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Court fight looms as Germany seeks to outlaw Scientologists
Category: Suppression & Deception
The Church of Scientology vowed yesterday to invoke America’s help in its battle against the German government, which declared it unconstitutional last week in the first step towards an outright ban.
Sabine Weber, president of the church in Berlin, said the organisation would drag the German government through the courts and expected to win, with support from the US State Department.
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OK, maybe Bigfoot doesn't exist, but look out for Tahoe Tessie
Category: Cryptozoology
Huddled by the campfire, the screech of a creature unknown raises the mother of all goose bumps. Was it Bigfoot or Mothman, the Chenoo or Chupacabra?

Tales of these legendary forest creatures are not for folks who sleep with the lights on, peer under beds and inspect closets before bedtime. The rest of us relish a morsel of fright and a quality shudder.
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Hear Voices? It May Be an Ad
Category: Paranormal
New Yorker Alison Wilson was walking down Prince Street in SoHo last week when she heard a woman's voice right in her ear asking, "Who's there? Who's there?" She looked around to find no one in her immediate surroundings. Then the voice said, "It's not your imagination."
Indeed it isn't.
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Mysterious mammal caught on film
Category: Scientific Revelations
An "extraordinary" desert creature has been caught on camera for what scientists believe is the first time.
The long-eared jerboa, a tiny nocturnal mammal that is dwarfed by its enormous ears, can be found in deserts in Mongolia and China.
Zoological Society of London (ZSL) scientist Jonathan Baillie said the footage was helping researchers to learn more about the mysterious animal.
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Astrology is perfect science like Astronomy
Category: Paranormal
Astrology is perfect Science like astronomy, and that’s the reason that it’s allowed to be taught in Indian Universities for degrees and research work for interested students. This is such a subject where from none can escape, any newspaper or magazine or TV channel , all flourish with this addition. 
The Hon.
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We know who drew these giant shapes in Peru's desert -- but why?
Category: Mysteries
NASCA, Peru --
Everyone here, it seems, has a theory about the Nasca Lines.
The mysterious markings on the desert floor are a massive astronomical calendar. That's a popular one.
Or maybe they point to hidden reserves of water, the source of life in the desert.
Then there's my favorite: UFO landing site.
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Woman opens death-themed hotel
Category: Bizarre Times
A Chinese woman has opened a mausoleum-themed inn to let people experience the feeling of death.
Jiao Meige set up the Mausoleum Inn in a house in Lishui town, Jiangsu province, reports the Jinling Evening Post.
The building is shaped like a Chinese mausoleum, and the beds are in the shapes of coffins.
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New Document Reveals Military Mystery's Powers
Category: Conspiracy Central
For years, no military program has sparked more fevered speculation from conspiracy theorists than  the mysterious High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, or HAARP.  And for years, the Pentagon has been pooh-poohing speculation that the enormous collection of transmitters, radars, and magnetometers in Alaska was some sort of superweapon.
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Death goes digital: The electronic tombstone
Category: Afterlife
No one would set a scrapbook filled with pictures and memories on the tombstone of a loved one. But what about a high-tech, weatherproof version, with digital images powered by a solar cell?
That innovation is available now -- but finding customers so far has proven slow going.
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Psychic's mystic mission
Category: Psychic
WHEN I visited Amanda's home I was expecting to find a small fortune teller sitting among candles, burning incense and beaded drapes.
But on my arrival last Thursday I was shocked to discover the image I had created in my head was far from the truth.
Amanda was a perfectly normal woman and her home reminded me of my own.
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The Amazing Kreskin Casts His Ballot
Category: Psychic
Mentalist Says He Knows Who'll Be Next In The White House...
No votes have been cast for president yet. But the Kreskin primary is over.

George Kresge Jr., better known as The Amazing Kreskin, wrote the name of his choice to win next year's election, had a rabbi sign the paper and dropped it into a locked box on Thursday.

Kreskin says he didn't want to make a presidential prediction.
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John Edward, the happy medium, comes home to LI
Category: Psychic
Ten years ago, I pitched a story to my editor about a cop's kid from Glen Cove who was fast becoming a Long Island legend. A jeans-and-T-shirt-wearing "medium" who said he could talk to dead people, John Edward had a list of clients willing to wait a year to have a reading in his Huntington home.

He sounds, I said, like a story.
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