The Oldest Incorruptible Body of Saint

Saint Silvan died in 350 (circa). There is little known about this beautiful saint except that he was martyred in the fourth century.

Look closely at the picture and you can see a large slice in his neck, an obvious clue to his martyrdom. Also you can see an embroidered cross on the front of his garment indicating that he may have been a priest or some other cleric.

St Silvan’s magnificently incorrupt body can be viewed in the Church of St. Blaise in Dubrovnik (Croatia), where his body was brought from Rome in 1847.

Considering his body is over 1,600 years old, it is remarkably preserved.

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Mysterious Giant Congo Snake

A Belgian helicopter pilot called Remy Van Lierde, took this photo during a patrol over the Congo in 1959. The snake he witnessed has been estimated to be anywhere from around 40-50 feet long. 

It was possible to estimate the size of the snake, because of the many features on the ground in the images taken. 

It was described by the pilot as a dark shade of brown and green with a white coloured belly. 

The jaws were of triangular shape. The pilot claimed the head was a massive 3 feet wide, adding that as he cautiously moved in lower for a closer inspection the snake raised itself in the air as high as maybe 10 feet, looking like it may attack the helicopter.

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Okiku “Devil Doll” from Japan Mystery

According to people who never saw this doll, this doll is creepy with all the nuances of non-logical. How can an inanimate object can grow hair continuously. Almost like jenglot, this doll is really beyond reason. A Japanese researcher revealed that the results of forensic tests that were grown hair is exactly the same doll with the hair in children aged ten years. Okiku name is taken from a child who was playing with a doll with a size of 40 inches high, dressed in a kimono with black eyes like beads and thick hair. Okiku doll has been in the temple in the city Iwamizawa Mannenji (Hokkaido Prefecture) since 1938. This doll was originally purchased in 1918 by a Eikichi Suzuki in Sapporo, where he saw a beautiful Japanese doll with a Kimono. Eikichi bought this doll for her sister, who is two years old named Okiku. She loved this doll and play it every day. But unfortunately, Okiku died shortly afterwards of a fever. Then at his funeral, family want to put a doll into his coffin, but somehow they forgot. The girl’s family then put the doll on the household altar and pray for every day in order to commemorate Okiku. Some time later, they saw the hair began grows. According to this story is the spirit of the girl who took refuge inside the doll.
In 1938 the family moved to shakalin Suzuki, doll okiku Mannenji finally deposited in a temple in Hokkaido. According to the priest at the temple, a traditional Japanese doll is always short-haired, he also confirmed that the doll’s hair continues to elongate okiku, although the cut and hold a regular basis, but the hair grows. According to the temple, traditional dolls originally had short cropped hair, but over time continue to grow about 25 centimeters long, down to the knees. Although the doll’s hair is cut regularly, but according to a story the hair grows again.

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Paranormal News: Students Claim Toilet is Haunted

Many students from Phu Yen Province in Vietnam have fainted after claiming, that a toilet inside their dorm is haunted and they have seen ghosts.

Phan Van Tho, headmaster of the Son Hoa Ethnic Boarding High School in Son Hoa District, confirmed that a large number of boarding students have fainted or screamed at nights from unknown causes during the past month.

The time they acted strange was usually from about 8 pm to 11 pm every night, Tho said.

The first victim of the awful situation is K Pa Ho Luon, of Son Dinh Commune.

One night in early November, after coming back to his dorm room from the toilet area, Luon fell down to the floor, talked nonsense, scratched against the floor and walls with his two hands, and then passed out.

After being hospitalized at the Son Hoa General Hospital, Luon recovered and told everyone that he had met a ghost in the restroom.

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Red Sea Crossing, Truth or Fiction?

The Bible story of Israel's miraculous crossing of the Red Sea, which later overwhelmed the Egyptian army, has long been questioned by agnostics, who also question the large number ascribed to the Israelites 600,000 men, implying a total of 2,000,000 or more.

Did the Red Sea Crossing really happened as recorded in the Bible in Exodus?

Here is some hard evidence as proof.

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Mongolian Death Worm Mystery

The Mongolian Death Worm is a giant poisonous worm that allegedly lives in the Gobi Desert. It sounds like a sci-fi character, but there have been numerous encounters which support the theory that it actually exists. The worm is believed to be five feet in length and resembles a cow’s intestine. It is usually red in colour and sometimes has spikes protruding from both ends. The worm is highly dangerous and can squirt lethal venom and discharge electric shocks over several feet. Ivan Mackerle is the head of a Czech Republic team who have searched for the worm three times. During the second expedition Mackerle tried, unsuccessfully, to lure the worm out of the desert using high explosives. He returned in 2004, this time using low flying techniques to film huge stretches of the desert, but the expedition failed to capture any signs of the worm on camera. Scientists and amateur researchers are intrigued by the idea of a creature that has been reported by Mongolian nomads for hundreds of years. It could be only a matter of time before one of the many expeditions gain proof of its existence.

 

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The Beast of Gevaudan

This beast terrorized the French province of Gevaudan from 1764 to 1767. Although often claimed to have been an unusually large wolf, the truth is the beast was never really identified. 

It was said to be larger than a wolf, with a reddish coloration and an unbearable smell, as well as teeth bigger than those of a normal wolf. The creature killed its first victim, a young girl, in June of 1764. This was the first of a series of very unusual attacks, where the beast would target humans, specifically, ignoring cattle and domestic animals. 210 humans were attacked, 113 victims died, and 98 were devoured. The attacks were so frequent and brutal that many believed the creature to be a demonic being sent by God as punishment, others thought it was a loup-garou, a werewolf.

