Miscellany
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Genetic material from outer space found in a meteorite in Australia may well have played a key role in the origin of life on earth, according to a study to be published. European and US scientists...
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INTERNATIONAL GHOST CONFERENCE COMING TO CANADAJohn Adams is well known for his mysterious Victoria ghost walks and his chilling historical books. From July 6 to 9, Adams will be one of the guest...
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James Dow, an evolutionary anthropologist at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, US, has written a simple computer program called Evogod that may explain how religion evolved. An evolutionary...
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An international genetics project has found that modern humans almost became extinct 70,000 years ago. It was a very close call. If a devastating drought that gripped Africa had lasted just a little...
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The Anglican Bishop of South Sydney, Robert Forsyth, is outraged over a play that depicts Jesus as a gay man who is seduced by Judas and conducts a gay marriage for two apostles. A PLAY that depicts...
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Ray, a taxi driver from Wollongong in NSW, Australia, sent us in a delightful story about the kind hearted sprit of an “Unknown Soldier”. For those of you that enjoy reading about the generosity of...
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ASTROLOGY may usually be dismissed as harmless superstition, but scientists are discovering that the date we are born can affect our later lives. Research has revealed the time of year a person is...
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THE IOWA CAUCUSES are just a few weeks away. Don't be alarmed, though. In case you didn't notice, we're not in Iowa — whew — so we don't have to do anything about the caucuses, or about frozen...
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Readers have been calling in their droves to tell us they saw the huge “Dorito” UFO in the skies over the Black Country. The orange triangle with its three lights was seen over Wednesfield and Dudley ...
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The American Association of Electronic Voice Phenomena (AA-EVP) is a nonprofit educational association that is dedicated to the support of people who are interested in or who are studying Electronic...
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Experiences in spiritual matters can help one understand life energy (qi) better. ONCE I was asked to go to a neighbour¡¦s house to help the wife. The lady was being possessed by a horrible-looking...
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ST. GREGOR, Sask. . If you want to stay on Calvin Michel's good side, don't ask him about that circular patch of flattened wheat in one of his fields. After the crop circle was discovered on his farm ...
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THE Vatican has bought up a majority share of Italian third division soccer side Ancona in a bid to 'moralise' soccer around the world. La Stampa newspaper reported yesterday that the Centro Sportivo ...
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EGYPT will put the mummy of the boy pharaoh Tutankhamun on display next month, allowing visitors to see his face for the first time. Zahi Hawass, head of the High Council for Antiquities, said he...
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There are seven distinct Spirits of God. Each has Her own name and sphere of influence, but all always act together to produce the very character and nature of God Himself. Here we will consider some ...
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The family of ANC activist Eunice Mosele Morabe saw her grave for the first time ten days ago since she was buried in Morogoro, Tanzania, 22 years ago. Eunice skipped the country in early 1985 to...
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Melbourne man, John Perkins, an economist and secular rationalist activist, is offering A$100,000 to believers who can prove their religion is true. Believing that God's existence could not be proved ...
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WITH loans hard to come by and buyers thin on the ground, some homeowners in the US are seeking divine help to sell their home. They are turning to St Joseph, who, in addition to being the foster...
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With her nine-year-old son William lying desperately ill in hospital following emergency brain surgery, Ruth McCartney-Moore prayed that she would one day hear his voice again. But when he did speak...
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RIO GRANDE CITY, Texas – An acacia tree that started sprouting a foamlike substance on its branches after its owner died is drawing hundreds of people a day to see what some believe is supernatural...
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ORANGE, Calif. — Yvonne Conway sees dead people, so tombstones were a no-brainer. Conway is the national spokesperson for the Berkley, Calif.-based witchcraft organization Covenant of the Goddess....
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A community of descendents of freed slaves is blaming the recent defeat of Jamaica's long-ruling People's National Party on the prime minister's improper use of a sacred horn. Former Prime Minister...
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A supermarket shelfstacker accused of being one of the world's most prolific serial killers goes on trial in Moscow on Friday charged with murdering at least 49 people. Alexander Pichushkin, 33, is...
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MONTREAL -- The Roman Catholic Church here announced Thursday it has excommunicated members of a Canadian group called the Army of Mary, led by an 86-year-old who claims to be a reincarnation of...
