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Bright lights spark UFO rumours A SET of mysterious bright lights in the Northern Territorys night sky have residents in the beachside suburb of Nightcliff abuzz with talk of an alien encounter.

West Michigan Ghost Stories WEST MICHIGAN -- There are certain stories in West Michigan that never seem to go away. Some are legends passed from generation to generation. Others are simply dismissed as "old wives tales."

Couple Reports Seeing UFO Wednesday Night A local man and his wife saw what he describes as a UFO Wednesday night.

May 3, 2003

Elle Macpherson's lead-lined cosmic ray protector

Russian woman speaks languages from 'past lives'

Aquatic ape hypothesis - author interview

How can dogs sniff out human cancers?

Twelve-year-old prodigy heads to medical school

Undercover among America's secret theocrats

Einstein and Newton showed signs of autism

Sparks lead to UFO report Some local residents arent sure whether the flashing lights in the sky they saw Thursday evening were a sparking transformer or an unidentified flying object.

Voudou's Veil When it comes to Haitians and vodou, the question is not whether one believes. Rather, does one practice.

New Diagnosis for Nightingale As a teen, Florence Nightengale had a mystic conversation with God, in which she found her calling. A psychiatrist says it's more likely that she suffered from bipolar disorder.

Shanghai Tunnels Dark Side of Portland The tunnels, a network of passages, staircases, trapdoors and basement hideaways through which flowed a stream of human misery for nearly 100 years. Some say they're haunted.

New Subatomic Particle Found The new mysterious body is causing theorists to rethink their ideas about the strong force, which binds subatomic particles together into atoms.

May 1, 2003

Gilgamesh tomb believed found

Angry baboons block Uganda road

Panda poop power discovery

Live Worms Found in Shuttle Debris

'Mummy's organ' removed from jar

Occultist bludgeoned to death

Researchers call perfect pitch innate

'I dreamed a sacrifice would bring me wealth'

Dead Grandfather Attends Wedding

Six SARS Cases Confirmed in U.S.

Researchers say fish feel pain; anglers not biting

2.5-ton satellite falls to Earth

Dead cats found in apartment

Boy has Dead Brother's Feotus Inside Him

Dead 'Water Elephant' Turns Up In Mae Sot Locals in Tak believe the water elephant is a rare creature bestowed with supernatural powers.

Monster Party It is exactly 70 years since the legendary resident of Loch Ness first hit the headlines.

STRANGE HOMINID SIGHTED AGAIN IN ARGENTINA "New testimony regarding the presence of a strange hairy biped, sporting long claws and an unusual ferocity, were added to the long list of accounts that the police have gathered in" Rosario de la Frontera, a small city in northern Argentina "after the judge of the Court of Instruction, Mario Dilascio, mandated a final investigation into the subject last month."

CHUPACABRA KILLED IN SOUTHERN CHILE "A bizarre animal caught in a small community in southern Chile was immediately associated by the local residents with the enigmatic Chupacabra, since dozens of birds who died by exsanguination (i.e. all the blood was drained from their bodies--J.T.) was found in the area some time ago."

TRIANGULAR UFO CRASHES IN KALININGRAD HARBOR The Russian Navy has reportedly recovered a large triangular UFO, which crashed in Kaliningrad harbor after overflying a naval base. The crash caused minor damage to a Russian destroyer of the Sovremenny class.

UFO FLAP BREAKS OUT IN BELGIUM UFOs were spotted in Belgium during April.

DAZZLING UFO REPORTED IN AUVERGNE, FRANCE On Friday, April 25, 2003, at 10:39 p.m., a dazzling UFO appeared over a farm field on the outskirts of Auvergne, a town in the department of Cher in south- central France, located about 200 kilometers (120 miles) south of Paris.

TRIANGULAR UFO SPOTTED IN NOVA SCOTIA On Sunday, April 13, 2003, at 1:45 a.m., eyewitness M. Kennedy was outdoors in his hometown of Port Hastings, Nova Scotia, Canada when he saw an unusual light in the sky approaching from the northwest.

NEW CATTLE MUTILATIONS REPORTED IN ARGENTINA "Concern spread among some Pampan cattlemen of the Lihuel Carhuel department, who expressed their fears at the discovery of several reported animal mutilations in the rural area."

SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION CASE IN MASSACHUSETTS A possible case of spontaneous human combustion (SHC) was reported last week in Massachusetts.

1865: TOMORROW'S NEWS YESTERDAY It is probably one of the most infamous scenes in American history: Friday evening, April 14, 1865...Box Seven in Ford's Theatre at 454 Tenth Street, Washington, D.C. Seated in the balcony overlooking the stage are Major Rathbone, his fiancee Clara Harris, the USA's "First Lady" Mary Todd Lincoln, and her husband, the sixteenth USA president, Abraham Lincoln.

