Top 10 Paranormal News Stories of 2007

2007 was full of paranormal events and I was happy to see the media giving these stories the attention they deserve. Here is my list of the top 10 paranormal news stories from this year.

1. The ghost of Saddam Hussein was reported to be seen by people in Baghdad. ( read post)

2. Jennifer Love Hewitt came forward to tell of actual paranormal activity on the set of Ghost Whisperer. (read post)

3. First crop circle of 2007 was reported in Hoeven, Holland.

4. Rolling Stones front man, Mick Jagger, came forward claiming he had an encounter of the third kind back in the 1960's.

5. A British airline pilot reported seeing a mile wide UFO over the Channel Islands. Passengers and other crew members also witnessed this event.

6. Flying humanoids were filmed over Mexico (read post, watch video)

7. Evidence of Sasquatch found in Northern Ontario. (View all 5 videos here)

8. Video footage of a haunted children's playground is seen around the world.

9. UFO conference was held in Washington, DC. (read post)

10. MoD is going to open British UFO files. (read post)

~I want to wish everyone a Happy and Safe New Year~ Aura

Italy's Most Haunted Island

"Poveglia is a small island floating in the lagoons of Venice. In stark contrast to the beauty of its surroundings, the island is a festering blemish. The waves reluctantly lapping its darkened shores will often carry away the polished remains of human bones.

When the first outbreak of bubonic plague swept through Europe, the number of dead and dying in the city of Venice became unbearable. The bodies were piling up, the stench was oppressive, and something had to be done. The local authorities decided to use Poveglia as a dumping ground for the diseased bodies. The dead were hauled to the island and dumped in large pits or burned on huge bonfires. As the plague tightened its grip, people panicked, and those showing the slightest symptoms of the Black Death were dragged screaming from their homes. These living victims, including children and babies, were taken to the island and thrown into the pits of rotting corpses, where they were left to die in agony. As many as 160,00 tormented bodies were disposed of over the years." Continue Article: Associated Content

Written by: The Ghostly Gal

Psychic Predictions for 2008

Predicting in the wake of a dispirited economy and a dying Bush Administration may be a rather contentious subject but the majority of our populace wants to know "just where we stand in 2008 here in the United States". The following has been prepared to give you a few insights and perhaps an advantage on 2008 preparedness.

• The basic energy of 2008 is stability and strength in a weak and unstable U.S. economy. This sort of power will be the hidden instigator of tensions and misunderstandings in all areas of everyday life. Therefore look at the underlying influence of any issue that may come up at work or home.

• It is a turbulent year in natural disasters particularly tidal waves, possibly a tsunami. It is not unusual to see earthquakes and slides here in California but it is rather unusual to see several scattered around the world all in one year. Good grief; the hurricanes are just wild next year.

• Global warming has long been a major concern world wide and finally the United States will become a team player in support of scientific efforts.

• Election years have always been exciting years for Americans. I am expecting to see many twists and turns in the upcoming elections before the Republicans give way to our new Democrat leader. There will be events in the world that leave us wondering if we will even have an election. Back in the year 1999 I had stated in my forecast, "in the first fifteen years of the new millennium a woman will be named President of the United States" Psychic predictions are not fixed and can be altered. We can certainly alter this one! The candidates all look promising and wow check out who Oprah is supporting- how cool is that!

• Inflation is global and very few countries can compete with industrious China but 2008 shows a positive change as industries begin to push sophisticated services, education, and manufacturing into those nations who have been of a disadvantage. Wages will slightly increase.

• The writers strike in Hollywood ends early in the year bringing much needed relief to all those in the industry and those dependent on them. In general the lack of strong investors in 2008 weakens the Entertainment Industry. The literary world, on the other hand, will favor much better.

• It never ceases to amaze me what new discoveries will be unveiled each year in space. A new planet is one of those grand discoveries in 2008 as well as an extraordinary discovery right here on earth as remains of an ancient being are uncovered. "Could this be proof of the existence of ET?"

• We have all suffered the property market in 2007 when thousands of home owners across America were doomed to foreclosures and bankruptcy. It will be a buyers market with fantastic real estate opportunities. Perhaps we can recoup some of our losses.

• The stock market will be slow and cautious but steady. I don't detect an all time low or high in 2008.

• Another profitable year is ahead for high tech and internet business.

Happy Holidays Everybody. Have a Blessed year.

Barbara Garcia

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Dead Men's Secrets

Dead Men's Secrets is a fascinating read and I thought that a number of you would be interested in this book.

