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The National Geographic Society hailed it as one of the most
significant archaeological discoveries of our time, a 1,700-year-old
text that portrayed Judas Iscariot as a hero, not a villain, for
betraying Jesus.
The portrayal of Judas as a favored apostle who handed Jesus over to
the Romans at his master’s request made National Geographic’s
publication of the “The Gospel of […]

LEOMINSTER — From all appearances yesterday, Shannon Sylvia might have
been any homeowner giving a visitor a guided tour. That is, until she
paused by a large porcelain vase just outside a bathroom and said:
“That’s the vase that moved.” It did so, she insisted, without anyone
touching it. In the same area, Sylvia said, she sometimes hears faint
voices […]

AT THE beginning of the year, when our thoughts tend to turn to self
improvement, was a strangely appropriate time to learn of the death of
Eileen Caddy, one of the three founders of the Findhorn Community. Her
unique contribution to the Scottish centre for New Age spirituality was
to receive messages directly from God.

Despite
his other commitments, God […]

OUIDAH, Benin: The drumming was like a heart beating as West African
women wearing cowrie shells and beads writhed before a carved fetish. A
knife-wielding dancer with a chalk-whitened face performed intricate
steps to honor the python spirit.
The 10-day Benin Voodoo Festival wrapped up Wednesday with a final
celebration of ancestor and spirit worship. American visitors of
African descent were […]

NEW YORK — I am a Sagittarius. My wife is a Scorpio. By most accounts, we are the Zodiacal equivalent of vinegar and baking soda.
One needn’t dig deep to find stern warnings against this highly volatile, messy and apparently doomed astrological pairing:
“While Sagittarius may get fed up with Scorpio’s stubbornness and inflexibility,” says the […]

If full moons are to blame for werewolves,
and strange elixirs create Mr. Hyde, what then turns a harmless microbe
into “the cell from hell”?
It is a question that has baffled scientists
since the 1990s, when the aquatic microbe called pfiesteria -
pronounced “fee-steer-ee-ah” - emerged as an environmental threat and
popular bogeyman along the East Coast.
In 1997, pfiesteria […]

An archaeological find in Russia has shed light on the migration of modern humans into Europe.

Artefacts uncovered at the Kostenki site, south of Moscow, suggest modern humans were at this spot about 45,000 years ago.

The first moderns may have entered Europe through a different route than was previously thought, the international team reports.

The research is […]

GALESBURG - Ectoplasm? Ghost balls? The energy from a trapped spirit?

Or is the strange floating orb Allan and Joyce Faust captured on their
digital camera nothing more than a lens flare or a trick of light?
Whatever you decide, the Fausts just don’t want to be thought of as a pair of squirrels.

“People will think we are […]

Hands over her eyes and her face gripped with terror, the woman’s fear of death is all too obvious.
The remarkable mummy was found in a hidden burial vault in the Amazon.
It is at least 600 years old and has survived thanks to the embalming skills of her tribe, the Chachapoyas or cloud […]

ONE correspondent likened them to Masai tribesmen.
Other sources say they could be witches performing ancient rituals,
druids or merely frustrated mums hoping to harness the powers of a
mystical fertility stone.
Since the Observer postbag started receiving reports of a group of
white-robed people walking on Blackstone Edge moor the theories have
come in thick and fast.
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