Afterlife News

JULY 2007

RELIGIONS AGREE ON LIFE AFTER DEATH

(31 JUL 07)
Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Sikhism share in common the belief that there is life after death, according to religious leaders from all such faiths. “This life is nothing but a pastime” says Imama Haq Kauser, of Islamic faith, adding:” After that, there is a very long future.”

REAPPEARANCE OF ESTONIA’S MOST FAMOUS GHOST ANTICIPATED

(31 JUL 07)
In the seaside resort town of Haapsalu, located on the west coast of Estonia, locals eagerly await the appearance of its most famous ghost. The White Lady, as she is known, is said to appear in a definite place at a definite time, as rays of moonlight pass through Gothic window apertures of the ruined Catholic Church.

PARANORMAL PHENOMENA KEEPS WORKERS ON EDGE

(31 JUL 07)
Employees at Lullaby Lane, a local shop in San Bruno, California (USA), have heard and seen strange goings on whilst at work. From boxes rattling by themselves, empty chairs swiveling, to phantom footsteps echoing in the stockroom when no one is actually in it.

WEBSITE A VIRTUAL GRAVEYARD

(30 JUL 07)
MyDeathSpace.com, is a new website that aims to preserve the information of deceased MySpace members by maintaining their personal profiles for others to view after their deaths.

USA: MAN DIES AFTER POLICE BURST IN ON CHILD EXORCISM

(30 JUL 07)
Police responding to an emergency call found a man choking his grand-daughter police used a stung gun to subdue him, but he later died. It turned out that her was doing an exorcism on the child.

BRITISH MINISTRY OF DEFENCE UFO FILES OPENED

(30 JUL 07)
The Ministry of Defence has for the first time opened its real-life 'X Files', detailing how its experts have examined photographs of UFOs hovering over the UK. Scotland on Sunday journalist Marc Horne has written a feature based on this Ministry’s files relating to UFO activity.

REINCARNATION AND THE AFTERLIFE DISCUSSED IN NEW BOOK

(29 JUL 07)
There is no permanent place as hell, which is an atonement phase for souls who need to go through this then be able to move to higher levels, according to author David Fontana’s new book, Is there an Afterlife? in which he discuses how mediums can be of help through communicating information from the dead.

IDEAS ABOUT THE AFTERLIFE

(29 JUL 07)
An article in a recent issue of the New York Times of Sunday 29 July, 2007 (today) discussing ideas and beliefs about the Afterlife shows some of the background and history of this subject, back even to Plato, but also more recent scientists and philosophers, especially William James as well as much more recent philosophers and scientists.

PANCHEN LAMA LEADING NORMAL LIFE

(29 JUL 07)
The Tibetan boy chosen by the Dalai Lama as the current reincarnation of the Panchen Lama is now living a normal life, going to school and looking forward to whatever the future holds for him, according to the China Daily News, an official organ of the Chinese Communist Government.

FAKE TOE FOR THE AFTERLIFE

(28 JUL 07)
An artificial big toe, dating back from 1069 to 664 B.C., that was found on the foot of an Egyptian mummy in 2000, could prove to be the world's earliest functioning prosthetic body part. The ancient Egyptians often restored artificial body parts to corpses in order for them to be effective in the afterlife.

ARE WE ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE?

(28 JUL 07)
A car-sized, translucent, black outline has startled some people in Millington, Tennessee, USA, including many who are not sold on the paranormal but still wondering. (NB this is nothing to do with the afterlife…)

NUMEROUS UFO SIGHTINGS OVER THE COLORADO’S SKIES

(28 JUL 07)
Fifteen UFO sightings have been reported over Park County, Colorado over the past 9 years, according to the Mutual Flying Object Network and UFO Think Tank, at the 2nd Annual Colorado Briefing recently.

OSCAR, CAT WITH THE PURR OF DEATH

(27 JUL 07)
Oscar the cat makes his grand entrances just as life is about to leave. In the two years since Oscar was adopted into the dementia unit of the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Centre in Providence, in Rhode Island (USA), he has maintained a close vigil over the deaths of more than 25 patients.

