APRIL 2008
HOSPICE WORK GIVES INSIDE KNOWLEDGE FOR NEW BOOK ABOUT DYING
(30 APR 08)
Trudy Harris has spent her life not just thinking about death but becoming intimate with it. Over the past 27 years, Harris estimates she has helped more than 400 people come to terms with dying, whilst working as a nurse at a hospice in Florida. Now with that experience, she has written a book about helping people come to grips with death.
ASHES TO ASHES DUST TO BRUSH
(30 APR 08)
Artist Daniel Ortega admits that he has always been fascinated with the afterlife. For him, working with animal ashes (or “cremains”) came naturally, and thanks to a generous donation of animal ashes from a Los Angeles crematorium back in 2001, Ortega became familiar with the process of painting and sculpting with his new equipment.
SPOOKY GOINGS ON AT BRITISH PUB
(30 APR 08)
The Butchers Arms pub in East Ruston, Norfolk (UK), has had its fair share of things that go bump in the night. From gravy boats, trays and chocolate boxes flying off the shelves, to staff and customers seeing a ghostly figure by a corner wine cabinet.
ROME’S CHIEF EXORCIST TO TELL ALL IN A TELEVISION AND INTERNET SERIES
(29 APR 08)
In a television and Internet report series, Father Gabriele Amorth, Rome’s exorcist for the past 21 years and a specialist in the figure of Mary, is unveiling the mystery surrounding the devil and exorcism. Detailing the work of the exorcist of the Diocese of Rome, Father Gabriele explains, in the first edition of the series, how he performs exorcisms.
BRITISH PUB OWNER CALLS IN EXORCIST TO GET RID OF POLTERGEIST
(29 APR 08)
British ghost-buster and exorcist Ian Lawman has been called in by a local pub owner, after it was claimed a ghost tried to kill a barmaid and her brother. The violent poltergeist, believed to be a former landlord at the 230-year-old Crown Inn pub in Farnham Common, has had Lainie Rutter and her brother, Mitchell, living in fear in a small flat at the pub.
PARANORMAL ACTIVITY INTRIGUES OHIO VALLEY GHOSTBUSTERS
(29 APR 08)
The Ohio Valley Paranormal Society has been around for about a year and since coming together as a nonprofit group, they've investigated several hauntings and ghostly happenings across the Valley. Having investigated many different places, such as homes, cemeteries and even local schools, members of the group say that the society investigates paranormal activity because it intrigues them.
STARING DEATH IN THE FACE IS SIMILAR TO THAT OF AN NDE
(28 APR 08)
Whilst surfing at Australia’s famous Bondi Beach, Jeremy Hancock was performing one of his regular moves when it suddenly went horribly wrong. The sharp end of the surfboard hit the 34-year-old on his left temple at speed. Later he was to discover that he had had two eight-millimetre haemorrhages on both sides of his brain and two clots. His surgeon said they couldn’t do anything once there were clots. “Staring death in the face puts everything into perspective. You only get one shot at life, and mine was thrown upside down,” Hancock says two years later.
IS RELIGION A FIGMENT OF OUR IMAGINATION?
(28 APR 08)
Anthropologist Maurice Bloch, of the London School of Economics, believes that humans alone practice religion because they're the only creatures to have evolved imagination. According to Bloch, our ancestors developed the necessary neural architecture to imagine, before or around 40-50,000 years ago. About the same time, tools that had been monotonously primitive since the earliest examples appeared 100,000 years earlier suddenly exploded in sophistication, art began appearing on cave walls, and burials began to include artefacts suggesting belief in an afterlife, and, by implication, the "transcendental social".
INDIAN BOYS BEAT ‘POSSESSED’ MOTHER TO DEATH
(28 APR 08)
In New Delhi’s capital suburb of Ghaziabad, three boys along with their cousin, punched, kicked and beat their 55-year-old mother to death, believing she had been possessed by a spirit. They then tried to sacrifice their sister-in-law in an attempt to bring their dead mother back to life.
