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The Ouija board murder: Tricking tribal healer Nancy Bowen to kill
In the fall of 1929, two Seneca Indian women sat stooped over a Ouija board on the Cattaraugus Reservation near Buffalo, seeking to conjure a conversation from the great beyond...

Bringing a historic but haunted winery back to life

A haunting tale of housemates
Rebecca Ross: I live in an old house. My niece, an avid watcher of "Ghost Hunters," is convinced it's haunted. "It's probably a residual haunting," she informed me after I moved in. "Unless something makes contact with you. Then, it's intelligent." I hate to break it to my little paranormal expert, but the only thing haunting that house is me. And I'm not all that bright...

Kelsey Grammer's psychic site
Another one to file under 'WTF' - Kelsey Grammer has reportedly launced his own social networking site for psychics! According to Digital Spy Grammer is said to be an eager believer in all things supernatural and co-founded TheChannelChannel.tv with Ron Bard to provide a community for psychic enthusiasts...

Secrets revealed: UFOs and the men who stare at goats
It may seem incredible: much of the story behind the new feature film The Men Who Stare at Goats is based upon secret U.S. government programs to turn paranormal phenomena into operational intelligence. Now, thanks to a Congressional mandate that took the Central Intelligence Agency by the hand and directed them to release twenty-five years worth of previously hidden documents, the truth about the men who stare at goats, psychic spies and psychokinetic "Jedi warriors" is available for all to see...

The mysterious stone spheres of Costa Rica
The mysterious, almost perfectly spherical stone balls dotting the Costa Rican landscape may soon be up for UNESCO World Heritage status. But who built them circa 600 AD? Are they a map to Atlantis, or something even weirder?..

Have you seen the Cape May sea serpent?
Loren Coleman: On April 20, 1855, the New York Times reported that a "dispatch [dated April 19] received [in Philadelphia] from Cape May says that a Sea Serpent, one hundred feet long, was seen there yesterday. An expedition has gone in pursuit of him. A reward of one thousand dollars has been offered for his capture."..

Skeptic challenges guru to kill him live on TV
When a famous tantric guru boasted on television that he could kill another man using only his mystical powers, most viewers either gasped in awe or merely nodded unquestioningly. Sanal Edamaruku's response was different. "Go on then - kill me," he said...

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