Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Siberian village plagued with goat livestock being drained of all their blood...is it a vampire or chupacabra?!

A blood-sucking creature is preying upon goats near Novosibirsk. As rational explanations run thin on the ground, the specter of the so-called chupacabra raises its demon head. Horrified farmers and smallholders are confronted by the drained corpses of their livestock in the morning, bloodless and bearing puncture marks to the neck but otherwise largely in tact.
Full article: http://themoscownews.com/russia/20110726/188875163.html

School girl miraculously returns to life in Zimbabwe morgue!

The school authorities had earlier sent the girl home so she could get treatment after she had complained of a severe headache. She reportedly collapsed while at home, resulting in her being rushed to a medical centre in the Avenues.  “It appears she had not died, but had fallen into a comma and she regained consciousness while in the mortuary, perhaps because of the cold. Fortunately an attendant heard her coughing and assisted her,” said a teacher at the school.
Full article: http://www.newsday.co.zw/article/2011-07-26-schoolgirl-rises-from-the-dead


British psychic 'Psychic Ben' jailed for stealing his grandmother's valuables

A SELF-PROCLAIMED 'internationally renowned psychic' from Stratford did not forsee the outcome when he stole rings worth more than £100,000 from his grandmother.
But predictably Benjamin Hicks, known as ‘Pyschic Ben’ is in jail after pleading guilty to the theft.
Full article:  http://www.stratfordobserver.co.uk/story-Psychic-fails-to-foresee-jail-term-for-ring-thefts-48150.html

Thursday, April 14, 2011

The oldest house in the United States, the Fairbanks House in Massachusetts, may also be haunted!

It's the oldest timber frame house in America, lived in for generations by the same family and lovingly kept just as it was in its early Colonial days.  But what the Fairbanks House lacks in modern facilities it seems to make for with ... strange spirits.  The house in Dedham, Massachusetts, was built between 1637 and 1641 by English settlers Jonathan and Grace Fairbanks.  Today the house is a museum, but it could very well one of the most haunted houses in America.
Full article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1376699/Fairbanks-House-Massachusetts-Is-America-s-oldest-house-haunted.html

Video footage from Germany of UFO spotted over Fukushima Nuclear Power plant

Fukushima UFO: ‘Cloud’, ‘Train’, Large Building, Hoax or…. an actual UFO?  There’s a new ‘UFO’ video up at Youtube that caught our eye, Giant UFO Hovering Over Fukushima Nuclear Plant, April 12.mp4. The video, a clip from a German news video report.
Full article: http://deathby1000papercuts.com/2011/04/giant-ufo-over-fukushima-nuclear-power-plant-in-german-news-footage/

Satanic cultist exorcised of the Devil by Philippine Catholic priest

A blood-curdling scream echoes through the Roman Catholic chapel in Manila as Father Jose Francisco Syquia says a prayer of exorcism over a Satanic cult member believed to be possessed by the devil.
"It's very painful," the woman cries in an unearthly voice, her body contorting in an attempt to break free from the tight grasp of Syquia's assistants. After a few minutes she falls silent, her limp body exhausted.
Full article: http://nz.entertainment.yahoo.com/news/article/-/9198818/philippine-priest-in-ancient-battle-with-demons/


Psychic's help on Long Island serial killer case leads...nowhere?

  While police continue their search for a serial killer stalking Long Island, a psychic is claiming to have accurately predicted where the body of one of the first victims would be found.
Full article: http://news.discovery.com/human/psychic-tip-on-long-island-serial-killer.html

Tuesday, Febuary 8, 2011

Church of Scientology outraged over FBI investigations of human trafficking, enslavement and violence

The FBI is investigating the Church of Scientology over allegations of human trafficking, it is claimed.
Full article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1354449/Scientologists-outraged-defectors-claims-human-trafficking-enslavement.html

Romanian authorities warn soothsayers and fortune tellers...be accurate or be punished!

