JANUARY 2008
FORMER ROMANIAN PRIEST JAILED FOR EXORCISM MURDER OF NUN
(31 JAN 08)
A former Romanian priest, Daniel Corogeanu, has begun a seven year jail term for the murder of Irina Cornici, a young nun who was killed during an exorcism ritual in which she was bound, chained to a cross and denied food and water for days.
‘FAMOUS AND FREIGHTENED’ CHARITY FUND RAISING EVENT
(31 JAN 08)
British Paranormal investigator Ray Jorden, and medium and Reiki practitioner Jaine Gray, are hosting a celebrity paranormal investigation to raise funds for The Great Ormond Street Hospital. Ex Sugarbabe star Mutya Buena, Big Brother Housemates Kemal and Kinga, and Britain's Got Talent finalist Damon Scott are just some of the celebrities that will be taking part in the charity fund raiser.
POLTERGEIST CAPTURED ON MOBILE PHONE
(31 JAN 08)
British mother Stephanie Harty believes she has photographed a ghost on her mobile phone. Harty said that she recorded the image at her home in Botcherby (a suburb of Carlisle in Cumbria, England), while taking a video clip of her two-year-old daughter Abigail.
DESPERATE HOUSEWIFE BELIVES IN ANGELS
(30 JAN 08)
Hollywood hottie and Desperate Housewives star, Eva Longoria Parker, does not believe in ghosts. However in a recent interview, Longoria Parker said “I believe more in angels than ghosts.” “I believe there are people who have passed on that are with us and watching us.”
POLISH MAN STRUGGLES TO RETURN FROM THE DEAD
(30 JAN 08)
A Polish man, Piotr Kucy, 38, is having a hard time returning from the dead thanks to government red-tape. Last August, authorities wrongly identified a drowning victim as Kucy. Although he has pointed out to government officials that he is alive, a registry office official contends that "This citizen does not exist."
PARANORMAL ROMANCE BLOG WELCOMES PARANORMAL NOVELS AND AUTHORS ALIKE
(30 JAN 08)
Paranormal romance is one of the fastest growing genres in fiction. Now, thanks to Harlequin Enterprises Limited, one of the world's leading publishers of women's fiction, there is a blog dedicated solely to paranormal romance novels.
SAN FRANCISCO SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE DELVES INTO THE AFTERLIFE
(29 JAN 08)
Scientists and skeptics alike gathered for the first scientific conference on the afterlife for a general audience, held over two days at San Francisco's Cowell Theater. The event was sponsored by The Forever Family Foundation, a New York nonprofit organisation that promotes scientific inquiry into the afterlife, which was started by grief-stricken parents, Bob and Phran Ginsberg, whose 15-year-old daughter, Bailey, died in a car accident in 2002.
KILLER DAUGHTER SAYS FATHER WAS A DEMON
(29 JAN 08)
Australian Daniella Beltrame has pleaded not guilty to the murder of her elderly father. She is accused of binding him in cling wrap and then suffocating him with a pillow, because she believed he was a "demon" and he "had to go."
AFTERLIFE CALLS FORMER MORMON CHURCH HEAD
(29 JAN 08)
The president of The Mormon Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Gordon B. Hinckley, died last Sunday at the ripe old age of 97. Hinckley’s fellow Mormons believe that he is once again happy, as he is now in a better place.
BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH: THE SCIENCE OF RESUSCITATION FROM BEING “DEAD”
(28 JAN 08)
A new area of research at the University of Pennsylvania (USA), known as the Center for Resuscitation Science opened less than a year ago. Led by Dr Benjamin Abella, the researchers now believe there's a third state of being that hovers somewhere between life and death. There appears to be life even when some people seem dead in both the brain and the heart.
AFTERLIFE WORKSHOPS TO TACKLE THE ISSUES OF DEATH IN RENO,NEVADA (USA)
(28 JAN 08)
Death and what happens after it are the topics of some upcoming events by psychologist Annette Childs and business coach Kalena Theissen. Designed to "transform your life by understanding death," the workshops will give people a safe place to discuss near-death experiences and the messages or visitations they receive from deceased loved ones.
DECEASED DAUGHTER SENDS DAD A SIGN THAT SHE IS AT PEACE
(28 JAN 08)
William Roache, the English television actor, who plays the part of 'Ken Barlow' in the long-running soap opera, Coronation Street, says that on the morning of his daughters’ funeral in 1984, he had what he calls "an angelic projection". He saw her face and he knew it was a message telling him she was at peace and that he was not to feel bad for her.
