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Was Bigfoot captured on IMAX film?
Apparently the IMAX film "Great North" 2001, contained an odd scene that went undetected for years. Undetected until some observant person spotted this odd figure while watching the documentary. In the video, you can see a herd of Caribou crossing a river. Very swiftly you can see in the background near the herd a humanoid looking creature stand up and run and crouch again. Many are saying that the camera crew might have captured Sasquatch on IMAX film...

On the tail of a tiger in Tasmania
On a bright summer morning in the back end of Tasmania's northwest, I wandered into an office of Forestry Tasmania for advice about a forest dirt road. The sketch map the official offered was expected; not so his story. On that same track a decade or so ago, he had seen a creature that was not supposed to exist...

Kayadi - The Bigfoot of Papua New Guinea
Dr Karl Shuker: I am greatly indebted to American cryptozoological investigator Todd Jurasek for the following information and kind permission to publish it. In autumn 2002, Todd visited the village of Siawi in a remote region of Papua New Guinea roughly 18 miles east of the border with Irian Jaya just below the mountains, and approximately 6 miles from the Sepik River. During his stay there, he interviewed members of several different tribes in the hope of extracting information of cryptozoological relevance, with the aid of a missionary called Jason acting as interpreter...

"Montgomery House: The Perfect Haunting" Lauded as real life Paranormal Activity
Hailed by critics and startled screeners as the Real-Life "Paranormal Activity", first-time Director and Internationally renowned Psychic / Medium Danielle Egnew, known for her case-breaking work with law-enforcement, creative consulting on several hit paranormal television series and blockbuster films, and media appearances, stuns audiences by crossing dreadful into reality with this evidence-packed and history-drenched disturbing true story which documents of one of America's most tortured haunted locations, Montgomery House Bed and Breakfast in Kalama, WA -- never investigated prior to this filming...

Ancient hominids may have been seafarers
Human ancestors that left Africa hundreds of thousands of years ago to see the rest of the world were no landlubbers. Stone hand axes unearthed on the Mediterranean island of Crete indicate that an ancient Homo species - perhaps Homo erectus - had used rafts or other seagoing vessels to cross from northern Africa to Europe via at least some of the larger islands in between, says archaeologist Thomas Strasser of Providence College in Rhode Island...

Aura you experienced? "Paranormal" portraiture

Does personality shape precognitive dream messages?
A medical psychologist and professor at the University of California at Los Angeles, Dr. Thelma Moss, director of the Neuropsychiatric Institute, undertook a study of precognitive dreams during the 1970s and found to her surprise that numerous persons periodically dreamt the winners of horse races, even when they had no interest in racing...

Israeli rabbi conducts exorcism via Skype
An Israeli rabbi and kabbalah scholar recently attempted the world's first exorcism via Skype. HaRav David Batzri, one of Israel's best known kabbalists, tried to exorcise a "dybbuk" - a spirit that allegedly possesses the body - from a Brazilian Jew. Some streams of ultra-Orthodoxy, such as Batzri's, believe in ghosts, spirit possession and reincarnation...

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