CURSE OF THE ‘LITTLE BASTARD’
(27 APR 08)
Naming it the ‘Little Bastard’, James Dean's Porsche 550 Spyder was only one of 90. On September 30, 1955, with Dean behind the wheel, the customized racing machine proved to be deadly when it carried him into a collision that took the movie star's life. Since that time, the ‘little bastard’ inexplicably went on to cause property damage, injury, and even death wherever it went.
A MANUAL FOR PEACFUL DYING
(27 APR 08)
Thai author, Karnjariya Sukrung, with support from the Buddhikha Network and the Thai Health Promotion Fund, has written a book titled 'Suk sud thay thee plai thang' (A Manual for Peaceful Dying). In it, there are suggestions that are not only applicable for those who are ill and or dying, but also for those who believe they’re in good health. Pain and suffering can come to us at anytime, yet those who are naturally optimistic, cheerful and happy, can experience less pain and heal faster than those who normally are angry, anxious and stressful.
FAMOUS MEDIUM HELPS BRITISH PEOPLE COMMUNICATE WITH THE DEAD
(27 APR 08)
As part of his nationwide tour, British Medium, Colin Fry, will be appearing at the Civic Hall in Winsford (UK) Friday, May 2 (2008). As a trained bereavement counsellor and the head of International College of Spiritual Science and Healing in Sweden, audience members of Fry’s show will be given the opportunity to communicate with ‘the other side’.
AUSTRALIAN MISSILE MANUFACTURING PLANT TARGETED FOR EXORCISM
(26 APR 08)
Believing that only demonic spirits could allow corporations like Raytheon Australia, which produces guided missiles, to function as it does, Dr. Lisa Bridle, a part-time lecturer with the Centre for Intellectual and Developmental Disability at the University of Queensland has been arrested by police for allegedly painting Raytheon’s walls with human blood during a protest.
IS THE SPIRIT WORLD DRAWING CLOSER?
(26 APR 08)
When Shaun Dennis was young he sensed his mum's friend had suffered a death in the family. A Roman Catholic, who was very wary of the supernatural, his mum confirmed the friend had lost her husband. Having just embarked on his first UK tour, Shaun claims more and more people over the past few years are reporting seeing apparitions and the spirit world is actually "drawing closer".
RUSSIAN TOURIST CAPTURES ‘UFO’ ON FILM IN LONDON
(26 APR 08)
Whilst walking through a park in Croydon, south London, Anastasiya Gavrilenko, a foreign student in London, has captured on film what she believes to be a mysterious object or UFO, speeding through the sky.
WHAT HAPPENS TO THE SOUL AFTER DEATH?
(25 APR 08)
The Tibetan "Book of the Dead," which first appeared in the 8th Century, is said to teach its readers how to die properly, as well as preparing their souls for reincarnation. During its afterlife journey, the soul is said to see relatives and acquaintances as they existed in life.
ONE OF THE MOST HAUNTED PUBS IN BRITAIN
(25 APR 08)
The Pied Bull in Northgate Street, Chester, is one of the most haunted pubs in Britain, according to paranormal investigators. The building dates back to the 16th century and legend has it that the 12 room establishment is regularly haunted by ghosts.
RETRO UFO SPACECRAFT FAIR TO BE HELD IN CALIFORNIA, USA
(25 APR 08)
The UFO phenomena of the 1950s, '60s and '70s, can be revisited at the Retro UFO Spacecraft Conference, this Saturday and Sunday, in Landers, San Bernardino County, California. For as far as alien contact goes, Landers is every bit as important as Roswell.
WOMEN NOBEL PRIZE WINNER LEANED TOWARDS THE POSSIBILITY OF SPIRITS
(24 APR 08)
After attending experiments in Milan with medium Eusapia Palladino in 1884, Dr. Charles Richet (1850-1935), winner of the 1913 Nobel Prize in Medicine, began taking an active interest in psychical research. While clearly accepting the reality of mediumship and other psychic phenomena, Richet remained skeptical as to whether the evidence suggested spirits and survival. This item is from the website indicated, to which we suggest many might find much more of interest about things of a metaphysical nature.