April 30, 2003

Scared of SARS, man slays sneezer

Asia adopts SARS war plan

"Panawave Laboratory" cult in microwave attack whitewash roadside

Thai Prison to hold laughter contest

Man Who Impersonated War Hero Imprisoned

Best Yogic Fliers In World Compete

Newly dated fossils may be man's oldest ancestors

Alligator Is Found in New York City Park

Don't kill sharks, Rio bathers told

Sharks: Facts And Fish Tales

Rare Earthquake Rattles the South

Strange Memphis UFO Case Still Unsolved Lamar Todd, Memphis police Captain: 'Yeah, I'm more of a believer now, than I used to be. I'm not as cynical any more.'

Boy 'Pregnant' with Twin Brother A seven-year-old boy who was admitted to hospital with stomach pains was actually 'pregnant' with his twin brother.

Primal Time Ecstatic shamanic devices at the Folk Art Museum.

Suburban Haunt My kinda ghost: at Crazy Man's Tower, a corpulent, bearded ghost reclines in a lawn chair, soaking up moonbeams in the nude.

Rodent Road Signs Revealed In Fields Scientists were surprised to discover that mice make signposts out of leaves and twigs so that they don't get lost in fields.

Henk Admits To Killing Son Ivan Henk has confessed to killing his four-year-old son, saying he thought his son was the Antichrist.

Trashquatch The hunt for Staten Island's Bigfoot.

April 29, 2003

New dark matter exploration

Scientist unlocks secret of Min Min lights

WHO: SARS 'peaked' in some areas

NYC Tourist Quarantined Over SARS

New Teeth from Old Bodies

At last: lobile phones for dogs

Officials Probe Apparent Cattle Poisonings

Pet elephant kills politician

Cancer-beating mice

Sperm washing

Robots are evolving faster than humans

Man Fleeing Cops Drives Into Police Lot

Want to live 100 years? Eat Bulgarian yoghurt

Space Stations Built by Radio

Murder was 'Rehearsal for Reptilian Conflict'

Authorities Offer Reward In Cow Mutilation Case OMAHA, Neb. -- The Nebraska State Patrol is offering a $6,000 reward for information into a recent case of cow mutilations.

Burning UFO falls from sky Indonesia - Villagers living in a remote part of Indonesias Southeast Sulawesi province reported on Tuesday seeing something like a burning pencil falling from the sky. Oficials believe its the first sighting of Italian satellite debris crashing to Earth.

April 28, 2003

Hen lays giant egg

Whale given traditional funeral in Vietnam

Tsar's freakshow helps fight alcoholism

Pope moves cappuccino friar along sainthood path

Home castrator jailed in US

"Freak show" job ad controversy

Which Way Does Evolution Go? Cremo thinks human beings appeared on the American continent not 12 thousand years ago after moving from Asia, but hundreds of thousands of years ago. The adjustment seems to be extremely important for Americas self-esteem.

The spooky secrets of Spon Street An amateur ghost hunter has been unearthing the spooky secrets of Coventrys medieval Spon Street.

Castle is aiming to break record A Staffordshire castle is hoping to hit the record books this month by organising the worlds biggest-ever ghost hunt.

Faith in the Future The title of the book on Professor Linda Hollers desk says it all: Jihad vs. McWorld. On Sept. 11, 2001, McWorld awoke to the extremes of Jihad, and religious studies took on new relevance.

Meat Shower Part of History The Good Book says manna fell from Heaven for the Israelites. Bath countians got meat from on high, according to Sarah Staton.

Oceans Suggest Life Beyond If there are aliens out there, they have plenty of water.

Religion Versus Science Might Be All In the Mind One small branch of science has been chipping away at the foundations of religious belief by proposing that 'otherworldly' experiences are nothing more than the inner workings of the human brain.

Cougar Website Tracks Sightings In Scientific Way A group long fascinated by the idea that cougars may be returning to Eastern states has launched an online clearinghouse.

Sex on the Wild Side Animal attraction isn't just about producing offspring, scientists are learning. Some creatures' wanton ways suggest ideas about mating may need revision.

A Regular Haunt The 400-year-old Schooner Hotel has more ghosts than guests, and is becoming a hot spot for phantom hunters. And:

; Ghosts v. Lawyers Astronomers peer through the haze enveloping Saturn's largest moon and find evidence of water ice on Titan's surface.

Tears from Mary at S. Gabriele Della Maiella A group of pilgrims witnessed a phenomenon that appears to be a miracle yesterday.

April 27, 2003

Visual Acuity The eyes have it: what was the catalyst for the explosion of evolutionary diversity in our world? Andrew Parker says it's because animals evolved eyes and the ability to see.

Assertions of Visions of Virgin Discounted The Vatican has confirmed a decision to stop prayer services that drew hundreds to worship with a woman who said she was receiving messages from the Virgin Mary.

No Crossing Over, No Coming Back Dale Drews believes that when a person dies, there is no spiritual encore.

