Last plea for doomsday cult guru
Reuters
http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/east/10/30/japan.cult.reut/index.html
"Defense lawyers for a doomsday cult guru charged with masterminding a 1995 lethal gas attack on the Tokyo subway have said he was a "genuine man of religion" who would not have ordered followers to commit murder."
Trial Ends for Japanese Doomsday Guru
By CHISAKI WATANABE
Associated Press
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...=/ap/20031031/ap_on_re_as/japan_doomsday_guru
"Japanese doomsday guru Shoko Asahara sat silently Friday as his team of 12 lawyers gave closing arguments to wrap up his 7 1/2-year trial for allegedly masterminding the deadly nerve gas attack on Tokyo's subways."
Death for Japan cult member
BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3223177.stm
"A former senior member of the Japanese Aum Shinrikyo cult has been sentenced to death for his part in a 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo underground and 10 other crimes."
Japan Politician, Cultist Resort to Haiku
By ERIC TALMADGE
Associated Press
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm.../ap/20031030/ap_on_re_as/japan_poetic_endings
"Both men faced desperate situations. One, a former prime minister, was being forced to give up his seat in Parliament after more than half a century because of his party's new mandatory retirement policy. The other was a doomsday cult disciple convicted to hang for his role in the deadly 1995 attack on Tokyo's subways."
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/altmed/
Former Private Eye Now Probing Paranormal
By CHAKA FERGUSON
Associated Press
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031030/ap_on_re_us/ghost_detective
"On Halloween, when legend says disembodied spirits return in search of living bodies to possess, Joe Nickell goes on the prowl, too — for ghosts, ghouls and other things that creep in the night."
Spook Central
By Jennifer Kostka
Durango Herald
http://durangoherald.com/asp-bin/ar...e=news&article_path=/news/03/news031026_5.htm
"Railroad employees tending coaches overnight in the old train yard in Durango would swear they heard children running, screaming and making trouble in the cars. But when the employees reached the coaches, no one was there."
Capturing Spirits
By Jennifer Kostka
Durango Herald
http://durangoherald.com/asp-bin/ar...e=news&article_path=/news/03/news031026_4.htm
"Mike Richard, of Durango, opened the door to a local hotel room and walked in slowly. His entourage of three curious observers cautiously followed him."
N.B. UFO encounter explored
by JORGE BARRERA
Moncton Times & Transcript
http://canadaeast.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20031030/TTEBRIEF/310300004/-1/FRONTPAGE
"It was a clear, cold early February morning when Amy Wilbur saw a flying orange orb in the sky."
Germans call UFO hotline as sky lights up
Reuters
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=397459§ion=news
"An amateur astronomer who monitors reports of UFO sightings says he has been flooded by calls from terrified Germans after a solar flare caused brilliantly coloured skies over Germany this week."
Vampire Killing Kit Sells for $12,000
Associated Press
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031031/ap_on_fe_st/vampire_kit_2
"Just in time for Halloween, a vampire-killing kit complete with a wooden stake and 10 silver bullets sold for $12,000 at auction Thursday."
Rumors of Skunk Ape Give Businesses a Boost
By VINCE LENNON
WATE
http://www.wate.com/Global/story.asp?S=1506430
"On Halloween, it's time to think about ghosts, goblins and witches. But if you're in Campbell County, it may be time to think about the skunk ape."
Ghost stories haunt White House
Reuters
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2712668a4560,00.html
"The White House at night is a dark and spooky place, haunted, according to legend, by ghosts of dead presidents and a former British soldier."
U.S. Capitol Said to Be Haunted Building
By JIM ABRAMS
Associated Press
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031030/ap_on_go_ot/haunted_hill_2
"Murder, curses and demon cats. Statues descending from their pedestals for midnight minuets. There are scarier things than lawmaking going on inside the U.S. Capitol."
Treasure Trove of UFO Data Lands at a Texas University
By Lianne Hart
Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-na-ufo2nov02,1,405069.story
"In 1967, as unmanned orbiters landed on the moon and Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the world's first successful heart transplant, a $500,000 federally funded investigation of UFOs was well underway at the University of Colorado."
"Penis snatcher" beaten to death
Reuters
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/031031/80/ecp60.html
"A 28-year-old man accused of stealing a man's penis through sorcery has been beaten to death in the West African country of Gambia."
Hunt for Lost City of Atlantis
By Verity Murphy
BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3227295.stm
"A team of experts believes it could be close to unravelling the millennia-old myth of the Lost City of Atlantis and is launching an expedition to the seas west of Gibraltar to test its theory."
Historic Baccus Cemetery draws paranormal investigators' attention
By CLIFF DESPRES
Plano Star Courier
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=10452301&BRD=1426&PAG=461&dept_id=186027&rfi=6
"Nestled in the heart of Legacy Business Park in Plano and a stone's throw from the busy intersection of Legacy Drive and the Dallas North Tollway, Baccus Cemetery is a visual display of Plano's storied history."
Strange, eerie creatures lurk in ‘triangle'
By LANE LAMBERT
Quincy Patriot Ledger
http://ledger.southofboston.com/articles/2003/10/30/news/news04.txt
"Twenty-five years later, Joseph DeAndrade still gets a shiver when he recalls what he saw that winter day in 1978: ‘‘A big, tall, strange-looking creature'' lumbering through the trees on the opposite side of a pond in the Hockomock Swamp."
‘Jesus, Mary and Da Vinci’
ABC News
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/World/Primetime/davinci031103-1.html
"For most of the last 2,000 years, the Catholic Church called Mary Magdalene a prostitute who gave up her sinful life to follow Jesus."
TV special asks: Was Jesus married?
Associated Press
http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/TV/11/03/tv.abc.jesus.ap/index.html
"ABC News correspondent Elizabeth Vargas concedes her network is stepping into a theological minefield with its one-hour exploration of whether Jesus Christ had a wife."
US TV set for 'Jesus wife' storm
BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3229829.stm
"A leading US TV news reporter has said her network is taking a risk with a news special which asks whether Jesus Christ had a wife."
Experts dismiss theories in popular book
By GARY STERN
WHITE PLAINS JOURNAL NEWS
http://www.nynews.com/newsroom/110203/a0102davincicode.html
""The Da Vinci Code" is more than a literary phenomenon, the summer's top beach read that's still flying out of bookstores and has been tabbed to get the full Hollywood treatment from the team that made "A Beautiful Mind.""
Mrs. God
By Sian Gibby
Slate
http://slate.msn.com/id/2090640/
"Was Jesus married? Is it possible that what religious history and scriptures call the Holy Grail—the cup Jesus drank from at the Last Supper—was not the chalice that held his blood, but rather a symbol representing the woman who bore his child?"
The Volatile Notion of a Married Jesus
By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/03/arts/television/03HEFF.html
"Half a dozen religious leaders joined David Westin, the president of ABC News, and others from the network and the press for lunch on the 22nd floor of ABC building on 66th Street in Manhattan late last week. Mr. Westin wore a sharp suit, as did some members of the clergy; others had dressed casually. Many were diffident. Some were quietly furious."
http://www.checkerboardnightmare.com/d/20031105.html
Hard for any film to separate Reagan fact from fiction
BY RICHARD ROEPER
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
http://www.suntimes.com/output/roeper/cst-nws-roep05.html
"One of the valuable lessons we learned in the great debate over the Ronald Reagan TV miniseries is that many conservatives, including the chairman of the Republican National Committee, think you're stupid."
A haunted house in Belvoir’s backyard: Woodlawn Plantation
By Jennifer Brennan
Belvoir Eagle
http://www.belvoireagle.com/features.shtml
"The floor creaks. The railings of a winding staircase rattle after each step. A cold breeze brushes up against your face, as it seeps out from a closet door. Portraits hang on the wall with figures that seem to be staring directly at you."
Iraqis practice their own form of mojo and voodoo
Agence France Presse
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/031102/323/ecu32.html
"Persecuted under Saddam Hussein, Iraq's fortune tellers and exorcists eke out an existence on the street, helping Iraqis find stolen cars, locate kidnapped relatives, conceive babies and chase away the demons."
Seattle think tank behind Texas textbook challenge
by APRIL CASTRO
ASSOCIATED PRESS
http://www.theolympian.com/home/news/20031101/northwest/138568.shtml
"Texas will be under the microscope next week in the fight over teaching evolution in public schools as the State Board of Education votes on adopting biology textbooks that have been at the center of the debate."
Board of Ed members sued over science textbook
By Matt Frazier
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/state/7149312.htm
"The State Board of Education violated the First Amendment in 2001 when it refused to place an environmental science book on the state's approved list, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court in Dallas."
They ban textbooks, don't they?
By Frederick Clarkson
Salon
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/11/05/textbooks/index.html
"A federal lawsuit filed last week in Texas may very well turn into the Lone Star State's own version of the Scopes "Monkey Trial" -- the famous 1925 court battle in which two of America's most famous attorneys debated whether evolution should be taught in the public schools. Then, the underlying issue was whether Christianity should trump science; today, it is the scientific status of mainstream environmentalism. In the current case, the author of a widely used environmental textbook is suing five present and former members of the Texas State Board of Education, who two years ago rejected his book because of alleged factual errors and pervasive bias. Claiming that the author's free speech and equal protection rights were violated by an act of censorship, the lawsuit asserts that the real reason the book was rejected was the author's environmentalist views, which clash with those of right-wing school-board members."
Evolution Theory in Textbooks
Associated Press
http://www.woai.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=AC5089E9-0D7A-4B40-B2E7-BB55701B0593
"Texas will be under the microscope next week in the fight over teaching evolution in public schools as the State Board of Education votes on adopting biology textbooks that have been at the center of the debate."
A battle over books in Texas
By Spike Gillespie
Christian Science Monitor
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1104/p11s02-legn.html?entryBottomStory
"In a couple of days, the Texas State Board of Education, at the end of its annual review, will decide whether to accept or reject proposed textbooks."
State Board of Education nears vote on biology texts
By Karen Adler
San Antonio Express-News
http://news.mysanantonio.com/story.cfm?xla=saen&xlb=180&xlc=1079912
"Educational trends and scientific theories have come and gone since 1925, when Tennessee teacher John Scopes was put on trial for teaching evolution to his students."
UFOs still have plenty of true believers
By Fred Pfisterer
Staunton News Leader
http://www.newsleader.com/news/stories/20031030/opinion/547723.html
"I just knocked somebody out of orbit. Several people, actually. A column I wrote about the demise of flying saucer sightings really rattled the cages of some true believers, who let me know in no uncertain terms, via e-mail and telephone, that I was "archaic," "silly," "ill-informed," "off-base," "swamp gas," "ridiculous," "oblivious," "lazy," "arrogant" and a couple of other nouns that are unprintable in a family newspaper."
Tri-State region not lacking in spooky stories
By TIM STEPHENS
Huntington Herald-Dispatch
http://www.herald-dispatch.com/2003/October/31/LNtop2.htm
"Moviegoers viewing "Scary Movie 3" at the Keith-Albee Theater in Huntington might receive more of a fright than they bargained for, especially if they are female and have imbibed on a bit too much liquid refreshment from the concession stand."
Weird and wonderful Man chronicles state's strange happenings
BY TIM CIGELSKE
Associated Press
http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/news/local/states/wisconsin/7146045.htm
"For Rick Hendricks, every day is Halloween."
Ghost hunters offer tips on tracking down spirits
By Janet Rae Brooks
Salt Lake Tribune
http://www.sltrib.com/2003/Oct/10312003/friday/106975.asp
"Ghosts are people, too. Perhaps not happy people, or people with unfinished business, but people nonetheless."
Ghost buster says job not as glamorous as seen on TV
BY DANIELA LAMAS
Knight Ridder Newspapers
http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/7149867.htm
"Steve Vanik is a strong-looking man with a graying ponytail. He's 50, married, a scuba instructor and drummer with three cats, a dog and an iguana."
Ghostly tale of Duck Pond apparition haunts couple
By Donna Alvis-Banks
Roanoke Times
http://www.roanoke.com/roatimes/news/story157665.html
"It was not a dark and stormy night when Andrea Teague and John Holst saw the ghost."
Ghosts among us
By Rhonda J. Miller
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-bc31hauntedoct31,0,1503130.story
"The sprawling Florida Atlantic campus in Boca Raton harbors a ghost story. Deep in the dark recesses of the University Theatre, where hydraulic equipment raises and lowers the stage, night shift employees say they hear voices and doors closing in the theater above."
