AUGUST 2007
BELIEF IN THE SUPERNATURAL IS HERE TO STAY
(31 AUG 07)
Sarah Churchwell, a senior lecturer in American literature and culture at the University of East Anglia, believes that a surge in all things supernatural and the belief in the existence of God, implies that many people believe that there are higher powers above working in mysterious ways, about which we are wanting to know more.
CONNECTICUT RESIDENTS OVERWHELMINGLY BELIEVE IN GOD AND HEAVEN
(31 AUG 07)
Almost 90 percent of Residents in Connecticut, USA, believe that God "absolutely" or "probably" exists, and more than 80 percent said the same about heaven, according to a recent poll.
GHOSTS LINGER ON IN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY HOUSE
(31 AUG 07)
Rhymney House Hotel, in Tredegar, South Wales, which was originally built in c1801, is still haunted by the ghosts of many people, including a woman in a white mobcap and dress, a young child, an old woman by the fire, and a dominant man with a fishing rod.
SCARLETT O’HARA UNHAPPY IN THE AFTERLIFE
(30 AUG 07)
Vivien Leigh, Academy Award winning British actress, who played Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind, in 1939, is unhappy in the afterlife, according to British psychic Dilys Gater.
CHINA BANS BUDDHIST MONKS FROM REINCARNATING
(30 AUG 07)
China’s State Administration for Religious Affairs, has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission. The law, which goes into effect next month, strictly stipulates the procedures by which one is to reincarnate.
PENNIES FROM HEAVEN
(30 AUG 07)
After losing a close friend of 12 years named Alan, who regularly gave pennies and spare change to his friend Kelli from Alabama, she soon discovered that there is indeed an afterlife. After Alan’s funeral, Kelli noticed a new penny staring face-up at her with this year’s date. She then realised that she was not alone, and that Alan was giving her a sign from the other side telling her that everything will be all right.
ONE OF CARDIFF’S MOST HAUNTED PUBS
(30 AUG 07)
The Rummer Tavern in Cardiff, Wales, claims to be one of the capital’s most haunted pubs. Legend has it that the old inn in the shadows of the castle is haunted by an angry mariner, who died of jealousy after catching his wife in bed with another man.
DAWKINS WANTS ATHEISTS TO ‘COME OUT OF THE CLOSET’
(29 AUG 07)
Richard Dawkins, the British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science writer who holds the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University has recently launched the OUT Campaign, in which Atheists are encouraged to "come out of the closet" about their position on faith.
AUSTRALIAN MAN RECOUNTS HIS STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN
(29 AUG 07)
A suicide attempt seventeen years ago when aged 22, sent a Victorian man into the unknown, on an NDE in which there were stairs leading in different directions, as he tells in this article in the Melbourne Age newspaper.
HUNGRY GHOSTS TAKE OVER HONG KONG
(29 AUG 07)
Millions of ‘hungry ghosts” have ascended from the depths of hell and are prowling the bustling streets of Hong Kong during the Hungry Ghost Festival, according to the Chinese. This is a Buddhist/Daoist tradition in which offerings of food, money and the good things of life are made to ancestors who have died long ago.
INTERNET KEEPS THE DEAD ALIVE
(29 AUG 07)
Thanks to the internet, American Jennifer Cakert’s poetry and photography are still being viewed and commented upon, more than a year after her sudden and still unexplained death. By going through her daughter’s blog and MySpace page, her mother Cynthia Walker, is discovering more about her late daughter.
AFRICAN SELLS HIS SOUL TO THE DEVIL
(29 AUG 07)
Twenty-three year old Willem Vis, who is accused of murdering a sixty-four year old African, says that he sold his soul to the devil because life was not good to him and that he had suffered.
GHOSTLY INMATES HAUNT OLD JAIL IN CHARLESTOWN USA
(29 AUG 07)
The Old Jail in Charleston County, South Carolina, was originally constructed in 1802, and was home for some of Charleston's most infamous murderers and crooks until the 1930’s. Since then, the jail has been said to be haunted by inmates of the past, which has led to a paranormal investigation by the team from Southern Paranormal Investigation and Research, to try to discover just who haunts this grand old building.