International explorer, archaeologist and author Jonathan Gray has traveled the world to gather data on ancient mysteries. Over the past 37 years, he has penetrated some largely unexplored areas, including parts of the Amazon headwaters. He has also led expeditions to the bottom of the sea and to remote mountain and desert regions of the world. In the course of his explorations, Jonathan began to uncover evidence of surprising "out of place" artifacts. According to what he was taught at school, these were impossible! They simply should not exist! And these were not just isolated anomalies. There was a global pattern to them, suggesting an ancient worldwide civilization of astonishing proportions. His book, Dead Men's Secrets, catalogues more than a thousand pieces of evidence of a lost super science and technology, including dozens of achievements ahead of our day. Archeologist Jonathan Gray described a variety of anomalous and ancient discoveries. These findings are evidence of a "super science and technology" that civilizations around the world once had but lost, he said. The ability to lift enormous weights through "sound waves" was documented in Egyptian records, as well as in Bolivia and India, and there was also a capacity to have lights that can burn for thousands of years, he detailed.
There's a human civilization living today in ancient underground tunnel systems near the Andes in South America, he reported. Their tunnels use a sensor-like lighting system in which the lights grow brighter as a person approaches. Many of the tunnel walls appear to be glass, as though they were cut out, and a greenish radiating light helps to grow plants underground. Gray said he hopes to conduct an expedition at this secretive location.
Among some of the other reports he touched on-- evidence of a Celtic visit to New Zealand 4,000 years ago, an ancient smelter for refining gold in Oklahoma, a man turned into glass crystals inside a subterranean chamber in India, a bullet hole found in an Egyptian mummy, and the discovery of 8-foot tall skeletons that were six-fingered and six-toed in New Mexico.
March 27th, 2007
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Englands Most Haunted Village

Pluckley is known to be the most haunted village in all of England and holds the Guinness Book of Records (1998) as being such. Below is a list of apparitions that reside in the small village that is tucked away in rural Kent.

Coach & Horses
Colonel
Highwayman
Miller
Monk
Red Lady
Schoolmaster
Screaming Man
Tudor Lady
Watercress Woman
White Lady
Black Horse
Dering Arms
Blacksmith's Arms
Screaming Woods
Devil's Bus

MoD to open British UFO X-files

MoD to open British UFO X-files

"Top-secret details about hundreds of sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects are to be released for public viewing in response to the nation's continuing fascination with the subject."

Merry Christmas!!!

Merry Christmas

Christmas Eve Ghost

Dare to visit the Dunkenhalgh? A ghost or boggart is supposed to appear every Christmas Eve in the form of a young lady, dressed in a winding sheet, who moves along the trees and by the site of the bridge, then disappears.

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Video of UFO's In Guadalajara Mexico

This video is considered one of most important pieces of UFO evidence, as is the images taken on July 10, 2004, in Guadalajara.



Video footage was filmed by and is the property of Miguel Avila and Miguel Dominguez.

UFOs invade skies of Mexico

Ghost Hunters Investigate Cashtown Inn

Ghost Hunters Investigate Cashtown Inn

Note to my Readers and Subscribers

Recently, a glitch has caused a large space after my most current post. Not sure what has caused this, as I have made no changes in my template. I have contacted Blogger (waiting for their reply) and am hoping to have this corrected soon. I find it quite annoying.

Anyone else experience this or might know what is causing this?

To my subscribers, this year I came across someone scraping my feed for use at their website. Unable to convince this person to stop, I had to delete posts from my feed and allow only the title. I hope you all understand.

How Santa Went Spooky

How Santa Went Spooky - Since the time of Charles Dickens, Christmas has inspired some of the darkest tales ever penned.

Ghost of "El Champal"

Not sure of this video's authenticity. I tried to find out more about it and came up with nothing. Does anyone see the "figure" captured here?

Ghost Hunters International

Ghost Hunters International will be airing on January 9, 2008 9/8pm C. The team, will include "veteran TAPS investigators Robb Demarest, Andy Andrews, Brian Harnois and Donna LaCroix, along with Barry FitzGerald (memorable from the Ghost Hunters' legendary investigations in Ireland) and newcomer Shannon Sylvia." (SciFi)

The first episode will be of the teams' investigation at the infamous Chillingham Castle in England. Numerous ghosts are said to haunt Chillingham - Britain's Most Haunted Castle.

I am really excited about this show!

Good Reads

Foolish Bigfoot Prank

Who in their right mind would dress up as Bigfoot and head out into the woods during hunting season? Well a number of young adults from Wiregrass, Alabama did just that and their foolish behavior could have ended tragically. While dressed as a Bigfoot, a teen carried another on his shoulder through the woods. Residents heard of the "sighting" and armed themselves with shotguns and headed out in search of the Bigfoot. Luckily for the people involved ( ages 18-23) no one was hurt.

Pranksters beware!

Major Winter Storm

A major winter storm is on its way to the area where I live. Hopefully I'll have power and be able to be online. If however you do not hear from me in the next few days you'll know why.

Bigfoot Captured???