GHOST HUNTING FOR CHAIRTY FUND-RAISING
(24 APR 08)
Renowned for its paranormal activity, Stanley Palace in Chester UK, is where the charity for Muscular Dystrophy is holding a ghost hunting night on Saturday, September 27, 2008 to raise funds for those suffering from the disease and other similar illneses.
PENIS SNATCHING SOCERERS ARRESTED BY CONGO POLICE
(24 APR 08)
Police in Congo have arrested suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men’s penises. A wave of panic and attempted lynching have occurred as a result.
WOMEN CLAIM SEXAUL ASSULT AGAINST GHOSTS
(23 APR 08)
According to police in Washington (USA), two local women claim that they have been sexually assaulted by ghosts in their apartment complex in Federal Way.
BOY CLINGS TO LIFE FOUR DAYS AFTER FALLING INTO FREEZING LAKE
(23 APR 08)
A 2-year-old boy remains hospitalized in critical condition four days after being blown by a wind gust into Lake Michigan while strapped into his stroller. Medical experts say children can survive after being underwater for long periods, if the water is very cold.
UNEXPLAINED RED LIGHTS HOVER OVER PHOENIX, ARIZONA, USA
(23 APR 08)
Similar to the "Phoenix Lights" seen on March 13, 1997, red coloured lights that formed a square and then a triangle, were seen floating over North Phoenix, on Monday (21 Apr ’08) this week.
BHUTAN’S SPIRITUAL HEALER
(22 APR 08)
Ap Dophu is a well known traditional healer in Chamkhar valley, Bhutan. And, according to locals, Dophu really can cure patients as easily as rubbing the dust off your fingers. Many people turn to him if they or their family members are infected by spirits.
CANADA’S ORGAN DONOR SHORTAGE COULD LEAD TO HIGHER DEATH RATES
(22 APR 08)
In Canada, there are only 12.8 organ donors per one million people. A report in The Medical Post says Canadians are being forced to travel to China and India for heart and kidney transplants. Yet the majority of religions claim to support organ donation. So perhaps it's time ministers of the various religions reassure their flocks that no one will be denied admittance to the afterlife if they're missing a leg or a kidney.
FINDING THE PSYCHIC WITHIN
(22 APR 08)
Everybody has hidden paranormal powers of which they are mostly unaware and often dismiss certain unusual events as being mere coincidence. Are you like that? Read on to find out what psychic powers may be hidden within you.
GOD IS ONLINE AND IS WAITING FOR YOUR EMAIL
(21 APR 08)
A website where people across the globe can post their prayers to "Jesus, Allah, Buddha, or simply a spiritual universal energy", was launched about a week ago. Dear-god.net was created to enable young people to connect with God in the same way they might communicate with their mates.
MAN KILLS WOMAN, TAKES HEAD TO POLICE
(21 APR 08)
In a ghastly incident, a woman in the Ghatsila sub-division of Jharkhand, India, has been beheaded on suspicion of practising witchcraft by a tribal man who later walked into the police station with the severed head. The accused, Jairam Hansda, had held the woman Renti Hansda responsible for the death of his brother a few days earlier.
GHOST HUNTERS INTERNATIONAL TO INVESTIGATE ICONIC BRITISH HALL
(21 APR 08)
Described as one of the UK's top spooky sites, the iconic Samlesbury Hall, in Samlesbury, is to come under the microscope from the American program, Ghost Hunters International. Hand picked by the Ghost Hunters US production company, Samlesbury Hall will be investigated by its two presenters, Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson.
THE REALITY OF DREAMS
(20 APR 08)
Columnist Rich Brooks discusses dreams and what they can mean to us. When his deceased parents visited him in a very vivid dream, Brooks thought that he was actually having a real conversation with his parents.
ROBBIE WILLIAMS STILL OBSESSED WITH ALL THINGS ALIEN
(20 APR 08)
Jon Ronson, a friend of rock star Robbie Williams, says that Robbie's interest in UFOs started after meeting a mum who says her teen son is an extraterrestrial.
