SEPTEMBER 2007
BURMESE MONKS RED-ROBED REVOLUTION HIGHLIGHTS STRUGGLE BETWEEN SPIRITUAL AND WORLDLY FORCES
(30 SEP 07)
By refusing food and alms from the military is a gesture of sacrifice hitting deep into the hearts and minds of the population.
UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR DELVES INTO AMERICAN INDIAN BURIALS
(30 SEP 07)
Andrea Walker, an associate professor at Oral Roberts University located in Oklahoma, USA, has been delving into the bereavement rituals of American Indians.
ROSWELL RAISES ITS HEAD EVEN AFTER SIXTY YEARS
(30 SEP 07)
The Roswell Incident is still one of the most famous and controversial events pertaining to the possibility of extra-terrestrials existing as well as landing on Earth. Now 85-year-old Milton Sprouse who says he witnessed what happened tells the full facts and truth of it all. It was a military cover-up, Sprouse says and it was all other worldly.
MOTHER THERESA SUBMITTED TO AN EXORCISM
(29 SEP 07)
Carlsbad resident and writer, Maryanne Raphael, has written two books about her experiences with Mother Teresa. In the course of her research for one of her books, Raphael said she was surprised to discover that Mother Teresa submitted to an exorcism a few years before she died.
CATHOLIC CHURCH EXCOMMUNICATES NUNS
(29 SEP 07)
The Catholic Church in Arkansas has excommunicated Sisters Theresa Marie Lalancette, Mary Gerard Lalancette and Mary Anne Lalancette for their membership in the Quebec-based Army of Mary. Joining the association between 20 and 30 years ago, they adopted the teachings of its founder, Marie-Paul Giguere, who believes she is the reincarnation of Mary.
GHOSTS HAUNT OLD NUNNERY
(29 SEP 07)
Ghosts haunt the Old Nunnery on the Sunshine coast of Queensland. John Osmaston, a former resident whose former wife bought the historic building from the Catholic Church in the late 1980s. Osmaston says that he has seen the ghost of a nun walking towards him in one of the corridors.
LIVING A HAUNTED LIFE
(28 SEP 07)
Rev. Darrell Motal spent his early childhood in the presence of spirits and paranormal energy while living in a haunted house. His mother would often dabble in witchcraft and the occult, leading to the spirits to be drawn towards him.
SPIRITS COME ALIVE IN MAPLE GROVE CEMETERY
(28 SEP 07)
Actors in full costume gave first-person portrayals of different individuals and famous people buried in the Maple Grove Cemetery in Kew Gardens, U.K. for the Richmond Hill Historical Society’s fourth annual walking tour titled Spirits Alive.
RADIO SIGNAL HEARD FROM DEEP SPACE
(28 SEP 07)
A team of American astronomers has detected a huge burst of radio energy from deep space while using the Parkes radio telescope in NSW. The huge burst of energy, which has startled scientists with its strength, is thought to have originated over 500 mega-parsecs or one-and-a-half billion light years from earth.
GHOSTS STILL LINGER IN TAIWAN
(27 SEP 07)
The Taiwanese Ghost Festival may have officially ended in August, but, to many Taiwanese residents some ghosts continue to live amongst them. One story involves a woman who lost her husband in 2004 when he was swept into a river by a mudslide and never found. Then one night, she had a dream in which her husband told her that his body was swept out to the sea and found near Keelung, on Taiwan's north-east coast. This was later confirmed through a DNA match of unclaimed corpses in that exact area.
PRAYER FOR RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD REVIVED
(27 SEP 07)
A new Reform prayer book has revived the blessing for resurrection of the dead. Rabbi David Ellenson, the president of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, says that this is seen as a move toward Jewish tradition.
AMERICA VOTES IN TOP 10 GHOST AND PARANORMAL HUNTERS
(27 SEP 07)
The vote is in for the 2007-2008 Top 10 Ghost Hunters Paranormal Investigators in America. In a recent poll carried out in the U.S., 64% of Baby Boomers believe in ghosts and 38% of those polled at all ages said they had felt a presence or seen something that they thought might be a ghost or a spirit.