PARANORMAL PHENOMENA AT MANITOU SPRINGS, USA
(28 AUG 07)
Hidden between the Garden of the Gods and Pikes Peak, America’s most famous mountain, lies the magical town of Manitou Springs, 65 Miles south of Denver. "Manitou," a Native American word for "spirit," describes this beautiful mountain community, where paranormal investigators have recently been looking into reports of strange activity in several of the community’s businesses.
CHINESE MINERS BACK FROM THE AFTERLIFE
(28 AUG 07)
Two Chinese brothers have clawed their way out of a collapsed coalmine in Beijing’s Fangshan district, after surviving underground for nearly six days. Relatives of the two, who believed that they were dead, had previously left offerings of steamed buns, cakes and canned goods, as well as burning money for the men’s souls to use in the afterlife.
AFTERLIFE CARE FOR PETS
(28 AUG 07)
In Ohio, USA, a pet crematorium has recently opened that specializes in taking care of the family pet, the same way that a family member would be after their death. ARK Pet Crematorium will arrange to collect the deceased pet and then have it cremated, giving the family the afterlife care they would want for their beloved family pet.
JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT EMBRACES THE AFTERLIFE
(27 AUG 07)
Actress Jennifer Love Hewitt, who plays medium Melinda Gordon in the US television series Ghost Whisperer, believes there is an afterlife and it's nothing to be scared of. She has recently said: “If you can grasp the idea that maybe you don't leave and it's not finished, it's not quite as scary.”
DEATH IS THE BEGINNING OF A NEW JOURNEY
(27 AUG 07)
Representatives from 15 faiths and spiritual traditions recently discussed their perception of death and the afterlife at the Interfaith End of Life Care Conference at the Chin Yin Buddhist Temple, Canada. The conference's role was to help people be at peace with death, and to give them tools for understanding how different faiths prepare for the end.
THE GHOSTS OF SHORTER MANSION
(27 AUG 07)
Built in 1884, Shorter Mansion in Eufaula, Alabama (USA) is rumoured to be a site full of paranormal activity. Glenn Kasper, the mansion’s caretaker for the past three years, says even though he may not believe in ghosts nor has he seen any, he certainly has heard one roaming around this historic building.
TAIWAN WELCOMES IN GHOST FESTIVAL
(27 AUG 07)
Beginning on the 15th day of the seventh month of the Chinese lunar Calendar, the Taiwanese have recently celebrated the arrival of the Ghost Festival, which is said to appease the spirits of the dead with noisy performances and solemn prayers, in hope that the ghosts will not disturb them in the coming month.
MOTHER TERESA’S TORMENT OF DOUBT
(26 AUG 07)
A book of letters written by Mother Teresa of Calcutta reveals for the first time that she was deeply tormented about her faith and suffered periods of doubt about God. The letters, written in the 1950s and 1960s to her church spiritual guides, also reveal the troubling and, at times, painful conflicts she sometimes had with her faith.
ONE MORE ITEM ABOUT INDUCED OBE’S
(26 AUG 07)
PMH Atwater is one of the world’s leading experts on OBEs who has something more to say about those scientifically induced experiences that is worthwhile knowing.
MUSIC RECORDING GENIUS ALSO TRIED TO RECORD THE DEAD
(26 AUG 07)
Known as the "English Phil Spector", Joe Meek was a pioneering English record producer and songwriter acknowledged as one of the world's first and most imaginative independent producers. Meek was obsessed with the afterlife, to the point that he would set up tape machines in cemeteries in the hope of recording voices from beyond the grave.
SEARCHING FOR THE GHOSTS OF HAMPSHIRE U.K.
(26 AUG 07)
The UK Paranormal Research Society (UKPRS) , based in Hampshire, is launching a new project to find out more about the haunted locations of the county. If locals feel that they might have a property that is haunted, then members from the UKPRS want to investigate.
MORMONS BELIEF ABOUT THE AFTERLIFE
(25 AUG 07)
Kenneth L. Woodward, who served as religion editor of Newsweek for 38 years, says that Mormons believe that God was once a man like us, has a wife, and that married couples can “progress” in the afterlife to become gods themselves.
