NOVEMBER 2007
LOCAL SPIRIT LURES FOUR YEAR OLD TO CROCODILE INFESTED DARWIN WATERS
(30 NOV 07)
Locals in the Peppimenarti Community, 200km south-west of Darwin, Australia, believe that a spirit lured a four-year-old boy away from his home where he swam alone in crocodile infested waters.
WHAT AMERICANS BELIEVE IN
(30 NOV 07)
Forty-one per cent of Americans believe in ghosts, 35% in UFOs and 31% in witches, according to new market research by Harris Interactive Polls done amongst 2,455 adults.
DO JEWS BELIEVE IN HEAVEN AND HELL?
(30 NOV 07)
Rabbi Amy Wallk Katz is to speak at Congregation Beth Israel's scholar-in-residence weekend, this Friday and Saturday at the Beth Israel Synagogue, in Asheville, North Carolina (USA), in which she will offer three presentations on "Jewish Views of the Afterlife.”
PARANORMAL INVESTIGATORS BELIEVE IN WHAT THEY DO
(29 NOV 07)
Investigators from the Pittsburgh Paranormal Society in the US are regularly booked several nights a week and almost every weekend, with requests from homeowners and others to investigate strange happenings. They charge no fees for their services and say that they do the work because they believe in the paranormal.
IF DOGS COULD TALK
(29 NOV 07)
Mary Buhs Mignerey, a 52-year-old hospice nurse, has taken her journals about dogs and what they may be thinking and turned it into a book tilted, If Dogs Could Talk. Whilst writing the book some of the pets in it have died, and writing it has helped Mary to deal with those losses, for Mignerey believes that people and their pets will be reunited in the afterlife.
FUNERAL WEBCASTS ON THE RISE
(29 NOV 07)
In this age of swiftly developing new technologies digital farewells are becoming an increasingly common part of online culture, and poignant memorial videos mixed with the usual fare of raunchy jokes and mini-dramas, all appearing on sites like YouTube and MySpace.
UK PUB MAKES IT INTO MOST HAUNTED ONLINE GUIDE
(28 NOV 07)
The George and Dragon, on Liverpool Road, Chester in the UK, has been included in an online hotel guide featuring properties with a paranormal history. The 100-year-old building regularly attracts psychics and paranormal investigators, and legend has it that there is a ghost of a man in the cellar.
VIETNAMESE AFTERLIFE THEME PARK
(28 NOV 07)
Suoi Tien Park, the world’s first Buddhist-themed amusement park, is a water slide haven with some foresight regarding Eastern religious afterlife ideals thrown in. Only at Suoi Tien can you visit not only “heaven”, but the “torments of hell” as well.
OLD ENGLISH BURIAL PRACTICES
(28 NOV 07)
In the early years of England grave stones were marked by winged skulls and hourglasses, supposedly to mark the soul's flight into the afterlife. Then through the centuries, tombstones bore a weeping willow, a cherub, an urn or simply a brief epitaph of the deceased.
LIAM GALLAGHER’S OBE
(27 NOV 07)
Liam Gallagher, the frontman of rock band ‘Oasis’, has revealed that he was drawn to the music of 'The Beatles' after he had an out-of-body experience (OBE) as a teenager.
IRISH PSYCHICS LIVE
(27 NOV 07)
Founded in 1991 by Tom Higgins, who had a consuming interest in science fiction and a belief in the paranormal, Irish Psychics Live has rapidly grown into one of the most successful premium phonelines in the world.
ROLLING OVER INTO A GREEN AFTERLIFE
(27 NOV 07)
Known as the "green burial," the concept which is gaining popularity in the United States, essentially follows the religious pronouncement of "ashes to ashes, dust to dust." People are buried without embalming chemicals and their remains are refrigerated or kept on dry ice to prevent decay before family viewings. Bodies are placed into the ground in simple pine or cardboard caskets that will quickly decompose, with some people choosing to be buried in nothing more than a white cotton shroud or a beloved family quilt.
URI GELLER GOING FOR $1MILLION PRIZE
(26 NOV 07)
On the finale of NBC's nationally televised program, "Phenomonon", American magician, musician, mentalist, hypnotist, escapologist, stunt performer, and actor, Criss Angel, challenged Gellar to tell him what was in a sealed envelope. If correct, Geller could lay claim to Criss Angel's $1,000,000.00 challenge prize.
