Italian scientist reproduces Shroud of Turin
An Italian scientist says he has reproduced the Shroud of Turin, a feat that he says proves definitively that the linen some Christians revere as Jesus Christ's burial cloth is a medieval fake. The shroud, measuring 14 feet, 4 inches by 3 feet, 7 inches bears the image, eerily reversed like a photographic negative, of a crucified man some believers say is Christ. "We have shown that is possible to reproduce something which has the same characteristics as the Shroud," Luigi Garlaschelli, who is due to illustrate the results at a conference on the para-normal this weekend in northern Italy, said on Monday...
Haunted lighthouse in Maryland?
Is the Point Lookout Light in Scotland haunted? Coastal Living magazine seems to think so. The local lighthouse was named among five others for its spookiness and haunted legend dating to its use as a hospital and prison camp during the Civil War. I've never visited the place myself, but according to a Sun reporter, who wrote about it in 2003, the haunting is as much history as local lore...
(Also read: Haunted Lighthouses and Their Ghosts)
Haunted home offered on eBay
For sale, just in time for Halloween, one haunted house. Inquire within if you dare. The owner of the haunted home in the remote town of Cuchillo in southwestern New Mexico has actually listed it on eBay. Josh Bond said he put the home up for sale after paranormal investigation experts from West Coast Ghost and Paranormal Society confirmed in May that the house is haunted...
Black eyed kids
Ghosts are passe and Sasquatch seems about as scary as a bucket full of lollipops. Whatever is the former world of terror/monsters to do? Why, they need to invent some sort of a new creature to fear – and by new creature, we mean of course, children. Not just any children though – needy ones with black eyes...
(Also read: Invasion of the Black-Eyed People)
Dracula's cellar found
Archaeologists believe to have discovered a cellar owned by the Wallachian Duke Vlad III, commonly known by the name of “Dracula.” The cellar was discovered in the university town of Pecs in southern Hungary. According to reports, Tomas Fedeles, tutor of medieval and early modern history at the University of Pecs pointed out that his research showed that Vlad III or Vlad Dracula lived in a two-story house located today in the city’s central square...
Archaeologists unearth 17th century bottle used to scare off witches
Archaeologists digging up a car park in Staffordshire have unearthed a 17th century bottle used to scare off witches. The witch bottle was discovered in a pit beneath a back room on the site of the Turk's Head Inn at Tipping Street car park in Stafford. The vessel is a mid to late 17th-century Bellarmine jug which would have been filled with the likes of nail clippings, hair, bellybutton fluff, pins and iron nails...
The ghost of Gooch's Grill
Chances are that you have driven by, or maybe even stopped in to the place before; perhaps during one of the establishment’s past lives. Before it was Gooch’s Grill, it was called The Victory Bar. Before that, it was Belushe’s Bar and Grill. Many Tucsonans might still identify the location as The Rhino Pub. The only thing that has remained consistent about the location throughout the building’s existence, is the rumor that a resident ghost lurks inside...
