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PARANORMAL NEWS: Fish Fall, Ghost Legends, Mystery Lights
Photo: Christine Balmer
Plus:
• Cold spots - The Winchester House
• Seagram heiresses sue adviser in strange tale with a psychic
• Ghostly legends to help village raise carnival cash
• BBC to make Atlantis movie in style of Zack Snyder's 300
• Humanoid figure seen near strange beam of light
• Top 10 spooky sleep disorders
• Non verbal communication and the metaphors of imagination
• A Skeggy sea monster
• Bright lights that hypnotize: mysterious aerial illuminations
• Unwanted 'spirit' scares store staff
... more Paranormal NewsPARANORMAL NEWS: Fish Fall, Ghost Legends, Mystery Lights originally appeared on About.com Paranormal Phenomena on Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 at 22:21:44. Permalink | Comment | Email this
Baby in China born with tail
Surgeons in China have successfully operated to remove a five-inch tail from a four-month-old baby girl. The highly rare case saw the tail actually gr...
Space agencies plan Europa and Jupiter mission
NASA and the European Space Agency have drawn up plans for a mission to Jupiter and Europa in 2020. One of the main focuses of the mission will be to ...
F1 Key Virus
Forwarded emails warn of a new security vulnerability in Windows 2000, XP, and Server 2003 systems consisting of a pop-up window directing users to press the F1 key, which sends them to a website that downloads malicious software.
The warnings are accurate, confirms Microsoft, though as yet there have been no reports of actual attacks attempting to exploit this vulnerability.
Read more... F1 Key Virus originally appeared on About.com Urban Legends on Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 at 18:06:16. Permalink | Comment | Email this
Your True Tales - March Stories
The March edition of Your True Tales is here - 26 stories of ghosts, doppelgangers, psychic phenomena and more, including "Freaky Black-Eyed Man," "Werewolf in Serbia," "Gremlin on the Dresser," "Poltergeist Activity," "Demon in the Mine," "Wailing in the Woods," "The Dream's Warning," "Ghost in the Cardigan" and many more.Your True Tales - March Stories originally appeared on About.com Paranormal Phenomena on Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 at 12:52:34. Permalink | Comment | Email this
Debunking the Presidents
 In the modern age U.S. presidents are routine targets of public derision, often deservedly. While political barbs are nothing new, 100 and 200 years ago we saw our leaders as having been cut from a different, more noble cloth than politicians of today. Presidential folklore, in the form of jokes, legends, and historical errata, reflects that. Read more... Debunking the Presidents originally appeared on About.com Urban Legends on Saturday, February 13th, 2010 at 06:01:22. Permalink | Comment | Email this
Socorro UFO Hoax Part 2: Getting Closer to the Culprits
New investigation reveals that the likely culprits behind the Socorro UFO hoax in 1964 were part of a highly secret group of student pranksters at NM Tech. It is now learned that so extreme were some of these Techie "pranks" during the 1960s that they even caused physical endangerment.
The Evil Eye
A tidbit that caught my (evil) eye in the summary of a Pew Research poll on the religious beliefs of Americans:
Fully 16% of Americans believe in the "evil eye" or that certain people can cast curses or spells that cause bad things to happen to someone. Although the overwhelming number of Americans describe themselves as Christians, belief in non-Christian mystical experiences is widespread according to a Pew Forum survey. Nearly three-in-ten Americans say they have felt in touch with someone who has already died, almost one in five say they have seen or been in the presence of ghosts and 15% have consulted a fortuneteller or a psychic. Similar percentages of American Christians express these supernatural experiences and beliefs.
Most interesting of all, despite what some may perceive as a trend toward religious skepticism or even outright atheism in recent years, the percentage of Americans unaffiliated with a particular faith who say they've experienced a "moment of sudden religious insight or awakening" has nearly doubled since 1962.
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• Pew Poll: Many Americans Mix Multiple Faiths The Evil Eye originally appeared on About.com Urban Legends on Friday, March 5th, 2010 at 13:47:32. Permalink | Comment | Email this
Of Roswell & Rockets: The Secret V-2 Flying Saucer Film
The White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico played a significant role in the testing of German-captured V-2 rockets in the mid and late 1940s. From this massive range the fierce rockets were regularly launched. These complex devices of destruction were propelled through the air to test the hurl of explosives at an enemy.
Lightning Can Open Doors to Parallel Worlds
Approximately 10 years ago, children began to disappear from an amusement park of the British town of Kent. The kids would enter the hall of mirrors and never came out.
Mikey Likes It
Dear Urban Legends:
Do you remember the story from the late '70s / early '80s about the Life cereal kid named Mikey? How he would eat anything? Well, I remember hearing on the playground at the time that Little Mikey ate a whole bag of Pop Rocks candy (y'know, the kind of little candies shaped like Wonka's Nerds that crackled on your tongue and "popped" in your mouth?) and slammed a can of Coke. Supposedly, Mikey's stomach exploded from the combination of the "fatal" candy and soda mix and he died.