Although the mainstream view is that the creature was probably just a large wolf (or a couple of wolves, since some reports mention two beasts instead of one), the fact remains that the description of the creature doesn’t seem to fit a normal European wolf, which was abundant and well known to people at the time. Some experts believe that the beast may have been a hyena, possibly escaped from a menagerie. Although often seen as cowardly scavengers, hyenas are actually very powerful predators and they often prey on humans in Africa and some parts of Asia. A man eating hyena terrorized Malawi quite recently, forcing hundreds of people to leave their villages. Just like the beast of Gevauden, hyenas are noted for their formidable teeth and strong odor, and they are also bigger and more powerful than average wolves.

The beast managed to evade hunters and even the army, exhibiting the man eater’s legendary cunning, but it was eventually killed in 1767 by local hunter Jean Chastel.

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Unexplained Mysteries: The Philadelphia Experiment

The Philadelphia Experiment is a supposed secret experiment conducted by the U.S. Navy at the Philadelphia Naval Yards at Philadelphia, on or before October 28, 1943, which went horribly awry. 

The experiment was allegedly conducted by one Dr. Franklin Reno as a military application of Albert Einstein's unified field theory, or generalized theory of gravitation. The theory, postulates the interrelatedness of the forces which comprise electromagnetic radiation and gravity. Through a special application of the theory, it was thought to be possible, with specialized equipment and enough energy, to bend light around an object, rendering it essentially invisible. The Navy considered this application to be of obvious value in wartime and approved and sponsored the experiment. A Navy destroyer, the USS Eldridge, was fitted with the required generator equipment at the Naval Yards in Philadelphia. Testing began in the summer of 1943, and was initially successful to a limited degree. One test, on July 22, 1943, resulted in the Eldridge being rendered almost completely invisible, with some eyewitnesses reporting a greenish fog. However, crew members complained of serious nausea afterwards. At that point, the experiment was altered by the request of the Navy, with the new goal being invisibility to radar only. Equipment was recalibrated, and the experiment was performed again on October 28. This time, the Eldridge not only actually became almost entirely invisible to the naked eye, but actually vanished from the area entirely in a flash of blue light.

Concurrent with this phenomenon, the U.S. Naval base at Norfolk, Virginia, just over 600 km away, reported sighting the Eldridge offshore for several minutes, at the end of which time the Eldridge vanished again and reappeared in Philadelphia, at the site it had originally occupied - an accidental case of supposed teleportation. The physiological effects on the crew were profound. Almost all of the crew were violently ill. Some suffered from mental illness because of the experience, behavior conforming to schizophrenia is described in some accounts. Still other members were missing, supposedly vanished and allegedly, five of the crew were actually fused to the metal bulkhead or deck of the ship. Horrified, Navy officials immediately cancelled the experiment. All of the surviving crew involved were discharged; in some cases, brainwashing was used to make crew members forget about the details of their experience.

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The Incorruptibles Bodies

For many centuries the Catholic Church has witnessed a phenomenon called "incorruptible bodies." These are preserved bodies found after death without decomposition. 

An “incorrupt body” is not an accidental preservation such as a person falling into ice in a glacier, nor a deliberate attempt at preservation through embalming or mummification. In both those instances, when found, a corpse may be typically discolored, distorted, have a bad odor, and decay rapidly after examination.

An "incorruptible" does not fit either the accidental or deliberate preservation categories. This type of preserved body remains free from decomposition regardless of manner of burial, temperature, or moisture content. They have been found starting after the death of Christ, and to this day the causes of preservation of these corpses still cannot be resolved by science.

There are more than 250 incorrupt bodies of Catholic Saints. They include such notable holy people as St. Teresa of Avila who died in 1320, Saint Catherine of Sienna who died in 1380, Saint Francis Xavier who died in 1552, Saint John Vianney (the Cure’ of Ars) who died in 1859, St. Catherine Laboure who died in 1876, etc.

Incorrupt Bodies of the Saints

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Stigmata Phenomena

Stigmata is a Catholic phenomenon, used to describe the appearance of the wounds of Christ on a pious saint or Christian believer. It has been long debated by many who believe stigmata is instead a psychosomatic effect brought on by intense prayer. 

Stigmatics themselves are the main source of mystery for thousands of Christian believers. Stigmata can exists in two forms, visible and invisible. Invisible wounds are those covered by the forces of God for the inner comfort of the sufferer. Visible wounds appear on the side, palms, feet and head, and often appear and disappear in the space of a few hours. They can appear in one area alone, or all areas at once. Often, intense bleeding accompanies them, and the period before they appear is characterized by depression and weakness. Some stigmatics report feeling whips across their backs.

The first recorded case of these wounds was in the year 1222, by a man names Stephen Langton of England. St. Francis of Assissi, a famous follower of Jesus, experienced wounds in 1224. The wounds can be experienced by both men and women. One of the more famous female stigmatics was St. Catherine of Siena, who experienced invisible wounds on her hands and feet. An interesting fact about stigmata is that it corresponds with the Passion and Death of Christ. Many wounds appear during the Last Supper, and the holy days of Easter. They disappear on Easter itself. Stigmatics reportedly speak to visions of Christ and angels during their trials, and smell strange scents. There are even reported cases of the blood types not matching between stigmata and wounds. Stigmata has been reported everywhere from America to Italy. There are cases in France, Spain, England, and Germany. The count of these victims has stopped at 345. It is believed that there are many more, however. Among this count are some of the most famous saints, such as St. Frances of Rome, St. Gertrude, St. Collette, St. John of God, and St. Marie of the Incarnation. They span many religious orders, including Dominican priests, Augustinian monks and the Poor Clare nuns.

One of the more interesting theories to explain this phenomenon is the idea of "theological placebo effects." According to this line of thought, stigmatics are so emotionally and physically tied to their belief that they experience a state of mind similar to raptures. It is a fact that the immune system can be controlled by the waking mind, and in some cases, a heartbeat can be consciously slowed. It is this belief that leads some to think that the wounds of the stigmata are personally, albeit unconsciously, produced. Stigmatics still exist today. There were a reported 20 in the nineteenth century, and their numbers are diminishing. One of the most famous current stigmata is Georgio Bongiavani, who has stigmata on his hands and forehead. His religious wounds cannot be explained by any sources, and according to several news reports they appear and disappear at will.

