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Up-to-the-minute news on the paranormal and unexplained from around the world

By Stephen Wagner, About.com

Jul 18 2009

Boy, 13 'beaten up by ghost'
A priest has been called in by a distraught mum after her teenage son told her he had been attacked by a ghost in the family home. Terrified mum Beverley Wilkins turned to the church after son Daniel was left bruised and bewildered by what his family say could only have been a ghost or poltergeist...

Stunning crop formation virtually ends the debate
On Wednesday, July 14 a guest on William Henry's Revelations offered the opinion that most of the crop formations of the astonishing 2009 season were probably manmade. After the program, Whitley Strieber commented privately that what was needed was a formation so extraordinary that it ended the debate, and enabled us all to begin to address the much larger question of what they REALLY are. Between 4:00AM and 5:18AM English Summer Time on the 14th, in the famous east field near Alton Barnes, just such a formation had appeared...

Strange and haunted?
It's called the Strangest House in the World. Now, it's haunted, too. The Southern Paranormal and Anomaly Research Society says spirits inhabit the Kernersville, N.C., house known as Korner's Folly. The group says investigators recorded disembodied voices and some mysterious specks of light...

Argentina: Cattle mutilations on the rise
Seven bovines were found mutilated last week in a farm near Puelches, in Southwestern La Pampa. The information was confirmed to CEUFO by local cattlemen who expressed their concern at the new incidents and stated “they did not occur in a single day; rather, they took place throughout the week” while one woman, a ranch owner, added that “strange lights were seen maneuvering over the area for several nights throughout the region.”..

Woman catches on fire outside Peoria rehabilitation center
A 42-year-old female caught on fire Wednesday morning outside a Peoria rehabilitation center near Plaza del Rio Boulevard and Thunderbird Road, police spokesman Mike Tellef said. The victim had life threatening injuries and was transported to a local hospital, Tellef said. Employees found the woman sitting on an outside patio engulfed in flames, Tellef said. Police are unsure how she caught on fire...

America's secret psychic warriors
The Heaven's Gate UFO cult didn't do any favors for the credibility of remote viewing when 39 of its members committed suicide in 1997. What pushed the cultists over the edge was a prediction by a prominent remote viewer that the rapidly approaching Hale-Bopp comet was being chased by a gigantic alien spaceship on its way to wipe out the earth. More recently, another big-name remote viewer said he had pinpointed the spot where famed pilot Steve Fawcett crashed his plane, though the pinpoint was off by a just a smidge -- 50 miles...

Haunting stories of the 'Spook House'
The scary reputation of the “Spook House” in Milner Road, Rondebosch, looms large among the many ghost stories and urban legends in the history of Cape Town. Most people who have driven or walked hurriedly past the three-storey, red-brick house - possibly with averted eyes - would have heard the place was haunted...

Doctor's ex-wife said “He had demons”
Testimony in Hamilton county sessions court Friday morning painted a picture of Tina Loher as a wife and mother bent on chasing demons from the body of her former husband. Loher shot Dr. Terrence Loher at his chiropractic office last week...

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