The September edition of Your True Tales is here - 30 true tales of ghosts, poltergeists, psychic phenomena, weird creatures and more, including: "A Father's Last Goodbye," "Haunted Victorian House," "Sasquatch of Vinton, Iowa," "Fairy Crashes into Window," "Black-Eyed Creatures of Muir of Ord," "Terrifying Imposter Voice," "Doppleganger at Albertson's," "Baby Channels Friend at Funeral," "Mysterious Lady in Blue," "Black Magic Curse Backfires" ... and many more.

Top story: Enfield Poltergeist case offers new proof of paranormal existence
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• Mexico: Chupacabras attacks in Puebla and Guanajuato?
• Comerica Park possibly haunted?
• Crop circle: An ongoing conundrum
• Remembrances of lives past
• Poll: Do you believe in ghosts? Many do
• Legendary Humanoids: Mono Grande, Large Monkey of South America
• Boris Karloff, a monster talent remembered
• Puerto Rico: The gargoyle vs. the chupacabras
• At world's end: Is the unexplained on the upswing?

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Here are some noteworthy and recommended books that have recently been added to my paranormal bookshelf:

Legend Tripping by Jeff Belanger
Part of Course Technology's Picture Yourself series, Jeff's new book is an introduction and invitation to go "legend tripping" -- to explore ghosts, cryptid creatures, UFOs and other unexplained phenomena in your own locale. There's no need to travel great distances to explore haunted locations, and you don't need to be a UFO expert to investigate sightings of flying saucers, says Jeff. There are probably plenty of paranormal legends and stories right in your town. Jeff's book explains how you can get started.

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"In my old home in Alpharetta, Georgia in 1995, writes Froyofreak, "I remember walking out of my room and lying down on my parents' bed to watch TV. As I was flipping through the channels, I noticed something standing in the doorway...." Was it just his imagination, or was there really something there? Read the rest of the story.

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Top story: Grandfather's ghost story leads to mysterious mass grave
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• Russia: UFO spotted while searching for Bigfoot
• Sea monster or big fish in B.C. lake?
• Claim: Amelia Earhart's plane found
• Late night visitor - a paranormal experience
• Ghost hunter killed on railroad tracks
• Paranormal investigations, a modern day séance?
• Chupacabras attack claimed in Dallas
• Loveland filmmaker on ghost-hunt for paranormal
• Haunted real estate is scary good investment

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"Could you please tell me how to get the shadow person out of my home?" writes Crystal S.

Answer: How do you get a shadow person out of your home? Turn on the light! Ba-boom-ching!

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Some interesting links I've found this week:

• The Dragon in the Loch -- How could similar creatures exist in a great many lakes not connected to one another and only remotely connected to the sea, often via narrow and shallow rivers?
• Psychic Crime Solvers: How Do They Work? -- Psychic detectives are real, this article asserts, and they have three major approaches to help with investigations: mediumship, postcognition, and psychometry.
• The World's Top 10 Weird Towns -- This collection includes Mock Middle England, Battleship Island, Garbage City, White Man In A Hole, and a town populated entirely by dwarves. Not paranormal, but weird and fascinating!
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"Today I was watching my favorite show, Mystery Hunters," writes a reader, "and they were talking about thunderbirds. And I have a question to ask you: Can thunderbirds lift up small children? I hope they can."

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Top story: Pope Pius XI was a closet cryptozoologist
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• Mysterious "bearded" antelope photographed
• A hotel where some guests have been dead for years
• 5 psychic reading myths busted
• Uri Geller's mind-bender: Egyptian loot in Scotland
• The gift of the Sasquatch
• Witch trials get play in video game
• True-life paranormal experiences in latest book
• Amityville Horror house moving sale
• Smurl home haunting 24 years ago

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"To this day, I have no idea what happened to me on a particular night a few summers ago and I still question my sanity," reports Sarah. "On a very humid August night, my mom and I were driving down a back country road. We had just crested a hill and began driving down the other side when our headlights washed over what looked like a person walking down the center of the road. The person was limping away from us, its face the opposite direction. As we neared even more, we realized to our astonishment that it seemed to be completely covered in hair...!" What happened next absolutely terrified Sarah and her mother. Read the rest of her story.

