Devil returns to haunt demonic authors
Just weeks after being named America's top ghost hunter - along with her husband Ed who died in August 2006 - Lorraine Warren is facing a major lawsuit. It concerns the reprinting of The Devil in Connecticut by Gerald Brittle, about an alleged case of "demonic possession"...
Making the case that bigfoot exists
In search of the paranormal
A Sussex County group explores the strange and unknown. Nancy Umstead of Wantage and her group, the Ghost Gathering, consist of 20 members of all ages and varied "normal occupations" like medical assistant, mail clerk and day care worker to name a few...
Is this house haunted?
Jamie Sweeney had been playing video games for three hours, trying to ignore the loud noises in his kitchen. It was late summer, and Sweeney had been living at 1503 Windsor St. in Columbia for less than a week. He was still waiting for his roommates to move in. Yet, someone - or something - was in his kitchen, banging pots and pans, opening and closing the refrigerator, flipping the light on and off, rummaging around in the pantry...
Poll: one-third believe in ghosts, UFOs
It was bad enough when the TV and lights inexplicably flicked on at night, Misty Conrad says. When her daughter began talking to an unseen girl named Nicole and neighbors said children had been murdered in the house, it was time to move. Put Conrad, a homemaker from Hampton, Va., firmly in the camp of the 34 percent of people who say they believe in ghosts, according to a pre-Halloween poll by The Associated Press and Ipsos. That's the same proportion who believe in unidentified flying objects - exceeding the 19 percent who accept the existence of spells or witchcraft...
Uri Geller and the mysterious "11-11" phenomenon
According to my call records, I spoke with Uri Geller, star of the new NBC TV series "Phenomenon," on the phone for the first time on Saturday, October 20th, 2007, for about eleven minutes. Uri called because he had heard about an article I had published with the American Chronicle about how the CIA planned to covertly study his mental powers in the early 1970s...
Paranormal presence
For the last 14 years, a modest home on a quiet residential street in Pekin has sat empty, longing for a family to again fill it with life. A Realtor has tried relentlessly for years to sell the two-bedroom house. The price has been reduced and updates have been made - including a kitchen remodel - but each time she brings in potential buyers, they're scared off by an unseen presence...
Does Easton's 'white lady' still haunt?
Any cemetery can be creepy, even in the light of day. But the Union Cemetery in Easton, located at the intersection of Routes 136 and 59, is reportedly the most haunted in the state. And as local legend goes, some of the spirits spill over to the Easton Baptist Church across the street as well. Ghost hunter and founder of the Cosmic Society, Donna Kent, said a mysterious "White Lady" travels between the Union Cemetery in Easton and the Stepney Graveyard, less than 10 miles away...
The sense of being stared at.. in the woods!
We have some problems in bigfoot research.. we've definitely got some 'splainin' to do. For instance, what accounts for the frequently reported phenomena of feeling that you are being watched shortly before a bigfoot encounter? Witnesses will describe thinking thoughts like, "It was as if something was breathing down my neck," or "I just got the feeling I'd better get the heck out of there!"..
Rock-star ghost diaries
Most ghost stories are pretty damn lame, and most happen to everybody except musicians. If you attempt to seek out ghost stories from pop stars, you quickly discover that phantoms, freaky psychic phenomena, and even UFOs aren't nearly as numerous as popular culture has us believe. In fact, one might estimate that maybe one in five musicians has something to say on the subject...
What really happened to Apollo 13
On Saturday April 11th 1970 exactly at 13:13 CST Apollo 13 lifted off Cape Canaveral on its way to the moon. The crew consisted of Jim Lovell, the commander, Jack Swigert, command module pilot and Fred Haise, lunar module pilot. Approximately 8:30pm, a few minutes after Kennedy Space Center handed over to Houston this conversation between Apollo 13 and Houston was overheard, Apollo: "We have company." Houston: "Say again?" Apollo: "I say we have company."..
Italy's Padre Pio 'faked his stigmata with acid'
Padre Pio, Italy's most-loved saint, faked his stigmata by pouring carbolic acid on his hands, according to a new book. "The Other Christ: Padre Pio and 19th Century Italy," by the historian Sergio Luzzatto, draws on a document found in the Vatican's archive. The document reveals the testimony of a pharmacist who said that the young Padre Pio bought four grams of carbolic acid in 1919...
Demons in the dark
Something dark haunts a slow, quiet street in the small town of Folkston, Ga. Most people don't realize this evil is in their midst, but gunsmith Eric London does. He's seen the creatures of this street … and he's felt their touch...