There's more bad news in the cards for Romania's beleaguered witches. A month after Romanian authorities began taxing them for their trade, the country's soothsayers and fortunetellers are cursing a new bill that threatens fines or even prison if their predictions don't come true.
Full article: http://www.npr.org/2011/02/08/133591650/romania-to-soothsayers-get-it-right-or-go-to-jail?ft=1&f=1001

Wednesday, Jaunary 5, 2011

U.S. military initiates $125 million experimental 'holistic healing' program for traumatized soldiers

An experimental, Army mental-health, fitness initiative designed by the same psychologist whose work heavily influenced the psychological aspects of the Bush administration's torture program is under fire by civil rights groups and hundreds of active-duty soldiers. They say it unconstitutionally requires enlistees to believe in God or a "higher power" in order to be deemed "spiritually fit" to serve in the Army.

Full article: http://www.truth-out.org/armys-fitness-test-designed-psychologist-who-inspired-cias-torture-program-under-fire66577

Prestigious Journal of Personality and Social Psychology catches flack for article discussing the evidence of ESP

One of psychology’s most respected journals has agreed to publish a paper presenting what its author describes as strong evidence for extrasensory perception, the ability to sense future events.

Full article: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/06/science/06esp.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all


British medical journal BMJ reveals that vaccines cause autotism advocate Dr. Andrew Wakefield used fraudulent data for his 1998 study which has caused mass hysteria and anti-vaccine panic across the globe!

A now-retracted British study that linked autism to childhood vaccines was an "elaborate fraud" that has done long-lasting damage to public health, a leading medical publication reported Wednesday.


Full article: http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/01/05/autism.vaccines/index.html

Scientists in Abu Dhabi Desert manufacture 52 artificial rain storms

Hail, lightning and gales came through the state's eastern region this summer thanks to scientist-puppetmasters.
As part of a secret program to control the weather in the Middle East, scientists working for the United Arab Emirates government artificially created rain where rain is generally nowhere to be found. The $11 million project, which began in July, put steel lampshade-looking ionizers in the desert to produce charged particles. The negatively charged ions rose with the hot air, attracting dust. Moisture then condensed around the dust and eventually produced a rain cloud. A bunch of rain clouds.

Full article: http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/01/03/scientists-create-52-artificial-rain-storms-in-abu-dhabi-desert/

London psychic wins £1,000,000  lottery prize which she predicted!

Ocean Kinge, 45, told colleagues about a "feeling in her bones" and set up a syndicate in August.  The team of 15, who work at West London Training in Aldershot, Hampshire, went on to win £66,666.66 each by sharing a million pounds on the EuroMillions Millionaire Raffle on Christmas Eve.

Full article: http://latestnews.virginmedia.com/news/uk/2011/01/05/psychic_predicted_own_lottery_win

Discovery Channel and The Vatican team-up together for The Exorcist Files, a dramatization of real-life Catholic confrontations with demonic entities

Discovery Channel is teaming with the Vatican for an unprecedented new series hunting the deadliest catch of all: Demons.

Full article: http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/01/05/discovery-exorcist-files/

Saturday, January 1 , 2011

Albino child bleeds to death after being dismembered for ritual fetishes bought by witchdoctors in the African country of Burudi

A Burundian boy died after having his arm cut off by gunmen in the latest case of suspected witchcraft-related smuggling of albino body parts, officials said on Saturday.
Full article: http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Albino-boy-dies-after-arm-chopped-off-20110101

The end of the world isn't on December 12, 2012 according to Biblical scholar, instead the Rapture is coming on May 12, 2011!

Harold Camping lets out a hearty chuckle when he considers the people who believe the world will end in 2012."That date has not one stitch of biblical authority," Camping says from the Oakland office where he runs Family Radio, an evangelical station that reaches listeners around the world. "It's like a fairy tale."

Full article: http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-01-01/bay-area/17466332_1_east-bay-bay-area-first-time-camping 

British TV psychic (and exoricst?) plans to be buried alive...for charity

A SCUNTHORPE psychic will be buried six feet underground for charity.  Ian Lawman, who is also an exorcist and TV star, says he wants to stretch his talents and get as close to death without actually dying.  Of the week-long burial he said: “I have had the idea of being buried alive for two years now.  “At first it was just a thought, but now my coffin has been made I am becoming a lot more nervous.”  As the date of the burial approaches, Mr Lawman is training to ensure everything goes to plan.

