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By Stephen Wagner, About.com

Jul 3 2009

'Hollyoaks' actress lives with ghosts
Only days after the news that Cindy Beale is to 'return from the dead' in EastEnders, Hollyoaks actress Diane Langton - who played Cindy's mother in the Walford soap - has revealed that she lives with ghosts in her Hampshire home. Speaking exclusively to Digital Spy, Diane, who now plays Chester's Nana McQueen, revealed that she shares her 15th century thatched cottage in Hollywater with several paranormal entities...

Mysterious space rock recovered in Woburn determined to be radioactive
Experts say the rock-like object that fell from the sky in Woburn is not a meteorite. However, they say the item probably is something from space and is radioactive. The object came crashing through the roof of a warehouse in Woburn last week...

Encyclopedia Horrifica: The Terrifying TRUTH! About Vampires, Ghosts, Monsters, and More
Author Joshua Gee has risked life, limb, spirit and soul to bring readers this extensively researched tome of all things you should know better than to ask about...

Fiery objects rising from the ocean
"Very largely we shall concern ourselves with enormous fiery objects that have either plunged into the ocean or risen from the ocean", writes Fort in his The Book of the Damned. Among the many examples that he cites of luminous wheels, luminous bodies rising from the sea or hurthling through the skies, Fort tells of "...an object, described as "a large ball of fire", seen to rise from the sea, near Cape Race. We are told that it rose to a height of fifty feet, and then advanced close to the ship, then moving away, remaining visible about five minutes..."..

Bigfoot, elusive, is still here
Regarding the letter to the editor by the forester. It is our experience at the National Cryptozoological Society that a special type of bigfoot exists in Michigan, either upper or lower, but it is more of a space-time creature, ala Einstein and parallel universes, rather than a trappable being...

Mysterious crop circle appears
A Swiss army pilot discovers a perfect geometric figure inscribed in a corn field at Corcelles-près-Payerne, raising questions about how it got there...

The Garta: creatures seen near Basrah, Iraq
For over a month now, people in Basrah have been circulating rumors about a “strange,” bear-like deadly creature that attacks people at night with its strong claws. Locals in rural areas around Basrah claim it has killed three people and injured six others, and that it usually pounces on its victims as they are sleeping outdoors during hot summer nights, when electric power outages are common. Farmers at Garmat Ali, Abu Skheer, Jisr and Shikhatta were so alarmed, they assigned guarding duties at night to prevent its attacks, the Nahrain website and Radio Sawa reported last week...

Boeing's psychic lab
Boeing researchers don't just spend their days designing killer drones and networked tanks. They also investigate unexplained powers of the mind, sometimes. Especially if those times are the late '60s...

Chilean scientists crack lost lake mystery

Deaths 'most mysterious' ever investigated
A coroner today described the unexplained deaths of an elderly couple as “among the most mysterious” he has ever investigated...

Belen mountain bike racer has 'bizarre' encounter
Jeff Kerby of Belen will have a lot of stories to tell when he finishes the 2,480-mile Great Divide Mountain Bike Race. There's the one about the couple he ran across at 1 a.m. outside of Butte, Mt. And there's the one about the two blonde women he met at Union Pass. But the strangest story will likely be the one about the light on the side of the road...

Treating supernatural phenomenon via hypnosis
Some people may find it hard to believe that the energy harnessed from our mind can be used to cure diseases or phenomenon caused by supernatural elements. But this can really be done, according to the founder of Simfoni Minda Academy (SMA) Dr Sazali Ahmad. He said an individual's mind power, via hypnosis, can be used to "neutralise" the negative energy sent by a force which is invisible to the naked eye...

Pub tales of 'ghosts and aliens'
An expert on aliens and ghosts is holding a series of lectures in Croydon in the hope that people will come forward with stories of spooky goings on in the borough. Malcolm Robinson, founder of the Strange Phenomena Investigations Society, is keen to look into any local sightings of UFOs or apparitions...

The Bell Witch, Al-Qaeda and doomsday
Adams, Tennessee, in 1817, was the site of one of the most well-known hauntings in American history. The haunting was so well known that it eventually caught the attention and then the involvement of a future president of the United States...

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