APRIL 2007
SPIRITS DANCE TO A NEW BEAT
(30 APR 07)
In a tiny isolated hamlet of Central Java, lies the village of Kali Harjo. Here, many locals dance to the beat of a drum and perform the Do-la-lak trance, which is said to be able to not only awaken the dead, but where their spirits then enter those of the dancers, driving them to frenzied and powerful performances.
EXPLORING THE FIRST CHARTERED CEMETERY IN THE U.S.
(30 APR 07)
The Grove Street Cemetery was the first chartered burial ground in the United States. Among the internationally renowned persons interred at the cemetery are Eli Whitney, inventor; Noah Webster, lexicographer; Josiah Willard Gibbs, Jr., scientist; Lyman Beecher, abolitionist and prohibitionist; O.C. Marsh, paleontologist and Lars Onsager, Nobel Prize winner. Visitors to the cemetery say that they have seen apparitions and strange lights, and some have also reported hearing whisperings.
NEANDERTHALS AND MODERN MAN – KINDRED SPIRITS
(30 APR 07)
A new review of fossil records from 40,000 years ago has come up with a provocative conclusion, that the indigenous Neanderthals of Europe met modern humans arriving from Africa and, they saw each other as kindred spirits.
WHAT MAKES PEOPLE THINK THEY’VE SEEN A GHOST
(29 APR 07)
Clinical psychotherapist, hypnotherapist and councilor, Mark Lunn, has always been interested in how humans react when they believe they are in a haunted building. A year ago, Mark teamed up with members of the Paranormal Seekers Society based in Willenhall (UK) to find out what makes people believe they have seen a ghost.
PHILADELPHIA SHUTS DOWN PSYCHICS
(28 APR 07)
According to an obscure Philadelphia state law which bans fortune-telling "for gain or lucre," the city's Department of Licenses and Inspections are closing down storefront psychics, astrologers, phrenologists and tarot-card readers who charge money for their services.
HUNTING THE GHOSTS OF FRANCE’S PAST
(28 APR 07)
In the Abbey of Mortemeran in Normandy, France, entrepreneurial psychic and former professional magician Erick Fearson will try to shed some light on the ghosts of this haunted building by providing visitors with a tour, where they may come across the appearance of its famous Lady in White or the abbey’s murdered monks.
MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ARE PREPARING FOR THE AFTERLIFE
(27 APR 07)
To millions of people the world over, there is in fact life after death. Even those who have been at death’s door and had an opportunity to look into the other side, have so far only been able to talk about a white blinding light, and so to the believers, life does go on in what many refer to as the afterlife.
UNLIMITED MUSIC GHOSTS
(27 APR 07)
Members of the Central Oklahoma Paranormal Studies (COPS) have been called in to investigate “unexplainable” sounds at the office building of Music Unlimited. Disembodied footsteps have been heard many times, where on one such occasion, it was so real that a drum student quit taking lessons at the store.
UFO’S SPOTTED OVER THE CHANNEL ISLANDS
(27 APR 07)
Captain Ray Bowyer, of Aurigny airlines, has said that he saw something strange hovering west of Alderney, about 40 miles from where their plane was, stating that the size of the unidentified object could have been as much as a mile wide.
YELTSIN WAS INTERESTED IN THE AFTERLIFE
(26 APR 07)
Boris Yeltsin, the former Russian president had taken an interest into what happens to a person’s soul when they die. Archpriest Georgy Studyonov, the rector of St. Michael’s at Troparyovo, Moscow, has said that Yeltsin had previously asked him questions about the afterlife during the funeral service for his mother.
INDIAN PILOTS SPOOKED BY GHOSTS
(26 APR 07)
Indian Airlines pilot, Captain Devi Sharan, says that he has experienced ghostly hauntings at the Sharjah’s Holiday Inn. An official of Indian Airlines has said that Captain Sharan “felt a presence in his room, a kind of apparition’.