RESEARCH SUGGEST’S THAT 85 PERCENT OF US COULD BE PSYCHIC
(28 JAN 08)
As a parapsychologist based at the University of Northampton, UK, Dr Chris Roe is examining whether it could indeed be possible to project your "mind's eye" to a distant location and observe what is going on, even if that place is hundreds of miles away. His early findings suggest that up to 85 per cent of people may possess some form of clairvoyance.
YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN YOU’LL GO
(27 JAN 08)
Shannon Seebohm, a promising Sydney basketball player is thankful to be alive. A few weeks before last Christmas, Seebohm was practicing with a team mate when he inexplicably collapsed and his heart stopped. Asked if remembers his time flat-lining, Seebohm said "I didn't see anything, but that's not to say there's nothing there." "I might have seen something but I just don't remember it."
GHOSTLY CASTLE UP FOR SALE
(27 JAN 08)
If you are not scared of ghosts and have a spare three million pounds in the bank, then Borthwick Castle in Midlothian, Scotland, where Mary Queen of Scots spent her honeymoon, has just gone on the market.
GHOSTS STILL WALK THE HALLS OF BROOKDALE INN
(26 JAN 08)
A team of local ghost hunters from the San Lorenezo Valley, Calif. USA, think they’ve spotted something peculiar on footage shot at the Brookdale Inn. One of the ghost hunters, Ed Hayes, believes that a recent change of ownership and the remodeling that is taking place at the inn, formerly the Brookdale Lodge, has stirred spirits that are rumored to lurk there.
ALIENS TAKE CATCH OF THE DAY
(26 JAN 08)
Local fisherman in the small market town of Alnwick, in the north-east of England, are claiming that recent ‘extra-terrestrial activity’ is to blame for the lack OF fish being able to be caught.
MYSTERY ‘MAN’ SPOTTED ON MARS
(26 JAN 08)
The idea that there may be life on Mars has been around for centuries, but the theory got a dubious boost from recently released photos of the surface of Mars, taken by the NASA robot Spirit, apparently showing a human-like figure.
LONELY PEOPLE HAVE STRONGER BELIEFS IN THE SUPERNATURAL
(25 JAN 08)
University of Chicago researcher Nicholas Epley recently carried out a study on lonely people and discovered that they are more likely to believe in the supernatural, whether God, angels or miracles. Epley’s findings are to be featured in the February 2008 edition of the journal Psychological Science.
EXPLAINING REINCARNATION AND DEJA VU
(25 JAN 08)
Psychic medium and certified hypnotherapist, Dawn Carr, believes that there is a simple way to explain reincarnation and déjà vu. Before we come into a lifetime we get together with other souls (most of whom have reincarnated with us before) and we choose a game plan of what each one of us wants to learn and accomplish during this particular lifetime.
‘GHOSTLY’ CHILD HAUNTS MOBILE PHONE PHOTO
(25 JAN 08)
A mobile phone photo of a group of teenagers has revealed a spooky surprise: a floating, image of a ghostly-looking child, peering between the legs of two young girls. Matthew Summers, of Norton, Teesside (UK), who took the snap of a group of his friends, said that he found it unsettling.
NEUROSURGEON BELIVES THERE IS MORE TO THE AFTERLIFE
(24 JAN 08)
American Neurosurgeon Karl Greene and chairman of the surgery department at Theda Clark Medical Center, doesn't believe this life is all there is. "My definition of life and death is different than others.” I used to be a big believer you never see brain without mind and mind without brain. There's this duality between the spiritual world and the mental or physical world and consciousness itself."
US MILITARY BLAMES UFO REPORTS ON JET DRILLS, SOME STILL DISAGREE
(24 JAN 08)
The strange lights seen by dozens of Stephenville, Texas residents on the night of January 8 are now believed to have been F-16 fighter jets, according to a statement released by the Air Force Reserve. The Mutual UFO Network, which investigated the town last weekend, isn't quite convinced.
UK PSYCHIC HELPING THE LIVING TO CONTACT THE DEAD
(24 JAN 08)
British psychic Shaun Dennis says that his ability to see into the spirit world has been with him since early childhood. Being captivated by the paranormal and, having a Roman Catholic upbringing, Dennis always thought there was more to life after death. Now at the age of 56, Dennis is about to embark on his first national tour across the UK.
