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BBC NEWS: Britons report ‘psychic powers’

More than half of Britons believe in psychic powers such as mind-reading and premonitions, a survey suggests.

Of 1,006 adults polled for Readers Digest Magazine, 43% reported reading others’ thoughts or having theirs read.

More than half had had a dream or premonition of an event before it happened and 26% said they had sensed when a loved-one was ill or in trouble.

A fifth said they had seen a ghost and 29% believed near-death experiences were evidence there was an afterlife.

Of those questioned, 43% claimed to have tapped into other people’s thoughts or to have had their own minds read by someone else.

Mind power

More than two-thirds said they could sense when someone was looking at them and 62% could tell who was ringing before they picked up the phone.

More than 10% thought they could influence machinery or electronic equipment using their minds.

One in 10 said something bad had happened to another person after they had wished for it to happen.

With all this potential psychic powers, why did the British Empire fall?

Technorati Tags: Paranormal, Psychic

WCPO Cincinnati => “Vampire” To Protest White Castle’s Garlic Sandwich

A Cincinnati man who claims he’s a vampire is planning to protest a new fast food sandwich made with garlic.

The man says White Castle has “angered the undead” with its new garlic cheese sandwich.

He plans to picket the Queensgate White Castle location on Sunday.

I hope his protest is for Sunday night.

Technorati Tags: Food, Loonies, Paranormal

The Sun Online: It will rain fish ‘n frogs

BRITAIN is set for a summer downpour of FROGS and FISH, scientists said yesterday.

Recent changeable weather conditions such as storms, droughts and sudden downpours have vastly increased the chance of objects falling from the sky.

Experts say the most likely spot for a BFO — “bizarre falling object” — is the Norfolk resort of Great Yarmouth.

You know, with some news sources, it’s darned difficult to decide if they’re reporting things you want to read, or just making fun of you. That’s kind of how it is with The Sun.

Thank goodness they’ve at least got Page Three.

Technorati Tags: Paranormal

LiveScience.com: Strange Circles of Light Explained

This article tried to explain away “light circles” as an ordinary phenomena called “reflection”. The next thing you know, they’ll be trying to tell us that mirrors aren’t portals to a parallel universe.

“It certainly is a curious reflection of sunlight on some windows,” says Stefano Bagnasco, a physicist at the National Institute of Nuclear Physics in Turin, and a member of the Italian skeptic group CICAP. “I was able to directly observe some of these ‘signs,’ and in each case the building in front of which they appeared was completely covered with windows. Whenever the sun was in the right position to strike this reflecting surface, it would immediately produce the phenomenon. This is something that can certainly appear as quite odd, since these reflections cannot take place when both the windows and the building in front of it are perpendicular to the ground (unless the sun is very low on the horizon). But it happens quite frequently with inclined or open windows, like those found in modern buildings.”

I don’t know about Turin, but no modern buildings ’round these parts have windows you can open!

Technorati Tags: Aliens, Paranormal, UFO

Chicago Tribune: Nazca photos deepen mystery

Back in April, we noted the discovery of new Nazca lines in Peru, discovered by a Japanese expedition.

Now, Nazca line experts are beginning to explain how poorly documented the existing lines are and why they cannot confirm that these are “newly discovered” or just older lines that weren’t well documented.

Peruvian officials expressed excitement about the announcement. But Nazca experts said the Japanese discoveries might merely be good photographs of previously known lines.

“Saying these figures are new is a risk,” said Josue Lancho Rojas, a Nazca historian and writer. “You cannot say at this time that there are any virgin sites.”

Even if the Japanese figures are not new, the announcement exposed shortcomings in Nazca scholarship. And it raised new questions about the Peruvian government’s commitment to sophisticated scientific study.

Technorati Tags: Ancient Astronauts, Paranormal, UFO

News 24: UFO ‘mystery’ has town buzzing

On Spottings earlier in the week, we reported a potential crashed UFO off South Africa. It would appear that at the same time, adverse weather conditions were generating tornadoes/water spouts. The authorities accept that a tornado existed (based on video evidence) but it does not match with the eyewitnesses’ story.

I wonder if perhaps the tornado caused the UFO to crash?

Weather conditions are preventing divers from searching the area, but the search will resume as soon as possible.

Technorati Tags: Paranormal, UFO

The Times Online: Pyramid is giant farming clock

On a barren hillside just north of Lima, he had found an observatory more than 4,000 years old that had been built by a lost civilisation with astonishing sophistication.

The oldest astronomical observatory in the Americas, it told farmers exactly when to sow their crops. Its discovery has provided startling clues to the way in which early man learnt to cultivate his fields.

Darned clever those ancients, weren’t they? Really kinda proves they had help from ancient astronauts, doesn’t it?

Technorati Tags: Aliens, Archaeology, Paranormal, Ancient Astronauts, UFO

CNN.com: Dracula castle returns to bloodline

More than 60 years after it was seized by communists, the Romanian government is to hand back one of the country’s most popular tourist sites, the fabled Dracula Castle, to its former owner, the culture minister said Tuesday.

The hand-over ceremony will take place Friday noon in the 14th century castle’s museum deep within the fortress in Transylvania, said minister Adrian Iorgulescu at a news conference.

While this story really has nothing to do with Dracula or vampires, it does bring up some concerns because the Hapsburg family is being to make in-roads back into Europe. The Hapsburg family has long been associated with the dark conspiracy forces controlling this planet throughout the centuries.

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PR Web: Graveside Photo of Jim Morrison’s Ghost Still Haunts Rock Fan

It has been over 4 years since Hollywood resident and Rock and Roll Historian Brett Meisner first noticed a strange image in the background of a photo taken of him at the gravesite of former Doors’ front man Jim Morrison at the Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, France.

Since revealing the photo to the press, Mr. Meisner has suffered a turn of bad luck. He’s gotten divorced, lost clients and has Doors fans show up at his door. That really is a curse!

Technorati Tags: Ghosts, Paranormal

Spalding Today: Glimpse of ‘ghost’ sparks speculation

A ghost has been spotted in Spalding’s Ayscoughfee Hall.

See also this BBC report from January 2005.

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