North Carolina's haunted colleges and universities
College is a new and exciting time for most students. It's their first time away from their parents and their first time living on their own. It's the first time they make decisions on their own and begin discovering who they are. This might be why so many colleges in North Carolina have ghosts, since some students never want to leave...
Near-death experiences explained… nearly
According to a new article featured at the National Geographic website, near-death experiences have been discovered to be "tricks of the mind triggered by an overload of carbon dioxide in the bloodstream." This information is based on a new study, where researchers investigated ways that the differing levels of oxygen and carbon dioxide present in the bloodstream at moments involving surgery or traumatic shock might contribute to the strange experiences...
Long-lost brothers discover they're neighbours
After years of trying to find each other, two long-lost Newfoundland brothers have discovered they live just metres apart in Corner Brook...
An early tale of Chipekwe
When the early travellers reached the Victoria Falls, and for long afterwards, there were no natives living within sixty miles of the place. They feared an evil spirit, they said, which haunted the falls. Cataract Island, on the lip of the falls, was once known as Devil's Island, and Coillard the missionary said of it: "The natives believe it is haunted by a malevolent and cruel divinity, and they make it offerings to conciliate its favour, a bead necklace, a bracelet or some other object, which they fling into the abyss, bursting into lugubrious incantations, quite in harmony with their dread and horror."..
Is the Rising Sun Inn a paranormal favorite?
Fred Duerr, owner of the Rising Sun Inn in Franconia, is second guessing things around the Inn these days. The other day, he was in the basement checking inventory when a lightbulb went out. He turned around to go check on the bulb and it turned back on. "Normally, I would just write something like that off," Duerr said. "Now, it just makes me think just a little big longer."..
Top scarers: the most frightening fiction
The ability to really terrify readers without resorting to obscene blood and guts is a rare one - who has it?..
Fake Bigfoot sigthings scare residents
For the past month, the Delaware County Sheriff's Office has been bombarded with telephone calls about the legendary elusive apelike creature known as Bigfoot. It seems the creature was roaming the wooded countryside near Kenwood - a small, isolated community about 20 miles southwest of Jay and surrounded by acres of trees and fresh springs of water...
Bigfoot in Arizona?
Ask anyone who's grown up in the small town of Whiteriver in the White Mountains, and they'll tell you that stories of a large, dark and hairy creature lurking around the woods have been around for generations. Now, recent evidence shows that this creature, that the Apache call Keh-Chew, may have never left...
The Paranormal and Ghosts - Evidence, Perspective, or Falsehood?
Ghost hunting is not a science. Out of all the individuals and/or groups of ghost hunters in existence, very, very few actually have any experience with the scientific method or have any experience actually conducting experimental research. Still, many groups will tell you that they have photos and audio of what are spirits; evidence of ghosts. As far as I am aware, there is no scientific evidence of the existence of ghosts or an afterlife. That is a question of faith at this point in time. If somebody knows something I don't, please let me know!..
Philly Zoo workers see ghosts
If you ask someone if they believe in ghosts, they'd probably laugh or brush it off. But the people over at the Philadelphia Zoo aren't kidding when they say they've seen spirits hanging in and around the zoo, according to the Philadelphia Daily News...
R.I.P. discovers amazing paranormal activities at museum
Research and Investigation of the Paranormal (R.I.P.), a diverse group of ghost hunters based in the nation's capitol, will debut its new Internet TV series, "The R.I.P. Files." on blip.tv and Ghost Channel TV on May 15th, 2010. The first episode features an investigation of the historic Civil War Museum at The Exchange Hotel in Gordonsville, VA...
Spectacularly colored new species of monitor lizard found in the Philippines
A giant, spectacularly colored new species of monitor lizard has just been revealed to scientists in the Philippines...
One in five adults believe aliens are on earth, disguised as humans
Aliens are living on earth disguised as humans, according to one fifth of adults in a new global survey. The poll questioned 23,000 adults in 22 countries and found that more than 40 per cent of people from India and China believe that alien life exists with a human facade on this planet. European respondents in the survey were more sceptical with only eight per cent of people from Belgium, Sweden and the Netherlands convinced that life from outer space exists on earth...
Psychiatrist's research finds you really can feel a person's stare
Noted psychiatrist and author Colin A. Ross, M.D., has published experimental data that supports his scientific hypothesis that the eyes emit energy that can be captured and measured. Dr. Ross' paper, "The Electrophysiological Basis of Evil Eye Belief," is published in the current issue of Anthropology of Consciousness, a journal of the American Anthropological Association...
Warner Amazon Expedition 2010 - In search of Yacumama
Chopra blames own meditation for Baja quake
The U.S. Geological Survey is blaming day-to-day seismological changes for Sunday's 7.2 earthquake along the U.S.-Mexico border. But Deepak Chopra, the famed alternative-medicine practitioner and transcendental meditation guru, is pretty sure he knows what really happened. "Had a powerful meditation just now -- caused an earthquake in Southern California," Chopra wrote to his nearly 179,000 Twitter followers shortly after the quake...
