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Ancient astronauts carving

Ancient astronauts carving

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Jackson's spirit 'asked for forgiveness'
Michael Jackson's spirit asked his ex-wife Lisa Marie Presley for forgiveness during a seance. Michael died aged 50 last June, after taking a cocktail of drugs including powerful anaesthetic Propofol. His personal physician Dr Conrad Murray was charged with involuntary manslaughter on Monday, but has pleaded not guilty. The pop icon's former make-up artist Karan Faye has revealed she and Lisa Marie visited a psychic last week, and were put in touch with Michael...

A tree carving in California: ancient astronomers?
Though local lore held that the so-called "scorpion tree" had been the work of cowboys, paleontologist Rex Saint Onge immediately knew that the tree was carved by Indians when he stumbled upon it in the fall of 2006. Located in a shady grove atop the Santa Lucia Mountains in San Luis Obispo County, the centuries-old gnarled oak had the image of a six-legged, lizard-like being meticulously scrawled into its trunk, the nearly three-foot-tall beast topped with a rectangular crown and two large spheres...

Erie County Hall... haunted?
It was Buffalo's darkest moments, and it may be the explanation for one of Buffalo's most unique hauntings in one its most unique places - Old Erie County Hall. "It's a spectacular building an a spectacular sight designed by a couple of monumental architects from Rochester, whose buildings all do tend to get ghost stories," said local author and supernatural historian Mason Winfield...

"The Adventures of a Costa Mesa Bigfoot"
With a camera in his hand and a song in his heart, photojournalist Keith May chronicles the OC sightings of the suddenly not-very-reclusive Sasquatch...

Haunting Of Winchester House (2009)
Great to see the Asylum getting back to it's horror roots! This is a wonderful little low budget horror flick. Creepy in an Alfred Hitchcock sort of way. More of a ghost story than horror. The cast was very likable, especially the mother and abducted daughter. The handmade fx gave it a cool retro feel. You could tell the filmmakers and crew had alot of fun with this one...

Bigfoot: Fact or Fiction? We search for the truth
Deep in the forests of North America the locals are spooked. Something big is out there, something that destroys trees, something that howls like no other animal ever recorded, something between man and beast. Sasquatch, Bigfoot, the missing link, whatever you want to call it, the hunt for this creature has become an international obsession and a conspiracy theory that has captivated the imagination of millions...

What is happening under Giza? Lost cave system becomes more mysterious & more controversial
When Andrew Collins, his wife Sue Collins, and Nigel Skinner-Simpson entered the lost cave system under Giza in March 2008, they knew that what they had found was extremely important. The caves had been briefly described nearly 200 years earlier in an obscure personal journal, but the journal was hidden away in the British Museum. During those 200 years Giza was extensively explored and the many finds dutily cataloged, but no one rediscovered the caves...

Virginia delegates pass bill banning chip implants as 'mark of the beast'
Concerns over privacy have aligned with apocalyptic Biblical prophecy in a proposed Virginia law that limits the use of microchip implants on humans because of a lawmaker's concern that the chips will prove to be the Antichrist's "mark of the beast."..

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