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF GRAVE HOUSES
(25 APR 07)
According to Freelance writer Abby Burnett, “Grave houses” are little buildings built on top of graves. They’re not crypts or mausoleums. They’re a Tennessee-North Carolina-Kentucky tradition that was brought to the Ozarks by settlers.
MORMONS BELIEVE IN BECOMING GOD IN THE AFTERLIFE
(25 APR 07)
With over 12.9 million members worldwide, Mormons base their beliefs not only on the Bible but also on "revelations" delivered through their prophets. Their belief that Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormons, originally transcribed their scriptural Book of Mormon from golden tablets he found in 1827, with help from an angel. They also believe that life is a test, and humans can become like God in the afterlife through earthly adherence to church teachings and disciplines.
WHERE IS GENGHIS KHAN BURIED?
(25 APR 07)
On August 18, 1227, during his last campaign with the Western Xia Empire of the Tanguts, Genghis Khan died. The reason for his death is uncertain. He asked to be buried without markings, though believed to be in a remote mountain location in Mongolia, where 40 virgins were also killed to provide Genghis with needed pleasures for the afterlife.
AUSTRALIAN GHOST SHIP SKIPPER IS STILL OUT THERE
(24 APR 07)
Relatives of Derek Batten, the skipper of the mystery yacht KAZ II, which was found off the coast of north Queensland, say that they have had spiritual contact with him because they believe that both he and his two crew mates are alive and well somewhere in a dark place.
PREPARING VIRGINIA TECH STUDENTS FOR THE AFTERLIFE
(24 APR 07)
All around the world, family members are preparing their loved ones for their journey into the afterlife, following on from the recent massacre at Virginia Tech (USA). From America to Egypt, Puerto Rico to Vietnam, family members and friends come together to say their farewells and make offerings to the deceased so that they will have their favourite possessions to take with them into the next life.
THE A-TEAM AIM TO TRY TO REUNITE WITH THEIR DECEASED CO-STAR
(24 APR 07)
Members of the 1980s action TV series The A-Team, will be appearing later this year on the British paranormal show Most Haunted, where they will then try to make contact with their deceased former co-star George Peppard.
WAITING FOR THE GHOST OF CLARENCE DARROW
(23 APR 07)
Clarence Darrow, the most famous agnostic lawyer of the 20th century, who died in 1938, had once said before his death that if in fact there was an afterlife, he would return to the Jackson Park bridge, Chicago (USA) on the date of his death, to help debunk the mediums, popular at the time, who made money pretending to summon the dead.
US PSYCHIC INVESTIGATES FATAL CRASH SCENE
(23 APR 07)
Nancy Orlen Weber, a psychic from New Jersey (USA), has been hired to help try to solve the mystery surrounding a fatal car crash in October 2005, in which two local teenagers were killed, in New Leipzig, North Dakota, USA, when their car rolled and crashed, leaving them dead at the scene.
THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DOVER DEMON
(23 APR 07)
The Dover Demon has gained notoriety among paranormal enthusiasts around the United States and the world, being one of the most widely publicized creature sighting reports of all time with the alleged sightings of the mysterious creature, described by several witnesses as about 4 feet tall with a thin body and arms, glowing eyes, and a huge, egg-shaped head. This year marks the 30th anniversary since it was first sighted.
PARANORMAL TEAM TO INVESTIGATE 2002 KANSAS MURDER MYSTERY
(22 APR 07)
The City of Marquette, Kansas, is where a production crew is focusing on cold cases for a new TV series called “Haunting Evidence”. The first of which will be the mystery surrounding the murder of 29-year-old Leslie Johnson back in 2002.
HAWAIIANS URGED TO STOP VOLCANO OFFERINGS TO THE DEAD
(22 APR 07)
Park rangers are urging people not to leave offerings for the dead near the tops of local volcanoes because they attract roaches and rodents.
