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Up-to-the-minute reports of paranormal activity and news from around the world

Haunted hotel stay makes believer out of ESPN columnist Bill Simmons
Skeptical about ghost stories? If so, check out ESPN columnist Bill Simmons' latest NFL picks column. In a sidebar, he writes about his stay last week at Oklahoma City's century old Skirvin Hilton - a famously haunted hotel - that was so powerful that it made a believer out of him...

The cry of the Bigfoot
Mill City lies in the heart of Oregon's big timber country. I spent the early years of my youth there, exploring old trails that wound through the thick forest to lookouts high atop the mountains. Here Oregon's climate nourishes a towering evergreen rainforest folded into a maze of canyons and ridgetops, where countless streams and waterfalls lay hidden...

Unexplained activity intrigues Abilene store staff
Anyone who has ever read Charles Dickens' novel "A Christmas Carol" or watched any of the dozens of movie spinoffs knows that three ghosts were responsible for getting the miser Ebenezer Scrooge to see the error of his ways and embrace the true meaning of Christmas. So, it's not hard to imagine that ghosts might be trying to make their presence known to people working in a downtown Abilene building...

Romania declares witchcraft to be a legal profession; witch threatens to retaliate
Romania has changed its labor laws to officially recognize witchcraft as a profession, prompting one self-described witch to threaten retaliation. The move, which went into effect Saturday, is part of the government's drive to crack down on widespread tax evasion in a country that is in recession...

Hinsdale haunted house still stands ... for now
The haunted house in Hinsdale, site of a 1974 exorcism and the focus of two books, will remain a fixture in the community - at least for the time being...

One soul, many bodies: the case for reincarnation
What happens to us when we die? It's a question everyone eventually asks themselves at some point in their life. It transcends racial, social, political, economic and gender lines, making it the one question common to all human beings whether we like it or not. Yet ever since the first men and woman began pondering their mortality a hundred thousand years ago, the answer has eluded us. What does happen when we die?..

'Ghostly figures' caught on film near York Minster
A York man claims he had a ghostly encounter while walking with a friend and his dog near York Minster...

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