Ghost hunters
By EDWARD D. MURPHY
Portland Press Herald
http://www.pressherald.com/news/state/031031ghosts.shtml
"Who you gonna call? Pete Wagner hopes it's him. Nan Caswell and Bill Washell sense it might be them."
Fire & Ice: Seattle's eeriest eatery
By ROBERT L. JAMIESON Jr.
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/jamieson/146304_robert31.html
"Ghosts? Yeah, right."
Ghost hunter teaches class how to find ghosts
By Ted Streuli
Galveston County Daily News
http://www.galvnews.com/story.lasso?wcd=14753
"When Victoria Dingler’s brother came to visit her, he sat on the edge of her bed and told her he couldn’t understand why everyone was so upset. He wanted to know why no one would talk to him. Dingler had to tell him he was dead."
Green Eyes: a local ghost story
by Kevin Cummings
Catoosa County News
http://news.mywebpal.com/news_tool_...ID=502161&CategoryID=3418&show=localnews&om=1
""Wherever there has been great suffering, people are always seeing strange things.""
Resident keeps journal of supernatural activities
By Clay Wilson
Jonesboro News Daily
http://www.news-daily.com/articles/2003/10/31/community/comm1.txt
"John Quinn of McDonough believes his mobile home is haunted."
Boo! It's the Bunny Man!
By Don Oldenburg
Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44387-2003Oct30.html
"Angie Proffitt says she'll never forget her first visit. She was 14 and it was the '70s. Her boyfriend wanted to scare her, and the dark tunnel under a railroad bridge at a dead-end road was the ideal place."
At last the truth about lemmings
by Tim Radford
The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1074699,00.html
"Biologists have put paid to a folk myth while resolving the mystery of one of the world's most puzzling boom-and-bust cycles - the four year population explosion of the lemming."
Internet Tricks No Treat
by Larry O'Hanlon
Discovery News
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20031027/hoax.html
"Trick or treat? Brace yourself for a trick, said leading skeptics from the United States, Canada and Europe who gathered in Albuquerque, N.M., earlier this week to debunk the latest and greatest cons, frauds, pranks, hoaxes, hauntings, UFOs, monsters, fake TV psychics and other paranormal phenomena."
Crop circles: To be or not to believe
By Nicole Fitzgerald
Whistler Question
http://www.whistlerquestion.com/mad...D2FE771AA2DA7EC788256DCF007DDECF?OpenDocument
"Crop circles have long captured public attention of both skeptics and believers alike. A new documentary, Star Dreams, coming to MY Place, sheds perspective on the two conflicting sides through an exploration of crop circles from all over the world — including sightings in B.C."
Scary Hudson County tales in 'Weird NJ'
By Lillian M. Aleman
Jersey Journal
http://www.nj.com/living/jjournal/index.ssf?/base/living-0/1067598603111230.xml
"Frightening murders, bizarre creatures that terrorize children, repulsive animals with human faces, and cryptic eyes gleaming from a church aren't four parts of the newest horror flick. These stories, legends and mysteries, occurred in Hudson County and can be found in Mark Sceurman and Mark Moran's 267-page guide to New Jersey's legends and secrets, "Weird NJ.""
GHOST PLANE: Trapped spirit may be seeking peace
By Stacey Wiebe
Merced Sun-Star
http://www.mercedsun-star.com/news/newsview.asp?c=80680
"History’s hulking metal shells draw crowds of thousands each year at Castle Air Museum, triggering the imagination of visitors wondering whose faces once stared out from the cockpits of the old warbirds."
Peru seeks tribal cure for addiction
By Javier Lizarzaburu
BBC Radio 4
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/crossing_continents/3243277.stm
"Peru is home to the coca leaf, the main ingredient of cocaine."
Image may have been real
By Barry H. Hendrix
Demopolis Times
http://www.demopolistimes.com/articles/2003/11/05/news/news01.txt
"The ghost that the Chamber of Commerce president encountered in Bluff Hall may have a name. According to research by Kirk Brooker, director of the Marengo County Historical Society, the ghostly image which Kathy Leverett saw Friday morning may belong to Leonidas Mecklenburg Polk, born February 24, 1869. According to records, he died April 29, 1877."
Move over, Bates Motel
By ANGELA GREEN
Peoria Journal Star
http://www.pjstar.com/news/topnews/b17ul7v3048.html
"A Chicago developer and murder-mystery author wants to capitalize on the Peoria State Hospital's spooky reputation by opening a hotel and paranormal institute there."
Mayan visit by aliens is doubted
by Dan Kincaid
Arizona Republic
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/1104pacal-didyouknow04.html
"QUESTION: What does a royal Mayan tomb in Mexico have to do with space aliens?"
In New Jersey, Seeing the Virgin Mary in a Tree Stump
By JONATHAN MILLER
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/04/nyregion/04VIRG.html
"She is said to have appeared in some pretty strange places in the area — a grotto in upstate New York, a backyard in Marlboro and a smudgy window in Perth Amboy. But many here believe that on a vacant lot where drugs were once freely traded in this North Jersey city, the Virgin Mary is now appearing in, of all things, the form of a tree stump."
Shelley King tunes in on things that go bump in the night
Pawtucket Times
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=10451725&BRD=1713&PAG=461&dept_id=24491&rfi=6
"Is there a light in your house you'd swear switches on by itself?"
Ghosts of Utah past haunt well after Halloween
By CHRISTIE L. HILL
Associated Press
http://www.trib.com/AP/wire_detail.php?wire_num=310517
"Halloween 2003 is a memory, but the ghosts of Utah past - some happy, some tortured, some who just can't let go - continue to haunt, psychics say."
Historic Alamo haunted by four ghostly figures
By JEFF SCHUMAN
Okmulgee Daily Times
http://www.okmulgeetimes.com/display/inn_news/468.txt
"Dripping wet ghosts appear fully formed in broad day light. Federal Marshals who patrol the grounds at night quit their jobs out of fear. The staff are afraid to go into the basement. The front yard covers a cemetery full of dead bodies. The front of the building carries a clearly visible "666" that appeared embedded in the stone in the early 1980s. Nearly every building that surrounds it is haunted by one or more ghosts on a regular basis and other buildings within a block or two of the site seem to have more than their fair share of Casper's cousins!"
Lion On The Loose Could Be Wild Goose Chase
WFTV
http://www.wftv.com/newsofthestrange/2607065/detail.html
"A search for a lion on the loose could end up being a wild goose chase. Sunday night, eyewitnesses in Leesburg claimed they saw a 300-pound lion in the Stock subdivision."
Carol Gist, who lives in 'haunted house,' says her ghosts aren't mean
by TAMARA BELINC
Tullahoma News
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1614&dept_id=214830&newsid=10454793&PAG=461&rfi=9
"Carol Gist of Manchester doesn't call herself a ghost hunter."
Dusting Off the Remains of a Hoax
By Guy Gugliotta
Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54672-2003Nov2.html
"As scientific hoaxes go, few have matched it. Sometime early in the 20th century, someone -- it is still unclear who -- "salted" a gravel pit near the town of Piltdown, England, with what were purported to be the 500,000-year-old fossil remains of a human ancestor -- half human, half ape."
GHOSTLY TOURISTS
BY RACHAEL SUGDEN
Bath Chronicle
http://www.thisisbath.com/displayNo...ayContent&sourceNode=113965&contentPK=7634826
"Anyone easily scared by things that go bump in the night was likely to feel particularly unsettled by the ghostly goings-on in Corsham. During a weekend devoted to all things spooky, the town proved itself to be at the centre of the action."
UFOs and Llamas
By Allan Turner
Houston Chronicle
http://durangoherald.com/asp-bin/ar...e=news&article_path=/news/03/news031102_1.htm
"First came the UFO, a massive, saucer-shaped craft hovering low over the Pacific Northwest in the spring of 1967. Then, two days later, came the beeping a steady, two-beeps-to-the-second sound coming from no discernible source. Locals, some bearing rifles, flocked to the woods to hear, to puzzle, to perhaps solve the mystery."
NEWSWEEK POLL: Majority Believes There is a Place for Religion in Medicine
Press Release
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/031102/nysu009a_1.html
"A 63-percent majority of Americans believes there is a place for religion and spirituality in medicine and 53 percent say they've personally relied on religious faith to help them get through a major illness or health problem, the latest Newsweek Poll shows. But although a majority feel that way about religion and medicine, 91 percent of all those polled say they've never asked their doctor to pray with them; just 19 percent say their doctor or another health professional has brought up the subject of religion with them during a hospital stay."
Faith & Healing
By Claudia Kalb
NEWSWEEK
http://msnbc.com/news/987695.asp
"On a quiet Saturday afternoon, Ming He, a fourth-year medical student in Dallas, came across a man dying in the VA Hospital. Suffering from a rare cancer and hooked up to an oxygen tank, the man, an Orthodox Jew, could barely breathe, let alone speak. There were no friends or relatives by his bed to comfort him. When the young student walked into his room, the man looked at her and said, “Now that I’m dying, I realize that I never really learned how to live.†Ming He, 26, had no idea how to respond."
Careless writing mars lurid retelling of O'Hair melodrama
BY JEROME WEEKS
Dallas Morning News
http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/entertainment/7143733.htm
"To just about anyone meeting them for the first time, Madalyn Murray O'Hair and her son, Jon Garth Murray, were borderline strange. Not three-headed strange, perhaps, but certainly out beyond eccentric. And this was true whether one agreed with their atheists' crusade or not."
Cult leader to face trial in Glynn
By KAREN SLOAN
Brunswick News
http://www.thebrunswicknews.com/front/308712344996473.php
"The leader of a religious cult who claims to be from another galaxy will face child-molesting charges in federal court in Brunswick, U.S. District Court Judge Ashley Royal ruled Wednesday."
Believe it or not, e-rumors cause temporary insanity
by Brendan Bruce
Indianapolis Star
http://www.indystar.com/articles/1/088215-8011-021.html
"Cry all you wish about spam in your inbox, but that's not what bothers me the most in my e-mail. I can delete the ads promising 50 pounds lost in three days, Viagra for pennies a day, and more hair fertilizers than a trichologist can shake a comb at, but stop it already with the e-rumors! These little gems always come from people you know and invariably start with the following: "I don't usually send these, but this sounds scary/real/ true/etc.""
Swimming with sharks
by Ben Goldacre
The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/badscience/story/0,12980,1073301,00.html
"Dolphins will save us all, according to the International Journal of Bad Science - sorry, I mean the Express."
Demystifying the healing arts
By Kristin E. Holmes
Knight Ridder News Service
http://www.sltrib.com/2003/Nov/11012003/saturday/107265.asp
"A core of U.S.-based priests and priestesses of Haitian voodoo and other ancient African religions gathered around a table in Philadelphia last weekend to study age-old methods of the healing arts."
Health agency studies alternative medicines
BY ROBERT COHEN
NEWARK STAR-LEDGER
http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-11/106775559013690.xml
"Shark cartilage and mistletoe as possible cancer treatments? Ginkgo biloba as a means of preventing dementia? Milk thistle to cure chronic hepatitis? Prayer and positive energy to fight brain tumors?"
If alternative medicine is good, prove it
By MALCOLM FARR
Daily Telegraph [Australia]
http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story.jsp?sectionid=1260&storyid=420977
"THE $800 million alternative medicine industry will have to prove their products work under a regime of rigorous monitoring."
Body, mind and soul
By Megan George
Boulder Daily Camera
http://www.bouldernews.com/bdc/health_and_fitness/article/0,1713,BDC_2431_2392928,00.html
"It's the largest and oldest medical system in the world."
Experimental College offers alternative medicine at Holistic Health Fair
By CATHERINE AN
California Aggie
http://www.californiaaggie.com/?a_id=722
"The Experimental College hosted the third annual Holistic Health Fair on Tuesday, which featured 15 demonstrations and workshops on a variety of alternative medicines, exercises and other health-related issues."
And now for something spooky
By NIKKI PATRICK
Pittsburg Morning Sun
http://morningsun.net/stories/102903/loc_20031029043.shtml
"Pittsburg author Max McCoy is a skeptic about things such as ghosts, UFOs and the Spook Light. But that doesn't stop him from talking about them."
A MONSTER OF AN IDEA TO BOOST TOURISM
by JEFF SMYTH
Southern Illinoisan
http://www.southernillinoisan.com/rednews/2003/10/30/build/opinions/OPI002.html
"If Southern Illinois is to become the tourism hot spot many desire, it needs a gimmick. We need something out of the ordinary. Something so unique that it will make people want to drive here from hundreds of miles away to buy our T-shirts."