THE SCIENCE OF OBEs
(23 JAN 08)
Last year, two research groups induced out-of-body experiences in healthy participants with virtual reality techniques. The experiments were conducted by research teams in the UK and Switzerland. What they found showed that there are two key components to the feeling of being located inside the body. First, visual information from the first-person perspective provides indirect information about the location of one’s body in space. The second is the detection of correlated tactile and visual events on the (illusory) body.
CHINA DEFENDS REINCARNATION RULING
(23 JAN 08)
The Chinese government's new rule on the management of reincarnations of Tibetan living Buddhas has been affirmed by Chubakang Tubdain Kaizhub, a living buddha and vice chairman of the regional Political Consultative Conference, who said that "The rule, which better protects people's religious freedom, accords with the development of Tibetan Buddhism."
CHARITY FRIGHT NIGHT FUND RAISER
(23 JAN 08)
The mother of a three-year-old cystic fibrosis sufferer, Catherine Upstone, has organised a ‘Fright Night’ event at Oxford Castle, in Oxford England, to raise funds for research into the debilitating disease. Paranormal experts from the professional ghost-hunting company, Fright Nights, will be on hand to guide visitors around the castle.
RESORTS’ GHOSTS UPSET WITH FORMER OWNERS
(22 JAN 08)
The lead investigator with the California Paranormal Investigations, Erich Breger, believes that the spirits at the Brookdale Lodge in the Santa Cruz (USA) mountains have been upset, ever since the previous owners sold the business and began taking the old furniture with them.
CONVENTION BRINGS TOGETHER THOSE WHO CLAIM TO HAVE SEEN TEXAS UFOs
(22 JAN 08)
In Dublin, Texas (USA), interviewers with the Mutual UFO Network met with about 200 people who said they saw something mysterious in the night skies over Stephenville in late December and early January.
WINEHOUSE TO CALL UPON THE SPIRIT OF BOB MARLEY
(22 JAN 08)
Amy Winehouse, the 24-year-old English singer, is heading to Jamaica to channel the "spirit of Bob Marley" into her music. Working with Marley’s son, Damien Marley, Winehouse hopes that she will be able to “feel Bob Marley's spirit in my music.”
CHILEAN MAN WAKES UP AT HIS OWN WAKE
(21 JAN 08)
Feliberto Carrasco, an 81-year-old man in the small Chilean village of Angol, has shocked his grieving relatives by waking up in his coffin at his own wake.
UK MEDIUM HAS BEEN COMMUNICTAING WITH SPIRIT WORLD FROM EARLY AGE
(21 JAN 08)
From the age of six, Derek Acorah first realized that he could communicate with spirits. Probably the best known spiritualist in the UK, Acorah says that through his childhood and in his youth he had various experiences demonstrating to himself that he was in communication with the spirit world. His first was when he saw his grandfather who had passed to the spirit world before his birth.
SPIRITUAL PRACTISES COULD LEAD TO SATAN
(21 JAN 08)
Father Jose Luis del Rio y Santiago, of the Mexican Diocese of Saltillo, has warned against the trend of seeking supposed secret knowledge and the consulting of healers and fortune tellers, saying such practices “open the door to Satanism.”
THE SPIRITUAL QUEST OF KABBALAH
(20 JAN 08)
In her book Kabbalah and the Spiritual Quest, by Jody Myers, professor of religion at California State University, states that followers of Kabbalah believe in reincarnation and astrology. Loosely defined as Jewish mysticism, Kabbalah and its central text, the Zohar, is an amalgam of astrology, cosmology, numerology and esoteric ruminations on the nature of God's very personality.
PARANORMAL TEAM HAS PROOF THAT AMERICAN LIBRARY IS HAUNTED
(20 JAN 08)
Members of the Iowa Paranormal Advanced Research Team say they have proof that the Ericson Public Library in Boone, Iowa, is haunted.
ATHEISTS DO NOT BELIEVE IN HEAVEN OR HELL NOR JESUS CHRIST
(20 JAN 08)
Atheists do not believe in a heaven or a hell because they claim that the entire concept of an afterlife was invented, along with gods and goddesses, by the Egyptians and the Greeks. After many years of critical and discerning study of the Bible and its origins, atheists have found that the mythological figure of “Jesus Christ” was based on other mythical pagan savior, gods from Egypt, Babylonia, Greece and Sumeria.