Research Proves the Existence of a 'Sixth Sense' Scottish academics claim to have found scientific proof of a 'sixth sense' after completing experiments to establish how spiritual mediums obtain information transmitted from beyond the grave.

UFO Buffs Report Strange Light Over Table View Cape Town UFO watchers claim to have spotted a mysterious green object over Table View about two weeks ago.

Police Arrest Corpse-Heart Eater A man claiming he heard voices telling him to dig up corpses and eat their hearts has been arrested in the Indonesian province of Central Sulawesi.

Melancholy Elephants Wail After Death at Gifford Zoo When an elephant dies at Rosamond Gifford Zoo at Burnet Park, there's a wake. Keepers, staff and town mourns. Mostly, though, the survivors in the herd mourn.

Virgin Mary 'Weeps' Once More The Rockingham statue of the Virgin Mary began crying again over the Easter weekend.

Hypnosis Saves Crossbow Victim A teenage girl shot through the chest in a horrifying schoolyard crossbow attack has revealed how self-hypnosis helped save her life.

April 25, 2003

Dead tigers, cubs found at sanctuary

Little Foot, Big Footprint South African caveman: Scientists announce a major breakthrough in the long-running dispute over Little Foot's age.

Are Humans the Same Age as Dinosaurs? Michael Cremo: 'I am going to prove that in the development process, a human being doesn't go up the evolution stairs, but on the contrary he goes downstairs.'

Helena Man a True Believer in UFOs Leo Dworshak: 'The first time we just saw the ship. The second time we entered the UFO and we were in there with the aliens. They showed us the whole ship.'

Man Dies After 'Offending' Hostile Ansisit Unfriendly ansisit -- invisible dwarves -- felt offended when a man burned a colony of black ants under a Balite tree allegedly inhabited by them, with predictable results.

Metal Object That Crashed Through Roof Still A Mystery Scientists still haven't identified the hunk of metal that crashed through a condo roof last month.

Seeing, Believing are Put to the Test at Harvard The Harvard Seers Project will leave no tangible evidence of its existence, just the memories in the minds of the participants.

Big Cat Giving Keepers Paws for Thought Zoo keepers are baffled by a white tiger's peculiar behavior when playing in the water.

GONE IN SIXTY SECONDS--SADDAM FLED IRAQ IN A CYLINDRICAL UFO? A missing U.S. Air Force F-15 fighter and cylindrical UFOs spotted over Baghdad may provide clues to the puzzle of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's strange disappearance.

FIVE UFOs SIGHTED NEAR DIJON, FRANCE On Saturday, April 5, 2003, at 11:15 p.m., Patrick Combes, 20, and his 30-year-old brother were watching TV at their home in Marsannay-la-Cote, a town near Dijon in the department Cote d'Or in eastern France. Patrick reported, "Then, after the broadcast ended, my brother went out on the terrace to have a cigarette. One minute later, he called me loudly, but I did not react because I thought he wanted to make a joke. He called me again, wanted me to hurry."

FORTY PEOPLE WATCH A UFO IN CENTRAL POLAND On Thursday, March 20, 2003, at 2 a.m., about 40 people working the night shift at a local factory were on break when they spotted a UFO over Kolbiel in central Poland.

UFOs SPOTTED IN COLOMBIA AND BRAZIL According to Colombian ufologist Edgar Arce, on Monday, March 17, 2003, during a UFO watch sponsored by the group Contacto OVNI, "eighty witnesses were present and saw several orange-colored UFOs hovering and performing aerial maneuvers over Mount Juaica, in the Tabio region near the city of Cundinamarca."

LARGE BLUE UFO APPEARS IN NORTHERN ARIZONA On Wednesday, April 2, 2003, Patricia F. and her companions were hiking along the Kaibab Trail at the Grand Canyon in northern Arizona. She reports, "We were taking a night hike and we heard a loud noise in the sky. We did not know what it was. Then we looked up and saw the mysterious mothership. It was glowing bright blue, and we were terrified."

PHANTOM PANTHER GOES ON THE PROWL IN SPAIN "The Ertzaintza (Basque state police--S.C.) has availed itself of a boar to hunt down a 'black panther' that has become lost in a community of Vizcaya province" in Spain.

1934: SEASON OF THE WITCH In late April 1934, a package wrapped in brown paper, postmarked Waco, Texas, landed on the desk of Farnsworth Wright, the editor of Weird Tales magazine. It contained a short story from one of Weird Tales' "workhorses," 28- year-old Robert E. Howard of Cross Plains, Texas--yet another installment of his "Conan the Cimmerian" saga, entitled A Witch Shall Be Born.

April 24, 2003

Valley Hill Believers Continue Searching For Miracles A quiet spot near Springfield, Kentucky has been the scene of what some claim are miracles, including seeing spots of gold and taking pictures of angels and the virgin Mary. With video.

