Thursday, September 15, 2011

'Carlos' the stage partner of the Amazing Randi and New York artist arrested for identify theft

As a magician, escape artist, author, lecturer and self-proclaimed "charlatan," James "The Amazing" Randi has traveled the world exposing frauds and cheats who prey on people's beliefs in supernatural and psychic abilities. Full article: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/broward/fl-jose-alvarez-artist-identity-theft-20110914,0,4233422.story


Southwestern US observe mystery fireball streak through sky

 
The streak of light that blazed across southwestern U.S. skies and stoked burning curiosity across the social media landscape was probably a tiny and bright meteor known as a fireball, a NASA spokeswoman said Thursday. Full article: http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/09/15/southwest.strange.light/index.html

Saturday, January 23, 2011

Head of British 'bomb detectors' used in Iraq and Afghanistan arrested for fraud, for devices which are mere hi-tech dowsing rods 

Hundreds of people have been killed in horrific bombings in Iraq after a British company supplied "bogus" equipment which failed to detect explosive devices.  The head of the company, which has made tens of millions of pounds from the sale of the detectors, has now been arrested and the British Government has announced a ban on their export to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Full article: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/head-of-bomb-detector-company-arrested-in-fraud-investigation-1876388.html

Tuesday, January 11, 2010

Catholic priests desperately resort to exorcisms to rid Mexico of violent crime

At Mexico, the Catholic Church is working spiritually to fight against the violence that is gripping in the country and killed more than 30 thousands of people in last four years.For the leaders of the institution some individuals influenced by the satanism are behind of the wave of crimes.
 Full article: http://brazilweirdnews.blogspot.com/2011/01/church-prepares-exorcists-to-help-fight.html

13 is not the unluckiest number in the United Kingdom, 243 is is!?

Superstitious home owners may balk at the idea of taking up residence at number 13, but an analysis of home insurance claimed someone living at number 243 would be more than twice as likely to make a claim.
Full article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8251743/Unluckiest-house-number-is-243.html

Astronomers say that due to the Moons gravitational pull on Earth, our astrological signs may have been off by a month for over a millennium!

Brace for the worst: You may be a Virgo, scientists say.  There are many newspapers and websites that promise to tell your fortune, detailing where the planets were when you were born and what their future movements suggest about your future. It's called astrology, and whether or not you believe in it, you won't believe this: It's all wrong.

Full article: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/01/11/age-aquarius-actually-age-capricorn-thanks-rotation-earth/

Edinburgh new home of 'big cat' sightings?

They are shadowy creatures who create claws for concern for farmers across the UK.  But now Edinburgh might have its own big cat on the prowl.  Residents of Newhaven have been left feline distinctly uncomfortable after the discovery of huge paw prints in the snow.
Full article: http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/Do-giant-paw-prints-mean.6686399.jp?articlepage=1

Chicago 'ear candle' alternative therapy store hit with liability suit

A Chicago ear, nose and throat doctor has become the focal point of the unusual product liability lawsuit of a Kansas woman who claims she was injured by an ear-cleaning procedure using a special candle. “Ear-candling,” which has become a trendy alternative to Q-tips, involves inserting the narrow tip of a hollow conical candle into the ear. Advocates say the warmth and suction from the heat generated by the flame draws wax out of the ear canal
Full article: http://www.onpointnews.com/NEWS/Health-Store-Feels-Heat-in-Suit-Over-Ear-Candle-Injury.html

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Australian 'holy man' Tony Golossiancharged with sexual assault and misuse of intoxicating substances during a prayer session which involved a voodoo doll, fetishes and the victim's undergarments!

Voodoo dolls, pornographic text messages and fetishes made from the hair and underpants of a woman sexually assaulted during a series of prayer session were used to convince her she was cursed, the District Court has heard.  The alleged victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told the court she had been raised a Greek Orthodox and taught by her parents that curses could be put on people causing ''generally just bad, bad things''.

Full article: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/voodoo-dolls-used-in-sex-curse-court-hears-20100922-15n13.html

English woman captures picture of a very strange UFO in Nuremberg

A woman from York captured an unexplained object in her holiday snaps this month, and wants your help identifying it.  Abbey Linfoot, 22, was on a European holiday with her boyfriend when she took a photo of this street in Nuremberg.  When she looked at the photo later, she saw something she couldn’t explain, high above the buildings.

