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By Stephen Wagner, About.com

Dec 23 2008

2009 psychic predictions revealed
Well, it's that time of the year for what has become an All News Web annual institution: Our predictions for the coming year. After a year of financial catastrophe, floods, earthquakes and whole lot of other crazy stuff 2009 will have a tough time beating 2008 in terms of chaos but we are predicting that the next year will in be even crazier. As usual our resident psychic Michael Cohen of One World Psychics, www.oneworldpsychics.com and a regular contributor to this website will be doing the predicting. So let's look into the future and go a few days ahead to 2009...

Punch hole clouds & other rarely seen cloud formations
A. Abrams: We covered bizarre cloud formations before, but there seems to be no end of them... The tsunami-looking fog wave was strange enough, and now these "gateways in the sky" - circular absence of clouds, with wispy tendrils reaching out of them.....

Interview with Stanton Friedman
It's one BoA's proudest traditions, the 4th annual BoA:Audio Holiday Special featuring the "Father of Modern Day Ufology" Stanton Friedman. Coming on the heels of the publication of his self-proclaimed "magnus opus," Flying Saucers and Science, we discuss a number of elements to the new tome...

Salem draws line at hunting ghosts
It's the eternal debate in a city that cherishes its rich history but also embraces witch kitsch as a way to lure tourist dollars: How much supernatural is too much? Apparently, allowing a team of ghost hunters to investigate whether the Salem Witch House is haunted crosses the line...

Russian government licenses faith healers
Mikhail Fadkin claims he can cure a long list of disorders — pancreatitis, bronchitis, digestive problems, even infertility — by using his hands to manipulate what he describes as a person's "bio-energy field." Many laugh at such ideas and might call him a quack. But the 63-year-old healer, who practices out of an office in a Moscow suburb, holds a license from the Russian government...

The Angela Fellines story: a metaphysical journey

Blind man navigates maze
Scientists have discovered that a blind person can navigate through a maze of obstacles unaided using intuition alone. The man, left blind by a stroke, was able to walk around chairs and boxes without bumping into them using hidden pathways in the brain...

Ontario: ice-circles at Sheridan Creek
On Saturday morning, December 13, 2008, research director and amateur photographer Brook Tyler was walking across Sheridan Creek in the Rattray Marsh Conservation area in the Greater Toronto Area when he stumbled upon a strange a strange feature within the thin ice covering the waters...

Resurrecting the thylacine: does it exist or will science help?
Australian wildlife scientists have re-opened the cryptic case of the Tasmanian tiger, a marsupial carnivore that resembled a striped coyote and which was last seen alive more than 70 years ago. Scientists think chances are slim that Thylacinus cynocephalus still roams remote areas of Tasmania, the large island just south of Australia, but they can't help but turn over every possible leaf for evidence...

Weird Los Angeles: the police and the poltergeist
More than thirty police officers attempted to untangle the strange web of events that took place in the Fall of 1960 in Lynwood. It concerned a car lot owned by a Mr Claude Mock. He'd employed Anthony Angelo--not realizing just what amount of problems were around the corner. At first it seemed to be mindless vandalism. Nuts, bolts, sticks, stones and rocks flying across the air and crashing onto the vehicles and the building where both men worked. Then, the attacks continued at alarming frequency; the abnormal trajectory of the items thrown was noted, as was the fact that the missiles had begun to appear at exactly the same time Angelo was hired...

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