DECEMBER 2007
US PSYCHIC’S PREDICTIONS FOR 2008 AND FURTHER ON
(31 DEC 07)
Dr. Michael Zey is an American Ph.D. and professor at Montclair State University in New Jersey, whose predictions for the future have often been taken seriously and published in many leading newspapers worldwide. He is a futurologist and Executive Director of the Expansionary Institute, as well as an author of several books published by some of the major publishers and often appears on prime time TV programs in America.
FIVE AUSTRALIAN PSYCHICS OFFER THEIR PREDICTIONS FOR THE NEW YEAR
(31 DEC 07)
Five of Australia’s leading psychics, have given their predictions for the coming New Year. Sharina, Elizabeth Lucy, Shaki, Collette Levy and Kate Barnes, have all given their versions of what they believe 2008 will bring.
THE GHOSTS OF PLEASANTON CALIFORNIA, USA
(31 DEC 07)
October is the time of a major annual paranormal event held in Pleasanton, California, to which people from the San Francisco Bay area flock in droves to witness a wide range of paranormal occurrences and atmosphere.
NEARLY FIFTY PERCENT OF CANADIANS BELIEVE IN GHOSTS
(30 DEC 07)
A CanWest News Service and Global Television survey carried out recently in Canada, found that women are far more likely to believe in angels than men: 75 per cent versus 56 per cent and that nearly half of the 1,000 adults surveyed believed in spirits and ghosts.
WHAT BECOMES OF OUR SOULS IN THE NEXT LIFE?
(30 DEC 07)
According to the Vedanta, the philosophical texts of Hinduism, the soul is the eternal and immortal spark of the divine. In death, one leaves their physical body behind and the soul (inner spirit) moves on with the subtle impressions of one's past thoughts and actions. This determines the quality and character of one's next life.
JAMES RANDI OFFERS $1 MILLION FOR PROOF OF ‘DANCING’ CABLES
(30 DEC 07)
James Randi, the former stage magician who has made himself famous by debunking most things paranormal, is offering $1,000,000 to anyone who can prove that a pair of “Anjou” cables can actually dance, as is claimed, by Dave Clark, editor of the audio review publication “Positive Feedback Online” recently. Randi, of course, gained fame challenging Yuri Geller and some of his demonstrations, including spoon bending. Whether he actually has that million dollars in his bank account is not known.
POPE DECLARES WAR ON SATAN
(29 DEC 07)
Pope Benedict XVI is set to tackle the war on Satan. Due to a rise in interest of the occult, the Pope has ordered his bishops to set up exorcism squads to tackle the rise of Satanism.
COMCAST FOUNDER SIGNS DEAL TO KEEP BEING PAID IN THE AFTERLIFE
(29 DEC 07)
Ralph Roberts, the founder and Chairman of Comcast, the largest cable television company and the second largest Internet service provider in the United States, has signed a contract that agrees to pay the 87-year-old his annual salary for five years after his death.
FOR A NUMBER OF AMERICANS, DEATH IS NOT THE END
(29 DEC 07)
Reporter Patricia Leigh Brown of the New York Times, recently wrote an article showing that Americans in this life continue to love those in the next. As Brown wrote at the end of her story about the American way of death. Bernadette Filosa, a 56-year-old retired court administrator, hauled a Christmas tree out of her Prius to her parents’ graves, though it appeared to exceed the regulation height of four feet. Her mother, Bernadetta, who lived to 91, never lost sight of own parents’ Italian traditions.
PRE-DEATH WORK
(28 DEC 07)
Ed Simas, a bereavement coordinator for the Visiting Nurse & Hospice Care of Southwestern Connecticut (VNHCSW), USA, says that communication is the cornerstone of any grief program when it comes to saying goodbye to a dying loved one. Simas calls it “pre-death work”, that being the grief patients begin to feel while processing news of their diagnosis, as well as dealing with pain management, coping with symptoms and maintaining quality of life. Then, as hope shifts to despair and back again, the patient then starts to worry about their family's ability to carry on once they’re gone.
AMERICAN FUNERAL HOMES CATERING TO TRADITIONAL HINDU SERVICES
(28 DEC 07)
Assistant professor of media, culture and communication at New York University's sociology department, Charlton McIlwain, says that funerals are an important way for ethnic groups to maintain their cultural identities. One such example of this is a traditional Hindu funeral, which revolves around preparing the deceased's soul for a journey to the place of their creation.