Saturn's Moon Titan Is Covered In Ic Surprising new findings suggest Saturn's giant moon might be covered with water ice, instead of seas of organic liquids or frozen organic solids as expected.

The End of the World as We Know It (Maybe) Interview: Martin Rees, the astronomer royal, believes our civilisation will be lucky to survive the century.

Is the Search Wishful Thinking or Hubris Rumination on the search for extraterrestrial life.

'UFO' Captured On Camera Eric Morris, from the UFO Studies Centre, doesn't entertain such doubts. He thinks he may have an ET vehicle on film. Also:

Clonaid probe finds little substance

Shocking Taser landmine plans

WHO Warns Against Travel to Toronto, Beijing, Shanxi

Tigers as Art Critics

Baltimore Visitor Eyed as SARS Case of Interest

Passing Gas in Kansas

Professor trapped for Easter under pile of books

Saddam's New Face?

Largest meteorite craters discovered in the United States

Dead tigers, cubs found at sanctuary

O.J. reality TV show in the works

Suicide: a black and white issue

Shooting Ghosts Dont get me wrong, I dont have authority issues and I normally dont put off assignments -- I just didnt know how to approach this story. You see, my assignment was to interview a man who says he has proof that ghosts exist.

UFO captured on camera INVESTIGATIONS into a UFO sighting in Runcorn have led to a possible space craft being captured on video.

People of earth, you are clones Representatives from the Raelian Revolution and its offspring human-cloning company, Clonaid, explained the extraterrestrial revolution and the mission of cloning Tuesday evening in the Memorial Union.

Police: we were not tracking UFO He rushed to Prince of Wales Road, Blackheath, near Mrs Roberts Lochaber Road home, where he says he saw a flying object being tracked by the chopper nearby.

Cattle mutilations spur memories from 70s, 80s outbreaks And hes never seen anything like what happened two weeks ago, no more than 100 yards from his house near Valparaiso.

The mystery of Easter Island It could well contain the answers to many mysteries, if only we could decipher the meaning behind the giant statues that dot its limited landscape and read the ancient hieroglyphics carved on its monuments.

April 23, 2003

Oldest American dies at 113

Dog hit by car, shot in head, put in freezer - survives

Marines Feast on Saddam's Wild Gazelles

Spear of Destiny in close up

Meteor caused Lesotho 'poltergeist'

Man bites dog

Ex-Hollywood cop names father as Black Dahlia killer

Riot Control and Club Drugs

Cattle mutilations spur memories from 70s, 80s outbreaks And hes never seen anything like what happened two weeks ago, no more than 100 yards from his house near Valparaiso.

Great mysteries, carved in stone They built housing with increasingly sophisticated construction techniques and then departed for points south. By about 1300, all had vanished, for reasons that remain unclear.

Hes the Phantom Hunter, to Whom the Haunted Turn Psychiatrist Andrei Li, head doctor at a neurosis clinic, runs the service out of his home and makes haunted-house calls as a hobby.

Outbacks UFO claims are proved to be a lot of hot air The tiny Queensland town of Boulia only ever had one claim to fame: the mysterious shimmering lights that appeared at night and chased terrified stockmen across the dusty plains of the desert.

Making a case for UFOs Area UFO buffs and those with just mild curiosity got an opportunity Tuesday to judge for themselves the legitimacy of unidentified flying objects.

April 19, 2003

New look at mystery flashes reported by astronauts When Marco Casolino flies on commercial airliners, he always hopes he'll see things, just like the astronauts do. So far he's had no luck. But a new study he led helps explain what it is he's looking for...

3 cows, bull calf mutilated Three cows and a bull calf in Nebraska were killed on two separate nights in what officials are calling cases of cattle mutilation. The animals were found the mornings of April 5 and April 7 in the same pasture about three miles west of Valparaiso on Nebraska Highway 66. Two cows and a bull calf were found after the first incident...

Ghostbusters to visit hall A team of ghostbusters are preparing to stake out Brocket Hall near Lemsford on April 18 to get to the bottom of some spooky rumors about the mansion. The 16-strong team from the Independent Ghost Club plan to take readings and hopefully detect some paranormal activity...

Update on Noah's Ark investigation Nearly a week after the CIA released another record from its secret "Noah's Ark" file, this one including a note saying that U.S. intelligence agencies immediately destroy records from reconnaissance missions, Insight received another batch of declassified records that suggest the U.S. Navy may have shot a series of pictures of the anomaly on Mount Ararat in 1974...

Hotel's five spooky guests Spook experts discovered a Coventry hotel is home to five ghosts after they were called to investigate a number of paranormal incidents. A hotel guest at the Aston Court Hotel in Holyhead Road called the Ghost Society of England after she heard strange noises. It was rumored that the hotel had a ghost, but staff were stunned when ghost hunters said there were five...

