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Up-to-the-minute accounts of the paranormal, enigmatic and the unexplained

By Stephen Wagner, About.com

Jun 16 2009

Researchers suggest Iraq war was centrally motivated from an extraterrestrial-inspired religion
Scholarly testimony which includes historical research, suggests that the U.S. pre-emptive war against Iraq could be an attempt to re-start Adolf Hitler's original agenda of eventual military expansion into the Middle East, toward World Conquest...

Video: Ghost haunts kids’ playground
A ‘haunted’ playground swing that rocks backwards and forwards on its own for days has scientists baffled. Parents and children are convinced a ghost is to blame. They were so spooked they reported the swing to cops after it began moving four months ago. The phenomenon flummoxed police, who called physics professors into Firmat, Argentina. But so far the boffins have failed to find a logical explanation...

Paranormal beliefs, from prophetic dreams to Atlantis
Millions of Americans, particularly women, share paranormal beliefs and experiences "that don't fit under any religious umbrella," says Christopher Bader, one of the Baylor University sociologists analyzing the Baylor Religion Survey...

Red-eyed mysteries
Every so often in reports of a ufological nature, we hear stories of alleged alien entities who seem to possess a pair of self-illuminating, glowing red eyes...
(Also read: "Red-Eyed Shadow Creature")

Paris: hotbed of Bigfoot activity
Bigfoot hunters are back in Paris, with new hidden camera film of the elusive creature and renewed hopes of selling a television reality series on the hunt. The hunters, led by Tom Biscardi, spent a week here in late March, and activity around the Pat Mayse Reservoir area prompted the crew to leave hidden cameras in the trees...

History Channel finds Nostradamus

Can a president unravel Roswell?
If he wins his bid for the White House, Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson may be just the man to get to the bottom of the 60-year-old Roswell UFO mystery...

Ghost hunters go high-tech to prowl for spirits
As holidays go, Halloween is his family's biggie. He calls it their Christmas. Headstones dot the front lawn. A caged skeleton hangs from a tree. And ghosts are everywhere, which is appropriate considering who lives here. By day, Troy Wood is in the business of animal services, conducting special investigations for Salt Lake County. By night, the 43-year-old founder of The Utah Ghost Organization, a group of six including his wife and some of their closest friends, is prowling for spirits...

Paranormal investigations and technology: where ghosts and gadgets meet
Meet one type of specialist whom you may never have hired or outsourced—ghost hunters. Whether you've got a ghost in the machine or in the house, these paranormal investigators can bring a technology tool chest with everything from thermometers to blimp cams...

Spooks on The Hill
Washington, D.C., is a city known more for its buttoned-up, wonky ways than its quirks and superstitions. But make no mistake, the nation's capital is one weird place, and in the spirit of Halloween, we present a few recent examples of the paranormal that hit a little too close to home...
(Also read: "Presidents and the Paranormal")

Aliens attack Earth - official
A series of bizarre fires in a village were caused by aliens testing weapons, Italian government officials believe. A report into the unexplained fires in fridges, TVs and mobile phones blamed creatures from outer space. Canneto di Caronia was the centre of world attention three years ago after residents reported everyday household objects bursting into flames. News footage at the time showed electrical appliances, cookers, a pile of wedding presents and items of furniture smouldering. Dozens of experts, including scientists, electrical engineers and military personnel, arrived in the village on Sicily, 60 miles east of Palermo, to investigate the phenomenon...

SoCal’s Abominable Sandpeople
Ken Coon, a former deputy sheriff for Los Angeles County collected many stories during the 1960s and 1970s, and most source material goes back to him. It appears one well-known paperback writer from that era used some of Coon’s material...

Kentucky’s white vampire

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