THE CURSE OF THE PHARAOHS
(25 AUG 07)
The ancient royal tombs of Egypt were said to be sealed with monstrous curses against all those who trespassed into the domain of the afterlife and it is this curse that ultimately led to the death of an unnamed German man. Three years ago he took home with him a stolen relic from one of the tombs, and since then he has been struck down with an inexplicable fatigue and fever, progressing to paralysis and ultimately death.
MORE ABOUT THOSE INDUCED OBE's
(25 AUG 07)
Following a series of articles about artificially induced OBEs here now is the most definitive one, from the respected Scientific American magazine.
PRINCESS DIANA IS HAPPY IN THE AFTERLIFE
(24 AUG 07)
With the 10th anniversary of the death of the Princess of Wales looming, her former butler, Paul Burrell, believes that Diana has found peace and happiness in the afterlife.
WILL THE AFTERLIFE BE OVERCROWDED?
(24 AUG 07)
The gateway to the kingdom of God is narrow and is not easy to get through. If this is the case, what does the afterlife hold in store for us? Will it be overcrowded and which of our family and friends will be there to greet us?
BRITISH THEATRE PLAGUED BY GHOSTS
(24 AUG 07)
The Winter Gardens Theatre in Morecambe, UK, which was originally swimming baths and gardens, will this week play host to an all-night paranormal investigation, where the ghost of Stan the caretaker is said to haunt the old building.
MYSTERIOUS IMAGES AND VOICES HAUNT AVIATION MUSEUM
(23 AUG 07)
Over the years, volunteers at the Kansas Aviation Museum in Wichita, USA, say that they have seen mysterious images and heard noises and voices throughout the museum, so they have called in a team of paranormal investigators to try to capture these images using infrared cameras.
PSYCHIC INVESTIGATOR HAS SEEN SPIRITS SINCE FOUR YEARS OF AGE
(23 AUG 07)
Gavin Cromwell is a Psychic Medium and Paranormal Investigator who specialises in visiting haunted locations, including Stately Homes, Castles, Hotels and private houses. He says that he has seen spirits since he was four years old, when he spotted the ghost of a small boy dressed in a blue trouser suit with a blond bob at a manor house in South Wales.
SIBERIAN MAN CLAIMS TO BE THE ‘SON OF GOD’
(22 AUG 07)
Sergei Torop believes that he is the reincarnate of Jesus Christ. He now commands a following of thousands in the Siberian mountains. His disciples believe that he is the reincarnation of Jesus of Nazareth, come back to save the world.
GHOSTS COME CRASHING DOWN AT BRITISH GRAVEYARD
(22 AUG 07)
A father and son recently had a brush with death whilst walking through the Marholm graveyard, at the St Mary the Virgin Church, in Marholm, near Bretton (UK). 10-year-old Patrick Ferenc found a plastic sword stuck in the ground of an 800-year-old graveyard, and subsequently pulled it out and walked away. A little while later , Patrick and his father returned to the same spot, only to discover that a huge branch had fallen off a large tree in the graveyard, crushing the tombstone.
GAYS AND LESBIANS TO BECOME HETEROSEXUAL IN THE AFTERLIFE
(21 AUG 07)
The Mormon Church has issued a new instruction pamphlet, advising parents not to reject gay children. It states that heaven is a place for families only, but predicts that gay and lesbian people will become heterosexual in the afterlife if they remain celibate.
LEVITATION WITH THE POWER OF THE MIND
(21 AUG 07)
Levitation is a phenomenon that has always fascinated humankind since the dawn of time. It is said that a spiritual person can levitate themselves as well as other objects, for as much distance and time as the power of spiritualism allows.
INFLATION IS A PROBLEM IN THE AFTERLIFE
(21 AUG 07)
According to suppliers of goods used by Chinese worshippers, inflation is apparently causing a problem for those in the afterlife. The price of using fake money in Malaysia that is burnt as offerings to the dead has jumped by up to 20 percent as the colourful bills are made in China where costs are rising.