GIRL’S EYES GOUGED IN EXORCISM
(26 NOV 07)
A 14-year-old New Zealand girl has had her eyeballs gouged by relatives who thought she was possessed by the devil. The girl was the cousin of Janet Moses, a 22-year-old mother of two who died on October 12 during the same ceremony to lift a Maori makutu (curse).
GHOSTS OF GEELONG GAOL TO BE INVESTIGATED
(26 NOV 07)
Ghost Research International, believes that ghosts may haunt one of Australia’s oldest gaol’s, located in Geelong, Victoria. With reports of swirling mists, strange female cries and electromagnetic disturbances, the ghost hunters have been called into investigate.
CALIFORNIAN PHYSICIAN BELIEVES HALLE BERRY WAS DOROTHY DANDRIDGE IN A PREVIOUS LIFE
(25 NOV 07)
Walter Semkiw, an occupational medicine physician practising in San Francisco, believes that Bollywood film star Shah Rukh Khan is the reincarnation of a dancer and actress called Sadhona Bose - who starred in a few films of the 1930s and ’40s.
GHOSTS OF THE GEORGE HOTEL
(25 NOV 07)
The George Hotel in the historic English market town of Swaftham, North Norfolk, has several ghosts, the most famous being The Green Lady, and another known to throw glasses off shelves behind the bar. This one used to work at the hotel in the 1950’s and is said to visit regularly, waiting for a former sweetheart who once worked there with him when they were both actually alive.
DOCTOR TEACHES OTHERS TO DIE PEACEFULLY THROUGH MEDITATION
(25 NOV 07)
Professor Emeritus Sumalee Nimmannit is a dedicated doctor who teaches people, through the practice of meditation, that the acceptance of one’s death is a way towards dying peacefully.
SHIRLEY MACLAINE’S FATHER MET HIS DEAD FATHER DURING HIS OWN OBE
(24 NOV 07)
Acclaimed Academy Award-winning American film and theatre actress, Shirley MacLaine, has spoken out about the time that her father, met his dead father, when he had an out of body experience.
ROMAN BURIAL SITE REVEALS IT’S GHOSTS
(24 NOV 07)
Archaeologists in the county town of Trowbridge, England, have extracted the remains of four Roman people from the grounds known locally as the Blacklands, which is said to be a source of much superstition for locals who have passed on folklore from generation to generation, about the ghosts that lurked beneath the soil.
UFO SPOTTED OVER SUSSEX
(24 NOV 07)
Locals in Sussex, England, have reported seeing strange lights in the skies above the town. One local, Mr Dinan, said that he was at a party in Church Marks Lane when he saw the lights. “I watched them for about two hours going in an oval motion around and around.”
RETIRED BELGIAN AIRFORCE GENERAL SPEAKS OF UFO EVENTS OF 1989
(24 NOV 07)
Wilfried De Brouwer, a retired Major General of the Belgian Air Force and Chief of Operations in the Air Staff in 1989, has spoken at the American National Press Club conference on UFO’s, in which on the evening of 29 November 1989, in a small area in Eastern Belgium, approximately 140 UFO sightings were reported.
GHOSTS BEHIND SCHOOL ATTACKS
(23 NOV 07)
The parents of students at a private school in New Washermanpet, Chennai, India, suspect that ‘ghosts’ are behind a series of ‘mysterious attacks’ and bloodstains on the back of the children’s uniforms, which has led the school to conduct special prayers to drive away the unwelcome ghosts.
GHOST HUNTERS GOES INTERNATIONAL
(23 NOV 07)
Ghost Hunters International, which is currently in production in Europe, is set to premiere on the SCI FI channel on Wednesday, January 9 2008. This new series is a spin-off of the smash hit reality series Ghost Hunters, and will follow the adventures of a new team of paranormal investigators around the world.
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE TURKISH KIND
(23 NOV 07)
The alleged sighting of an unidentified flying object (UFO) in early November has excited the Turkish media, with pictures appearing in both sensationalistic tabloids and more serious broadsheet papers. The UFO was spotted in the Karakopru area of Sanliurfa province. Filmed by an amateur videographer, the strangely glowing hexagonal ball of light hovered in the sky emitting red, green and white lights and moved both fast and erratically. After 15 minutes it disappeared without a trace.
BABIES CAN TELL FRIEND FROM FOE
(22 NOV 07)
At the age of six months, most babies have barely learnt to sit up, let alone crawl, walk or talk. But, according to new research, they can already assess someone's intentions towards them, deciding who is a likely friend or enemy.
