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When it comes to having a good time, Fairfield's Tashia Guinn prefers prowling the dank, darkened passageways of a decommissioned aircraft carrier to Disneyland any day.
The omission of Farrah Fawcett from the In Memoriam segment of last night's Oscars was terrible.
Whether Midterm Break means lying on a beach with the ocean splashing nearby and the bright sun overhead or staying home and sleeping until noon, the best accessories for break include the most pop...
With the reality show craze in full effect, it's amazing that more of these programs haven't merged.
When Lewis Brooks was growing up in Dallas in the 1950s, tales of the supernatural shrouded the local grounds where departed inmates had been held and suspects tried.
Micah Sloat at the 2010 Independent Spirit Awards on Friday The rumored list of directors Paramount has in line to succeed Oren Peli as the director of "Paranormal Activity 2" includes Brian De Pal...
We have recently added a new section to our PIHA website asking any paranormal organization that has investigated a historic community, museum or public historical site to post their results and a ...
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The judge who sentenced a couple to prison yesterday for the death of their son says members of their church must quit relying on faith-healing when their children’s lives are at stake. “The fact i
Basic Flavors Inc., the Las Vegas company at the center of a recall of more than 100 food products, continued to make and distribute food ingredients for about a month after it learned the bacteria sa
An unearthed tomb on Crete reveals a dynasty of priestesses reigned on the isle during the "Dark Ages" of ancient Greece. In an Archaeology magazine report, writer Eti Bonn-Muller details the resul
I think we have some pagans living in our part of town. Several, actually - and not all in one big, leafy communal house, either. They're sprinkled about the neighborhood like elf-dust. Which is fi
Prosecutors will not pursue charges against a Marine reservist accused of beating a Greek Orthodox priest with a tire iron. Reservist Jasen Bruce said he simply was defending himself from a man who
Vikram Bhatt’s forthcoming film Shaapit incorporates Theban, or the Witches’ Alphabet. It is used in witchcraft to hide magical writing from prying eyes. The director has researched Theban extensi
The group thinkprogress.org reports that a Texas town has assumed a position similar to the group Hezbollah, whose name equates to "Army of God". Their motto is "spritual warfare" against all who don'
"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you," then, with apologies to Kipling, you might not be a climate scientist. Well-publicized troubles have mounted
D.C. joins Connecticut, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts and Iowa in allowing same-sex marriage. Dozens of same-sex couples plan to marry in the District of Columbia on Tuesday, the first day
Many of the televised reports on the recent Oscars ceremony were as much concerned with what the rich and famous were wearing as with the identity of the winners and the losers. There for us all to se
A teenager plans to marry a schoolgirl in a pagan ceremony next month with the bride’s mother officiating. Using a simple length of rope, Alex Stewart-Pole and Jenni Birch will become partners for
Dowsers from all over Canada are pointing their divining rods at Olds College. The Canadian Society of Questers, a group that promotes the ancient art of divining, will hold their spring conference
Dozens of bodies lined the dusty streets of three Christian villages in northern Nigeria yesterday. Other victims of Sunday morning’s Muslim rampage were jammed into a local morgue, the limbs of slaug
Icelandic Folk Legends – Tales of Apparitions, Outlaws and Things Unseen is a collection of Icelandic folktales translated by one of Iceland’s most widely read bloggers, Alda Sigmundsdóttir of the Ice
If the only thing you know about the Asatru religion is that a convicted killer lost his legal bid for a plastic sword so he could practice it at the South Dakota State Penitentiary, then Harold Chant
Used to be, a woman had to wield a sharp instrument to get any respect in history class. Until the late 1970s, those who got the most ink in school textbooks were Betsy Ross, the widowed upholsterer w
A pagan rocker died at his drug-den farmhouse after a witchcraft ritual went nightmarishly wrong. Junkie Jason Barriskill — who worked in the Tayto Castle food lab — was found slumped at his isolat
Home-school mom Susan Mule wishes she hadn't taken a friend's advice and tried a textbook from a popular Christian publisher for her 10-year-old's biology lessons. Mule's precocious daughter Elizab
Virginia's attorney general is advising the state's public colleges to rescind policies that prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation. Kenneth Cuccinelli says in a letter to college pres
The epic start-up drama surrounding the world's most powerful particle accelerator just took another painful twist.
It was the blockbuster environmental deal of a lifetime: Florida Governor Charlie Crist announced in 2008 that the state was going to buy 180,000 acres of wetlands from United States Sugar Corporat...
There's flame in the trenches, but not the one Space Exploration Technologies was hoping for, as it counted down Tuesday afternoon to the first test-firing of its new Falcon 9 rocket. Two seconds b...
The Maldives government has banned shark fishing in its 35,000 square miles of sovereign waters.
Updated at 9:40 EST Tuesday: SpaceX just released the official word on what happened with Tuesday's 3.5 second test-fire of the Falcon 9 rocket. The test aborted immediately after it started, and...