THE DIFFERENT REALMS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
(28 DEC 07)
American physicist Tom Campbell speaks, on YouTube, about aspects of consciousness, including his work and experiences with Robert Monroe, whose books about astral traveling made that subject more well known than ever before.
A GREEN AFTERLIFE IS CATCHING ON
(27 DEC 07)
Biodegradable coffins and eco-friendly burials are becoming part of a large trend. Popular in Britain for years, the trend is now catching on in the United States, where "green" cemeteries hosting natural burials have sprouted up in Florida, California, New York, South Carolina and Texas.
‘SPIRIT RELEASE’ A NEW TYPE OF THERAPY FOR THE MENTALLY ILL
(27 DEC 07)
Many psychiatrists and psychologists are beginning to discover that ‘spiritual release’ therapy, developed by Dr. William Baldwin in the 1990’s, is helping many of their patients overcome the so-called earthbound spirits that have attached themselves to their patients. The sort of ‘spirits’ that attach themselves may still well be in love with their family members or at the other end of the spectrum, still addicted to either alcohol and or narcotics.
UK PUB’S SPIRIT MANIFESTATION
(27 DEC 07)
David Holt, a 24-year-old spiritualist medium, spent a night at one of Bolton’s oldest pubs, in England, “Ye Olde Man and Scythe”, which dates back to 1251, in the hope of recording some paranormal activity. After many hours, Holt and his team managed to record many orbs and voices.
FACIAL TATOOS A DYING ART IN CHINA'S ETHNIC GROUPS
(26 DEC 07)
Women of the Derung ethnic group, southwest of China's Yunnan Province, used to have their faces tattooed when they turned 12 or 13 as a sign of maturity. The tattoo was in the image of a butterfly because the souls of the dead were said to turn into butterflies.
UFO RECORDS SET TO BE RELEASED BY BRITISH GOVERNMENT
(26 DEC 07)
The British Government’s Ministry of Defense is set to release previously classified files about alleged UFO sightings, dating back to the 1950’s from when the government first started keeping records.
PREIST STILL PERFOMS MEDICAL MIRACLES 71 YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH
(25 DEC 07)
Father Nelson Baker, a priest in Buffalo’s (USA) Catholic community who died 71 years ago, is said to still perform miracles. According to many town folk and those at the local nursing home, Father Baker has been seen entering their rooms to help heal the sick and dying.
OREGAN MAN SENDS HOLIDAY GREETINGS FROM THE AFTERLIFE
(25 DEC 07)
Chet Fitch, an 88 year-old American from Oregon, who died in October (2007), has been sending Christmas cards to his friends and family, with the return address marked as “Heaven”.
THE ORIGINS OF THE CHRISTMAS TREE
(25 DEC 07)
Long before the advent of Christianity, plants and trees that remained green all year had a special meaning for people in the Northern Hemisphere’s winter. Ancient people hung evergreen boughs over their doors and windows, because it was believed that the evergreens would keep away witches, ghosts, evil spirits, and illness. Thus people today decorate their homes during the festive season with pine, spruce, and fir trees.
WAS EBENEZER SCROOGE A 19TH CENTURY GRAVE DIGGER?
(24 DEC 07)
Sjef de Jong, a Dutch academic, believes that Charles Dickens’ character, Ebenezer Scrooge, may well have been inspired by the real life of Gabriel de Graaf, a 19th century gravedigger who lived in Holland.
SCOTLAND IS FILLED WITH PARANORMAL INVESTIGATORS
(24 DEC 07)
In Scotland, it is estimated that there are at least 20 groups dedicated to studying the paranormal. Many of the people that work within these groups, have changed their attitudes to death due to the many paranormal and ghostly sightings with which they have seen and or heard.
DEATH CAN BRING OUT THE GOOD IN US ALL
(24 DEC 07)
Thomas Pyszczynski, a social psychologist in Colorado, USA, recently carried out a survey in which he and his colleagues asked people about their opinions on various charities. The twist being that half of those surveyed were asked outside of a funeral home, with the other half being asked further away. What they discovered, was that peoples attitudes towards charities are more open when they are faced with the possibility of their own mortality, as was the case with this survey being carried out the front of "Howe's Mortuary".