PARANORMAL TEAM INVESTIGATES PHENOMENA AT HISTORIC ARIZONA JAIL
(22 NOV 07)
Members of the East Valley Paranormal Society recently spent a night at the old Gila County Jail in Globe, Arizona, where they were investigating reports of unexplained activity within the jail.
WORLD’S FIRST GLOBAL GHOST HUNT
(22 NOV 07)
Having recently forged links with paranormal hunters from the US, Haunted Devon founder Byron Jackson and his team of paranormal investigators have visited the Salem Chapel in East Budleigh, Devon, UK, in what is thought to be the world's first global ghost-hunt.
DALAI LAMA TO BREAK FROM TRADITION
(21 NOV 07)
The Dalai Lama says he may appoint a successor or rely on an election before his death, in a break with tradition. This follows recent orders by China that it must approve Tibet’s spiritual leaders.
GHOST IN THE SHEET
(21 NOV 07)
Ghost in the Sheet is a point'n'click adventure game now available at retailers across the US, which is based upon a highly original story about a ghost who finds out that the Afterlife is not nearly as fun or relaxing as it sounds.
NEW MOVIE ABOUT TERROR OF AWAKENING DURING AN OPERATION
(21 NOV 07)
Each year, thousands of Canadians wake up on the operating table to the sound of humming surgical saws, the smell of cauterized flesh or even the excruciating pain of a scalpel. But many are unable to physically react. A new Hollywood thriller titled Awake, about the horrifying ordeal known as anaesthetic awareness, is about to be released. Some anesthesiologists worry it might have adverse effects like the shark movie Jaws once did.
IS MODERN SCIENCE PLAYING GOD?
(20 NOV 07)
Depending on your religion, modern science tends to be playing God. American and European researchers have made most of the progress so far in biotechnology, what with biologists in Oregon reporting having used cloning to produce a monkey embryo and extract stem cells, making it seem plausible that some day a cloned human will be born.
GHOSTS OF BLACKMARSH ROAD
(20 NOV 07)
Growing up in a house on Blackmarsh Road in Newfoundland, Canada, a local man by the name of Reg, says there were some particularly chatty spirits. His first encounter with the local ghosts took place in his family home when he was about nine years old.
SCIENCE TACKLES OBE’s HEAD ON
(20 NOV 07)
It has widely known that people, who take certain drugs can have an out-of-body experience. To those that experience this, it can feel as though they are floating outside of their bodies, which can also be also called, scientifically, an autoscopy.
ROSWELL WITNESS TELLS HIS STORY
(19 NOV 07)
Retired American Air Force veteran, Milton Sprouse, clearly remembers the summer day in 1947 when his ground crew told him that a UFO had crashed in the New Mexico desert, on a ranch 70 miles away.
SPIRITS OF THE AMERICAS OLD WEST STILL HANGING AROUND
(19 NOV 07)
The ghost towns of the American West still whisper their legends to anyone willing to stop and listen. Visitors to Bodie State Historic Park in the Eastern Sierras say taking "souvenirs" can have dire consequences.
FRIGHT NIGHT TO RAISE MONEY FOR DIABETES UK
(19 NOV 07)
Diabetes UK is sponsoring an all-night ghost hunt' at Bradford's historic Bolling Hall on Saturday, November 24. The event is to take place in the ‘Blue Room’, where visitors have described a feeling of being watched and claim to have seen a man in long coat-tails near the fireplace.
GAY MAN TRIED EXORCISM TO CURE HIS HOMOSEXUALITY
(18 NOV 07)
Brian Mahieu tried for 19 years to be cured of his homosexuality, which his religious belief had convinced him were because of demons that needed exorcizing. This didn’t work and he even considered suicide, asking God to kill him as well. After many years of pain and self-torture he gave up religion, and God, and after losing the support of his wife and family finally found comfort in being himself, finally marrying another man. A story well worthwhile knowing about.
J.K.ROWLING’S CHRISTIAN INSPIRATION FOR HARRY POTTER SERIES QUESTIONED
(18 NOV 07)
J.K. Rowling’s professed Christian inspiration for her books is questioned here because of there being such occultism involved, starting with Harry Potter seeing his dead parents, and the casting of spells by he and his fellow students, as well as their communicating with the dead, all being essential against normal Christian practices, according to the author of this item.