SPOOKY STORIES ABOUT ALCATRAZ
(22 APR 07)
San Francisco’s Alcatraz prison, also known as The Rock, was once a place where some of the worst criminals were kept and many died there. Today it is a tourist attraction but several employees still tell stories of strange happenings, suggestive of ghosts of past prisoners perhaps.
VATICAN ‘ABOLISHES’ UNBAPTISED LIMBO
(21 APR 07)
Babies who die unbaptised will now have the gates of heaven opened up to them, since the Pope has determined that limbo no longer exists, thus giving the grounds for unbaptised infants who die to be saved and have an afterlife.
WORLDS LARGEST ONLINE TAROT DICTIONARY
(21 APR 07)
A new website called MysticBoard.com, allows its users to browse through the world's largest online tarot dictionary. It provides information about the meanings of tarot words as well a s cards and will assist people to get a wider and clearer view of their own readings.
THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME FOR UFOS
(21 APR 07)
The types of UFOs being sighted seem to be shifting from the classic saucer shaped UFOs to a combination of black triangle or "V" shaped craft and orbs or shaped craft and orbs or spherical craft.
VIRGINIA TECH KILLER'S GRANDFATHER'S PROPHETIC DREAM
(20 APR 07)
Dreams often foretell the future or inform people about things that are happening to someone close, as this item about the Virginia Tech killer shows.
BRITISH JOURNALIST’S AMAZING AFTERLIFE EXPERIENCES
(20 APR 07)
British journalist Sonia Pouter writes about her many amazing paranormal experiences in the Daily Mail newspaper, including seeing ghosts and spirits, tables turning and items levitating by themselves. All being quite strange and unusual yet she says are also true.
EVERYONE IS PSYCHIC
(20 APR 07)
Honora Finkelstein and Susan Smily, the co-authors of "The Chef Who Died Sautéing", believe that everyone has the ability to be psychic. Finkelstein also goes on to say that "The paranormal is normal," "It's my life”.
ARE WE PART OF ANOTHER EXTRATERRESTRIAL UNIVERSE?
(20 APR 07)
The India Daily newspaper’s technology team poses some strange questions as well as suggestions of what we could be all part of, an extraterrestrial civilization spanning many universes.
VIRGINIA TECH TRAGEDY EMPHASIZES HOW SHORT LIFE IS AND EVERY MOMENT SO PRECIOUS
(19 APR 07)
The words of the late American author Kurt Vonnegut, about how precious life’s every moment is and should be savoured, came to the mind of the writer of this article, on hearing about the massacre at Virginia Tech and says maybe we really need to think more about life and its meaning as well as values.
PARANORMAL ENERGY FIELD TO HEAL THE SICK
(19 APR 07)
A 48-year-old Bosnian man claims that he can now use cosmic energy to heal other people. Dzemal Hasimovic, who is a certified bio-energy therapist, says that he has invented a special energy field in which up to 30 people at a time, can receive cosmic energy to heal ailments of both the body and soul.
SEEKING THE PERFECT ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY SEND OFF
(19 APR 07)
Many people are going green with their burials, being eco-friendly, so that when it comes to ones burial in years to come everything including the coffin will have broken down in the plot in which they are buried.
MOURNERS CALL ON BUDDHA AND OTHERS, BUT NOT JESUS, TO PRAY FOR VIRGINIA TECH VICTIMS
(18 APR 07)
Mourners who gathered for the Virginia Tech service yesterday, just one day after the fatal shootings of innocent people at the campus, heard speakers call on Allah and Buddha in their efforts to help minister to the survivors, family and friends of the victims of this terrible tragedy. However, no one mentioned the name of Jesus Christ, much to the irritation of many it seems.
THE ART OF FENG SHUI IN THE AFTERLIFE
(18 APR 07)
Houston, Texas-based company, Service Corporation International, which operates 130 funeral homes and 31 cemeteries, has started consulting Feng Shui masters for their Northern California businesses, having previously done the same successfully for Texans. As the Asian populations grow, more people want to have such special features for their funerals and gateway to the afterlife.