ECO BURIAL SITES TO BE A WAY OF THE FUTURE
(20 APR 08)
Reflecting a worldwide trend towards environmentally friendly burials, Lismore Memorial Park Cemetery in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia, is set to establish their first eco-burial site. Here, relatives and friends will require a satellite navigation device to find graves of loved ones who have been buried in biodegradable coffins between gum trees in a protected koala sanctuary.
ANCIENT ROMAN COFFIN DISCOVERED IN ITALY
(19 APR 08)
According to archeologists, the recent discovery of a late-second-century Roman sarcophagus (stone coffin) on the outskirts of Rome, is not only an invaluable work of art but also a representation of a political elite that regarded culture and education as essential to reaching the afterlife.
IS ROME UNDER SEIGE FROM THE DEVIL?
(19 APR 08)
The Vatican's chief exorcist, Rev. Gabriele Amorth, has recently said that "there is a greater openness towards the devil." In fact, Rome has been called the most 'satanized' city in Italy. There are an estimated 800 satanic cults operating throughout Italy, with more than 600,000 followers, and growing.
THE SECOND-HIGHEST RANKING TIBETAN LAMA
(19 APR 08)
When Arjia Rinpoche was 2 years old, it was determined that he was the reincarnation of the father of Lama Tsong Khapa, founder of the Gelugpa school of Tibetan Buddhism. As the second-highest ranking lama to escape from Tibet, leaving in 1998, Rinpoche founded the Tibetan Center for Compassion and Wisdom in Mill Valley and Oakland, California (USA), to preserve, celebrate and advance Tibetan Buddhism, language and art.
AMERICAN CEMETERY TO COME ALIVE WITH VOICES FROM THE PAST
(18 APR 08)
The Oakdale Cemetery, in West Volusia, Florida, will this Friday and Saturday play host to ‘A Walk with the Founders’. In past events, actors placed throughout the cemetery have introduced themselves with monologues about the characters' lives, said the organizer of the event, Tom Roberts.
PARANORMAL INVESTIGATORS REVEAL THEIR SPOOKY FINDINGS
(18 APR 08)
Investigators from the Greater Pittsburgh Paranormal Society revealed their findings into the so called haunted police station in Homestead, Pennsylvania. Slamming doors, phantom footsteps and typewriters that type on their own, were all part of the reported strange goings on within the building.
PARANORMAL INDUSTRY TO FACE TOUGHER RULES
(18 APR 08)
In the biggest shake-up of consumer rights in a generation, psychics and alternative medicine practitioners will face their toughest regulation yet, under new rules expected to come into force next month in Europe.
BELIEF IN THE AFTERLIFE IS CONTINUALLY GROWING
(17 APR 08)
The proportion of people in Europe believing in an afterlife is lower than it is in the United States. However over the last half century, this proportion has increased in both continents, with many bereaved people experiencing the presence of someone close to them in the months after that person has died.
EXORCISM CARRIED OUT AT EAST TIMORESEPRESIDENT’S HOUSE
(17 APR 08)
An exorcism has been carried out at the home of East Timor’s President Jose Ramos-Horta, following an assignation attempt in February this year. Local elders sacrificed a pig and let loose a red-feathered rooster, which is running free in the large villa compound, in a ritual to clean the house of the spirits of those who died violently there.
THE GHOSTS OF YANKEE STADIUM TO STAY PUT
(17 APR 08)
The New York Yankees are set to move into a new home next year, but according to Dominick Villella, who works for Paranormal Investigation of New York City, the famous "ghosts" from the old Yankee Stadium will not be following them.
PRESIDENTIAL SUPERSTITIONS
(16 APR 08)
US Republic presidential contender presumptive, John McCain, confesses to being very superstitious, as also was former President Ronald Reagan.
CHILD CRICKET FAN VISITED BY THE LATE SIR DONALD BRADMAN
(16 APR 08)
Four-year-old left handed batsman, Ethan Jamieson, says that he was visited in a dream by the late great Australian cricketer, Sir Donald Bradman. "He told me to practise and listen and concentrate and don't get distracted," said Ethan.
HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS
(16 APR 08)
In the Soloman Islands, many locals in the village of Sasamunga still communicate with the spirits (pota) through what is known as virivirikana, a shell ring made out of mud. The traditional beliefs is that a virivirikana is required, because "only the pota can answer your need or prayers" through the virivirikana.