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A MAN who failed to marry his lover and bludgeoned her to death with a hammer in the hope of marrying her in the afterlife was arrested yesterday. Shi Jun will soon face charges of murder, Hongkou...
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OSLO, Norway - Archaeologists opened a Viking burial mound on Monday, seeking to learn more about two women -- possibly a queen and a princess -- laid to rest there 1,173 years ago. In 1904, the...
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All three major religions believe in one God, and are collectively known as "Abrahamic religions" because they trace their history to the covenant God made with Abraham in the Hebrew Bible. Here are...
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Three weeks ago, a young mother with a seemingly perfect life, placed her infant in a playpen, walked to the backyard and set herself on fire. Before dying, she told of being tormented by a voice...
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In southern Senegal and the Gambia, home to the Mandinka ethnic group, the rainy season also brings the appearance of the Kankuran, a man who takes on the role of an age-old spirit and guardian of...
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KATHMANDU - Officials at Nepal's state-run airline have sacrificed two goats to appease Akash Bhairab, the Hindu sky god, following technical problems with one of its Boeing 757 aircraft, the carrier ...
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Amy Zellmer has an artistic eye when it comes to photos. She sees the beauty in life and it reflects in her photographs no matter who or what the subject is. The photos she has taken are alive with...
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Scot Tessa Dunlop and TV psychic Derek Acorah turn tomb raiders to explore the ancient mysteries of Egypt THEIR secrets have lain hidden and undisturbed among the stone ruins for centuries....
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HIGH spirits on campus are more usually associated with student union bars than lecture halls, but one of Scotland's oldest seats of learning is offering classes studying spooks, poltergeists and...
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BUSOGA'S ancestral spirits have been relocated from Bujagali Falls without the consent of the spiritual leader. Nabumba Budhagali, who is believed to be the powerful wichdoctor who heads the spirits, ...
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For all their secular reputation, Connecticut's residents aren't that different from people in the rest of the country when it comes to basic religious beliefs. We're just a bit less certain about...
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DEAR ABBY: I read one of your “pennies from heaven” columns more than a year ago. I thought the idea was quaint but didn’t pay it much mind because I’ve always felt that when someone’s life ends —...
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The blog of a dead woman lives on, perhaps redefining the nature of mourning, the nature of love. VENTNOR, N.J. - On March 20, 2007, Jennifer Cakert turned 27, but only on her MySpace page and her...
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Bloemfontein - He sold his soul to the devil and conjured up evil spirits before the murder of 64-year-old Emmerentia Botha of the farm Skuilhoek in the Wanda district, says the man sentenced for...
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BEIJING - Two Chinese brothers clawed their way out of a collapsed coal mine after surviving underground for nearly six days, shocking grieving relatives who had burned money for the men’s souls to...
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Legend has it that the royal tombs of ancient Egypt were sealed with monstrous curses against all those who trespassed into the domain of the afterlife. In the tomb of the boy pharaoh, Tutankhamun,...
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I knew someone who was a professional racing car driver. When asked what he liked about racing, he said he enjoyed the challenge of getting himself and the car prepared for race day. "When they wave...
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People are interested in easy and real levitation methodology as well as its applicability to every type of objects including human- Dr SS Verma Levitation is a phenomenon of making any kind of...
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KUALA LUMPUR - Inflation in China is not just an earthly concern; it is also a problem in the afterlife, according to suppliers of goods used by Chinese worshippers. In Malaysia, home to more than 6...
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The director of the Radio and Television for the Catholic Archdiocese of Mexico City warned the faithful against "Saint Death", a popular devotion favored by narco-traffickers that is contrary to...
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AMSTERDAM - A Roman Catholic Bishop in the Netherlands has proposed people of all faiths refer to God as Allah to foster understanding, stoking an already heated debate on religious tolerance in a...
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A SMALL religious group that worships the Grim Reaper and is fighting for government recognition has unveiled a softer image of their Death Saint: a woman with a porcelain face, brown,...
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Have aliens chosen to descend on Shirley? Well possibly if an American UFO expert's website is to be believed. Brian Vike, who bills himself as an independent UFO researcher, has posted details of a...
