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Jul 11 2009

Major League Baseball teams fear 'haunted' Milwaukee hotel
First Carlos Gomez heard voices. Then he watched his iPod go haywire after he got out of the shower, sending him scrambling for the lobby without stopping to put on his pants and shoes. After last year's experience, the Minnesota Twins outfielder didn't want to go back to Milwaukee's Pfister Hotel. But Gomez had to stay there when the Twins were in town to play the Brewers last month, so he brought some protection: teammate-turned-roommate Francisco Liriano and a Bible...

Hairless mystery animal photographed
Loren Coleman: The following animal jumped into the trunk of someone’s car in Goodhue, Minnesota, near Minneapolis, and was driven home (allegedly) before being photographed...

Exorcism of a ghost, a firsthand account
Amanda wanted to move from her townhouse to another apartment because she suspected that the energy was bad at her place. More specifically, she believed it was haunted. Sometimes she would walk through the halls of her place and something would push her against the walls. She explained that she could never get enough sleep in her own bedroom because the energy felt unwelcome and she had a hard time sleeping. For some reason, from what she was able to detect herself under her own abilities, it seemed like it was the ghost of “Judy Garland” since she had visions of her...

What can science reveal about anomalous voices?
The question of what science can reveal to us about anomalous voice will be covered in a panel discussion by prominent researchers who study the electronic voice phenomenon (EVP) at the Rhine Research Center...

Easter Island drug raises life extension hopes
A drug discovered in the soil of a South Pacific island may help to fight the ageing process, research suggests. When US scientists treated old mice with rapamycin it extended their expected lifespan by up to 38%...

'Hannity' investigates legend of Wisconsin werewolf

The Truth Behind Telepathy

Mayan crop circle appears at Silbury Hill
Well as most people should know by now, this crop circle season is already looking to be a real winner on the design front. However, that doesn't seem to stop whoever is making them from pushing the envelope and July is getting interesting. Take for example, this beauty, found by Silbury Hill on July 5...

Ghosts in Albany, Georgia could add up to tourism dollars
Ghosts or a new industry for Albany. It might be both. Another group of paranormal investigators recently conducted an investigation at The Bridge House or the visitors center and determined the building is haunted. Now the Convention and Visitors Bureau is talking about a ghost tour that could potentially bring in tourists from out of town. Shadowy figures were caught on camera in the basement of The Bridge House...

Alabama ghost trail may help scare up tourism
Alabama's Black Belt is hoping to scare up tourism dollars by establishing a ghost trail that will stretch across the region. The trail is to open this summer with ghost stories from Dallas, Perry and Wilcox counties in central Alabama...

The Third Man Factor: Surviving the Impossible
Shortly after 9.00am on 11 September 2001, a money broker called Ron DiFrancesco realised what had happened. A plane had crashed into the building he was in, the south tower of the World Trade Center. Worse, DiFrancesco saw that he was above where the plane had hit — he was on the 88th floor. He found the only operative staircase, and started struggling down through the debris and smoke. He began to have breathing difficulties. He thought he wouldn't make it. But then something weird happened...

Octo-Mom gets one more kid – Except this one’s a ghost
Ecto-Mom? Ok, so you’re getting a little tired of Michael Jackson dominating the news. What happened to reporting on all the other important things in the world? Like the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the revolt in Iran, the economy, Michelle Obama’s choice in stockings? More importantly, what’s Octo-mom up to?! Her ears in supernatural phenomena, according to her. In an exclusive interview with RadarOnline, Nadya Suleman, the famed multi-child-bearer is convinced that “there are no such thing as ghosts”, yet at the same time, details hearing an invisible child whispering “Mommy”, and being tugged by an ethereal entity...

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