BRITISH TV HOST KNEW HE WOULD RE-UNITE WITH DECEASED GIRLFRIEND IN THE AFTERLIFE
(15 APR 08)
British TV host, Mark Speight, who recently hanged himself from a piece of machinery on the roof of MacMillan House, next to the Paddington Railway Station (UK), had once told a friend that the only thing getting him through, was that one day he would be reunited with Natasha in the afterlife. Natasha Collins was Speight’s former girlfriend, who died earlier this year (2008), after a cocaine overdose.
FILM MAKER TO START PARANORMAL SEMINARS
(15 APR 08)
The co-founder of New Gravity Media, Michael J. Baker, has officially announced his plans to organize a series of dynamic educational seminars on the scientific theories and principals involved with paranormal investigation. Due to begin on June 28 (’08), Baker aims to not only outline the history of paranormal activity and research, but also provide attendees with a live interactive demonstration of the principals of energy, the design and function of investigation equipment and the scientific techniques for the capture and evaluation of evidence.
TEAMS LINK UP FOR SPOOKY FUND RAISER
(15 APR 08)
Members of the Missing Wales Charity and the Welsh Paranormal Investigations Team are organising a fund-raising night in May, where supporters of the event will be taught how to use ghost-hunting equipment, as well as taking part in paranormal investigations.
PORTAL INTO THE AFTERLIFE
(14 APR 08)
A stone's throw from the busy Interstate 40, near Needles, California (USA), lies the Topock Maze of the Mystic Maze, an ancient American Indian religious site that occupies about 15 acres of the Mojave Desert. It is here, that modern-day Mojave people believe that the site receives the souls of the departed, where the bad souls get lost and the good ones find a portal to an afterlife.
TURNING INTO ‘GHOSTS’ TO APPEASE LORD SHIVA
(14 APR 08)
In a ritual to propitiate Lord Shiva, some residents of Jharkhand, India, have been “transforming” themselves into ghosts throughout the Hindu month of Chaitra (spring season) during religious ceremonies to get their wishes fulfilled.
ARE WE MADE UP OF MANY PERSONALITIES?
(14 APR 08)
The idea that several separate spirits may share the same body is an ancient one and award-winning journalist Rita Carter poses the case for this to be so.
THE GHOSTS OF NORLAND HALL
(13 APR 08)
In Gettysburg Pennsylvania, some of the greatest paranormal activity is reputed to occur in the original Wilson College building, Norland Hall. But before the ornate “edifice” Victorian was converted into an office in the late '80s, the college used to put guests up in its large master bedroom, where a lot of people, including that of former US President Dwight D. Eisenhower were said to be disturbed by the strange goings on.
UNDERSTANDING TELEPATHIC ANIMAL COMMUNICATORS
(13 APR 08)
To many ‘pet psychics’, the term is very passé, with most preferring to be referred as ‘Telepathic Animal Communicators’. This is due to them feeling that the term psychic comes with too much sensationalist baggage. As Jean Connelly, a Sherman Oaks based pet psychic says, I don't do readings or play parlor games. I have an actual intuitive, interactive conversation with the animal. I talk to them and I listen to them."
GHOSTS UNDER THE MICROSCOPE
(13 APR 08)
Dr Jason Braithwaite from the Behavioural Brain Sciences Centre at Birmingham University has devoted many years to investigating apparent hauntings. Some of the questions he looks into include: Just what constitutes evidence for the paranormal? Does the camera really never lie? And can we believe our own eyes?
ROME’S EXORCIST GIVES INSIDE LOOK AT THE DEVIL
(12 APR 08)
Rome's exorcist for the past 21 years and a specialist in the figure of Mary, Father Gabriele Amorth, has been unveiling the mystery surrounding the devil and exorcism, in a television and internet report series, detailing the work of the exorcist of the Diocese of Rome.