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A 1,300-year-old skeleton buried with a cache of gold artifacts has been found in a Bolivian pyramid, archaeologists say. The remains are believed to belong to an elite member of the ancient Tiwanaku ...
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Former police officer Danie Krugel, whose "magic box" was featured in a Carte Blanche programme on the missing girls connected to paedophile Gert van Rooyen, may be working on another device. And...
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Lori Cox hasn't been in town long, but her name probably will get around fast as a paranormal investigator poking around some creepy old houses and buildings throughout the Shenandoah Valley and...
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THEY are a staple of science fiction and have convinced generations of the existence of extra-terrestrial life. But although for most people flying saucers exist only in films and TV shows, the...
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Dying isn't quite what it used to be. The days of seeing a funeral director in a dark, pin stripe suit showing a grief-stricken family around a showroom of caskets and embellished urns are seemingly...
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Strange sightings of a massive, triangular object that stretched across the sky seven years ago have propelled St. Clair County into the heights of UFO lore. "I can't explain what I saw," said Mark...
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Kumhiya (Kushinagar): Misconceptions still play a significant role in the life of different strata of society. The biggest example can be seen in Kumhiya village in Uttar Pradesh's Kushinagar...
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FIRST there were the grey nomads - now there are the "grave nomads". For many people, visiting the "dead centre'' of towns and cities is the last thing on their travel itinerary. But cemetery tourism ...
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IF YOU believe a UFO and its crew of bug-eyed aliens came crashing down in the New Mexico desert in 1947, rest assured, you're not alone. Sixty years after big-headed, toothpick-limbed green aliens...
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An interesting perspective - A discussion picked up using super sensitive equipment placed inside a womb of a mother expecting twins. - Do you believe in Life after Birth? - Of course: in here we're...
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SCIENCE can finally prove what Buddhists have sworn by for centuries - meditation really does sharpen and clear the brain. Tests by Adelaide researchers have revealed that as people go further into a ...
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NEW YORK: A panel of scientists convened by America's leading scientific advisory group says the hunt for extraterrestrial life should be greatly expanded to include what they call "weird life":...
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The search for a mystical 'baby' is replacing the search for God as the dominant religion of this century I was struck by the intense devotion when I recently checked out Canada's religious channel....
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AN agnostic friend has an interesting opinion of God: "He's probably a nice guy, but he yells too muuch." Another friend also uses the word nice when describing Jesus. He's the gentle man, perhaps a...
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SEOUL, South Korea — Yang Soon-im says she began communicating with the spirits of mountains and ancient warriors more than 50 years ago, when she was only 7. But it was decades after that, when her...
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The state prayed. It would appear that God provided. Since June 30 (2007), the day Gov. Bob Riley designated a week for residents to pray for rain, Tuscaloosa has seen .55 inches of it. Given that in ...
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Locals in Payerne in the northern part of Vaud are scratching their heads after the discovery of a corn field where the crop has been flattened in a round shape 60 metres wide. The farmer who owns...
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AN EXPERT on aliens and ghosts is holding a series of lectures in Croydon in the hope that people will come forward with stories of spooky goings on in the borough. Malcolm Robinson, founder of the...
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It's 60 years since the term flying saucer was coined and the most celebrated "extraterrestrial" episode - Roswell. Alien believers are dismissed as cranks, but even the earthly explanations of...
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You've heard the phrase ‘diamonds are a girl's best friend’ - but now, her best friend can be a diamond. Cremated remains of the deceased are being transformed into diamonds for the living to...
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(Published: Saturday, June 30, 2007) Well-loved psychology professor and founder of the B.C. Society for Skeptical Enquiry Barry Beyerstein will be remembered as a "kind, gentle person," a loving...
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"Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the Field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something....
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Children who visit the Swedish American Museum Center in Chicago's Andersonville neighborhood can climb into the newest exhibit—a replica of a wooden 7-foot Viking sled that Norsemen used to haul...
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YOU may think it lacks dignity or 'gravity', but burials in space could soon be reality for some. Since the cremated remains of Gene Roddenberry, the creator of the TV sci-fi series Star Trek,...
