In Utah, the Parowan Prophet predicts disaster will prevent Obama from taking office
Our trip to the Parowan Prophet began with a letter to the St. George Spectrum. It was set among missives proposing that oil companies bail out Detroit automakers, that county inmates be forced to winter in tents, that lawyers be barred from public office. A rough crowd...
Metallica: Tunguska, zombies and chemtrails
The Tunguska explosion is the start for an alternate history where the event brings in a mysterious alien organism that produces spores, which in turn are capable of producing zombies. The Soviets afterwards use the discovery for their “revolution”, launching the spores over the USA, only to watch the ensuing zombie chaos. Their offer of help comes when the country is no more, and giant soviet robots rule over in the cleanup with the USA as part of USSR. But playing with zombies may have side effects...
The hour is late
Whitley Strieber: It is late here, midnight passing. December has come again, and for the past few months I have been enduring the same demonic nights that I experience every year at this time, as my spirit relives the hard pilgrimage that led to the night of December 26, 1985. The feelings are so complex, the fears so deep and the love, too, so deep, that sometimes, even after all these years, the whole emotional avalanche of having the visitors emerge into my life threatens to drown me...
Ghost hunters asked to investigate haunted housing development
R.I.P. was asked to investigate a supposedly haunted townhouse development in Virginia after our client and several of her neighbors noticed a dark, shadowy figure moving through the walls, strange noises, and objects being moved. At least one family had already moved out after experiencing similar activities...
A Christmas ghost story: curse of the nurse!
One night in 1943, the air raids had been particularly severe over London, and so the following day it wasn't unusual for workman Charles Bide to be sent off to various crumbling and damaged abodes to retrieve furniture that had survived the blitz. On this occasion his boss sent him to St Thomas's Hospital. Upon arrival on this rather cold day he noticed that inside the building there seemed an unnatural coldness, although he thought nothing more of it and made his way through the rooms in search of furniture to secure. Only the sound of his own footsteps echoed throughout the building and when he reached the top floor freezing spots of cold seemed to appear. It was then that he glimpsed the mirror.....
Ghost hunters intrigued by spirit at bistro
When Tim Smith opened a restaurant downtown, he didn't count on the spot coming with a side of paranormal. But the owner of PH Bistro on South Main Street reluctantly admits he and his staff are being haunted by unexplainable pranks and uneasy feelings. "A lot of us have felt a presence," Smith said. "There's something."..
Occult anatomy: the forehead and identity
Richelle Hawks: In one of my first drawing classes in high school, one of our very first projects was a portrait of a classmate. Our wonderful art teacher, Gloria Bass, went to great lengths to take us out of our "canned" way of seeing and representation. We did the compulsory Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain upside down drawing Stravinsky exercise (if you haven't tried it, it's really worth your time—time which may well become Missing Time if done properly) and others of probably her own brilliant invention. The one that impressed me the most was a lesson essentially about the forehead...
Consignment shop is local haunt
She's mischievous but friendly, the lady ghost said to haunt a Grand Haven consignment shop, and she fancies formal wear. "She seems to like the formals on the balcony," said Linda Forbes, owner of Second Impression, 310 Fulton Ave. "She's often dinked around with those." Kate Koopman, a mother of three who was murdered in November 1922 by her husband on the stairway of their home, has never left — at least not in spirit, Forbes said...
