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April 5, 2011

GHOSTS AND POLTERGEISTS:

Tom Conti's ghostly encounter at 'haunted' hotel
Veteran British actor Tom Conti had a ghostly encounter when he stayed at a spooky hotel on a movie shoot. The Shirley Valentine star was filming scenes on the U.K.'s Isle of Wight and unknowingly checked into a guest house rumoured to have a resident spectre.


The actor had two eerie experiences in the dead of night but eventually performed his own mini-exorcism - by trying to engage the apparition in conversation...

Poltergeist star: I grew up in REAL haunted house
The child star of the terrifying Poltergeist films has revealed he grew up in a REAL haunted house. Oliver Robins played Robbie Freeling in the classic horror movie in 1982 and in the sequel four years later. But he told the Sunday Mercury that he had experienced ghouls for real when he was a boy - and channelled that fear during the filming of the blockbusters...

CREATURES:

Ukrainian Bigfoot video
Every few months or so, a video comes out of the woodwork and is plastered all over the news. Sometimes, these videos are inconclusive enough that they don't make it past a few postings on small blogs. Nevertheless I find it important to post these videos here on GT in order to present an unbiased looked at the reported phenomena...

The Dwayyo, werewolf of the Northeast
Last year, while attending the MAP-con paranormal convention in Sharpsville PA, I was amazed by hearing stories of a group series of werewolf sightings by youths who were swimming in the Shenango Valley River in the late 1970s.

For a series of months teens saw a hairy wolf like creature along the shores of the river as they tried to enjoy the recreation during their summer vacation...

John Kirk talks aquatic cryptids

FORTEAN PHENOMENA:

It's raining worms: Schoolchildren's lesson interrupted by creepy crawlies falling from sky
Pupils at a Scots school had to run for cover when it started raining worms during their PE lesson. Teacher David Crichton was leading a group of pupils playing football on an AstroTurf pitch at Galashiels Academy when dozens of the slimy creatures began plummeting from the sky. The second-year boys had to abandon their lesson as the earthworms fell during the bizarre incident...