SUPERNATURAL INSTITUTE ESTABLISHED IN PARIS
(26 SEP 07)
The Extraordinary Experiences Research Institute has been established in Paris, and, according to its founders, the Institute aims to probe into supernatural phenomena, as well as creating a network of health professionals, with the aim of putting them in close contact with “ordinary” people who have experienced “extraordinary” phenomena such as supernatural entities and death.
FAITHFUL LINE UP TO SEE VISIONS OF MARY & JESUS IN MIAMI CHURCH
(26 SEP 07)
An apparition of the Virgin Mary and Jesus is said to have been appearing on the altar of St. Brendan's Catholic Church in Miami. Michael Valerias of Palmetto Middle School, who saw the images, said "I felt like the presence of Jesus was in front of me."
SOUTH AFRICAN SPIRITS FINALLY LAID TO REST
(26 SEP 07)
The spirits of South Africans who died in Tanzania during the struggle for liberation, have been collected during a cleansing and healing ceremony held in Morogoro in Tanzania, and then laid to rest at Freedom Park.
THE COSMIC WATERGATE OF UFOs
(25 SEP 07)
Stanton Friedman, a physicist who once worked for such giants as Westinghouse and General Electric, has devoted much of his adult life to ferreting out clues in the UFO controversy. He labels the "massive and sustained cover-up" of alien spacecraft and Extraterrestrial contact with Earthbound humans as the “the cosmic Watergate.”
FRUIT FOR A HEALTHY AFTERLIFE
(25 SEP 07)
A team of Egyptian archaeologists has found eight baskets filled with fruit preserved for more than 3,000 years in Tutankhamun's tomb, in the Valley of the Kings in the ancient city of Thebes, southern Egypt.
‘PROOF THROUGH TECHNOLOGY’ PARANORMAL CONFERENCE
(25 SEP 07)
Pulitzer Prize winning author Deborah Blum is one of the guest speakers at this years 6th Annual Paranormal Conference, tilted “Proof Through Technology: The New Exciting Science of The Paranormal, being hosted by the Southern Wisconsin Paranormal Research Group (SWPRG).
Dr. SUSAN BLACKMORE TRYING TO FIND OUT IF NDEs ARE REAL
(24 SEP 07)
Are Near Death Experiences (NDEs) real, or are they simply the product of disorganised activity in the dying brain? Psychologist Dr. Susan Blackmore believes she can find out.
IRANIAN PRESIDENT LOOKING FORWARD TO THE AFTERLIFE
(24 SEP 07)
Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad believes that the earth is Allah's and all people must either become believers of his brand of Islam or must perish as infidels. Furthermore, Ahmadinejad believes that this earthly life is passing and worthless in comparison to the afterlife awaiting a devoted and faithful believer.
CHARITY NIGHT GHOST HUNT
(24 SEP 07)
The Anthony Nolan Trust, which is a Leukemia charity in the U.K. is holding a Fright Night on Friday, November 2, 2007 at Smithills Hall, one of Bolton's oldest Manor Houses, in which there have been many reports of paranormal activity over the years.
HALLOWEEN 2007 STEPS UP A NOTCH
(24 SEP 07)
Moaning from haunted graveyards and holographic ghosts peeking around garages are all a part of what’s in store for this year’s trick-or-treaters at Halloween. For according to a study conducted by Unity Marketing, more than three billion dollars was spent in 2006 in the US on decorations alone.
POLISH CASTLE RUMOURED TO HOLD THE SEVENTH CHAKRA
(23 SEP 07)
According to legend, the earth has seven energy centres, created when seven magical stones were scattered over the world. They landed in Rome, Jerusalem, Mecca, Delhi, Delphi, in Greece, Velehrad, in the Czech Republic, and in Wawel Hill, in Krakow, Poland. Buried beneath the turrets and domes of Wawel Castle is said to be the seventh chakra, a sacred stone that emits a cosmic healing energy.
GHOSTS BOOST OHIO PUMPKIN HARVEST
(23 SEP 07)
Farmers in Ohio, USA, have reported a bumper crop of pumpkins this year, which many believe this is due to the ghosts that inhabit in their fields.
FIERY OBJECT FALLS FROM THE SKY OVER PERU
(23 SEP 07)
Stunned residents in Peru say that a fiery object has fallen from the sky, leaving a fresh hole in the earth that is more than 60 feet wide, 15 feet deep and filled with boiling water and steaming with noxious fumes. Many believe it is an extraterrestrial UFO that has entered the earth’s crust to establish bases below the continental crust.