HUNTING GHOSTS FOR THE FUN OF IT
(18 APR 07)
Members of The West Georgia Ghost Hunters say that they get an adrenalin rush out of hunting for ghosts. Many of their expeditions include visits to cemeteries or asylums, where, once they have collected film and photos, they cant wait to see what they have captured once back at their base.
DIFFERENT FAITHS SHARE THEIR AFTERLIFE BELIEFS
(17 APR 07)
Followers of Islam, Baha'i and American Indian faiths, recently shared their beliefs on what they feel awaits us in the afterlife at the Jackson Interfaith Forum at Spring Arbor University, located in Spring Arbor, Michigan (USA), where one member said that “Death is looked at as the ancient mother who comes to cover you. She's not to be feared, but embraced”.
MIRACLE GIRL DIES
(17 APR 07)
To those who knew of her, Audrey Marie Santo was a miracle worker. A paralyzed and mute young woman who was said to have performed miracles on others by healing them through faith. To the believers that had visited her home in Worcester Massachusetts (USA), many said that statues of Jesus Christ and other religious icons would inexplicably oozed oil.
SUPERNATURAL EXHIBITION CANCELLED DUE TO FATWA
(16 APR 07)
A ghost and genie exhibition being held in an Malaysian museum has been forced to close down after an Islamic fatwa, or religious decree, was issued against the museum. Furthermore, the National Fatwa Council had reportedly ruled that exhibitions on ghosts, ghouls and supernatural beings were forbidden, as they could undermine the faith of Muslims.
LITTLE BUDDHA - THE TRADITION OF REINCARNATION
(16 APR 07)
Tulku Tenzin Phuntsok Rinpoche, better known to many as Little Buddha, recently visited Petaling Jaya in the Petaling district of Selangor, Malaysia, where he blest many devotees from all age groups by touching their heads.
DAD & DAVE’S RUDD PUB’S OUTBACK GHOSTS
(16 APR 07)
In the village of Nobby, some 38km south of Toowoomba, on Queensland's Darling Downs, lies The Rudd Pub, named after the fictional family created by author Hoey Davis. It is here that many locals say that there is always the chance of seeing or feeling the presence of one of the ghosts said to reside at so many old Outback hostelries. One guest reported sensing a ghostly presence following him downstairs, causing the hairs on his neck to ride.
AMERICAN DOCTORS BELIEVE IN THE HEALING POWERS OF GOD
(15 APR 07)
Belief in the healing power of God is something a University of Chicago survey of some 2,000 US physicians showed recently.
BRITAIN’S NUMBER ONE PSYCHIC
(15 APR 07)
Britain’s Psychic of the Year title winner, Diane Lazarus, has been inundated with offers of all kinds, from media to people wanting to know whether their spouses have been cheating on them. But sometimes she wishes she didn’t have such powers. Like when she was on her way home and “knew” that her pet dog had drowned in her pool after climbing beneath the safety covers.
CAN ISLAM AND DEMOCRACY CO-EXIST IN INDONESIA?
(15 APR 07)
Indonesia has an unique form of Islamic religious practices, in which magic, Buddhism and beliefs about South Seas Gods had all co-existed, but the rise of fundamentalism and militarism seems to be changing this and many are asking where it will lead.
THE PARANORMAL GROUPIE WITHIN
(14 APR 07)
Many of us were fixated with the X-Files in the 1990’s, you know, all that paranormal stuff and visits from aliens. Well, how many of us have actually had our own paranormal experience where we have been visited from a deceased friend or relative.
MANCHESTER’S SPIRITED GHOST TOURS
(14 APR 07)
Jean Bailo, a local historian of Manchester city (UK), is taking groups of tours throughout the city’s most haunted areas in the hope of running into one of the many local ghosts that are said to still haunt the streets of Manchester. Like the ghost of Reverend Collier, who is said to haunt the local bar areas.
