JUNE 2007
ALABAMA GHOST CHASERS CAPTURE FIGURE ON FILM
(30 JUN 07)
The figure of a man, standing at a window in an 1860 house that is supposedly haunted, is said to be that of the person who built his “dream home” there, a Captain Charles Richards, according to a member of the Board of the Daughters of the American Revolution which uses the house for fund-raising tours.
ASPIRING FILM MAKER PLANS TO MAKE A MOVIE BASED ON A HAUNTED HOTEL
(30 JUN 07)
Seventeen-year-old James Pembridge hopes to make a real-life horror film at the supposedly haunted Bull Hotel, in Fairford, Gloucestershire (UK), where it is rumoured that spirits walk through the buildings walls.
COMMITTEE MEMBER FOR SCIENTIFIC CLAIMS INTO THE PARANORMAL HAS PASSED AWAY
(29 JUN 07)
Dr Barry L Beyerstein, who was a member of the executive council of the Committee for Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) as well as a biopsychologist at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, has died at the age 60.
AMERICAN’S BELIFES IN HEAVEN AND HELL
(29 JUN 07)
According to Gallup polls undertaken in the United States, over 90% of Americans believe in heaven or some other positive afterlife, while there are many in the community who believe in hell, with these beliefs coming from those in the evangelical and fundamentalist communities.
PROVING THE EXISTANCE OF THE AFTERLIFE COULD BE WORTH £ONE MILLION
(28 JUN 07)
Paranormal investigator Ross Hemsworth, believes that in the afterlife, "There is something out there trying to make contact”, and if he can prove this, he could earn himself £1 million.
BELIEF IN REINCARNATION IS REAL
(28 JUN 07)
According to the latest Gallup Institute survey on our beliefs in reincarnation, most of us strongly believe in it. Yet according to the director of l’Observatoire des Religions of the University of Lausanne, Prof. Jorg Stolz, this tendency comes up as people’s understanding of the supernatural gets increasingly blurred.
GHOST GUY MAKES LIVING SELLING SPIRIT PHOTOS
(27 JUN 07)
Paranormal photographer Michael Richards makes his living selling photographs of paranormal phenomena. However, he says that "Spirits do have the ability to choose whether they want to show up on film,” and that “they are generally shy and averse to crowds.”
SEA CAPTAIN’S SPIRIT STILL LINGERS ON
(27 JUN 07)
According to a team of paranormal investigators in Dover (UK), the ghost of Captain Richard "Salt Eye" Storr, still lingers on in this sea-side town, where legend has it that he returns every year near the anniversary of the Cocheco massacre of 1689, to watch over Dover residents.
FAMOUS GHOST UPSET AT MISTAKEN IDENTITY
(26 JUN 07)
The famous ghost at California’s Hotel Coronado, where it’s been since 1892 has told of being wrongly identified when quizzed by a local medium and says that’s why she’s stayed there for so long.
THE GHOSTS OF PIKE PLACE MARKET (USA)
(26 JUN 07)
Pike Place Market, located in Seattle, is the scene of many a ghost sighting. The fact that it is built on a Suquamish Indian burial ground and has been the site of a funeral home has added to the spiritual energy of the site where flying objects are hurled by unseen hands and disappearing figures are not uncommon.
WITCHCRAFT CONFERENCE TO BE HELD IN VARDOE, NORWAY
(26 JUN 07)
Sixty International witchcraft experts will gather in Vardoe, Norway for a three day conference, including some from Australia, as well as Britian, Germany, Denmark, and Iceland as well as Norway.
LION’S GHOST MAULS SPIRITUALIST MEDIUM
(25 JUN 07)
British spiritualist medium, Shane Hull, a former member of the cult TV show “Most Haunted” and also a member now of the Moray Team of Ghostbusters, who spent a night at Spynie Palace, near Elgin, where they encountered all sorts of spooky things, mostly animals, including galloping horses and the lion that bruised Hull’s nose.