ALABAMA PARANORMAL INVESTIGATORS SEEKING ANSWERS

(27 JUL 07)
The Oxford Paranormal Society, of Alabama, USA, have been working together at the Oxford, Alabama Wal-Mart for ten years investigating paranormal activities, including ghosts, haunted houses, entities, apparitions, orbs or balls of energy, electronic voice phenomena, white noise or any other natural phenomenon.

BACK FROM BEING DEAD

(27 JUL 07)
On May 23, 2006, Brian Duffield had just finished a swim at the University of Arizona swim center and was getting ready to step into a shower when he collapsed and died. However, he was brought back with a defibrillator and then underwent a new procedure, in which a patient is induced into hypothermia, which throws them into a coma. After which they are slowly warmed back to normal and, in Brian’s case, came out of it as if he'd just been asleep for a week.

PREPARING ONESELF FOR DEATH

(26 JUL 07)
Most of us are uncomfortable with the mention of the word death, which is the permanent end of the life of a biological organism. Yet Buddhists believe in reincarnation and that we die in order to continue living in the next realm where our consciousness migrates and is reborn into a new body.

ISLAMIC BELIEFS ABOUT THE AFTERLIFE

(26 JUL 07)
Many Muslims around the world believe in martyrdom, dying for their cause and going to heaven. For in heaven, their peers tell them, that one can get everything without hardship. Such as if a martyr feels hungry, food appears, the best quality food, and you won’t even know where it came from.

SPIRIT GUIDES OF SIBERIA

(26 JUL 07)
Shamans from the Irkutsk Region near Lake Baikal, in Southern Siberia, Russia, treat ancient religious traditions with deep respect to the point that many people believe that the spirits summoned by the Shamans can help to guide and protect them throughout their lives.

NORWEGIAN PRINCESS TALKS WITH ANGELS

(25 JUL 07)
The daughter of Norway’s King Harald and Queen Sonja, Princess Martha Louise, says that she is a clairvoyant who talks to angels, and has been doing so since childhood.

UFO’s SPOTTED OVER SHAKESPEARE’S BIRTHPLACE

(25 JUL 07)
Five UFOs have been spotted over Shakespeare's UK birthplace of Warwickshire, stunning a crowd of 100 stargazers for half an hour. The unidentified flying objects lit up the clear night sky, with many witnesses convinced they were witnessing an extra-terrestrial spectacle.

THE SPIRITS OF SHORTER MANSION

(25 JUL 07)
Shorter Mansion, in Eufaula (Alabama, USA), is the town’s most famous landmark that was originally built in 1884 by Eli and Wylena Shorter. Over the years, local residents have seen ghostly phenomena within it’s grounds, such as the a young child in pre-20th century clothing playing in the backyard, a lady in a pink dress appearing in photos, and even the piano playing inexplicably.

HUSBAND RECALLS HIS OWN OBE ON DISCOVERING HIS MURDERED WIFE

(24 JUL 07)
Joe O'Reilly, whose wife Rachel was brutally murdered in their home in Naul, Dublin, in October 2004, has spoken of his own out-of-body experience when he discovered his wife’s body. He said that he felt that he “was on the outside looking in at myself walking, running into the house."

CHINESE CELEBRATE ANCESTORS 150TH ANNIVERSARY IN VICTORIA

(24 JUL 07)
A special dedication ceremony of the Chinese Memorial at the Ararat Cemetery, in Victoria (AUS), was recently held to pay respect to the Chinese ancestors who are buried at the cemetery, where offerings of food, chopsticks and wine were given to make life more comfortable for the ancestors in their afterlife.

U.S. GOVERNMENT UFO DOCUMENTS PROVEN TO BE FALSE

(24 JUL 07)
Top-secret documents, including that of the alleged crash of a flying saucer near Roswell, NM, in July of 1947, which were supposedly written by high-ranking U.S. Government and military officials, and were originally leaked to the general public in the 1980’s, have now been proven fraudulent by recent forensic linguistic testing.

