Traffic jam after 'ghost sighting'
This time of year is traditionally associated with high spirits as revellers welcome in another year. However, a spirit of a different kind has been causing a bit of a commotion outside Coalisland in County Tyrone. An apparent sighting of a ghost has led to crowds of people descending on the Brackaville area over the holidays. "At one point, there was a line of up to 60 cars on the Mullaghmoyle Road with people trying to spot it," said Sinn Féin Councillor Desmond Donnelly...
All tomb and doom: premonition turns Price's world upside down
The supernatural is the domain of vampires and crystal ball owners doing their best to convince us of the possibility of other-worldly connections. The average NRL prop will tell you the other side is nothing more than the mongrels they're playing against but Test star Steve Price claims to have made contact with Peter "Bullfrog" Moore on three occasions since the late Bulldogs patriarch died in 2000...
Were 'visions' a people's protest?
Reassessment of the Knock 'apparition' may shed light on others. On August 21, 1879, in a poor and remote village in Mayo, about a dozen people saw a bright light outside the gable of the local Catholic church and within it figures of the Virgin Mary, St Joseph and St John. The apparition persisted for several hours, though the life-size figures neither spoke nor moved. A subsequent investigation by a panel of priests concluded that testimony given by local people about the apparition was acceptable, and nowadays Knock is one of the leading Marian shrines in the world, drawing about 1.5m visitors a year...
Top ten pseudo-archaeological subjects of 2008
A lot of sites have been putting together their top tens for 2008, so I thought I would offer up the top ten pieces of news concerning pseudo-archaeology in 2008. There has been a lot going on, and I am sure there are things I may have missed. If you think there is something that deserves to be in the top ten list, post a comment bellow...
Writer shares a few ghost stories
There has been enough history on Amelia Island over the past few hundred years to leave the community more than its share of ghosts, supernatural enthusiasts here say...
'Friendly ghost' has brought Flintshire woman good luck
A businesswoman believes her new Flintshire premises are haunted by friendly ghosts. Dawn Thompson, owner of Sun Dawn Interiors on the Coast Road in Greenfield, has called the ghostly spirit in her shop "a guardian angel" after a gamble to take over the business paid off...
Local Bigfoot investigation
They have many names, including Bigfoot...Yeti...and Sasquatch. Whatever you call them, some believe they exist in this area, and an elite some have actually encountered the hairy beasts. A meeting was held tonight at the Crossroads Branch Library in Cambridge for people to share their stories and to discuss Bigfoot. Doug Waller, the moderator of the meeting, says one sighting in particular keeps him believing...
Ronald Nussbeck is offering $10,000 to anyone who can debunk these UFO photos
Calling all scientist's, MUFON, NASA and governmental agencies from around the world! Ronald Nussbeck is offering $10,000 to anyone who can debunk these UFO photos and prove they are not real...