Full article: http://www.thisisscunthorpe.co.uk/news/younger-control-connection-dead/article-3054880-detail/article.html

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Psychic and guest of UK's Most Haunted extradited back to UK from Spain for child abuse

Styling himself as a medium, he was invited to go ghost-hunting and investigate paranormal occurrences at Brougham Hall near Penrith in 2007.  But by the end of that year he was on the run soon to be one of the UK's most wanted men, setting off a chain of events which would lead to the tragic deaths of his two young children.  In December 2007, the 45-year-old and his partner Lianne, who were living in Carlisle, left the UK for Spain after he was accused of child abuse.

Full article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-11981058

Palm Beach man goes to jail for tossing a brick through an another residents window ... because he put a 'voodoo curse' on him!

It is obvious that the voodoo curse upon West Palm Beach resident Renald Louis is working its magic. Louis spent his 26th birthday in a jail cell, humiliated, and forced to scrounge -- fruitlessly -- for the sums needed to pay his $25,000 bond.  His crime? Throwing a brick through the window of the man who allegedly cursed him, Delvin Carter.  The brick shattered the glass and landed on Carter's couch, nearly braining his 23-year-old daughter. (She was never in any danger, for it takes more than bricks to
harm a sorcerer's child.)  According to The Palm Beach Post, Delvin Carter heard the breaking glass and ran to his living room to see what had happened. Then he ran to his front yard, where he saw Renald Louis preparing to hurl a concrete paver. Carter yelled at his victim to drop the paver -- and he did! Magic! Then, Carter demanded to know why Louis had attacked his home. Louis responded, "You put voodoo on me!" Louis demanded Carter remove the curse.

Full article: http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/juice/2010/12/voodoo_curse_renald_louis.php


New evidence shows 1950 mass UFO sighting intentionally kept off the press wire

On February 1, 1950, a fiery object shot quickly west through the Tucson skies. A B-29 took off in pursuit of the object, but the plane could not catch up to the object.  This is one of the most bizarre cases in Tucson history, documented by the Tucson Daily Citizen (before the paper became the Tucson Citizen).

Full article: http://tucsoncitizen.com/paranormal/2010/12/15/tucsons-1950-mass-ufo-sighting-deliberately-kept-off-the-press-wires/


San Antonio Spurs player Manu Ginobili's UFO sighting last week...really Red Bull skydivers?!

Last week we had concerns about Manu Ginobili being abducted by aliens. Or at least seeing a UFO of some kind while the team was in Los Angeles to knock off the Clippers.  Ginobili saw lights flying through the air in unusual ways that could not easily be explained….
Unless they were Red Bull skydivers.  Jon DeVore, writing on the Red Bull Airforce site (of course there is one, Red Bull is a marketing company that happens to make an energy drink) had this to say (via CBS Facts & Rumors):
As soon as I saw the videos on the news I busted up laughing. It was us jumping with our night flares. The next night my wife’s friend called her and told her that TMZ was reporting on it. I went on line and found that quite a few people were posting on the sightings. Even Manu Ginobili (San Antonio Spurs) saw the jump and reported UFO’s on his twitter and Face Book page.

Full article: http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/12/15/remember-manu-ginobili%E2%80%99s-ufo-try-red-bull-skydivers/

Thursday, November 11, 2010

British woman claims she is a magnet for UFO's after 17th such encounter!

A British housewife has become known as a UFO magnet after she claimed that she has been visited at least 17 times by them, with five such episodes being up close.  Bridget Grant, 40, looks just like any other ordinary housewife, but her extraordinary experiences have brought her recognition in the UFO world as the Briton most visited by aliens.  "Why me? I don't know. I can't understand it but I need answers. I can't explain what's happening to me. I feel very happy that I've witnessed what I have," the Sun quoted her as saying.
Full article: http://sify.com/news/brit-housewife-is-ufo-magnet-after-17-encounters-with-aliens-news-international-kllsEjdfcga.html

Devil attacks school children in Trinidad

Panic broke out at the Moruga Composite School yesterday as 17 female students fell mysteriously ill and began rolling on the ground, hissing and blabbering in a strange tongue, after suffering bouts of nausea and headaches. Two of the students reportedly tried to throw themselves off a railing and had to be physically restrained, triggering fears of a possible demon attack. The drama started during the lunch hour in the Form One block and quickly spread to other areas. Form Five student Kern Mollineau, who attends the Lighthouse Tabernacle Church, said he got worried when the girls’ eyes began rolling up in their heads and they began beating up on the ground.

