Is historic health building also haunted?
The happy sounds of children laughing and playing sometimes can be heard in the hallways but no one is there. Knickknacks are unexplainably moved out of their place on office desks. These kinds of tales are being told by some of those who work or have worked in the former Rutherford County Health Department building at 303 N. Church St. for the past 10 months or so. They say spirits of some sort, most of which seem to be children, are causing some minor disturbances in the building...
Ghostly voices
Ghostly voices of the dead' will be played at an eerie evening in Ditton library in Widnes. Merseyside Anomalies Research Association (MARA) is giving a talk on electronic voice phenomenon (EVP), unexplained snatches of voices, embedded onto magnetic recording tape by a process that is not yet fully understood...
High-tech gear helps ghost hunters
It was well after midnight when the three figures walked into the mansion's musty-smelling master bedroom. Standing in almost complete darkness, they pointed digital recorders, cameras and a thermal imager at an antique four-poster bed where sugar plantation owners and an on-the-run Confederate leader once slept. "Can you tell us, did you die here? Can you let us know you're here?"..
The Edinburgh Fortean Society Day Event
Charles Fort is the father of the study of the strange and bizarre, hence the Edinburgh Fortean Society. The Society meets on a regular basis, on the second Tuesday of every month at the Three Tuns, Edinburgh at 20.30. But for the first time we're having a full day of talks!..
Former spy claims he has powers
A renegade former British spy who was jailed after blowing the whistle on alleged wrongdoing in the intelligence services, has claimed to have new-found powers as a mystic. David Shayler told British cable channel More4 News that he had visited a psychic who he believes channelled the spirit of Mary Magdalene and anointed him as the Messiah...
Hampshire psychic locks horns with scientist on TV
Millions of TV viewers will see a prominent Hampshire-based psychic locking horns with a best-selling author and evolutionary biologist who believes superstition is damaging society. In a Channel 4 show to be screened tomorrow, Craig Hamilton-Parker, from Bishopstoke, tries to convince Professor Richard Dawkins he can talk to the dead...
Looking for afterlife loopholes, come hell or high heaven
Jim Shea: I have just been reading an AARP survey about life after death. I don't know if I believe in life after death, but I'm definitely for it. The survey involved 1,000 people age 50-plus. Seventy-three percent of those polled said they believed in life after death, and 66 percent said their belief got stronger as they got older...
The ghosts of Port Arthur
With its history of harshness, hardship and death, it is no wonder that the grounds and ruins of the Port Arthur convict penitentiary are believed — or at least rumored — to have its ghosts. Whether or not you believe in ghosts, there is no gainsaying the fact that particularly at night Port Arthur, with its history of bloodshed and death and its environment of ruins and the overpowering darkness can arguably raise spectres real or imagined...
Cropped out due to floods
Whether made by hoaxers or unexplained visitors from outer space, crop circles have been hard to find in Oxfordshire fields this summer. As the crop circle season draws to a close, the county has suffered one of its most barren periods for years. Only three have been spotted compared to seven last year and 13 in 2005...