Emmy Award-winning documentarian Robert Guenette dies
Associated Press
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20031105/APN/311050647
"Emmy Award-winning documentarian Robert Guenette, who filled films including "They've Killed President Lincoln" with reenactments that seem shot by on-the-scene news crews, has died. He was 68."
Company that wants to bring dead back to life getting chilly reception in Boca
By Kathy Bushouse
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-pcryonics05nov05,0,1624954.story
"Someday, David Shumaker hopes to perfect the science that will allow him to bring someone who's clinically dead back to life."
Ghostbuster defends the paranormal world
By Adrian Short
Cheshire Weekly News
<http://iccheshireonline.icnetwork.c...r-defends-the-paranormal-world-name_page.html>
"A CHESHIRE ghost hunter has rejected the findings of research which suggests there are mundane explanations behind a range of paranormal experiences."
Cat ritual tales largely fictional but still scary
By KRIS WERNOWSKY
Peoria Journal Star
http://www.pjstar.com/news/local/b15qjcvn008.html
"For the superstitious type, letting one cross your path means bad luck. But around one particular holiday, the tables are turned on black cats, at least if you believe everything you hear."
Quebec SPCA has ban on adoptions
by KINDA JAYOUSH and CARLA CORREA
Montreal Gazette/Knight Ridder Newspapers
http://canada.com/national/story.asp?id=68CE0A57-54E5-47DB-8E84-EA516B1749B7
"While humane societies south of the border are starting to lift a longtime ban on black-cat adoptions around Halloween, most Quebecers are out of luck today if they're eyeing a chat noir that needs a home."
Don’t get spooked on Pacheco Pass Highway
By Marty Cheek
Gilroy Dispatch
http://gilroydispatch.com/news/newsview.asp?c=80380
"Those notorious things that go bump in the night. When the autumn winds creep around your Halloween house, there’s nothing more fun than to sit by a crackling fire while drinking hot cider and listening to ghostly tales."
Local spots reportedly haunted
By Lora Bernard
Texas City Sun
http://texascitysun.com/story.lasso?wcd=4010
"The presence of a shaggy-haired man wearing a hat and a gray sweater walking around the mall theater in Texas City isn’t imaginary."
Ghost stories: Adams Hall on former Union campus has a history
By LEA SCHNEIDER
Jackson Sun
http://miva.jacksonsun.com/miva/cgi-bin/miva?NEWS/news_story.mv+link=200310315480584
"She heard the door open. Footsteps followed."
Spooks, Spirits, & SMU
By Emily Powell
SMU Daily Campus
http://www.smudailycampus.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/10/31/3fa22996159d6
"Students at SMU don’t have to travel far to be scared this Halloween. There are great, creepy places all over Dallas — you just have to have the guts to find them."
Myth or reality? Ghosts at the UA
By Nathan Tafoya
Arizona Daily Wildcat
http://wildcat.arizona.edu/papers/97/49/04_1.html
"There are tales of ghosts and unexplainable phenomena circulating the University of Arizona."
Ghosts on Speed Dial
by Dave Shiflett
National Review
http://www.nationalreview.com/shiflett/shiflett200310310853.asp
"After Hurricane Isabel tore up the town a few weeks ago, some Richmonders were abuzz with stories that the storm had raised a few residents of Hollywood Cemetery from their graves. Hollywood is a famous bone yard, with two U.S. presidents and one president of the Confederacy interred within, along with several thousand other folks. Word was that coffins had been pried from graves by the rising root balls of downed trees. Further word had it that skeletons had been freed from their boxes and could be seen lounging about the grounds."
Hoosiers have history of ghost stories
by Melinda Roeder
WTVW
http://www.wtvw.com/Global/story.asp?S=1505644&nav=7CPEIqOl
"The Tri-State has a rich history of ghost stories from spirits to spooky buildings."
Beware the Internet's wrong health advice, especially on cancer
By Joe Crankshaw
Stuart News
http://www.tcpalm.com/tcp/the_news_ed_columnists/article/0,1651,TCP_1133_2399051,00.html
"The Internet is a wondrous thing, filled with all sorts of information, facts, stories — some true, some not — myths and legends; more things in fact, than one mind could hold. It is a powerful tool, but one that can be abused by people with motives of their own, people who spread alleged information that is inaccurate and sometimes just plain false."
Clairvoyant Doris Lee blind-sided
by Keith Moor
Herald Sun [Australia]
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,7719502%5E2862,00.html
"CLAIRVOYANT Doris Lee did not see the undercover agent coming."
Former courthouse abounds in legends
By SANDI MARTIN
Winter Haven News Chief
http://www.polkonline.com/stories/103103/loc_courthouse.shtml
"The tiles on the second floor of the old county courthouse are perfect for echoing footsteps."
Yes, even clairvoyants have to earn a living
by Drew Sterwald
Fort Meyers News-Press
http://www.news-press.com/news/lifestyle/031031drewcol.html
"Sally Silver sees dead people."
Old Polk Courthouse Site of Spirited Antics
By Donna Kelly
Lakeland Ledger
http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20031031/NEWS/310310321/1021
"Not too long after she began working at the Polk County Historical Museum, Robin Golden started receiving reports that she had left lights burning in the building overnight."
Channeling The Sprit Of Eric Weiss
By John Sharify
KOMO
http://www.komotv.com/stories/28074.htm
"So I'm thinking, no one knew the guy. There's no wife here -- "widow" I mean."
Charlatans find a mark and milk it for what it's worth
By DR. JOYCE BROTHERS
SYNDICATED COLUMNIST
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/brothers/144683_joyce06.html
"DEAR DR. BROTHERS: An old friend of mine, who isn't stupid and should know better, is now trying to solve her very real financial and personal problems by going to a fortune teller. This woman claims she can read palms and tell the future to help you make decisions about whether you're going to find a better man and whether you should leave the one with whom you're currently living. Why would any reasonable person believe this? When this female with special clairvoyant talent tells her something specific's going to happen in a week and it doesn't, my friend makes excuses for her, saying she simply got the month wrong or something."
Historian confronts Holocaust revisionists
By Carolina Amengual
Galveston County Daily News
http://www.galvnews.com/story.lasso?wcd=14894
"Friendswood resident Chaja Verveer, a native of The Netherlands and a Holocaust survivor, was only a year old when she was forced into hiding from the Nazi regime."
Cops provide scare on Ghost Tracks
By Lisa Marie Gómez
San Antonio Express-News
http://news.mysanantonio.com/story.cfm?xla=saen&xlb=180&xlc=1078012
"Soon after the last bit of sunlight faded and night fell, a spotty trail of cars started approaching the infamous Ghost Tracks on the far Southeast Side."
Ghost research group tries to maintain its skepticism
By Donna Alvis-Banks
Roanoke Times
http://www.roanoke.com/roatimes/news/story157689.html
"According to Tommy Amos, the Virginia Ghosts & Hauntings Research Society has two rules for members investigating a haunted house:"
Legendary ghost story lives on at KU frat house
By DAVE TOPLIKAR
Lawrence Journal-World
http://morningsun.net/stories/103003/reg_20031030023.shtml
"Some just don't want to talk about her. Others mention her in hushed tones, not wanting to seem foolish."
Spooky ghost photos presented
by Don Eng
Stratford Star
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1349&dept_id=415613&newsid=10433853&PAG=461&rfi=9
"Everyone has a ghost story, and Halloween is the traditional time for people to trade tales of paranormal occurrences."
Group believes it has a ghost of a chance
BY DIANE KRIEGER SPIVAK
Northwest Indiana Times
http://www.thetimesonline.com/artic...nd_state/58e7a1ad88d2359386256dd00003f2ca.txt
"Mike McDowell believes in God. He also believes in ghosts."
Ghost Trackers
BY DEBORAH LAVERTY and DIANE KRIEGER SPIVAK
Northwest Indiana Times
http://www.thetimesonline.com/articles/2003/10/31/news/top_news/82c168aa35d9346186256dd000050ff8.txt
"The spirits of unsettled souls are said to haunt the area surrounding an old barn on a farm a few miles south of Crown Point."
Ghost hunters materialize in West Barnstable
By Jack Sheedy
Barnstable Patriot
http://www.barnstablepatriot.com/10-31-03-news/frontghosthunters.html
"The calendar has swung back around to Halloween and once again ghosts and goblins possess the earth. And whether or not you believe in the existence of ghosts and goblins, on this one evening you can't help but think that anything is possible."
Hunting with Real-Life Ghost Hunter
WBBM
http://cbs2chicago.com/topstories/local_story_304172327.html
"It's a ghoulish gig but someone has to do it. CBS 2’s Vince Gerasole hit the streets with some real life ghost hunters in search of some spooky activity."
Lawrence author researches ghost sightings
By Beth Lawton
Lawrence Journal-World
http://www.ljworld.com/section/citynews/story/150393
"For people like Gil Bavel, listening to ghost stories is a year-round event."
Brothers moonlight as ghost hunters
by Gail Crutchfield
Cullman Times
http://www.cullmantimes.com/pages/news_story.shtml?id=576
""Dude! Shoot me. Shoot me. Shoot me," Danny Haynes told his younger brother, Tony Bradford, as he stood along a tree line, the moon shining high above his head and glinting off some of the newer tombstones in Gamble's Cemetery."
WTVM Video Shows Possible Ghost in Springer Opera House
WTVM
http://www.wtvm.com/Global/story.asp?S=1505527&nav=8fapIqJ5
"A "ghost hunt" in the Springer Opera House last night by News Leader 9 Reporter Jason Dennis turned up far more evidence than expected."
Seguin has its share of ghost tales
By Bryan Kirk
Seguin Gazette
http://web.seguingazette.com/report.lasso?wcd=5329
"The changing of the seasons brings more than cooler temperatures."
Hotel key card hoax joins list of urban legends
by Nora Carpenter
Idaho Statesman
http://www.idahostatesman.com/Story.asp?ID=52938
"Dear BBB: I just received an e-mail which claims that California law enforcement officials are warning everyone that plastic hotel key cards are being encoded with personal information including our credit card number."
Ghost hunters say Ammon Park haunted
By Casey Santee
Idaho State Journal
http://www.journalnet.com/articles/2003/10/31/news/local/news05.txt
"In the movies, and at Halloween, ghosts usually haunt houses or cemeteries, but in Pocatello, there is a haunted city park. So says Ghosts of Idaho, a local club that investigates paranormal sightings throughout the state."
Ghost hunter finds success
By John Boyle
Asheville Citizen-Times
http://cgi.citizen-times.com/cgi-bin/story/regional/44184
"For more than a decade, Joshua P. Warren has been staking out haunted houses, chasing apparitions, gathering evidence of the paranormal. The man has been working the supernatural beat."
Is note clue to home's ghost?
by ROB HEDELT
Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star
http://www.freelancestar.com/News/FLS/2003/102003/10302003/1150985
"THE STORY of a psychic who sensed a presence on the stairway of their new home didn't faze Rona and Jeff Costello when they bought an old Victorian house in Fredericksburg in 1989."
Jones farm ghost enjoys a good cigar now and then
By JOE BLUMBERG
St. Joseph News-Press
http://www.stjoenews-press.com/Main.asp?SectionID=81&SubSectionID=272&ArticleID=46523
"Boo! Oh, that’s just grandpa — he’s always joking around."
All students test clean for one legendary campus ‘infection’
By Eric Swanson
Minnesota Daily
http://www.daily.umn.edu/articles/2003/11/03/7259
"If one talks to students about sexual health issues, many will mention a sexually transmitted infection unique to the University campus: “Gopher warts.â€"
Haunted Lake City
By JUSTIN LANG and TONY BRITT
Lake City Reporter
http://www.lakecityreporter.com/articles/2003/10/31/news/top_story/news01.txt
"Lake City may have gained local fame for being the Gateway to Florida, but it's also gaining a reputation as being the doorway to the other side."
Specters and spooks
By BRENDAN BURKE
Casper Star-Tribune
http://www.casperstartribune.net/ar...s/casper/20cefd835b4a1d9422fce935d6f4a556.txt
""Don't you think it's weird how people get lost?""
City buildings are known for their ghosts
by CAPI LYNN
Salem Statesman Journal
http://news.statesmanjournal.com/article.cfm?i=70064
"An old house, somewhere in the Madrona area of Salem, is said to be haunted."
Not "Ghostbusters," But One Local Group Comes Close
WHNT
http://www.whnt19.com/Global/story.asp?S=1506893
"Pardon the pun, but most people wouldn't be "caught dead" walking through a cemetery after dark. However, for members of the Alabama Foundation for Paranormal Research, it's as common as a walk through the park. They routinely travel to spirited places hoping to run into the real thing."
