Supernatural experiences common among America's religious, survey says
Nearly half of Americans report having at least two supernatural encounters, with conservative Protestants more likely than religious liberals to say they had such experiences, according to a survey recently published in a new book. Among the most common religious and mystical experiences reported by Americans include protection from harm by a guardian angel (55 percent); calling by God to do something (44 percent); witnessing a miraculous, physical healing (23 percent); and hearing the voice of God (20 percent), according to the second part of the Baylor Religion Survey...
Fortean children's books
Pinning down your Fortean influences is always a tricky endeavour. Was it when you found a copy of The Unexplained that your weird uncle left lying around? Could it have been your interest in sci-fi/fantasy? I suspect for most of us, our earliest influences are lost in the mists our earliest years as an awful lot of children's books deal with the strange, the magical and the downright weird...
Would you use voodoo on your boss?
Is your partner unfaithful? Has your boss bypassed you for promotion? Are you facing court next week? Relax! You should take a holiday. What's more, claim African voodoo practitioners, bizarre-sounding remedies may help. Tourism officials say Australian visitors to African countries are increasingly turning to voodoo - even if they sometimes won't admit it - as a way to beat problems they think western-style experts can't solve...
Nottinghamshire pub's spirits aren't only in bottles
One of Hucknall's oldest pubs is haunted – and that's official. The Yew Tree on Nottingham Road has received a plaque from the East Midlands Paranormal group. A team of four from the group, including their resident medium, visited the pub last month for an investigation...
How to do paranormal therapy
We are told that paranormal research is of no real value to life. Today, science is more involved in practicalities, and even if there is a paranormal effect, there are far more important things to research.
I’m not so sure this is true. Rather, even taking the semi-sceptical approach that it is ‘all in the mind’, we can maybe find value in supposed paranormal phenomena. And this is particularly so in the idea of paranormal therapy...
Spooky happenings captured at Mercantile
Over the decades the Turlock Mercantile, a downtown landmark since 1902, has changed ownership and housed various businesses from the original dry goods store to professional offices to the mix of retail stores that are there today. During the building's century of history, it has gone from a wooden structure to being the brick building of today. The upstairs has been utilized as both a boarding house and business offices at different times...
Experts 'solve' mystery of Stonehenge
Two British archeologists declared Monday that they have uncovered the core reason behind the construction of one of the world's best known and least understood landmarks. Druids perform a pagan Samhain blessing ceremony at Stonehenge, in Wiltshire. The stone circle at Stonehenge has stood for thousands of years -- and bred endless debate over whether it was a temple for ancient sun-worshippers, a sacred burial site, or even a kind of massive prehistoric astronomical calculator...