Read more... Mikey Likes It originally appeared on About.com Urban Legends on Thursday, February 11th, 2010 at 17:36:42. Permalink | Comment | Email this
Rumor: Michelle Obama's Brother Kept OSU Coaching Job Thanks to Stimulus Bribe
And the smears keep on coming! The following began circulating earlier this week via email:
FW: stimulus jobs...
Some have said that the stimulus hasn't saved any jobs, but here is a case where at least one job was saved.
According to an unnamed source, Oregon State University Athletic Director Bob DeCarolis was considering firing their basketball coach, Craig Robinson, after an 8-11 start (2-5 in the Pac 10 conference).
When word of this reached Washington , Undersecretary of Education Martha Kanter was dispatched to Corvallis with $17 million in stimulus money for the university. The source now says that Craig Robinson's job is safe for this year.
For the record, Coach Robinson just happens to be Michelle Obama's Brother.
Can you pick out the one true statement above? Read more...Rumor: Michelle Obama's Brother Kept OSU Coaching Job Thanks to Stimulus Bribe originally appeared on About.com Urban Legends on Thursday, March 11th, 2010 at 13:46:37. Permalink | Comment | Email this
Astronomer Warns: Not a Good Idea to Contact Aliens
I read an article recently that states that the search for extraterrestrial life may not be such a good idea. Dr. Marek Kukula, an astronomer at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, would like to make contact with a "wiser, more peaceful civilization."
But, he is afraid that we might make contact with a race of beings not so peaceful and benevolent. He warns that if we do make contact with an evil, aggresive race, we are not prepared to deal with it. Our nations need to address this situation before it happens.
Check out all of the details at Scientists Warn of Contact with Aliens, and tell us what you think. Are we really ready for alien contact?
Astronomer Warns: Not a Good Idea to Contact Aliens originally appeared on About.com UFOs / Aliens on Friday, February 26th, 2010 at 01:56:37. Permalink | Comment | Email this
Mutilated Farm Animals Most Likely Victims of UFO Experiments
Several waves of cattle mutilation were reported in the end of the 20th century. A mysterious “predator” opened animal carcasses cutting out their internal organs. The predator was unstoppable and dead cattle were found even in zoos.
Argentina: Giant UFO Causes Commotion in a Salta Town
Perhaps the most chilling detail of what happened yesterday morning in Joaquin V. Gonzalez, a town of 20,000 residents considered by traditionalists as the “heart of the province of Salta” is the abundance of eyewitness accounts and the manner in which they are so perfectly synchronized with each other. This little town is also known to the ever-watchful gaze of science for the fact that its heights are regularly swept by the passing of UFOs.
Gordon Lightfoot: 'I'm Alive and Well'
Via The Ampersand: A false death report circulating on Twitter was erroneously picked up by Canadian media outlets earlier today, prompting singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot to crack wise over the airwaves.
"I haven't gotten that much airplay of my music in weeks," Lightfoot joked in a phone call to Toronto's CP24.
He also called entertainment columnist John Schwartz to set the record straight, according to the Orillia Packet & Times.
"I'm alive and well," Lightfoot said. "The whole thing is a hoax."
Read more:
• Gordon Lightfoot Death Rumors Sparked by Internet Hoax
• Lightfoot Not Dead Gordon Lightfoot: 'I'm Alive and Well' originally appeared on About.com Urban Legends on Thursday, February 18th, 2010 at 16:08:45. Permalink | Comment | Email this
Brazilian military document confirms UFOs
Among the documents released are the reports of UFOs on May 19, 1986, considered the ’Official UFO Night in Brazil’, when 21 spherical objects, estimated 100 meters in diameter - according to military sources - literally jammed air traffic over the major Braziian Airports, when several Mirage and F5 jets were scrambled to pursue them for hours.
The Socorro UFO: Physical Evidence points to a Prank (Part 3)
A review of decades-old documents points to the involvement of pranksters in the famous 1964 Socorro, NM UFO sighting. Overlooked details about the sighting witnessed by police officer Lonnie Zamora suggest a prosaic explanation that involved student trickery.
PARANORMAL NEWS: Psychic Detective, Sea Monster, Flying Humanoid
Illustration: Robert Simon/The TelegramTop story: Police claim accurate psychic is the real deal
Plus:
- Newfoundland fishermen snag sea monster in nets
- Sheldrake and Wiseman clash over parapsychology experiments
- Coleman dubs new sighting Bigfoot "Leeds Loki"
- Flying humanoid reported in California
- No longer spooked by ghostly goings-on
- Japanese World War II ship shelled pterosaur caves
- "Something haunted my house"
- More about the Greten Family poltergeist
- Night in haunted house for charity
- Virgin Mary icon "crying tears of oil" in France
... more Paranormal News PARANORMAL NEWS: Psychic Detective, Sea Monster, Flying Humanoid originally appeared on About.com Paranormal Phenomena on Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 at 22:56:55. Permalink | Comment | Email this
Fishermen snag sea monster in nets
A Trinity Bay fisherman reports finding the corpse of a strange sea creature tied up in a net last summer. It was described as having an 8-10ft long n...
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