SCOTTISH KILLER SPOOKED BY GHOSTS OF HIS VICTIMS
(23 DEC 07)
Serial killer and child molester, Robert Black, who is serving three life sentences for the murders of Susan Maxwell, 11, Caroline Hogg, five, and ten-year-old Sarah Harper, is constantly being haunted by their ghosts. According to a prison source, Black refuses to sleep with the lights off and is “struggling to cope with the ‘ghosts’ he sees.”
TERRI IRWIN HOPING TO CONTACT STEVE THROUGH JOHN EDWARD
(23 DEC 07)
Terri Irwin is reportedly hoping to communicate with her late husband Steve when psychic John Edward visits Australia Zoo next month. "I know [Steve's] gone but in some way he is still here. I feel him, I sense him," said Irwin, in an interview with the Sunday Mail.
SANTA NAILED TO CROSS IN CHRISTMAS PROTEST
(23 DEC 07)
Santa Claus has been nailed to a crucifix outside a suburban US home in a bizarre protest against the commercialisation of Christmas. Art Conrad, from Bremerton in the state of Washington, crucified the stuffed Santa because Christmas had become "perverted".
SCI-FI GHOST HUNTERS INVESTIGATE HAUNTED INN
(23 DEC 07)
Members from the Sci-Fi channels Ghost Hunters show recently spent four days filming at the Cashtown Inn, Cashtown, Pennsylvania. The two-hundred plus year old building is said to be haunted by the ghosts of children playing, with the smell of cigar smoke and faces appearing in photographs of windows.
PSYCHIC DETECTIVE HELPS TO RE-OPEN COLD CASE
(22 DEC 07)
Mary Ellen Rodriguez, an Ohio-based clairvoyant and psychic detective, has helped an American widow, Mary Ellen McDougall, have her husband’s disappearance case re-opened. Neil McDougall disappeared more than two decades ago, and now police are finally looking for evidence to convict his killer.
GELLER BUYS SPOONS FOR HIS OWN BIRTHDAY
(22 DEC 07)
Uri Geller, the Israeli-British performer and celebrity who became famous for his ability to bend cutlery with his “psychic powers”, has celebrated his 61st birthday by purchasing 150 spoons from an auction at London’s Savoy hotel.
JAPANESE GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL BELIEVES IN UFO’S
(22 DEC 07)
Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura says that he is a firm believer in UFO’s. "Personally, I definitely believe they exist," said Machimura, whilst discussing this and similar topics with other Japanese politicians.
BRITISH ARCHBISHOP SAYS THAT THREE WISE MEN IS A ‘LEGEND’
(21 DEC 07)
The Rt Revd Dr. Rowan Williams, the most senior bishop in the established church in England and the leader of the Anglican Communion around the world, has come out and said that the Christmas story of the three wise men is all but a legend.
SAYING I LOVE YOU FROM THE AFTERLIFE
(21 DEC 07)
In the new Hollywood film, P.S. I Love You, Holly Kennedy, played by Hilary Swank, is devastated when her loving husband Gerry falls unexpectedly ill and dies. But he seemingly comes back into her life when a series of messages he recorded before he died start showing up on her doorstep.
DEAD MAN BREATHES AGAIN AFTER ACCIDENT IN AUSTRALIAN OUTBACK
(20 DEC 07)
Northern Territory car crash victim, Paulo Melo, whose life support system was turned off at the Royal Darwin Hospital yesterday, has begun breathing for himself and asking for his “Dad.”
HOSPICE WORK CAN BE A REWARDING EXPERIENCE
(20 DEC 07)
Karen Latvala of Coaldale Colorado (USA), became a hospice volunteer after her own near-death experience. Suffering from hantavirus, a deadly disease from infected rodents urine and droppings, Latvala says that this close brush with death felt as though she was having a spiritual experience. In discussing this with a friend, he suggested that she should get involved with hospice work to help the dying go in peace.
BUDDHIST PILGRIMAGE IS A JOURNEY OF FULFILLMENT
(20 DEC 07)
As an honorable part of Tibetan life, devout believers take themselves on a journey from their hometowns, usually by foot and hundreds or thousands of kilometers away, to the sacred destination of the Jokkang Temple in the heart of Lhasa City, the traditional capital of Tibet. They have neither fear nor loneliness and pain is the pilgrim's road to winning divine favor and building an afterlife.