CATHOLIC CHURCH MUST SPEAK OPENLY ABOUT THE DEVIL
(22 SEP 07)
Father Amorth, who is an exorcist of the Archdiocese of Rome and founder and honorary president of the International Association of Exorcists, believes that the Catholic Church must speak out about the devil.
SHOULD WE PRAY FOR PETS WHEN THEY’RE DYING?
(22 SEP 07)
While there is no consensus among religions as to whether animals have souls that live on after they die, most Christian, Jewish and Muslim theologians say animals have souls, but not the kind that live on after their bodies die like humans do. In Hinduism, Buddhism and other Eastern traditions are more inclined to believe animals and humans belong to the same soul and cycle of reincarnation.
ROMANIAN PRIEST’S SENTENCE FOR EXORCISM DEATH HALVED ON APPEAL
(22 SEP 07)
Daniel Petru Corogeanu is a Romanian priest who has been convicted of the killing of a nun during an exorcism ritual. Twenty-three year-old Irina Cornici, died whilst having an exorcism performed on her by Corogeanu and four other nuns in June 2005.
WAS CHINA’S FIRST EMPEROR A VISIONARY?
(21 SEP 07)
China’s first emperor, Qin Shihuangdi, took the country from a collection of clannish, warring states into the beginnings of a modernised superpower. Furthermore, Qin took the view that the afterlife was a continuation of existence by other means and that properly prepared, a ruler could continue to exert power in this altered state.
GHOSTS OF MURDERED CHILDREN DEMAND THE RELEASE OF THEIR FATHER
(21 SEP 07)
A woman whose three children were hacked to death by their father in one of the most horrific and brutal killings in Africa, has pleaded with local authorities to release him because she believes that she is being “visited by the ghosts" of her dead children who are demanding he be released.
IRISH DEFENCE MINISTRY MAINTAINED A DOSSIER ON UFOs
(21 SEP 07)
The Irish Defence Forces maintained a dossier on unidentified flying objects (UFOs) for 37 years, according to details released yesterday under Ireland’s freedom of information laws.
IS DEATH AN OPPORTUNITY TO EXPAND LIFE BEYOND BOUNDARIES?
(20 SEP 07)
Indian-born Deepak Chopra’s latest book, Life After Death: The Burden of Proof, is meant to be a friendly travel guide to the country of the afterlife, in which he doesn't report any personal near-death experiences, but does a great job recounting those of other people.
U.S. HOMEOWNERS SEEKING DIVINE INTERVENTION TO SELL HOMES
(20 SEP 07)
Many homeowners in the US are seeking divine intervention from St. Joseph, the foster father of Jesus and patron saint of home sellers, to help sell their home. Believers bury a statue of St. Joseph in the garden of their property and then call on him to intervene on their behalf to find a buyer.
CANADA’S HAUNTED RAILWAY STATION
(20 SEP 07)
Every evening on the second floor of the old railway station in the Canadian city of Kingston, locals hear the sound of doors closing, windows shutting and the patter of the footsteps of a former railway worker. Chris Whyman, who works in the former Grand Trunk Railway Station, which has now been turned into a tourism hotspot, says that those footsteps are that of a local railway worker who was killed in a train crash at the station two centuries ago.
BRAIN SURGERY GIVES YORKSHIRE BOY THE QUEEN’S ENGLISH ACCENT
(20 SEP 07)
British nine-year-old William McCartney-Moore has lost his strong Yorkshire accent and is now speaking the Queen's English, since his recent emergency brain surgery. William’s mother, Ruth McCartney-Moore, a music teacher from Yorkshire ,noticed that he had started to elongate his vowels in words like 'bath' which he never did before.”
BELIEVERS FLOCK TO ‘HOLY’ WEEPING TREE
(19 SEP 07)
For the last five days, hundreds of people have congregated under an acacia tree in Rio Grande City, Texas, near the Mexican border, to see ice formations hanging from the branches and collecting the drops of water melting off. Those gathered believe that tree has been "weeping" for Leonisia Garcia, who had cared for the tree, but had died of a heart attack.