PENN STATE UNI (USA) HOLD NATIONAL PARANORMAL CONFERENCE
(25 JUN 07)
America’s largest paranormal conference will be held at the prestigious Penn State University between October 18 to 21, with some of the country’s leading paranormal personalities taking part. This is the only such conference to be held at any university in the USA.
ORBS & VOICES AS EVIDENCE OF PARANORMAL ACTIVITIES IN ARKANSAS
(24 JUN 07)
Audio and video recordings made by members of the Central Arkansas (USA) Society for Paranormal Research resulting from requests by the Oates family who own Mountain Village resort 1890, in Bull Shoals, Arkansas, provide evidence of such things a voices of unseen origins as well as shapes like orbs.
RAISING THE PRODUCTIVITY OF YOUR COMPANY THROUGH ESP
(24 JUN 07)
Aura and ESP are two spiritual science tools being used by corporations to transform the lives of their employees, raising productivity and becoming long term assets.
MILE WIDE UFO SPOTTED BY BRITISH AIRLINE PILOT
(23 JUN 07)
In what appears to be a very credible instance, a British airline pilot reports seeing a UFO which many of his passengers also said they saw, which will raise more questions until some possible answers are found.
WHAT AWAITS US IN THE AFTERLIFE?
(23 JUN 07)
“Heaven and hell are like the carrot and the stick, promising a great afterlife with God or threatening punishment for misbehavior” according to Professor Robert Fuller of religious studies at Bradley University in Illinois (USA). In this age of multiculturalism are we all headed to an unpleasant fate in the afterlife?
HAUNTED PAST COMES TO LIFE
(23 JUN 07)
American middle school history teacher, Donna MacLean, says that ever since moving into her home Orchard Hill Drive in Rutland, she would “would feel a presence or would hear sounds in the basement, but there was never anybody there."
BELIEF IN THE PARANORMAL IS HIGHEST ALONG THE EAST COAST OF AMERICA
(22 JUN 07)
Nineteen per cent (19%) of East Coast Americans say they consult mediums, fortune tellers and psychics, the highest than in any other part of the country, according to a Baylor Religion Survey in 2006.
SADHUS EXHIBIT MYSTICAL POWERS
(22 JUN 07)
Sadhu is the term used in Hinduism for mystics as well as some Yoga practitioners, of whom males are called Yogis and females Yogini. Many Sadhus live in a paranormal world in which they are supposedly capable of performing miracles even if most may dismiss their claims as being rubbish.
NERD NITE DELVES INTO THE AFTERLIFE
(22 JUN 07)
Nerd Nite is an informal gathering at The New York Academy of Sciences, New York, NY, in which nerds get together to discuss nerdy items.
One such topic will be exploring the evolving landscapes of historic cemeteries and how American values on the concept of death and the afterlife has changed over the centuries.
GHOST HUNTERS AIM TO RAISE MONEY FOR CHARITY
(21 JUN 07)
Ghost hunters in Devon, in the South West of England, recently spent the night deep in the underground caves at Torquay to help raise funds for children's cancer charity CLIC Sargent. In Kents cavern, located in the caves, they felt a large amount of paranormal activity, such as water dripping, people moving around or sensory deprivation in a dark, spooky place.
GHOST HUNTING MIDWEST STYLE
(21 JUN 07)
Paranormal investigator, Alex Felix, of Glendale Heights who leads a team of about 30 ghost-busters that chase reports of the supernatural around the western suburbs of Chicago, says that to capture a full-body apparition is the Holy Grail of ghost hunting.
HUMAN BELIEFS IN CONSPIRACY THEORIES
(20 JUN 07)
A "conspiracy theory" attempts to explain the ultimate cause of an event, or chain of events, as a secret plot by a covert alliance. A growing number of new-agers are examining conspiracy theories dealing with history and science, as well as the paranormal.
3000 LETTERS FROM HEAVEN
(20 JUN 07)
Author Norman Ober's touching tale of love and triumph over grief, titled Anita's Heaven, is now available. Based on over 3000 letters from his wife Anita, who has been in heaven for the past fourteen years, Ober tells the touching true story of his late wife love that death didn’t end.