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The names and faces of famous New Yorkers including Mickey Mantle, Judy Garland and Malcolm X would be protected in New York from advertising and promotion not authorised by their estates under a...
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For most of the one third of Americans recently polled who think aliens have visited Earth, that believe is more or less harmless. But there are times when a perceived alien threat becomes deadly. An ...
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Jun 3, 2007 — Voting for the 2007 Paranormal Awards is open to the public on the Ghost World Conference Web site. The awards will be handed out during the conference July 20-22 in Gettysburg....
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British artist Damien Hirst recently unveiled his latest weird and wacky masterpiece -- a real human skull encased in more than $25 million in diamonds. Diamonds are a (dead) girl's best friend!...
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Proof that a 12-foot creature with fiery red eyes spooked Braxton County schoolchildren in 1952. Proof that aliens crashed a spaceship near Roswell, N.M., in 1947. Proof that the ...
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What do you think about what we're doing here? It was an immensely complicated question put to me by Maria Mulford, an American Indian who played a key role in organizing this past weekend's...
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EAST BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Despite the Catholic Church's preference for burial, a New Jersey diocese has begun work on the first crematory in the United States to be built by a diocese. Church officials...
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PHILADELPHIA — The dinner was first-class, with butlers serving hors d’oeuvres and the strains of “Blue Danube” tastefully muffling the festive din. This nine-course re-creation of the last supper...
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IT was like a scene from the movie Close Encounters, according to at least one eye-witness. Orange lights dancing in the night sky moved in formation, coming and going in waves. Numerous reports were ...
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One question has long plagued researchers of the paranormal and the unexplained: when aliens return cows after they have finished mutilating them, do the cows bounce when they hit the ground? Now,...
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What better gift for a new baby than a baby rattle? Babies have played with rattles since ancient times. At first the toys were meant for adults, who rattled them to keep evil spirits away from...
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THE TRUTH is out there according to a Rugby man who claims that aliens planted a probe into his arm. Steve Munday, 46, has become an internet cult figure after a video interview with him was...
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The "Eguzkilore" is a large dried thistle head with a pronounced likeness to the sun which is placed by the door of farm and other kinds of houses in order to protect inhabitants against evil...
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Reports from Canada are coming in as usual, but in one province UFO sightings are way up for this time of the year. A massive 73 reported written sightings and a number of telephone interviews places ...
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An insight into the supernatural is what one palm reader will be offering when her new age shop opens in Ewell Village next month. Palm reading, tarot and clairvoyance are some of the practises that...
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It's not enough to live sustainably - now you can have a environmentally-friendly afterlife too. Recycled cardboard coffins are being offered as a cheap, green alternative to wooden caskets. They're...
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Residents in County Down have raised the possibility of a UFO sighting above the skies of Bangor. Several callers to BBC Northern Ireland have reported a series of strange orange lights in the night...
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While church attendance has sharply declined in Estonia in the last century, belief in things mystic and spiritual has gained ground in the small Baltic state -- including paid sessions to talk to...
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A MUSICIAN who was pulled along by a train has paid tribute to the "incredible skills" of medical staff at Addenbrooke's Hospital for saving his badly injured arm. Guitarist David Ditchfield - who...
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This grand old country of ours is steeped in history and legend. But you Americans always assume we're a sensible race - a bit quiet, slow to change maybe, not given to absurd flights of fancy. How...
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Members of Littleton's Abiding Hope Lutheran Church heard a passionate presentation on the Baha'i faith this past Sunday (May 6) as part of Abiding Hope's Adult Education series One Name and Many...
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Minneapolis, MN (PRLEAP) May 7, 2007 — A confidential STAR Report by Starstream Research, a private provider of intelligence and analysis on futuristic defense issues, reveals that past and present...
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Wong Tsu Chang says a mysterious lady appeared in his dreams and told him about his calling as a medium. WHEN Wong Tsu Chang saw The Sixth Sense, he felt that his life was being played out on the...
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A mysterious orb like object has been captured on video during an investigation attempting to unlock the spooky secrets of Stretford's oldest building. You can view the exclusive footage - taken by...
