Posted on July 26th, 2007 by reflex
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Oscar the cat seems to have an uncanny knack for predicting when nursing home patients are going to die, by curling up next to them during their final hours. His accuracy, observed in 25 cases, has led the staff to call family members once he has chosen someone. It usually means […]
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Posted on June 16th, 2007 by reflex
PALATINE, Illinois (AP) — An elementary school science teacher in this Chicago suburb doesn’t have to turn on the news for an update on NASA’s space mission. She just turns on her video baby monitor.
Since Sunday, one of the two channels on Natalie Meilinger’s baby monitor has been picking up black-and-white video from inside the […]
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Posted on April 21st, 2007 by Jason
SYDNEY, Australia - Australian rescuers were on Friday trying to solve the “Mary Celeste” style mystery of a yacht found floating off the coast with its engine running, food on its table ready to eat, but no crew.
The 36-foot catamaran was found 80 nautical miles off Townsville on the northeast coast, but there was no […]
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Posted on March 23rd, 2007 by BRiT
PARIS (AFP) - France became the first country to open its files on UFOs Thursday when the national space agency unveiled a website documenting more than 1,600 sightings spanning five decades.
The online archives, which will be updated as new cases are reported, catalogues in minute detail cases ranging from the easily dismissed to a handful […]
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Posted on February 15th, 2007 by BRiT
A Chinese company chairman has been sentenced to death for running a scam involving giant ants.
Wang Zhendong promised investors returns of up to 60% if they put money into the fictitious ant-breeding project, the court heard.
Wang, from Liaoning province, raised 3bn yuan ($390m; £200m) in three years, prosecutors said.
The ants are used in traditional […]
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Posted on February 3rd, 2007 by reflex
Here’s some good advice for anyone considering faking their death:
Skip the memorial service.
Alison Matera of New Port Richey, Fla., should have done just that last Friday, but instead her ruse was exposed when she sat among mourners, listening to friends and family celebrate her life.
It all started, the St. Petersburg Times reported Friday, when the […]
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Posted on January 25th, 2007 by Jason
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese police have arrested three men for killing two young women to sell their corpses as “ghost brides” for dead single men, a Chinese newspaper reported, warning the dark custom might have claimed many other victims.
Yang Donghai, a 35-year-old farmer in western China’s Shaanxi province, confessed to killing a woman bought from […]
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Posted on January 3rd, 2007 by Jason
Pretoria - A UFO was sighted at Lephalale, where it was described as a strange object “on an orange cloud, singing like a million turbines” - hitting the earth with a bang at 04:33 on Saturday.
That’s according to Leonie Ras, the administrative manager of Lephalale (Ellisras) who witnessed the spectacle at her daughter’s farm just […]
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Posted on January 2nd, 2007 by Jason
CHICAGO - Federal officials say it was probably just some weird weather phenomenon, but a group of United Airlines employees swear they saw a mysterious, saucer-shaped craft hovering over O’Hare Airport last fall.
The workers, some of them pilots, said the object didn’t have lights and hovered over an airport terminal before shooting up through the […]
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Posted on December 2nd, 2006 by Tostig
An unidentified flying object has crashed in Krasnoyarsk Region, Siberia, causing a forest fire, the RIA-Novosti news agency reported on Friday.
The crash took place in the taiga between the towns of Yeniseisk and Lesosibirsk, the agency said quoting the local Interior Ministry directorate. The crash was reported by local villagers and traces of forest fire […]
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