Investigators hunt ghosts that spook the living
By Elizabeth Festa
WASHINGTON TIMES
http://washingtontimes.com/weekend/20031029-095015-1159r.htm
"A strange young man had been coming around, lurking outside the window, skulking about in the driveway and even standing at the end of the kitchen. But now, it — or something — was getting bolder, upsetting Manassas homeowner Marie Smith*, 45, and scaring her son, Daniel*, 22."
Haunted? The Speakeasy serves up haunted fare
KATU
http://www.katu.com/team2/story.asp?ID=62077
"Paranormal reseachers have documented an interesting haunting in the historic town of Independence, Oregon."
Footsteps, voices ... a recording interrupted
By John Blankenship
Beckley Register-Herald
http://www.register-herald.com/articles/2003/10/29/news/news.txt
"There has always been a fascination pertaining to supernatural occurrences."
Local ghosthunter gets in the Halloween spirit
By Jeff Himler
Blairsville Dispatch
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/blairsvilledispatch/s_162677.html
"He sees dead people. But not all the time."
Investigating paranormal activity haunts their nights off from work
By John Blankenship
Beckley Register-Herald
http://www.register-herald.com/articles/2003/10/29/news/local_news/0ghostkit30.txt
"When Dan Aykroyd met up with Harold Ramis to write the screenplay for the movie "Ghostbusters," they probably had no idea of the number of people who would be affected by their concept."
Shaker educator examines mysteries of Gettysburg
by Brian E. Albrecht
Cleveland Plain Dealer
http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/106760130454030.xml
"After the bloodiest battle in American history ended in 1863 at Gettysburg, Pa., with 51,000 Union and Confederate casualties, one of the participants predicted that ghosts would haunt that killing ground."
Halloween haunting: chasing spirits in Guthrie
KFOR
http://www.kfor.com/Global/story.asp?S=1506809
"It wouldn't be Halloween without a ghost story. So, we ventured inside an historic train depot. It's a landmark in Guthrie some say is home to a number of spirits."
Legends Speak Of Haunted Long Island
By Ralph D'Ambrose
Suffolk Life
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=10422237&BRD=1776&PAG=461&dept_id=6365&rfi=6
"While the infamous "Amityville Horror" house has found its way into the pages of Long Island legend, it is not the only reportedly haunted location in Suffolk County."
Society looks for ghosts of the Constellation
By Aron Davidowitz
Baltimore Sun
http://www.sunspot.net/features/bal-to.ghosts25oct25,0,1855701.story
"Since its restoration was completed in 1999, roughly 100,000 people per year have flocked to the Baltimore waterfront to tour the Constellation, the last all-sail warship built by the U.S. Navy."
Fort Saskatchewan haunted?
By Chris Munkedal
Fort Saskatchewan Record
http://www.fortsaskatchewanrecord.com/story.php?id=78989
"They come out after the witching hour. Or so ghost investigator Jan Jones would have people believe about ghostly figures in the night."
Halloween every day at the Savoy
By Matt Hunt Gardner
Halifax Herald Limited
http://www.herald.ns.ca/stories/2003/10/31/f202.raw.html
"It's hard to say whether Jennifer Crocker is scared of things that go bump in the night inside Glace Bay's famed Savoy Theatre."
Ghosts and ghouls
By Lisa Marshall
Boulder Daily Camera
http://www.bouldernews.com/bdc/our_town/article/0,1713,BDC_2518_2385813,00.html
"As legend has it, there's one lurking in the northwest corner of Lafayette Cemetery, near the unkempt rose bushes and the tombstone marked "Transylvania.""
Halloween Hunting
By Suzanne Risley
Terre Haute Tribune-Star
http://www.tribstar.com/articles/2003/10/31/news/news01.txt
"The night was crisp and clear enough to immediately recognize the Big Dipper hanging low in the sky. The only illumination on the rural road was ambient light from distant homes until the reds and blues of a police car appeared."
Everything's Peachy keen now
Wellesley Townsman
http://www.townonline.com/wellesley/news/local_regional/wt_newwtwellesleywatchms11062003.htm
"Thirteen-year-old Peaches, a long-haired orange-and-white tabby, was last seen on Ingraham Road on Sept. 5, when her family stopped to see relatives while en route from Maine to Pennsylvania."
'Pet psychic' puts on dog-and-pony show
By Joe Rassenfoss
Rocky Mountain News
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/pets/article/0,1299,DRMN_64_2393616,00.html
"Mom used to tell me that all the animals could talk at midnight on Christmas Eve."
Family Calls Psychic to Help Find Missing Alzheimer's Patient
By Jamie Muro
First Coast News
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/local/news-article.aspx?storyid=10366
"As days pass without a single sign of 78 year old Alfred Feinglass, prayers intensify, but hope beings to fade."
Psychic unable to help police find missing backpacker
ABC South East Radio
http://www.abc.net.au/southeastnsw/news/200310/s978739.htm
"Tumut police, with the aid of a psychic, have resumed the search for 18-year-old backpacker Niamh Maye, but to no avail."
Living, working between two worlds
By KELLI B. GRANT
Ithaca Journal
http://www.theithacajournal.com/news/stories/20031104/localnews/576563.html
"Candor native Phil Jordan had a less than average reaction to the movie "Sixth Sense". He was less than impressed with actor Haley Joel Osmond's line, "I see dead people.""
True stories? Umm...no
by BEN STEELMAN
Wilmington Star News
http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20031106/COLUMNIST18/31106009
"Is The Texas Chainsaw Massacre "based on a true story," as ads for the current version claim? Do tribes of cannibalistic rednecks hide along the back roads of the Lone Star State?"
Reinhold to Reveal Bigfoot Hoax
Zap2it.com
http://www.zap2it.com/movies/news/story/0,1259,---19344,00.html
"Judge Reinhold is filling some big shoes for his next project."
U.S. Court Bars Expatriation Tax Scheme
By MARY DALRYMPLE
Associated Press
http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-taxes-expatriation,0,3142806.story
"A federal court temporarily blocked a Colorado couple from selling tax advice that urges individuals to renounce their "United States citizenship" for "American citizenship" and stop paying federal income taxes."
Woman ostracised for ‘witchcraft’
Statesman News Service [India]
http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=6&theme=&usrsess=1&id=27011
"Ramdas and Lakhinder have not attended their classes for more than a month. The reason: their mother has been declared a witch."
County Supervisors to Discuss Vedic City Use of Sales Tax
Associated Press
http://www.kcrg.com/article.aspx?art_id=69513&cat_id=123
"Representatives from Vedic City and the Jefferson County supervisors are scheduled to meet Monday morning to discuss the city's planned use of proceeds from a local option sales tax."
Suspect's mom says she's not a witch
By Lynn Brezosky
Associated Press
http://news.mysanantonio.com/story.cfm?xla=saen&xlb=180&xlc=1079099
"The mother of the man accused of killing and decapitating three children testified Monday that she was neither a witch nor a freeloader living in the squalid apartment of her son and his common-law wife."
The truth is out there, in Kecksburg
By CHRIS EDLING
Daily Trojan
http://www.dailytrojan.com/article.do?issue=/V150/N46&id=03-truth.46v.html
"In December 1965, residents of the small Pennsylvania town of Kecksburg (motto: "What Pittsburgh Was Like When It Contained Organic Life") witnessed a bona fide fireball tear through the frosty autumn sky."
Spells in the City
by Andrew Stuttaford
National Review
http://www.nationalreview.com/stuttaford/stuttaford200310310831.asp
"Be afraid! Halloween is here. 'Tis the season to be sinister, a dank, dark time of poisoned candy, apples laced with razor blades, Jamie Lee Curtis reruns, Richard Nixon masks, feral children asking for "treats," and, in a quiet corner of my local Barnes & Noble, a table piled with books that go bump in the night. Histories of hauntings lurk near volumes on vampires and a stray copy of Living History that seems, well, strangely at home. O.K., O.K., I admit it. I put it there."
The Haunting of Santa Cruz
By Sarah Phelan
Metro Santa Cruz
http://www.metroactive.com/papers/cruz/10.29.03/haunting-0344.html
"When you really stop and think about it, it makes perfect sense that Santa Cruz would be haunted. Look how creepy the history of this town is:"
Ghost Hunter
BY AUDRA SCHROEDER
New Times Broward-Palm Beach
http://www.newtimesbpb.com/issues/2003-10-30/news.html/1/index.html
"At the end of rows of neatly manicured lawns, freshly polished SUVs, and lush green palms is a long, black, iron gate, behind which are hundreds of marble headstones. From a distance, these chunks of South Florida history look like pale thumbs protruding from the earth. This land backs up to the edge of a lake; massive trees pepper the landscape. Many are covered with moss and spider webs."
Ghost Stories
BY JOHN LA BRIOLA
Denver Westword
http://www.westword.com/issues/2003-10-30/news.html/1/index.html
"The High Street Speakeasy sits on the southeast corner of 39th Avenue and High Street, wedged between Five Points and I-70. From the outside, it looks like less than nothing -- exactly as a good speakeasy should. Inside, the guzzlery recalls the days when a shrill and righteous few decried the evils of drink: Prohibition. But for John Wallace, the bottles of once-forbidden spirits that line his bar are just complements to the ghostlier ones occupying his second floor."
Ghostly Encounters
By IRENE MESSINA
Tucson Weekly
http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/Currents/Content?oid=oid:50674
"Up in the old mining town of Globe--a two-hour ride north of Tucson off Route 77--a mystery brews at Noftsger Hill Inn."
Fact vs. fiction?
by Bill D'Agostino
Palo Alto Weekly
http://www.paloaltoonline.com/paw/paonline/weekly/thisweek/2003_10_29.measurebmb.html
"It may not be a communist plot, but modern-day foes of fluoride are still conspiracy minded."
Truth in Advertising
Chicago Reader
http://www.chireader.com/hottype/2003/031031_1.html
"A small ad that's been running in the Reader in recent weeks has a message for anyone with a big heart, a venturesome spirit, and an underdeveloped sense of skepticism. "Volunteer in Africa. . . . Work with HIV/AIDS orphans/outreach," it says. "No experience necessary." There's mention of an upcoming informational meeting, and the curious are provided with a Massachusetts phone number, an e-mail address, and a URL. Intrigued, I e-mailed Humana People to People, the organization that placed the ad, asking what I could expect if I applied."
"Amityville" House-Warming Again
By Joal Ryan
E! Online
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=794&e=1&u=/eo/20031101/en_movies_eo/12829
"It's a good time to be in the fly-wrangling business."
Clues to an Unfounded Claim of 3 Deaths in 9/11 Attack
By PATRICK HEALY
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/01/nyregion/01LIST.html
"It has been one of the enduring mysteries of 9/11: an unfounded claim that a Long Island man and his two young children died when he took them to his office at the World Trade Center. The children would have been the youngest victims."
Critics Leary of fire fund's Cruise plan
New York Daily News
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/132957p-118596c.html
"Denis Leary is denying allegations that he's being used by Tom Cruise to spread the word of the controversial Church of Scientology."
Mashed fossil might be vampire; experts scoff
BY ALEXANDRA WITZE
Dallas Morning News
http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/7122145.htm
"Running out of time to make a Halloween costume? Take a pair of fangs and a pair of wings, and you've got an outfit guaranteed to make most paleontologists' hair stand on end."
Nigerian Muslims Skeptical of Polio Plan
By GLENN McKENZIE
Associated Press
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...p/20031025/ap_on_he_me/nigeria_polio_outbreak
"An emergency drive to vaccinate Nigerians against polio as a spreading outbreak threatens worldwide efforts to eradicate the disease faces suspicions among Muslim fundamentalists."
Child-lifters' scare hits Chikmagalur
Times of India
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?msid=267546
"Rumours about child lifters in the city created much panic among parents and the city saw parents rushing to schools to ensure their wards were safe, here on Tuesday."
Law doesn't keep sororities out of houses
By KATIE BRINTON
Pitt News
http://www.pittnews.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/11/06/3fa9ff69bfc46
"Shipments of flesh-eating bananas from Costa Rica have infected the United States. Necrotizing fasciitis, a possibly fatal, flesh-eating bacteria, has mutated to graft itself to the skin of fruits, notably the banana."
Synchronised Ganesha worship through SMS
Indo-Asian News Service
http://www.newindpress.com/Newsitems.asp?ID=IEP20031106093033&Title=This+is+India&Topic=0
"Once upon a time there were chain letters, now rapidly replaced by chain SMS - and its full power was evident in Gujarat and other states on Wednesday night when devotees of Lord Ganesha lit five lamps before his idol hoping for a miracle."
