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By Stephen Wagner, About.com

Mar 1 2008

Police blame ghosts for damage
Romanian cops have closed a vandalism investigation that left local houses in ruins by concluding ghosts were to blame. Families living in Lilieci reported windows broken, bicycles flying through the air, objects moving on tables and candles blown out when there is no wind. When they complained they were being hounded by evil spirits to police they were laughed at. But after officers saw the evidence with their own eyes they filed a report saying that ghosts were to blame...

Mediums to contact John Lennon debuts on Pay-Per-View
On April 24, famed psychics from around the world will conduct a séance to contact John Lennon from beyond the grave. John Lennon was one of the most important musical talents of our time, but he died tragically while he was still young. Now, an event will take place that will perhaps allow the world to once again be touched by his genius. Renowned psychics will travel to various sites significant to the former Beatle...

Old struggles on a new Earth
Daniel Pinchbeck: Although my book on prophecy and the Mayan Calendar is behind me, I am still approached all the time by people in search of the meaning of the encroaching end date of December 21, 2012. “Is it the end of the world?” reporters ask me on television...

NASA baffled by unexplained force acting on space probes
Mysteriously, five spacecraft that flew past the Earth have each displayed unexpected anomalies in their motions. These newfound enigmas join the so-called "Pioneer anomaly" as hints that unexplained forces may appear to act on spacecraft...

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Aliens may look more like us than we thought
Scientists have known for a while that the building blocks of Earth life, amino acids, are also found in space. Traces of amino acids have been studied in countless meteorites. But now Arizona State researcher Sandra Pizzarello says Earth amino acids also share the same basic structure with those from distant space...

The night is Jung
It has been exactly 50 years since Carl Jung wrote “Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies,” and its yellowing pages are worn and musty. Its message is alternately prophetic and quaint. Just three years before his death, the father of analytical psychology is clearly struggling with the last great mystery of his life...

Truth about how UFOs affect cars is out there
A couple spotted a UFO while driving near Lake Erie. The UFO was metallic, shaped like a flattened sphere and the witnesses chased it in their car. When the car crossed the UFO's path, the car stalled. The UFO landed in the woods nearby and the car could only be restarted after pushing it some distance away...

Toil and trouble: the last witch?
To some Helen Duncan was merely a medium but the police in wartime Britain took a more sinister view of her work. Now a campaign has begun for her to be pardoned...

Eye problems may explain ghost sightings
Centuries of apparent ghost sightings can actually be explained by cataracts, according to a leading Welsh surgeon. Chris Gorman, an ophthalmologist at Cardiff’s University Hospital of Wales, claims many dramatic reports of spectres and ghostly, floating figures are probably no more than early signs that a person is starting to lose their sight...

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