"You hear heavy footsteps in the upstairs hallway when you know no one is up there. Doors slam unaccountably. Commonly used items disappear and reappear without cause. The kitchen light turns on by itself. There's the unmistakable scent of a strange perfume in the air. These may be indications that your house is haunted. The first step is to determine, as best you can, whether or not you truly have a legitimate case of a haunting.

Researcher Colin Andrews spills the beans about a 1990 crop circle and the UFO that made it... Miracles: are they serendipity or just dumb luck... UFO enthusiasts gather in Rendlesham forest... What is Bigfoot: Gigantopithecus or Paranthropus?... Weird double-mouthed fish pulled from Nebraska lake... An explosion is recorded on the Moon... Halle Berry image helps uncover new way of reading minds... more Paranormal News.

"Several years ago, my husband and I took a vacation to California," writes Kelly. "While there, we took a tour of the docked Queen Mary. We were wandering through the ship in awe of its timeless beauty. I was looking up at my husband, and beyond him I could see a woman walking down the hall toward us. She was wearing a '40s-style dress of filmy pale green fabric and her hair was dark blonde short and wavy. She looked dressed period-perfect for some show... I thought...." Read the rest of Kelly's eerie story.
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Images of Jesus, miraculous and surprising... Iceland: Land of elves... New apparitions of Mary... Teleporting people... Bigfoot sighted in Kota Tinggi... Study to verify Bigfoot... The top Cryptozoology stories of 2005... Is it a ghost I see... Ghosts exorcised from Hamlet's castle... Haunted courthouse?... Scientists study highly weird "Skinwalker Ranch"... Ice chunk falls from sky in Japan... Chupacabras or “ordinary” UFO animal mutilations... more Paranormal News.

Was the Star of Bethlehem a miracle proclaiming the birth of the Messiah? Or was it only a natural if extraordinary celestial event that happened to take place at the same time that some historians reckon that Jesus was born? Some say it was a UFO... while others declare it is just a fable. There are several theories – some logical, some wacky – as to what this extraordinary "star" could have been. Here's the Biblical account and the latest scientific theories as to what the three Magi might have followed more than two thousand years ago.

Time is running out to post or send in your predictions for 2006. You're invited to submit your predictions for the coming year. There are several categories:
• Best World Event
• Worst World Event
• Best National Event
• Worst National Event
• Greatest Scientific Discovery/Invention/etc.
• Awards Predictions (Oscars/Grammies/Nobel Prize)
• Surprise Prediction
• Other Predictions
The deadline is December 31. So do it now!

Some interesting links I've found this week:
• Cydonia Imperative – Lots of intersting photos here examining the anomalies on Mars, including pryamids, what looks like vegetation, weird shapes and possible fossils of lifeforms.
• Atlantis: the Andes Solution – Is it possible that the continent we know as South America could it be the lost continent of Atlantis? Author Jim Allen certainly believes so and has built up an impressive dossier of evidence to support his theory.
• The Prophecies of Mitar Tarabich – Nineteenth-century Serbian peasant Mitar Tarabich made some uncannily accurate predictions for the 19th and 20th centuries, so only time will judge how his prophecies play out for the 21st century.
• All New Links

Researchers have captured ghost voices on both tape and digital recorders. This even includes answering machine recorders. "This voice was recorded on my daughter's answer phone," says Dave. "Scared her to death! After six seconds, there's a voice that seems to say, 'We're going home'..." There's another new EVP that the reader says might have come from his mother. Go listen.

The real King Kong... Home of Mothman and other monsters... An astrologer's prediction leads to suicide... A myth that rocks: The premature death of Paul McCartney... Stalin planned army of ape-man super-warriors... Woman claims demon possession... Couple has a close encounter with a mysterious object... Mammoth genome could lead to recreating the creatures... Italy has an army of exorcists... Top cryptozoology books 2005... Bermuda Triangle mystery still haunts... more Paranormal News.

"This occurred late one night at the edge of Gainesville, Florida," writes Joshua. "I was driving home. The road was very dark and the road was completely deserted, save for myself. I clicked on my high beams as I rounded Newnan's Lake. I noticed someone in the grassy median, assuming it was a person. As I drew closer, I noticed something odd. It was shadowy, and I never discerned any sort of color or clothing, but its arms seemed disproportionately long, and it appeared to be at least seven feet tall...." Read the rest of Joshua's incredibe sighting.