Great balls of fire mystery Thai scientists are to launch a probe into a famous fireball phenomenon occurring in the Mekong River once a year in the country's north, local media reported. Every year on the first full moon of the 11th lunar month, which coincides with the end of Buddhist Lent, hundreds of red, pink and orange fireballs soar up into the sky from the Mekong, drawing crowds of spectators...

April 18, 2003

Like Father, Like Drunk Driving Son

Creaks, squeaks make a creepy Chico Chico State University student Carlos Sawyer said he woke up one night after a disturbing dream to his room filled with smoke.

April 17, 2003

Chernobyl Worms Have Sex

'Slavercise' hits New York

Hyde Park protects exotic 'Harold's parakeets'

Naga light hunters - new probe

McCartney's "flu germs" for sale on Internet

Cheeta of Tarzan fame named world's oldest chimp

Farmers put live chickens in wood chippers

Believers Buy Tapes of 'Horse Talker'

Like Father, Like Drunk Driving Son

Teflon Chemical in Babies’ Blood

Alarm after SARS strikes healthy

Airlines Cancel Flights In Reaction To SARS Spread

Human genome sequence completed

Funeral for Lizzard Believed to Be Son

Police Issue Alert on Escaped Owl

Thieves break into Prison

'Oldest religious icon in Americas' found

Rampant SARS misinformation

Evidence for ancient astronauts found to be lacking Among other elements, von Dniken presents numerous ancient myths, rituals and art work as proof of human contact with extraterrestrials beings. Creationist often use this same technique of comparing the similarities of ancient myths to produce evidence for Noahs flood.

Ghostbusters to visit hall A TEAM of ghostbusters are preparing to stake out Brocket Hall near Lemsford tomorrow evening (Friday, April 18) to get to the bottom of some spooky rumours about the mansion.

Creaks, squeaks make a creepy Chico Chico State University student Carlos Sawyer said he woke up one night after a disturbing dream to his room filled with smoke.

Hoaxes flourish online Herschel, the Sun wrote, had seen herds of bison, blue unicorns and a race of intelligent, bipedal beavers on the Moon. The Sun sold thousands of copies before the astounded Herschel found out what was being attributed to him.

New Look at Mystery Flashes Reported by Astronauts Since Apollo 11, astronauts have been seeing things in space: colorful dots, streaks and flashes spotted when their eyes were closed or when the inside of the spacecraft was dark. And:

Astronomers Predict Stellar Explosion For the first time scientists have predicted the explosion of a star.

Theories on How Dead Woman Could Deliver Baby Coffin Birth is a term used by coroners for a spontaneous birth by a dead pregnant woman.

3 Cows, Bull Calf Mutilated, Patrol Says The animals were found the mornings of April 5 and April 7 in the same pasture about three miles west of Valparaiso on Nebraska Highway 66. And:

Gamma-Ray Burst Mystery Solved Scientists may have solved one of astronomy's major puzzles — the origin of powerful gamma-ray bursts.

Hitler's Forgotten Library Some of the books in Hitler's library might surprise you.

April 15, 2003

New Roswell witness! Anne Robbins now lives in Midland, Texas. She's the widow of a career military man who was stationed in Roswell during the Roswell crash in July, 1947. She remembers the description of the saucer that her husband, Technical Sergeant Ernest Robert Robbins, told her he helped recover and the three small beings that were found outside the craft. Now 84 years old, Robbins has never before spoken publicly about Roswell, but she now says that what her late husband saw was not a downed weather balloon...

Rapture Index inventor tracks end of time Saddam Hussein's tyrannical reign appears to have ended and Brian David Mitchell is behind bars, but the world - or at least the world according to Todd Strandberg - is not necessarily a safer place. By Strandberg's latest calculation, humans are still speeding toward oblivion and Saddam and Mitchell are just two of those with their foot on the gas...

TV ghost team to haunt city vaults A team of paranormal investigators is to spend 24 hours in a spooky underground vault in Edinburghs Old Town as part of a television series featuring the most haunted places in Britain. The psychic detectives will examine history, legend and eye-witness accounts and film them for cult satellite show "Most Haunted," presented by former Blue Peter favourite Yvette Fielding. The vaults beneath South Bridge caused rumblings in the paranormal world when a BBC radio producer unwittingly recorded a mysterious voice while making a programme there...

Many citizens believe Saddam has mystical powers Ahmed Ali believes Saddam Hussein can never die. All his life, the 23-year-old laborer has heard about the dictator's powerful stone. Saddam, the story goes, had the stone made shortly after he came to power 24 years ago. Its powers were first tested inside a chicken. One of his soldiers pulled out a gun and shot a bullet at point-blank range. The chicken's feathers fell off, but it lived. So the dictator implanted the stone in his upper arm...

