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Ghost hunting near Lake 'Eerie'
If you're superstitious, you may have avoided black cats, ladders and maybe just wanted to stay home on Friday the 13th. On Friday, July 13, 2007, when many were hiding, a group out near the lake was hunting for "Eerie spirits." Perhaps it was an omen... Not a black cat, but a white one that first crossed out paths. A cat named Laser. Soon, ghost hunter Elaine Hinton had gathered a small group of those interested in meeting the spirits. "We start the ghost tour at the lighthouse here in Fairport," Hinton began...

It’s a holiday, thank the ghosts
Kusumgram (Burdwan): A high school here was closed down for four days on Friday after about a dozen students lost consciousness, fanning rumours that a spirit living in a neighbouring century-old house had cast an evil spell...

11 UFOs filmed by Mexican Air Force
It would seem all Mexicans are paranormal prone and constantly armed with video cameras, because we're going back to that dusty country this week with another mysterious film recorded down there. This one appears to have been filmed by an arm of the Mexican military. It's a film of 11 unidentified flying objects, released to the public in an unprecedented governmental move...

Capturing God and UFOs

Bigfoot researchers record thermal images
A group that searched for bigfoot in the U.P. woods this weekend plans to return in August. A four-day expedition in Marquette County by the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, collecting evidence supporting the existence of “sasquatches” began with mixed results but concluded with “excitement,” according to BFRO organizer/ researcher Matthew Moneymaker...

Extinct echidna rediscovered
Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna (Zaglossus attenboroughi), thought extinct since 1961, appears to not be gone, after all. Researchers have found burrows, tracks, and nose pokes made by the long-beaked echidna, recently in Papua’s Cyclops Mountains. Also, locals had said they have seen the animals as recently as 2005...

Jung, 12 Channels of images, and the great airship flap
"Even though we think we see the world so fully, what we are receiving is really just hints, edges in space and time," said Frank S. Werblin, professor of molecular and cell biology in the College of Letters & Science at UC Berkeley...

A real flying car UFO story
A few years back I had the pleasure of working for an Internet Service Provider. The IP was started, and based in Springfield, Illinois. That company had within its employ some early website designers whom were very talented. One was a graphics artist whose name I won't share without his permission. It was then he told me of an incredible encounter with a flying car UFO back in the mid 1980s while he and his father were driving north along Interstate 80 in California...

Sight and sound
Skeptics often argue that out-of-body experiences and near-death experiences are caused by purely physiological factors -- usually some kind of chemical imbalance in the brain. Various hypotheses have been offered over the years, with the current favorite involving ketamine or more precisely a ketamine-like substance...

Thai monk exorcises ghostly tank-top cellmate
Thai prison authorities called in a Buddhist monk to exorcise a jail cell allegedly haunted by a ghost wearing a red tank-top shirt, media reports said Saturday...

Become a certified ghost hunter
Don't be scared - it's just ghostbusting school. The ParAcademy is hosting its first-ever Paranormal Retreat and Ghost Hunting Certification Weekend at General Butler State Park Sept. 28 and 29. Starr and Jessi Chaney of PsyTech, a paranormal investigating team based in Nicholasville, launched the program to assist those wishing to become certified as ghost hunters...

Egypt's oldest known art identified, is 15,000 years old
Rock face drawings and etchings recently rediscovered in southern Egypt are similar in age and style to the iconic Stone Age cave paintings in Lascaux, France, and Altamira, Spain, archaeologists say...

CNN Larry King Live on UFOs
Transcript of the show on UFOs featuring interviews with Stanton Friedman, Michael Shermer and George Noory...

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