UFO SIGHTING CHANGED SKEPTIC COMMISIONER’S MIND
(18 NOV 07)
Santa Rosa County Commissioner John Broxson was always a skeptical person, until 20 years ago. Broxson was entertaining friends at his home in Villa Venyce, Florida, when something outside caught his attention, that would ultimately change his mind about the paranormal.
RUSSIAN SECT AWAITING END OF THE WORLD
(17 NOV 07)
More than two dozen doomsday cult members are holed up in their forest hideout near the Volga River, Russia, where they are awaiting the end of the world with the coming of spring. The group believe that, in the afterlife, they would be judging whether others deserved heaven or hell.
HUNTING FOR ARKANSAS’S CIGAR SMOKING GHOST
(17 NOV 07)
A team of paranormal investigators from the Yellvillebased Paranormal Studies of Arkansas, recently spent a night at the Baxter County Heritage Museum in Gassville, where local lore says a cigar-smoking spirit haunts the museum.
ONE-THIRD OF MONTANA’S RESIDENTS BELIEVE IN UFO’s
(17 NOV 07)
A poll carried out by the Montana State University-Billings, in the United States, has shown that 35 percent of locals believe in the existence of UFOs.
CAUGHT ON TAPE: GAS STATION GHOST?
(16 NOV 07)
The prices aren't the only scary things at one Ohio gas station. A mysterious image showed up on surveillance footage at a Marathon gas station recently, with some believing the image is a ghost, while others contend it is an angel.
GHOSTBUSTERS RETURN FOR NEW GAME
(16 NOV 07)
There have been rumblings for almost two decades about a third installment of the cracking comedy starring Bill Murray, Dan Ackroyd and Harold Ramis as a bunch of professional paranormal investigators and eliminators. According to reports in Variety, Vivendi Games is teaming with Sony Pictures to turn Ghostbusters into a video game franchise.
UFO’s SPOTTED ABOVE CYPRUS
(16 NOV 07)
Cyprus appears to be a hotbed of UFO Activity. Last week, there was a report of a UFO spotted over Limassol town, with one local described having sighted a UFO while travelling in the Kyrenia area. “It was an oblong shape, like a rugby ball on its end and was glowing very bright orange. It came from the coast inland near a village called Catalkoy in small but rapid zigzags then stopped and hovered for approximately 30 seconds before making a smooth ascent at 45 degrees up to the east towards a very bright star.”
NEVER HAVING TO SAY GOODBYE
(15 NOV 07)
Lisa Kay, a psychic-medium from New York, says that she's always believed in an afterlife. "When people die, they don't leave. There is no goodbye. The loved ones are there, not in the Earthly world, but still there."
‘THE GOLDEN COMPASS’
(15 NOV 07)
The film "The Golden Compass", is one that corrupts the imagery of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien to undermine children's faith in God and the Church, says Catholic author Pete Vere. In it, Lyra and Bill, the 12-year-old protagonists discover that there is no immortal soul, no heaven or hell. All that awaits us in the afterlife is some gloomy Hades-type afterlife where the soul goes to wait until it completely dissolves.
BODY OF CHILD FROM BRONZE AGE FOUND
(15 NOV 07)
Archaeologists carrying out a dig at a Suffolk school have discovered the remains of a Bronze Age child. It was discovered with a food vessel and some flints that archaeologists believe was left as an offering for the afterlife.
MAN MARRIES DOG TO WARD OFF ‘CURSE’
(14 NOV 07)
A 33-year-old man in Sivaganga district of Tamil Nadu, India, has married a dog in a bid to ward off the ‘curse’ of a canine couple he had killed 15 years ago.
NORMAN MAILER BELIEVED IN THE AFTERLIFE
(14 NOV 07)
Pulitzer prize-winning and best-selling author, of The Naked and the Dead, among many other books, Norman Mailer, who died recently, aged 84, believed aggressively in God, reincarnation and an afterlife, because he said it made sense of life itself. Mailer was known for always being comfortably aggressive about everything in life and, now, also death, it seems.
‘MUM KILLED HERSELF TO LOOK AFTER DEAD DAUGHTER’
(14 NOV 07)
The mother of a teenage girl who allegedly committed suicide on a railway line in Essex, England in August, decided to join her daughter in the afterlife. Believing that her daughter, Natasha Coombs, was alone in the afterlife, 41-year-old Mrs Coombs was found at the same spot where Natasha died, seven weeks afterwards.