Full article: http://guardian.co.tt/news/general/2010/11/11/panic-after-devil-attack-school

Rival Pennsylvania fortune tellers declare psychic war on each other!

It's a sort of Hatfield versus McCoys. Two families. Two fortune telling businesses. Now, a feud has escalated to alleged violence. Self-described gypsy Jimmy "Cutty" George says he fears for his life and that of his family after Stephen Mitchell allegedly threatened his wife at gunpoint.  "He had a gun and he waved it to her. He said keep the kids off Street Road or I'm going to hurt you," George said.

Full article: http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/crime&id=7783883

Psychologists ponder whether it really is possible for us to see into the future

Extraordinary claims don't come much more extraordinary than this: events that haven't yet happened can influence our behaviour.  Parapsychologists have made outlandish claims about precognition – knowledge of unpredictable future events – for years. But the fringe phenomenon is about to get a mainstream airing: a paper providing evidence for its existence has been accepted for publication by the leading social psychology journal

Full article: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19712-evidence-that-we-can-see-the-future-to-be-published.html

U.S. soldiers with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder hope to find recovery at Native American sweat lodges

It's late afternoon on the Colorado plains, and the sun is disappearing behind the ridge of mountains to the west of us, but all I can see is darkness.  I'm in a traditional Lakota sweat lodge, a 15-foot-wide dome of willow branches covered in thick moving blankets and canvas.  Inside the tiny lodge, 20 of us are shoulder to sweaty shoulder in burning pain. The ceremony leader sings a traditional song, pouring cup after cup of water onto the still-glowing rocks, increasing the heat until voices break the darkness in anguish. Mine would join them if I could, but the heat is like a hundred pounds of sand, pressing me down into submission.  Now I know what it feels like to touch hell.  The ceremony is called inipi, more commonly known as sweat lodge. It is one of seven sacred rites of the Lakota Sioux, and has also been used traditionally as a purification ceremony among many Native American nations.

Full article: http://www.aolnews.com/weird-news/article/army-vets-turn-to-native-american-sweat-lodges-to-help-with-ptsd/19702804


Ghost sightings doubled after Canterbury earthquake

The "sheer strength and power" of the September 4 earthquake has more than doubled the number of reported supernatural events in Canterbury, a paranormal investigator says.  Christchurch Paranormal Investigators founder Anton Heyrick said his team had received an "interesting influx" of phone calls and emails after the 7.1-magnitude earthquake, with more than double the usual number of inquiries.  "People are calling us, saying that they had always felt like there was something in the house, but since the earthquake it had become more intense," he said.  Most cases related to strange noises, although one man said he had been attacked by a ghost.

Full article: http://www.stuff.co.nz/oddstuff/4318133/More-ghosts-after-earthquake

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, September 1, 2010

Mysterious phone number calling people and killing them in Kenya was a hoax!

Kenyan officials have moved to quell growing hysteria sparked by rumour that a ghostly red number was appearing on mobile phones and killing people. The rumours swept like wildfire among the residents in the capital, Nairobi and other major towns on Tuesday night, with many forwarding the stories to their friends, families and colleagues via text messages, warning them not to receive calls which will appear in a red colour.
According to the report the calls was in high radiation or high frequency that causes brain haemorrhage, leading to death instantly .

Full article: http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/13802 

Satanists wish to rent Oklahoma City Civic Center for ceremony to exorcise God!

The leader of an Satanic church firmly planted in the Bible Belt has raised eyebrows by renting a theater in the Oklahoma City Civic Center for a ritual exorcism of God.  The Church of the IV Majesties is inviting members and the public to view the ritual, in hopes of erasing a lot of the unfounded fears many have about Satanism.  "We don't kill animals, we don't kill children," James Hale, the church's Lord High Master, told ABCNews.com.

Full article: http://abcnews.go.com/US/satanist-church-rents-oklahoma-civic-center-exorcism-ritual/story?id=11524098

Florida psychic and con artist sentenced to 18 months in prison

A Broward fortune teller, who police describe as a well-known scam-artist, will spend 18 months in prison, a Broward judge ordered Wednesday. Gina Marie Marks, 37, was already serving 18 months probation for swindling a woman out of nearly $300,000 when she was arrested in October.  Marks pleaded guilty Wednesday to grand theft, two counts of organized fraud and admitted to violating her probation. She also turned in a $400,000 check to partially repay her victims, according to The Sun Sentinel.