WAS WALT DISNEY SATAN?
(19 JUN 07)
To many people around the world, Walter (Walt) Elias Disney and his many creations have given joy and happiness to those that have experienced them, especially Mickey and Mini Mouse. Yet on one particular website, disneylies.com, they claim that Disney was a Satan worshipper and a pornography collector. They also claim that he had been dishonourably discharged from the military and was even an alien.
MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE STILL HAUNTS TODAY
(19 JUN 07)
Known as the "I love you" light for its 1-4-3 flashing pattern, Minot's Ledge Light, in Cohasset, Massachusetts (USA), was a lighthouse located on the New England coastline, where one of its original keepers, back in the 1800’s, allegedly sent out a distress message in a bottle. A few centuries on, the new lighthouse is said to sometimes host a ghostly reminder of that past where, during storms, some mariners say that they have seen the figure of a man reflected in the water near the new lighthouse.
VIKINGS BELIEF IN THE AFTERLIFE
(19 JUN 07)
The term Viking commonly denotes the ship-born warriors and traders of Norsemen (literally, men from the north) who originated in Scandinavia and raided the coasts of Britain, Ireland and mainland Europe as far east as the Volga River in Russia from the late 8th–11th century. They also used their ships as burial mounds and filled them with objects they could use in the afterlife.
SAMUEL L. JACKSON HAS SEEN THE DEAD
(18 JUN 07)
Action movie star, Samuel L. Jackson, who is staring in the upcoming Stephen King film, 1408, along with John Cusack, says that as a child, he recalls that "There were also people in our neighborhood who we saw long after they were dead."
ANGELINA JOLIE FEELS A CONNECTION WITH HER DECEASED MOTHER
(18 JUN 07)
Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie, who’s mother Marcheline Bertrand passed away in January this year (2007), says that feels that she can sometimes hear her mother and believes that you can feel an essence of the person who has passed away that lingers on.
RECALLING STORIES ABOUT GHOSTS AND OTHER SUPERNATURAL THINGS
(17 JUN 07)
Indonesian environmental engineer, Kadek Krishna Adidharma, remembers many of his encounters with ghosts and other paranormal phenomena that he has encountered in his own life.
WHY ARE HUMANS WIRED FOR BELIEF IN GOD?
(16 JUN 07)
A team of scientists, including anthropologist Pascal Boyer, at Washington University (USA), are exploring why people, choose to believe in God over unbelief and initial indications are interesting.
GHOSTLY FIGURE CAPTURED ON COURTHOUSE CAMERA
(16 JUN 07)
An image captured on the First Judicial District courthouse camera in downtown Santa Fe, New Mexico, has viewers baffled as to exactly what the image is. Some say it is the ghost of a man killed at the courthouse more than 20 years ago, while others felt it had to be a reflection from a passing car.
A TOUCHING STORY OF LOVE LIFE AND DEATH
(15 JUN 07)
During their 66 years of marriage, Lloyd and Leah Austin Wilberg were rarely apart. Yet when Lloyd was hospitalized with pneumonia, and then subsequently dying at 6.30pm on the 9th of June 2007 at 6.30pm, Leah, his beloved wife followed him six and a half hours later at 1 a.m. on the 10th of June, 2007. Could it be that they didn’t want to be apart?
BELIEFS ABOUT HEAVEN AND THE AFTERLIFE
(15 JUN 07)
Nine out of ten people in the USA say they believe in an afterlife. Could it be that even if our thoughts might be contradictory and full of questions, many might want to believe in being reunited with family members and other loved ones when we die?
SPAIN’S NEAR DEATH FESTIVAL
(15 JUN 07)
For years, the Near Death Festival in Las Nieves, Galicia has been both part fiesta and part pilgrimage. Many travel across Spain to recount their brushes with death at the festival, where they revel in tales of their own NDEs.