ORANGE COUNTY’S MOST PROMINENT WITCH
(18 SEP 07)
Yvonne Conway is the national spokesperson for the Berkley, California based witchcraft organization known as the Covenant of the Goddess, who says that she sees dead people, believes in magic and that ghosts routinely flutter through her Orange County home.
GHOSTS OF BURLINGTON COUNTY PRISON
(18 SEP 07)
Stories about the ghosts of inmates who were once lodged in the old Burlington County Prison, in New Jersey, USA, have been told over the years. One Joseph Clough, who was executed in the prison courtyard in the mid-1850s was heard shortly after his death by guards and inmates, who reported hearing moaning and the sounds of rattling chains from his empty death-row cell.
IS PARANORMAL PHENOMENA TO BLAME FOR STRANGE GOINGS ON IN NICOSIA?
(17 SEP 07)
For five years, tenants of a semi-detached house in Nicosia, Cyprus, have been experiencing pipes bursting, toilets collapsing, random power cuts and headaches. Even a 100-year-old olive tree outside the house wilted and died. Then one day, all of these events stopped.
PET MORTUARY TO OPEN IN LAWRENCE, NEW YORK
(17 SEP 07)
Heavenly Pet Memorials of Lawrence, New York, is a pet mortuary where pet owners who have spent their lives pampering their beloved dogs, cats and other animal companions, will be able to extend that unwavering commitment by giving their pets the final send off into the afterlife.
BELIEF IN THE AFTERLIFE IS ON THE RISE IN EUROPE AND THE U.S.
(16 SEP 07)
Many people who do not consider themselves religious or belong to any faith group often believe, even if vaguely, in a supreme being or an afterlife, while others are not sure what they believe.
GHOSTS OF SLAIN MEN HAUNT INDIAN VILLAGE
(16 SEP 07)
Two days after a group of men from Vaishali, a district in the Bihar state of India, bludgeoned 10 members of an impoverished nomadic tribe to death on the suspicion that they were thieves, the ‘ghosts’ of the slain men are haunting the village where the killing took place.
SHERLOCK HOLMES’ CREATOR WAS OBSESSED BY SÉANCES AND SPIRITUALISM
(15 SEP 07)
Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, was obsessed by séances and spiritualism. Notebooks kept by Doyle have recently emerged describing his earliest contact with mediums and psychic phenomena.
ANGERED SPIRITS CAUSE UPSET IN JAMAICAN ELECTIONS
(15 SEP 07)
A community of Jamaican descendents of freed slaves is blaming the recent defeat of Jamaica's long-ruling People's National Party on Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller’s improper use of a sacred abeng (horn). The abeng was traditionally used by the Maroons to summon the spirit of their ancestors or to announce a war.
CHESSBOARD KILLER BELIEVES THAT HE OPENED THE AFTERLIFE TO HIS VICTIMS
(15 SEP 07)
Alexander Pichushkin, the Russian man known as the Chessboard Killer, has been charged with the murders of 49 people. He believes that he “felt like a father to all these people, since it was I who opened the door for them to the afterlife."
‘ARMY OF MARY’ EXCOMMUNICATED BY CATHOLIC CHURCH
(14 SEP 07)
The Roman Catholic Church has announced it has excommunicated members of a Canadian group called the 'Army of Mary', which is led by an 86-year-old who claims to be a reincarnation of Jesus's mother.
CZECH CRASH VICTIM WAKES SPEAKING ENGLISH
(14 SEP 07)
A Czech speedway driver knocked unconscious in a crash stunned ambulance drivers when he woke up speaking perfect English, , a language he could’nt speak much in previously. 18-year-old Matej Kus was out cold for 45 minutes after the crash, but when he woke up he conversed fluidly in English with paramedics, even speaking in an English accent.
THE GHOSTS OF BISBEE ARIZONA NOW A WALKING TOUR
(14 SEP 07)
The Old Bisbee Ghost Tour is an entertaining hour and a half tour that takes visitors to the haunts of some of Bisbee’s most famous and infamous ghosts. Every Friday, Saturday and Sunday evening, one of the tour guides, Renee Gardner, dresses up for the part wearing Victorian garb and carrying an old lantern, leads tour groups up and down the winding streets and stairs of Bisbee.