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The Beltane Papers: A Journal of Women's Mysteries will host its first ever TeleFestival from May 14 to May 18, 2007 with five exciting speakers on the subject of Women's Spirituality. New York, NY...
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Researchers have long debated what happened when the indigenous Neanderthals of Europe met "modern humans" arriving from Africa starting some 40,000 years ago. The end result was the disappearance of ...
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AIR investigators are probing sightings of two UFOs off the Channel Islands — one up to a MILE wide. The huge cigar-shaped objects were reported by pilots on separate flights. Aurigny airlines...
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Ghost ship crewman relatives feel in spiritual contact They believe there may have been a kidnapping Authorities criticised for calling off search RELATIVES of the skipper of a mystery yacht found...
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NEW LEIPZIG - A nationally televised psychic detective looked through rain streaming down the windshield at a farmhouse out in the muddy boondocks southeast of New Leipzig. Nancy Orlen Weber, of New...
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DOVER -- Do you believe in the Dover Demon? This weekend (22 Apr 07) marks the 30th anniversary of the alleged sightings of the mysterious creature, described by several witnesses as about 4 feet...
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This last year has seen some strange developments in the UFO/ET scene. The abduction phenomena seems to have all but entirely died. I haven't been able to find any documented reports after November...
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Science is still unable to answer one simple question. Who are we? What was there before the big bang? What or who created the big bang. It was not that it just happened! It was well-planned massive...
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Honora Finkelstein and Susan Smily seem willing to offer advice on any topic, including writing or publishing a book and finding a good recipe. Or, on the topic of ghosts. The co-authors of "The Chef ...
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Opinions: Vonnegut's words are worth thinking about I was thinking about Kurt Vonnegut's recent death when a certain person or persons at Virginia Tech murdered 32 people in a shooting spree. As an...
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People have always believed that life on earth is intertwined with the universe, and a 48-year-old Bosnian economist now claims he can use cosmic energy to heal other people. 'I am like an electrical ...
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Kuala Lumpur - A Malaysian museum which had defied calls for it to stop a popular exhibition on supernatural beings on Friday cancelled it after an Islamic fatwa, or religious decree, was issued,...
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New health study reveals physicians believe God can help patients get healthy A majority of American doctors believe God or another supernatural being intervenes in patients' health, a study has...
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MAIDSTONE -- There's no hesitation in the man's hand as he sketches the shapes of the UFOs he has spotted near this rural Saskatchewan community over the years. "Once you've seen them, you never...
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WINNIPEG —Aliens and spaceships are a bit passe these days, but 736 reported UFO sightings across Canada last year shows an “underlying, real phenomenon” going on, says one of the country’s top UFO...
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April 16, 2007 issue - Judging from the media in recent months, the debate over global warming is now over. There has been a net warming of the earth over the last century and a half, and our...
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PJ Mir, Pakistan's media manager during the World Cup, has blamed the influence of religion in the dressing room for Pakistan's disastrous performance in the Caribbean. Speaking to reporters after...
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ISLAMIC terrorism has prompted Australians to re-examine their religious beliefs and has perhaps given God a higher media profile, the Catholic Archbishop, Cardinal George Pell, has said In a...
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AMERICANS are big on "closure" and now they have found a way to literally bury the past at the end of a marriage. A New York divorcee has come up with a solution for failed marriages - a miniature...
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EVEN as they complain about soaring downtown house prices, Chinese are finding that accommodation in the afterlife is just as pricey. An austere tomb in a cemetery located on the outskirts of Beijing ...
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CALUMETVILLE — When Kathy Gardipee is in the presence of death, she sings. The Calumetville woman has plenty of experience with the afterlife. She just started a home-based funeral business — Funeral ...
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When I say... "I am a Christian" I'm not shouting "I'm clean living.'" I'm whispering "I was lost, Now I'm found and forgiven." When I say... "I am a Christian" I don't speak of this with pride. I'm...
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A magnitude 6 earthquake struck off the Solomons Islands today, two days after at least 30 people were killed in a major quake and tsunami. The latest in a series of quakes hit 139km north-west of...
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Chinese Internet users are turning to "online tombs" as an easier way to pay respects to deceased relatives and others during an annual festival to honour the dead, state media reported on Wednesday. ...