Full article: http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/8409893.Does_York_woman_s_holiday_picture_reveal_ghost_like_image_of_UFO_/

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Budapest couple finds image of the Devil on their bathroom tile

The appearance of the Satan image has left her family fearing that the bathroom in their Budapest home has been possessed by the forces of evil.  Husband Laszlo, 52, had renovated the room at great expense, fitting it with a heavenly new bath, shower and tiles – but it’s made life hell.  Forty-seven-year-old Mrs Csrefko spotted the terrifying horned image after her first shower.  She told The Sun: ‘I was naked coming out of the shower and I could suddenly see his eyes staring into me. I just screamed and ran.’  Laszlo added: ‘We can't clean it off and it wasn't there when we put the tiles up. It just appeared overnight and nothing can move it.  ‘The room is always ice cold no matter how high we turn the heating up and we've just stopped using it because it's too spooky.

Full article:http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3139107/Devil-appears-in-bathroom-tile.html

Chinese mass UFO sightings due to light reflections from outdoor lamps against camera lenses says astronomers

After a weeklong analysis of recent UFO sightings over Hong Kong, a scientist has concluded that the unknown objects were "ghost images" -- reflections of light generated by outdoor lamps caught by camera lenses.  According to China's People's Daily Online, Wang Sichao, a planetary astronomer at the Purple Hills Observatory (part of the Chinese Academy of Science), is convinced the UFOs' circular appearance had a very terrestrial explanation.  "I have analyzed and researched the UFOs," Wang said. "The closer the outdoor circular lamps are to the video image center, the brighter the 'ghost images' will be.

Full article: http://www.aolnews.com/weird-news/article/astronomer-hong-kong-ufos-were-ghost-images-of-lamps/19634523

Man arrested for defrauding victims with 'witchcraft'

 Despite making promises of being able to conjure spirits to solve marital or other personal problems, a Brampton, Ont., man is charged with practising witchcraft to exorcise money from a victim.  Peel police aren't revealing much about the allegations against the suspect, but detectives at 21 Division are asking for other victims to come forward.  "We really don't care if you want to practise witchcraft, as long as you don't allegedly defraud people," Peel police Sgt. Zahir Shah said.

Full article: http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/2010/09/15/pf-15355431.html

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Arizona lawyer suspended for attempting to channel client's dead spouse

A hearing officer in Arizona has recommended a six-month suspension for a lawyer accused of claiming that she was possessed by the spirit of a client's dead wife, then lying about in an unrelated disciplinary matter.  The lawyer, Charna Johnson, testified in the subsequent disciplinary hearing on the channeling claims that vague references to sex in e-mails she sent to the client were from the client’s deceased wife, and there was no sexual contact, according to the hearing officer’s report (PDF). The National Law Journal has the story.  The hearing on the channeling allegations pitted two experts who disagreed on whether Johnson must have been delusional. A state expert said that’s the inevitable conclusion, since there is no scientific evidence to support channeling, while Johnson’s expert said that’s an inappropriate value judgment that may contravene the religious beliefs of millions of people.

Full article: http://www.abajournal.com/weekly/article/6-month_suspension_urged_for_lawyer_who_claimed_to_channel_clients_dead_wif 

Police charge psychic with 'pretending to be a psychic' in failing to locate missing children in Punta Gorda, Belize

One woman who police say misled the community as to the children's whereabouts has been charged. She is 42 year old Delfina ALVAREZ SELGADO, a Housewife of the Water Supply Area, in Punta Gorda Town. She has been charged for the rarely used offence of "PRETENDS TO TELL FORTUNE."  She pleaded not guilty to the charge and received bail of $1500.00Bcy. She will reappear in Punta Gorda Magistrate Court on October 12, 2010.

Full article: http://www.7newsbelize.com/sstory.php?nid=17751

Miss Indonesia runs away from home to join cult run by a mysterious man known only as 'R'

Fariawati, the mother of Miss Indonesia 2010 Qory Sandioriva, has denied reports that her daughter ran away from home. She revealed, however, that Qory had changed after befriending a 65-year-old man identified only as R.  “I need some peace,” Fariawati said. “She’s not married yet and still lives with us so she is our responsibility. I want to straighten matters, as rumors are already circulating about her. I do not mean to disgrace my own daughter.”

Full article: http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/home/did-miss-indonesia-run-to-mystical-sect/395035

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

1947 Maury Island, Washington,  UFO incident revealed to be a hoax

After six decades the truth has emerged about the infamous Maury Island UFO incident of 1947. It was a hoax. It finds its roots in fiction and fantasy, as revealed in candid and damning interviews with Maury Island UFO "witness" Harold Dahl's own son and daughter. The hoax is further detailed in a careful re-examination of the "mysterious" figure Fred Crisman.