AMERICAN MAN ‘BACK FROM THE DEAD’ NOW HELPING OTHERS
(13 NOV 07)
Dannion Brinkley, a native of Aiken County, South Carolina, USA, says that he was dead for 28 minutes after being struck by lightning. Since his NDE, Brinkley is using this to help others that have had similar experiences.
FORMER PILOTS AND OFFICIALS CALL FOR NEW US UFO PROBE
(13 NOV 07)
Conspiracy theories about UFO sightings and aliens are hardly new, but now it's a multinational group of apparently sane airline pilots and former government officials that is alleging an international cover-up of alien sightings.
SCIENCE, PSYCHICS, MYSTICS AND THEIR PERCEPTIONS
(13 NOV 07)
The perceptions of the universe held by psychics and mystics are somewhat similar to those of modern physics, Quantum Mechanics especially, all being outside of what is called normal science, of the classical, Newtonian type.
WOMAN DIES IN MAORI EXORCISM
(12 NOV 07)
A New Zealand woman has been killed during her family's attempt to exorcise a Maori curse, with the mother of two drowning at home, as up to 40 relatives watched.
UNDERSTANDING DIFFERENCES IN PEOPLE’S BELIEFS BETWEEN RELIGION AND THE PARANORMAL
(12 NOV 07)
Research from the Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion, in the USA, showed that belief in the paranormal declines with increasing church attendance. Evangelicals are the least attracted to paranormal beliefs of all religious groups, according to the 2006 study.
TV’S GHOST WHISPERER CALLS IN REAL LIFE GHOST WHISPERER
(12 NOV 07)
Jennifer Love Hewitt, the American television actress and star of the Ghost Whisperer, has called in a real life ghost whisperer to rid her Los Angeles home of two misbehaving ghosts.
HAUNTED HONG KONG APARTMENT KILLS MAN
(11 NOV 07)
A 21-year-old Chinese man has died in his sleep in an apartment in Hong Kong that is said to be haunted by the ghost of a former resident that committed suicide there, after his girlfriend left him.
NASA TO RE-EXAMINE X-FILES
(11 NOV 07)
For four decades, residents of the tiny Pennsylvania town of Kecksburg have told their story of strange blue lights in the sky one winter's evening and a fireball crashing into woods. Now Nasa has been ordered to examine its X-Files to solve the mystery.
ANCIENT TOOLS FOR THE AFTERLIFE UNEARTHED IN THE U.K.
(11 NOV 07)
Martin Cuthbert and Rob Atfield, from the Suffolk County Council’s archaeology department, have found the remains of a Bronze age child at Culford School, near Bury St Edmunds. Amongst the find were an earthenware pot and worked pieces of flint, which may have been left as an offering for the afterlife.
NEW BRITISH PSYCHIC SEES AND HEARS THE DEAD
(10 NOV 07)
A newcomer to the growing pool of celebrity psychics around the world, Lisa Williams, says she sees dead people, and claims her gift has been with her since childhood. “I knew from a young age about spirits and the afterlife. I remember lying in bed at around seven-years-old and seeing hands and faces coming out of the wall.”
GHOTS OF RED LION TO COME CRASHING DOWN
(10 NOV 07)
The Red Lion in Chicago is an old English pub that is said to have ghosts lingering amongst its regular patrons. However its days are numbered, with the building to be demolished, taking it with the ghosts of its 128 year old history.
EXORCISM ON THE RISE IN ALGERIA
(10 NOV 07)
Throughout Algeria, the phenomenon of exorcism is a growing force with many people seeking aid from spiritual healers when traditional medicine is unavailable or unaffordable.
DOLPHINS SAVE SURFER FROM NEAR FATAL SHARK ATTACK
(9 NOV 07)
A pod of bottlenose dolphins formed a protective ring around Californian surfer Todd Endris, after he’d been attacked and severely mauled by a great white shark, while surfing at Marina State Park, off Monterey. The protection of the pod enabled Endris to get back on his board and make it to the beach, where friends administered urgent first aid, saving his life.
CELEBRATING THE HINDU ‘FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS’
(9 NOV 07)
For Hindus, Divali (Deepavali) is not only a festival of lights but also is a special occasion to worship Lord Vishnu, Lord Ganesha and Goddess Lakshmi. They believe their Gods and ancestors come to their houses during the festival, and, to mark the occasion, followers conduct ceremonies to their ancestors, inviting them home and offering them food, then asking them to return peacefully to the afterlife.