INDIAN PRESIDENT HAD DIVINE PREMONITION

(23 JUL 07)
India’s first female president, Pratibha Patil, has said that she foresaw her nomination in a "divine premonition" from a deceased guru who she said told her, via one of his disciples, that greatness awaited her.

BURIAL IS BETTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT

(23 JUL 07)
Australian author, Robert Larkins, whose book is entitled Funeral Rights, believes that if we really want to do our bit for the planet that we leave behind once we’re dead, then we should be buried rather than getting cremated, as this can produce up to 50 litres of carbon dioxide alone.

GHOST WORLD SYMPOSIUM RATED A SUCCESS

(23 JUL 07)
The point of the Ghost World Supernatural Symposium Conference that was held last week in Gettysburg (USA), was to bring together paranormal investigators and parapsychologists from around the world, in order to develop a central repository of information that researchers worldwide will have access to.

SPIRITUAL HEALING IN HAITI

(22 JUL 07)
The waters of Saut d'Eau, a village about 60 kilometres from Port-au-Prince, is a place where many Haitians travel to by car, donkey and foot, to seek out spiritual comfort and to pay homage to the Virgin Mary, who was said to have appeared in the mid-19th century.

FRED THE THEATRE GHOST

(22 JUL 07)
The Southside Theatre, in Fairburn, Georgia (USA), is rumoured to play host to a ghost named Fred, and that when things go awry during a rehearsal or performance, or if you hear strange noises while working back stage, it is just Fred making mischief.

ORBS APPEAR ABOVE SPIRITUAL HEALERS

(22 JUL 07)
Professor Klaus Heinemann, a researcher for NASA, the U.S. space agency, was studying a collection of photographs his wife had taken at a gathering of spiritual healers, when he noticed that many of them featured the same pale but clearly defined circle of light.

CHIMPANZEE’S IN MOURNING

(21 JUL 07)
Grieving for the loss of one of their own, in a manner very similar to what humans do, 19 chimpanzees at Sydney’s Taronga Zoo have each shown their own heart-felt last respects for the oldest of the chimps within their group, Fifi, who was 60 years of age.

MEDITATION AND THE MIND

(21 JUL 07)
Some of Americas leading neuro-biologists, including Bruce Greyson, who is considered the father of research into the Near Death Experiences, have been collaborating with Buddhist monks in an effort to understand the effects of meditation on the mind and the brain.

HAUNTED HOME FOR SALE IN CALIFORNIA

(21 JUL 07)
A house with a resident ghost is for sale in Antioch, California, where the owner, Lisa Llewellyn, says she and her husband have heard strange shuffling noises moving up and down the stairs over the years, and at times feeling as if being watched.

RELIGIOUS GROUPS MIXING IT UP WITH HARRY POTTER

(20 JUL 07)
Last year, Pope Benedict XVI's head of exorcism called Harry Potter a "king of darkness" and "the devil.” Now, the Church of England is to release a 48-page guidebook that will direct it’s religious leaders on how to translate tales from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry into religious lessons.

VIKING’S BELIEFS ABOUT THE AFTERLIFE

(20 JUL 07)
The ancient burial grounds of Norway can reveal much about the Vikings beliefs in the afterlife. For instance, when a chieftain died, his people would kill a female slave to accompany him into the afterlife.

THE PARANORMAL POWERS OF CATS

(20 JUL 07)
Amazing stories of cat survivals abound, even dating back to the days of ancient Egypt, where there was the belief that cats had paranormal powers, which is still often believed today.

PARANORMAL PHENOMENA IN THE BIBLE (PART 2)

(19 JUL 07)
Patrick Cooke, editor / author of The Bible UFO Connection, continues his series of the various paranormal phenomena found within the Bible. Here, Patrick delves into Ghosts, NDEs and OBEs and magic to name just a few.

TEWKESBURY MUSEUMS GHOSTLY EXHIBITION

(19 JUL 07)
The Tewkesbury Museum, in Gloucestershire, England, is rumoured to be haunted by a local spirit, for which the staff have called in the team from the Three Counties Paranormal Organisation to investigate the spooky noises, strange smells and an eerie presence in the building.