CLAIRVOYANT CLAIMS THAT PRINCESS DIANA COMMUNICATES WITH HER
(14 JUN 07)
Athena Star, clairvoyant, author, TV and regular radio guest, says that the late Princess Diana has recently told her among other things, that “her mission to assist humanity continues in the celestial realms and she sends her gratitude to the millions who prayed for her after her passing", among other things.
SAMUEL L. JACKSON SEES DEAD PEOPLE
(14 JUN 07)
Hollywood actor, Samuel L. Jackson, says that he does not doubt people who tell him that they've seen ghosts, revealing that as a child he too has experienced ghosts and spirits.
CONNECTING THE LIVING WITH THE DEAD
(14 JUN 07)
Rosemary Altea, is a spirit medium who connects the living with the dead. Originally born and bred in England, Atlae now lives in the United States and says that she has been able to talk with the departed since early childhood.
‘MUM ALWAYS HERE’ SAYS PRINCES WILLIAM AND HARRY
(13 JUN 07)
NBC in America is to air an interview with the British royals, Princes William and Harry, where Prince Harry has said that "Over the last ten years I personally feel as though she has been... she's always there."
BURIALS IN SPACE SOON TO BE A REALITY
(13 JUN 07)
More than 300 "celestial burials'' have taken place since 1997, with the first being that of the creator of the TV sci-fi series Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry. It is estimated that by the year 2012, as many as 10,000 such burials could well be conducted, as people look to new ways to celebrate their own deaths.
THE TRUTH IS STILL OUT THERE IN ROSWELL
(13 JUN 07)
The Roswell UFO Incident involved the recovery of materials near Roswell, New Mexico, USA, in July 1947, which have since become the subject of intense speculation, rumor, questioning and research. This year marks the 60th Anniversary of the so-called “Roswell Incident”, and to celebrate, more than 50,000 people are expected to invade the town to mark this special occasion.
NO ROOM FOR THE DEAD IN HONG KONG
(12 JUN 07)
Honk Kong has become so overcrowded that they are literally running out of space in their mortuaries for the dead, with many cadavers being placed together in a storage unit that is meant only for one.
GANGSTERS TRADING IN CHINESE GHOST BRIDES
(12 JUN 07)
A group of gangsters in China has been arrested for trading in the bodies of women they murdered, which they would then sell to families for their dead sons, so that they would be kept happy in the afterlife.
PROTECTING THE RIGHTS OF THE FAMOUSLY DEPARTED
(12 JUN 07)
In New York, there is a law that protects the unauthorised use of celebrities' faces and names while they are alive, but when they die, there is no safeguard. Unless Hollywood actor Al Pacino and the late John Lennon’s wife, Yoko Ono, get their way. The two are committed to have the laws changed, to try to protect the famous dead from exploitation.
PREACHER HAUNTS LOCAL UK PUB
(11 JUN 07)
The Sandrock pub in Upper Shirley Road (UK) has a long history of ghostly activity. There have been stories for some time that the pub is haunted by a preacher. The landlord, Steve Gilmore, who says he does not believe in ghosts, still talks to the light in the cellar, because it flickers, he also says, whenever he is in the room, then stops once he leaves, and he thinks it could well be the preacher, or his ghost.
GHOSTS USED AS EXCUSE FOR SPEEDING
(10 JUN 07)
A Taipei motorist has been fined for speeding through the entrance of the Wenshan tunnel on Taipei's Hsinyi speedway. In court, the motorist claimed that because the motorway passes through a public cemetery, there must be "something supernatural".
DOWNLOAD A GHOST
(9 JUN 07)
In what appears to be a first, the Discovery Channel is offering users free of charge, downloads of a ghost detection program, which is compatible with all cell phones.
CAN BELIEF IN ALIENS LEAD TO DEATH?
(9 JUN 07)
One third of Americans polled recently believe that aliens have visited Earth. Those who do also feel that these aliens can become deadly, as is the case of a trial in Georgetown, where a man is accused of killing two people and wounding four others during a shooting spree in April 2005. In his defense he claims that the reason for his crime was that aliens were trying to abduct his daughter.
