Friday’s Strange News Mix

Friday’s Strange News Mix: Halloween Strangeness; UFO Related Articles; Paranormal articles galore; 2012; Scientist Try a Egyptian Recipe; A couple of stories on the Large Hadron Collider. Plus more.

Comic Relief: Disclosure Comic: Interplanetary Insurance

Doomsday Article: 2012 Doomsday Not Likely, Mayans Insist

Halloween Reports:

- Halloween could kill me says 54 year-old Aracnophobe — Wife is worried — he’s hoping that shopkeepers will be banned from putting up spider sales displays…

- Independent methodist minister says those taking part in Halloween carnival in Derry, Ireland are ‘doing evil’

Paranormal Press:

- ‘Ghostbuster’ Dan Aykroyd says supernatural interest drawn from family seances (He’s talking about his Dad’s new book: A History of Ghosts)

- Nova Scotia — For the love of a good ghost story

- Wicklow, Ireland — Phantom photos — Mystery continues as snapper insists pictures are genuine.

- UK — Bishop’s invite to occult party — A WITCH is inviting church leaders to the launch party on Christmas Eve of an occult centre he plans to open in Cambridge. (Sure, they’ll just drop their own Christmas Eve rituals…)

Strange Events: The 2009 Mass Mystery Weekend : UFO Show – 10/16/09, Monster Mash – 10/17/09, Mystery Tour – 10/18/09

Strange Science:

- NY Times Essay — The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate (This made my week.)

- Hadron Collider physicist Adlene Hicheur charged with terrorism

- Body Part Mummified With Egyptian Recipe — Swiss researchers have succeeded in mummifying a body part using the salty recipe of the ancient Egyptians. (Apparently they wanted to prove it could be done…)

Research: Feral Children: Are They Really Wild?

Space News: Space junk smashed into pensioners’ roof, says RAF — 4lb lump of metal that crashed through the roof of a retired couple’s bungalow was a piece of ’space junk’.

UFO Related: – Don Ledger writes about Shag Harbour Incident and Tourism. (He also mentions another article but the paper doesn’t link to it. Here it is: Shag Harbour’s ‘UFO incident’ sets scene for Sounding Line)

October 16, 2009 | Filed Under Weird News |