Full article: http://cbs4.com/local/Gina.Marie.Marks.2.1891160.html

Monday, August 23, 2010

Newly released documents from British Ministry of Defense show lots of UFO activity around the communities of Hartford and Cuddington

NEWLY released documents on UFOs have revealed sightings in the skies above Cuddington and Hartford, going back more than a decade.  The files contain a wide range of UFO-related documents, drawings, letters and Parliamentary questions, covering the years 1995 to 2003.

Full article: http://www.northwichguardian.co.uk/news/8338461.Secrets_reveal_UFOs_over_Hartford/ 

French priest prays for President Sarkozy to have a heart attack because of his attack on the Roma people throughout France

Several churchmen yesterday joined a chorus of criticism of President Nicolas Sarkozy’s decision to expel dozens of Roma from France, with one priest praying for him to be divinely struck by a heart attack.  Fr Arthur Hervet of the church of St Martin Esquermes of Lille in northern France said he was turning to God because he did not believe those in power had any plans to help the Roma, except deport them.

Full article: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2010/0823/1224277380160.html

Psychic Uri Geller believes  his Scottish land hides buried Egyptian treasure...but his neighbors don't

When Uri Geller saw a rocky lump off Scotland's eastern coast was for sale a couple of years ago, the famed spoon-bender says he knew he had to have it.  "I didn't know why. I was somehow drawn to it," Mr. Geller recalls. He put in a successful £30,000, or about $46,000, offer.  Today, the 63-year-old paranormalist says he now understands why he bought the uninhabited, 100 yard-by-50 yard Lamb Island. Buried inside, he says, is an Egyptian treasure including relics supposedly brought there by a pharaoh's daughter some 3,500 years ago.


Full article: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703960004575427141750177982.html

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Virginia family of psychics accused of scamming millions from clients

Celia Marks began reading palms and tarot cards in Hampton Roads more than 50 years ago. She handed down the centuries-old tradition to her children and grandchildren, who opened their own shops throughout the region and across the country.  The family has a colorful history. During a feud 80 years ago, one relative bit off a chunk of another's nose. Five years ago, three Markses were convicted of stealing from clients.  Now, the family faces what could be its most serious challenge yet: Two of Celia's sons were charged in a federal indictment for allegedly stealing millions from life insurance companies, and authorities are looking for two other family members. In all, six people were charged.

Full article: http://hamptonroads.com/2010/08/family-psychics-accused-taking-millions-scam

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Ghost hunting family capture spooky images at old, abandoned church in South Carolina

My son and I went to South Carolina to visit his godmother Joy and her husband last weekend, Joy is also a believer in the paranormal and there is a church that is on a one lane dirt road out in the middle of no-where called Horns Creek Baptist Church dated back to 1790. There is a small cemetary on the side and a few graves in the back. All seemed to be dated in the 1800's and in need of repair. One is a little girl who died at age 2. Very sad. Anyways, we pulled up and got out of the truck and walked up the wooden steps into the church. What caught my eye was what appeared to be 2 peep holes.
Full article: http://chronicle.augusta.com/content/blog-post/pam-bowen/2010-07-29/our-ghost-hunting-adventure?v=1280421203 

Is the conspiracy theory that UFO's are a CIA invention true?

Ufology is a faith that includes many beliefs, from the oddly popular one about Nazi aliens who live under the ground to David Icke's contention that the Duke of Edinburgh is in fact a shape-changing, blood-sucking alien lizard.  But here's the core of the faith - that some UFO sightings and encounters are real, the U.S. government knows all about these extraterrestrial visitations, and they've mounted a huge conspiracy to keep the aliens secret and us in the dark.  This book threatens to demolish that faith. Because here Mark Pilkington sets out to prove that the U.S. government really has been conducting a top-secret UFO conspiracy - only one designed not to hide UFOs but publicise them, fuelling and even creating the major UFO myths. Flying saucers, alien abductions, crash-landed spacecraft, secret underground bases in New Mexico - they were all created by the U.S. government.