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http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/east/10/30/japan.cult.reut/index.html
"Defense lawyers for a doomsday cult guru charged with masterminding a 1995 lethal gas attack on the Tokyo subway have said he was a "genuine man of religion" who would not have ordered followers to commit murder."
Trial Ends for Japanese Doomsday Guru
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Associated Press
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...=/ap/20031031/ap_on_re_as/japan_doomsday_guru
"Japanese doomsday guru Shoko Asahara sat silently Friday as his team of 12 lawyers gave closing arguments to wrap up his 7 1/2-year trial for allegedly masterminding the deadly nerve gas attack on Tokyo's subways."
Death for Japan cult member
BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3223177.stm
"A former senior member of the Japanese Aum Shinrikyo cult has been sentenced to death for his part in a 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo underground and 10 other crimes."
Japan Politician, Cultist Resort to Haiku
By ERIC TALMADGE
Associated Press
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm.../ap/20031030/ap_on_re_as/japan_poetic_endings
"Both men faced desperate situations. One, a former prime minister, was being forced to give up his seat in Parliament after more than half a century because of his party's new mandatory retirement policy. The other was a doomsday cult disciple convicted to hang for his role in the deadly 1995 attack on Tokyo's subways."
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/altmed/
Former Private Eye Now Probing Paranormal
By CHAKA FERGUSON
Associated Press
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031030/ap_on_re_us/ghost_detective
"On Halloween, when legend says disembodied spirits return in search of living bodies to possess, Joe Nickell goes on the prowl, too — for ghosts, ghouls and other things that creep in the night."
Spook Central
By Jennifer Kostka
Durango Herald
http://durangoherald.com/asp-bin/ar...e=news&article_path=/news/03/news031026_5.htm
"Railroad employees tending coaches overnight in the old train yard in Durango would swear they heard children running, screaming and making trouble in the cars. But when the employees reached the coaches, no one was there."
Capturing Spirits
By Jennifer Kostka
Durango Herald
http://durangoherald.com/asp-bin/ar...e=news&article_path=/news/03/news031026_4.htm
"Mike Richard, of Durango, opened the door to a local hotel room and walked in slowly. His entourage of three curious observers cautiously followed him."
N.B. UFO encounter explored
by JORGE BARRERA
Moncton Times & Transcript
http://canadaeast.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20031030/TTEBRIEF/310300004/-1/FRONTPAGE
"It was a clear, cold early February morning when Amy Wilbur saw a flying orange orb in the sky."
Germans call UFO hotline as sky lights up
Reuters
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=397459§ion=news
"An amateur astronomer who monitors reports of UFO sightings says he has been flooded by calls from terrified Germans after a solar flare caused brilliantly coloured skies over Germany this week."
Vampire Killing Kit Sells for $12,000
Associated Press
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031031/ap_on_fe_st/vampire_kit_2
"Just in time for Halloween, a vampire-killing kit complete with a wooden stake and 10 silver bullets sold for $12,000 at auction Thursday."
Rumors of Skunk Ape Give Businesses a Boost
By VINCE LENNON
WATE
http://www.wate.com/Global/story.asp?S=1506430
"On Halloween, it's time to think about ghosts, goblins and witches. But if you're in Campbell County, it may be time to think about the skunk ape."
Ghost stories haunt White House
Reuters
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2712668a4560,00.html
"The White House at night is a dark and spooky place, haunted, according to legend, by ghosts of dead presidents and a former British soldier."
U.S. Capitol Said to Be Haunted Building
By JIM ABRAMS
Associated Press
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031030/ap_on_go_ot/haunted_hill_2
"Murder, curses and demon cats. Statues descending from their pedestals for midnight minuets. There are scarier things than lawmaking going on inside the U.S. Capitol."
Treasure Trove of UFO Data Lands at a Texas University
By Lianne Hart
Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-na-ufo2nov02,1,405069.story
"In 1967, as unmanned orbiters landed on the moon and Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the world's first successful heart transplant, a $500,000 federally funded investigation of UFOs was well underway at the University of Colorado."
"Penis snatcher" beaten to death
Reuters
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/031031/80/ecp60.html
"A 28-year-old man accused of stealing a man's penis through sorcery has been beaten to death in the West African country of Gambia."
Hunt for Lost City of Atlantis
By Verity Murphy
BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3227295.stm
"A team of experts believes it could be close to unravelling the millennia-old myth of the Lost City of Atlantis and is launching an expedition to the seas west of Gibraltar to test its theory."
Historic Baccus Cemetery draws paranormal investigators' attention
By CLIFF DESPRES
Plano Star Courier
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=10452301&BRD=1426&PAG=461&dept_id=186027&rfi=6
"Nestled in the heart of Legacy Business Park in Plano and a stone's throw from the busy intersection of Legacy Drive and the Dallas North Tollway, Baccus Cemetery is a visual display of Plano's storied history."
Strange, eerie creatures lurk in ‘triangle'
By LANE LAMBERT
Quincy Patriot Ledger
http://ledger.southofboston.com/articles/2003/10/30/news/news04.txt
"Twenty-five years later, Joseph DeAndrade still gets a shiver when he recalls what he saw that winter day in 1978: ‘‘A big, tall, strange-looking creature'' lumbering through the trees on the opposite side of a pond in the Hockomock Swamp."
‘Jesus, Mary and Da Vinci’
ABC News
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/World/Primetime/davinci031103-1.html
"For most of the last 2,000 years, the Catholic Church called Mary Magdalene a prostitute who gave up her sinful life to follow Jesus."
TV special asks: Was Jesus married?
Associated Press
http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/TV/11/03/tv.abc.jesus.ap/index.html
"ABC News correspondent Elizabeth Vargas concedes her network is stepping into a theological minefield with its one-hour exploration of whether Jesus Christ had a wife."
US TV set for 'Jesus wife' storm
BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3229829.stm
"A leading US TV news reporter has said her network is taking a risk with a news special which asks whether Jesus Christ had a wife."
Experts dismiss theories in popular book
By GARY STERN
WHITE PLAINS JOURNAL NEWS
http://www.nynews.com/newsroom/110203/a0102davincicode.html
""The Da Vinci Code" is more than a literary phenomenon, the summer's top beach read that's still flying out of bookstores and has been tabbed to get the full Hollywood treatment from the team that made "A Beautiful Mind.""
Mrs. God
By Sian Gibby
Slate
http://slate.msn.com/id/2090640/
"Was Jesus married? Is it possible that what religious history and scriptures call the Holy Grail—the cup Jesus drank from at the Last Supper—was not the chalice that held his blood, but rather a symbol representing the woman who bore his child?"
The Volatile Notion of a Married Jesus
By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/03/arts/television/03HEFF.html
"Half a dozen religious leaders joined David Westin, the president of ABC News, and others from the network and the press for lunch on the 22nd floor of ABC building on 66th Street in Manhattan late last week. Mr. Westin wore a sharp suit, as did some members of the clergy; others had dressed casually. Many were diffident. Some were quietly furious."
http://www.checkerboardnightmare.com/d/20031105.html
Hard for any film to separate Reagan fact from fiction
BY RICHARD ROEPER
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
http://www.suntimes.com/output/roeper/cst-nws-roep05.html
"One of the valuable lessons we learned in the great debate over the Ronald Reagan TV miniseries is that many conservatives, including the chairman of the Republican National Committee, think you're stupid."
A haunted house in Belvoir’s backyard: Woodlawn Plantation
By Jennifer Brennan
Belvoir Eagle
http://www.belvoireagle.com/features.shtml
"The floor creaks. The railings of a winding staircase rattle after each step. A cold breeze brushes up against your face, as it seeps out from a closet door. Portraits hang on the wall with figures that seem to be staring directly at you."
Iraqis practice their own form of mojo and voodoo
Agence France Presse
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/031102/323/ecu32.html
"Persecuted under Saddam Hussein, Iraq's fortune tellers and exorcists eke out an existence on the street, helping Iraqis find stolen cars, locate kidnapped relatives, conceive babies and chase away the demons."
Seattle think tank behind Texas textbook challenge
by APRIL CASTRO
ASSOCIATED PRESS
http://www.theolympian.com/home/news/20031101/northwest/138568.shtml
"Texas will be under the microscope next week in the fight over teaching evolution in public schools as the State Board of Education votes on adopting biology textbooks that have been at the center of the debate."
Board of Ed members sued over science textbook
By Matt Frazier
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/state/7149312.htm
"The State Board of Education violated the First Amendment in 2001 when it refused to place an environmental science book on the state's approved list, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court in Dallas."
They ban textbooks, don't they?
By Frederick Clarkson
Salon
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/11/05/textbooks/index.html
"A federal lawsuit filed last week in Texas may very well turn into the Lone Star State's own version of the Scopes "Monkey Trial" -- the famous 1925 court battle in which two of America's most famous attorneys debated whether evolution should be taught in the public schools. Then, the underlying issue was whether Christianity should trump science; today, it is the scientific status of mainstream environmentalism. In the current case, the author of a widely used environmental textbook is suing five present and former members of the Texas State Board of Education, who two years ago rejected his book because of alleged factual errors and pervasive bias. Claiming that the author's free speech and equal protection rights were violated by an act of censorship, the lawsuit asserts that the real reason the book was rejected was the author's environmentalist views, which clash with those of right-wing school-board members."
Evolution Theory in Textbooks
Associated Press
http://www.woai.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=AC5089E9-0D7A-4B40-B2E7-BB55701B0593
"Texas will be under the microscope next week in the fight over teaching evolution in public schools as the State Board of Education votes on adopting biology textbooks that have been at the center of the debate."
A battle over books in Texas
By Spike Gillespie
Christian Science Monitor
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1104/p11s02-legn.html?entryBottomStory
"In a couple of days, the Texas State Board of Education, at the end of its annual review, will decide whether to accept or reject proposed textbooks."
State Board of Education nears vote on biology texts
By Karen Adler
San Antonio Express-News
http://news.mysanantonio.com/story.cfm?xla=saen&xlb=180&xlc=1079912
"Educational trends and scientific theories have come and gone since 1925, when Tennessee teacher John Scopes was put on trial for teaching evolution to his students."
UFOs still have plenty of true believers
By Fred Pfisterer
Staunton News Leader
http://www.newsleader.com/news/stories/20031030/opinion/547723.html
"I just knocked somebody out of orbit. Several people, actually. A column I wrote about the demise of flying saucer sightings really rattled the cages of some true believers, who let me know in no uncertain terms, via e-mail and telephone, that I was "archaic," "silly," "ill-informed," "off-base," "swamp gas," "ridiculous," "oblivious," "lazy," "arrogant" and a couple of other nouns that are unprintable in a family newspaper."
Tri-State region not lacking in spooky stories
By TIM STEPHENS
Huntington Herald-Dispatch
http://www.herald-dispatch.com/2003/October/31/LNtop2.htm
"Moviegoers viewing "Scary Movie 3" at the Keith-Albee Theater in Huntington might receive more of a fright than they bargained for, especially if they are female and have imbibed on a bit too much liquid refreshment from the concession stand."
Weird and wonderful Man chronicles state's strange happenings
BY TIM CIGELSKE
Associated Press
http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/news/local/states/wisconsin/7146045.htm
"For Rick Hendricks, every day is Halloween."
Ghost hunters offer tips on tracking down spirits
By Janet Rae Brooks
Salt Lake Tribune
http://www.sltrib.com/2003/Oct/10312003/friday/106975.asp
"Ghosts are people, too. Perhaps not happy people, or people with unfinished business, but people nonetheless."
Ghost buster says job not as glamorous as seen on TV
BY DANIELA LAMAS
Knight Ridder Newspapers
http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/7149867.htm
"Steve Vanik is a strong-looking man with a graying ponytail. He's 50, married, a scuba instructor and drummer with three cats, a dog and an iguana."
Ghostly tale of Duck Pond apparition haunts couple
By Donna Alvis-Banks
Roanoke Times
http://www.roanoke.com/roatimes/news/story157665.html
"It was not a dark and stormy night when Andrea Teague and John Holst saw the ghost."
Ghosts among us
By Rhonda J. Miller
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-bc31hauntedoct31,0,1503130.story
"The sprawling Florida Atlantic campus in Boca Raton harbors a ghost story. Deep in the dark recesses of the University Theatre, where hydraulic equipment raises and lowers the stage, night shift employees say they hear voices and doors closing in the theater above."
Ghost hunters
By EDWARD D. MURPHY
Portland Press Herald
http://www.pressherald.com/news/state/031031ghosts.shtml
"Who you gonna call? Pete Wagner hopes it's him. Nan Caswell and Bill Washell sense it might be them."