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Marfa Mystery Lights

The Marfa Lights or Marfa Ghost Lights, are a series of lights visible on Mitchell Flat, east of Marfa in Texas. 

They are a repeatable unexplained phenomena, visible sporadically but often, generally between 10 and 20 times per year, always at night. 

Although research has put forth a number of possible explanations, none have been definitively proven.

Marfa Lights are typically described as glowing basketball-sized lights in white, yellow, orange and red, although blue and green have both been reported, as well. 

They typically hover at around shoulder height and move slowly and laterally across the landscape, with occasional reports of fast-moving lights that move in all directions. 

Because of the proximity to an Army air field, conspiracy theorists have suggested UFOs as the source of the Marfa Lights, along with Army test projects and experiments. 

Ghosts and spirits have been mentioned, often tying into apocryphal reports of the Marfa Lights being visible back into the 19th century. There have been a number of explanations for the Marfa Lights over the years. Auto headlights were the favored explanation from two studies by Texas State University and the University of Texas at Dallas. Other explanations include a sharp difference in temperature between warm and cold air layers because of Marfa's 4688 above sea level altitude, ball lightning and swamp gas.

The Mysterious Lights of Marfa (Documentary)

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Annabelle the Haunted Doll

In the 1970’s a mother strolling along the street walked into a hobby store, and purchased a large Raggedy-Anne doll as a present for her daughter’s birthday. This begins one of the most unusual cases of a possessed object on record. Annabelle’s antics were so bad, she is now locked inside a protective glass case in an occult museum to keep her at bay. This incident is a terrifying case investigated by famed paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren in the 1970’s. A priest had contacted Ed, and told him of two young nurses who were experiencing terrifying phenomenon in their home. Strange things were occurring to the point that they had contacted the church for help. The church referred the case to the Warrens, who immediately began investigating.

Today, AnnaBelle remains locked in a glass case, and is on display at the Warren Occult museum. The only one of it’s kind, the museum houses haunted artifacts and objects collected from over 50 years of paranormal investigations. It is still reported that while very week, AnnaBelle still manages to turn up in the strangest of places.

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The Great Amherst Mystery

Famous poltergeist case which took place in 1878-79 in Amherst, Nova Scotia. The focus of the case was 18-year-old Esther Cox, who lived in the overcrowded Teed home with her sister Jennie, her other sister Olive and her husband Daniel Teed, her brother William, Daniel Teed's brother John, and the two Teed boys. About a week after Esther's boyfriend, Bob MacNeal, tried to rape her at gunpoint, scratching noises were heard in Esther's bedroom, and she screamed to her sister Jennie that there was a mouse in the bed with her. As Jennie rushed to her aid, she saw a cardboard box move by itself, and of course, no mouse was found. The next night, Esther's face turned bright red, and her body swelled to twice its normal size. While Esther cried that she was dying, a loud booming noise was heard outside. A few days later, Esther was still alarmingly swollen. Her bedsheets were torn off her while she was sleeping and thrown at John Teed, who immediately left the home, swearing never to return. The rest of the Teed family sat on Esther's sheets to try to keep them in place.

When the local doctor visited to examine Esther, plaster flew off the walls, and, chillingly, the words "Esther Cox, you are mine to kill!" appeared on the wall above her bed. When the doctor prescribed morphine the next day, he was hit by a volley of potatoes, which struck so hard that he was actually knocked across the room. Loud noises continued for weeks, and the lurid story hit the newspapers. A local minister witnessed a bucket of cold water come to a boil while sitting on the kitchen table. Esther fell into a trance and told that Bob MacNeal had tried to rape her. Jennie proclaimed that the haunting was Bob's fault, and the poltergeist began rapidly knocking on the walls, as if in agreement. In future messages the ghost wrote on walls, it would often sign itself "Bob".
When Esther caught diptheria, the haunting ceased, but it started back up again when she recovered. She got a job at a restaurant owned by a neighbor, but while she was at the restaurant, she was hit on the head with a scrubbing brush, oven doors clanged open, and things stuck to her like she was a magnet. She was given special shoes with glass soles in an attempt to reduce some of the phenomena, but she said the shoes gave her headaches and nosebleeds. She also began to hear voices in her head which threatened to stab her and burn the Teed home down - lit matches sometimes rained down on her from the bedroom ceiling, and one of her dresses once caught fire while it was hanging in the closet.

When a magician came to Amherst, hoping to make some money exploiting the phenomena, the poltergeist threw carving knives, an umbrella, and a chair at him. Pins were jammed into Eshter's hand, fires broke out in the house, and a trumpet was heard playing in the home (later, a small silver trumpet was found--no one could remember seeing it before). Esther's brother George found himself forcibly undressed in public three different times by the poltergeist, and the family cat was levitated five feet in the air.

Concerned that the poltergeist trouble would affect the property's value, the Teed's landlord asked Esther to leave the house. She went to work on a local farm, but when items disappeared, she was accused of theft, and when the barn burned down, she was accused of arson and sentenced to four months in jail. During her time in the big house, the poltergeist activity stopped entirely and never returned. Esther was able to return to a normal life - unfortunately, that included whispers about whether she engineered the poltergeist herself and a lifelong drinking problem.

