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The Science Behind Seeing Monsters In The Dark

With the ghastly specter of Halloween approaching us this week, Medical Daily will be exploring the science behind some of the more terrifying experiences in our day-to-day lives via a mini-series of articles. Enjoy! Monsters In The Dark It’s a dark and foreboding night out in the woods (of course). You’ve ventured out into the unfamiliar…

Alleged UFO captured on video near Ponca City, Okla.

According to Latest UFO Sightings, an unidentified UFO was captured on camera near Ponca City. A wіtnеѕѕ іn Pоnса Cіtу, Oklahoma rероrtеd tо thе Mutuаl UFO Network (MUFON) аbоut hіѕ ѕіghtіng involving a mуѕtеrіоuѕ object hovering іn thе daytime ѕkу. According to hіѕ testimony іn Case 68054 from the MUFON wіtnеѕѕ reporting dаtаbаѕе, he wаtсhеd аnd…

October 28 is a good day to honor Baal.

In ancient times, the Phoenician sun-god Baal of the Heavens was honored annually on or around this date.  He presided over nature and fertility, and was associated with winter rain.  Sacred sun-symbolizing bonfires were lit in his honor by his worshipers in Syria.  Depicted as a warrior with a horned helmet and spear, he was once worshiped as the principal god on Earth until the Christian Myth ran amok.

'Thou Shalt Commit Adultery': The Top 10 Worst Typos In The Bible

"The things that you're liable to read in the Bible, it ain't necessarily so". So sings Sportin' Life, a shady character in Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. He could've been talking about the edition brought out by Robert Barker and Martin Lucas in 1631, which contained typos so egregious they ruined Barker's life. He was stripped of…

Adam and Eve: Myth or Fantasy

A Brief History Of Yoga

Yoga: the trendy practice that your hippie, hipster, or fitness friends rave about. Garbed in yoga pants and carrying colorful mats bought off Amazon, the modern-day “yogi” attends one-hour classes that focus on physical stretching, movement, and detoxing from their busy modern lives. We hear a lot about the benefits of yoga, from its ability to…

George Bush Senior On UFOs: "Americans Can't Handle The Truth"

ORLANDO, FL | Joined by his father George H. W. Bush and his brother George W. Bush during Jeb Bush's latest fundraiser in Orlando this week, George Bush Sr left the large crowd of Jeb Bush partisans uneasy after responding to a question on UFOs by an activist/journalist which the answer took the crowd, and reporters,…

Holiday, Halloween Feature Package

NEW YORK, Oct. 15, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- The following feature package is a roundup of feature stories dealing with Holiday, Halloween and is appropriate for special sections and for general use. For each story included in this package, you will find the first paragraph of the feature release below, as well as its headline linked to…

Can Science Prove There's an Afterlife? Chicago Neurologist Says Yes, in New Memoir That Will Comfort the Dying

A patient's near-death experience and an eerie series of events spanning 13 years sends a doctor on a search for scientific proof of the afterlife. His findings, he says, will comfort the dying, convince many skeptics, and help relatives and friends who have lost loved ones. CHICAGO, Oct. 13, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- When Connie Calderone was…

'Lizard Men Abducted Me To The Moon For Sex'

A former US Air Force radar operator was kidnapped by aliens and forced into slavery on a secret base on The Moon, according to the victim. Niara Terela Isley has revealed the moment she was first abducted by a spacecraft and then to a base run by "reptilian beings", but manned by human staff. In a…

Why hotels and motels always house horror in pop culture

Hotels are a haven for horror in our pop culture and urban folklore, from Stephen King's Overlook Hotel and the Bates Motel, to Canada's grand railway hotels. Their unique history make it all-too-easy for guests to envision a psycho in the shower or spectral twins in the hallway. "A hotel room is both a foreign space…

Day of Felicitas

Today is the Day of Felicitas. Be joyful and also, lucky.   Yes, the Day of Felicitas is a festival celebrating the ancient Roman goddess of luck and good fortune.  For many Wiccans and modern Witches is is a time for casting spells and making amulets to attract good luck or to end a streak of bad luck.  

Doomsday revision predicts we won't make it to Thursday

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Maybe take the day off, just in case? NASA 

Wednesday might be a good day to call in sick and go cross something off your bucket list -- you know, just in case it's your last chance. According to the E-Bible Fellowship, there is a "strong likelihood that October 7, 2015, will be the end of the world."

That's right. You may never watch another football game, see another season of "The Walking Dead" or get to wear your new Sexy Pizza Rat costume (yes, that's a real thing) to a Halloween party.

But don't despair just yet, because the track record of this particular End Times prophecy is pretty unimpressive, as witnessed by the fact that I am currently not typing this story from any kind of purgatory, hell or spiritual oblivion...as far as I know.

See, the E-Bible group's prediction is based on a revision of a far more widely publicized apocalyptic prediction that the Rapture described in the New Testament would take place on May 21, 2011. When the faithful failed to be carried away to a better place on that date, Harold Camping, the California preacher and radio host who had insistently proclaimed it, revised the date by about five months.

Watch illusionist Nick Wallace, onstage now in Toronto with Seance, read a National Post writer's mind

This week, illusionist Nick Wallace premiered Seance in Toronto. While Wallace - who was in 2014 crowned the Canadian Champion in Magic by the Canadian Association of Magicians - is insistent that Seance is a performance, not an actual conjuring of spirits, early reviews have suggested that the talented Ontarian so deftly blurs the lines, you'll…

The 12 Best Paranormal Sightings Of 2012

Share 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 or copy the link View this image › deviantart.com Some of the sightings you'll see below are included for their credibility (relatively-speaking), and others are just really, really fun. 12. Sava Savanovic, The Serbian Vampire View this image › Via abcnews.go.com In November, ABC News reported…

ParanormalMingle.com(TM) Bringing Mystery to Dating by Focusing on the Supernatural

MIDDLE ISLAND, N.Y., Sept. 30, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- ParanormalMingle.com is a bold new website aimed directly at the millennial crowd who are convinced there is more going on around them than they are being told. According to its strange spokesman, called The Gatekeeper™, "There's a great common bond amidst today's daring and inquisitive singles. They are…