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Dec 26 2007

Psychic seeks message from Steve Irwin
Terri Irwin says she is "open" to receiving a message from the spirit of her late husband, Croc Hunter Steve, when an American psychic medium visits Australia Zoo next month. Mrs Irwin, 43, told The Sunday Mail yesterday she sensed Steve was still with her and had "great faith" that his spirit was still around...

'Mind' still a medical enigma
In 1995, debris from a burning church collapsed on Buffalo firefighter Donny Herbert, depriving him of oxygen for six minutes and consciousness for 10 years. But in what has been described as a medical miracle, Herbert became fully lucid a decade after that tragedy, defying a dim prognosis and allowing him enough time to express love for his wife and four sons. He died just as unexpectedly in May 2005, a month after re-awakening. Herbert's experience evokes the question: Can the human mind provide the power to will a man from a near-comatose state? Some experts believe the mind is not only powerful, it isn't even "local" to the body...

Extraterrestrials on Earth: A challenge we can no longer ignore

Ghostly goings-on at historic Bolton pub
The orbs of light seen here are said to be a representation of spirit manifestation Go to Ye Olde Man and Scythe pub in Bolton and you are likely to get a different kind of spirit. For spooky goings-on have been caught on CCTV at the Churchgate pub, according to a paranormal investigator...

Things going bump in the night? Probably another ghost hunter
Most people enjoy a ghost story at this time of year, but for some Scots the supernatural is a year-round preoccupation. There are an estimated 20 groups, from the Borders to the Highlands, dedicated to studying the paranormal. Ghost Finders Scotland is a very active and high-profile team from Cumbernauld. In Glasgow, Alba Paranormal Investigations specialises in "psychic rescue" – which it defines as moving a trapped spirit on to the other side...

Riverside man's dream is as big as his quarry
The Center for Bigfoot Studies, like the creature itself, is not easy to find. It hides amid the forest of homes and thickets of Christmas lights on a quiet Riverside street. No signs or monster-size tracks point the way, but those in the know can pin it down to an upper floor of one unassuming house. There, jammed inside a few small rooms, sits one of the nation's largest repositories of Bigfoot lore...

A spiritual experience for Christmas

NASA told to study own files for UFO data
The U.S. government says nothing of note happened in this small town in the hills of southwestern Pennsylvania at 4:47 p.m. on Dec. 9, 1965. A meteor may have passed by, but no alien ship or Russian space probe fell to Earth, as many here believe...

Bring forth the track cast of Nessie
Loren Coleman: A few years ago, the cry across the land was to have the head of a Sea-Serpent brought to Science. I place the same kind of call out there regarding the alleged track cast of the footprint of the Loch Ness Monster collected in December 1933, some 74 years ago...

Notre Dame astrophysicist has theories on star of Bethlehem
It's long been a puzzle for Christian astronomers, and now a professor from the University of Notre Dame thinks he has it figured out - almost, anyway. His quest: discovering just what "the star in the East" was that led wise men to travel to Bethlehem 2,000 years ago...

Return visits from my spirit teacher
Brad Steiger: It has been very exciting and gratifying to receive correspondence from so many individuals who have experienced their own interactions with a Spirit Teacher similar to the benevolent being that I described in the previous issue of Alternate Perceptions. Among the many reports from readers were two oft-repeated questions...

Maltese claims extraordinary discovery in Sahara desert
Explorers just returning from the Sahara desert have claimed they found a remarkable relic from Pharaonic times. Mark Borda and Mahmoud Marai, from Malta and Egypt respectively, were surveying a field of boulders on the flanks of a hill deep in the Libyan desert some 700 kilometres west of the Nile Valley when engravings on a large rock consisting of hieroglyphic writing, Pharaonic cartouche, an image of the king and other Pharaonic iconography came into view...

Strange lights seen in night sky
Residents in Oceanside and Point Loma called to ask about mysterious lights that appeared in the sky at sunset Saturday. Both men reported two parallel orange lights that appeared for three or four minutes. One said the lights moved from north to west, then went straight up and disappeared...

What if – it's all true?
Indeed, what if everything we've read over the last 30 years is true to some degree about the whole UFO spectrum? And, I mean everything -- Roswell was a `flying saucer crash with dead bodies'; Jackie Gleason indeed saw those or similar dead aliens; Travis Walton indeed was abducted and lifted thru the air into an unidentified craft via a beam of light; `back engineering' indeed has produced a shadow government hiding it's secrets; the Pheonix Lights were real; a `craft' indeed DID hover over O'Hare airport in broad daylight in 2006; there are 50+ `races' of aliens `visiting' the Earth; Ufo's exist...

A Christmas compendium of curiosities
Here is the latest Compendium of Curiosities with Santa's little helpers, surreal snowmen and a crazy collection of Kitsch gifts...

The lure of monsters
The Christmas Day release of the film "The Water Horse" is likely to spark renewed interest in the Loch Ness monster. The legendary sea creature, known affectionately as Nessie, is said to swim the depths of Scotland's fabled lake...

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