The Great Amherst Mystery (Documentary)

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Mystery of the Mitchell Hedges Crystal Skull

The Mayan the most mysterious, Masonic civilization ever existed on our planet; not only did they do some of the biggest code breaking on time and space, but they actually showed evidence of advance technology much beyond our brain capacity. British explorer Mitchell Hedges first found the skull in 1924 in South America, and that was the turning point of not just the mystery of this skull, but the entire history of Mayan and Aztecs exploded. The Crystal Skull, if looked directly under the photon camera, which shows light energy, you can not only see a highly defined vein structure inside the skull, but the whole functionality of the skull only works when the detached jaw is in place under the main body. Looking carefully into the eye socket, you will notice it has a source of light beam which exhibits different prism within it if you pass a light through. According to many scientists, this Crystal Skull could not have been made on earth, but only in zero-gravity. Even today, the modern man can not make a human skull from crystal, and have the same light energy transmit from within. It is too complicated and much beyond the intellect capacity of human even in the new millennium. Because of such facts, it not only convinces us of an alien presence back in the past, but gives us the biggest clue that we were never alone. If Maya did have an original blue print about the skull, the bigger question is why this skull was built with such mathematical and anatomically correct precision.

In history it is said that when 12 crystal skulls come together, man will finally know the answers to their existence.

Mystery of the Crystal Skulls (Documentary):

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The Curse of Franz Ferdinand’s Car

In 1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie visited Sarajevo in their brand-new six seat, open touring car. As the Graf & Stift approached the corner of Rudolph Street, shots were fired by Gavrilo Princip, a student anarchist. Both Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie were killed, but the Graf & Stift survived the attack unscathed. With this event started a conflict that soon would be known as "The Great War" and that we call now "World War I".
General Potiorek was one of the surviving passengers in the car on that faithful day, and through a strange and morbid twist of fate he was the next owner of this death trap on wheels. Several weeks into the war, the General of Austria’s armies was routed and Potiorek was recalled to Austria, denounced by his regent and removed from his post. He slipped into poverty and madness, eventually dying.
A captain on the general’s staff next assumed ownership of the limo, keeping it for a brief nine days before the officer struck and killed two peasants, swerved into a tree and broke his neck.
After the war the car wound up in the possession of the governor of Yugoslavia. According to reports, he suffered four terrible accidents in four months, eventually losing his left arm. Either victim of the curse or a truly bad driver, the governor sold the car to a doctor who was crushed to death when the the murder-mobile flipped over into a ditch.
With a growing list of victims, the car next was owned by a Swiss race car driver who was killed while driving it, or more accurately was killed by being thrown out of it like a baseball out of a batting machine. Enthralled by the car’s historical value, a Serbian farmer bought it next, and was killed after he failed to take into the car’s murderous reputation. When the motor failed to start one day, he hitched it to a horse and wagon to tow it, forgetting to turn off the ignition. The car turned over and slammed into gear without warning, hit the wagon, overturned and killed the farmer.
The last known victim was a garage owner named Tibor Hirshfield, who was killed along with his passengers when this blood-lusting limo spun out of control on the way back from a wedding. It now resides in a Viennese museum, and it is never taken out for a drive.

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Is the JNIMS Hospital Haunted?

If reports are to be believed, the gynaecology department in the JNIMS hospital (located in Porompat, Imphal East, Manipur) is haunted. The exact spot where the strongest paranormal activity has been reported is the area from the toilet and the entire stretch of the corridor leading to it from the ward. (from e-pao.net)

Affected people describe the experience of sensing the presence of someone close by, or tingling sensations, or changes in temperature, or heavy footsteps following them when there was clearly not a single person in that are, that is apart from the victims themselves. These experiences have been related mostly by attendants of patients, but it seems the staff on night duty have had similar experiences. What makes this story relevant is how such activities, which only be described as paranormal, affect the attendants of seriously ill people.

It is traumatic enough tending after near and dear ones and to top it all face paranormal activity could be nerve wracking. One step to clam frayed nerves could be establish the facts, that is, whether paranormal activity is going on or not in that ward. Even if is established that such activities do take place it could comfort a lot of people. The human mind is such that once faced with the inevitable it adjusts to live with it.

The answer would lie in finding intrepid people who can operate electronic voice sensors, detect movement and record temperature fluctuations. One believes temperature changes which take place suddenly are indicative of paranormal activity. These can be done at the dead of night, and anyway the scary happenings, it seems, take place only late in the night. The ambience of a hospital should be such that it soothes frayed nerves. The very presence of doctors, nurses and other competent staff should provide succour to those who feel their life is at the end of the tether. It should be a place of treatment and convalescence, a place where supportive kith, kin and good friends go to see people in distress. Fear of the unknown, particularly the scary type could be pernicious to inmates and their attendants, and in this superstition laden society of ours, the next thing we could be witnessing is bizarre spiritual cleansing exercises or downright exorcisms.

On the other hand we also do not want a scenario where you have a seriously ill patient who needs constant attention, scared as hell at the idea of dying, only to find his or her attendant coming back from the toilet ashen faced, trembling like a leaf and needing more medical attention than he or she does.
Or worse still who literally dropped dead out of horror and shock.

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Nottinghamshire Police Witchcraft, Ghost and UFO Reports

Nottinghamshire Police received more than 80 reports of ghosts, witchcraft and UFO sightings in the last six years. The force revealed there were 46 reports of witchcraft, three UFO sightings and 34 incidents involving ghosts. (from www.bbc.co.uk)

Chief Inspector Ted Antill said there were calls where officers did attend the scene of "ghost sightings". He confirmed the UFO sightings were "exclusively" Chinese lanterns.

Paul Stevenson, from Haunted Magazine based in Sutton-in-Ashfield, submitted the Freedom of Information request to the police which led to the disclosure of the figures. He said he was "very surprised" by the amount the police had received.

Chief Inspector Antill said there are calls which at first appear to be "serious incidents", like intruders in the property, but turn out "to be of the ghost nature". "When we have started interviewing people they talked about relatives that had just died and  it could have been the ghosts of these people."