OKLAHOMA GHOSTBUSTERS GATHER TO DISCUSS THE UNEXPLAINED
(8 JUN 07)
“Para-Float” is an event held on the Illinois River, in which ghost hunters from across the USA gather to discuss investigating the unexplained. Sponsored by The Oklahoma Paranormal Research and Investigations, the ghost hunters take both a scientific and spiritual approach in all of their investigation and discussions.
DISCOVERING THE DEAD AT THE FAMOUS LA RECOLETA CEMETERY
(8 JUN 07)
La Recoleta Cemetery is a famous cemetery located in the exclusive Recoleta neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Cemetery includes graves of some of the most influential and important persons of Argentina, including several presidents, scientists, and wealthy people. Internationally, Eva Perón, is one of the best known persons buried in this cemetery.
RELIGIONS USING DEATH
(7 JUN 07)
The fear of death and what happens when we die is a part of being human. Religions try to focus on the idea of an afterlife, evoking powerful emotions thereby. Because death is something frightening to most of us and no one will know until they do die. Afterlife-based theologies have boomed thereby throughout the centuries.
WORLD TOUR FOR THE DEAD
(7 JUN 07)
More than 400 U.S. residents have signed up to spend the afterlife on tour with the dead. Once they have died these people have assigned their bodies to join the growing ranks of others to form part of the world-touring exhibition known as Body Worlds. Donors to this exhibition have a range of reasons to spend eternity in epoxy resin. Some want to help train doctors and nurses, while others desire to be "preserved for posterity" to travel and meet new people.
DRUGS THAT CAN CAUSE OBEs
(7 JUN 07)
There are various illegal drugs that are taken by millions of people worldwide, with many claiming to have out of body experiences whilst on these. One of these particular drugs, Ketamine, or better known as Special K or Vitamin K, can cause a person to feel disorientated, similar to that of an OBE.
END OF THE WORLD DRAWS NEAR
(6 JUN 07)
The end of the world as we know it will take place on Thursday 5 July 2007, according to the Church of the SubGenius. So, in preparation for the fulfillment of this doomsday prophecy, the Church has issued a call to all of its members to participate in a festival, with rock concerts and blasphemous rituals to take place in upstate New York, during the final weekend before the arrival of the apocalypse.
ASTRAL TRAVELLING LED TO DEATH
(6 JUN 07)
The Victorian (AUS) deputy state coroner has been told in a recent inquest into the death of a 37 year old man, back in 2004, that he was left alone by his friends because they believed that he was ‘astral traveling’, which to many is similar to having an out of body experience.
THE PHANTOM OF ABBEVILLE OPERA HOUSE
(6 JUN 07)
The Abbeville Opera house in western South Carolina (USA), originally opened in 1908. Since then actors who have performed at Abbeville Opera House have long claimed to see a woman standing and applauding after shows, yet they still have no idea who she could be.
CLAIRVOYANT PREDICTS LARGE EARTHQUAKE TO HIT LA THIS MONTH
(5 JUN 07)
George Noory, the weekday host of the late-night radio talk show Coast to Coast AM, in the United States, says that an email he recently received from one of his listeners, who is also a clairvoyant, says that a spirit recently told him that the ‘Big One’ is expected to hit LA this month.
U.S. DEATH ROW INMATE BELIEVES EXECUTION WILL SET HIM FREE
(5 JUN 07)
Patrick Knight, who is sitting on death row in Texas, USA, for the slaying of a Randall County couple IN 1991, believes that by being executed, he is being released and set free. Knight’s attitude is similar to that of the great, ancient Greek philosopher, Socrates, whose death sentence was having to drink hemlock by his own hand.
FORMER TUBERCULOSIS SANITARIUM IS A GHOST HUNTER’S DREAM
(5 JUN 07)
The Waverly Hills Tuberculosis Sanitarium, in Louisville Kentucky (USA), is reputedly one of the scariest places on earth, as this is where more than 63,000 people died during the white plague from 1926 to 1961. The site has attracted teams of paranormal investigators, using cameras, microphones and other EVP recording systems, seeking traces of such activities.