GHOST HUNTERS SEEK RANDOLPH COLLEGE (VIRGINIA, USA) GHOST

(18 JUL 07)
Cindy Holt is a member of the Bedford Ghost Investigation Group, who has been seeking the the ghost that is said to haunt room 326 at Webb Hall, at Lynchburg's Randolph College, Virginia USA.

JOHN LENNON’S SOUL SET FREE THROUGH HIS GLASSES

(18 JUL 07)
A Japanese TV producer could earn US$1.5 million by selling John Lennon’s spectacles, given to him by the former Beatle and around which there is paranormal story told now.

HARRY POTTER’S BELIEF IN THE AFTERLIFE

(17 JUL 07)
Nancy Brown, a devout Catholic who also reviews books for a Catholic home-schooling magazine, says that there is definitely a spirituality to the Harry Potter books and the fifth installment, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, shows that the characters believe in the afterlife, where Luna Lovegood tells Harry that they’ll see their deceased parents again someday.

GHOST RESEARCHER HAS NEVER SEEN A GHOST

(17 JUL 07)
Author and ghost researcher, Jeff Belanger, says that he has never seen a ghost , yet still believes in their existence, based on the number of people whom he has interviewed over the years.

PARENTS DENY PERFORMING EXORCISM ON TEENAGE DAUGHTER

(16 JUL 07)
Edgewater City (Florida, USA) Council member Debra Jean Rogers and her husband, Daniel have denied that they performed an exorcism on their 18 year-old daughter, Danielle, who had told officials that her father had said that the ritual was an effort to "get the demons out of her".

FAMILY TRAGEDY TURNS INTO MESSAGES OF HOPE

(16 JUL 07)
American Thomas E. Pierce’s loss of his wife and daughter through a boating accident has led to his becoming the author of a book in which he tells mof his strong belief in the afterlife, knowing, without doubt, that they’re both still there with him.

GHOST HUNTING SCHOOL IS IN

(16 JUL 07)
A paranormal investigating team, PsyTech, based in Nicholasville, Kentucky (USA), has launched a program to assist people who wish to become certified as ghost hunters.

INDIAN OBSERVATIONS ON OBE’S

(15 JUL 07)
Professor Usha Ram, of the Department of Psychology, at the Indian University of Pune, is studying OBE’s as well as NDE’s and some of his observations are enigmatic but have been published in a recent edition of the respected Times of India.

DO OUR SOULS GET RECYCLED OR REINCARNATED INTO OTHER LIFE FORMS?

(15 JUL 07)
The idea of the soul is a contentious issue in philosophy. If they exist then are they recycled by being reincarnated? Author Mary Roach spent a year researching the subject which she writes about in her new book Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife.

THE GREAT SKEPTIC CONTINUING HIS QUEST TO EXPOSE FAKES

(15 JUL 07)
James Randi is a stage magician who has made a name for himself by being one of the world’s leading skeptics about anything paranormal and he’s still at it even now, almost into his 80th year. His offer of US$1 million for anyone able to prove anything paranormal still stands but many are skeptical of it ever being won, because of conditions set by the magician himself.

STRANGE OBJECTS IN SKIES ABOVE ALABAMA, USA

(14 JUL 07)
Astonishing airborne objects appeared seven years ago in the skies above St. Clair County in Alabama that are still the subject of documentaries shown on cable TV continuing to create legends and further interest in UFOs.

THE MOST HAUNTED VILLAGE IN ENGLAND

(14 JUL 07)
Prestbury village in Gloucestershire has been described as the most haunted village in England, where more than 20 spirits are said to have been seen haunting the streets despite doubts by some locals.

PHILIPPINE STUDENTS POSSESSED BY JAPANESE SOLDIERS’ GHOSTS

(14 JUL 07)
Angry spirits of Japanese Imperial army soldiers that had taken possession of at least 12 students at the Tuba National High School in Manila had to be appeased through rituals performed by a Benguet high priest.