UK SOAP STAR’S PSYCHIC POWERS
(14 APR 07)
William Roache, the star of British TV soap, ‘Coronation Street', believes he has "psychic powers", saying that this goes back to his childhood where his fondness for spirits of the ghostly kind reportedly allowed him the unique experience of seeing a grey ghost whilst on the toilet.
GHOSTS WITHIN MICHIGAN STATE
(14 APR 07)
The City of Howell is centrally located within Livingston County, Michigan (USA), and it is here that local residents claim that they have seen ghostly spirits playing around town. One resident claims that she regularly sees the ghost of a ‘girl’, who had been struck and killed by lighting in front of a local residents home, back in 1916.
HARRY POTTER FACES THE AFTERLIFE FINALLY
(13 APR 07)
In the soon to be released final installment of the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, Harry is faced with the possibility of his own death, an afterlife of some sort. For there have always been the spirits like those of Nearly Headless Nick and the Fat Friar, roaming the halls of Hogwarts, which perhaps provides some sort of reassurance of an afterlife if Harry is to die.
DOGS DO HAVE SOULS
(13 APR 07)
Nearly 70 percent of respondents to a Beliefnet survey said animals do have souls, while only 12 percent said that only some animals do. Further still, both Hinduism and Buddhism recognize a divine spark or soul in all creatures great and small.
US PARANORMAL GROUP WANTING TO EXPLORE CEMETERY
(12 APR 07)
Dolly Litke, from Shadowz Paranormal Investigations, says that she and her team of investigators would like to spend a night in the Wolf River Cemetery (USA) to capture the ghostly residents that are said to haunt the grounds at night.
MANY UFO SIGHTINGS IN THE SKIES ABOVE MAIDSTONE USA
(12 APR 07)
Barb Campbell, founder of the Saskatchewan Provincial Paranormal Research Centre, in Maidstone, Vermont, New England (USA) says that she has had several UFO encounters, including that of a fireball that shot through the heavens, to what she describes as a triangular-shaped flying object that hovered in the night sky over Maidstone just last summer.
IRISH ATTITUDES TO RELIGION CHANGING
(12 APR 07)
Eighty per cent of Irish parents now allow their children to choose their own religion and 22% of all Irish people do not think there is an afterlife, while 12% do not even believe in God.
UFO’S CONTINUE TO SPARK INTEREST IN CANADA
(11 APR 07)
Interest in UFOs persist across Canada which leading researchers say shows there is a real basis to such phenomena.
TAKING YOUR PETS WITH YOU INTO THE AFTERLIFE
(10 APR 07)
Executive director of the Independent Funeral Directors of Florida, Jan Scheff, says that more people, especially baby boomers, are throwing out traditional funeral services and are now demanding individualized services, such as wanting to have their deceased pets buried with them when their time comes.
GHOSTS ABOARD THE QUEEN MARY
(10 APR 07)
The ghosts of the Queen Mary, the former royal flagship of the sea, can be found at the bottom front end of the ship. This particular area is reputed to be extremely haunted, as this is where prisoners of war were once held, and subsequently died, thus leaving their presence behind.
PARANORMAL GROUP SEEKING NEW HAUNTS
(10 APR 07)
Paul Drake, founder of Paranormal Links, from Stow, near Gainsborough (UK), says that he and his team are on the look-out for new, or should that be old houses and hotels, which they can explore for signs of paranormal activity.
HISTORIC LOUISIANA MANSION UNDER PARANORMAL INVESTIGATION
(9 APR 07)
The historic Logan Mansion in the Ledbetter Heights neighborhood of Shreveport, Louisiana (USA), has had some unexplainable paranormal activity of late, and is now being investigated by the Louisiana Spirits Paranormal Investigations.
