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By Stephen Wagner, About.com

Apr 8 2008

Argentina: Strange apparitions accompany saucer waves
In Valcheta, Rio Negro Province, between Bajos del Gualicho and Somuncurá, there are those who claim to have seen an inexplicable light in the immensity of the desert, belonging to a lost city that emerges and vanishes, according to Luis Burgos. The vast number of UFO cases recorded in Argentina, totaling 110 sightings since the start of the year, has opened the door to a singular number of ET- related phenomena which include, for example, strange characters that vanish and evaporate in the loneliness of the towns of the interior...

The top seven Fortean wonders of Utah
Richelle Hawks: Several months ago, Robert Schneck came up with a list for the Top Seven USA Fortean Wonders. He writes that he was inspired to do so by Loren Coleman, who was inspired by the announcement of the New Seven Wonders of the World. I was inspired to come up with my own list, albeit much more focalized and localized...

Man 'targeted by aliens'
A Bosnian man whose home has been hit an incredible five times by meteorites believes he is being targeted by aliens. Experts at Belgrade University have confirmed that all the rocks Radivoje Lajic has handed over were meteorites. They are now investigating local magnetic fields to try and work out what makes the property so attractive to the heavenly bodies...

Robin McPherson, space channeler of OX-HO! And Brad Steiger’s UFO encounter

Kinkaid’s ancient Egyptian Grand Canyon cave
Awesome or Off-Putting is a weekly delve into cryptozoology, ufology, aliens, medical marvels, scientific wonders, secret societies, government conspiracies, cults, ghosts, EVPs, myths, ancient artifacts, religion, strange facts, odd sightings or just the plain unexplainable. On April 5th, 1909 The Phoenix Gazette ran a front page story that was pretty different from the one it printed the day before. It was also very different from any printed ever since it. It's about an explorer named G.E. Kinkaid who happened upon an enormous cavern while boating solo down the Colorado River. In it lay the remains of an underground civilisation long since dead...

Bizarre objects caught by Illinois and Missouri game trail cameras
November 5, 2007, beginning at 9:34 PM Central, Sarcoxie, Missouri. One of twelve images shown in this Earthfiles report of unknown, small, aerial object close to ground photographed over four hour period on Missouri hunter's Cuddeback Digital Camera...

Scaring up viewers? Wright-Pat ghosts on TV
Submitted for your approval: a sprawling Air Force base in the heartland of America, home to Air Force Research Laboratory, the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force and, some claim, ghosts. That’s why Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson, lead investigators for the SciFi Channel’s “Ghost Hunters,” spent the week of Jan. 3-10 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Base employees have for years reported suspicious, possibly paranormal, activity at three buildings, including Hap Arnold’s former home...

Psychic crackdown on the cards
Mediums are fighting new EU rules designed to protect the public from dodgy traders, fearing that honest spiritualists could be targeted...

Psychic John Holland talks to the dead
Psychic John Holland says the departed who contact him sometimes have aged in the afterlife and sometimes not. Before you can say it: Psychic medium John Holland knew I was going to call him. Even the exact time...

Beeping creatures
An interesting characteristic of Bigfoot, UFO and alien encounters is the electronic, beeping sound many witnesses report hearing during these incidents...

Ghost hunters encounter museum spook
They looked like roadies getting ready for a rock show when they showed up Saturday night at the Welland museum carrying bags of electronics. But on closer examination, these were the tools of ghost hunters out on the prowl for supernatural signs. Team members from Niagara Area Paranormal Society aren’t quite ready to give up their day jobs, but one gets an eerie sense that they guys and gals live for the chance to meet the dead...

The mystical experience of shamanism
Susan Mokelke: One of the best things for me in practising contemporary shamanism is the experience it provides daily of the oneness and sacredness of all things. “Everything that is, is alive.”..

'Be gone, Satan'
Ottawa's former exorcist, a 78-year-old priest in poor health, agreed to talk to the Citizen, on the condition he not be named...

The other Skinwalker Ranch: Contact
Heard about Skinwalker Ranch, haven’t you? The rugged 480-acre property in Utah’s Uinta Basin, near Roosevelt and Vernal, was investigated by scientists from the National Institute of Discovery Science and award-winning journalist George Knapp, who followed the story for years. But the Skinwalker property wasn’t the first family ranch plagued by strange phenomenon, what appeared to be ETs and strange animals. Another family confronted terrifying phenomenon on their ranch, where eventual contact, and an agreement were made...

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