‘I WANT TO GO HOME’
(20 AUG 07)
For many patients that end up in palliative care, they get to a stage where, they say 'I want to go home,' which according to Nancy Hitechew-Myers, a spiritual care counselor from Family Hospice and Palliative in the U.S., is their way of referring to death.
GHOST HUNTERS ON THE TRAIL OF THE UNEXPLAINED
(20 AUG 07)
The Somerville Paranormal Apparition Team (SPAT), is a small, volunteer group of ghostbusters, such as 28 year-old Andy Simmons who works at McDonald’s by day but is a SPAT investigator by night. The team formed last year with one aim in mind to investigate the many paranormal goings on in Somerville, Alabama, just south of Huntsville, in the USA.
RETIRED PASTOR’S BELIEF ABOUT THE AFTERLIFE
(19 AUG 07)
Catholic priest, retired pastor, former editor, and a marriage and family educator, The Rev. John Dietzen, believes that God has chosen not to give us many details about what happens after death. What he has told us in Christ, however, is all we need to know for eternal salvation.
SPIRITS COME OUT TO PLAY FOR THE HUNGRY GHOST FESTIVAL
(19 AUG 07)
The gates of Hell are open for all spirits to roam the earth during the seventh month of the lunar calendar, according to Chinese beliefs. Many refrain from holding auspicious ceremonies like weddings and birthdays and it is recommended to not chop down trees because spirits can also take shelter beneath them.
GRAVEYARD PORNOGRAPHY
(18 AUG 07)
Turning off the lights and plunging his audience into darkness, Joe Citro, author of books about Vermont (USA) folklore, recently told ghost stories at Brownell Library in Essex Junction. Citro opens his show with various graveyard slides, and then shares a few of his favorite Vermont ghost stories with the audience.
MEXICAN CATHOLIC CHURCH DENOUNCES SAINT DEATH
(18 AUG 07)
Father Jose de Jesus Aguilar of the Catholic Archdiocese of Mexico, has come out saying that the Church does not approve of the devotion some Mexicans have to “St. Death,” (feast day 15 August) saying it goes against Catholic teachings and Sacred Scripture and that this false devotion opens the door to all things evil.
AMERICAN HISTORIAN BELIEVES THAT HE IS THE REINCARNATION OF A FISHERMAN WHO DISAPPEARED LAST CENTURY
(18 AUG 07)
Historian and re-enactor Rolland Love says the he really feels that he could be the possible reincarnation of Silas Goodrich, who mysteriously disappeared whilst fishing at the fork of the Kansas and Missouri rivers more than a century ago. Love says that like Goodrich, “I’ve loved to fish since I was a kid in the Ozarks. I feel an attachment to him.”
SPOOKY GUIDE TO SYDNEY’S GHOSTLY HOT SPOTS
(17 AUG 07)
Sydney’s Daily Telegraph newspaper has published a list of places across the city that are known to be haunted hot spots, and for those of you that want to join one of the many tours to these areas, or simply want to know more, this item is well worth reading.
CHANGE NAME OF GOD TO ALLAH, SAYS BISHOP
(16 AUG 07)
A Dutch Catholic bishop, Tiny Muskens from the southern diocese of Breda, who advocates condom use and says the poor are entitled to steal bread, has created another controversy, this time by suggesting God should be called Allah.
RICHARD DAWKINS - THE RENT-A-SKEPTIC
(16 AUG 07)
Famous former fellow public skeptic, Susan Blackmore, takes some shots at Oxford Professor Richard Dawkins, regarding his strong stand against almost everything of a somewhat mystical nature, religion especially, but also anything paranormal or supernatural. Sue Blackmore’s article in The Guardian newspaper is worthwhile reading.
THE GHOSTS OF JERSEY MARINE TOWER
(16 AUG 07)
Jersey Marine is a small village in south Wales, which is most famous to locals for its tower that was built in Victorian times. Cathryn Ings, the features editor for the UK tabloid Evening Post, teamed up with psychic Gavin Cromwell in a paranormal investigation at the Tower where they cam across a dark, distressed spirit that attached itself to one of the group, as well as that of the ghost of a long-dead nurse who gazes out of the Tower's windows.