Paranormal State

Paranormal State premieres tonight on the A&E channel at 9 pm central. This is going to be a "half-hour series chronicling the extraordinary life of Ryan Buell and other members of the Penn State University Club The Paranormal Research Society (PRS) as they seek to find the truth behind terrifying real life mysteries, hauntings and ghosts."

There seems to be a high expectation out there for this show. Hopefully it is good.

Undeniable Proof of Real Aliens

Reader Recalls UFO Sighting

Reader recalls his UFO sighting.

I had a sighting of a ufo a year and a half ago. I was coming back from dropping off someone when I thought I saw something or someone jumping out of a plane, with parachute deployed. Here is the thing, it didn't move it was stationary. I pulled into a driveway and was just staring at it. People were also driving buy and those stopped at the stoplight were looking too. Then I guess this craft started to move to the right about 100 feet then stopped and turned. Like it wipped its tail around because it turned over and wobbled a bit. Then it took of slowly moving away from my direction. I jumped back in my car and was trying to follow it. I got to a field clearing pulled into another drive and there it was heading at an up wards in the sky! Here is where it gets real interesting, a small 2 seater plane from a near by civil airport was flying at the same level as this thing and this craft looked as if it turned to look at the plane! Then turned back to the direction it was heading. I figured I would be underneath it if I drove a little and turned down the next street. Well that's what I did, only 6 minutes had past and I lost it for a moment, till a little black dot was so far up in the sky I could barely make it out!! This thing looked like an up side down u, but almost like a parachute. It even had humps coming down the sides. Black in color like Teflon. Here's the thing I don't think it was a craft from another world I think it was man made because it wobbled when it turned. But, I can say this, it was controlled by something!!

Thanks David for sending in your sighting and sharing it with us.

"Mini Box" Available for Paranormal Investigators

A Open Response to Recent Discussions on The Box

By way of introduction, my name is Rick Moran and I am the Coordinator of the Association for the Study of Unexplained Phenomenon, a 35 year old research and educational organization that by our own corporate charter is dedicated to seeking proof of the survival of the human spirit after death. We are a 501 (c)(3) non-profit corporation that is now based in Texas, and was originally founded in New York City. We have been involved in dozens of major cases, from Amityville and Mothman to our present day work on cases like the Skinwalker Ranch, not to mention a few hundred more that never got any media coverage. In the past I have counted folks like Scott Rogo, Peter Jordan and Paul Hoffman old friends. I continue to write for Fortean Times, Fate, and yes, Haunted Times on a regular basis. I am pleased to say that the ASUP is a very serious group with serious aims.

Two years ago a member of our group came to me with a report he prepared on ITC or more commonly known as Spirit Comm. I was intrigued and began to look a little deeper, which led me to the work of Frank Sumption and his creation, Frank’s Box. I reached out to friends in our field for the purpose of securing a Box for testing and then I waited and waited. Finally I found the flow chart for Frank’s Box on the Internet. I have been a ham radio operator for longer than I have been researching the paranormal, so the layout was easy to interpret. Later I came into the possession of a schematic diagram, courtesy of Frank Sumption and became even more intrigued but still even more puzzled about how this device could possibly communicate.

The ASUP has several divisions, all of which rely on each other to operate as a team. The smallest of these groups is the Research and Development team, headed by an electrical engineer and fellow ham, Ron Ricketts, a no-nonsense kind of guy who I would categorize as a skeptical, show-me kind of person. The purpose of R&D is simple; they take common tools and make modifications to them, based on feedback from the field investigators. When a device like the K-II is found to be too broad, or lacking a simple on-off switch, the R&D team would modify and test the devices to make them better. It might be noteworthy here to explain that all of our directors and many of your ranking members are all licensed amateur radio operators, so it can me assumed that when they ask for the R&D teams help, they fully understand the technical aspects of what they are requesting. This approach has always worked well for us, be it in creating new lighting systems for night vision or as mentioned before the modification of the K-II meters.

I went to Ron to ask if we could not create a similar device to Frank’s Box, based on the schematics I had secured. Ron was, as always skeptical about the outcome, but set the team in motion to create a Box. The first design was noisy and lacked discrimination, as Ron expected, but over the next several weeks, with a lot of pushing and cajoling from myself, Ron worked on a succession of new devices, each building on the prior. The final design was decided upon when Ron was sitting at a lab bench, contemplating what else he could conjure up, when the device, at that point a mass of wires, a speaker and bread-boarded components with a new battery attached snapped his attention with a single word, “Ricketts!” The word came across loud and clear, no noise, no static, unlike any recordings of other Box communications we had heard. Ron asked the rhetorical question, “What?” and the Box repeated, “Ricketts!” The Box repeated the word one more time, when I was in the room to witness it!

