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Feb 12 2008

Ritual of dealing with demons undergoes a revival
This wind-swept village is bracing for an invasion of demons, thanks to a priest who believes he can defeat Satan. The Rev. Andrzej Trojanowski, a soft-spoken Pole, plans to build a "spiritual oasis" that will serve as Europe's only center dedicated to performing exorcisms. With the blessing of the local Catholic archbishop and theological support from the Vatican, the center will aid a growing number of Poles possessed by evil forces or the devil himself, he said...

Amazing photo of Leeds ghost
Is this amazing image proof of ghostly goings on at a landmark Leeds building? Labourer Michael Scheres says he and a pal unwittingly snapped the spook while working on the old Lewis's building, in The Headrow...

The eyes have it
It goes by many names; the cursing eye, sick eye, eye of envy, hairy eyeball, sour eye, beating with eyes, the devil’s eye, even the rather cute name “fat eye”. Regardless of what you call it, it is one of the most widely held and deeply believed superstitions in the world. From the American South to South America, Portugal to Poland, Iran to Israel, everyone fears the Evil Eye...

Ghost hunter to seek Homer
A Fresno ghost hunter has Madera County's blessing to spend 24 hours in the old Raymond fire station, the reputed home of a mischievous spirit named Homer. Mickey Burrow -- whose regular job is Fresno Police Department crime-scene investigator -- asked county officials for permission to visit the station along with as many as seven fellow hobbyists operating under the name Pacific Haunting Investigations...

Why mokele-mbembe is not a rhino
The Emela-ntouka has been an unknown animal of some confusion in Africa. A few chroniclers have felt it was merely another named cryptid representing the sightings of the Mokele-mbembe. But as revealed by an image seen here exclusively at Cryptomundo in the past, it appears to be a beast unlike the saurapod-like Mokele-mbembe...

Breaking: Romanian Bigfoot photos

Incredible photos show rare albino moose in Montana
A viewer shared incredible pictures of an albino moose shot recently by a co-worker near Whitefish, Montana. The cow moose can be seen foraging for food in a thicket with two other moose...

Broadcasting the third kind
The belief that mankind is not alone in the sentient universe is nothing new. Ancient pantheons of cosmic gods and fairy-tale entities of the forest captured the imaginations of human societies long before our modern obsession with flying saucers and alien abductions...

Did I snap a UFO in the fog?
When freelance photographer Hab Rahman uploaded his moody photos of Portsmouth in the fog, he found an unexplained object loitering in the background. 'I didn't notice it when I took the picture,' said Mr Rahman, 28, of London Road, North End. 'But then I looked a bit closer and zoomed in. It's a bit weird really, it's quite freaky. 'I've never really believed in UFOs. I'm not really sure what to make of this.'..

Loch Ness monster quest nears end
In 1972, Robert Rines was at a tea party at a home overlooking Loch Ness in Scotland when his host, Scottish air force officer Basil Cary, saw something moving in the water below. Everyone rushed to the porch and, for a few fleeting minutes, watched what appeared to be a large hump with the texture of an elephant move back and forth across the water...

A cryptozoology of Gog and Magog
Some have surveyed and have known of allegedly supernatural creatures as well as their position within the realm of a natural world that inhabits one which is as amphibious in it's nature, as we are between the tangible and the material only in this particular classification that most may be unfamiliar with, these are creatures of protection of a realm we decry as legendary, a product of superstition and myth...

Who you gonna call? Ghost hunters
A team of eight ghost hunters prowled the parapets flanking the Ritz Theater stage Saturday, some holding magnetic field meters while seeking a female usher's spirit that is rumored to have startled balcony patrons decades ago...

Have you seen this dog? Only with telepathy
Vivi the whippet, the prize-winning show dog who vanished two years ago at Kennedy International Airport, is alive and well and living in Brooklyn. At least that’s what the animal psychics say. These are the professionals who claim to tune into an animal’s thoughts through telepathy the way another person might find a radio station...

In search of Bigfoot -- and a wild dream
Things were pretty much under control while the story involved a former S.C. representative called Bubba, Bigfoot sightings and a yard full of fake dead chickens. It was drag queen Patti O'Furniture who complicated things a bit. But we're getting ahead of events in the saga of "The Long Way Home: A Bigfoot Story." Start with the ex-legislator, Columbia attorney James "Bubba" Cromer Jr...

Ghost hunters say Oregon winery haunted
In the middle of bucolic fields near the north Oregon coast, beneath the gaze of a close by cluster of small mountains, one seller of wine has a quirky, offbeat sense of humor that defies the usual stuffiness often associated with vino and tasting rooms. But if you believe the tales and the research, there are more than one kind of spirits flowing at the Nehalem Bay Winery...

Woodward sheriff seeks aid from a psychic
Logan Tucker was Woodward County Sheriff Les Morton's first child murder case. Morton successfully closed it last year when the 6-year-old boy's mother, Katherine Rutan, was convicted of first-degree murder, although Logan's body wasn't found. His mother is serving a life sentence...

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