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By Stephen Wagner, About.com

Hollywood, UFOs and the occult: The impending something
The broadcast-quality lilt of Coast to Coast AM radio host George Noory wafted over a packed conference room at Beverly Garland’s Holiday Inn last Saturday night as he a moderated a panel of out-there researchers engaged in a radical examination of Hollywood’s covert use of occult symbolism and alien agendas — the same week that the Vatican’s chief astronomer told an interviewer that belief in alien life does not contradict belief in God. As Noory told the audience, “There’s definitely a sense of an impending ... something.”..

New tools in paranormal research?
Paralore.com, a social networking site has gained momentum in recent months helping to close the communication gap between paranormal professionals and enthusiasts in attempt to make significant progress in paranormal studies...

Will Judean Desert find shed light on Shroud of Turin?
Can a 6,000-year-old shroud uncovered in the Judean Desert in 1993 help illuminate the centuries-old debate over the Shroud of Turin? That is the question posed by Olga Negnevitsky, a conservator at the Israel Museum who was involved in the conservation of the lesser-known shroud for the Antiquities Authority after it was discovered inside a small cave near Jericho...

Teen snaps eerie ghost
This is the sensational picture which proves ghosts exist, a teenager claims. The spectral vision was captured by 14-year-old Connor Bond at an ancient castle in the Scottish highlands famed for its ghostly residents. The ghoulish apparition was snapped by accident while the youngster and his family were attending a wedding at the castle...

Mysterious images emerge from Mars
The space probe Phoenix touched down on Mars Sunday and beamed back some strange, new pictures of the planet and its alien surface. Ground controllers at NASA observed some unexplainable images which prompted the question: could there be intelligent life on Mars? The pictures sent from the Phoenix Lander depicted images of strange phenomena, including a distant white entity unlike anything else on the red planet's surface. Dismissive scientists believe it to be simply another large rock, but others aren't so quick to discount all possibilities...

Make way for superfrog
X-Men fans rejoice: Wolverine has come to life, as a frog. When the comic book warrior faces a fight, metallic blades spring forth from his hand. A new study concludes that certain African frogs are similarly equipped, having sharp, claw-shaped bones that pierce through their own fingertips when the animal is threatened...

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