Odditorium 05.08.2008

Shadow people, lost and dead in New Orleans, paranormal paradigms and more…

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Psychic In Sandy

by Judy Fahys
Connie Tao’s psychic tendencies revealed themselves early. “When I was 2, I always saw spirits, and I talked to my parents about it,” she said.

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Psychic Connie Tao

Tao grappled with spirit messages her whole life. She recalls being stricken more than a decade ago by the death of the Princess of Wales. Trouble was, it was the day before Diana died in a Paris car crash.
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Odditorium 05.07.2008

Fake Bigfoot video, pyramid theories, crop circles, afterlife guests and more…

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Indigo Children Are Among Us

(editor’s note: Indigo children are said to be unusually sensitive and gifted. Some believe that Indigo children are a widespread phenomenon and a new breed that will lead mankind into the 22st Century. -Dean)

by Svetlana Kuzina
For the past 10 years children have been born who don’t resemble ordinary boys and girls. Their uniqueness is apparent when they are only several months old.

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Maybe people with  unusual  gifts
will change our lives for the better

Doctors say they are astounded by the children’s very ‘adult’ eyes. While ordinary babies aren’t able to focus their vision, Indigo children stare intensely. The older they get the odder they behave compared to their peers.
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Controversy Over ‘Pixie Dust’ Regenerated Finger

by Caroline Parkinson
The story of the man who re-grew a finger using “pixie-dust” has captured the imagination of many this week.

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The fingertip has ‘amazing’ healing powers

But a number of scientists have cast cold-water over the claims - and said it may have been a “natural” miracle.
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N.Y. Preacher Casts Out Demons

by Matthew Lysiak
Demons from Hell? Some say, “Fuhgeddaboudit.”

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Preacher Michael Casale - laying on of the hands

But a preacher with an alleged healing touch says he is coaxing evil spirits from demon-possessed locals, all from a hotel conference room in Bay Ridge, New York.
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Stalking Spooky

by Lara K. Richards
Angela Gathings was just a young girl on a sleepover at her aunt’s house.

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Members  of  T.R.O.O.P.S.  survey  a
section of the True Cemetary near Olney

Angela had snuggled up on the hide-a-bed in the living room and drifted off to sleep when something — or someone woke — her.
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A Creepy Night Inside Old Mansfield Reformatory

by Lou Whitmire
From their big eyes, students appeared to be listening intently as Mike Middleton shared ghost stories about the Ohio State Reformatory on Monday.

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Students spent  a  night  in
the Ohio State Reformatory

“You have just walked through one of the country’s premiere paranormal areas,” said Middleton, a volunteer tour guide and ghosthunter.
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Odditorium 05.06.2008

Napoleon, who invented Mars?, alien art, the dead and famous and more…

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A Real-Life Indiana Jones

from dailymail.co.uk
A tall man, handsome and weather-beaten, wipes the blood of a giant scorpion from his hands and squints into the middle distance as he ponders his latest quest for sacred artifacts.

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Frederick Mitchell-Hedges’s exploits
read like  an  Indiana  Jones  script

He could be the ultimate Hollywood hero — living a life packed full of excitement and peril, usually with a beautiful young woman on his arm.
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Attack Of The Killer Ravens

(editor’s note: In the UK, flocks of ravens are suddenly slaughtering lambs - what is going on? -Dean)

by Jane Fryer
High in the darkening sky, a flock of enormous ravens swoop and swirl - narrow black wings stretched wide, heads protruding forward and huge hairy beaks scything through the air.

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Ravens have an association with death
and  supernatural powers of prediction

Every few minutes they let out deep, throaty, honking calls as they soar effortlessly, circling around until, finally, they spot their prey and swoop.
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Odditorium 05.05.2008

Human-like UFOs, dead rock stars, betting on UFOs, faces from the other side and more…

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The Eye Of The Beholder

by Chris Linden
3:16 a.m., and all is quiet. Most of the 45 women who sleep in the dormers rest peacefully in their beds, drowning among layers of bright pinks, greens and yellows. The room is pitch black, save for the pale light shimmering through the small window at the end of the room.

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Barrackman staircase, located in
Decatur’s Greenwood Cemetery

The occasional snort or wheeze is the only interruption breaking the dead silence. Sophomores Amy Ackerman and Brynn Traughber are fast asleep, exhausted after a long day of school. Although lately they have slept uneasily, tonight is a rare respite.
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A Different Kind Of Spiritual Quest

by Randall Clark
The children whose hearts pounded and hair stood on end as they groped around in the animated darkness of their youth have returned with cameras rolling.

Panning his video recorder in one hand, an electromagnetic field reader scanning what cannot be seen with the naked eye in the other, Rick Willitts is tracking a paranormal presence he knows is out there.
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Ashes To Ashes, Suds To Suds

from caller.com
Glenwood, illinois village administrator Bill Bramanti’s favorite beer is Pabst Blue Ribbon.

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Man designs beer can coffin

He loves it. Really loves it.
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Odditorium 04.30.2008

Original ghost hunters, mysterious voices, a visit from Satan and more…

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A Night At Helmsley Castle

from maltonmercury.co.uk
A team of paranormal investigators spent the night at Helmsley Castle – with some startling results.

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Ghostly activity  was  detected
in many areas of the old castle

Rotherham-based Northern Ghost Research Investigation Team UK (NGRIT) was invited to investigate by English Heritage after staff reported strange occurrences.
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EVPS And Florence’s Old Courthouse

by Mark Cowling
Angie Smith walked calmly, confidently down the dim hallway to a dark open doorway. When she spoke, her voice was pleasant and unafraid: “Can you please show yourself to us? … Is there anybody here who would like to communicate with us?”

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The East Valley Paranormal  Society  standing  in
front of the Pinal County Courthouse in Florence

She sounded as if she truly expected an answer, which was enough to give chills to at least one of the two grown male observers tagging along.
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Odditorium 04.24.2008

The Spooky Sunshine State, what to do with a severed head, a psychic catches a sex offender, penis-stealing witchcraft and more…

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Tri-County Bigfoot Search

by Kate Miller
In the 1987 movie “Harry and the Hendersons,” Bigfoot, aka Harry, was portrayed by 7-foot-2-inch actor Kevin Peter Hall in costume.

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A local group of believers hopes to
find evidence of an elusive creature

For the nine members of the Tri-County Bigfoot Group, the legendary creature is more fact than movie fiction.
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