GHOSTLY HOTEL GUESTS
(4 JUN 07)
Famous for both its old world charm as well as being the hotel that inspired author Stephen King to write The Shining, the Stanley Hotel in Colorado (USA) is renowned for its resident ghosts which attract ghost hunters and psychics alike.
MINNESOTA PARANORMAL RESEARCH GROUP
(4 JUN 07)
Formed in 2002, the North Codorus Paranormal Society is a Spring Grove (Minnesota, USA) based group that searches for ghosts in the area. Tim Stump, a member of the group, has been interested in all things paranormal since he was a child, and hence formed the Society because he wanted to take part in his own ghost hunts.
VOTING OPEN FOR THE 2007 PARANORMAL AWARDS
(4 JUN 07)
With the upcoming 2007 Ghost World Conference, which is being held in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (USA), voting is now open to all members of the public, who can choose from various categories, such as; best evidence collected, best paranormal broadcast and best paranormal book.
SIR PAUL McCARTNEY’S AFTERLIFE THOUGHTS
(3 JUN 07)
Sir Paul McCartney’s latest album, Memory Almost Full, features a track titled “End of the End”, a song in which Sir Paul imagines the day of his death and notes that if the afterlife is going to be better than what he's got it must be pretty special.
TWENTY-FIVE MILLION DOLLAR SKULL
(3 JUN 07)
British artist Damien Hirst, better known for encasing a dead shark in formaldehyde, has unveiled his latest masterpiece: A human skull encased in more than $25 million in diamonds.
FAITH IN THE AFTERLIFE
(3 JUN 07)
Everything we know has to be accepted with a degree of faith. So does this then also imply for those that believe in the afterlife? Learning to keep an open mind, especially when it comes to the afterlife, is one way for those that have faith, to know that life does go on.
MEDIUMS TO THE RESCUE
(2 JUN 07)
Internationally renowned psychics Jackie Dennison and Christine Hamlett, and hosts of the TV show Rescue Mediums, recently filmed an episode at the haunted Loyalist Inn in Shelburne (CAN), after it’s owner, Linda Deschamps, contacted the show after realizing the existence of spirits that seemed to haunt the third floor of the building.
MISSY HIGGINS’ OBE
(2 JUN 07)
Missy Higgins, a 23 year old singer/songwriter from Melbourne (AUS) says that the name of her second album, On a Clear Night, originated from an "out of body" experience, while at a remote beach in Western Australia. She recently told an audience at one of her concerts that, "Looking up at this amazingly clear sky above me, it dawned on me how small we are, how short life is and how ridiculous it therefore is to spend any of it feeling compromised or unfulfilled”.
NEW ZEALAND SCEPTIC IS NOW A BELIEVER
(2 JUN 07)
Tony Lehmann, owner of the New Zealand pub, the Brazenhead Irish Ale & Coffee House, says that he was somewhat of a sceptic, but now believes in paranormal things, having both seen and heard strange goings on in his establishment. Like creaking floors and doors, an apparition flashing past staff and peering over shoulders, to even a mop bucket rolling up and down the floor when there’s no one around.
CLAIRVOYANTS JOIN IN THE HUNT FOR MISSING MADELEINE
(1 JUN 07)
In Lisbon Portugal, police are presently investigating tips from clairvoyants who claim to possess paranormal abilities in the search for the missing four-year-old British girl Madeleine McCann, who went missing on May 3 2007.
GOD SHOWED HIS FACE TO VIRGINIA TECH STUDENT
(1 JUN 07)
After the shootings on April 16 at the Virginia Tech (USA) campus, in which 33 students and faculty members were killed, one of the slain students who also has a belief in the afterlife, had previously recorded a video for one of her classes in which she says that she asked God to show his face to her, in which he then did so.
IS NESSIE BACK FROM THE DEEP?
(1 JUN 07)
A 55-year-old a lab technician from Shipley, Yorkshire, has captured what Loch Ness Monster watchers say is among the finest footage ever taken of the elusive mythical creature reputed to swim beneath the waters of Scotland's most mysterious lake.
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