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China is to outlaw a lively trade in tomb futures -- speculation in the business of selling graves -- after it bankrupted many investors, local media said on Monday. Chinese beliefs and superstitions ...
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MANY of us, especially if we are Scottish, have had a hellish upbringing. That is no reflection on our parents but a condemnation of the fear-filled faith which dominated our young lives. For...
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New Scientist has drawn up a list of "13 things that do not make sense". Let's just focus on one for the moment, the placebo effect. According to the article: Don't try this at home. Several times a...
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Lynne Campbell and her father chuckled when they saw an official Red Sox cremation urn featured in Sports Illustrated. That was a year ago, and they joked that whoever went first would get one. Her...
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A recent documentary purportedly shattered one of the most important tenets of Christianity, a month before Easter no less, and many Christians didn’t seem to notice. Jesus didn’t rise from the dead? ...
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In our universe of infinite size, duration and combinations of matter randomly coming together within it, is there any intelligent life form on Earth that believes we are alone? The last time I wrote ...
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KUALA LUMPUR: Stress, anxiety, dissociation and the supernatural. These are cited as causes of mass hysteria. Hospital Bahagia Tanjung Rambutan director and senior consultant psychiatrist Dr Suarn...
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Animals work on the pleasure-pain principle: if it feels good, do it; and if it hurts, then avoid it. And we use it to train dogs. If you say "Sit!", and they sit, you pet them or give food. If they...
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In 1899, a young Dana Chadwick convinced her father to allow her to visit San Francisco and study art. During her stay, she fell in love, married and then almost as quickly, was widowed in the great...
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Matt Erickson stepped into the third-floor motel room with several other wary travelers just before midnight. Some turned on digital recorders to capture "electronic voice phenomena," known to...
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"Ghost Hunters" -- Sci Fi channel. Its stars headline Darkness Radio travel events. "Dead Famous" -- Biography channel. Clairvoyant Chris Fleming is a Darkness Radio trip celebrity. "Haunting...
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France became the first country to open its files on UFOs Thursday when the national space agency unveiled a website documenting more than 1,600 sightings spanning five decades. The online archives,...
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When it comes to America’s signature foods, peanuts are right up there with apple pie and hot dogs. What would a baseball game be without them? What would we munch on while waiting for a table in...
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According to the Ufology Research of Manitoba, there were over 700 unidentified flying object sightings in Canada during 2005. This was the second highest amount ever recorded, surpassed only by the...
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Modern man has so advanced in science and technology that he insists on evidence before he accepts anything as the truth, especially those that are supernatural in nature. Gone are the days when he...
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Breast cancer patients who pray in online support groups can obtain mental health benefits, according to a new study conducted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center of Excellence in Cancer...
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The popularity of television shows such as SciFi channel’s “GhostHunters” has created an explosion of groups of individuals interested in studying the paranormal. The premise of these groups, as with ...
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An MW student stands to win US$1m if his dissertation proves magnetic wine-improving devices work as claimed. James Cluer is testing the BevWizard, a magnetic wine pourer marketed by Dr Pat Farrell,...
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In high school, I attempted to formulate a theory mending evolution and creationism. I failed miserably. I researched evolution tirelessly, went to Bible study, and dredged through dribbling science...
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BOISE, Idaho - Most people who call the Legislative Information Center at the state Capitol are looking for their district's lawmakers, not advice on the afterlife. But that's what they get if they...
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IBM wants to help you find out if UFOs are real. Well, sort of. With UFO sightings seemingly on the rise, Big Blue is teaming with The Anomalies Network to offer UFO Crawler, a new search engine...
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BarlowGirl plays at benefit for local group that urges teen abstinence Monday night it was all about rocking the pews and raising the roof for Jesus. Popular Elgin, Ill-based Christian band...
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By ROBIN MARANTZ God has always been a puzzle for Scott Atran. When he was 10 years old, he scrawled a plaintive message on the wall of his bedroom in Baltimore. “God exists,” he wrote in black and...
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I first heard about the closing of the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research lab, or PEAR, on National Public Radio about a week or so ago. It caught my attention and my imagination. I started...