PSYCHIC PREDICTIONS FOR 2008 TO BE CLOSELY MONITORED
(20 DEC 07)
Compiling of a public listing of psychic predictions being made for the year 2008, the High Weirdness Project, a wiki-based online community, will be keeping a log. Then, when 2008 comes to a close, these ‘psychic predictions’ can be examined to see if any came true.
POLAND TO GET IT’S FIRST EXORCISE CENTRE
(19 DEC 07)
Polish Catholic Priest, Andrzej Trojanowski, is planning to open the country’s first ever exorcism centre for people believed to be possessed by the Devil in Poczernin, 30km to the east of the Baltic city of Szczeczin.
RUSSIAN PRESIDENT SAID TO BE REINCARNATION OF ST. PAUL
(19 DEC 07)
The Resurrecting Russia sect, in the village of Bolshaya Elnya in the southern Volga region, has recently declared Russian President Vladimir Putin as the reincarnation of Saint Paul.
SHEEP’S GHOST IN ATTIC
(19 DEC 07)
Many people believe that discussions about ghosts are best kept within the confines of one’s own home. One Dorset, U.K. homeowner, however, talks openly about the ghost in her attic – that of a long dead sheep.
THE PSYCHIC LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN
(18 DEC 07)
The Psychic Life of Abraham Lincoln is a new book by Susan B. Martinez, Ph.D., an independent scholar, journalist and activist who received her doctorate in Anthropology from Columbia University in the 1970s. In her book, Martinez takes the reader back into the psychic life of the 16th President of the United States, who at the age of 22, was told by a seer that he would one day become President of the United States.
WESTERN OBSESSION WITH A MATERIALISTIC CHRISTMAS
(18 DEC 07)
Central to most religions is the idea that what life is all about is preparation for an afterlife, a spiritual life that is superior to the mundane existence we lead here on Earth. Yet, in the West, we get swept down the river with all of the hype that Christmas brings. Many of the items that we purchase for loved ones are materialistic goods that do not make us better people. Religions generally try to teach us to look at other ways of spending our time and money, for these things cannot be taken into the next life.
U.S. PRISON INMATES FIND SPIRITUAL HEALING ON THE INSIDE
(18 DEC 07)
Michael Maybin of the Transformation Church of Jesus Christ, in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, regularly leads prayer services for inmates of the Maryland Correctional Institution at Jessup. The services are to help inmate to reconcile themselves with the prospect of meeting their deceased relatives eventually, in the afterlife.
‘BLUE LADY’ OF VALE END CEMETARY
(17 DEC 07)
Documentary filmmakers, Misty Haze Productions, recently ventured to Wilton New Hampshire (USA), to make a documentary of the towns’ local ghosts. One of the places that they filmed was at a cemetery on a hill entitled Vale End. This cemetery is widely known to be haunted by the famous or infamous "Blue Lady.”
ABOUT THE MORMONS
(17 DEC 07)
Mormons call themselves the Church of the Latter Day Saints of Jesus Christ and therefore are essentially Christians, but with some differences. Now, with Governor Mitt Romney being a prime presidential contender, there is more interest for information about Mormonism, which this article gives, however briefly.
DEAD SON DENIES HIS OWN SUICIDE
(17 DEC 07)
Marine lieutenant James N. Sutton, from Portland (USA), died a violent death in the grounds of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., under mysterious circumstances on Oct. 13, 1907. The military inquest ruled his death a suicide. However his mother, Rosa, one night had a vision of her son, in which he denied the inquest finding and asked her to clear his name.
HINDU BELIEFS ABOUT THE AFTERLIFE
(16 DEC 07)
Arvind Khetia, an engineer and Hindu, discusses the afterlife from both a Hindu and Islamic aspect, quoting the Hindu Holy book, the Bhagavad Gita (“Song of God”) which states: “Even as the embodied self passes in this body, through the stages of childhood, youth and old age, so does it pass into another body. Calm souls are not bewildered by this.”
What do you think?
HOW REAL IS REINCARNATION?