The Freedom of Information Act allows a right of access to recorded information held by public authorities.

UFO over Nottinghamshire

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Mystery of Spontaneous Human Combustion

Spontaneous combustion is the strange phenomena of when a human catches fire without any source of ignition. 

The strange thing about spontaneous human combustion is that there is  no proven cause so far. In most cases of spontaneous human combustion, the body will be found burnt, usually from the inside out, with a limb or two left to be found. Usually the surrounding area is not burnt, solely the body of the deceased.

Spontaneous combustion cases have been reported for around 300 years. The first official documented case of spontaneous human combustion was reported by the Danish anatomist Thomas Bartholin in 1663. He detailed how a woman in Paris was incinerated while sleeping. The straw mattress on which she slept was untouched by the fire.

One of the most famous cases of the phenomena was that of Mary Reeser in 1951 who was reduced to a pile of ashes except for her skull and foot. In 1982, the township of Edmondton north of London, was shocked when they heard a local girl - Jeannie Saffin - had burst into flames while sitting beside her father in their home. Jeannie later died from the horrific burns. In 1990, a Chinese newspaper ran a story about the spontaneous combustion of four-year-old Tong Tangjiang.

What Causes Spontaneous Combustion?

Some believe the phenomenon is due to bacterial action, similar to that which causes haystacks to burst into flames. If the centre of the haystack is moist bacteria multiplies rapidly, producing heat in the fermentation process. Bacteria in the human alimentary canal or stomach might cause a similar effect. But experts say bacteria could never generate enough heat to consume a human body – it takes over a thousand-degrees Celsius in a crematorium.

Another thing that deepens the mystery is that there is no evidence that any of the victims in recorded cases of spontaneous combustion try to escape or get help. They seem to simply remain sat down wherever they are.

Spontaneous Human Combustion (Documentary)

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Unexplained Mysteries: The Shadow People

Shadow people is a phenomenon that seems to have be witnessed mostly in the last 10-20 years, although there is some anecdotal evidence of shadow people that goes back possibly a thousand years. 

Shadow people are generally described as dark silhouettes that are human-shape with no discernible mouths, noses, or facial expressions, sometimes red eyes are reported. They are generally described as male. Two common types of Shadow people are the Hat-Man. This appears as a silhouette of a man wearing a 1930s style fedora hat. The other is a cloaked figure wearing a hood. Others report them as shapeless wispy black blobs and swirling columns of thin dark smoke. Shadow people are similar to ghost sightings, but differ in that Shadow people are not reported as having human features or wearing period clothing. Furthermore ghosts are reported to be seen as white/grey or even in full colour. 

Ghost like apparitions often attempt to communicate with the living. The appearance of Shadow people seems to be more fleeting. The behavior of Shadow people ranges greatly from shy and skittish to downright nasty and malevolent a feeling of dread is associated by witnesses and animals appear to react with fear and hostility. Their movement is often described as being very quick and disjointed; they may first move slowly, as if they were passing through a heavy liquid, and then rapidly "hop" to another part of a witness's surroundings. Some witnesses describe this movement as though the shadow entities they have seen "danced" from one wall to the next, or as moving around the room "as if they were on a specific track". They often completely disappear into solid walls. 

Theories About the Shadow People Phenomenon

• A theory is that Shadow People are not ghosts or demons but inter-dimensional beings, perhaps an Ultraterrestrial, whose reality overlaps with ours from time to time. Strangely enough red eyes are reported with other inter-dimensional beings such as the Mothman. Shadow people are described with striking similarities all over the world such as the Hat-Man which is described the same from small children to adults. 

• Another theory is that Shadow people are psychological in nature, and that they are somehow linked to a modern stressful lifestyle. And as shadow people are seen mainly in the corner of ones eye a condition known as Pareidolia could be responsible. This is a condition where vision in the peripheral area of the eye incorrectly interprets random patterns of light/shadow or texture as being familiar patterns such as faces and human forms. 

• An ancient spirit - the last echo of a spirit or ghost that has existed for an extended period of time. 

• Thought forms, (egregore or a tulpa), ghost or demon created through various means, including negative psychic energy, black magic and other occult practices, or an event in which extreme emotional or physical stress/trauma has taken place. 

• Optical illusions or hallucinations brought on by the physiological/psychological circumstances of the witnesses. i.e stress, mental illness.

Real Life Mystery: Shadow People (Video)

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Ghostly Image Shocks St. John's Wedding Guests

People at a wedding reception at the Newman Wine Vaults in St. John's believe they caught an image of an uninvited and otherworldly guest.

Newlyweds Matt White and Danielle Hann said one of their friends was shocked by the digital image she took at the June 18 event. "Karen was staring at this camera and she came running out with the camera saying, 'Look what I just took! Look what I just took! There's somebody in the picture," said White. On the right-hand side of the photograph, some see a figure that seems to be wearing a white top and floating in the air. "Somehow it's not as creepy in the daylight," said White. But it still makes Hann uneasy. "I don't know, it's still creepy," she said. St. John's folklorist Dale Jarvis said it might be explained away as a reflection or a light flare, but he added that the Newman Wine Vaults does have a haunting history. "It is one of those places that continually generates new ghost stories. So, this is part of that tradition for the space," said Jarvis, who has collected many St. John's ghost stories. Jarvis is the organizer of the city's "haunted hike" – a tour of the downtown area that recounts many of the stories he has been told. The Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage website said the history of the wine vault is unclear. It's believed to have been built in the early 19th century, and was used by the English mercantile firm Newman and Company to age port wine from Portugal in St. John's – a tradition that began in the late 17th century and continued until the late 19th century. The building is on a long-term lease from Newman & Company to the Newfoundland Historic Trust. The Trust has developed the vaults into a museum dedicated to recounting the history of Newfoundland's liquor trade.