AMERICAN GRANDFATHER ARRESTED AFTER PERFORMING EXORCISM ON HIS GRANDDAUGHTER
(15 AUG 07)
Phoenix man Ronald Marquez, and his 19-year-old daughter, believed they were communicating with God and deceased relatives before performing an exorcism on his granddaughter, after saying that his deceased relatives were urging them to rid the house of devils.
PLEASURE AND PAIN CAN BRING ON AN OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCE
(15 AUG 07)
People seeking their own little secret pleasures, or pain, come to the Correction Centre in Fitzroy, in Melbourne, Australia. Behind the walls of the Correction Centre there, lies a BDSM parlour, where people, like company CEO’s and even a judge, often liked to play a submissive role. As Madam Mia says, "People talk about a "subspace", where in pain they transcend body boundaries - a quasi-religious out-of-body experience.”
DEATH SAINT GETS A MAKEOVER
(14 AUG 07)
Softening the image of their Death Saint, a woman with a brown porcelain face, shoulder length hair and long thin fingers, a small religious group in Santa Muerte (which translates into English as Saint Death), in Mexico, are fighting for government recognition of their cause and religious beliefs.
AMERICANS DROP DOWN THE AGE OF DEATH RANKINGS
(14 AUG 07)
Americans have been slipping in international rankings of life expectancy, according to information from the Census Bureau and the National Center for Health Statistics. A baby born in the United States in 2004 will live an average of 77.9 years, behind 41 other countries worldwide.
U.S. COLLEGES OFFER ALUMNI BURIAL PLOTS ON CAMPUS
(14 AUG 07)
After you die, why not spend eternity in the grounds of your beloved university, where many campuses are offering burial plots from $5,000.00 upwards. Across the United States, a number of colleges and universities are offering their most devoted alumni a chance to spend the afterlife back on campus.
IS A TOUCH PHYSICAL OR IS IT MORE THAN THAT?
(13 AUG 07)
In olden times, medicine men healed with a touch. Research has proved that a good hug rates second only to a good talk when it comes to blowing away the blues. If that’s not enough, hugging releases the hormone oxytocin, which is proven to arouse a caring response in men and women.
DYING IS ALL A PART OF LIFE
(13 AUG 07)
In the next 70 years or so, all of us that are now alive on earth, all 6.6 billion of us will die, yet we teach each other to pretend as though we can do something about it and are shocked when a loved one passes on.
SPIRITS LURK WITHIN FORMER TENNESSEE HEALTH DEPARTMENT BUILDING
(13 AUG 07)
For the past 10 months or so, the sounds of children laughing and playing can sometimes be heard in the hallways of the former Rutherford County Health Department building, but no one is there. Linda Wilson, who works on the first floor of the building says that they “are good spirits. They have not hurt us or done anything.”
COIN-SHAPED JEWELLERY GIVE THAIS SUPERNATURAL INSURANCE
(12 AUG 07)
Belief in astrology, the occult and animism remains a part of modern industrialized Thailand, It is this belief that motivates millions of Thais to purchase Jatukam Ramathep amulets. These coin-shaped talismans are said to have magical powers that can bring good luck and fortune to those that carry them.
THE VALUES OF PERFORMING AN EXORCISM
(12 AUG 07)
To many people, the value of an exorcism serves as a reminder that evil is guided by a malevolent will and that the devil is capable of more than simply whispering naughty things into people’s ears.
CROCODILE HUNTER’S BEST MATE STILL FEELS HIS PRESENCE
(11 AUG 07)
It is nearly a year since the sudden death of Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin, yet his best mate and co-worker, Wes Mannion, from Irwin’s beloved Australia Zoo, still feels his presence. In a recent interview, Mannion said “as time goes on you realise they really are there. It's just so strong. You make a decision and you just feel someone is there.”
ITALIAN WOMAN WAITING FOR DEAD SISTERS TO REINCARNATE
(11 AUG 07)
A 70-year old Italian woman has been found living with the mummified bodies of her two sisters, who died roughly a year ago. Local authorities believe that the 70-year-old woman believed that her sisters would one day be resurrected.
