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The Truth is Out There
Imagine a corrupt government using alien technology to control citizens with "thought-controlling video games" and "nanochips below the skin"; developing "alien particle beams" and "robosoldiers" to conquer rival nations; allowing aliens to "steal people from their beds" for experimentation. And most importantly, imagine this government covers up its alien contact with lies, conspiracies, and red tape. Don't you have a right to know?

Haunted Places in Kansas
The Alma Cemetery is haunted for two reasons. One is the people who are buried there and refuse to leave. Some pictures have been taken during the night up there. (It's the best time.) The pictures were unbeleivable, there were orbs and mist figures in the pictures. Reason two is the legend of the Devil's Chair. The story is that in the 1800s a real old mean farmer owned the land that is now the cemetery. About that same time Alma was being built. Towns officials had been trying to get him to sell his land so they could use it for the new town's cemetery. But he kept refusing to sell it. One day while at his well getting water someone came up from behind him and pushed him into the well. Than about a week later the town officials come out to the farm to try and to get him to sell again. And one of them noticed a smell from the well. The sheriff said it was nothing and ordered for the well to be boarded and locked and that no one is suppose to talk about.

Ghost Hunters Visit Former TB hospital
For ghost hunters and others curious about paranormal activity, visiting a former tuberculosis hospital was a treat. The Waverly Hills Sanatorium has a reputation for strange phenomena such as sudden temperature drops or the slamming of doors, said Keith Age, president of the Louisville Ghost Hunters Society, the host group for the weekend Mid-South Paranormal Convention.

UFO Mystery Solved
THE Recorder can now shed light on the mystery UFOs seen in the sky last week - they were sky lanterns!! Reports flooded into our office of lots of orange, unidentified flying objects after the Smalley family saw the mysterious lights floating over their home in Acacia Avenue, Elm Park, at 10pm on Monday, August 29. And it now seems likely that the mystery lights are not hi-tech visitors from outerspace but an ancient kind of party popper imported by Grant Barry for his six-month-old business, Sky Lanterns.

20,000 New Species of Animals Discovered in 2005
This year's discoveries include four species of lemurs from the island of Madagascar, a monkey from Tanzania, an odd-ball rodent from Vietnam, a parasitic ‘vampire fish’ from the Amazon. Researchers say that new discoveries are increasing thanks to the development of technology like DNA sequencing that allows scientists to distinguish similar-looking species; expanded use of the internet which enables better communication; and the opening up of remote lands both for research and development.

Guardsmen Sense Ghostly Presence in New Orleans
The presence of the supernatural and the influence of voodoo long have been synonymous with New Orleans. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, members of the U.S. military are saying that there's something spooky going on and it's not just images of death and destruction that's haunting them. By all accounts, the Sophie B. Wright Middle School in New Orleans sits empty and evacuated except for military personnel who have taken over the campus as a staging site for missions around the battered city. But the men in uniform have the feeling that they're not alone. It prompted a chaplain to utter this directive: "In the name of Jesus Christ, I command you Satan to leave the dark areas of this building."

NSA Privacy Busting Patent
People "hoping to protect their privacy by using anti-virus software, Web anonymizers, false identities and disabled cookies" may be unraveled by technology flowing from a patent filed by the National Security Agency (NSA) which will "identify the physical location of any Web surfer," says WorldNetDaily, quoting CNET News. "Patent 6,947,978, granted this week, describes a process based on latency, or time lag between computers exchanging data, of 'numerous' known locations on the Internet to build a 'network latency topology map' for all users," it states. "Identifying the physical location of an individual user - could then be accomplished by measuring how long it takes to connect to an unknown computer from numerous known machines, and using the latency response to display location on a map."

They're Coming. Are We Ready?
On a warm September evening in 1975, while sipping pre-dinner drinks outside with his family, Mike Bird found his truth right here -- not "out there," as they would say later on the X-Files. From his perch on Close Avenue in south Parkdale, Mr. Bird turned his 24-year-old eyes to "a bright, fuzzy ball, just sitting there, shimmering" over Lake Ontario. "I watched it for two hours," says Mr. Bird, now 54, recalling how he fetched his telescope and trained it southward. "My wife looked at it, my parents looked at it. Before long, I was firmly convinced that we were dealing with something real."



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