METEOROLOGY PROFESSOR SAYS GLOBAL WARMING NORMAL AND BENEFICIAL
(9 APR 07)
The Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the prestigious MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) says, in an article in Newsweek magazine that alarm and concerns about global warming could be overdone since it is normal.
WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS
(9 APR 07)
A British Ministry of Defence report shows what can be expected in the next thirty years and it is startling...
COMMON GARDEN HERB CAUSES OUT OF BODY EXPERIENCES
(8 APR 07)
Salvia divinorum is an extraordinary herb used in shamanism, divination, healing, meditation, and the exploration of consciousness. Australia is one of few countries that have made it illegal to possess. Yet in Canada, the health department says that it can't regulate the use of it until there is more evidence of its dangers.
FAITH – THE BELIEF IN LIFE AFTER DEATH
(8 APR 07)
For many, Easter is a day to celebrate new beginnings, and for Christians, it is a time to reflect on the belief in the rising of Jesus. Thus the idea of life after death is a topic that is surrounded in mystery to many, especially scientists who say that it cannot be scientifically proven. Yet, for those that have been ‘there’, it is real, as so many have said.
PAKISTANI CRICKETERS MORE INTERESTED IN RELIGION THAN THE GAME
(8 APR 07)
Pakistan's media manager, PJ Mir, has blamed the influence of religion in the dressing room for the team’s disastrous performance in the World Cup tournament being held in the Caribbean. Mir said that the team “had no drive for the game and were much more active in preaching and praying."
THE BIBLE AND ROSARY BEADS TAKE ON UGANDAN SPIRITS
(7 APR 07)
Captain John Emily, who is a Member of Parliament of Serere County, Soroti district. says that traditional spirits have been burning down grass-thatched houses in the county. Upon seeing this, Captain Emily armed himself with a bible and rosary beads to try to solve the spirit problem.
HILLARY SWANK’S SPOOKY MOVIE SET
(7 APR 07)
Hollywood actor, Hillary Swank, has been experiencing some strange phenomena on the set of her latest movie, The Reaping. Audio and visual equipment have been playing up, especially during the filming of one scene where there is a decomposed body of a boy.
SCOTTY’S ASHES TO BE BEAMED UP ONE MORE TIME
(7 APR 07)
James Doohan, who played the legendary chief engineer Montgomery "Scotty" Scott in the original "Star Trek" TV series, has had his ashes prepared for one final blast into space. Families pay US$495 to a Texan company called Celestis, which has contracts with rocket firms to send cremated remains of loved ones into space.
MINISTER'S EULOGY FOR BOB WOOLMER
(6 APR 07)
Former Pakistan Cricket coach Bob Woolmer's murder in Jamaica bigger than the Cricket World Cup itself. At his funeral in South Africa the Minister's eulogy brought tears of sadness as well as joy to many.
TERRORISM BRINGING AUSTRALIANS CLOSER TO GOD
(6 APR 07)
The Catholic Archbishop of Australia, Cardinal George Pell, has delivered his Easter message, and in it he states that Australians are re-examining their religious beliefs, thus bring them closer to God, due to the “the violence of a small number of Islamic terrorists”.
WAITING FOR REINCARNATION
(6 APR 07)
Five badly decomposing bodies found in a Tokyo house, in Japan, were those of members of one family, who died anything from four to twenty years ago, laid out according to parental beliefs and directions.
THE DEATH OF MARRIAGE
(6 APR 07)
An American company has come up with a unique way to finally bury ones marriage. The ‘Wedding Ring Coffin’, is a fun way for those that are wishing to bury the past.
THE RISING COSTS OF BURIAL PLOTS IN CHINA
(5 APR 07)
The costs for burying a loved one in China are sky rocketing, with the average price for a burial plot is $2,500 yuan (US$321) per square meter. A decorated European-style 18-square-meter marble tomb could be priced at over 500,000 yuan.