Source: cbc.ca

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Ghosts in the Bible

The ancient Israelites, like other ancient peoples, held a belief that human persons continue to exist after the death of their bodies. 

This existence is in a shadowy spectral body form in a place called sheol which, on some accounts, was in a vast cavern beneath the surface of the earth. This is the worldview backdrop against which we should read the story of the Witch of Endor calling up the ghost of Samuel (1 Samuel 28). 

Note how this background worldview and the details of the story both fit comfortably within the contemporary concept of ghosts as people who have survived the demise of their physical bodies and continue to exist with a spectral body. This basic picture was shared by the ancient Greeks and Romans and can be seen operative in the background worldview of the disciples of Jesus. 

Consider Mark 6:48-50: He was about to pass by them, but when they saw him walking on the lake, they thought he was a ghost. They cried out, because they all saw him and were terrified. Since ghosts were a part of the background worldview of the disciples it is understandable that when they first saw Jesus they thought he was a ghost. 

A rich understanding of the world of ghosts is also behind Luke 24:36-37: While they were still talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you." They were startled and frightened, thinking they saw a ghost. At this point Luke shows a real awareness of the popular first century views on ghosts among Greeks, Romans and Hebrews for he carefully distinguishes the post-resurrection body of Jesus from disembodied spirits, revanants (that is, mere reanimated corpses), immortal heroes and translated mortals (see Deborah Thompson Prince, "The 'Ghost' of Jesus: Luke 24 in Light of Ancient Narratives of Post-Morten Apparitions", JSNT, 29, 3 (2007), 287-301). This is the rich world of ghosts that frames the "pareschatology" of the Bible. 

Source: christianpost.com

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Two Famous Vampire Cases in History

Two main vampire cases, which were the first to be officially recorded: Unexplained cases of Peter Plogojowitz (died in 1725) and Arnold Paole (died in 1726). Both cases are unbelievably similar.

Arnold Paole (Serbian: Arnaut Pavle) was a Serbian outlaw, who allegedly killed sixteen people postmortem in his village of Meduegna (Serbian: Medveđa). Peter Plogojewitz (Serbian: Petar Blagojević) was a Serbian peasant who night-stalked about nine people in his village of Kisilova (Serbian: Kisiljevo). Both deaths precluded a sudden spate of mysterious 24 hour illnesses in their respective villages, and thus were automatically assumed to be vampires, preying on their fellow villagers. Both men had claimed to have been previously attacked by vampires, and both claimed to have followed all the precautionary measures after such an attack–bathing in the blood of the vampire, and eating the dirt from his grave. Following the attribution of the attacks to vampirism, the villagers went into mass-hysteria mode, demanding that both the bodies be exhumed for examination.

The documentation of the Austrian police who became involved allows a thorough understanding of what happened to poor Arnold and Peter after they had been targeted. In Arnold’s case, Contagious Medicus Glaser (essentially, an infectious disease specialist) studied the mysterious deaths, and concluded that they were resultant of the malnutrition in his area, as well as the unhealthful effects of severe Eastern Orthodox fasting. However, the villagers weren’t having it, and insisted on digging up the bodies. Glaser’s observations proving Arnold’s vampirism, and the extremely similar ones made in Peter’s case, have been proven to be merely the observations of a decomposing body, including hair, nail, and toenail growth (skin sagging back or peeling off), the bodies were engorged, presumably on blood (bloating), and there remained “fresh” uncoagulated blood at the mouth (a possibility in decomposition, or perhaps bodily fluids). Peter’s body was sprang on, staked, and burned. Arnold’s was decapitated and burned.

History of Vampires (Documentary)

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Haitian Zombies – Who are They?

It is impossible to talk about Haiti and do not affect such fashionable topics as zombies. If only because it is the only country in the world where the penal code there is an article prohibited from engaging zombies. This phenomenon – part of the everyday reality of Tahiti. 

Who are the zombies, if not lies and literariness? Sustainable idea of them is. This substance, like rising from the graves of the dead. They move with a completely absent gaze, deprived of their liberty and are ordered to carry out any work: at least dig up the garden, while killing a man. Zombies – not fiction. Just around this phenomenon, too much imagination. But there are serious hypothesis. 

Black magicians in the time of the slave trade was brought from the West African recipes herbal beverages, which together with the hypnotic influence of lead man to the deep lethargy. Biological processes in the body is very slow. Even in the civilized world, these “fake dead” often fall into the morgue, and then come to life under the scalpel pathologist. And in the remote villages in Tahiti all in the hands of the black magician, priest vuduizmu – bizarre religion of slaves, a mixture of ancient magical beliefs of African tribes with elements mangled Catholicism. The priest-mage knows when and how to bring back to life (and in reality, only to awaken) their victims who have already considered dead. There are cases for approval of its power magicians bring the case to this funeral – they know how to provide the necessary air flow to the grave “dead”. 

The criminal nature of these research is still in that magical infusions really crippled man, deprived of his liberty. Zombie – obedient living mechanism. He retained only the physiology and the ability to carry out any orders. It is quite clear – this explanation is very schematic, but the closest to reality. Unfortunately, the methods of ancient magic being used not only in remote villages in Tahiti.

Zombies: When the Dead Walk - Clairvius Narcisse

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Unexplained Noises in the Former Jail

Workers in the former jail building in Hondo say unexplained noises and unusual sightings are spirits. Medina County Judge Jim Barden isn't joking when he says an other-worldly spirit has made its presence known in the former jail building that now houses his staff.

He recently was spooked into leaving by the sound of unexplained footsteps as he worked alone, after hours.

“I walked all over the building and there wasn't anything there,” Barden, 74, said Wednesday. “I wouldn't have gone home if I hadn't felt something weird and uncomfortable.”

He and co-workers report repeatedly experiencing unexplained phenomena since early 2010 when they moved into the former lockup upon completion of a $1.2 million conversion into offices.

