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By Stephen Wagner, About.com Guide

The Haunted Mortuary's Paranormal Observatory, Lab, and Museum set to open in New Orleans
New Orleans: The City's new multi-million dollar paranormal center, the haunted mortuary, wants to showcase the world's new breed of paranormal investigators, researchers, ghost hunters and clairvoyants...

Do you see dead people? Disclose it
As silly as it sounds, if your home has a reputation for ectoplasmic activity, you should disclose it. Disclosing things that go bump in the night, as well as more tangible stigmas could certainly cause your home's value to drop, but failing to disclose them could cost you a much scarier liability suit. Most states's disclosure laws don't deal with the forms the deceased take in the afterlife, but they do address death as a stigma...

Here there be monsters!
Resign from the White House? Nearly kill Internet radio? Start your presidential campaign in earnest? Well, out in Cuero, Texas, one woman may well have discovered a new species, the mythical beast of Puerto Rican legend, the Chupacabra...

New Orang Pendek expedition
Adam Davies, who left on September 2, 2007, is in the midst of another expedition in pursuit of Orang Pendek in Sumatra, in conjunction with a History Channel documentary. While on site, obviously with a camera crew, Davies is meeting up with a British photographer Jeremy Holden, who worked with Debbie Martyr...

Britain legalizes Nephilim resurrection plan
In the study of the Old Testament Book of Genesis, beings of great stature called "giants" appear, which some scholars believe came into existence after powerful angels known as 'Watchers' descended to earth and used women (or their biological matter) to construct bodies of flesh, which they used to "extend" themselves into the material world...

The top ten best most haunted paranormal radio shows and broadband podcast
Here are "The Top Ten Most Haunted Paranormal Ghost filled radio programs", "webcast" or "podcast" for 2007 These are considered by Haunted America Tours and Voted by our readers as the very best 2007 Haunted Radio Talk Program of ghost Studies, Paranormal Investigations, for you to enjoy and to plan to investigate...

Hauntings: what are shadow people?
Reports of shadow people have existed throughout history. The observer generally reports seeing a dark shadow that resembles the form of a human which appears and moves of its own accord. The figures does not have distinguishable facial features and may be either much smaller or larger than a human. They are often noticed as movement from the corner of the eye, sometimes disappearing when the observer turns to investigate...

It's spooking us!
A pub in Birchencliffe may be haunted – and the new owners want to know why. Richard Lloyd, new license holder at The Grey Horse Inn in Halifax Road, is looking for an explanation of inexplicable goings-on and insight into the Victorian pub’s history. Mr Lloyd, landlady Melanie Pitchford and bartender Hayley Dart have witnessed some unusual happenings since July, when Richard moved in...

Dread and breakfast
Hotel rooms are not very scary, or at least that's what I thought. That was before watching the new John Cusak film, 1408, where his character Mike Enslin decides to check into the notorious Hotel Dolphin to investigate its supernatural reputation. A crooked door that goes straight again, an operator that doesn't sound human and, finally, a room engulfed in flames are enough to convince him maybe ghosts do stay in hotels...

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