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Don't talk to aliens, warns Stephen Hawking
The aliens are out there and Earth had better watch out, at least according to Stephen Hawking. He has suggested that extraterrestrials are almost certain to exist - but that instead of seeking them out, humanity should be doing all it that can to avoid any contact...

Is Stephen Hawking's extraterrestrial alien warning too late?
As Cambridge Professor Stephen Hawking -- the world's most famous physicist -- is warning of the danger of contact with otherworldly life forms -- the file collection at STARstream Research suggests they might already be here...

Human-looking ETs secretly in U.S.?
According to accounts released Saturday, April 24, 2010, by the coordinator of an e-mail news and information service, officials of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) and other U.S. government agencies have been involved in security activities involving human-appearing extraterrestrial beings in the U.S...

Why do people leave the Bigfoot field?
Loren Coleman: Why do people exit the stage after spending a bit of time in the pursuit of Bigfoot, Sasquatchery, and hominology? Needless to say, there are many reasons. There may be too many to cover today, but let's look, for a moment, at this exit scenario...

Diana Vickers: my house is haunted
Singer Diana Vickers has revealed how she was spooked by the ghost of a young boy in her London house. The X Factor singer, 18, who is top of the singles charts, told OK! magazine: "I kept hearing tapping in the night...

Paranormal activity in Heritage Junction
It was the dead of night and two paranormal investigators were on the second floor of the old, creaky Saugus Train Station. The men were scouring the more than 100-year-old building, part of the historical Heritage Junction in Newhall. They gripped special recording devices to catch electronic voice phenomena, or EVPs...

The case of the haunted cell
Ghost cases that rely on single witness testimony are a dime a dozen. Without corroboration of some sort, as any good lawyer will tell you, it's hard to prove that something anomalous might have happened. At the old jail in St. Andrew's, New Brunswick, in February, 2009, Holly and I had the kind of encounter that every ghost investigator is looking for, where you have more than one witness both experiencing something at the same time, and that experience is backed up by independent "hard" data...

Youths claim UFO lifted them
Already well-known throughout the world as being the host of Bike Week, Laconia recently added another item to its resume when a local girl and her boyfriend claimed their car was picked up into the air and then dropped by an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO)...

Too many questions and too many answers: the paranormal scene
The global paranormal scene is a fascinating social phenomenon rife with opposing groups and theoretical standpoints. At the very basic level we see the long standing rift between those that would be classed as "believers" and those that are called "sceptics", but this is just the simplest distinction. These two categories can be further subdivided revealing an ever bifurcating conceptual root system of different interpretations and conclusions drawn from a variety of ostensibly paranormal phenomena and experiences...

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