Beside hearing “footsteps” and other noises in a vacant stairwell, reports among the building's six workers include catching glimpses of shadowy figures moving about, hearing voices, even being touched.

The county's human resource director, Stacey Cameron, has developed a more personal relationship with the spirits.

She initially attributed it to tricks of the mind. But then she had the distinct feeling of being touched and poked, forcing her to confront the ghosts directly.

“I just told them not to touch me anymore, and it hasn't,” said Cameron, 38.

Her assistant, Yvonne Garcia, has grown used to unusual events, like hearing a woman's voice when no one else is in the 1,900-square-foot building.

“Lately I've seen shadows, but I don't know if it's just me,” she said.

Although eager for an explanation, Barden has no plans to hire professional ghost hunters to investigate the mystery.

“We don't want to spend taxpayers' money on that,” said Barden, a retired telephone corporate attorney and executive. “I accept the fact that there are spirits, and we have had unexplained phenomena in this building.”

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Aokigahara: The Ghost Forest of Japan

Aokigahara is a forest located at the base of Mount Fuji, near Tokyo, Japan. Once associated with demons in Japanese mythology, it is now a popular destination for people seeking to end their own lives. It is unknown how many people have committed suicide in the forest, but it is estimated around 500 have killed themselves there since the 1950s.
The forest is typically ranked 2nd in the world for most suicides in one location, (after the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California). In 2008 alone, 78 bodies were found among the rocky, volcanic floor.

Recently, the government has stopped releasing death tolls within Aokigahara in order to downplay the situation and avoid bringing more attention to the area. Signs have been posted in Japanese and English begging people to turn back and reconsider their actions. Despite their best efforts, officials and volunteers have been forced to hold yearly body searches since the 1970s.

Aokigahara’s history with death goes beyond suicides, as well. In the past, during droughts and other hard times, some Japanese would practice the act of ubasute, which was the nearly ritualistic practice of carrying the sick and elderly into the forest and leaving them to die. Reputedly, the forest is haunted by the victims of ubasute as well as the countless people who ended their own lives on the grounds.

These ghosts, called Yūrei, are said to torment and bring despair to those who enter Aokigahara. Forest rangers, who have the difficult task of retrieving bodies, have reported hearing mournful cries and howls of the dead. Visitors to the area have claimed to witness the shadows of people hanging from tree branches. Spiritualists called to investigate these claims, have said that the trees themselves are filled with malevolent energy from being surrounded by depression and death for so long.

Few animals call the densely-packed forest home. The resulting silence can be overwhelming. For whatever lack of living creatures, many insist the forest is home to an ever-growing army of lost souls. The discarded and depressed, they believe, still wander through a sea of trees, rooted in death.

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Conversations With the Dead

It has been proven over centuries that conversation with the dead is possible. Mediums often contact the deceased for information and discussion. A medium in a seance acts as a channel to the spirit world and communication becomes a reality. People do communicate with the spirits and the spirits also make contact with the living as shown in poltergeist activity and cases of haunted houses. The act of contacting the dead should always be treated with care, respect, and reverence. This goes down well with them. Even though they have no physical body spirits can feel emotion and are able to sense your thoughts. Plus, here is one to note down, they are very busy in the afterlife with their own inner growth to work on and we must respect their time as we respect ours. Spirits are busy on the other side, the realm behind the veil, and are working hard on their own development. If we understand when we make contact we are taking them away from their duties we can make certain we only contact them in emergencies and only when absolutely necessary.

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Who is Haunting St. Martins Cave?

When Moncton resident Craig Wood tried to snap a quick picture of his daughter Abby, her sister Jenna and some other tourists exploring one of the caves in picturesque St. Martins last summer, he captured someone else in the shot - a pale apparition of a man who Craig says just wasn't there when he snapped the photo with his cellphone.

Craig says he doesn't believe in ghosts, but he has no idea how the image appeared. And what the heck's that blue orb glowing over there at left edge of the frame? He's curious to hear what others think.

"At first I thought I took a reflection of myself somehow," he says. Indeed, the silhouette does bear some resemblance to the man who took the photograph, but it's not conclusive by a long shot.

In the old days of photography on film, it would simply be some kind of classic double exposure, but in a digital pic taken on a mobile phone?

Also, there's no other photo of Craig or anyone except Abby in any of the other pictures on the phone.

Of course, the apparition doesn't turn up in any of the more mundane places he took photos of Abby in the days before - parks and playgrounds and the like.

Instead, in classic ghost story fashion, it shows up in a cave in a picturesque coastal fishing village that drips with history the way water drips from the ceiling of the cave itself.

According to information provided by the village, St. Martins was first settled in 1783 by a group of loyalist soldiers known as the King's Orange Rangers. The original name of the community was Goolwagagek, a Mi'kmaq word meaning "haunt of the hooded seal," according to the DeMoulles map of 1686.

From the looks of things, the place may be haunted, but that's no hooded seal in the photo.

"I hate calling it a ghost, but the farther I go with it ..." Wood says, the thought trailing off.

"Maybe I got a shot of Elvis in his fat years," he says with a laugh, at a loss for any other way to explain it.

Craig has been back to St. Martins five or six times since, talking to locals and trying to learn about local ghost lore.

"In St. Martins nobody knows me by name. They know me as 'the ghost guy,'" he says.

The key ghost story from the area is The Burning Ship of St. Martins, essentially the same phenomenon sometimes seen on New Brunswick's Northumberland coast, what appears to be a burning sailing ship with people aboard who can be heard screaming for help.

It's said to appear every few years, usually on or about July 1. Craig snapped his shot last July 3.

That's enough to get folks in the seaside community talking about the possibility the figure is the ghost of a ship's captain, perhaps looking for survivors after his ship has wrecked. Possibly, whatever that thing is that is in his hand is a lantern from a bygone era.