EXPERTS TO DIVULGE INFORMATION ABOUT UFO’s
(9 NOV 07)
Experts from seven countries will divulge what they have discovered about UFOs at a November 12 panel discussion, moderated by former Arizona Governor Fife Symington, at the National Press Club in Washington D.C.
DECEASED BROTHER HELPS MICK FANNING WIN WORLD SURFING TITLE
(8 NOV 07)
Australian surfer, Mick Fanning, says that he saw a dolphin moments before he became world champion and he swears it was his dead brother. Fanning's brother, Sean, died in a car accident on the Gold Coast nine years ago. A surfing contest is held every year in his honour and, without fail, a single dolphin appears. Fanning is convinced the dolphin is Sean.
IS SCIENCE LIMITED WHEN IT COMES TO NDE’s?
(8 NOV 07)
If the soul does continue to live after death, but it has no further interaction with the living or with the Earth, then it would indeed be completely impervious to scientific study. Many people have described what is sometimes referred to as “near death experiences”, where they claim that their soul travels to the afterlife and then comes back.
EARTH IS NOT OUR FINAL HOME
(8 NOV 07)
All of us will face the "Four Last Things" — death, judgment, hell or heaven, because all of us will die, and so too will every person we love. Dante Alighieri, an Italian poet from Florence (May 14/June 13, 1265 – September 13/14, 1321), wrote "The Divine Comedy" in the early decades of the 14th century. His epic poem remains one of the great achievements of human literature. It offers an unforgettable portrait of the afterlife, following the author as he journeys through hell (Inferno), purgatory (Purgatorio) and finally heaven (Paradiso).
‘REINCARNATION OF HINDU GOD’ HAS UNDERGONE SURGERY
(7 NOV 07)
A toddler born in a poverty-stricken region of Bihar, India, with eight limbs and believed by some to be the reincarnation of the multi-limbed Hindu goddess, Vishnu, has undergone a 40-hour operation to remove half of her limbs.
BRITAIN’S MOST HAUNTED HIGHWAYS
(7 NOV 07)
Research into Britain's most haunted highways and byways has revealed that Bedfordshire, a county that forms part of the East of England region, is among the country's most paranormal places. Many drivers have reported seeing ghosts and other spooky phenomena on their travels along the areas highways.
FAMILY PHOTO’S SUPERNATUARL EFFECT
(7 NOV 07)
Joseph and Patty Martinez, from Colorado USA, say that an odd photograph taken years ago has changed their lives. Taken at a time when drugs were "killing his soul," Joseph says that in the photograph there appears to be a demon looking over his shoulder.
FOURTH ANNUAL SELF-HEALTH AND AWARENESS EXPO
(6 NOV 07)
The Fourth Annual Self-Health and Awareness Expo, was recently held at Hocking College, in Nelsonville, Ohio. The metaphysical event was organized by the Self-Health and Awareness Center, a spiritual development and healing center in Vienna, West Virginia (USA). At the expo, participants explored paranormal and psychic phenomena, as well as the nature of consciousness through various spiritual belief systems and metaphysical relationships.
KING TUTANKHAMUN’S FACE REVEALED
(6 NOV 07)
Blackened with age and desiccated by desert heat, the mummy of King Tutankhamen was seen in public yesterday for the first time since he died at 19 more than 3,000 years ago. Ancient Egyptians mummified the bodies of their rulers to ensure that their spirits had somewhere to reside in the afterlife.
GHOST HUNTERS PICK UP EVP AT HISTORIC MANSION
(6 NOV 07)
On October 13, 2007, members of the Virginia Paranormal Society converged onto the Major Grahams Mansion in Wythe County, in the beautiful Appalachian Mountains of southwestern Virginia, searching for spirit activity. The group picked up a child’s voice on an audio recorder and also recorded a man’s voice inside the music room saying, “I don’t play that tune.”
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GHOSTS PLAY ON AT PASADENA PLAYHOUSE
(5 NOV 07)
Members of the Pasadena Paranormal Research Society were recently carrying out an investigation at the Pasadena Playhouse when their digital equipment suddenly shut down.]
CAN GOD AND GHOSTS COEXIST TOGETHER?
(5 NOV 07)
Rev. Peter Irvine, an Episcopal priest and chaplain at the DeKoven Center in Wisconsin, says whilst visiting a shrine for Julian of Norwich, an English mystic who had plenty of visions of her own, he felt a spiritual presence.