TWINS INVESTIGATING GHOSTS IS DOUBLE THE FUN

(13 JUL 07)
Twin brothers in Dover, Delaware, USA, Jason and Justin Sipple, have been investigating dozens of paranormal phenomena in their area for many years now, and over this time, they have captured both photos and recordings of what could well be ghosts that are rumoured to reside in the area.

SCHOOL’S OUT FOR GRAVEYARD GHOSTS IF STUDENTS HAVE THEIR WAY

(13 JUL 07)
Children attending a school located in a graveyard in Patna, the capital of the Indian state of Bihar, have appealed to local authorities to move the school from the site, due to many of them having nightmares about dead people walking out of their graves.

SUPERNATURAL TREE

(13 JUL 07)
Kushinagar District, a section of Uttar Pradesh state in northern India where, according to local villagers, there is a tree that possess supernatural powers which many say can cure them of various diseases.

DOING GRAVE BUSINESS

(12 JUL 07)
The tourism industry in Australia has a new player in the market. Cemetery tourism is on the rise with many people joining in on graveside tours, which for many is a way seek out the tombs of the rich and famous, or research their own family history.

ALIENS KEEP BUSINESS BOOMING

(12 JUL 07)
Sixty years after the original Roswell incident local businesses are doing a booming trade with all forms of alien paraphernalia, from T-shirts to postcards, socks, keychains, and even a local McDonalds restaurant in the shape of a UFO.

AMERICAN SAYS HE HAS SEEN HEAVEN AND HELL

(11 JUL 07)
American Matthew Dovel calls himself “a hostile witness to heaven and hell" due to having had two near-death experiences. His first at the age of twelve, in which he says that he has seen visions of both heaven and hell.

PHILIPPINE STUDENTS POSSESSED BY SPIRITS

(11 JUL 07)
Students at the Tuba National High School in Benguet (Philippines) have been possessed by disturbed spirits. Sixteen of the schools students were rushed to a nearby church last week after they turned hysterical for unknown reasons.

SUM’S ENCHANTED EVENINGS

(11 JUL 07)
May Sum is the name of the owner of a Chinese restaurant set to open in Derby (UK), situated in a former Grand Theatre there, which has recently had some unwelcome patrons of the paranormal kind. Ghosts are reputed to haunt the old theatre, which was devastated by a fire in back in 1886, in which a local actor and carpenter were killed.

THE GHOSTS OF GETTYSBURG

(10 JUL 07)
Working as a guide for the Ghosts of Gettysburg ghost tour company, 19-year-old Gettysburg College student C.J. Rauch can tell you all sorts of spooky tales as he takes you on a guided tour of the haunted streets in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania USA.

UNIVERSITY GHOSTS IN VIRGINIA USA

(10 JUL 07)
Many students at Randolph-Macon Women’s College, in Virginia, USA, say there are still some old spirits lurking around its grounds.

SCIENCE PROVES MEDITATION IS GOOD FOR THE BRAIN

(9 JUL 07)
Scientists at the Flinders Medical Centre's Centre for Neuroscience in Adelaide, Australia, have revealed that as people go further into a deep meditative state, their brain rhythms shift into a pattern of focus.

SEARCH FOR ALIEN LIFE TO BE EXPANDED

(9 JUL 07)
A team of scientists from the National Research Council in the United States, has said that the hunt for extraterrestrial life, or as they call it, "weird life" should be greatly expanded, with Saturn's moon Titan as looking particularly promising for finding other life forms.

HAS THE SEARCH FOR LOVE REPLACED THE SEARCH FOR GOD?

(9 JUL 07)
These days, with less clarity about an afterlife and diverse beliefs about God, many have developed an alternative; a compulsive preoccupation with sex and love.. As author Robert Johnson first wrote in Understanding the Psychology of Romantic Love, “Romantic love is the single greatest energy system in the western psyche. In our culture it has supplanted religion as the arena in which men and women seek meaning, transcendence, wholeness and ecstasy."