Ryko's experiences began with what he thought was a nightmare. When other friends described the same blond-haired apparition, however, he realized he had a genuine haunting on his hands -- by not just one, but three spirits. This is Ryko's story....

Top story: Scientists extract DNA from Mystery Ape hair
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• Jackson compound haunted by ghosts
• Most famous psychic animals
• Wales' most haunted castles and sites
• Chinese Sasquatch suspected
• Miracles, fact or fiction?
• Is the Loveland Frog real?
• Senate to transfer offices to haunted building?
• Ica's engraved stones: a prehistoric library?

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Some interesting links I've found this week:

• Pole Shift & Pole Reversal in 2012 -- The author says he bases his conclusions on hieroglyphs, cracking of codes, the magnetic reversal of the sun, old maps, astronomical clues, geological research, and the discovery of the most exciting archaeological find in modern times.
• Poltergeists! -- Poltergeist activity is probably the most misunderstood form of paranormal activity, this article says, at least in conjunction with haunted houses.
• Spontaneous Human Combustion -- A good examination of the phenomenon, the possible explanations for it, and some of the notable cases. (Some graphic images.)
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You've heard about many Bigfoot sightings, but less known are the "close encounters of the third kind" (contact) or even the fourth kind (abduction). Yes, people have reportedly been physically attacked by Bigfoot - and even abducted by the creature! Read more.

This video clip from Animal Planet about the Southern Sasquatch, or Fouke Monster, presents a discussion of the theory that the creature could be the large ape-like gigantopithecus, which lived in Asia up until about 100,000 years ago. The theory is that these creatures might not have gone extinct, or that evolved descendents of them could have migrated to North America across the Bering Strait. It's a reasonable theory since the descriptions of the hairy 8-9-foot gigantopithecus and sightings of Sasquatch match closely. What do you think?

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Top story: Boater claims to have filmed prehistoric cadborosaurus
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• Agatha Christie's unexplained mystery
• Possible paranormal experience at Fort Mifflin in Philadelphia
• Clint Eastwood's new film features Matt Damon as a psychic
• Haunted bed and breakfast inns of Louisiana
• Author recalls his real childhood haunting experience
• Creepy crawl in a haunted penal settlement
• A voice in the night
• Motorists speed to conjure ghost of dead motorcyclist

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"I decided to take my wife and kids for a vacation," says Jonny. "We went to visit my in-laws who have a cabin in the Canadian Rockies. One night around 10 p.m., we were sitting around about to go to bed when the lights gave out. I heard rustling outside the cabin and something brushed the side of the wall by the living room. Pretty creeped out, I grabbed my flashlight and headed out to the generator...." What Jonny saw out there will make your skin crawl. Read the rest of his story.

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Top story: Knebworth House is haunted by novelist
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• Ten of Scotland's most haunted hotels
• Premonition led to discovery of body
• "Devil" attacks livestock, farmers claim
• Lightning strikes 13-year-old boy at 13:13 on Friday the 13th
• On the trail of the Houston Batman
• Psychic helps unearth Babe Ruth's long-lost piano
• Haunted village deserted for century
• North Carolina Bigfoot: spotted 32 years ago
• Trapper found himself trapped by Bigfoot

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Some interesting links I've found this week:

• A Psychic Photography Case Study 2009 -- A fascinating report about a woman who claimed to be able to produce peculiar paranormal anomalies on digital camera photos. And peculiar some of them are!
• Consciousness Beyond Life: An Experience -- Researcher Pim van Lommel relates the fascinating story of a woman who experienced a near-death experience during delivery of her baby.
• Jersey Devil: Legend or Truth? -- A good overview of a creature believed by some to be a mythical creature and by others, a real-life monster of flesh and blood. Its origins date back to when New Jersey was still a British colony.
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Just south of San Antonio, Texas, in an unremarkable neighborhood not far from the San Juan Mission is an intersection of roadway and railroad track that has become somewhat famous ...

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