These ancient DNA samples could open the door to cloning long-extinct species.
My husband and I own the Mason House Inn BnB in Bentonsport, Iowa. When we bought the place in 2001, we were told that one little old lady ghost inhabited one of the bedrooms on the third floor. An...
Paranormal researchers go looking for ghosts in Marmath A team equipped to detect ghosts will be in Marmarth this weekend, hoping to find evidence that apparitions of local lore really do exist.
Step right up — you can now get your very own jetpack. That's right, a real, not-science-fiction-honest-to-goodness jetpack. New Zealander Glenn Martin has been working on perfecting his jetpack ...
A research team from IBM and Stanford announced that they have developed a new, inexpensive method for plastic recycling that could eliminate downcycling, resulting in higher quality products. One ...
Jewish sites are as much a part of Egypt's culture as Muslim mosques or Coptic churches, according to Egypt's Ministry of Culture.
This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Ian O'Neill over at Discovery News/Space, (and formerly of Universe Today!) who has given the Carnival the "Red Carpet" treatment. Click here to read the ...
Images of Mars taken from orbit show a massive system of riverbeds and canyons etched by water. Or maybe not. A new study of one channel shows that it was formed by lava flow and not water, and ...
In a covert operation, the team behind the Academy Award-winning documentary film "The Cove" has captured video footage that they say proves a popular California sushi bar illegally sold whale meat...
The discovery could lead to new, powerful treatments for pain.
A gas company building an underwater pipeline stumbled upon several wrecks, some dating back 800 years.
Neva Morris, of Ames, Iowa, at age 114 years, 216 days, is now the oldest living American.
A Trinity Bay fisherman reports finding the corpse of a strange sea creature tied up in a net last summer. It was described as having an 8-10ft long n...
An elderly grandmother in China has generated much interest due to a peculiar horn that's grown on her forehead. It is not currently known what the st...
NASA and the European Space Agency have drawn up plans for a mission to Jupiter and Europa in 2020. One of the main focuses of the mission will be to ...
Smart phone malware could tap into your phone's microphone, GPS and even your battery.
"The area has had other historical Bigfoot sightings...as well as sightings of animals described as black panthers and cougars," wrote the Lewiston Sun Journal reporter. Images.
Welcome to the 144th Carnival of Space! For those of you who have participated in this weekly cosmic party, you know the drill, but if you're a newcomer, prepare yourself for an experience beyond m...
A new bill in South Dakota urges science teachers to frame global warming as a debate.
With a little genetic engineering, tobacco and other plants can be harnessed to clean up environmental pollutants.
The Maine Warden Service has encountered other exotic snakes, such as cobras and pit vipers, but never this species. Image.
A new VH1 show called ?The Price of Beauty,? hosted by Jessica Simpson, will premiere soon. The theme of the show is the extreme measures that some women will endure to look beautiful. It?s a worth...
From Loch Ness to Burning Man, this well-known and well-traveled writer was a friend to many in the field of unsolved mysteries. Images.
With disasters striking Haiti, Chile and most recently Turkey, it seems like there is no end in sight for the earthquake-weary. New evidence released from Ohio State University (OSU) shows that the...
A glass a day could keep excessive weight gain at bay.
Understanding the mechanics of this reptile's tongue could lead to advancement in prosthetic devices, sports equipment and more.
Say what you like about President Obama, but at least he?s no coward. Otherwise, the last place he?d want to show his face is central Florida, ground zero for the next tsunami of job layoffs follow...
Since the rollout of the FY2011 budget proposal last month, with its major changes to NASA's exploration program contained within it, the agency has struggled to win support from skeptical members ...
The administration's decision to cancel Constellation and abandon the Vision for Space Exploration is another example of a decision made by NASA that impacts international partners. Taylor Dinerma...
Thirty years ago the Air Force explored the possibility of developing a spacecraft launched from a 747. In the second part of his history of the program, Dwayne Day reviews how one company respond...
How much does human spaceflight cost NASA? Claude Lafleur examines the historical record to determine just how much the space agency has spent on sending humans into space over the years.
Much of the attention devoted to NASA's budget request has focused on plans to cancel Constellation and rely on commercial providers for human spaceflight. Luis Fernandez Carril says that such a f...
President Obama will travel to Florida to unveil an "ambitious plan for NASA that sets the agency on a reinvigorated path of space exploration," according to a press release from the White House. ...
As with last week's Universe Puzzle, something that cannot be answered by five minutes spent googling, a puzzle that requires you to cudgel your brains a bit, and do some lateral thinking. This is ...
Cryptomundo wins, but then, so did you. Thank you. More results. Images.
A new rocket propulsion system in development could make travelling to Mars within a couple of months a reality. The new system is being developed by ...
Great white sharks are thought to be migrating west to do battle with giant squids in epic deep-sea confrontations. Both the great white shark and the...
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