Teen now embraces his psyhic gift
The rocky start of Dalton Kropp’s adolescence would have continued into this year, if it weren’t for a commercial on A&E one evening when the Kropps were watching “Paranormal State.” The promo announced that A&E producers were looking for psychic kids...
Eerie presence, powerful stench: Bigfoot!
Sightings are being reported again in Cherokee county of the tall, hairy creature with a face resembling a human and a strong stench – Bigfoot. “I feel like Faye Ray here,” said Sheryl Mast, of the Gideon community. “Maybe he’s looking for a girlfriend.” Bigfoot is a common reference to an uncommon and unexplained occurrence...
Researchers open cave under Mexican pyramid
Archaeologists are opening a cave sealed for more than 30 years deep beneath a Mexican pyramid to look for clues about the mysterious collapse of one of ancient civilisation's largest cities. The soaring Teotihuacan stone pyramids, now a major tourist site about an hour outside Mexico City, were discovered by the ancient Aztecs around 1500 AD, not long before the arrival of Spanish explorers to Mexico...
The haunting of Roberta Hall
The red brick sorority house, Roberta Hall, sits at the east edge of the Northwest Missouri State University campus in Maryville, a sea of well-trimmed grass stretching out under some of the 1,300 trees that shade the university. Roberta Hall wasn’t always a sorority house, and it wasn’t always called Roberta. In the early days it was the only women’s residence hall on campus and was simply known as Residence Hall. That changed after the explosion...
2013: Beginnings or Endings?
Over the last few days I've been reading the new book from Marie D. Jones: 2013: The End of Days or a New Beginning? And having now completed it, I can tell you that her book is an excellent study of the many and varied controversies concerning the end of the Mayan calendar on December 21, 2012. Is the world going to come to a fiery conclusion on that potentially fateful - and fatal - day? Or will we see a positive transformation that ushers in a whole new Golden Age-type era for Humankind? Or will we see absolutely nothing out of the ordinary happen at all?..
New TV show: psychics against science
Possession of supernatural powers has always made for popular entertainment. Tales of mystical beings, spirits and magical powers entertained our ancestors but once religion claimed a monopoly on miracles, what couldn't be understood was feared and punished. And the public got to denounce their neighbours and enjoy the spectacle of witches being horribly tortured and put to death...
Moved by the spirit: When ghosts come calling
Last year, just before her release from a short prison sentence, American starlet Paris Hilton described feeling like spiritual forces had sent her to jail (contrary to what any tabloids may have said otherwise). She reported feeling that her “spirit or soul did not like the way I was being seen and that is why I was sent to jail. God has released me.” Whether or not you can take this statement seriously, on a personal level at least Hilton seemed to describe what she felt to be “divine intervention”, instances of which may not appear to be a blessing of any sort at the onset, only to reveal later that there was a hidden meaning behind the hardship...
