SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 2012

Elderly couple stoned by mob for supposedly practicing witchcraft in Zambia, 70 year-old woman dies.

A 70-year-old woman of Luanshya’s Fisenge township has been stoned to death by unknown people on suspicion that she was practising witchcraft with her husband. Copperbelt Commissioner of Police Mary Tembo said in an interview yesterday that the police in Luanshya have launched a manhunt for a group of people who allegedly stoned and killed Catherine Mwape, 70, of house number 176 Fisenge township. She said Mrs Mwape was stoned around 02:00 hours on Monday by unknown people who suspected her and her husband of practising witchcraft.
Full article: http://www.daily-mail.co.zm/index.php/politics/2804-woman-stoned-on-suspicion-of-practising-witchcraft

Monday, September 19, 2011

Sudanese man executed by beheading for sorcery in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia's government should establish an immediate moratorium on executions in the kingdom, Amnesty International said today after a Sudanese man convicted of "sorcery" was put to death. Abdul Hamid bin Hussain bin Moustafa al-Fakki was beheaded in Madina on Monday. Saudi Arabia has now executed 44 people this year. Eleven were foreign nationals.
Full article: http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/saudi-arabia-executes-man-convicted-sorcery-2011-09-20

Friday, September 16, 2011

Nikolai Valuyev, a former Russian heavyweight boxing champ fails to find Siberian Bigfoot

Former Russian heavyweight boxing champion Nikolai Valuyev has failed to track down a yeti in Siberia’s Kemerovo region despite tip offs and "traces" leading to a cave in the mountains, local authorities said on September 16. Known as the “Beast from the East,” Valuyev, who is nearly seven-feet tall (2.13 m), set off on a two-day trip to find bigfoot on September 14 after his expedition was blessed in a ritual led by a shaman to enlist the help of friendly forest spirits.
Full article: http://www.rferl.org/content/russian_boxing_legend_fails_to_find_bigfoot_in_siberia/24331074.html


Ghostly happenings on the rise in Salem, Massachusetts; ghostly sightings  and new paranormal TV show planned for Witch City, USA.

As tempting as it may be, there is really no need to make up stories in the Witch City. Stuff happens all by itself. Take last Saturday night, for example. We'll set the scene: It's just after 9 p.m. on Winter Island. Full article:  http://www.salemnews.com/local/x478400337/A-ghost-sighting-right-here-in-Witch-City


Archeologists find evidence of flesh eating zombie fears in Dark Age Ireland

Halloween is still more than one month away but archeologists working in Ireland have uncovered a couple of 8th century human skeletons that point to a ghoulish story. The skeletons, dug up between 2005 and 2009 at Kilteasheen, near Loch Key in Ireland, were found with stones stuck into their mouths. Researchers examining the remains suggest this may have been related to a belief among the locals that this practice would prevent the dead from returning to walk the Earth as zombies. Full article: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/09/16/scitech/main20107552.shtml?tag=cbsnewsSectionContent.10

Indianan woman gets thirty years for aiding parents who killed child during 'exorcism'

The Fort Wayne woman accused of helping kill a three-year-old boy was sentenced to thirty years in prison Friday. Under the terms of her plea agreement, Hawkins pled guilty to Aiding in Battery Causing Death after originally entering an insanity plea. Full article:  http://www.wlfi.com/dpps/news/indiana/Copy_of_demons-trial-accomplice-sentencing-friday-tbr_3943863

Friday, May 27, 2011

Elderly woman's head cut off in Indian district of Mayurbhanj in fear that she was using black magic on teenage relative!

On the blistering afternoon of May 10, 17-year-old Gouri Murmu turned up at Mayurbhanj district’s Bisoi police station with an aluminium pot in her hand. Inside was the severed head of 60-year-old Ratani Marandi—Gouri’s elder sister’s mother-in-law. The girl told the police that Ratani had cast a black magic spell on her family and it ruined her life forever.

Full article: http://expressbuzz.com/magazine/murder-by-superstition/278038.html

Hikers near Spokane, Washington get video footage of possible Sasquatch!

A Spokane woman out for a day hike along the Spokane river claims to have proof of the mysterious and elusive Bigfoot.  Samantha, who did not give her last name, and her friends were hiking at Downriver Park over the weekend when they captured Bigfoot by using their iPhone camera.
Full article: http://www.katu.com/news/local/122732174.html