GHOST HUNT CANCELLED AT FORMER ASYLUM
(12 APR 08)
The Johnson County Board of Supervisors, in Arizona (USA), has changed its mind about allowing a paranormal team to look for ghosts at a one-time mental asylum. Board members last month approved an investigation of the buildings, but decided to vote it down in response to negative feedback, said Board Chairman Rod Sullivan.
PSYCHIC FESTIVAL RETURNS TO CINCINNATI, OHIO, USA
(12 APR 08)
Originally created to provide the general public with opportunities to explore the world of the paranormal, the upcoming Victory of Light Psychic Festival will also feature more than 50 free seminars by experts in spiritual growth, psychic development and holistic healing.
AMERICAN MOTHER SLAUGHTERS ‘DEMON’ DAUGHTER
(11 APR 08)
A young mother has confessed to brutally slashing her daughter to death because she believed the child, who had a history of sleepwalking, was possessed by the devil.
PREPARING FOR DEATH – A DIFFICULT PROSPECT
(11 APR 08)
What happens after you're dead? Have you made plans for the disposition of your remains? Chances are you have not. People don't like to talk about death, particularly their own.
SAYING GOODBYE TO THE BELOVED FAMILY PET
(11 APR 08)
Like people, cats and dogs are living longer. But many pet owners often face an agonizing financial and emotional decisions when weighing how best to treat their ailing animals and deciding when their plummeting quality of life calls for euthanasia to end their suffering.
ATOMIC KITTEN SINGER BELIEVES IN THE AFTERLIFE
(10 APR 08)
Atomic Kitten singer, Natasha Hamilton, says that she believes in the afterlife. Speaking in an interview with ITV.com, Hamilton said “I believe in the afterlife. I believe there's definitely something more to life than when you're dead and that's it."
BISHOP DETAILS NEW SEVEN DEADLY SINS
(10 APR 08)
In an article in the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Bishop Girotti details the seven new ways we can go to hell or, at the minimum, be sentenced to afterlife in purgatory at the Apostle Pen.
DEVOTEES LINE UP FOR WHIPPING EXORCISE
(10 APR 08)
Situated 300 km southwest of Chennai, the Namakkal district is a mixture of science and superstition. And it is here, that devotees from the Mariamman temple have been receiving a few lashes or mild strokes from a local priest in order to exorcise them of ghosts and witchcraft.
UFO’S SPOTTED ABOVE SOUTH TEXAS SKIES
(9 APR 08)
In the skies above Alice, South Texas, USA, there have been recent reports from locals about UFO’s. One woman who was doing her laundry in the evening, said that she saw this bright light hovering with what seemed to be a reflection below it on the horizon, and then seconds later, it disappeared.
UK TOWN TO HOST PARANORMAL EXPERTS
(9 APR 08)
Paranormal experts and authors, Paul Norton and Tracy Hall, are to host an evening of intimate readings and contact with those who have passed onto the "other side". The event is to take place on Thursday 15th May, at the Lion Hotel, in Belper, Derbyshire (UK).
UFO RESEARCHER SAYS THAT ‘UFO’S ARE REAL’
(9 APR 08)
Having begun his UFO research after an incident in 1967, lecturer Robert Hastings believes that "UFOs are real. Their technology is better than ours." He has conducted interviews, reviewed documents, and shared his findings in more than 500 lectures.
CHARLTON HESTON ISSUES STATEMENT FROM THE ‘AFTERLIFE’
(8 APR 08)
The late Hollywood great, Charlton Heston, has issued a statement today saying that he will retain possession of his firearms into the afterlife. "If Democrats won't acknowledge death as a reason to take away a person's right to vote, why should it be a reason to take away their right to bear arms? Besides, the last time I thought I was dead, I woke up on a planet full of talking apes. I really could've used a good rifle then."
HAS PSYCHOTHERAPY REPLACED EXORCISM?
(8 APR 08)
Exorcism is an arcane rite – not a sacrament – and rarely performed anymore, at least in Western countries, though its appeal lingers in societies where religion is not far removed from its mystical, pre-Christian roots. So, has psychotherapy replaced exorcism as a go-to cure for the severely unhinged and psychotically stricken?