(16 DEC 07)
The term reincarnation is about the belief that while the body dies and decomposes, something of the person still remains and this eventually is reborn in a new body. Thus the soul or spirit is able to continue living, in both past and present, as well as eventually also the future. The concept is widely known and also accepted in most Eastern religions, and even in some Western ones as well. This item, from Benin, deals with what is an African attitude about the same subject, reincarnation.
PSYCHIATRIST RECLASSIFIES UFO EXPERIENCES
(16 DEC 07)
Exoconsciousness is the concept created by Rebecca Hardcastle, Ph.D. It is the study of extraterrestrial dimensions of human consciousness: the processes, abilities and physical endowments that link us directly to the cosmos and its inhabitants. As a dedicated student of Tibetan yoga, meditation, shamanism and hypnosis, Dr. Hardcastle’s beliefs were profoundly expanded when she began to acknowledge and experience extra-dimensional communication and awareness.
ACADEMY AWARD-WINNING DIRECTOR BELIEVES IN THE AFTERLIFE
(15 DEC 07)
Francis Ford Coppola, the five-time Academy Award-Winning American film director, producer, and screenwriter, was recently asked his if he believed in the afterlife. “I sort of think that the people I have loved and lost are somehow still there. I can’t believe that something so specific is gone,” said Coppola.
MYSTERY OF THE MASKS
(15 DEC 07)
Yang Gancai and his wife Wang Yi, are known for their 2006 success documentary, "Transformation", that depicted the slash-and-burn agricultural methods of the Akha ethnic group living in complete isolation in Manbang village of Yunnan province, the most southwestern province in China. Now the two believe they have they found evidence of what a shaman had told them back in the Akha village of Yunnan. "The shaman told us that people would worship the sacred tree every spring and autumn, and the number of its fallen leaves would represent the number of babies to be born that year."
HOLLYWOOD MOVIES EFFECT UPON THE PARANORMAL
(15 DEC 07)
Brad Steiger was one of the first popular writers of what is now called paranormal and supernatural subjects, then said to be “The Unexplained”, in the 1950’s when he wrote the first of over 2,000 articles, and subsequently authored or co-authored 154 books, many of which became tbe basis of both movies and TV shows. In this article, from UFO Digest, Steiger presents what is almost an historical overview of the genre.
FROM UNIVERSITY STUDENT TO PARANORMAL INVESTIGATOR
(14 DEC 07)
One of the stars of a new A&E network series, “Paranormal State”, Ryan Buell, formed the Paranormal Research Society (PRS) to investigate the spooky and unexplained, while majoring in journalism at Penn State University.
ANCIENT BURIAL GROUNDS OF NORTHERN VIETNAM
(14 DEC 07)
Archaeologists Kate Dommett and Marc Oxenham have unearthed an ancient burial ground in Northern Vietnam in which many of the skeletons are 3,500 years old. Within the graves, the archaeologists have discovered items such as clay pots, stone implements and jade. These items appear to be inclusions in all burials and likely indications an offering to the afterlife.
IRAN’S ‘BURNT CITY’
(14 DEC 07)
A settlement at the “Burnt City” of Iran first appeared around 3200 BCE. Evidence suggests that inhabitants of the area, located near the city of Zabol in Sistan-Baluchestan Province, used to bury food with their dead to sustain them in the afterlife.
AMERICAN PROFESOR SUES COLLEAGUES OVER INTELLIGENT DESIGN
(13 DEC 07)
Professor Guillermo Gonzalez of Iowa State University is suing his colleagues, claiming political, if not religious, persecution for his work in intelligent design. Intelligent Design is the assertion that life is complex and requires a designer. The designer is God, God is supernatural, science rejects the supernatural and therefore, science rejects God.
APPALACHIAN STATES LINEBACKER’S NDE
(13 DEC 07)
Pierre Banks, the Appalachian State junior linebacker has revealed that during last Friday night's NCAA Football Championship Subdivision game against Delaware, he had a moment similar to an NDE. "Every step I took I saw my whole football career," he said. "The championship game last year. Corey Lynch blocking the field goal to beat Michigan this year. All of it was right there. And it felt like everything was in slow motion. I tried to run after the fumble, but I felt like I couldn't move."