Fire & Ice: Seattle's eeriest eatery
By ROBERT L. JAMIESON Jr.
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/jamieson/146304_robert31.html
"Ghosts? Yeah, right."
Ghost hunter teaches class how to find ghosts
By Ted Streuli
Galveston County Daily News
http://www.galvnews.com/story.lasso?wcd=14753
"When Victoria Dingler’s brother came to visit her, he sat on the edge of her bed and told her he couldn’t understand why everyone was so upset. He wanted to know why no one would talk to him. Dingler had to tell him he was dead."
Green Eyes: a local ghost story
by Kevin Cummings
Catoosa County News
http://news.mywebpal.com/news_tool_...ID=502161&CategoryID=3418&show=localnews&om=1
""Wherever there has been great suffering, people are always seeing strange things.""
Resident keeps journal of supernatural activities
By Clay Wilson
Jonesboro News Daily
http://www.news-daily.com/articles/2003/10/31/community/comm1.txt
"John Quinn of McDonough believes his mobile home is haunted."
Boo! It's the Bunny Man!
By Don Oldenburg
Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44387-2003Oct30.html
"Angie Proffitt says she'll never forget her first visit. She was 14 and it was the '70s. Her boyfriend wanted to scare her, and the dark tunnel under a railroad bridge at a dead-end road was the ideal place."
At last the truth about lemmings
by Tim Radford
The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1074699,00.html
"Biologists have put paid to a folk myth while resolving the mystery of one of the world's most puzzling boom-and-bust cycles - the four year population explosion of the lemming."
Internet Tricks No Treat
by Larry O'Hanlon
Discovery News
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20031027/hoax.html
"Trick or treat? Brace yourself for a trick, said leading skeptics from the United States, Canada and Europe who gathered in Albuquerque, N.M., earlier this week to debunk the latest and greatest cons, frauds, pranks, hoaxes, hauntings, UFOs, monsters, fake TV psychics and other paranormal phenomena."
Crop circles: To be or not to believe
By Nicole Fitzgerald
Whistler Question
http://www.whistlerquestion.com/mad...D2FE771AA2DA7EC788256DCF007DDECF?OpenDocument
"Crop circles have long captured public attention of both skeptics and believers alike. A new documentary, Star Dreams, coming to MY Place, sheds perspective on the two conflicting sides through an exploration of crop circles from all over the world — including sightings in B.C."
Scary Hudson County tales in 'Weird NJ'
By Lillian M. Aleman
Jersey Journal
http://www.nj.com/living/jjournal/index.ssf?/base/living-0/1067598603111230.xml
"Frightening murders, bizarre creatures that terrorize children, repulsive animals with human faces, and cryptic eyes gleaming from a church aren't four parts of the newest horror flick. These stories, legends and mysteries, occurred in Hudson County and can be found in Mark Sceurman and Mark Moran's 267-page guide to New Jersey's legends and secrets, "Weird NJ.""
GHOST PLANE: Trapped spirit may be seeking peace
By Stacey Wiebe
Merced Sun-Star
http://www.mercedsun-star.com/news/newsview.asp?c=80680
"History’s hulking metal shells draw crowds of thousands each year at Castle Air Museum, triggering the imagination of visitors wondering whose faces once stared out from the cockpits of the old warbirds."
Peru seeks tribal cure for addiction
By Javier Lizarzaburu
BBC Radio 4
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/crossing_continents/3243277.stm
"Peru is home to the coca leaf, the main ingredient of cocaine."
Image may have been real
By Barry H. Hendrix
Demopolis Times
http://www.demopolistimes.com/articles/2003/11/05/news/news01.txt
"The ghost that the Chamber of Commerce president encountered in Bluff Hall may have a name. According to research by Kirk Brooker, director of the Marengo County Historical Society, the ghostly image which Kathy Leverett saw Friday morning may belong to Leonidas Mecklenburg Polk, born February 24, 1869. According to records, he died April 29, 1877."
Move over, Bates Motel
By ANGELA GREEN
Peoria Journal Star
http://www.pjstar.com/news/topnews/b17ul7v3048.html
"A Chicago developer and murder-mystery author wants to capitalize on the Peoria State Hospital's spooky reputation by opening a hotel and paranormal institute there."
Mayan visit by aliens is doubted
by Dan Kincaid
Arizona Republic
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/1104pacal-didyouknow04.html
"QUESTION: What does a royal Mayan tomb in Mexico have to do with space aliens?"
In New Jersey, Seeing the Virgin Mary in a Tree Stump
By JONATHAN MILLER
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/04/nyregion/04VIRG.html
"She is said to have appeared in some pretty strange places in the area — a grotto in upstate New York, a backyard in Marlboro and a smudgy window in Perth Amboy. But many here believe that on a vacant lot where drugs were once freely traded in this North Jersey city, the Virgin Mary is now appearing in, of all things, the form of a tree stump."
Shelley King tunes in on things that go bump in the night
Pawtucket Times
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=10451725&BRD=1713&PAG=461&dept_id=24491&rfi=6
"Is there a light in your house you'd swear switches on by itself?"
Ghosts of Utah past haunt well after Halloween
By CHRISTIE L. HILL
Associated Press
http://www.trib.com/AP/wire_detail.php?wire_num=310517
"Halloween 2003 is a memory, but the ghosts of Utah past - some happy, some tortured, some who just can't let go - continue to haunt, psychics say."
Historic Alamo haunted by four ghostly figures
By JEFF SCHUMAN
Okmulgee Daily Times
http://www.okmulgeetimes.com/display/inn_news/468.txt
"Dripping wet ghosts appear fully formed in broad day light. Federal Marshals who patrol the grounds at night quit their jobs out of fear. The staff are afraid to go into the basement. The front yard covers a cemetery full of dead bodies. The front of the building carries a clearly visible "666" that appeared embedded in the stone in the early 1980s. Nearly every building that surrounds it is haunted by one or more ghosts on a regular basis and other buildings within a block or two of the site seem to have more than their fair share of Casper's cousins!"
Lion On The Loose Could Be Wild Goose Chase
WFTV
http://www.wftv.com/newsofthestrange/2607065/detail.html
"A search for a lion on the loose could end up being a wild goose chase. Sunday night, eyewitnesses in Leesburg claimed they saw a 300-pound lion in the Stock subdivision."
Carol Gist, who lives in 'haunted house,' says her ghosts aren't mean
by TAMARA BELINC
Tullahoma News
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1614&dept_id=214830&newsid=10454793&PAG=461&rfi=9
"Carol Gist of Manchester doesn't call herself a ghost hunter."
Dusting Off the Remains of a Hoax
By Guy Gugliotta
Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54672-2003Nov2.html
"As scientific hoaxes go, few have matched it. Sometime early in the 20th century, someone -- it is still unclear who -- "salted" a gravel pit near the town of Piltdown, England, with what were purported to be the 500,000-year-old fossil remains of a human ancestor -- half human, half ape."
GHOSTLY TOURISTS
BY RACHAEL SUGDEN
Bath Chronicle
http://www.thisisbath.com/displayNo...ayContent&sourceNode=113965&contentPK=7634826
"Anyone easily scared by things that go bump in the night was likely to feel particularly unsettled by the ghostly goings-on in Corsham. During a weekend devoted to all things spooky, the town proved itself to be at the centre of the action."
UFOs and Llamas
By Allan Turner
Houston Chronicle
http://durangoherald.com/asp-bin/ar...e=news&article_path=/news/03/news031102_1.htm
"First came the UFO, a massive, saucer-shaped craft hovering low over the Pacific Northwest in the spring of 1967. Then, two days later, came the beeping a steady, two-beeps-to-the-second sound coming from no discernible source. Locals, some bearing rifles, flocked to the woods to hear, to puzzle, to perhaps solve the mystery."
NEWSWEEK POLL: Majority Believes There is a Place for Religion in Medicine
Press Release
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/031102/nysu009a_1.html
"A 63-percent majority of Americans believes there is a place for religion and spirituality in medicine and 53 percent say they've personally relied on religious faith to help them get through a major illness or health problem, the latest Newsweek Poll shows. But although a majority feel that way about religion and medicine, 91 percent of all those polled say they've never asked their doctor to pray with them; just 19 percent say their doctor or another health professional has brought up the subject of religion with them during a hospital stay."
Faith & Healing
By Claudia Kalb
NEWSWEEK
http://msnbc.com/news/987695.asp
"On a quiet Saturday afternoon, Ming He, a fourth-year medical student in Dallas, came across a man dying in the VA Hospital. Suffering from a rare cancer and hooked up to an oxygen tank, the man, an Orthodox Jew, could barely breathe, let alone speak. There were no friends or relatives by his bed to comfort him. When the young student walked into his room, the man looked at her and said, “Now that I’m dying, I realize that I never really learned how to live.†Ming He, 26, had no idea how to respond."
Careless writing mars lurid retelling of O'Hair melodrama
BY JEROME WEEKS
Dallas Morning News
http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/entertainment/7143733.htm
"To just about anyone meeting them for the first time, Madalyn Murray O'Hair and her son, Jon Garth Murray, were borderline strange. Not three-headed strange, perhaps, but certainly out beyond eccentric. And this was true whether one agreed with their atheists' crusade or not."
Cult leader to face trial in Glynn
By KAREN SLOAN
Brunswick News
http://www.thebrunswicknews.com/front/308712344996473.php
"The leader of a religious cult who claims to be from another galaxy will face child-molesting charges in federal court in Brunswick, U.S. District Court Judge Ashley Royal ruled Wednesday."
Believe it or not, e-rumors cause temporary insanity
by Brendan Bruce
Indianapolis Star
http://www.indystar.com/articles/1/088215-8011-021.html
"Cry all you wish about spam in your inbox, but that's not what bothers me the most in my e-mail. I can delete the ads promising 50 pounds lost in three days, Viagra for pennies a day, and more hair fertilizers than a trichologist can shake a comb at, but stop it already with the e-rumors! These little gems always come from people you know and invariably start with the following: "I don't usually send these, but this sounds scary/real/ true/etc.""
Swimming with sharks
by Ben Goldacre
The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/badscience/story/0,12980,1073301,00.html
"Dolphins will save us all, according to the International Journal of Bad Science - sorry, I mean the Express."
Demystifying the healing arts
By Kristin E. Holmes
Knight Ridder News Service
http://www.sltrib.com/2003/Nov/11012003/saturday/107265.asp
"A core of U.S.-based priests and priestesses of Haitian voodoo and other ancient African religions gathered around a table in Philadelphia last weekend to study age-old methods of the healing arts."
Health agency studies alternative medicines
BY ROBERT COHEN
NEWARK STAR-LEDGER
http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-11/106775559013690.xml
"Shark cartilage and mistletoe as possible cancer treatments? Ginkgo biloba as a means of preventing dementia? Milk thistle to cure chronic hepatitis? Prayer and positive energy to fight brain tumors?"
If alternative medicine is good, prove it
By MALCOLM FARR
Daily Telegraph [Australia]
http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story.jsp?sectionid=1260&storyid=420977
"THE $800 million alternative medicine industry will have to prove their products work under a regime of rigorous monitoring."
Body, mind and soul
By Megan George
Boulder Daily Camera
http://www.bouldernews.com/bdc/health_and_fitness/article/0,1713,BDC_2431_2392928,00.html
"It's the largest and oldest medical system in the world."
Experimental College offers alternative medicine at Holistic Health Fair
By CATHERINE AN
California Aggie
http://www.californiaaggie.com/?a_id=722
"The Experimental College hosted the third annual Holistic Health Fair on Tuesday, which featured 15 demonstrations and workshops on a variety of alternative medicines, exercises and other health-related issues."
And now for something spooky
By NIKKI PATRICK
Pittsburg Morning Sun
http://morningsun.net/stories/102903/loc_20031029043.shtml
"Pittsburg author Max McCoy is a skeptic about things such as ghosts, UFOs and the Spook Light. But that doesn't stop him from talking about them."
A MONSTER OF AN IDEA TO BOOST TOURISM
by JEFF SMYTH
Southern Illinoisan
http://www.southernillinoisan.com/rednews/2003/10/30/build/opinions/OPI002.html
"If Southern Illinois is to become the tourism hot spot many desire, it needs a gimmick. We need something out of the ordinary. Something so unique that it will make people want to drive here from hundreds of miles away to buy our T-shirts."
Emmy Award-winning documentarian Robert Guenette dies
Associated Press
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20031105/APN/311050647
"Emmy Award-winning documentarian Robert Guenette, who filled films including "They've Killed President Lincoln" with reenactments that seem shot by on-the-scene news crews, has died. He was 68."
