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Your aura is showing
The Aura Camera was developed in the 1970s by Polaroid as a way to see auras around people as a psychic might. Though very rare, Carlo Van De Roer managed to get his hands on an AuraCam 6000 to capture a stunningly unique series of portraits [some mildly NSFW]...

Bhangarh: Haunted city, where govt tells you to keep off!
There are ghosts, and there are haunted places. How many haunted places, though, have the distinction of being acknowledged by a government? None, we think. Those who swear by the Bhangarh's resident ghosts, say that the ASI too is scared of the paranormal activity associated with the fort; hence the ASI board has been put up at a safe distance from the fort, next to a temple. Many locals and visitors claim that they have witnessed paranormal activities - like sounds of music and dancing and weird color spots in photographs of chambers...

Sacramento's great airship mystery
Kenneth Arnold is generally given credit for kicking off the UFO object craze in 1947 by sighting what he called "Flying Saucers" in the skies over the Pacific Northwest. However, 50 years before, Sacramento grabbed the attention of the entire nation when a giant object was spotted one night flying over the capital city...

The curious case of Brooke Greenberg: 16-year-old has the body and mind of a toddler
Like most 16-year-olds, Brooke Greenberg enjoys shopping and listening to rock music. But unlike other girls her age who are learning to drive and going to the prom, Brooke still wears diapers, travels in a stroller and can't walk or talk. Like a toddler, Brooke is 2-and-a-half feet tall and weighs only 16 pounds...

Mystery of Wem ghost solved by an 88-year-old postcard and an eagled-eyed pensioner
It was an image hailed as compelling evidence for the existence of ghosts. As a town hall was being destroyed by fire, an apparition of a little girl - standing behind a rail and surrounded by flames - was apparently captured on camera. The picture was taken by Tony O'Rahilly, a sewage farm worker and keen photographer, as he stood across the road among a crowd watching the 90-year-old building in Wem, Shropshire, burn down in November 1995...

Unusual atmospheric formation...cloud? portal?

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