AUSTRALIA’S SELF PROCLAIMED ‘UFO PIT-STOP’
(5 NOV 07)
Wycliffe Roadhouse, 380 kms North of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory, is too many locals, Australia’s self-proclaimed UFO capital.
SPIRITS HIGH AS GHOST TOURS SOAR IN SYDNEY
(4 NOV 07)
Ghost-themed tours are thriving in Sydney, with those in their 20s being the ones that are driving the local ghost tour industry through the roof.
FILM LOOKS INTO DEATH FROM THE DYING PERSONS PERSPECTIVE
(4 NOV 07)
Writer-director Tamara Jenkins’s second feature at this years Sundance Film Festival, has grabbed the attention of those in the industry. Her film, “The Savages”, captures the sorrow, anxiety and sheer disruptive tumult involved in dealing with aging, dying parents, a subject at once universal and vaguely taboo.
SINGAPORE CHURCH BEING SUED OVER FORCED EXORCISM
(4 NOV 07)
Mother of two, Madam Amutha Valli Krishnan, 51, is suing the Novena Church of Singapore, two of its priests and six church members, over what she claims was a forced 'exorcism'.
ELECTORDES IN THE BRAIN SPARK OUT OF BODY EXPERIENCE
(3 NOV 07)
A 63-year-old patient in Belgium who recently had electrodes implanted into his brain to treat a stubborn case of ringing in the ears, suffered a series of out-of-body experiences. The man said that when the electrodes were stimulated, it made him feel like he was outside his body twice, for 15 and 21 seconds.
THE CHILD GHOST OF ZAVALLA TEXAS?
(3 NOV 07)
In Zavalla, Texas, many night-time travelers driving across the Shawnee Creek bridge, say that the ghost of a little girl waits at the creek, hoping to catch a ride from one side to the other.
AFTERLIFE INSURANCE FOR PEACE OF MIND
(3 NOV 07)
Unbeknown to most life insurance policy holders, their insurance policy may also cover them for such items as headstones, grave markers, monuments and urns after death, all possibly being covered under the one policy.
SCIENTISTS CLOSER TO UNDERSTANDING OBEs
(2 NOV 07)
Belgian scientists may be one step closer to understanding what happens in the brain when someone has an out-of-body experience. According to a report in The New England Journal of Medicine the scientists believe a certain spot in the brain shows increased activity during out-of-body experiences.
FORMER U.S. GOVERNEMENTS WERE FEARFUL OF ATTACK BY ALIENS
(2 NOV 07)
The subject of UFOs and dabbling in psychological warfare techniques not only focused the attention of the US elite levels for 50 years but some of the greatest scientific and military minds of the era were involved in the effort. Now, the CIA has released new documents that the remote possibility of an alien invasion elicited greater fear than a Soviet nuclear attack.
THE FIFTY-FITH ANNIVERSARY OF ‘THE SEARCH FOR BRIDEY MURPHY’
(2 NOV 07)
fifty-five years ago, in the city of Pueblo, Colorado (USA), local businessman and amateur hypnotist, Morey Bernstein, sat down with housewife Virginia "Ginni" Tighe for the first of six hypnosis sessions that would form the basis of his best-selling book, "The Search for Bridey Murphy."
WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO DIE
(1 NOV 07)
Galena Mosovich was trapped beneath a capsized raft on a churning river in northern California, and realized her body was "panicking", but not her mind. In the moments before she was pulled to safety Mosovich also felt a sense of calm. "I remember thinking, 'I'm probably going to die right now... so this is how it's going to happen'”, said Mosovich.
GHOST HUNTERS GETAWAY CONFERENCE
(1 NOV 07)
Sherry Mulholland, founder of the Bellingham Observers of the Odd and Obscure, gives her list of the top haunted spots in Bellingham, Washington (USA) at the upcoming Ghost Hunters Getaway Conference, this weekend.
THE GREAT UNKOWN OF PARANORMAL AND SUPERNATURAL BELIEFS
(1 NOV 07)
To simply dismiss the unknown because you haven’t personally experienced it is an arrogance that is both pathetic and poignant at the same time. For thousands of years humans have reported all manner of apparition or being, with little or no qualms expressed by their peers until a group of dead German philosophers, a few hundred years ago, convinced us that our intellect was more important than our intuition, or our very souls.
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