Full article: http://ufocon.blogspot.com/2010/07/maury-island-no-longer-mystery-ufo-hoax.html 

Drunk driver blames Martians for car crash into Madison, Wisconsin strip club

A 50-year-old man is facing multiple charges after allegedly crashing his car into a strip club on East Washington Avenue in Madison on Tuesday night.  Police said Keith Rasmussen, 50, of Racine, was asked to leave Vision's Night Club after he vomited in the VIP area. Rasmussen got in his SUV in the parking lot, put it in reverse and slammed it into the front of the building, authorities said. A witness told police he and a woman had to jump out of the way to avoid being hit.

Full article: http://www.channel3000.com/news/24170365/detail.html 

Florida condominium manager scandalized over fraud and witchcraft!

 There are lots of condo association spats and scams in the tiny, scandal-ridden hamlet of North Bay Village. Most of them are pretty boring. That's because most of them don't involve a wrathful warlock.

Full article: http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2010-07-08/news/fraud-and-witchcraft-haunt-south-treasure-drive-s-north-bay-villas/

Thursday, July 1, 2010

UFO appears over capital of Kyrgystan

June 30 late in the evening over the Kyrgyz capital appeared an unidentified flying object, reports a REGNUM News . . Like a comet on the object flew from west to east, leaving behind a glowing cylindrical plume.  A few minutes later, an outbreak and the "head" of the object separated, so that the train was behind her.  UFO flew away, still leaving a trace, but less broad, the rays were like in the four sides of him.  After some time the UFO had disappeared from sight.

Full article: http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.regnum.ru%2Fnews%2Fsociety%2F1299883.html&sl=ru&tl=en 

English ex-cop discusses his UFO encounter

A former police officer saw a UFO, and what he thought were children that “disappeared all of a sudden”, while driving from Hertford to Puckeridge.The sighting was in July last year, but has only emerged within the last few days on a UFO-watcher’s website.  In his tantalising account the ex-cop, who identified himself only as Nick R, wrote: “I saw whilst driving along the A10 going home one evening after work north a light which was not the moon, orange and oval in shape. I drove into my parking space in Puckeridge and went into my flat. Faffed about for about 10 minutes then went outside for a cigarette.

Full article: http://www.herald24.co.uk/news/ex_hertford_cop_s_close_encounter_after_ufo_sighting_1_484178 

San Deigo Zoo hopes to clone endangered species 'Jurassic Park'-style

Researchers at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, and San Diego Zoo have collaborated to create stem cells from the skin cells of a dead drill monkey, an endangered monkey native to Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria and Cameroon.  The scientists, speaking at the International Society for Stem Cell Research in San Francisco, hope that the "induced pluripotent stem" (iPS) cells thus created can then be biochemically persuaded into becoming sperm and egg cells. They can then be implanted into the womb of another monkey, and will hopefully form a viable foetus.

Full article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/dinosaurs/7865765/Zoo-to-bring-dead-animals-back-to-life-Jurassic-Park-style.html

Trial date set for Colorado psychic who claimed her clients money was 'evil'...so she took it off their hands!

A psychic from Longmont doesn't need a crystal ball to see a trial date in her future. A Boulder County judge said on Thursday there is enough evidence to put Nancy Marks, 54, on trial.  Marks is set to enter a plea in August.  Marks is accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from customers after telling them that money is evil.  Police said Marks, who went by several aliases, threatened her victims, saying that if they told anyone, bad things would happen to them.

Full article: http://cbs4denver.com/news/Psychic.Fraud.Arrest.2.1783962.html

Ghost of Jim Morrison haunts bathroom of L.A. Mexican restaurant

July 3 marks 39 years since Jim Morrison, the deep-voiced front man for the band The Doors, was found dead in an apartment bathtub in Paris, France.  But that doesn't mean "The Lizard King" isn't still making the rounds in one of his former West Hollywood haunts.  As devout fans gather at his Parisian grave this weekend, looking for signs of the brooding singer and poet's spirit, they might be better served if they visited a Mexican restaurant at 8512 Santa Monica Blvd.

Full article: http://www.aolnews.com/weird-news/article/ghost-of-jim-morrison-of-the-doors-said-to-haunt-mexican-restaurant-in-los-angeles/19536348 

Professor who claims he could create holy water charged in South Korea

A South Korean medical professor who invented a digital device he claimed could transform tap water into holy water is facing fraud charges, Seoul police said Thursday.  They said the professor claimed to have digitally captured the supposed curative powers of holy water on devices that he sold to more than 5,000 people for a total profit of nearly 1.7 billion won (1.3 million dollars).
Full article: http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asia/184400/s-korean-professor-charged-over-holy-water-device