SEARCHING FOR THE SPIRIT OF MILLICENT ROGERS

(9 JUL 07)
The Millicent Library in Fairhaven, Massachusetts (USA) is said to be haunted by the ghost of Millicent Rogers, after whom it was named. Those who work there say that she can be heard walking through its corridors and rooms, laughing as she passes by.

WE MAKE GOD IN OUR OWN IMAGE

(8 JUL 07)
Author Steven Long says people don’t know to view God, preferring one that makes sense, but some sociologists say our concepts of right and wrong, truth and falsehood are often ambiguous. This often makes spirituality something like fast food, in our culture.

SHAMANISM ON THE RISE IN SOUTH KOREA

(8 JUL 07)
Shamanism refers to a range of traditional beliefs and practices concerned with communication with the spirit world. There are many variations of shamanism throughout the world, though there are some beliefs that are shared by all forms of shamanism. It is based on the premise that the visible world is pervaded by invisible forces or spirits that affect the lives of the living.

PRAYING FOR RAIN IN ALABAMA

(8 JUL 07)
When much need rain fell in Tuscaloosa, Alabama after residents prayed for it to do so, there was some debate whether this was normal, coincidental or the result of prayers, an age-old belief that some people still believe works.

PREPARING TO PARTY IN THE AFTERLIFE

(7 JUL 07)
Curt Yeomans, who covers education issues for the on-line Clayton News Daily, in Jonesboro Georgia (USA), has said that his grandmother truly believed she was preparing for a party in the afterlife in her honor and her father would come also back later to escort her to the celebration, in the next life.

BEST FRIENDS, MAN & DOG, DIE TOGETHER

(7 JUL 07)
A man and his dog were hit and killed 66 year old Leopold “polo” Rios and his “best friend” , Mona, a 4 year old German Shepherd dog. The pair were said to have been inseparable. “I guess they were mean to be etc “ said Polo’s wife, Mona.

CROP CIRCLES IN FRANCE HAVE LOCALS PUZZLED

(7 JUL 07)
A Swiss army pilot has discovered a perfectly circular geometric figure inscribed in a cornfield at Corcelles-près-Payerne, France, raising questions about how it got there.

EASTENDERS STAR LIVES WITH GHOSTS

(6 JUL 07)
Michelle A. Collins, the British actress best known for her role on television in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, as Cindy Beale, says that she shares her 15th century thatched cottage in Hollywater (Hampshire, England) with several paranormal entities.

PARANORMAL PHENOMENA IN THE BIBLE

(6 JUL 07)
There are many instances of paranormal phenomena to be found in the Bible, such as witches, wizards, sorcery, evil and unclean spirits, devils, ghosts, demonic possession and exorcisms, to name just a few.

GHOST STORIES TO MAKE YOUR SPINE TINGLE

(6 JUL 07)
Alexandra Holzer, the daughter of the original ghost hunter, published author Professor Hans Holzer, Ph.D, has herself released a new book tilted Lady Ambrosia: Secret Past Revealed, an epic trilogy fantasy in which she cautions readers to “Leave the lights on”.

AMERICA’S ROCKET MAN’S OBE

(5 JUL 07)
Santa Fe resident Dick Hogle, who operates the cities July 4 fireworks celebrations, has said in a recent interview that once when a shell went off from of the fireworks, the explosion caused him to have “one of those out of body experiences”, in which he says he was then in the air looking down at his body below him on the ground.

PUB LECTURES TO FEATURE PARANORMAL PHENOMENA

(5 JUL 07)
The founder of British based Strange Phenomena Investigations Society, Malcolm Robinson, will be holding a series of lectures in Croydon every weekend over the next six months, to discuss the strange goings on in the local area.

FIRST FLYING SAUCER SIGHTING 60 YEARS AGO

(5 JUL 07)
Flying his plane sixty years ago near Mount Rainier in the US state of Washington, Kenneth Arnold saw something which changed not only his life, but the lives of millions of others around the world, for in the skies he observed what would turn out to be one of the most highly discussed subjects for years to come: flying saucers thus better known as UFO’s.

