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Sep 19 2009

Interview with the Ghost Hunter
Regarding the modern "ghost busters" he believes that they rely too heavily on gadgets and don't take the time to conduct the interviews and gather real evidence. He insists that any serious investigation must include the use of a proven medium or transmedium in order to make actual contact with the spirit or ghost...

Holy eggplant!
Boothwyn, Delaware County resident Felicia Teske was preparing fried eggplant for dinner on August 12, 2007. Upon slicing the eggplant she noticed that the seeds contained within one slice appeared to spell out the word "GOD". Her husband Paul looked at the sliced eggplant and couldn't believe it either, calling Action News. Felicia told Action News that she recently had family members pass away and it is comforting that "GOD" appeared. Felicia Teske of Boothwyn says she was preparing fried eggplant for dinner Sunday evening and noticed that the seeds in one slice seemed to spell out the word "GOD"...

Cryptic sightings roundup

Ozark double murder case featured on “Haunting Evidence”
Court-TV aired a show Wednesday night, called "Haunting Evidence", which focused on the J.B. Beasley and Tracie Hawlett murder case. Tracie Hawlett's mother, Carol remembers the deaths of the girls as if it were yesterday. Incoming high school seniors J.B. Beasley and Tracie Hawlett were found shot to death in the trunk of J.B.’s car on August 1st, 1999. Court-TV’s psychic profiler and a paranormal investigator came to the Wiregrass to pinpoint what happened to the girls...

Naturalism advocate sees no evidence for survival of consciousness after death
Tom Clark, Naturalism proponent, explores the lack of evidence for, “fringe science” like parapsychology, near-death experience and the survival of consciousness after death: “…I’d have to be agnostic about the possibilities for consciousness after death, especially my own personal consciousness with my personal characteristics… I can’t disprove that it exists, but what’s the positive evidence for it…..

Ghost stories ring true in the telling
A librarian turns off the lights, plunging the audience of a few dozen people into darkness. Joe Citro, illuminated by a desk lamp, opens his slideshow with a bit of "graveyard pornography" -- an image that could, depending on the viewer's perspective, be either a skull or a nude woman curled up in a ball...

Latest 6-fold wheat geometry in Wiltshire, England
Linda Moulton Howe: U. K. crop formation investigator and photographer, Lucy Pringle, emailed today that the Woodborough Hill formation below was made for a commercial purpose, but no details are known. Australian scientist's analysis of the Woodborough pattern, which Lucy sent to me yesterday as a new August 17th crop formation, is still a valuable contribution to study in the context of geometric patterns and the scientist's effort to understand evolution of mathematical calendars seemingly embedded in many crop formations and the implication of countdowns to August 18, 2007, and December 2012. But countdowns to what is not known...

Calculations prove life began in comet
Life almost undoubtedly began in space, and specifically in the hearts of comets, rather than on Earth, a new study claims. Chandra Wickramasinghe, an astrobiologist at Cardiff University in the United Kingdom, and his team say their calculations show that it is one trillion trillion times more likely that life started inside a slushy comet than on Earth...

Video: Earthlights on Peru’s earthquake?
Following the terrible natural disaster on Peru, which caused hundreds of casualties, some local news agencies are also speaking about reports from locals of flashes of light in the sky both before and after the event...

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Video: D'Arcy O'Connor - some Oak Island "theories"
Author D'Arcy O'Connor discusses some of the more "out there" theories for Oak Island - could it be UFOs, leprechauns, or German submarines in World War II?..

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