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Jul 21 2007

The Beast of the Thames?
London's River Thames hardly seems to be the location where a person might expect to see a classic lake monster or sea serpent. Yet, the river has been the site of at least one such encounter...

Psychic Gavin Cromwell tries on John Lennon's jacket
It's not often that The Beatles Story is scene for the paranormal, but this week it wasn't so much toe-tapping as table-tapping that filled the hallowed vaults there. For Gavin Cromwell was in town. Who Gavin Cromwell? An expert at psychic phenomena, that's who, and he has been seeing things that aren't there since he was a small child...

Search is on for Bigfoot
Bigfoot. Most people think it's a joke, or a hoax, or a delusion, but to hard-core, true believers, it's an obsession. They want to see one and the inner-circle of the hard-core arrived in Utah this week. It's a Bigfoot expedition to Utah. Several dozen people are hunting the big guy with cameras and microphones. They were challenged by forest rangers for not having a proper permit, but they're determined to find something that will convince everyone else that Bigfoot is the real deal...

Galaxy hoax claims we're aliens
First it was the moon hoax, then the Mars hoax and now astronomers warn there's a galaxy hoax. An article in Viewzone Magazine, which has prompted a number of calls to the astronomical community, says that new evidence from a survey of the skies known as 2MASS, 'proves' we come from an alien galaxy...

Over 100 see UFOs over Stratford

Farmer reported UFO sighting near Mt. Peel

How big is the cryptozoology community?
The steady climb from the very few people interested in Sea Serpents and Yeti in the 1950s, began with the “new age” of Sasquatch in the 1940s and early 1950s in Canada, then of Bigfoot in 1958 and 1967. The visible image of the Patterson-Gimlin footage had iconic symbolism for those that began to put a meaning to a new word from the late 1950s - “cryptozoology.”..

The Bible and the paranormal
In the field of paranormal research there are many concepts which are found in the Bible, as well. Most of these are rejected by the Church outright as evil, with little consideration of how they are portrayed in the Bible...

New top secret construction at Area 51
Something big is in the works at Nevada's legendary Area 51 military base. A massive new building is under construction at the top secret location. Aviation experts say there's a good chance that a new, highly classified aircraft might soon be zipping around the Nevada skies...

Uri Geller comes to NBC with a new show
NBC has announced that Uri Geller and Chriss Angel (Mindfreak) will be appearing in a new TV reality show called “Phenomenon” (working title) this fall...

Is there a ghost in museum?
If there's something spooky in your museum - who are you going to call? Tewkesbury Museum turned to a group of ghostbusters who reckon there is a spirit lurking in the Barton Street building. The team from the Three Counties Paranormal Organisation were called in to investigate spooky noises, strange smells and an eerie presence in the building...

There must be more to ghosts than this

Are ghost the dead or beings from another realm?
Are ghost really the dead or beings from another realm or world? Paranormal researcher, author and historian Paul Eno will join host Jeremiah Greer on Shadows in the Dark, July 19th, to share his theories and findings from 36 years of research...

The science of ghost hunting
When things go bump in the night, it's a bit like the old tree falling in the forest analogy if nobody's there to record it somehow, it might as well not have happened. Often dismissed as pseudoscience or outright lunacy paranormal investigation flies under the radar of mainstream science, but the Arkansas Paranormal and Anomalous Studies Team (ARPAST) hopes to change this by using solid science to confirm and record etherial phenomenon...

Norwegian UFO-mystery solved?
The so-called Hessdalen lights have been seen ever since the 1940's and have since 1984 been monitored by volunteers. Hessdalen is a small valley in the central part of Norway. At the end of 1981 through 1984, residents of the Valley became concerned and alarmed about strange, unexplained lights that appeared at many locations throughout the Valley...

Novel faiths find followers among Russia’s disillusioned
Six miles from the nearest road, in the vast Siberian wilderness, a bearded man in flowing white linen robes sat at his kitchen table and talked about his crucifixion at the hands of Pontius Pilate 2,000 years ago...

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