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Lutheran religious leaders discussed the similarities of Islam, Christianity and Judaism on Monday during two hour-long forums at Valparaiso University. The public talks were a forum entitled...
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A former Canadian defense minister is demanding governments worldwide disclose and use secret alien technologies obtained in alleged UFO crashes to stem climate change, a local paper said Wednesday....
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Polish explorers in sphere of this mystery have found the new objects of interest, i.e. RODS - purportedly luminous flying objects on their photos. You can believe it but this isn´t anything...
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Surrounded by a mob of news cameras, a group of smiling, well-dressed church members crowded into a South Beach storefront parlor on a recent muggy evening and got matching tattoos of their prophet's ...
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A DATABASE of UFO sightings by police officers has clocked up more than 200 cases in five years. Launched by Detective Constable Gary Heseltine, of the British Transport Police (BTP), the unofficial...
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Year of the Pig babies are thought to have a better life, and many couples are paying close attention to the calendar Ying Wang and Hiroshi Ching looked for a nanny and began decorating their...
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London - A British university has become the first in the country to offer a degree for funeral directors, it said on Friday. The course at Bath University, in south-west England, will cover...
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Ozark's unsolved Beasley/Howlett murder case may soon get back into the national spotlight and police hope it will generate new leads. The case is set to appear on Court TV's show Haunting Evidence....
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Always ready to throw a pail of cold water on the public's ¯ and the mass media's ¯ pet beliefs, the Skeptical Inquirer is into its 31st year and going strong. The bimonthly is published by the...
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Richard Mullard chuckles when he thinks about his funeral. It's not that he thinks death is a laughing matter -- he just relishes the thought of someone trying to fit him into a hearse while he's...
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SPRING BRANCH — A songwriter often must endure a lost love or a brush with death to reach a new creative plateau. For Gary Lenz, it took the war in Iraq and the deaths of two young men from San...
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Visitors to the British Museum can view the ancient Chinese afterlife in a fall exhibit that includes terra cotta bureaucrats counting beans for eternity. Treasures from the Chinese site provide the...
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Maidstone’s Barb Campbell is taking her paranormal research to the airwaves. Campbell will make her latest foray into the paranormal on Feb. 10 with the internet broadcast of UFO Connection Radio....
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It has been almost ten years to the date since the strange Arizona light phenomenon lit up the night sky over Phoenix, Arizona. Some witnesses said they also saw them over Tucson and even into...
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The 58 fans sitting before the big-screen television were watching the Super Bowl. Psychologist Emily Pronin was watching the fans. Pronin and the fans were at Princeton University, just up the road...
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This is the text of a talk I gave (in somewhat abridged form) last week at the Strand bookstore in Manhattan to promote my new book, The Quotable Atheist. The other speaker was Robin Morgan, whose...
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The Year of the Dog will bow-wow out today as the Year of the Pig oinks it's way in. Feb 4 marks the changes of the animal guards in Chinese Astrology, on the solar calendar. It’s February 18 on the...
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UFO activity has been light as of late in the skies above Kamloops. The last sighting of a “boomerang-shaped object” was reported at 1:02 a.m. on April 24, 2006. Many UFO sightings, however, are...
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A free talk will examine the 2005 Dover, Pa., trial that tested whether intelligent design could be taught alongside evolution in public school biology classes. The talk begins at 7 p.m. Wednesday 7...
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At 5:30 p.m. on Thursday 1 February 2007, 10-15 UFOs were spotted over north London in the inner-city district of Islington. The Islington police said they started receiving phone calls only minutes...
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Walk into a New York theater at random and you have a decent chance of encountering a story about sex and its consequences, or a parody of some pop-culture phenomenon, or a tale of war and power. You ...
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MARTIANS maybe hiding underground on Mars to stay alive, new research suggests. Aliens could have burrowed below the red planet’s surface to avoid deadly radiation above. Now scientists led by the...
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There's now good scientific support for the claim that psilocybin, the active agent in "magic" mushrooms, has a better-than-even chance of generating a full-blown mystical experience in properly...
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It's hard to draw a surfer's attention away from the next wave, but whatever was in the southwest sky Friday evening around 6:20 p.m. drew a crowd along Kewalo Basin and Ala Moana Beach Park....