FIRST EVER FOOTAGE OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL’S CAPTURED ON FILM
(19 JAN 08)
The head of the Turkish UFO Center, Haktan Agdogan, has said that Extraterrestrial beings have finally been taped on video. At a special press conference in Istanbul, Agdogan said that a local resident managed to film an extraterrestrial spaceship and two aliens.
THE EXORCISM OF JESSICA LEEK
(19 JAN 08)
After 47 years in the Christian ministry, Pastor J. Stephen Conn has just released a new book titled, The Devil Called Collect: The Exorcism of Jessica Leek. The book is the true story of Jessica Leek, a young woman possessed by a legion of demons, who was dramatically set free by the power of Jesus' name.
‘PARANORMAL ACTIVITY’ FILM IS REMINISCENT OF ‘THE HAUNTING’
(19 JAN 08)
Israeli born Oren Peli’s haunting thriller, “Paranormal Activity,” is a film about a young couple who believe their house is being visited at night by some spectral force which a psychic is unable to deter. The film is presently being shown at the Slamdance Film Festival, in Park City, Utah, the parallel festival to the Sundance Film Festival.
SWEDISH PRIEST HAS SEX WITH DAUGHTER TO EXORCISE SATAN
(18 JAN 08)
A 69-year-old Orthodox Christian priest in the Stockholm region has been sentenced to jail after being convicted of having sex with his daughter. Believing that his daughter was possessed by the devil, the priest allegedly forced her to have sex with him as a means of driving Satan from her body.
THE WICCA WAY OF LIFE
(18 JAN 08)
Wicca is a variety of witchcraft founded on religious and magical concepts, the origins of which started in the 1920’s through a British civil servant named Gerald Gardner. Wicca’s are ambiguous about an afterlife, believe in the possibility of reincarnation yet reject all concepts of heaven and hell.
OLD NEW JERSEY COUNTY JAIL STILL HAUNTED BY THE GHOSTS OF YESTERYEAR
(18 JAN 08)
For more than a century, the old jail in Mount Holly, New Jersey (USA), housed all walks of life, from petty crooks to murderers. Hangings were a common occurrence in the old prison yard. Now known as the Historic Burlington County Prison Museum, many paranormal groups, including the South Jersey Paranormal Research, spend much time in the grounds hoping to capture on film any sighting’s of it’s resident ghost, Joel Clough, a former inmate who spent his last night on earth in the jail.
PROPOSED NEW LAWS IN BRITAIN ABOUT ORGAN TRANSPLANT DONATION CAUSE CONCERN
(17 JAN 08)
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s proposal to allow organs to be removed without prior permission of the deceased are causing concerns for people who still follow the old Christian belief about bodies of the dead being available in the afterlife, which no longer is dogma for everlasting life, as once decreed by St. Peter and St. Michael.
SUHARTO PREPARES TO FACE HIS DEMONS IN THE AFTERLIFE
(17 JAN 08)
Many Indonesians believe that the first stage of punishment in the afterlife is "siksa kubur" - literally "tomb torture," that there is a judgment day waiting for all of us. Perhaps that is why the former Indonesian President Suharto had his sickbed re-aligned last week to point toward Mecca.
TIME TICKS AWAY FOR JAMES RANDI’S US$1MILLION PARANORMAL OFFER
(17 JAN 08)
The US$1-million prize offered by the James Randi Educational Foundation for those that can prove their paranormal powers, have just over two years left to claim the reward. On the 6th March 2010, Randi will withdraw his offer, after exactly 12 years since he originally put the prize money up for grabs.
MAN TURNS UP ALIVE AT HIS OWN FUNERAL
(16 JAN 08)
A Cambodian family thought they had seen a ghost when the husband and father they believed they were cremating turned up alive and well at his own funeral.
PSYCHICS AND THE SUPERNATURAL ARE ALL PART OF MODERN DAY LIFE IN LEBANON
(16 JAN 08)
Magic and belief in the supernatural are woven into daily life in Lebanon in all kinds of ways. From housewives who stick pins in brooms to keep unpleasant houseguests from returning, to the bumper-stickers intended to ward off bad luck on the highways. According to local psychic, Sheik Fayez Al Aboud, about 85 percent of Lebanon’s population regularly visits a psychic.
