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By Stephen Wagner, About.com

May 17 2008

Ghosts shouting for 'help' among cyclone survivors
In the middle of the night, in the worst-hit areas of the cyclone, villagers hear voices from the fields. "Hey …. help us, Hey … help us," the voices say. But when villagers search the fields with their torch lights, no one can be seen. "We believe it must be the ghosts of those who died, because they died unnaturally in the cyclone," said a villager from Peinneakone village in Laputta Township, Irrawaddy Division, where Cyclone Nargis struck May 2-3. Most Buddhists believe that the spirits of those who died in accidents are restless and continue to dwell near their loved ones...

Did toads predict the earthquake?
According to recent estimates, the earthquake that hit China on Monday could leave 10,000 people dead. Web users are saying that the catastrophe could have been avoided, if only they had listened to the toads. Two days before the quake thousands of toads suddenly decided to move across a bridge in Taizhou, a town in the Jiangsu province...

Man's rare ability may unlock secret of memory
Give Brad Williams a date, and he can usually tell you not only what he was doing but what world events happened that day. He can do this for almost every day of his life...

Unable to forget
The remarkable story of a woman who remembers every day of her life...

Psychic hot line on the Preakness

Not Lizard Man
DNA testing has shown an attack on a family van some blamed on the legendary Lizard Man appears to have been actually done by a domestic dog...

He seeks a route through time
Ronald Mallett lost his father to heart disease at the age of 10, an event that left him in utter despair. His depression lasted until he read "The Time Machine" by H.G. Wells and, a few years later, the theories of Albert Einstein - and he became determined to see his father again. For years, Mallett, a physicist at the University of Connecticut, stayed in the "time-travel closet," as he put it, keeping his desire to build a time machine under wraps for fear of ridicule...

Bigfoot filmmaker breaks silence
John L. Johnsen, the filmmaker behind M. K. Davis’ “Bigfoot is a human being” film project, has lifted his silence regarding some behind-the-scene details of their promised 2006 documentary. Johnsen has forwarded a flurry of emails to Cryptomundo...

New Myakka “Ape” video
This video has turned up on YouTube with this message: “Myakka, Florida - encounter occurred 5/2/08.” What do you make of it?..

UFO acclimation now underway?
The NBC show "Dateline" and msnbc.com have put out a request to the public to submit photos and videos of UFOs. According to the msnbc.com Web site, a show is planned this Sunday, May 18, using photos and videos of UFOs they receive. On the msnbc.com site, the public is asked, "Do you think you have seen a UFO? Tell us about it and you may be featured in a future episode of Dateline NBC or on msnbc.com." "On Sunday, May 18, Dateline plans to count down '10 Close Encounters Caught on Tape,'" according to msnbc.com...

Mickey of Miami's top ten best and most haunted places in Florida where you can spot a real ghost

Is Town Hall haunted? Mass Paranormal not ready to say
After two nights of investigation at the Cohasset Town Hall, Mass Paranormal isn’t ready to say there is definitive paranormal activity in the 1857 building. But they have gathered hours of video evidence and audio recordings, pages of notes, and a few instances of unexplainable personal experience...

All the talk about ghosts is preposterous — isn't it?
We don't believe in ghosts — do we? There's no way a spirit can possibly get back here from there, wherever there might be. It's simply impossible. The very idea defies rational thought, scientific evidence and an accurate perception of reality. Or do we simply claim such as a cavalier mechanism to protect our own doubts about the matter?..

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