigfoot, UFOs, psychic powers, ghosts, Creationism, are thought of by everyday people in terms of black and white – one either believes or doesn’t...

Apparitions and superstitions: UWG ghost hunters investigate
"I go ghost hunting just for rush of the things you sense in the dark!" says Ryan Hanson, sophomore at UWG. Ryan is one the UWG students who call themselves "Ghost Hunters". Ryan says he got interested in ghost hunting after he and a few friends went to a "haunted" insane asylum, "that just sparked it". Hanson was also the creator of West GA Ghost Hunters, a group on Facebook.com, where he and his friends share their ghost hunting pictures and ideas for the next ghost hunting activity...

Ellensburg unexplained
The expansive Ellensburg horizon has turned up more than just strong winds and sunny skies over the years. Many residents have seen some strange things flying over the Kittitas Valley. A vast number are skeptics and think perhaps what they saw came possibly from the U.S. Army Yakima Training Center. Others are pretty sure what they saw was not from around this neck of the galaxy...

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