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Up-to-the-minute accounts of the paranormal, enigmatic and the unexplained

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Ghost-hunting team tackles Wrightsville restaurant
Katrina Pierce was writing the daily specials on her menu board as she had done every day since Feb. 19 when a man behind her whispered, "What are you doing?" Pierce turned around. No one was there. She dropped the marker and ran into the back kitchen. It wasn't the first instance in her restaurant that she can't quite explain, so she called in the professionals at Ghost Hunters Inc., a group of Pennsylvania residents who investigate paranormal activity...

Q&A: Roosevelt related Bigfoot story in his book
Is it true that President Teddy Roosevelt once claimed to have seen a Bigfoot-type creature? It doesn't appear that Teddy Roosevelt ever saw a Bigfoot, but he wrote about another hunter having an encounter with one in his book, The Wilderness Hunter, which was published in 1893...

Guillermo Del Toro's "The Haunted Mansion" movie announcement at Comic-Con
Guillermo Del Toro announced at Comic-Con that he would be directing the new "The Haunted Mansion" movie, based on the popular ride at the Disneyland and Walt Disney World Resorts...

Kate Moss feels her house is haunted
Supermodel Kate Moss, who thinks her London home is haunted, has hired a shaman to rid the place of what she thinks is "evil energy". "Her fella Jamie Hince is a believer in the supernatural and has persuaded her there is bad energy in the house which needs to be removed by a shaman priest. She has found one who will perform a ceremony to cleanse the place," said a source close to Moss...

Patient plays ghost to haunt hospital
Strange things are happening at Deonar's Sanjeevani Hospital these days. At midnight, the hospital phones start ringing. But there is no one on the other side, just some eerie noises. Around the same time, someone starts pelting stones at the windows. When security guards and doctors rush out to check, they find nobody...

Guiding your sleep while you're awake
Nightmares resulting from traumatic events usually fade over time, as the haunting images and terrifying plots become less intense. The dreams may also naturally evolve into what some specialists call "mastery dreams," in which the dreamer has found a way to ease the pain or horror - say, confronting a rapist or saving someone from a fire...

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