Full article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-1298026/ARE-UFOs-JUST-A-CIA-CON-TRICK--MIRAGE-MEN-BY-MARK-PILKINGTON.html?ito=feeds-newsxml 

Experts believe Mars may have fossilized life hidden withing it's rocks

The team made their discovery in the ancient rocks of Nili Fossae.  Their work has revealed that this trench on Mars is a "dead ringer" for a region in Australia where some of the earliest evidence of life on Earth has been buried and preserved in mineral form.  They report the findings in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
Full article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-10790648 

Finding reincarnated pets is the passion of animal psychics who wish to be taken seriously!

Pet psychics are serious about their jobs. Dead serious.  In fact, to find a missing pet, pet psychics like Ellen Kohn will turn to reincarnation -- looking into an animals' past lives -- for clues to where it might be.  This was the case last year when Christine Horowitz lost her 13-year-old golden shepherd, Dina, to cancer. Distraught, Horowitz remembered Kohn, who had mentioned contacting animals in the afterlife during a previous consultation about her mother's missing cat.

Full article: http://www.aolnews.com/weird-news/article/animal-psychic-ellen-kohn-searches-for-reincarnated-pets/19569827

Sunday, July 11, 2010

Are mutant deer the cause of unicorn legends?

Maybe unicorns aren’t wholly mythological: a one-horned deer has been spotted in a nature reserve near Florence, Italy. And it’s not merely a case of having one weird antler off to one side; it’s a horn poking straight out of its forehead.  "This is fantasy becoming reality," said Gilberto Tozzi, director of the Center for Natural Sciences in Prato, to the Associated Press.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/06/unicorns-are-re/Full article:  

Psychic parrot Meena (whose 'psychic' record isn't as accurate as Pauly's) makes same choice as Pauly the psychic octopus in choosing Spain to win World Cup!

Meena Kutti, an eight-year-old parakeet born in India, was advising punters which teams to back, according to its owner, fortune teller M.C. Mohan, who usually gives tips on business and life.  Mohan said he placed two small envelopes on the floor at his home in Kuala Lumpur and asked Meena to pick the winner of the World Cup final - the Netherlands or Spain - and without hesitation it chose the one marked "La Furia Roja." "Meena is one of a kind and is always accurate in her predictions," he was quoted as saying by the New Sunday Times newspaper, which did not give any details of previous forecasts.

Full article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/world-cup-2010/7883865/World-Cup-2010-final-Meena-the-parakeet-backs-Paul-the-psychic-octopus-for-Spain-win.html


Dracula, Vlad Tepes,  got a bad rap from his European neighbors says museum curator

The show, which has just opened in Bucharest, attempts to rehabilitate Vlad Tepes, also known as Vlad Dracula or Vlad the Impaler, who ruled Wallachia in the 15th century.  "Vlad Dracula was doubtlessly cruel, but not more so than other princes of his time," said Margot Rauch, the Austrian curator of the exhibition, entitled "Dracula - Voivode and Vampire".

Full article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/romania/7883928/Dracula-was-not-bloodthirsty-just-a-victim-of-bad-propaganda-new-exhibition-claims.html

Researchers believe they've discovered King Arthur's legendary Round Table and it was a Roman-style amphitheater!

Researchers exploring the legend of Britain’s most famous Knight believe his stronghold of Camelot was built on the site of a recently discovered Roman amphitheatre in Chester.  Legend has it that his Knights would gather before battle at a round table where they would receive instructions from their King. But rather than it being a piece of furniture, historians believe it would have been a vast wood and stone structure which would have allowed more than 1,000 of his followers to gather.  Historians believe regional noblemen would have sat in the front row of a circular meeting place, with lower ranked subjects on stone benches grouped around the outside.

Full article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/7883874/Historians-locate-King-Arthurs-Round-Table.html

Does a full Moon really cause us to go crazy?

There's a bad moon on the rise? Werewolves, lunatics and criminals, we all know, famously respond to the light of the full moon.

But Creedence Clearwater Revival lyrics aside, an upcoming crime study reinforces findings that the full moon's malign influence is, well, moonshine.

"Western lore has long suggested a relationship between the phases of the moon and various forms of aberrant, antisocial, deviant, and criminal human conduct," begins the Journal of Criminal Justicestudy led by criminologist Joseph Schafer of Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. "Policing, crime, and criminal justice have not been immune from speculation concerning the lunar-crime relationship."
Full article: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/2010-07-11-moon-crime_N.htm