US BAR HOLDS PARTY FOR EX-PATRON’S GHOST
(16 JAN 08)
Katie’s bar in Smithtown, Suffolk County, New York, recently held a party where the guest of honour was the bar’s local ghost. Charlie Klein, whose specter supposedly haunts Katie's bar, was a Smithtown resident who worked down the street from the bar during the 1920s, until he shot himself in a house across the street.
BRIGHT LIGHTS SEEN FYLING ABOVE TEXAS TOWN
(16 JAN 08)
In Stephenville, Texas (USA), residents have reported sightings of what many believe is a UFO. Dozens of locals including a pilot, claim that they have seen a large silent object with bright lights flying low and fast.
MEDIUM STAR BELIVES IN LIFE AFTER DEATH
(15 JAN 08)
Patricia Arquette, the star of the hit TV show Medium, says that she believes in the afterlife. “I do believe that something happens. I know that Einstein says you can't destroy energy,” she said of her faith in life after death.
SUPERNATURAL SEX ENDS IN MURDER
(15 JAN 08)
A man who believed he had supernatural sexual powers killed his partner's best friend after encouraging her to sleep with him to exorcise her demons. David Maxwell Shepherd told the deceased that he had psychic powers and that he could remove her bad demons by sleeping with her.
PARANORMAL INVESTIGATOR CHANGES HIS COURSE
(15 JAN 08)
Matt Ferrell is a paranormal investigator whose work has taken him into private homes, lighthouses, jails, battlefields, cemeteries and inns, in the northern Florida region for the past several years. Featured regularly on radio broadcasts as well as various TV networks, Ferrell is now putting most of energy into his GHOST! Magazine, an online and print publication that is a useful resource for those interested in ghost hunting and the paranormal at large.
BEYOND REINCARNATION
(14 JAN 08)
According to Dr. Joe Slate, author of Beyond Reincarnation: Experience Your Past Lives & Lives Between Lives, accessing the spirit realm is not only possible, it's beneficial for our present lives and future spiritual evolution. Past-life knowledge can offer direction and balance, explain fears and compulsions, build self worth, and promote acceptance of others.
US GHOST ENTHUSIASTS ON THE LOOKOUT FOR LIBRARY SPIRIT
(14 JAN 08)
In the darkened attic of the old Bernardsville Library, in New Jersey USA, a group of ghost enthusiasts, led by Bernardsville native Nelson Jecas, anxiously await an encounter with Phyllis Parker, the legendary spirit believed to haunt the building. Jecas, a deep sea diver and treasure hunter by day, becomes a ghost-hunting teacher at night, which is when paranormal activity is said to be at its height.
‘MEDIUM’ CONS MALAYSIAN WOMEN FOR MONEY AND SEX
(14 JAN 08)
A Malaysian con man has been robbing local women of their money and having them strip, so that he could perform acupuncture on them in order to rid them of evil spirits. In once case, the ‘medium’ gave one his female victims “holy water,” that put her in a daze.
PRINCESS DIANA’S ‘GHOST’ BEHIND BREAK UP OF FORMER LOVER’S MARRIAGE
(13 JAN 08)
Heart specialist Dr Hasnat Khan who was once described by Princess Diana, as "the love of my life,” has separated from his wife of only 20 months. According to a family friend, "the ghost of Diana has never left him. He adored her.”
KD LANG’S BELIEF IN REINCARNATION
(13 JAN 08)
Kathy Lang, better known around the world as the Canadian singer kd lang, says that she has always believed in the idea of reincarnation, “even as a teenager”, but that until she met her teacher “it was like having a car but not knowing how to drive”.
GHOSTLY FUN AT TOWNELEY HALL
(13 JAN 08)
The North West Spirit Seekers will be hosting an evening of ghostly fun at Towneley Hall, in Burnley, UK, on Friday, February 8th, 2008. Some of the evening’s events will include a psychic demonstration and the chance to take part in a mini ghost hunt.
NEPALESE SHERPAS PRAY FOR THE REINCARNATION OF SIR EDMUND HILLARY
(12 JAN 08)
Ang Rita Sherpa, an old friend of Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to conquer Mount Everest, who recently passed away, says that he “lit butter lamps and offered prayers for his reincarnation as a human being."
SATANIC RITUAL TURNS TO TRADEGY IN IOWA, USA
(12 JAN 08)
Lawrence Harriss, a self-described pagan, has been charged with the killings of his two step daughters in what police in Sioux City, Iowa, say was a satanic ritual gone wrong.