Others think it's the ghost of the pirate Captain Kidd, said to have explored the Fundy coast. Is the ghost looking for treasure left in the cave years ago?

That camp says the figure in the photograph is wearing a coat from that era and the rear leg of the figure is a peg leg.

Still others say it's just some contemporary dude wearing shorts.

Craig says he's found in some ways the spectral image is a form of Rorschach inkblot test. What you see might say more about your own interests than anything about the image. He's found a local historian in St. Martins who's convinced it's a sea captain from the glorious era when tiny St. Martins was the third-largest shipbuilding community on the east coast. Craig's brother says it's clear the figure's holding a bag of money. A woman he knows says the man is carrying a small child.

The television show Ghost Hunters doesn't know what to say about the photograph, but its producers are interested. The problem is the production costs that would be involved in shipping a film crew from the Seattle-based show out to the Bay of Fundy. Possibly, the producers haven't looked at the Village of St. Martins website and realized what a videographer's dream Canada's most picturesque village is.

At any rate, they wanted Craig to ship the phone to them for analysis, but he's refused for fear of it being lost in shipping.

Craig doesn't even use the phone anymore for fear he will somehow accidentally erase the image, now carrying one phone for calling people and the other just to share his mysterious story. He won't even take the smart card out of it in case that somehow breaks the spell - be that spell either the hocus-pocus kind to the technical gremlin kind.

"I don't know what to do with the picture next," he says.

But of one thing Craig Wood is certain.

"I've had a ball with it."

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UFOs and Ghosts Among 'Paranormal Activity' Investigated by Police Force

A number of sightings of paranormal activity, including UFOs and ghosts, have been investigated by police in the Tayside region, a report has revealed.

Although officers in Dundee, Perthshire and Angus did not receive any reports of zombies, witches or vampires, several people got raised the alarm with police about an "alien spacecraft".
One person also contacted Tayside Police in January 2009 claiming they were being attacked by ghosts in their Dundee house.
But officers who attended found that the person who raised the alarm was hallucinating.
The weird and wonderful that officers from Tayside Police have been called out for in the last three years has been revealed in their response to a Freedom of Information request.
Three of the five incidents of paranormal activity in Tayside reported between 2009 and 2011 have been given explanations by officers, while the other two remain unexplained.
Apart from the hallucinatory incident involving ghosts in Dundee, officers also explained to a witness reporting a UFO sighting in Crieff, Perthshire, in February 2010, that the orange lights in the sky were not from an unknown life-form, but that of Chinese lanterns.
The next month police received a report of another UFO in Fife, which officers investigated and found out was in fact a radio transmitter.
However, in an incident that would have got X Files' Mulder and Scully excited, at 11.11pm on May 13, 2009, a witness reported a UFO sighting in Glen Lyon, Perthshire.
They described a triangular shaped bright white light in the sky, which police have still classified as "unexplained".
Almost a year later at around 2am on April 27, 2010, a Dundee resident reported a sighting of lights in the sky over the city, believed by the caller to be either UFOs or day break
No police attendance was requested or required, although the incident has been recorded as "unexplained".
The freedom of information request asked for details of "reports of UFOs, ghosts, witches, vampires and zombies" in the last three years.
The response to the request explained it “may not reflect an accurate picture of the number of reports of this type” made to the force as these were the paranormal activity reports containing the keywords.
In order to carry out a thorough check of all odd goings-on reported to police, they would need to go through every single report manually for the last three years, which would exceed the £600 threshold for the processing of a request under Freedom of Information legislation.
Tayside Police also could not provide details of how much money and manpower had been spent on investigations into paranormal incidents.

Source: news.stv.tv

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'Shadow Person' Caught on Knickerbocker Hotel Web Cam

The Knickerbocker Hotel in Linesville, PA, is used to catching something anomalous on their well-trained web cams. And this time - it may be a "shadow person" who was caught in the act in this April 2011 image.

Owners Myrle and Peg Knickerbocker placed cameras in many rooms on all three of the hotel's floors and they stream 24 hours a day and seven days a week. Viewers worldwide can have a peek at any time - and some actually catch something.
In this case, a viewer was watching earlier this month and was able to snap the picture on this page.
The viewer who caught the ghostly image says the shadow person has their arms folded, and if you zoom in, you can also see his legs.
I spent a fair share of my own time exploring the hotel. If you don't walk away with a paranormal tale of your own, it's unusual.

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Legend of Block Island's Spectral Ship

Rhode Island legend tells of a spectral ship that haunts the waters of Block Island, bursting into flame and sinking into the ocean.
Depending on the version of the story, the ship augurs bad weather, and may also appear on the Saturday between Christmas and New Year's.

The tales hold that the ship is the ghost of one that wrecked on the island's northern point shortly after Christmas 1738.
And while there's good evidence that a British ship, the Princess Augusta, carrying a load of passengers from territory that would become Germany, ran aground on the island on Dec. 27, 1738, there's accord on little else about the incident.

A deposition taken from the ship's crew shortly after the incident and republished in 1939 tells of a voyage in which provisions were scarce, half the crew had died, and others were hobbled by the extreme cold.
In the document, crew members said a heavy snowstorm drove the ship aground. They testified that Captain Andrew Brook encouraged those on the ship to save what they could of it and its cargo ''both before and after She broke to Pieces. . . ."
According to folklorist Michael Bell, of Cranston, within the century after the incident, two versions of the story became popular.
The on-island version told of the residents' generosity rescuing and nursing back to health the ill and starving passengers, who had been abused and exploited by the captain or the crew. The other version was immortalized by the 19th-century poet and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier.
Whittier's ''The Palatine" appeared in The Atlantic Monthly in 1867. In it, Block Islanders recall the wreck and some islanders' roles in causing it by igniting false signal lights to draw the ship aground.

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