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By Stephen Wagner, About.com

By their fruits ye shall know them
Here's a minor incident from Charles Drayton Thomas's Life Beyond Death (pp. 69-70). Thomas sat for many years with the English medium Gladys Osborne Leonard. He became convinced that he was in communication with his deceased father and his deceased sister, Etta. A careful investigator, he did his best to rule out alternative explanations such as telepathy, clairvoyance, and "super-ESP."..

Hunter got more than he bargained for
One time, a Florida man decided to go on a hunting trip deep into the Everglades. What he encountered there would knock him unconscious and leave him wondering what had happened...

Web site users share Lake Norman monster sightings
The Lake Norman Monster - is it a hoax, or is it real? The question has been asked here for more than a quarter century. At first, Normie’s existence was only a rumor, started by an individual who claimed he saw something very large swimming in the lake...

Update: new 2008 Nessie video
A new video of the Loch Ness Monster has been taken. The Garside video appears to show three or several disjoined darkly colored patches moving along on the surface of the Scottish lake. What do they show? Nessie? Otters? Waves? Wake of a boat? A toy? What do you think?..

Ghostbusters investigate ancient manor
Supernatural sleuths spent the night at Headstone Manor to investigate ghostly goings-on that have spooked countless people. The London Paranormal Society carried out a ground-breaking experiment at the building, home to Harrow Museum, on June 28 to see if they could detect or explain mysterious noises and sights...

But what about Jung?
"But what about Jung?" is one of the first questions people typically ask when confronted with the possibility that ancient myths commemorate high-energy electromagnetic storms. The elaborate psychological theories propounded by the Swiss Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) in the early 20th century have left an indelible impression on the popular understanding of myth and symbol even today. The upshot of Jung’s prolific writings on the subject is that the recurrent archetypes expressed in myths as well as dreams spring from a universal reservoir of potential forms he called the ‘collective unconscious’...

Court convicts man who says he can raise dead
A Moscow court convicted a man of fraud on Monday for preying on people mourning loved ones by saying he could resurrect the dead. Grigory Grabovoy stood passively inside an iron cage as he was sentenced to 11 years in prison working hard labor in a case which has grabbed headlines around Russia...

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