PALLIATIVE CARE PERSON STARTS OWN PERSONAL FUNERAL BUSINESS
(5 APR 07)
Kathy Gardipee, who has spent many years working with sick and dying people, has started a home-based funeral business, Funeral Alternatives, where she hopes to put that special touch into funeral services, such as having family members arranging the funeral themselves, rather than by an actual funeral director.
IS GOD THE CAUSE OF THE LATEST TSUNAMI?
(4 APR 07)
According to many of the clergy in the Solomon Islands, the reasons behind the tsunami that hit the islands earlier this week is due to the fact that many people are straying from Christian ways, and that this is Gods way of reminding that he created the earth.
KEITH RICHARDS GETS STONED WITH HIS FATHER’S ASHES
(4 APR 07)
Keith Richards, in a recent interview has said that he snorted his father's ashes mixed with cocaine, stating that he “couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow”.
PAYING RESPECT TO THE DEAD ONLINE
(4 APR 07)
The Chinese are making use of the Internet to pay respects to dead relatives, with more than 5 million doing so, which lessens congestion at the time of the annual Tomb Sweeping Festival this Thursday.
WEEPING WALLS CONTINUE TO DRAW BELIEVERS
(3 APR 07)
Crowds of up to 3000 people have continued to gather at a home in a suburban street in Sydney since the death of a young man who once lived there. Many believe that he was in fact ‘God’ himself, for since his death oil has continued to ‘weep’ from the walls of the home.
CHINA’S LAND SHORTAGE CALLS FOR SEA BURIALS
(3 APR 07)
A shortage of land, in Shanghai, China, along with a growing elderly population, has meant that the city’s municipal government is offering to subsidize families choosing to have a sea burial for their loved ones.
MI5 ABANDONS BIN LADEN’S PSYCHICS
(3 APR 07)
British Intelligence agency MI5, has reportedly abandoned the psychics they were using in trying to hunt down Al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden, after its new leader decided that the use of psychics was of no intelligence value.
SATISFYING ONE’S ANCESTORS
(2 APR 07)
To a culture that reveres its ancestors, members of the Boston (Mass. USA) Chinese community recently gathered to mark the conclusion of 20 years' work creating the Chinese Immigrant Memorial at Mount Hope Cemetery, where many brought offerings of various foods and drinks to be enjoyed in the afterlife.
GHOST CRASHES WEDDING
(2 APR 07)
A couple who recently tied the knot at Scotland’s Airth Castle in Stirlingshire, noticed a mysterious green phantom that suddenly appeared as they were having their photographs taken. To many staff and guests of the castle this is not an unusual occurrence, as there have been many reported spooky sightings throughout the years.
CHINA KILLS OFF TOMB TRADERS
(2 APR 07)
The Chinese government is to outlaw the selling of non-existent gravesites and tombs to unsuspecting, buyers as well as banning the popular practice of burning paper models of villas, limousines, mistresses and even drugs for dead loved ones, whom many Chinese believe would lead a happy afterlife with these items.
ARE WE CREATING HELL ON EARTH?
(1 APR 07)
We all have our own ideas of Hell, although some fear it less than others. Mark Twain suggested "Heaven for its climate, Hell for the company", and Isaac Asimov agreed: "Whatever the tortures of Hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse."
CREATIVE URNS FOR YOUR JOURNEY INTO THE AFTERLIFE
(1 APR 07)
Traditionally cremated remains were scattered in the ocean or elsewhere, otherwise placed in cemeteries. Today more and more people are having their ashes put into creative urns, including ones styled by a US company called Eternal Image that makes urns specially to suit those wanting to go out in style.
GROUP GATHERS TO HELP ‘SPIRITS’ MOVE ON
(1 APR 07)
Led by Medium Judy Crampton and “energy worker” Joan Jennings, a group of people recently gathered at the Holy Family Orphans Home, in Marquette, MI.(USA) to help spirits still trapped in the orphanage to move on.
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