Couple spooked by ghostly lady The ghost of a white lady is said to haunt an 18th century house in Nairn and shes even caused an argument between a newly-engaged couple! The white lady is dressed in lace in a style similar to that worn by women at the turn of the last century. And shes regularly spotted walking from the kitchen to the drawing room of the first floor of the property at Virginia Terrace. But her appearances have led to ructions in the household between Neil Gregson (30) and his girlfriend Amelia Wallace (22)...

The ghost of the LST-325 Strange happenings attributed to lost crewman. When strange noises woke Gayle Lyon from her sleep aboard LST-325, the first thing she thought of was Jonathan. It was 3 or 4 in the morning, and eerie creaking sounds could be heard from somewhere within the ghostly hulk of the World War II landing ship. The LST was moored at Mobile Landing, the waterside park that stretches 2,000 feet along the Mobile River, south of the Arthur R. Outlaw Convention Center. Gayle had heard the sailors' tales of a ghost that haunted the ship...

A chat with the ghost of Diana A clairvoyant who claims to have talked to the late princess revealed a few secrets to a Black Country audience last night. Psychic nights and so-called clairvoyants professing all kinds of weird and wonderful things are nothing unusual these days - but drop in the name Princess Diana and ears will suddenly start to prick up...

Old hag investigation Imagine waking up in the dead of night to find that you can't move a single muscle but can sense, or even see, a dark and terrifying presence in your bedroom that threatens to harm you as you lie helplessly in bed. This is not a scene from "The X-Files" or a B-movie horror flick but exactly what happens every night to hundreds of thousands of people across the globe...

Mars gullies could harbor Martian biology Over the decades, a flotilla of Mars spacecraft have relayed back to Earth freeze-frame portraits of a cold, dry, dusty and desolate planet. But Mars experts are becoming progressively more surprised as they observe a world in constant change. Evidence is mounting that the red planet bares witness to very young, water-related features. Mars has undergone episodic climate cycles that have caused dramatic changes to its surface. Some of these climate swings may have been fairly recent as measured in geologic time...

Ghostbusters meet phantom menace Skeptic or believer, cynic or sucker? Whichever the case, when Britain's largest-ever live interactive psychic experiment came to a landmark Victorian hotel, the Midland Grand, in King's Cross, the hotels ghoulish past was bound to be laid bare before the nation...

Mysterious black worms run rampant in Durbs Millions of black worms invaded parts of Durban at the weekend. The Papwa Sewgolum Golf Course and the sports field in Siripath Road, near Reservoir Hills, were also overrun. The fairways of the course were teeming with worms and so were the playing surfaces at the sports grounds. The golf course authorities sprayed the worms. A golfer said he had seen thousands, even millions, of worms on the course. The worms, which had not yet been identified by the eThekwini municipality, were initially discovered in a mosque in Newlands West...

New evidence: ancient Indian science of space travel Directions for building interstellar spaceships. "Anti-gravitational" method of propulsion. An ancient manuscript written in the 4th Century BC Discovered in Tibet and Lhasa by the Chinese. The frontiers of what is possible in science are being stretched. While the world is busy launching spacecrafts into the unknown universe the Chinese discover something in the mountains of Tibet and Lhasa. They are a bundle of strange Sanskrit documents!...

Tree rocks Something strange is going on in the 23,000 acre Yellowwood State Forest in Indiana. At least 5 large rocks are sitting in the tops of tall trees, wedged in the branches. The first one was discovered a few years ago, 30 feet off the ground in an 80-foot-tall chestnut oak tree and has been named Gobbler's Rock, because it was found by a turkey hunter. The triangular rock is about 4 feet wide and a foot thick and weighs around 400 pounds. How did it get up there?...

Is the CIA using psychics to find Osama Bin Laden? Author Lynne McTaggart, who has written a new book on the paranormal, believes the CIA is using psychics to track down Osama Bin Laden. She said, "As far-fetched as it sounds, the CIA started a project during the Cold War to see what uses the paranormal could have in finding information about the Russians. "Scientists who looked at the project from the respected Stanford Research Institute concluded psychics did have the potential to provide useful data"...

Things that go bump in the morning Rugeley ghost author Carol Arnall had a friend called Joyce who recounted some spooky experiences which happened to her back in the 1950s. Joyce was living on a farm called The Down House, between Lovedale and Bradley, and for many years heard strange noises coming from one of the bedrooms. The noises were always heard between the hours of 5:20 and 7:30am. Not every morning, but when they were audible, there was no mistaking them...

Court told of idol that appeared in a bowl More recollections of black magic followed at the Hasleza Ishak murder trial yesterday, when fourth accused Rahim Ismail told of how he saw an idol not bigger than a palm appear in a white bowl while he was casting a spell to rid the Raja DiHilir's palace of supernatural forces. The witness said the object which was yellowish, resembled a Siamese idol and was in a meditative pose with hands clasped and knees bent against the chest while on its head was a sharp object pointing upwards...