ANCIENT EGYPTIAN CATS GIVEN SPECIAL CARE TO ENTER INTO THE AFTERLIFE
(13 SEP 07)
Dr Stephen Buckley of the University of York (U.K.), believes that during the mummification process of ancient Egyptian cats, they were given a far more careful and expensive trip to the afterlife than previously thought. This was most crucial to both the ancient Egyptians and their beloved cats, as that in doing this they believed that their bodies would survive in to the afterlife and would then become immortal.
ELECTRONIC SOFTWARE DEVELOPED TO CAPTURE IMAGES OF GHOSTS
(13 SEP 07)
Wanting to bring paranormal investigations up to date with modern technology, British man Paul Rowland, has developed an ultra sensitive camera and camcorder, which he says are triggered by movement.
SPIRITS COME ALIVE AT FLORIDA BEACH PUB
(13 SEP 07)
Shea's Corner Pub in Boynton Beach, Florida, has its fair share of spirits and not just the drinking kind. Regulars of the pub say that over the years they have witnessed glasses above the bar tinkling, to tupperware flying off the kitchen counter.
SPIRITS GIVE THE GO AHEAD FOR DEMOLISHING OF SHRINE
(12 SEP 07)
Taoism places an emphasis on the unity of the universe, the unity of the material world and the spiritual world, the unity of the past, present and future. In the district of Penampang, located within the West Coast Division of Sabah, Malaysia, local Taoists recently performed a ceremony asking the spirits permission to allow the demolishing of a local shrine.
KILLER HOPED TO MARRY HIS LOVER IN THE AFTERLIFE
(12 SEP 07)
A Chinese man who bludgeoned his lover to death with a hammer, had hoped to marry her in the afterlife. Shi Jun then failed to go through with his planned suicide, where he believed that “No one can part us in the afterworld.”
FILM TO BE MADE CELEBRATING THE 2,550th ANNIVERSARY YEAR OF BUDDHA
(12 SEP 07)
Proof of the increasing acceptance of the Buddha's universal teaching, which is now being practiced in more than 100 countries, is to become a major Indian-Sri Lankan film on Gotama the Buddha. The film is to be made by well-known Indian director Shyam Benegal in which this year marks the 2,550th anniversary year of the passing away of the Buddha.
MOTHER’S PREMONITIONS SEE THE DEATHS OF THEIR BABIES
(11 SEP 07)
A questionnaire carried out by an American pediatrician, Richard Hardoin, about mothers who have had premonitions about their babies’ deaths, found that 21.8 percent of respondents have had this experience. This led Hardoin into writing a book about these experiences, titled The Voice Within: Premonitions of Sudden Death of Children, in which one mother tells him that a few days before her baby died, she saw visions of a woman dressed in white who said she wouldn’t have the child for very long.
VIKING QUEEN EXHUMED TO DISCOVER MYSTERY COMPANION
(11 SEP 07)
Archaeologists in Norway have exhumed the body of a Viking queen, hoping to solve a riddle about whether a woman buried with her 1200 years ago was a servant killed to be a companion into the afterlife.
THE THREE MAJOR RELIGIONS HAVE SIMILARITIES
(10 SEP 07)
Followers of Both Islam and Christianity are very close in their beliefs, especially that of the afterlife. They both also believe in resurrection, judgment, heaven and hell. Yet in Judaism, the concept of an afterlife is not highly developed.
MEMPHIS BAR IS THE PERFECT PLACE FOR A ROCK ’N ROLL SÉANCE
(10 SEP 07)
Earnestine & Hazel's bar in Memphis, Tennessee, is a former brothel turned music bar where legend has it that the ghosts of departed musicians hang out. Fans travel from all over the U.S. in the hope of seeing or hearing from the spirits of deceased music legends, like Jeff Buckley, Elvis Presley, Otis Redding and even B.B. King.
PAVAROTTI WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO THE AFTERLIFE
(9 SEP 07)
Luciano Pavarotti was at peace with the prospect of his own approaching death, because he was looking forward to seeing his own parents, according to one of his daughters, speaking a few weeks ago before the great opera singer died.
