Up-to-the-minute reports of paranormal activity and news from around the world

GHOSTS, HAUNTED PLACES AND POLTERGEISTS:

Now you can get married in a haunted prison
Recently Ohio's Mansfield Reformatory hosted its fifth annual Glamour in the Slammer Bridal Show. About 500 people showed up to the most haunted former prison in the country, but if they're hoping to get married there they have a bit of a wait - the venue is already booked through the end of 2012...


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Ghostly activity at the Exchange Hotel
Surgeons sawed bone while wounded wandered, waited and languished and the dead were stacked like firewood in a nearby railroad depot. Rumors persist of a past checkered by an unfaithful spouse, an evil midnight deed, a lady of the night plying her trade and human limbs, their bones smashed into fragments that rendered tissue beyond repair, cut from bodies and tossed in piles...

LOST WORLDS:

Two massive pits define processional route at Stonehenge
Archaeologists have discovered evidence of two huge pits positioned on celestial alignment at Stonehenge. Shedding new light on the significant association of the monument with the sun, these pits may have contained tall stones, wooden posts or even fires to mark its rising and setting and could have defined a processional route used by agriculturalists to celebrate the passage of the sun across the sky at the summer solstice...

PROPHETS AND PROPHECIES:

Amazing Hopi prophesy for our future
The prophesies of the Hopi Indians are fascinating to read.

Some believe that Hopi prophesy holds the key to the future and foretell of the end of the world as we know it. It is impossible to know for certain if these predictions are true, but one fact is certain: each Hopi prophecy seems to mirror the prophecies of other cultures as well...
(Also read: Popes and Prophecy)

HUMAN MYSTERIES:

Spontaneous human combustion and witchcraft!
A letter appears in an English journal in 1800 relating to events on 10 April 1744. It is an interesting document because it combines two paranormal facts typically kept apart: witchcraft and spontaneous human combustion...

PSYCHIC PHENOMENA:

Q & A with animal communicator and pet psychic Sonya Fitzpatrick
No matter how many pets we have or how much we spend on them, there's still a missing link keeping humans and our furry friends from truly understanding one another: direct communication...
(Also read: Are Pets Psychic or Just Super-Sensitive?)

Premonitions or coincidence?
Premonitions are another one of those phenomena which are very common, but which official science declares cannot exist, and therefore do not exist. A couple of years ago some folk related their premonitions on a brief TV documentary. For the sake of fairness, they also interviewed a sceptic, who explained them by a combination of chance and selective memory. To put it simply, our brains are wired to notice the exceptional events. We remember an unusual coincidence, and forget all the times our hunches or premonitions turned out false...
(Also read: What To Do with Your Premonitions)

MEDIA - BOOKS, MOVIES, TV:

The psychology of the paranormal
An Introduction to the Psychology of Paranormal Belief and Experience. In this intriguing book, Tony Jinks, a lecturer on neuroscience at the University of Western Sydney, uses a wide definition of the paranormal, encompassing all the various topics covered by Magonia, and takes a detailed examination of the range of psychological explanations, both mainstream and exotic used to "explain" such experiences...