AMERICAN PSYCHIC TALKS TO THE DEAD
(8 APR 08)
John Holland says he was born with some psychic ability but suppressed it as a kid so as not to be ostracized. A car accident as an adult "awoke the abilities that I pushed away." The departed who contact him sometimes have aged in the afterlife and sometimes not, says Psychic John Holland.
JERUSALEM RABBI INSTRUCTS EXORCISM ON KIDS
(7 APR 08)
A Jerusalem woman has been by the Jerusalem District Court of abusing her three-and-a-half-year-old son as well as his four-and-a-half-year-old brother. The indictment revealed that a rabbi instructed the woman to 'repair' her children through 'beating, tying, burning organs and feeding them with faeces'. A family friend was also accused of conducting a "tikkun" (exorcism) on the children under the influence of the rabbi who has fled to Canada.
NORWICH GHOST TOURS TO MAKE A RETURN
(7 APR 08)
For more than a decade Dave Chisnell and his family ran the Norwich Ghost and Horror Walks. Last October ‘Ghostly Dave’ hung up his cape and the tours ceased to exist. But 55-year-old driving instructor Richard McGreevy has taken up the mantle and will restart the fright-filled walks, now known as Norwich Ghost Walks, next month.
ITALIAN PRIEST CHARGED OVER EXORCISM SCAM
(7 APR 08)
A senior Italian priest, who allegedly scammed $6 million by performing fake exorcisms, is under investigation for fraud. Father Francesco Saverio Bazzoffi has been accused of roping in associates to "pretend to be possessed by demons" and casting them out with ancient and bizarre rites.
BABY BORN WITH TWO FACES BELIEVED TO BE A DEITY
(6 APR 08)
A new-born baby girl was given more than the normal reception in a village near New Delhi, is believed by some to be a new incarnation of the Indian Elephant God, Ganesh. The baby was born with two faces, two mouths, two noses and four eyes.
FORMER NUCLEAR BUNKER IS NOW HEADQUARTERS FOR UFO REPORTING CENTRE
(6 APR 08)
In the mid-1960s, the American Air Force decommissioned a nuclear missile complex in the desert of eastern Washington. Two years ago, Peter Davenport, a longtime director of the National UFO Reporting Center, a nonprofit clearinghouse and 24-hour hotline for UFO sightings, bought it for US$100,000 to turn into his headquarters.
PARANORMAL TV HOST ABLE TO SEE THE UNSEEN
(6 APR 08)
Mustaqim Amir Azuari Mohamed, one of the hosts of the fifth season of the paranormal series Seekers, claims that he has been able to see the unseen since the age of seven. “It was just before evening prayers when I noticed a small boy asking me to play with him. My mum freaked out when I told her about it. From then on, my family knew I could see things”.
OTTAWA CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP NAMES EXORCISTS
(5 APR 08)
The Catholic archbishop of Ottawa, Msgr. Kevin Beach, has appointed at least two new exorcists. The archdiocese receives seven or eight calls a year about exorcisms, and so, it has now appointed one for the English and one for the French community.
OHIO HAUNTED MANSION FEATURED ON SCI-FI CHANNEL’S GHOST HUNTERS
(5 APR 08)
In the southeast of Ohio, stories about Prospect Place mansion and grounds of being haunted are widely known. Recently, members from the “Ghost Hunters” on the Sci-Fi channel aired an episode that was filmed at the mansion. The team said on the episode they believed some paranormal activity occurs at Prospect Place.
AUSTRALIAN FUND MANAGER BELIVES IN REINCARNATION
(5 APR 08)
Connie Chang, who is the Asia-Pacific Regional Senior Manager for Fidelity International (the largest privately owned Fund Manager in the world), says that she believes in reincarnation from many myths and legends.
THE GHOSTS OF MOWBRECK HALL
(4 APR 08)
Growing up in the English manor home of Mowbreck Hall, in Wesham, during the 1960s, Basil Newby vividly recalls the stories of ghosts that were rumoured to haunt this old English establishment. "There were stories the ghost of Lord Derby would walk around the grounds with the dogs following," said Newby, amongst many others.