Company that wants to bring dead back to life getting chilly reception in Boca
By Kathy Bushouse
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-pcryonics05nov05,0,1624954.story
"Someday, David Shumaker hopes to perfect the science that will allow him to bring someone who's clinically dead back to life."
Ghostbuster defends the paranormal world
By Adrian Short
Cheshire Weekly News
<http://iccheshireonline.icnetwork.c...r-defends-the-paranormal-world-name_page.html>
"A CHESHIRE ghost hunter has rejected the findings of research which suggests there are mundane explanations behind a range of paranormal experiences."
Cat ritual tales largely fictional but still scary
By KRIS WERNOWSKY
Peoria Journal Star
http://www.pjstar.com/news/local/b15qjcvn008.html
"For the superstitious type, letting one cross your path means bad luck. But around one particular holiday, the tables are turned on black cats, at least if you believe everything you hear."
Quebec SPCA has ban on adoptions
by KINDA JAYOUSH and CARLA CORREA
Montreal Gazette/Knight Ridder Newspapers
http://canada.com/national/story.asp?id=68CE0A57-54E5-47DB-8E84-EA516B1749B7
"While humane societies south of the border are starting to lift a longtime ban on black-cat adoptions around Halloween, most Quebecers are out of luck today if they're eyeing a chat noir that needs a home."
Don’t get spooked on Pacheco Pass Highway
By Marty Cheek
Gilroy Dispatch
http://gilroydispatch.com/news/newsview.asp?c=80380
"Those notorious things that go bump in the night. When the autumn winds creep around your Halloween house, there’s nothing more fun than to sit by a crackling fire while drinking hot cider and listening to ghostly tales."
Local spots reportedly haunted
By Lora Bernard
Texas City Sun
http://texascitysun.com/story.lasso?wcd=4010
"The presence of a shaggy-haired man wearing a hat and a gray sweater walking around the mall theater in Texas City isn’t imaginary."
Ghost stories: Adams Hall on former Union campus has a history
By LEA SCHNEIDER
Jackson Sun
http://miva.jacksonsun.com/miva/cgi-bin/miva?NEWS/news_story.mv+link=200310315480584
"She heard the door open. Footsteps followed."
Spooks, Spirits, & SMU
By Emily Powell
SMU Daily Campus
http://www.smudailycampus.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/10/31/3fa22996159d6
"Students at SMU don’t have to travel far to be scared this Halloween. There are great, creepy places all over Dallas — you just have to have the guts to find them."
Myth or reality? Ghosts at the UA
By Nathan Tafoya
Arizona Daily Wildcat
http://wildcat.arizona.edu/papers/97/49/04_1.html
"There are tales of ghosts and unexplainable phenomena circulating the University of Arizona."
Ghosts on Speed Dial
by Dave Shiflett
National Review
http://www.nationalreview.com/shiflett/shiflett200310310853.asp
"After Hurricane Isabel tore up the town a few weeks ago, some Richmonders were abuzz with stories that the storm had raised a few residents of Hollywood Cemetery from their graves. Hollywood is a famous bone yard, with two U.S. presidents and one president of the Confederacy interred within, along with several thousand other folks. Word was that coffins had been pried from graves by the rising root balls of downed trees. Further word had it that skeletons had been freed from their boxes and could be seen lounging about the grounds."
Hoosiers have history of ghost stories
by Melinda Roeder
WTVW
http://www.wtvw.com/Global/story.asp?S=1505644&nav=7CPEIqOl
"The Tri-State has a rich history of ghost stories from spirits to spooky buildings."
Beware the Internet's wrong health advice, especially on cancer
By Joe Crankshaw
Stuart News
http://www.tcpalm.com/tcp/the_news_ed_columnists/article/0,1651,TCP_1133_2399051,00.html
"The Internet is a wondrous thing, filled with all sorts of information, facts, stories — some true, some not — myths and legends; more things in fact, than one mind could hold. It is a powerful tool, but one that can be abused by people with motives of their own, people who spread alleged information that is inaccurate and sometimes just plain false."
Clairvoyant Doris Lee blind-sided
by Keith Moor
Herald Sun [Australia]
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,7719502%5E2862,00.html
"CLAIRVOYANT Doris Lee did not see the undercover agent coming."
Former courthouse abounds in legends
By SANDI MARTIN
Winter Haven News Chief
http://www.polkonline.com/stories/103103/loc_courthouse.shtml
"The tiles on the second floor of the old county courthouse are perfect for echoing footsteps."
Yes, even clairvoyants have to earn a living
by Drew Sterwald
Fort Meyers News-Press
http://www.news-press.com/news/lifestyle/031031drewcol.html
"Sally Silver sees dead people."
Old Polk Courthouse Site of Spirited Antics
By Donna Kelly
Lakeland Ledger
http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20031031/NEWS/310310321/1021
"Not too long after she began working at the Polk County Historical Museum, Robin Golden started receiving reports that she had left lights burning in the building overnight."
Channeling The Sprit Of Eric Weiss
By John Sharify
KOMO
http://www.komotv.com/stories/28074.htm
"So I'm thinking, no one knew the guy. There's no wife here -- "widow" I mean."
Charlatans find a mark and milk it for what it's worth
By DR. JOYCE BROTHERS
SYNDICATED COLUMNIST
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/brothers/144683_joyce06.html
"DEAR DR. BROTHERS: An old friend of mine, who isn't stupid and should know better, is now trying to solve her very real financial and personal problems by going to a fortune teller. This woman claims she can read palms and tell the future to help you make decisions about whether you're going to find a better man and whether you should leave the one with whom you're currently living. Why would any reasonable person believe this? When this female with special clairvoyant talent tells her something specific's going to happen in a week and it doesn't, my friend makes excuses for her, saying she simply got the month wrong or something."
Historian confronts Holocaust revisionists
By Carolina Amengual
Galveston County Daily News
http://www.galvnews.com/story.lasso?wcd=14894
"Friendswood resident Chaja Verveer, a native of The Netherlands and a Holocaust survivor, was only a year old when she was forced into hiding from the Nazi regime."
Cops provide scare on Ghost Tracks
By Lisa Marie Gómez
San Antonio Express-News
http://news.mysanantonio.com/story.cfm?xla=saen&xlb=180&xlc=1078012
"Soon after the last bit of sunlight faded and night fell, a spotty trail of cars started approaching the infamous Ghost Tracks on the far Southeast Side."
Ghost research group tries to maintain its skepticism
By Donna Alvis-Banks
Roanoke Times
http://www.roanoke.com/roatimes/news/story157689.html
"According to Tommy Amos, the Virginia Ghosts & Hauntings Research Society has two rules for members investigating a haunted house:"
Legendary ghost story lives on at KU frat house
By DAVE TOPLIKAR
Lawrence Journal-World
http://morningsun.net/stories/103003/reg_20031030023.shtml
"Some just don't want to talk about her. Others mention her in hushed tones, not wanting to seem foolish."
Spooky ghost photos presented
by Don Eng
Stratford Star
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1349&dept_id=415613&newsid=10433853&PAG=461&rfi=9
"Everyone has a ghost story, and Halloween is the traditional time for people to trade tales of paranormal occurrences."
Group believes it has a ghost of a chance
BY DIANE KRIEGER SPIVAK
Northwest Indiana Times
http://www.thetimesonline.com/artic...nd_state/58e7a1ad88d2359386256dd00003f2ca.txt
"Mike McDowell believes in God. He also believes in ghosts."
Ghost Trackers
BY DEBORAH LAVERTY and DIANE KRIEGER SPIVAK
Northwest Indiana Times
http://www.thetimesonline.com/articles/2003/10/31/news/top_news/82c168aa35d9346186256dd000050ff8.txt
"The spirits of unsettled souls are said to haunt the area surrounding an old barn on a farm a few miles south of Crown Point."
Ghost hunters materialize in West Barnstable
By Jack Sheedy
Barnstable Patriot
http://www.barnstablepatriot.com/10-31-03-news/frontghosthunters.html
"The calendar has swung back around to Halloween and once again ghosts and goblins possess the earth. And whether or not you believe in the existence of ghosts and goblins, on this one evening you can't help but think that anything is possible."
Hunting with Real-Life Ghost Hunter
WBBM
http://cbs2chicago.com/topstories/local_story_304172327.html
"It's a ghoulish gig but someone has to do it. CBS 2’s Vince Gerasole hit the streets with some real life ghost hunters in search of some spooky activity."
Lawrence author researches ghost sightings
By Beth Lawton
Lawrence Journal-World
http://www.ljworld.com/section/citynews/story/150393
"For people like Gil Bavel, listening to ghost stories is a year-round event."
Brothers moonlight as ghost hunters
by Gail Crutchfield
Cullman Times
http://www.cullmantimes.com/pages/news_story.shtml?id=576
""Dude! Shoot me. Shoot me. Shoot me," Danny Haynes told his younger brother, Tony Bradford, as he stood along a tree line, the moon shining high above his head and glinting off some of the newer tombstones in Gamble's Cemetery."
WTVM Video Shows Possible Ghost in Springer Opera House
WTVM
http://www.wtvm.com/Global/story.asp?S=1505527&nav=8fapIqJ5
"A "ghost hunt" in the Springer Opera House last night by News Leader 9 Reporter Jason Dennis turned up far more evidence than expected."
Seguin has its share of ghost tales
By Bryan Kirk
Seguin Gazette
http://web.seguingazette.com/report.lasso?wcd=5329
"The changing of the seasons brings more than cooler temperatures."
Hotel key card hoax joins list of urban legends
by Nora Carpenter
Idaho Statesman
http://www.idahostatesman.com/Story.asp?ID=52938
"Dear BBB: I just received an e-mail which claims that California law enforcement officials are warning everyone that plastic hotel key cards are being encoded with personal information including our credit card number."
Ghost hunters say Ammon Park haunted
By Casey Santee
Idaho State Journal
http://www.journalnet.com/articles/2003/10/31/news/local/news05.txt
"In the movies, and at Halloween, ghosts usually haunt houses or cemeteries, but in Pocatello, there is a haunted city park. So says Ghosts of Idaho, a local club that investigates paranormal sightings throughout the state."
Ghost hunter finds success
By John Boyle
Asheville Citizen-Times
http://cgi.citizen-times.com/cgi-bin/story/regional/44184
"For more than a decade, Joshua P. Warren has been staking out haunted houses, chasing apparitions, gathering evidence of the paranormal. The man has been working the supernatural beat."
Is note clue to home's ghost?
by ROB HEDELT
Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star
http://www.freelancestar.com/News/FLS/2003/102003/10302003/1150985
"THE STORY of a psychic who sensed a presence on the stairway of their new home didn't faze Rona and Jeff Costello when they bought an old Victorian house in Fredericksburg in 1989."
Jones farm ghost enjoys a good cigar now and then
By JOE BLUMBERG
St. Joseph News-Press
http://www.stjoenews-press.com/Main.asp?SectionID=81&SubSectionID=272&ArticleID=46523
"Boo! Oh, that’s just grandpa — he’s always joking around."
All students test clean for one legendary campus ‘infection’
By Eric Swanson
Minnesota Daily
http://www.daily.umn.edu/articles/2003/11/03/7259
"If one talks to students about sexual health issues, many will mention a sexually transmitted infection unique to the University campus: “Gopher warts.â€"
Haunted Lake City
By JUSTIN LANG and TONY BRITT
Lake City Reporter
http://www.lakecityreporter.com/articles/2003/10/31/news/top_story/news01.txt
"Lake City may have gained local fame for being the Gateway to Florida, but it's also gaining a reputation as being the doorway to the other side."
Specters and spooks
By BRENDAN BURKE
Casper Star-Tribune
http://www.casperstartribune.net/ar...s/casper/20cefd835b4a1d9422fce935d6f4a556.txt
""Don't you think it's weird how people get lost?""
City buildings are known for their ghosts
by CAPI LYNN
Salem Statesman Journal
http://news.statesmanjournal.com/article.cfm?i=70064
"An old house, somewhere in the Madrona area of Salem, is said to be haunted."
Not "Ghostbusters," But One Local Group Comes Close
WHNT
http://www.whnt19.com/Global/story.asp?S=1506893
"Pardon the pun, but most people wouldn't be "caught dead" walking through a cemetery after dark. However, for members of the Alabama Foundation for Paranormal Research, it's as common as a walk through the park. They routinely travel to spirited places hoping to run into the real thing."