COMMUNICATING WITH THE SPIRIT WORLD THROUGH A HOME MADE ‘BOX’
(12 DEC 07)
Within the ghost hunting, paranormal world, there is a quickly developing trend. Many individuals and groups are developing 'boxes', technological communication devices for spirit contact. Beginning in the middle of the 19th century, the idea of building devices for two-way spirit contact is far from new.
EXORCISM BAN FOR ACCUSED NINE
(12 DEC 07)
Police in New Zealand have arrested and charged six women and three men following the death 22-year-old of Janet Moses, who died on October 12 (2007) at a Wainuiomata house following a botched exorcism.
UFO BOLTON OVER THE SKIES ABOVE
(12 DEC 07)
A resident in the town of Bolton, in Greater Manchester, in North West England, has reported of seeing a triangular silhouette in the night sky earlier this week.
INDIAN EATERY BOASTS GRAVESIDE SEATING
(11 DEC 07)
In Ahmadabad, India, the bustling New Lucky Restaurant is making a name for itself, as the only restaurant to have graves between the tables. Built over a centuries-old Muslim cemetery, restaurant worker Krishan Kutti Nair says he doesn't know who is buried in the cafe floor, but their customers seem to like the graves, which resemble small cement coffins.
CANADIAN JOURNALIST’S EARLY START TO ALL THINGS PARANORMAL
(11 DEC 07)
Rob McConnell, the well known Canadian Radio and TV personality, says that he has always had an interest in all things paranormal. “It all started when I was very young." Then, when his younger brother was very sick in hospital, he noticed a person standing in the doorway of the family kitchen who was “somehow, telling me that everything was going to be alright’.
UGANDAN SPIRITS RETURN TO COMFORT THEIR LOVED ONES
(11 DEC 07)
Irene Amito, whose husband and child were brutally murdered in front of their home in Northern Uganda, strongly believes that her dead husband and child come to visit her regularly. "I see them every day... I see them," she mutters. "In fact, last night my husband came dressed in a blood-stained shirt. He told me I should prepare his supper. When I turned round, he had vanished."
SHIRLEY MACLAINE TO RELEASE NEW MEMOIRS OF HER PREVIOUS LIVE
(10 DEC 07)
Former Egyptian Princess and medieval warrior, Shirley MacLaine, the Academy Award-winning American film and theatre actress, is about to release her latest memoir, in which amongst many things, she touches on her previous lives.
GHOST HUNTING IN GEELONG GAOL
(10 DEC 07)
Members of the Australian based Ghost Research International, recently spent some time inside one of Victoria’s oldest gaol’s in search of paranormal activity. Darren Miller, who heads up the team of professional ghost hunters, used sophisticated scientific equipment in the hope of capturing ghostly sightings on film.
GHOSTS STILL WANT TO MAKE LOVE
(10 DEC 07)
American spiritualist-to-the-stars, Concetta Bertoldi, has just released her new book Do Dead People Watch Us Shower and Other Questions You've Been Dying to Ask a Medium, in which she says that she has “twice had a spirit actually try to make love to me. Very strange - but not scary."
SEVEN DIFFERENT VIEWS ON GOD, RELIGION AND THE AFTERLIFE
(9 DEC 07)
Celia Dodd, a former television newsreader, explorer and now funeral director, talks to seven very different people about their views on God, religion and what may await those of us that believe in the afterlife.
USING YOUR OWN ANGELS TO SEEK ANSWERS
(9 DEC 07)
There are actually four spiritual gifts that a person has within. These being; Prophecy, Clairvoyance, Clairaudience and Healing. With these, the road to self fulfillment and spirituality can be attained.
PATIENCE IS A VIRTUE WHEN IT COMES TO GHOST HUNTING
(9 DEC 07)
There are many misconceptions about ghosts and the afterlife. Yet to capture an image or sound of a ghost on film, there are many steps that a good ghost hunter should take. Asking as many questions to the current owners about the history of the location and be patient to the entity by showing your utmost respect are just some of the things that a good ghost hunter should do.
AN ENLIGHTENING NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE
(8 DEC 07)
At the age of 21, Daryl D had a near death experience when he was pronounced dead in hospital after earlier being involved in a head on car accident. “I heard a roaring, buzzing sound and was suddenly looking at my mangled self from above the bed, with doctors trying to revive me.”
