Unbelievable!!!: Friday, May 21, 2010

Nigerian witch-hunter defends her actions resulting in child abuse through exorcisms

At home in Nigeria, the Pentecostal preacher Helen Ukpabio draws thousands to her revival meetings. Last August, when she had herself consecrated Christendom’s first “lady apostle,” Nigerian politicians and Nollywood actors attended the ceremony. Her books and DVDs, which explain how Satan possesses children, are widely known. So well-known, in fact, that Ms. Ukpabio’s critics say her teachings have contributed to the torture or abandonment of thousands of Nigerian children — including infants and toddlers — suspected of being witches and warlocks. Her culpability is a central contention of “Saving Africa’s Witch Children,” a documentary that will make its American debut Wednesday on HBO2.

Full article: http://richarddawkins.net/articles/472176-a-nigerian-witch-hunter-defends-herself

A Lincolnshire cat owner has hired Animal Watch UK and it's personal psychic Sarita Gupta, who is based in Bangalore, India to help find the lost feline Oliver. Gupta tells owner Sue Machen, 56, that Oliver has probably been adapted by another family believing that Oliver is a stray. The local Merseyside Skeptics Society is outraged with the 1000lb. fee to find the lost cat.

Full article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/lincolnshire/8697714.stm

After serving only two years of his eight-year prison sentence for fraud, Russian psychic healer Grigory Grabovoi is released from a Perm Region penitentiary. Only one day before his release Grabovoi offered to use his talent to find lost Siberian coalminers.

Full article: http://en.rian.ru/russia/20100521/159100135.html

Gary Heseltine, a British police officer of Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, is awarded the international 2010 Disclosure Award in Washington for his vast database of UFO sightings on his website; prufospolicedatabase.co.uk.

Full article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/ufo/7744335/British-policeman-wins-UFO-investigation-award.html

New Montauk Monster sighting! Two nurses, walking their dog in the town of Kitchenuhmaykoosib, Ontario, Canada find a bizarre-looking rotting animal. Which means it's probably a rotting beaver!