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One of the central tenets of Buddhism is non-attachment -- the idea that we live in a world of constant change and therefore shouldn't hold onto anything too tightly, whether it's our desire for...
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Some popular paranormal or supernatural beliefs include the following: Angels: Bodiless, immortal spirits that can be good or bad. They are most often depicted with wings. Channeling: A process...
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North Carolina 911 Callers Report Seeing UFOs, Call 911 Some people in the Charlotte area called 911 dispatchers and reported seeing a weird hovering light in the sky. Emergency dispatchers answered...
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Robert Zeps doesn't believe in prayer. He doesn't believe in God. He believes it's all in your head. “It has to be in the brain,” he says. “Your brain is your brain and all your thoughts and feelings ...
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In 2002, Gary McKinnon was arrested by the UK's national high-tech crime unit, after being accused of hacking into Nasa and the US military computer networks. He says he spent two years looking for...
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PHILADELPHIA - Religion and science can combine to create some thorny questions: Does God exist outside the human mind, or is God a creation of our brains? Why do we have faith in things that we...
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PARIS - The French space agency said it will publish its archive of UFO sightings and other phenomena online, but will keep the names of those who reported them off the site to protect them from...
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LUCKNOW, India (Reuters) - About 70 million Hindus are expected to converge in northern India over the next six weeks for a dip in the holy Ganges river to wash away their sins in what may be one of...
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It sounds like a tired joke--but a group of airline employees insist they are in earnest, and they are upset that neither their bosses nor the government will take them seriously. A flying saucerlike ...
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With epoxy glue and a pair of clamps, Alvin Enfinger has lovingly fixed many headstones at Coon Hill Cemetery. A vandal usually damages a headstone or two each year. But, over the weekend, the...
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Since pigs began living as a domestic animal in Korea more than 2,000 years ago, they have brought a lot of myths and superstitions closely associated with wealth, good luck as well as a mythical...
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THAT'S a dried-up fruit, if you are to believe Mr Bernard Ng, 34. It was plucked from a tree in Laos 10 years ago, he claimed. The operations officer, who has a collection of 'paranormal' items, told ...
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James Blunt's Goodbye My Lover has topped a poll of songs most played at funerals. It means Angels by Robbie Williams has now been bumped into second place having been the most popular choice over...
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For many Chinese, an ancestor is someone to honor, but also someone whose needs must be maintained. Families burn offerings of fake money or paper models of luxury cars in case an ancestor might need ...
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The "Ghastly Walking Tour" of downtown Naperville offers spine-tingling tales of a phantom galloping horse and broken-hearted ghosts, but no story is as shocking to the community as word of the...
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Some people swear they have seen ghosts, Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) or other phenomena. The Smoking Gun Research Agency (SGRA), a Westport-based nonprofit paranormal research and...
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GROTON -- Carved monoliths in Groton's Old Burying Ground loom like ghosts from centuries past. Once believed to be doorways bridging the dead into the afterlife, early headstones were chiseled with...
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In ancient cultures, it was common to bury the dead with objects that would help them on their journey to the afterlife. Objects were also displayed as representations of items that had meaning in...
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The New Mexico chapter of the Mutual UFO Network held its statewide meeting in Alamogordo Sunday. However, there were no discussions of alien plots to take over the world. There were no in depth...
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When I walked into Party City with my daughter Eliana, we were met by a ghoul. As we approached, the mechanized black and gray figure spoke: "I'm going to take your candy!" My soon-to-be 3-year-old...
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Major League Baseball has partnered with a company that is going to put the logos of all 30 teams on coffins so people can suffer for eternity as Cubs fans or wake the dead with their thundersticks....
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A Sudanese man has been forced by tribal elders to marry a goat as his "wife", after he was caught having sex with the animal. ...More
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Unusual funerals that are now becoming much more popular with the ‘baby boomer’ generation. ...More
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Burnt offerings of cash and luxuries has long been normal in China but some families are now seeking spouses in the afterlife for their dead relatives, sons mainly. ...More
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China has now banned strippers from performing at funerals, they were usually employed to draw large crowds and having a large crowd at your funeral was seen as a mark of honour. ...More
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