SPARKLING FROM THE AFTERLIFE

(4 JUL 07)
For those who truly want to have their best friend, husband, wife or lover with them once they are deceased, diamonds are the way to go. From just US$3000.00, you can have the cremated remains of your loved ones transformed into diamonds to remember and cherish them forever.

SUBSTITUTE TEACHER CAPTURES GHOSTLY IMAGE ON FILM

(4 JUL 07)
Beverly Sharp, a 53-year-old substitute teacher from Burlington County, New Jersey (USA), believes that she has captured “the image of a soul” on video and that God "allowed" her to capture this image, even though to many skeptics it may just look like a dark object skittering across the screen.

CHOKING TO GET A GLIMPSE OF THE AFTERLIFE

(4 JUL 07)
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is a U.S.-based mixed martial arts (MMA) organization, where CBS SportsLine.com National Columnist, Gregg Doyel, experienced first hand what this sport is all about and in particular what it feels like to be choked, with the end result being very close to having a near-death experience.

NEW YORK’S HAUNTED TRAIN STATION

(3 JUL 07)
The Franklin Square PATCO station, in New York, is said to be haunted by the ghosts of passengers from days gone by. When a train passes by the station, the tunnel lights create an eerie netherworld in which many passengers strain their eyes and necks trying to glimpse whatever may be lurking in the shadows.

MENTAL HOSPITAL’S GHOSTLY PATIENTS

(3 JUL 07)
The ghost of a small boy is said to pace up and down in an area marked “no trespassing” at an abandoned mental hospital in Dunwoody, Georgia (USA), with one paranormal investigator saying that she has voice recordings where it says: "Help," and "I book 'em."

ARTIST USES SPIRITUAL MEDITATION FOR HIS INSPIRATION

(3 JUL 07)
Artist William Fields’ work has often be described as exotic, strange, mystical, lush, spiritual, and erotic. He believes that his art is the "culmination of forty years of effort and meditation."

IS SCIENTOLOGY BUILT ON NONSENSE FROM WHOA TO GO?

(2 JUL 07)
In 1964, an inquiry in Victoria, Australia, found that Scientology presented a grave threat to family and home life. Furthermore, in finding Scientology to be a religion, the Australian the High Court defined religion as a belief in some supernatural being. Thus, any organised group that believes in something supernatural is a religion.

TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THE EFFECTS OF OUR PAST LIVES ON OUR PRESENT DAY LIVES

(2 JUL 07)
As a Licensed Psychologist with a Ph.D. from the University of Alabama and postdoctoral studies in hypnosis and psychosomatic medicine at the University of California, Joe Slate is also the Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Athens State University, as well as an Honorary Professor at the University of Montevallo, where the power of past lives has fascinated him since an early age.

A STROLL DOWN AMERICAS GHOSTLY PAST

(2 JUL 07)
Known as the "Ancient City," Saint Augustine, located between North East and Central East Florida, is America's oldest and most haunted city.

ROSWELL COVER UP FINALLY REVEALED

(1 JUL 07)
The famous Roswell incident, in which authorities said it was only a balloon, was a cover-up story and a real UFO had been recovered by the military, according to the former Public Relations Officer at the Roswell Army Air Field base, Lieutenant Walter Haut, in a sworn affidavit which was able to be opened only after his death last year.

WORLD RENOWNED SKEPTIC DIES ON THE JOB

(1 JUL 07)
The internationally recognized expert on human brain behavior, Professor Barry Beyerstein, has died at the age of 60 from a heart attack whilst working at his desk. Beyerstein was also a co-founder of the British Columbia Society for Skeptical Enquiry, an educational group committed to illuminating ignorance and debunking pseudoscience.

PHARMACEUTICAL CHAIRMAN BELIEVES IN THE EXISTENCE OF THE AFTERLIFE

(1 JUL 07)
Dr. Abraham Pascual, who is currently the chairman of Pascual Laboratories, in Manilla, is a very spiritual man, who says that if any man believes in the existence of the afterlife then everything in this world is but a preparation for that ultimate destination.

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