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By Stephen Wagner, About.com

House haunted? Shore up the plumbing, get bats out of the belfry
Are cold drafts curling around your toes? Do doors close by themselves on creaking hinges? You've heard scratching, bumping and shuffling noises in the attic? Did your fall garments come from storage mysteriously spattered with stains? Have unseen spooks left ghostly shadows on the walls and do poltergeists flush the toilet in the middle of the night? Yes? Then your house is haunted - if not by spirits, at least by household matters going awry...

Facing death at the Skinwalker Ranch
Chantal Apodaca looks at me and asks…"are you scared?" I look at her and calmly said…"yes." What is there to be scared about at the Skinwalker Ranch? Lots of things, but before I talk about the 'scary incident', let's start from the beginning...

Spooky goings-on at shop
Ghostly goings-on at a Lincoln fancy dress shop promise to send shivers down customers' spines. People who pop into Jesters in the lower High Street could meet a few unexpected characters. Owners Hazel Smith and her son James say they have heard ghostly footsteps, seen a hand appear through a wall and seen the ghosts of two children. Mr Smith said: "About a year ago, I saw a hand slide through the wall, push a hanging costume and leave it swinging backwards and forwards."..

Popobawa: The modern Pazuzu?
If you’re a fan of horror films, you probably remember the Pazuzu statues that appeared throughout William Peter Blaty’s Exorcist films. The figures in question depicted a humanoid creature with bat-like (or even moth-like) wings, a face resembling a lion, and in some instances a long serpentine phallus which wrapped around its waist or down one leg. However, I have begun to notice reports stemming from the East African Republic of Tanzania, specifically in the Zanzibar region, involving a more recent cryptozoological phenomenon that mirrors many characteristics of the Sumerian Pazuzu legends...

An avalanche of prophecy
Not since the summer of 1989 have I seen such a massive upwelling of dire prophecy in the world. At Unknowncountry.com, we are getting emails every day from people who are having dreams or visions of terrible events in the immediate future. The Arlington Institute, a respected futurist think tank, has just published a document noting that it is receiving many such prophecies, also. Most of these dreams and visions involve earthquakes, nuclear terrorism or huge storms. (Hopefully, not all of the above.) A number of channelers are predicting that a large scale event involving aliens will take place this month...

Ghost hunters look for proof Merrimack eatery is haunted
Many people believe the Common Man restaurant in Merrimack is haunted, perhaps by the ghost of Matthew Thornton and his son. On Thursday, the amateur professionals were at the scene to see if they could prove it...

Moon River: Watch out for ghosts throwing bottles
At Moon River Brewing Company, there's no shortage of food and spirits. And we're not just talking about the Jack Daniels. Christopher Lewis has been the operations manager at the beer pub for four years and strongly thinks that ghostly spirits haunt the 187-year-old, four-story building. In fact, he says he's had many close encounters with the spirits...

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