ELCTROMAGNETIC FIELD DETECTOR NOT CUT OUT FOR HUNTING GHOSTS
(4 APR 08)
Kristin Poduska is a physics professor at Memorial University in Canada, who studies magnetic and electronic materials. Poduska says that the concept behind the possibility of an Electromagnetic Field (EMF) detector locating ghosts stems from the theory that ghosts are made of energy and give off signal radiation. Yet these EMFs can come from anything, she says.
BRITISH PRISON OPENS IT'S DOORS FOR WOULD BE GHOST HUNTERS
(4 APR 08)
Groups of six to 12 people are being ofered the chance to spend a night in a haunted Pevensey prison cell. Boasting ghosts from hundreds of years ago, the Pevensey Town Trust has opened the doors to this former British prison, in which guests will be accompanied by a medium or paranormal researcher from the British Paranormal Association.
CHINESE BURIAL PLOTS COST MORE THAN AVERAGE APARTMENTS
(3 APR 08)
Five of Beijing’s major cemeteries now demand between 10,000 yuan and 30,000 yuan per square metre for a standard tomb, compared with an average of 20,000 yuan per square metre for an apartment in downtown Beijing.
ANNUAL PARANORMAL CONFERENCE TO BE HELD IN WISCONSIN
(3 APR 08)
An annual paranormal conference is to be held this coming Saturday, April 6, 2008, in Stevens Point, Wisconsin (USA). Hosted by paranormal investigators Chad Lewis and Terry Fisk, the conference is for people curious about everything from UFOs, ghosts and Bigfoot sightings to crop circles, werewolves and the afterlife.
POLICE IN PENNSYLVANIA CALL IN PARANORAL INVESTIGATORS
(3 APR 08)
Police stationed at the Homestead Police Department in Pennsylvania (USA), have hired a team of paranormal investigators to look into hauntings at its station. Several people have seen the keys on a typewriter moving on their own, while others can't explain the attic door, which continues to spring open no matter how many times it’s locked.
PARANORMAL INVESTIGATORS CAPTURE VOICES ON TAPE
(2 APR 08)
Members of the Arkansas Paranormal and Anomalous Studies Team (ARPAST) have released tape recordings of Electronic Voice Phenomena or EVPs that they captured whilst investigating the St. Francis County Museum, in Kansas USA.
MICHIGAN’S PARANORMAL EXPO 2008
(2 APR 08)
Organizers and hosts for The Michigan Paranormal Expo, to be held on Saturday, June 28, 2008 at the Opera House in Howell, Michigan, say that the reason for putting on the event is because there is such a huge lack of paranormal-related conferences and events in the Michigan area.
LOCALS AGAINST HAVING PARANORMAL INVESTIGATORS IN THEIR TOWN
(2 APR 08)
Locals in Johnson County, Iowa (USA) are opposed to the idea of having paranormal investigators in town, as accepted by members of the local County Board of Supervisors. The County Board had wanted the investigators to look into reports of paranormal activity at the county Poor Farm and Asylum.
CHINESE DRESS WELL IN THE AFTERLIFE
(1 APR 08)
Ethnic Chinese in Malaysia have bought large quantities of fake clothes, such as bras and underpants, all to be burnt as offerings for their deceased relatives during the Qing Ming festival, this Friday, April 4.
DEATH AT THE PRESS OF A BUTTON
(1 APR 08)
Assisted suicide has been legal in Switzerland since 1942, providing a doctor has been consulted and the patient is aware of the consequences of his or her decision. Now, thanks to a new ‘suicide machine’, now being promoted by one of Germany's most promising conservative politicians, Dr. Roger Kusch, one press of a button and you can end your life with a swift injection of potassium chloride.
PSYCHIC COUNSELOR CALLED IN TO INVESTIGATE PARANORMAL PHENOMENA
(1 APR 08)
Psychic counselor Irma Slage has been called in to investigate the strange goings on at a friend’s house in Livermore, California USA. David Grimes, a friend of Slages’, says that in the past seven months, he has felt cold spots, heard a "gentleman's voice," knocks at the door (always three taps) and heel-to-toe footsteps when no one's there.
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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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