Investigators hunt ghosts that spook the living
By Elizabeth Festa
WASHINGTON TIMES
http://washingtontimes.com/weekend/20031029-095015-1159r.htm
"A strange young man had been coming around, lurking outside the window, skulking about in the driveway and even standing at the end of the kitchen. But now, it — or something — was getting bolder, upsetting Manassas homeowner Marie Smith*, 45, and scaring her son, Daniel*, 22."
Haunted? The Speakeasy serves up haunted fare
KATU
http://www.katu.com/team2/story.asp?ID=62077
"Paranormal reseachers have documented an interesting haunting in the historic town of Independence, Oregon."
Footsteps, voices ... a recording interrupted
By John Blankenship
Beckley Register-Herald
http://www.register-herald.com/articles/2003/10/29/news/news.txt
"There has always been a fascination pertaining to supernatural occurrences."
Local ghosthunter gets in the Halloween spirit
By Jeff Himler
Blairsville Dispatch
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/blairsvilledispatch/s_162677.html
"He sees dead people. But not all the time."
Investigating paranormal activity haunts their nights off from work
By John Blankenship
Beckley Register-Herald
http://www.register-herald.com/articles/2003/10/29/news/local_news/0ghostkit30.txt
"When Dan Aykroyd met up with Harold Ramis to write the screenplay for the movie "Ghostbusters," they probably had no idea of the number of people who would be affected by their concept."
Shaker educator examines mysteries of Gettysburg
by Brian E. Albrecht
Cleveland Plain Dealer
http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/106760130454030.xml
"After the bloodiest battle in American history ended in 1863 at Gettysburg, Pa., with 51,000 Union and Confederate casualties, one of the participants predicted that ghosts would haunt that killing ground."
Halloween haunting: chasing spirits in Guthrie
KFOR
http://www.kfor.com/Global/story.asp?S=1506809
"It wouldn't be Halloween without a ghost story. So, we ventured inside an historic train depot. It's a landmark in Guthrie some say is home to a number of spirits."
Legends Speak Of Haunted Long Island
By Ralph D'Ambrose
Suffolk Life
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=10422237&BRD=1776&PAG=461&dept_id=6365&rfi=6
"While the infamous "Amityville Horror" house has found its way into the pages of Long Island legend, it is not the only reportedly haunted location in Suffolk County."
Society looks for ghosts of the Constellation
By Aron Davidowitz
Baltimore Sun
http://www.sunspot.net/features/bal-to.ghosts25oct25,0,1855701.story
"Since its restoration was completed in 1999, roughly 100,000 people per year have flocked to the Baltimore waterfront to tour the Constellation, the last all-sail warship built by the U.S. Navy."
Fort Saskatchewan haunted?
By Chris Munkedal
Fort Saskatchewan Record
http://www.fortsaskatchewanrecord.com/story.php?id=78989
"They come out after the witching hour. Or so ghost investigator Jan Jones would have people believe about ghostly figures in the night."
Halloween every day at the Savoy
By Matt Hunt Gardner
Halifax Herald Limited
http://www.herald.ns.ca/stories/2003/10/31/f202.raw.html
"It's hard to say whether Jennifer Crocker is scared of things that go bump in the night inside Glace Bay's famed Savoy Theatre."
Ghosts and ghouls
By Lisa Marshall
Boulder Daily Camera
http://www.bouldernews.com/bdc/our_town/article/0,1713,BDC_2518_2385813,00.html
"As legend has it, there's one lurking in the northwest corner of Lafayette Cemetery, near the unkempt rose bushes and the tombstone marked "Transylvania.""
Halloween Hunting
By Suzanne Risley
Terre Haute Tribune-Star
http://www.tribstar.com/articles/2003/10/31/news/news01.txt
"The night was crisp and clear enough to immediately recognize the Big Dipper hanging low in the sky. The only illumination on the rural road was ambient light from distant homes until the reds and blues of a police car appeared."
Everything's Peachy keen now
Wellesley Townsman
http://www.townonline.com/wellesley/news/local_regional/wt_newwtwellesleywatchms11062003.htm
"Thirteen-year-old Peaches, a long-haired orange-and-white tabby, was last seen on Ingraham Road on Sept. 5, when her family stopped to see relatives while en route from Maine to Pennsylvania."
'Pet psychic' puts on dog-and-pony show
By Joe Rassenfoss
Rocky Mountain News
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/pets/article/0,1299,DRMN_64_2393616,00.html
"Mom used to tell me that all the animals could talk at midnight on Christmas Eve."
Family Calls Psychic to Help Find Missing Alzheimer's Patient
By Jamie Muro
First Coast News
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/local/news-article.aspx?storyid=10366
"As days pass without a single sign of 78 year old Alfred Feinglass, prayers intensify, but hope beings to fade."
Psychic unable to help police find missing backpacker
ABC South East Radio
http://www.abc.net.au/southeastnsw/news/200310/s978739.htm
"Tumut police, with the aid of a psychic, have resumed the search for 18-year-old backpacker Niamh Maye, but to no avail."
Living, working between two worlds
By KELLI B. GRANT
Ithaca Journal
http://www.theithacajournal.com/news/stories/20031104/localnews/576563.html
"Candor native Phil Jordan had a less than average reaction to the movie "Sixth Sense". He was less than impressed with actor Haley Joel Osmond's line, "I see dead people.""
True stories? Umm...no
by BEN STEELMAN
Wilmington Star News
http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20031106/COLUMNIST18/31106009
"Is The Texas Chainsaw Massacre "based on a true story," as ads for the current version claim? Do tribes of cannibalistic rednecks hide along the back roads of the Lone Star State?"
Reinhold to Reveal Bigfoot Hoax
Zap2it.com
http://www.zap2it.com/movies/news/story/0,1259,---19344,00.html
"Judge Reinhold is filling some big shoes for his next project."
U.S. Court Bars Expatriation Tax Scheme
By MARY DALRYMPLE
Associated Press
http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-taxes-expatriation,0,3142806.story
"A federal court temporarily blocked a Colorado couple from selling tax advice that urges individuals to renounce their "United States citizenship" for "American citizenship" and stop paying federal income taxes."
Woman ostracised for ‘witchcraft’
Statesman News Service [India]
http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=6&theme=&usrsess=1&id=27011
"Ramdas and Lakhinder have not attended their classes for more than a month. The reason: their mother has been declared a witch."
County Supervisors to Discuss Vedic City Use of Sales Tax
Associated Press
http://www.kcrg.com/article.aspx?art_id=69513&cat_id=123
"Representatives from Vedic City and the Jefferson County supervisors are scheduled to meet Monday morning to discuss the city's planned use of proceeds from a local option sales tax."
Suspect's mom says she's not a witch
By Lynn Brezosky
Associated Press
http://news.mysanantonio.com/story.cfm?xla=saen&xlb=180&xlc=1079099
"The mother of the man accused of killing and decapitating three children testified Monday that she was neither a witch nor a freeloader living in the squalid apartment of her son and his common-law wife."
The truth is out there, in Kecksburg
By CHRIS EDLING
Daily Trojan
http://www.dailytrojan.com/article.do?issue=/V150/N46&id=03-truth.46v.html
"In December 1965, residents of the small Pennsylvania town of Kecksburg (motto: "What Pittsburgh Was Like When It Contained Organic Life") witnessed a bona fide fireball tear through the frosty autumn sky."
Spells in the City
by Andrew Stuttaford
National Review
http://www.nationalreview.com/stuttaford/stuttaford200310310831.asp
"Be afraid! Halloween is here. 'Tis the season to be sinister, a dank, dark time of poisoned candy, apples laced with razor blades, Jamie Lee Curtis reruns, Richard Nixon masks, feral children asking for "treats," and, in a quiet corner of my local Barnes & Noble, a table piled with books that go bump in the night. Histories of hauntings lurk near volumes on vampires and a stray copy of Living History that seems, well, strangely at home. O.K., O.K., I admit it. I put it there."
The Haunting of Santa Cruz
By Sarah Phelan
Metro Santa Cruz
http://www.metroactive.com/papers/cruz/10.29.03/haunting-0344.html
"When you really stop and think about it, it makes perfect sense that Santa Cruz would be haunted. Look how creepy the history of this town is:"
Ghost Hunter
BY AUDRA SCHROEDER
New Times Broward-Palm Beach
http://www.newtimesbpb.com/issues/2003-10-30/news.html/1/index.html
"At the end of rows of neatly manicured lawns, freshly polished SUVs, and lush green palms is a long, black, iron gate, behind which are hundreds of marble headstones. From a distance, these chunks of South Florida history look like pale thumbs protruding from the earth. This land backs up to the edge of a lake; massive trees pepper the landscape. Many are covered with moss and spider webs."
Ghost Stories
BY JOHN LA BRIOLA
Denver Westword
http://www.westword.com/issues/2003-10-30/news.html/1/index.html
"The High Street Speakeasy sits on the southeast corner of 39th Avenue and High Street, wedged between Five Points and I-70. From the outside, it looks like less than nothing -- exactly as a good speakeasy should. Inside, the guzzlery recalls the days when a shrill and righteous few decried the evils of drink: Prohibition. But for John Wallace, the bottles of once-forbidden spirits that line his bar are just complements to the ghostlier ones occupying his second floor."
Ghostly Encounters
By IRENE MESSINA
Tucson Weekly
http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/Currents/Content?oid=oid:50674
"Up in the old mining town of Globe--a two-hour ride north of Tucson off Route 77--a mystery brews at Noftsger Hill Inn."
Fact vs. fiction?
by Bill D'Agostino
Palo Alto Weekly
http://www.paloaltoonline.com/paw/paonline/weekly/thisweek/2003_10_29.measurebmb.html
"It may not be a communist plot, but modern-day foes of fluoride are still conspiracy minded."
Truth in Advertising
Chicago Reader
http://www.chireader.com/hottype/2003/031031_1.html
"A small ad that's been running in the Reader in recent weeks has a message for anyone with a big heart, a venturesome spirit, and an underdeveloped sense of skepticism. "Volunteer in Africa. . . . Work with HIV/AIDS orphans/outreach," it says. "No experience necessary." There's mention of an upcoming informational meeting, and the curious are provided with a Massachusetts phone number, an e-mail address, and a URL. Intrigued, I e-mailed Humana People to People, the organization that placed the ad, asking what I could expect if I applied."
"Amityville" House-Warming Again
By Joal Ryan
E! Online
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=794&e=1&u=/eo/20031101/en_movies_eo/12829
"It's a good time to be in the fly-wrangling business."
Clues to an Unfounded Claim of 3 Deaths in 9/11 Attack
By PATRICK HEALY
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/01/nyregion/01LIST.html
"It has been one of the enduring mysteries of 9/11: an unfounded claim that a Long Island man and his two young children died when he took them to his office at the World Trade Center. The children would have been the youngest victims."
Critics Leary of fire fund's Cruise plan
New York Daily News
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/132957p-118596c.html
"Denis Leary is denying allegations that he's being used by Tom Cruise to spread the word of the controversial Church of Scientology."
Mashed fossil might be vampire; experts scoff
BY ALEXANDRA WITZE
Dallas Morning News
http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/7122145.htm
"Running out of time to make a Halloween costume? Take a pair of fangs and a pair of wings, and you've got an outfit guaranteed to make most paleontologists' hair stand on end."
Nigerian Muslims Skeptical of Polio Plan
By GLENN McKENZIE
Associated Press
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...p/20031025/ap_on_he_me/nigeria_polio_outbreak
"An emergency drive to vaccinate Nigerians against polio as a spreading outbreak threatens worldwide efforts to eradicate the disease faces suspicions among Muslim fundamentalists."
Child-lifters' scare hits Chikmagalur
Times of India
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?msid=267546
"Rumours about child lifters in the city created much panic among parents and the city saw parents rushing to schools to ensure their wards were safe, here on Tuesday."
Law doesn't keep sororities out of houses
By KATIE BRINTON
Pitt News
http://www.pittnews.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/11/06/3fa9ff69bfc46
"Shipments of flesh-eating bananas from Costa Rica have infected the United States. Necrotizing fasciitis, a possibly fatal, flesh-eating bacteria, has mutated to graft itself to the skin of fruits, notably the banana."
Synchronised Ganesha worship through SMS
Indo-Asian News Service
http://www.newindpress.com/Newsitems.asp?ID=IEP20031106093033&Title=This+is+India&Topic=0
"Once upon a time there were chain letters, now rapidly replaced by chain SMS - and its full power was evident in Gujarat and other states on Wednesday night when devotees of Lord Ganesha lit five lamps before his idol hoping for a miracle."
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