BBC News-- "Quite often the victim in the spirit world will come to me and they often lead you to the name or the person involved in their murder."Joe Power is a psychic medium who has worked with several UK forces trying to solve tough cases.When asked if he has helped the police solve murders, there is no hesitation: "without a shadow of a doubt," he says.When the BBC approached the Metropolitan and Merseyside Police forces they were vague about any dealings with Joe. Merseyside said they c... Read Full Story
River Journal-- The house in November sounded of winter. The wind blew outside in gales and gusts, some going over 30 miles an hour.Inside, a young couple sat watching a rented movie. No cable hookups this far out of town on the Pack River Road and they couldn’t afford a satellite yet.The young woman had always felt isolated out here on the property her new husband had inherited from his grandfather, but they couldn’t afford anything else as yet.AS the movie ended, in an unsatisfactory way, C... Read Full Story
New York Times-- It’s snowing heavily, and everyone in the backyard is in a swimsuit, at some kind of party: Mom, Dad, the high school principal, there’s even an ex-girlfriend. And is that Elvis, over by the piñata?Uh-oh.Dreams are so rich and have such an authentic feeling that scientists have long assumed they must have a crucial psychological purpose. To Freud, dreaming provided a playground for the unconscious mind; to Jung, it was a stage where the psyche’s archetypes acted out primal th... Read Full Story
The Authority on sleep paralysis David J Hufford speaks openly about sleep paralysis, the raw footage is from the documentary Your Worst Nightmare - Supernatural Assault.One in five will experience the terrifying phenomenon of sleep paralysis. Victims wake to find that they are paralyzed and unable to move or speak. Many experience frightening visions of demons, shadows, or an old woman known as "The Hag." For others there is simply the unmistakable presence of evil. In extreme cases, these p... Read Full Story
Following such fraternal orders as the Freemasons and Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias was founded during the Civil War. It’s considered the oldest secret male fraternal organization in North America. Its first official meeting took place in Washington D.C. on February 19, 1864. By 1895, there were 269 Knights of Pythias lodges and 21,000 members in Missouri alone.In 1913, the Knights of Pythias built the Pythian Home of Missouri as an orphanage and senior citizens homes for its members an... Read Full Story
New York Times-- NASA said last week that the world was not ending — at least anytime soon. Last year, CERN, the European Center for Nuclear Research, said the same thing, which I guess is good news for those of us who are habitually jittery. How often do you have a pair of such blue-ribbon scientific establishments assuring us that everything is fine?On the other hand, it is kind of depressing if you were looking forward to taking a vacation from mortgage payments to finance one last blowout... Read Full Story
wtov9 - A historic Brooke County mansion is at the center of a police and paranormal investigation after skeletal remains were found hidden in a wall.The remains were found at Aspen Manor in Wellsburg after paranormal investigators said they sensed someone was buried in a basement wall and heard a voice saying, "Help me. I'm stuck inside of this wall," the sheriff said.Sheriff Richard Ferguson said the bones had "been chopped up into pieces" and had saw marks on them. Investigators also found... Read Full Story