HINDUISM MIXES MANY DISTINCT SECTS AND CONCEPTS WITHIN ONE CONCEPT
(9 SEP 07)
Hinduism has no founder nor common creed, yet it has over 900 million followers or worshipers around the world. Still it has thrived as a religion and as a way of life for thousands of years, in which various sects generally believe in the trinity of Brahma, the Creator; Vishnu, the Preserver; and Shiva, the Destroyer who takes away life so that it can be restored.
DEMONIC FORCE IS FRIGHTENING LOCAL VILLAGERS IN TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
(9 SEP 07)
Locals in the village of Granville, Cedros, Trinidad and Tobago, are convinced that there is a demonic force linked to the death of a woman and the evil possession of three others in their village. Women are afraid to walk the roads after dark and men are too scared to tend their crops in the forests nearby.
NEUROSCIENTIST’S UNIQUE IDEA ABOUT THE BRAIN AND SPIRITUALITY
(8 SEP 07)
Canadian neuroscientist Mario Beauregard’s book titled The Spiritual Brain, offers a unique perspective on such things as religious, spiritual, and mystical experiences (RSME). In Beauregard’s studies of near death experiences (NDE), he comes to the intriguing conclusion that “mind and consciousness appear to continue at a time when the brain is nonfunctional and clinical criteria of death have been reached.”
SCHOOL STUDENTS POSSESSED BY EVIL SPIRITS
(8 SEP 07)
The principal of Manhlenga High School, South Africa, believes that students at the school are bewitched, because of apparent evil spirits at the school that are making many of the students continuously cry in class. Fellow teachers have been holding prayer meetings to try to rid the school and its students of these evil spirits.
AGE-OLD SPIRIT AND GUARDIAN OF THE MANDINKA PEOPLE OF WEST AFRICA
(8 SEP 07)
Southern Senegal and Gambia, is home to the Mandinka ethnic group, where during the rainy season, a man known as the Kankuran comes from the bush, cloaked in leaves, his body painted in vegetable dyes. His role is that of an age-old spirit and guardian of the Mandinka people, in which he wanders the streets to ward of evil spirits and residents alike during weddings and periods of circumcision.
HAS CHRISTIANITY HAD IT’S DAY?
(7 SEP 07)
To Christians and the true believers the world over, Jesus Christ was and still is the Savior of the World. Yet, to the unbelievers, Christianity has been labeled as genocidal. In the days of the Roman empire, it became an act of treason to claim that Jesus was the supreme Lord above Caesar and what the empire stood for. This reaction towards Christianity is now beginning to happen in the modern world.
LOCAL SPIRITS SHUT DOWN UGANDAN MEDICAL UNIT
(7 SEP 07)
Local leaders in Nabiswera sub-county, Nakasongola District, Uganda, have hired an exorcist to cleanse a Government health unit which had been closed, due to being haunted by mayembe (evil spirits). The leaders say that had they not hired the exorcist to cleanse the health centre, it would still be closed, as the entire medical staff had fled and vowed never to return.
JUDAISM AND THE CONCEPT OF INTELLIGENT DESIGN
(7 SEP 07)
Jews have a complex philosophy and belief system, but there is little talk of the afterlife, and the concept of hell is not really a Jewish thing. But for all that, believing Jews are adamant about the continual presence of God in their lives, while many secular Jews still carry on the philosophical underpinnings of an avid love of learning and questioning which produced such ground breakers as Freud, Marx, and Einstein.
EXORCISM HOTLINE
(6 SEP 07)
A Muslim cleric, has been sacked for setting up a hotline to perform exorcisms. Nicknamed the Mobile Imam, Hamidur Rahman, was also offering spiritual healings to boost his weekly pay at a British mosque.
NEPAL AIRLINES SACRIFICE GOATS TO APPEASE HINDU SKY GODS
(6 SEP 07)
Nepal Airlines have sacrificed two goats to appease the Hindu Sky God, Akash Bhairab, following technical problems with one of its Boeing 757 aircraft. An official has said that the sacrifice was carried out in front of the aircraft.
SPIRITS DISRUPT PHOTOGRAPHIC SHOOT
(5 SEP 07)
Photographer Amy Zellmer always had strange goings on her in photographic studio, until the day when a lady came in to have her portrait done. The lady told Amy that she was a psychic and said that Amy had spirits in her studio which were causing the lights to burn out. Afterwards, Amy realised that this would explain some of the things that had occurred in her studio.
