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"Airline employees spot mysterious craft hovering over O'Hare"
"...A group of United Airlines employees swear they saw a mysterious, saucer-shaped craft hovering over O'Hare Airport last fall. The workers, some of them pilots, said the object didn't have lights and hovered over an airport terminal before shooting up through the clouds, according to a report in Monday's Chicago Tribune.
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"'Our theory on this is that it was a weather phenomenon,' [FAA spokeswoman Elizabeth Isham] Cory said. 'That night was a perfect atmospheric condition in terms of low (cloud) ceiling and a lot of airport lights. When the lights shine up into the clouds, sometimes you can see funny things.'"
I don't understand the chain of logic that leads one to believe a series of prank calls/crossed lines/whatever has a supernatural origin:
"If there’s a paranormal “Do Not Call” registry out there, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine would like to sign up.
"The governor told radio listeners Thursday that the ghost who supposedly has haunted the 193-year-old executive mansion in Richmond for more than a century seems to have taken up telemarketing.
“'The telephone will ring once in the private quarters that we have at a very inconvenient time. It rings once, pick it up, there’s nobody there,' Kaine said on his monthly radio call-in show. 'It’s always at the exact same moment.'"
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"See the orbs in these first few pictures? Those are just dust particles, lens flares, and such. The orbs in the rest of the photos? Those are real spirit orbs...don't confuse real spirit orbs with dust or flares!"
Uri Geller claims remote viewer led U.S. forces to Saddam Hussein:
"'You remember when they found Saddam Hussein in Iraq? A soldier walked over to a rug, lifted it and then found a trap-door and found him in there,' Geller told Reuters.
'Well, I know that that soldier walked over to that rug because he got information from a 'remote viewer' from the United States.'"
The Spoof has its own take on the situation. There, the article is clearly marked as being "a satire or parody. It is entirely fictitious," which I'm sure nobody doubted for a second.
Sorry, fell bit behind on this weblog. Here, have some articles about people who pass off looking through dark buildings with equipment that detects electromagnetic activity (which is, um, everywhere, so what does that prove?) as "ghost hunting:"
Lens flare again mistaken for "ghost activity."
The Sci Fi Channel show Ghost Hunters has a lot to answer for.
An article that actually contains some minimal critical response to ghost hunting.
"Doctor Claims He Travels Back in Time to Heal"
An Ohio chiropractor who claimed to treat patients using time travel has surrendered his license to practice.State regulators had been investigating Dr. James Burda of Athens, who said he could take care of anyone, anywhere by reaching back in time to when the injury occurred."
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"He said he doesn't use force to realign bones, but he uses his mind to manipulate the body. But if that doesn't work, he said he travels back in time to fix the problem. He calls the practice Bala-Keem. State medical officials call it malpractice."
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"Bring on the cryptozoologists. The Bigfoot has left the jungles of Johor to the allure of Brunei's Labi, or so it seems.
"A Sungai Liang resident has discovered several strange footprints along the Andulau forest area in Labi, which according to him do not resemble human or animal footprints.
"Liew Kim San, 34, a permanent resident, said the footprints could be of an unknown wildlife while most of his Than friends speculated that it could be that of a forest genie, which they believe could be the reason why people normally get lost in the Labi forest area."
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"Malaysia was gripped by the sighting of the Bigfoot in November 2005 in the jungles of Johor when three fishery workers claimed to have seen a Bigfoot family that left footprints up to 45cm long.
"Speculations were so intense that the Johor Wildlife Department directed officials to install cameras in strategic areas to capture the Bigfoot on camera."
Once and for all...that's not an artifically-created structure of a face on Mars.
Of course, that won't stop the usual suspects from claiming a NASA conspiracy to keep the truth from the public. (I never understood that argument anyway...NASA would kill for proof of extraterrestrial life. That would pretty much put an end to any further budget cuts!)
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Bets hedged; end of world in 2012 revised to "rebirth of world" by one believer to cover the fact that nothing will happen.
"On Saturday and Sunday, the Louisville Ghost Hunters Society will host the Mid-South Paranormal Convention at the Holiday Inn Southwest in Shively."
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"'The afterworld and the afterlife can't be reproduced in laboratory settings,' said Chanda Wright, founder and president of the National Ghost Hunters Society. 'You can't just walk into a lab and make Casper pop up.'
"Wright deals with skeptics two ways.
"She tells them to go away: 'You can't make anybody believe anything. I gave that up a long time ago.'
"Or she invites them to come along:
"Almost every time she takes a non-believer on a ghost hunt, Wright said, 'That person sees an apparition -- and that's pretty convincing to most people.'"