LAKE ERIE, USA, A UFO HOT SPOT
(12 JAN 08)
Lake Erie near Cleveland, Ohio in the United States is said to be a UFO hot spot. According to Aaron Clark, a spokesman for the Cleveland Ufology Project which is one of the oldest UFO-spotting groups in the country; there have been more than 20 credible UFO sightings in the area in the last two years.
DID ALIENS CREATE HUMANS IN THE AUSTRALIAN OUTBACK?
(11 JAN 08)
Lew Farkas is a man of many talents. Not only does he run the local store and holiday park at Wycliffe Well, 380km north of Alice Springs on the Stuart Highway in Northern Australia, but he is also regarded as an experienced UFO spotter. Having spotted about 30 UFOs in his life time, Farkas is now supporting the theory that aliens once landed at Uluru (Ayers Rock) and created human beings there.
THEATRE GHOSTS ARE THE NEXT ATTRACTION FOR BRITAIN’S MOST HAUNTED
(11 JAN 08)
The crew from Britain's Most Haunted recently investigated the paranormal goings on at Morecambe's Winter Gardens, in Lancashire, England. Amongst some of the well known ghosts is a grumpy old man who asks visitors to move along, a Victorian lady who sits in one of the boxes waiting for the next show and the stage manager who leaves the smell of cigar smoke lingering in the foyer.
GHOST WHISPERER TV CONSULTANT HELPS ALMOST ANYONE
(11 JAN 08)
Mary Ann Winkowski is a paranormal investigator with a unique edge. She’s been talking to spirits since the age of four and the TV Series "Ghost Whisperer," starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, was built around some of her many experiences. Mary Ann consults for literally thousands of people, on her website, by phone and also personally, as well as for the TV program’s star and producer.
WE’RE ALL DIFFERENT WHEN IT COMES TO THE PARANORMAL
(10 JAN 08)
Some believe in the paranormal, things like aliens visiting us, ghosts trying to communicate with us, odd medical treatments defying science and curing people. Skeptics, however, would say that these simply help believers to feel good. So, what makes us true believers?
U.S. FAMILY TURN TO PSYCHIC FOR HELP IN FINDING MISSING HUSBAND
(10 JAN 08)
Gwen Mouton, whose husband, Theo, disappeared last week after a hunting trip, has turned to a psychic to help track down her husband. The psychic claims to see what the missing man sees and hear what he hears.
ANCIENT EGYPTIAN’S GATEWAY TO HEAVEN
(10 JAN 08)
The ancient Egyptians built pyramids as tombs for the pharaohs and their queens, many filled with riches for the pharaoh to take on into the afterlife. They also believed that the dark area of the night sky, around which the stars appear to revolve, was the physical gateway into the heavens.
GHOST HUNTERS INVESTIGATE AIR BASES’ PARANORMAL ACTIVITY
(9 JAN 08)
After years of reports about apparitions, disembodied voices and doors slamming on their own at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio USA, members of the Atlantic Paranormal Society, who have their own show on the SciFi Channel explaining ghosts and other paranormal activity, have been called upon to investigate these strange goings on.
‘MOBILE EXORCIST’ SETTLES OUT OF COURT
(9 JAN 08)
Dubbed the ‘Mobile Exorcist’, Hamidur Rahman, a Muslim cleric, has been awarded £17,500 in an out-of-court settlement with the Shahjalal Mosque in Elswick in Newcastle’s West End, England. Rahman was sacked as prayer leader in July 2006, when it was claimed that he gave out blessings and carried out exorcisms on his mobile.
SCOTTISH PARANORMAL GROUP SEEKS WITCHCRAFT PARDON
(9 JAN 08)
Full Moon Investigations, a Scottish group specializing in the paranormal, is planning to submit a petition to Government ministers for them to lobby the London Home Office seeking a pardon for Helen Duncan, the last person in Britain to be convicted of witchcraft.
WITCH DOCTORS DO COPS’ JOB
(8 JAN 08)
Raiders who profited from Kenya's post-election unrest have begun returning or dumping their ill-gotten gains around the port city of Mombasa, frightened of the cursed goods.
‘GOD MADE ME DO IT’ SAYS ALLEGED GRISLY KILLER
(8 JAN 08)
An alleged murderer accused of cooking parts of his dead girlfriend's body has told investigators God made him do it. Texan Christopher Lee McCuin, 25, killed his girlfriend and cooked parts of her body, police allege.