EXORCISM MAY BE A WAY TO HEAL THE MENTALLY ILL
(5 SEP 07)
Migrants to new countries facing cultural difficulties leading to mental illnesses can sometimes be cured through extreme methods including exorcisms.
THE SUPERNATURAL POWERS OF THAILAND’S AMULET’S
(4 SEP 07)
Traditionally, Thais have always been keen on amulets that usually bear the likeness of the Buddha or other religious figures. To be endowed with real power, an amulet must be blessed by a senior monk at the main temple in Nakhon Si Thammarat, Wat Mahathat, one of Thailand's most revered Buddhist temples. Worn around the neck, they are said to possess supernatural powers and bring good luck and fortune to those who wear them.
ANCIENT MYSTERIES OF EGYPT’S TOMBS SPOOK HISTORIAN
(4 SEP 07)
Television historian and presenter of history programmes on Discovery Europe/UK, Channel 4, UKTV History and the American History Channel, Tessa Dunlop, recently ventured into the tombs of Egypt’s dead pharaohs. Whilst in the tombs, she admitted that she was genuinely terrified at some of the spooky goings on. "There were definitely some very scary moments and there were two incidents when I felt something very weird was happening."
SAYING GOODBYE TO A DYING PATIENT
(3 SEP 07)
Medical experts say physicians should improve how they say goodbye to a patient and deal with the patient's death. Talking about death and dealing with the end is not easy but they shouldn't distance themselves from the patient in this time of need.
U.S. PSYCHIATRISTS HAVE NO RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION
(3 SEP 07)
A survey carried out in the U.S., has revealed that psychiatrists are more likely to have no religious affiliation than U.S. doctors do overall. Furthermore, psychiatrists were less likely to attend religious services frequently, believe in God or the afterlife, or cope by looking to God for strength, support and guidance.
FEMALE GHOSTBUSTERS INVESTIGATE DOWNTOWN FLORIDA HOTEL
(3 SEP 07)
The Heritage Inn, in downtown St Petersburg, Florida USA is an old-fashioned boutique hotel, where rumours abound of paranormal activity. It is here that the girls from S.P.I.R.I.T.S. (Servicing Paranormal Investigators Reporting Information Through Study) are investigating the strange goings on, of odd noises throughout the building, as well as guests reporting seeing an apparition of a little girl.
GLASGOW UNIVERSITY TO RUN COURSES DEALING WITH THE SUPERNATURAL
(2 SEP 07)
Glasgow University is to start a course in psychical research, which aims to show that supernatural phenomena do occur. Veteran academic Professor Archie Roy, whose brainchild the course is, who says, "Psychical researchers have studied these events for over a century, resulting in evidence as to their authenticity".
MORE AMERICAN WOMEN BELIEVE IN THE AFTERLIFE THAN MEN
(2 SEP 07)
As Americans get older they tend to worry less about what happens after death. Women, over the age of 50 particularly, believe that they are heaven-bound and this it is a beautiful place. Time seems to have only strengthened the spiritual attitudes of many seniors.
GHOST HUNTING WORKSHOP TO BE HELD IN MISSOURI USA
(2 SEP 07)
The Missouri Paranormal Research team will be conducting a Ghost Hunting Workship at the "Haunted" Pythian Castle in Springfield on Saturday September 15, 2007 & Saturday November 3, 2007.
MALAYSIA’S HAUNTED INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
(1 SEP 07)
The Alice Smith School, in Jalan Bellamy Malaysia, is regarded as one of the oldest international schools in the country. Yet this building has another side to it. It is also regarded as haunted building, with many servants over the years telling of how they would be jolted awake from sleep, see blinding lights circling on top of them, to even seeing vegetables flying around the kitchen.
ANCESTRAL SPIRITS RELOCATED FROM UGANDA’S BUJAGALI FALLS
(1 SEP 07)
Busoga is obe of the largest traditional kingdoms in present-day Uganda, which has has had its ancestral spirits relocated from the Bujagali Falls to the Namizzi East Village, eight kilometers downstream the River Nile. Once the spirits were relocated, they then blessed the new location with instant rain.
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