UFO SPOTTED IN SKIES ABOVE SHIRLEY U.K.
(11 AUG 07)
A UFO sighting by an unknown witness reported by a self-styled “UFO Expert”, an American named Brian Vike would test the credibility of many, but still possibly worthwhile noting.
WIDOW GHOSTS KILL YOUNG MEN FOR THEIR SOULS
(10 AUG 07)
Taiwanese police are investigating the mysterious death of a year old factor worker who died in his sleep. Folklore has it that widow ghosts are said to snatch the souls of young men whilst they are sleeping.
BRITISH UNIVERSITIES RESEARCHING GHOSTS AND UFOs
(10 AUG 07)
Dr. Richard Broughton of Northampton University’s Centre for the Study of Anamolous Psychological Processes is one scientific researcher in Britain, among others, seeking a radically new view of the capabilities of human consciousness.
SPIRITS FEED ON BANK'S ELECTRIC VAULT
(10 AUG 07)
Shea Willis, lead investigator with the Shenandoah Valley Paranormal Society in Dayton, Ohio USA believes that the “Triangle Building” in Main Street Dayton, which originally housed the Bank of Dayton, is haunted by spirits that feed on an electric field within the vault.
MAN CLAIMS BEING RAPED BY GHOSTS
(9 AUG 07)
A British man David Pearson, is alleged to have set fire to the lounge of his home in Dallington Haven, a sheltered housing complex in Warren Road, Dallington, because “ghosts were raping me."
NEUROTHEOLOGY – A NEW FIELD OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF PRAYER AND THE BRAIN
(9 AUG 07)
Scientists are using neurotheology, an emerging discipline that addresses the correlation between neurological and spiritual activity, to examine whether prayer is a state of mind.
REVERED AMERICAN PSYCHIC DIES OF HEART ATTACK
(9 AUG 07)
At age 8 Peter James had his first encounter with ghosts, which would become an obsession all his life, until his own recent death on July 31, 2007, aged in his fifties. He seemed able to communicate with such spirits on “the other side”, including many on the ocean liner Queen Mary, where he also became the conductor of ghost tours.
HOW EGYPTIANS SAILED INTO THE AFTERLIFE
(8 AUG 07)
Czech archaeologists have discovered a recycled burial chamber with unusual decorations, just south of Cairo. On the eastern and western sides of the burial chamber, were figures representing time accompanied sacred texts and an image of a solar bark, a ship meant to ferry the dead into the afterlife.
THE ROUGH GUIDE TO UNEXPLAINED PHENOMENA
(8 AUG 07)
The Rough Guide to Unexplained Phenomena is a 400 page paperback collection of articles documenting some of the oddest and most wonderful anomalies of our world. The writers of the book delve into winged cats, Hindu statues that drink, teleportation, spontaneous combustion, man-eating trees, ice discs, rains of frogs, stigmata, and more, with a number of photos and captions that complement each chapter.
TUNISIAN GRANDMOTHER KILLED IN AN EXORCISM
(8 AUG 07)
A 70-year-old Tunisian grandmother has been killed by her adoptive daughter ,and a friend, in an exorcism ritual at her home in the eastern city of Lyon, France.
HAUNTED AMUSEMENT PARK
(7 AUG 07)
Once a summertime retreat for thousands of coalfield families, the Lake Shawnee Amusement Park, which is located halfway between Princeton (Western Virginia, USA) and Spanishburg, is better known as a gathering place for the spirits of those who once lived along the Bluestone River.
SCIENTISTS FLOAT LEVITATION THEORY
(7 AUG 07)
British scientists have discovered a new way of levitating tiny objects - paving the way for future applications in nanotechnology. Theoretical physicists at the University of St Andrews have created 'incredible levitation effects' by engineering the force of nature which normally causes objects to stick together by quantum force.
BOLIVIAN ARTIFACTS FOR THE AFTERLIFE
(7 AUG 07)
Archaeologists in Bolivia have discovered the remains of a 1,300-year-old skeleton buried with a llama, believed to aid in passage to the afterlife, as well as a gold headband and a fist-size gold pendant.