‘PROTECTOR’ OF NEPAL STRIPPED OF HIS POWERS
(8 JAN 08)
Revered by supporters as a reincarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu, who is known as the protector, King Gyanendra of Nepal has been stripped of most of his powers since parliament’s decision to abolish the monarchy and create a republic.
PSYCHIC TALKS TO THE ANIMALS, DEAD OR ALIVE
(7 JAN 08)
Recognized and respected across Australia and around the world, Amanda De Warren is a very professional and gifted medium. Three years ago, De Warren realised that she had a very rare gift. She could talk to the animals, both dead and alive.
FAITH, THE FAITH HEALER
(7 JAN 08)
There are two common forms of curses according to Faith, the faith healer. The first one is that if you send out something negative, you also hold on to it, and, the second kind is when someone curses you. Maureen Dowd, a syndicated columnist for The New York Times, recently spent a session with Faith. Read on to see what else she discovered.
UK DANCERS DRIVE AWAY EVIL SPIRITS
(7 JAN 08)
Every January in High Street, Tarring, in Worthing, UK, the Sompting Village Morris dancers drive away evil spirits with jeering, whistling and loud bangs, to ensure fertile trees and a bumper apple harvest later in the year.
PRAYER WARRIORS OF HAWAII
(7 JAN 08)
In Hawaii recently, more than 3,000 people, ranging from infants to senior citizens, joined Pastor Virginia Domligan and dozens of other Christian pastors at the Aloha Stadium for the fourth annual statewide prayer watch.
FROM APES TO IMMORTALITY
(6 JAN 08)
Desmond Morris’ latest book, The Naked Man, is a study and reflection of the male sector of the species: from head to toe, through the ages, from jungle-dweller to urban monkey. Morris believes that the “force of religion comes from the animal fear of extinction, and the need to dampen our fear. All over the world, cultures developed ideas of an afterlife that meant when you died you went on and lived in another world somewhere. It's had a tremendous impact on our development. There wouldn't be any suicide bombers if they didn't believe in heaven."
SHOULD MUSLIMS AND CHRISTIANS BE BURIED IN THE SAME CEMETARY?
(6 JAN 08)
A spokesman for the Muslim Council of Britain has said that Muslims and Christians followed similar burial traditions. "Muslims and Christians share many common beliefs regarding death and the afterlife, including the idea of judgement and accountability to God. In Wear Valley, a local government district in County Durham, England, councilors are debating as to whether to set aside 50 plots in its graveyard at Witton-le-Wear for the future burial of local Muslims.
BELIEF IN REINCARNATION HAS BEEN AROUND SINCE THE DAWN OF MANKIND
(6 JAN 08)
Belief that our souls will continue to exist after our bodies die, through reincarnation or else in heaven, is an age-old human instinct going back to the beginning of history.
ANCIENT EGYPTIAN IDEAS AND BELIEFS ABOUT THE AFTERLIFE
(5 JAN 08)
The grandeur and mystery that still surrounds the ancient Egyptians is the same today as it was many thousands of years ago. Especially their beliefs in the afterlife. The Ancient Egyptians would never call the dead "deceased", but rather the "glorified.” For them, this life was a transitory period, whereas the second life is eternal and worth making an effort for.
THE STRANGE PHENOMENON OF SLEEP PARALYSIS
(5 JAN 08)
First recognised in the 1960’s, Sleep paralysis, also known as Old Hag Syndrome, is when some people believed it be an alien abduction. In rare instances, some people say that that they have also had an out-of-body experience.
IS SPEAKING IN TONGUES SUPERNATURAL PHENOMENA?
(5 JAN 08)
The founder of the Worldwide Church of God and an early pioneer of radio evangelism, the late Herbert W. Armstrong, once stated that “the gift of ‘tongues’ spoken of in the Bible is the ability to speak of God in other languages.” Could this be true? And if so what significance does this play in the modern world?
WEDDING IN THE STARS FOR CLOONEY
(4 JAN 08)
The Canadian crystal ball gazer who predicted the death of crocodile hunter Steve Irwin now says George Clooney will tie the knot this year and have a child. That's among the predictions that psychic “Nikki” made to the New York Daily News for 2008.
