Saturday, July 16, 2011

Unidentified object falls from sky in Kenya

Panic hit a village in Kabati area in Thika District after a black object fell from the skies causing a loud explosion.  The incident, which happened on Saturday at 9am, drew attention from military personnel and bomb experts. They said the mysterious object weighed two kilograms.
Full article: http://www.sott.net/articles/show/231839-Kenya-Mysterious-Object-Falls-From-The-Sky

TV show Finding Bigfoot cast say the reality show is a hoax!?

A complaint by the cast of “Finding Bigfoot” is spreading through the web. They’re claiming to be fed-up with the constant editing and presentation of the show. According to Matt Moneymaker from the BFRO, the producers like to edit the show so that it seems like the team at times is chasing shadows or possibly Bigfoot itself.
Full article: http://www.ghosttheory.com/2011/07/16/finding-bigfoot-hoaxed-says-cast

Boulder kills four during Voodoo ritual in Haiti

doctor in Haiti says four pilgrims died when a boulder fell on them on the peak day of a three-day Voodoo festival.  Dr. Pierre-Marie Cherenfant says the pilgrims were under a waterfall at the sacred site of Saut d'Eau when the accident happened Friday.
Full article: http://www.taiwannews.com.tw/etn/news_content.php?id=1654414

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Because medical help is scarce in Haiti, Voodoo priest are in high-demand for the psychologically traumatized

The search for an Houngan, or traditional voodoo priest, began with a drive through Cite Soleil, the notorious slum on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince. My driver told me that Houngans do not live in the city because they believe there are too many people, who crowd out the spirits. The best way to navigate in Haiti is to ask, because there are few street signs, and no signs telling you where you are. The driver keeps asking, and we are told to search beyond the city's landfill. The road to the landfill is littered with trash that falls from the trash trucks, but the trash dump itself is one of the cleanest places in Port au Prince. A young trash picker agrees to take us to an Houngan's house.
Full article: http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/health-science/item/11673-searching-for-a-voodoo-priest

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Minnesota jeweler says the Second Coming is near...so he's selling everything cheap, till the end of time!

Larry Falter, owner of Superior’s LTD Jewelers, hit upon a novel idea for his latest TV commercial — blending a storewide sale with his belief that the second coming of Jesus is near.

Full article: http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/185317/ 

Does China have the first unicorn-cow?

A cow with a horn smack dab in the middle of its forehead is leading some people to claim the supposedly fictional unicorn is alive and well and living in northern China's Hebei province.  According to Metro.co.uk, the cow's farmer, Jia Kebing, first noticed a small bump on the cow's forehead when it was born two years ago, but he didn't expect it to grow into an 8-inch horn.  But it has, and so has the cow's popularity, even though the presence of two normal horns makes the animal more of a "tri-corn" than a unicorn.
Full article: http://www.aolnews.com/weird-news/article/chinese-unicorn-cow-horns-in-on-fame/19737389 

At least twelve people killed by angry mob in Haiti, blaming witchcraft for the cholera  outbreak

Tensions simmered in Haiti Thursday with its political future hanging in the balance, as protesters renewed charges of vote-rigging and cholera fears led to deadly mob violence.  As vote-counting continued ahead of the expected release of preliminary results on Tuesday, candidates in last weekend's presidential and legislative elections remained split over whether to endorse the outcome.  With the impoverished Caribbean nation in limbo, several hundred opposition demonstrators peacefully took to the streets of Port-au-Prince seeking annulment of the vote to determine the successor to Rene Preval.

Full article: ttp://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gk_FU_dwxdIJzfSSz8IyS3oSsL6g?docId%3DCNG.f9a0b4d03dfba10ea4d940df1f67012d.451

Monday, September 27, 2010

Voodoo's popularity reaching the mainstream in Haiti

The stairs leading to Rolanda Delerme’s basement open onto a dazzling tableau: Pink and green feathers in jars, sequined bottles, a life-sized mannequin holding a knife, altars packed with Catholic saints.  “Welcome,” the voodoo priestess says, dressed in a headdress and flowing white robes.  Voodoo temples such as this are said to have thrived for years in the homes of Haitian émigrés in Montreal, hidden from the judging eyes of outsiders. But now devotees have started a movement to bring voodoo and its rituals out of the shadows.

Full article: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/quebec/haitian-diaspora-spreading-the-gospel-of-voodoo/article1727147/

Atheists and agnostics know more about religion then the average church-goer according to new research

A new survey of Americans' knowledge of religion found that atheists, agnostics, Jews and Mormons outperformed Protestants and Roman Catholics in answering questions about major religions, while many respondents could not correctly give the most basic tenets of their own faiths.  Forty-five percent of Roman Catholics who participated in the study didn't know that, according to church teaching, the bread and wine used in Holy Communion is not just a symbol, but becomes the body and blood of Christ.

Full article: http://www.ktvu.com/family/25188020/detail.html

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

New book by paranormal researcher Brad Steiger reveals the truth behind the legend of the Haitian voodoo zombie

 The undead are all around us, and have been for decades.  Zombies are in our mass consciousness, invading art, literature, entertainment and even education. But at the heart of this fear-mongering revolution is a single question: Is it all pure fiction, or are there in fact real zombies?  That depends on your definition of the word "zombie."For filmmakers in Hollywood, zombies are half-dead figures that lumber toward you with arms outstretched, stinking of rotting flesh. But in Haiti, could zombies be unfortunate victims who have been forced into slavery while under the influence of highly potent drugs?

Full article: http://www.aolnews.com/weird-news/article/how-to-make-a-zombie-haiti-style/19638134


Men behind the 1995 'Alien Autopsy' hoax discuss their controversial film with humor

In the same tradition of some of science fiction's greatest space stories, Ray Santilli and Gary Shoefield have some serious mind-warping going on with "Alien Autopsy."  Grounded in the happenings before, during and after one of the biggest television events in 1995 with the airing of the Fox television "Fact or Fiction" special "Alien Autopsy," the off-beat comic re-telling of Santilli and Shoefield's tale in movie form presents an alternate version of what really happened.

Full article: http://www.wesh.com/atthemovies/25097253/detail.html