UFO SANCTUARY TO BE CREATED IN RUSSIA
(8 DEC 07)
The authorities of the Kishertsky district of Russia, where the famous anomalous zone, Molebka, is situated, have decided to turn the district into a unique UFO sanctuary and have already made a contract with Moscow State University of Service to develop the sanctuary project.
MORMONS’ BELIEF IN THE AFTERLIFE
(8 DEC 07)
Founded by Joseph Smith in the early 1800s, The Mormon Church is officially known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or The Church of Jesus Christ. Mormons believe that humans were spirits before birth and can become gods in the afterlife.
INDIA’S TRAVELLING ‘HUGGING SAINT’
(7 DEC 07)
Over the past 30 years, Mata Amritanandamayi better known as Amma, the "Hugging Saint", has given out some 26 million hugs, or "darshan", as the experience is known, around the world. Many of her followers will travel great distances for the opportunity of being hugged by Amma, with many saying they were left daze after the experience.
AWARD WINNING AUTHOR EXPLORES THE VARIOUS STAGES OF LIFE
(7 DEC 07)
Thomas Armstrong, Ph.D. is an award-winning author and speaker with over thirty years of teaching experience from the primary through the doctoral level. He is the author of thirteen books including The Human Odyssey, in which he explores the conversation about human development to include prebirth, birth, death, and the afterlife. To Dr. Armstrong, it seemed necessary that he discuss what many cultures around the world have thought about the various stages of life.
CYPRIOT ‘WITCH’ JAILED OVER UNDERPANTS SORCERY
(7 DEC 07)
A 69 year-old Cypriot woman has been jailed for 20 days after being found guilty of practicing sorcery using a pair of underpants and raw eggs to break a “lethal curse”.
SCOTLAND’S GHOST HUNTING MUM
(6 DEC 07)
Sharon McKee, a 35-year-old business development manager and mother of two, likes nothing better than spending her nights in creepy castles or haunted hotels. McKee is one of the latest members of Ghost Hunters Scotland, a paranormal investigation team that uses the spirit world to unlock Scotland's spooky past.
2008 SAN FRANCISCO CONFERENCE ON PROOF OF THE AFTERLIFE
(6 DEC 07)
American based group, the Forever Family Foundation, is to present a conference on the afterlife on January 19-20, 2008 at the Cowell Theater at Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA, USA. Speaking at the conference will be world renowned scientists, medical doctors, researchers, and mediums with a goal of educating the general public on proof of the afterlife.
‘BALLS OF FIRE’ SPOTTED OVER BRITISH SKIES
(6 DEC 07)
A number of locals throughout Mansfield, Ashfield and Shirebrook in England, have inundated UFO hunters with reports of strange objects in the skies. First reported in the skies above Alfreton last month, the ‘balls of fire’ were again spotted last Saturday (1 Dec ’07) in the skies above Shirebrook.
SPIRITS PROTECT THAILAND’S ‘DOCTOR DEATH’
(5 DEC 07)
Thailand's leading forensics expert Porntip Rojanasunan believes the spirits of the dead have become her guardian angels. After examining more than 10,000 corpses in her 30-year career, Rojanasunan says that the "Spirits of the dead keep protecting me."
UFO LANDED IN FRONT OF FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT EISENHOWER
(5 DEC 07)
Clark C. McClelland, a former ScO, Space Shuttle Fleet, KSC, Florida 1958 to 1992, has revealed that when the then President of the United States, Dwight Eisenhower was landing at Holloman Airforce Base, aboard ‘AIR FORCE 7885’ in February of 1955, their plane was approached by an unidentiefed flying object.
PARANORMAL STATE TO HIT AMERICAN CABLE AND SATELLITE NETWORKS
(5 DEC 07)
Paranormal State, is new TV show to be aired on America’s A&E cable and satellite television network. It explores the spooky world of ghosts, similar to Sci Fi’s channel’s Ghost Hunters. The series follows Ryan Buell, a college student at Penn State University, who founded the Paranormal Research Society, in which he and his fellow investigators spend a lot of their time investigating paranormal activity, including people who claim to be haunted by ghosts.
