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Do Hollywood ghosts still hang at their old haunt?
After months of secrecy; Del Mar Fairgrounds management is talking about several paranormal investigations held on site to try and find out what employees have known for years...

Mysterious Bigfoot "nests": another explanation?

The Angel Wolpert story & other ghostly stories
My first experience with the paranormal was when I was 7 or 8 years old and I opened my eyes to see 3 shadowy figures standing on the right side of my bed looking down at me. I got the distinct feeling it was 2 men and a woman. I feel that the woman may have been my great grandmother who was a Native American medicine woman in her village. I never knew her other than a picture of me as a toddler in her lap in a hospital bed just before she died, but I have always felt close to her...

Predictions for 2011 - from 1931
Back in 1931, The New York Times asked a bunch of luminaries to predict what the world would be like in 2011. Here are a few of the highlights. The sociologist William Ogburn was off in a few big ways: He predicted the end of poverty and said the U.S. population would be 160 million (it's nearly twice that). Nevertheless, a lot of what he wrote rings true today...

Astronomers find first evidence of other universes
Our cosmos was "bruised" in collisions with other universes. Now astronomers have found the first evidence of these impacts in the cosmic microwave background...

MEDIA: BOOKS, MOVIES, TV

Tulsa's most haunted: a paranormal fascination turns into a book
Ghost stories have long been a part of Christmas celebrations - even getting a mention in "It's the Most Wonderful Time in the World." Tulsan Teri French has been investigating Tulsa's homegrown ghost stories for almost a decade, through her work as leader of the Paranormal Investigation Team of Tulsa and Tulsa Spirit Tours. She's gathered a number of those stories into a new book, "Tulsa's Haunted Memories" ..

Is Gigantopithecus Still Alive?
Do giant primates larger than gorillas, taller than Sasquatch and Yetis, still exist in the remotest corners of the globe? Famed cryptozoologists Mark A. Hall and Loren Coleman join forces to share their knowledge of this unexplored and neglected topic in cryptozoology...

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