Hans Holzer: The original ghost hunter
In a day when ghost investigation has become a subject for reality television and those involved are more like cartoon characters than serious researchers, it's prudent to take a look at a real Ghost Hunter. Hans Holzer has authored 160 books about the paranormal. Born in 1920, he has spent many years of his life investigating the ghost phenomenon throughout the world. Hans was the first academically trained researcher to define ghosts and ghostly activity for Parapsychology and his book, The Ghost Hunter (published in 1963), set the standard for understanding and investigating that area of the paranormal...
Face to face with the mystic monk
The controversial public display of Padre Pio's body is attracting a new kind of Irish holidaymaker who likes to combine sunshine and spirituality. Thousands of these 'tourist pilgrims' are travelling to view the mystic monk's remains in San Giovanni Rotondo, before heading off for some secular sight-seeing around the rest of Italy. But the stigmatic saint, whose body has been exhumed 40 years after his death, is the main draw in these religious vacations to the Puglia region...
Michelle 'haunted by Ledger ghost'
Heath still hanging around? Heath Ledger's former lover claims she is being haunted by his ghost. Actress Michelle Williams told friends that Ledger, who died aged 28 of an accidental drug overdose in January, had twice visited her as a 'shadowy apparition'. The first time, she was woken at night after hearing furniture move...
Bigfoot in Fresno County?
Whether you want to believe it or not, there are a lot of people in Central California who think they've had a brush with a Bigfoot, or Sasquatch. Many won't talk about it for fear of being ridiculed. But others are convinced they are real, and think science is about to prove they really do exist...
See it — and believe it or not
The aphorism “seeing is believing” has it backward, as evidenced by skeptics who don’t believe man went to the moon and contend photos taken by the astronauts prove their point...
Tapping in to sixth sense to avoid danger
Few people could be blamed for regarding our world as increasingly insecure. From terrorist attacks to muggings, many people feel more vulnerable than ever before. However, one Inverness man believes we all have a vital weapon with which to defend ourselves against such threats. Our intuition...
Mysterious voices heard at museum
"Get out and stay out," said a low, whispering voice. "Help me," said another. Yesterday when the Welland Historical Museum closed its doors for the day, the Niagara Area Paranormal Society sat down with director John Robertson to reveal findings that they say prove spirits roam the museum building...
Does the Earth's magnetic field cause suicides?
Many animals can sense the Earth's magnetic field, so why not people, asks Oleg Shumilov of the Institute of North Industrial Ecology Problems in Russia. Shumilov looked at activity in the Earth's geomagnetic field from 1948 to 1997 and found that it grouped into three seasonal peaks every year: one from March to May, another in July and the last in October...
Confessions of a paranormal junkie
A fascination with ghosts is also a career path for Noah Voss, who's spent a lifetime chasing the unexplained...
