Mediums feel the power - but I can't get into the spirit
Medium Richard Gregory sits at the bottom of the stairs leading to the Baron's bedroom, where Jeremy Goldsmith is convinced there is a ghostly presence. "I am having trouble breathing," says Richard. "I feel I am a servant that has been beaten. My legs are like jelly. I feel I am in trouble for something."..
Ghost hunting at Heritage Junction
Things are getting a little spooky over at Heritage Junction. The home base of Santa Clarita’s historical reference has started fielding a lot of questions lately asking if the antique buildings on the lot are haunted...
Philadelphia weirdness:
night brings the Hag!
For centuries, folklore, or what has become known as "the unexplained," has grown as a vast jigsaw, an immense puzzle made up of many differing, equally complex parts, whether in the form of monsters, ghosts, UFOs, crop circles, voodoo, spontaneous human combustion, telepathy, healing powers, or what have you. However, one of the most frightening enigmas to lurk deep within the network of weirdness pertains to the legend of the "Old Hag."..
Close encounters of the Canadian kind
It can border on the outrageous, the credible and even the entrepreneurial. For centuries people claimed to have boarded UFOs, encountered aliens and even sipped on Crop Circle Beer. Skeptics may dismiss believers as nerds and nutters but there's no doubting the increasing popularity of the paranormal in the mainstream. Canada has one of the highest rates of UFO sightings per capita and, for many Canadians, life beyond earth is a definite reality...
If we have free will, so do subatomic particles, mathematicians claim to prove
Human free will might seem like the squishiest of philosophical subjects, way beyond the realm of mathematical demonstration. But two highly regarded Princeton mathematicians, John Conway and Simon Kochen, claim to have proven that if humans have even the tiniest amount of free will, then atoms themselves must also behave unpredictably...
A high-tech search for spirits
Rumors of unexplained incidents run rampant in the Town Hall that is over 150- years-old, and some Town Hall workers believe its move than just the leaky pipes ––they say it’s ghosts. Colleen Beltramini, the director of the New England Society of Paranormal Investigators in Hyannis, along with a team conducted an electronic voice phenomena investigation at the Town Hall and the Central Cemetery on Saturday night...
A ghost in the White House
A few years ago, Bob Martin was reading David McCullough's book Truman, and a photo of construction in the White House caught his eye. It was taken during remodeling around 1950 by National Parks Service photographer Abbie Rowe. The apparent apparition is clear and startling. Compared to the other men in the photo, its size scale is accurate. And if this were due to some motion or long exposure effect, the rest of the photo should be affected, as well...
Supernatural science: Why we want to believe
Monsters are everywhere these days, and belief in them is as strong as ever. What's harder to believe is why so many people buy into hazy evidence, shady schemes and downright false reports that perpetuate myths that often have just one ultimate truth: They put money in the pockets of their purveyors...
Westminster exorcist says promiscuity can lead to demonic possession
A priest of Westminster, the leading diocese of the Catholic Church of England and Wales, has written that promiscuity, whether homosexual or heterosexual, can lead to dire spiritual consequences, in addition to the dangers to physical health. Promiscuity, as well as homosexuality and pornography, says 73 year-old Fr. Jeremy Davies, is a form of sexual perversion and can lead to demonic possession. Offering what may be an explanation for the explosion of homosexuality in recent years, Fr. Davies said, "Among the causes of homosexuality is a contagious demonic factor."..