We built our little box and made further enhancements, a better antenna, a new printed circuit board made to our specifications, several better, but more expensive components. The final device was created and was set out before a group of ASUP members. Both Ron and I gave the Box to our Director of Research with some very short instruction on how to tune it and then moved to a neutral corner, about 20 feet away. The remaining members of the team circled the Box and began to ask questions. One member asked, “Who built you?” and the Box responded “Ron Rick.” The member attempted to correct the Box, “You mean Ron Ricketts?” to which the Box answered, “NO!” in a loud, clear tone. The group worked with the Box for about 40 minutes. Some questions were clearly answered, others totally ignored. Then the Box said loudly, “Go Home!” When another member began to formulate another question, the Box said again, more loudly, “GO HOME!” Followed by “Get Rick” I walked over to the group and the box again said, “Go Home!” and so I ended the session.

Similar results were found when the Box was sent to the Stanley Hotel that weekend, where Frank Sumption finally got to see and work with the Box and gave it a rave review. Frank had been in contact with both myself and Ron Ricketts and had helped us along, but he was amazed at what parts we had eliminated and what circuitry we had added. He told those in the room, “This device works better than any Box I have ever built.” He also admitted that he had hopes that the pressure would now be removed from himself.

This of course, brings us up to the point at hand. How does the device work. Well it simply scans the AM broadcast band, cutting little slivers from all the broadcast signals. You can change the tone, the cycle rate, and volume as you wish, you can use a speaker (the larger the better we find) or a headphone, hook up a mic so that you can record your questions as well as the answers and of course plug in a recorder. The unit uses a rechargeable power source, which you can plug in to recharge and will last about 40 hours on a charge. It is totally portable.

The larger question is WHY it works, and I do not have an answer for you on that. The Box does communicate, it answers some questions and seems to project an intelligence. The answers are rational, but I have no idea how they are being generated or by whom. Remember, the reason that the ASUP built this device was for research to answer just those questions and an in depth study will begin in January with the help of a university grant. No one in the ASUP is making any claims of the paranormal at this point. Remember, when Marconi first sent radio signals from one side of the Atlantic to the other, there were those who pronounced his accomplishment as magic and obviously that was not the case. Our hope is that other serious researchers will join in this study and gain some insight to how it works, but I will go on record to say that those who can successfully operate the device are certainly not limited to a select few nor are they someone blessed, anymore than when a person turns on the TV set.

I have read dozens of pop-theories about what is being heard from the Box and I have a long list of things that it is not. It is not interference from ham radio, CB or FRMS radio signals, we have checked diligently for that, it is not simply noise or static, there is none from our box. It could be matrixing, but some of what I have personally heard seems to rule this out, although we will be doing more testing in that area shortly. I simply can’t offer a good explanation for what is being reported from the Box at this time.

There was of course one other problem. How do we get these devices into the hands of those who want to study them? A non-profit corporation can’t go into the business of marketing, so the ASUP gave Ron Ricketts the full rights to the device and he in turn gave it to an electronics producer for mass production. This is not a cheap device to build, there are no Radio Shack parts inside, we demanded only top components and our design has been strictly adhered to in every way; the circuit board is our own design. The device is now available through www.paranormalsystems.com and you have my word it is being sold at as close to cost as it can possibly be. If in the future we find a less expensive way to do it, we will, but for now the device is at least available to everyone, without the need to gain Thomas Edison’s permission, or pay an hourly fee. What the device says is now open to your own interpretation.

The Mini-Box, as it is now called, is now available and those who are interested can go to the paranormal systems site to hear some audio clips, see the device itself and if they want one, can order it. This is not a fund raiser for ASUP. We are not getting anything out of this, except for the Boxes we need to do the research. We have always attempted to support our fellow researchers and will continue to do so. We have also spent a lot of time trying to debunk the snake oil salesmen of our field and will continue to pursue them as well. I hope this answers some of the questions you have and hopefully clears the air of the smoke and mirrors that seem to be popping up since we announced our device. If you have any questions, I’d love to have the opportunity to try and answer them.

Rick Moran
Coordinator, ASUP

Abominable Snowman In Nepal?

Crew from the television show Destination Truth were filming for an upcoming documentary in the Nepalese Himalayas when they came across footprints twice the size of a humans in a nearby riverbed. The team believe the prints are from the mythical ape-like creature known in the region as Yeti (nicknamed the Abominable Snowman).

Wildlife officials in Nepal doubt whether the footprints found were those of a Yeti and believe they may have come from a Himalayan bear. The team made a cast from a print measuring 13 inches long with toe prints spanning 9 inches across.

People living high in the Himalayas believe this creature exists even though no one has actually seen one.

Ufo Spotted Over England

On November 28, 2007, a large triangular-shaped craft was seen by a number of people over the West Midlands of England.

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The Christmas Spectre

The Ghost of a Liverpool Christmas Past