BRITISH GHOST HUNTERS LAUNCH THEIR LATEST VIDEO
(4 JAN 08)
British paranormal team, the Soulseekers Ghost Hunting, have released their latest ghost hunting video. Filmed on location at Brunswick House, an 18th Century house located in Vauxhall, Central London, the Soulseekers explore the ghostly goings on within this historic house.
INVESTIGATORS CLAIM EVIDENCE FOUND AT RESTAURANT IN MICHIGAN, USA
(4 JAN 08)
Castaways, On Lake Nepessing, Michigan USA, is believed to be haunted, according to a recent investigation by Parahunt, a team of paranormal investigators. Equipped with infrared video cameras and other devices, Parahunt said that they “did find some evidence of a spiritual presence.”
WORLD FAMOUS CHINCHILLA DEPARTS THIS LIFE AND MOVES ONTO HIS NEXT
(3 JAN 08)
The world's most famous chinchilla, which adorned the cover of the best-selling Your First Chinchilla, and featured on Christmas cards and T-shirts, has died. Chiz-Whiz, as he was affectionately known, passed away in his Plymouth home at the ripe old age of 21 (101 in human years) and was given an Egyptian-style send off, in which he was buried in the style of the pharaohs, with some bits of woodchip and feed for his journey to the afterlife.
EVIL SPIRITS PLAY HAVOC WITH AMERICAN ROCK GROUP
(3 JAN 08)
Members of the American rock group, ‘The Mars Volta’, believe that evil spirits tried to sabotage the recoding of their upcoming album, The Bedlam in Goliath. Guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez says that he bought singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala a Ouija board in Jerusalem, and since then, they have had nothing but trouble in the studios whilst trying to record the album.
GUESTS PAY TO EXPERINCE PARANORMAL PHENOMENA
(3 JAN 08)
The Acacia Mansion, in Dartford, England, was originally built around 1868. Recently, members of Haunted Places Paranormal Investigations hosted a number of visitors there in which each guest paid £25 to take part in a night filled with paranormal activities including a séance and using a Ouija board to contact the dead.
DANCING GHOSTS STILL ATTRACT THE CROWDS
(3 JAN 08)
Located just 25 Minutes from Austin and Round Rock, the Old Coupland Inn and Dancehall in Texas USA, has the kind of entertainment, food, hospitality and spooks that can’t be found anyplace else. Most employees at the dance hall laugh at the sheer mention of ghosts, yet many of them also have some stories to tell. Like flying pool cues, little kid voices when no one's around, and radios that play even when unplugged.
THE SCIENCE OF HERE AND NOW
(2 JAN 08)
Science has inadvertently turned us into beings of the here and now. Almost every moment of every day we deal with things outside of our brain. Whereas science has us living our whole lives within our brain, our experience tells us that we must deal with things beyond the scope of our body and our brain in order to function.
SPIRITUAL CLEANSING FOR 2008
(2 JAN 08)
Maureen Dowd, a regular columnist for The New York Times, takes a deep look into various forms of spiritual cleansing for those wishing to start afresh this New Year.
BRITISH MAN PHOTOGRAPHS UFO OVER BRITISH SKIES
(2 JAN 08)
Kelvin Barbery, a 55-year-old British man, has inadvertently photographed a UFO while taking scenic coastal shots. The facilities manager for schools said he didn't previously believe in UFOs but is no longer sure.
STORE SELLS TO THOSE THAT BELIVE IN THE POWERS OF THE SUPERNATUAL
(1 JAN 08)
In San Jose, California, there is a shop that caters to those that believe in the powers of the supernatural. Centro Botánico Esoterico sells special herbs for healing, along with candles, religious jewelry and figurines.
IS THIS THE MOST HAUNTED HOUSE IN LINCOLNSHIRE, ENGLAND?
(1 JAN 08)
Gary and Jane Helstern, of Lincolnshire, England, claim that their house in Grimsby Road, Caistor, is the most haunted house in the county. Now, the couple is looking for a medium to get rid of their spooky lodgers, for the second time.
GHOSTS PLAGUE THE TOWER OF LONDON
(1 JAN 08)
The Tower of London, built by William the Conqueror in 1078, is an historic monument in central London, on the north bank of the River Thames, in England. ‘The Tower’, as it is commonly known, is said to house the ghosts of many of those that were tortured or executed over the past centuries, such as those of Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, who were victims of King Henry VIII’s obsessive quest for a son.
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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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