Think someone's staring at you? "Sixth sense" may be biological. If Rupert Sheldrake is right, at least seven out of 10 of you reading this article have felt the prickly sensation of being stared at. Maybe you've also had feelings of foreboding that later proved true. Or perhaps you've been startled to answer the phone and hear the loved one you were just thinking about. Far from paranormal, these experiences are rooted in our biology, says Sheldrake, a Cambridge-trained biochemist and maverick thinker who's been called "a scientific heretic who refuses to be burnt at the stake"...

Straight and crooked A woman known only as Emily doesn't have a room at the Flanders Hotel in Ocean City. But workers say she spends a lot of time on the premises anyway. When confronted, she runs away and disappears into a dark hallway. Later, children of guests say they see the nice lady in another hallway and she tells them secrets. No one has ever asked Emily to leave. That's because Emily, people in this town say, is a ghost, one of many who make this summer resort town their home...

Psychics seek the spirits of Castle Stuart Big Angus is resolutely refusing to show even at the prospect of TV stardom but other spirits were raised when a psychic school and a film crew took over a haunted Highland castle this week. The ghost of a local poacher reputed to haunt the three-turret bedroom of 17th century Castle Stuart, Big Angus is proving camera-shy. Nevertheless, saddened spiritualists became happy mediums when they detected a supernatural female presence in the chamber...

Great Caesars' ghosts! Spooky things are going on at Caesars nightclub after a film crew discovered the ghosts of gangster Reggie Kray and Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain. The crew of Living TV's "Most Haunted" spent a spooky 24 hours in the Streatham nightclub in a bid to establish if it was home to spirits other than the liquid kind. They were led to the club after meeting owner Fred Batt when he discovered dramatic evidence of paranormal activity in his 11th-century Surrey manor house. Mr. Batt said he took photographs inside his house only to find they showed the ghostly images of a nun, monk and cavalier...

Chatting to yourself on the phone Some people report experiencing paranormal phenomena over the telephone. And it makes you wonder - how long will it be before the first spooky encounters via Internet or text messaging? A lady called Jill recalled an unusual experience at a time when she had separated from her husband and was not living in the marital home. One day, her elder daughter telephoned to say that her young sister's car had broken down. Jill then rang her old home hoping to contact her son who still lived there at that time...

Let's get metaphysical Ashland gallerys out-of-this-world exhibit lands next to earthly library. Theyre hee-ere the little green men are everywhere. Theyre on T-shirts and pins, in the form of plush dolls, action figures, candles and candy dispensers. The odd faces with oblong eyes even adorn a roll of toilet paper. Rows upon rows of alien-themed curios roughly numbering 1,000 pieces have welcomed visitors to this Ashland gallery over the past month. But the artist, Jordan Pease, says he hopes visitors can look past the alien prototypes to explore more serious topics found next door in the Rogue Valley Metaphysical Library...

The ghosts are out to play Even the ghosts come out of hiding for the Cooma Cottage Heritage Festival. Sunday, April 6 will see the National Trust property, Cooma Cottage comes alive with celebrations of the past, but with nightfall the atmosphere at the property will move from Merriment and cheerfulness to eerie and uncanny as the Lamplight Ghost Tour swings into action. Fifteen people will have the chance to see the property in a whole different light, and they will experience heritage in an entirely different way...

Pleasanton veterans dowse for terrorists As war with Iraq heightens fears of terrorist attacks, Pleasanton veterans groups think they've found a way to address the threat: the ancient practice of dowsing. Skeptics scoff at dowsers' claims that they can locate water, tunnels, pipes - even missing people and pets - guided by nothing but a stick or rod and their intuition. Nonetheless, local vets have invited a Virginia man to teach an introductory course in dowsing next month at the Veterans Memorial Building in Pleasanton...

Effect of mind over body still baffles The idea that the mind affects the body goes back to the ancient Greeks. Hippocrates, a physician who's known as the father of medicine, had the idea that thoughts produce certain reactions in the body. You'd think that 2,400 years later, we'd know a lot about this mind-body connection. Patience, patience. Scientists still are trying to prove what Hippocrates supposed...

Test aims to link holy visions with brain disorder Does the biological structure of our brains program us to believe in God? Advances in "neurotheology" have prompted some researchers to claim they can induce the kind of holy visions prophets may have experienced even in those who are not religious believers...

Aubergine seeds spell out "Allah" (photo) An Indian woman cut open an aubergine to find seeds spelling out the word Allah. Visitors are now flocking to see the aubergine at a house in Mendhasal village, near Bhubaneswar. The aubergine was bought from the local market...

The bacteria whisperer Bonnie Bassler discovered a secret about microbes that the science world has missed for centuries. The bugs are talking to each other. And plotting against us...

