Tuesday, April 26, 2011

British man charges ghost hunters to visit his centuries old museum

A centuries-old museum is embracing the spirit of diversification by becoming a money-spinning attraction for ghost hunting 'tourists'.  Managers at Totnes Museum in South Devon are now charging £200 a time for parties of paranormal investigators to spend a night in the old building.  So far this year there have been four ghost hunting forays in the museum complex and another eight are booked in.
Full article: http://www.thisisdevon.co.uk/news/Museum-ghost-hunting-victim-success/article-3486265-detail/article.html

...but in the United States, The International UFO Museum and Research Center has been puts it's new building plans on hold due to budget problems!

It's the place you would expect to visit in Roswell. It brings in more than 12,000 visitors a month, but now big plans to build a new UFO Museum are not taking off.  Visitors come from all over the world, and according to the International UFO Museum and Research Center director, it pumps about $14 million into the city's economy every year.
Full article: http://www.krqe.com/dpp/news/business/new-international-ufo-museum-on-hold

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Recent poll shows that four in ten British citizens claimed to have witnessed a paranormal event or seen a UFO

A survey of 3,000 people discovered one-in-five of of those reckon they have seen a ghost, while 19 per cent have spotted a mysterious object in the sky.  Another 16 per cent believe they've had premonitions while six percent even believe they have a guardian angel.  44 percent of Brits were also found to believe aliens visit Earth and one-in-five even believe aliens could be living amongst us.

Full article: http://newslite.tv/2010/08/25/fourinten-brits-have-seen-a-gh.html 

Roswell city council puts out $150, 000 for their annual UFO Festival

The city of Roswell says it’s serious about the annual UFO Festival and finally approved funding for it late Wednesday.  The city council held a special workshop to approve a budget for this fiscal year which included $150,000 for the controversial UFO Festival.  That is the same amount as last year that was taken out of the lodgers tax fund.

Full article: http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S1713589.shtml?cat=500 

Woman attacked by chupacabra near Dallas?!

A woman near Dallas is now a believer in the chupacabra. The woman believes she was attacked by one and is undergoing rabies shots because of it.  The attack happened Saturday in Jack County, northwest of the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Staysha Henderson was at her grandmothers house. Henderson said the skinny, malnourished, gray creature she and her family believe is a chupacabra was lurking inside a camper. The animal attacked and bit Henderson on her hand. Her family shot and killed the animal.

Full article: http://www.woai.com/news/local/story/Woman-claims-chupacabra-attacked-her/2mZUJXYkakOB4SjqDOgoWQ.cspx

Thursday, August 5, 2010

Hong Kong voodoo master, known as 'Dog Man' gets twenty-one months behind bars for conning girl into ritual sex

A Hong Kong self-proclaimed voodoo master dubbed the "Dog Man", who engaged in ritual sex with a gullible 20-year-old student, has failed to work his magic on a judge and will spend the next 21 months behind bars.  Acoustics technician Lo Fuk-yee, 64, was arrested last October on two counts of "obtaining unlawful sexual intercourse under false pretenses" after he persuaded his unnamed victim that sex was the only way to expel "ghost embryos" from her body.
Full article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/05/dog_man_jailed/ 

Winston Churchill (and Dwight Eisenhower) covered up early UFO sighting in war-time Britain to avoid public 'mass panic'

Ministers even went on to commission weekly reports on UFO sightings from a committee of intelligence experts.  The papers also include a wartime account claiming prime minister Winston Churchill ordered a UFO sighting be kept secret to prevent "mass panic".  The files show reports of UFOs peaked in 1996 - when The X Files was popular.

Full article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10853905 

...so, the British government finally releases files on suspected UFO crash in the Berwyn Mountains, dating back to 1974, dubbed the 'Welsh Roswell'

Geraint Edwards and Elgar Hughes of the Ceirog Valley, Denbighshire, recall seeing a UFO in the sky over north east Wales in 1974.  A 1974 "UFO incident" which was dubbed the Welsh Roswell was dismissed as an earthquake and a meteor combining, offical files show.  There was a huge bang and a brilliant light over the Berwyn Mountains in north east Wales, and there were later claims a spaceship crash was concealed.  Comparisons were drawn with Roswell, New Mexico, USA, in 1947, where it is claimed an alien crash was concealed.  But a Ministry of Defence (MoD) investigation said there was no UFO

Full article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-10863645

Broken-down, shack and former cottage atop a hill near Cefalu, Sicily, sells for over $1.2 million dollars...because it was the former 'Abbey of Thelema', owned by occultist Aleister Crowley

The dilapidated, whitewashed Italian villa, set amid the hills of Sicily, was owned in the 1920s by Aleister Crowley, whose outrageous drug-taking, keen sexual appetite and interest in mysticism later made him a cult figure for the Beatles, David Bowie, Ozzie Osbourne and Iron Maiden.  The cottage, near the town of Cefalu in Sicily, contains explicit, erotic frescoes of men and women entwined together, painted by Cambridge-educated Crowley when he lived there in the early 1920s.

Full article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/7928348/The-tumbledown-Italian-shed-that-will-sell-for-1.2-million.html