GHOSTLY ARMADILLOS?
(6 AUG 07)
When it comes to ghosts, some people are interested and some think the idea is ridiculous. This is exactly what is happening in a home in Fort Meade, Maryland USA, where homeowner Randy Wolpin believes that ghosts haunt his house, while others in the area say that it is simply a nest of armadillos.
THE BOY WHO LIVED BEFORE
(6 AUG 07)
A television documentary titled ‘The Boy Who Lived Before’, which recently aired in New Zealand, focuses on the reincarnation of a small child who was only two when he started talking in detail about another place and another family that he had previously belonged to.
TRACKING THE DEAD OR VANISHED
(6 AUG 07)
Former South African police officer Danie Krugel says that his ‘magic box’, a Matter Orientation System device, uses "compassionate quantum physics" to track the dead or vanished. Yet many skeptics believe that Krugel’s invention is nothing more than a scam, with one leading scientist stating “a dead person has no magnetic field, no energy - nothingness.”
BOOK ABOUT THE GHOSTS OF STAUNTON, VIRGINIA
(5 AUG 07)
American author Lori Cox is writing a book about the ghostly legends, haunting’s and paranormal activity of Staunton, Virginia (USA), with many residents also believing that the local DeJarnette Center is haunted.
BRITISH ACTOR’S BELIEFS ABOUT THE AFTERLIFE CHANGE
(4 AUG 07)
Stephen Moyer’s latest role in a spooky one-off BBC drama caused him to change his mind about the afterlife. "I used to be an atheist, but I've chilled out a bit on that. A couple of things in the past year have made me think maybe there is something to it.”
SCOTTISH MINISTRY OF DEFENCE TELLS OF UFO SIGHTINGS
(4 AUG 07)
The Lothian Ministry of Defence has revealed that it has investigated 22 cases of mysterious objects appearing in the skies above the Lothians (a traditional region of Scotland) over the past decade, with aviation experts being called upon to investigate reports including "jelly-fish shapes", "big, round swirly things" and fireballs streaking across the Lothian skies.
GHOST HUNTING GOES MOBILE
(4 AUG 07)
The Discovery Channel is offering visitors who sign up to their Most Haunted newsletter the opportunity to download ghost detection software to a mobile phone which supposedly turns it into electromagnetic field (EMF) fluctuation detector.
COFFINS AVAILABLE ONLINE WHOLESALE
(3 AUG 07)
eBay and Costco are now competing with funeral homes selling coffins online and at wholesale prices.
WHAT OLDER AMERICANS BELIEVE ABOUT THE AFTERLIFE
(3 AUG 07)
The American Association for Retired Persons (AARP) own research shows that 73% of older Americans believe in the afterlife, women being more likely to do so than men.
THE GHOST OF HÉCTOR LAVOE LIVES ON IN J-LO’S HUSBAND, MARC ANTHONY
(2 AUG 07)
The family members of deceased Puerto Rican salsa singer Héctor Lavoe, Grammy award winning singer, Marc Anthony, husband of J-Lo, that they believe that Héctor’s ghost is living inside of him. Not only does Anthony look like him, but he has this thing he does with his hand and mouth, that reminds them of the late salsa singer.
DEATH IS NOT THE END
(1 AUG 07)
Cultural anthropologist and interdisciplinary scientific thinker and writer, Dr Ernest Becker, once said "the idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity-designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the final destiny of man."
PARANORMAL NOVICES ON THE HUNT FOR GHOSTS IN OKLAHOMA
(1 AUG 07)
Cherokee Indian grandmother, who said she could see dead people, sparked the childhood interest of Carry Shamblin and Lyndsay Barrett as children. As adults they have just formed the Eastern Okalahoma Paranormal Society and armed with a camcorder and other equipment they are now trying online and about to prove something.
EXORCISM TURNS VIOLENT - MINISTER CHARGED
(1 AUG 07)
A religious ritual turned violent in a Bloomington home in Monroe County, Indiana, USA, when a student minister battered an autistic teenager, whose mother had been convinced by him that an exorcism would cure her son.
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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
Ernest Hemingway
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