Astral travelers touch down in Beirut The CIA supposedly did it, and probably the KGB. Now a small group of Beirutis meets every week to learn how to do it. Astral traveling, or remote viewing as it is also called, is just one form of spiritual experience, like transcendental meditation and reiki, that is becoming increasingly popular in Lebanon. According to supporters, a trained remote viewer can make his energy leave his body and use it to go wherever he wants. He can check out his friend's bedroom, visit outer space or even find hidden nuclear sites, as the CIA attempted to do in the late 1970s. "It works, everybody can learn how to do it," says Fouad, a practitioner of astral travel...

Americas oldest religious relic found Archeologists sifting through a looted cemetery have uncovered a 4,000-year-old gourd segment bearing an engraved image of the principal deity worshipped by ancient Western cultures for thousands of years.

Ancient Deity Drawing May Shed Light on Rise of Andean Religion The artifact may be the earliest representation of one of the principal gods in primitive South American religion.

Hotels five spooky guests Spook experts discovered a Coventry hotel is home to five ghosts after they were called to investigate a number of paranormal incidents.

April 14, 2003

Scientists levitate gold coins

Sussex Panther?

Real Computer Bugs

Endangered animal clone produced

3 Horned Calf

'Oddfather' Ends Insanity Ruse

The big chill Could the worst cold snap the planet has ever known be responsible for kick-starting the evolution of multicellular life? Gabrielle Walker reports on the theory of snowball Earth

TV ghost team to haunt city vaults A TEAM of paranormal investigators is to spend 24 hours in a spooky underground vault in Edinburghs Old Town as part of a television series featuring the most haunted places in Britain.

Spooks at our hotel, say staff Things are going bump in the night at a Dudley hotel which is to appear on TV because its ghostly goings-on have left staff and guests shuddering with fright.

Grisly finds at Hardin County cemetery prompt investigation Two members of a Louisville ghost research group checking on a supposedly haunted cemetery in Hardin County a burial site also known as the Gates of Hell made a gruesome discovery over the weekend.

How will aliens view human race? Have you ever pondered the thought of extraterrestrial beings watching our newscasts and radio broadcasts, trying to make sense of what is going on here?

Contact A half century later, witnesses insist little greenor maybe brownmen crashed in New Mexico

Parallel Universes ot just a staple of science fiction, other universes are a direct implication of cosmological observations.

Hearing Colors, Tasting Shapes People with synesthesia — whose senses blend together — are providing valuable clues to understanding the organization and functions of the human brain.

Show Me the Body Purported sightings of Bigfoot, Nessie and Ogopogo fire our imaginations. But anecdotes alone do not make a science.

April 13, 2003

Resurrection Skeptic Goes to Baroque Extremes Neuroscientist Michael Persinger has just published an article in Skeptic magazine arguing in favour of a 'natural' explanation for the Resurrection.

Ghost Trackers Roam Halls of IMU Some rooms in the Indiana Memorial Union are haunted, according to assistant building manager Nadia Dotsenko.

April 11, 2003

Council votes in favour of 'Hell'

Is human cloning impossible?

Combat leaves soldiers 'drunk' with fatigue

Alleged murder victim returns from the dead

Sahara tunnels could solve mystery of missing tourists

Suburban Home Haunted By Really Boring Ghosts

Texas Professor Indicted in Plague Scare

Baby clone of endangered wild cattle euthanized

Brain legacy of ancient cannibals

Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber

Battered Saddam statue withstands blast

Chinese Doctor Alleges SARS Cover-Up

Dolly- the cloned seep- goes on display in Scottish museum

Man Fined for Serving Brother's Jail Term

Gene Study Finds Cannibal Pattern Half the British population is resistant to Mad Cow disease. They may owe it to their ancestors' taste for human flesh. And:

April 10, 2003

Human Cloning 'Flawed' Human cloning may never be possible because of a quirk of biology. Meanwhile:

Mass-Extinction Controversy Flares Again A claim that the asteroid that struck Mexico 65 million years ago did not cause the mass extinction that wiped out dinosaurs triggered heated debate this week.

Big Cat Sighting Reported By Driver In the controversy over whether mountain lions prowl Connecticut's woodlands, add Jon Hart's vote to the 'yes' column.

The Mystery of the County 'Earthquake' Mystery still surrounds the cause of a loud bang which shook homes in Louth, Sutton-on-Sea and Grimsby.

Scientist Defends Account of Exodus A British scientist is making two claims about Jewish history this Passover season that could surely spark discussion over the Seder meal.

SARS "Typhoid Mary"

SARS Forces Catholics to Halt Confessions

Elephants 'free captive antelope'

Knife-swallowing puppy bounces back to health

Earth tremors shake Lincolnshire

Jackdaw shadows Welsl lad

Earth as Art

Mysterious Man-Made object found in rock (Pics)

Black Holes and Time Travel

Stange Object over Aiport (Pics)

Evolution's new line

The battle for American science

Alternative fusion machine limbers up

Four Nuns on the Run After Car Crash

An End to Token Sucking