‘MIRACLE CHAIR’ ATTRACTS CHILDRESS PILGRIMS TO NAPLES
(4 DEC 07)
Childless women from all over the world are flocking to Naples in the hope of sitting in the so-called ‘miracle chair’ in which they ask Saint Mary Frances of the Five Wounds of Jesus for a miracle.
ASTROLOGY GIVEN NEW SUPPORT BY SCIENTIST’S FINDINGS
(4 DEC 07)
Research has shown that the time of year that people are born can influence their personality, their health, and even whether they are male or female. But rather than being written in the stars, studies are showing that it is the season of birth that predisposes individuals to different traits.
A TOWN FOR THOSE WHO LOVE TALKING TO THE DEAD
(3 DEC 07)
Victor Vogenitz is a self-proclaimed medium and healer who runs the Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp in Cassadaga, about 35 miles from Orlando, Florida (USA). Vogenitz believes that "Anyone can talk to the dead. It's getting the dead to talk back that's the hard part."
OUIJAVOTE 2008
(3 DEC 07)
OuijaVote, as in Ouija Board, the well-known Parker Bros. board game with letters and numbers, has been turned into a voting machine by San Francisco based conceptual artist, Jonathon Keats. Currently on display at the Berkeley Art Museum, OuijaVote has been designed to decide a vote for those who can’t choose, such as for the 2008 US Presidential election. It's kind of like where the dead come alive and help choose government officials.
ITALIAN MAN SHOOTS WIFE TO END ALZHEIMER’S SUFFERING
(3 DEC 07)
A 78-year-old former traffic policeman shot and killed his hospitalized elderly wife in Prato, a Tuscan town 300 kilometres north of Rome, because he didn't want to see her suffer any more from the final stages of Alzheimer's disease.
CZECH SUPERMODEL RECALLS HER NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE
(2 DEC 07)
Czechoslovakian Supermodel, Petra Nemcova says that her near death experience during the 2005 tsunami in Thailand, when she almost drowned is similar to the feeling of jumping out of an airplane. "When I was under the water and I was actually drowning at one point, I was drinking the black water, and I said if it's meant to be, it's meant to be, and I let it go," Nemcova said. "It was the most blissful moment in my life when I just let go, and I kind of didn't feel any weight. I felt one with the water, with the nature."
ATHEISM IS CRUEL, SAYS THE POPE
(2 DEC 07)
Pope Benedict XVI strongly criticised modern-day atheism in a major document, saying it had led to some of the "greatest forms of cruelty and violations of justice" ever known to mankind. One section addresses the prospect of an eternal afterlife as one source of Christian hope. "But then the question arises: Do we really want this - to live eternally?" he asks. "Perhaps many people reject the faith today simply because they do not find the prospect of eternal life attractive."
FLYING ‘DORITO’ SPOTED OVER U.K. SKIES
(2 DEC 07)
A UFO, described by witnesses as looking like a huge “Dorito” crisp has been filmed over the skies of the Black Country, according to a paranormal group. Witnesses say they spotted it in Halesowen, heading towards Stourbridge, in the UK, last Wednesday (28 NOV ’07) at around 7pm.
BRITISH GHOST FETIVAL OPENS AT OXFORD
(1 DEC 07)
Oxford's first ghost festival has officially begun in which the 10-day long event includes ghost walks, ghost hunts, a spooky Christmas fair, mediumship demonstrations, psychic workshops, and even a chance for those who believe in reincarnation to find out what they may have got up to in previous lives.
DEMAND FOR EXORCISMS KEEPS THE CHURCH BUSY
(1 DEC 07)
Michael Hewat, the vicar of West Hamilton Anglican Parish in New Zealand, knows the signs when a person is possessed by demons. Behaving like an animal, especially a snake, can be evidence of this. Yet Hewat sees exorcisms as an essential role for the church, for this is when people call upon him to perform blessings in their homes to rid them of the supposed evil amongst them.
AMERICA’S CONSUMERISM IS SELF-CONSUMING
(1 DEC 07)
Are Americans programmed to consume and to be consumed by programmers, such as advertisers that tell them to spend like there is no tomorrow? Hundreds of thousands of shopping centers and the mountains of debt bear ample testimony to the excesses. One day, they will become American society’s gravestones, monuments to a lack of empathy and testaments to unbridled greed and contempt for the earth.
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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
Ernest Hemingway
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