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Sir Patrick Stewart sees the ghost at the Theatre Royal Haymarket

August 25, 2009 by Andrew 1 Comment

Sir Patrick Stewart the actor famous for his appearances in StarTrek and X-Men as well as his sterling performances in Shakespeare plays has said he saw a ghost while performing Waiting for Godot.

Sir Patrick has been performing the play with fellow X-Men star Sir Ian MacKellen and being followed by a film crew from Sky Arts.

Sir Ian asks Stewart, “What happened, what threw you?” after the two actors go offstage for the interval.

“I just saw a ghost. On stage, during Act One,” Patrick Stewart replies. The Sky camera man didn’t record the image but the actor describes the ghostly figure as wearing a beige coat and twill trousers.

UFOs clean the Osaka castle moat

August 24, 2009 by Andrew Leave a Comment

One disk has been deployed in the moat of Osaka Castle and the other for Osaka’s Dontoburi canal. Sadly, the alien cleaners aren’t commercially available as they’re not cost effective. They’ve been bought to run along with the 2009 Osaka Aqua Metropolis festival.

The fifth sign: Leo

August 15, 2009 by Andrew Leave a Comment

Image via Wikipedia Tropical dates: 23 July to 23 August Sidereal dates: 17 August to 16 September (approx) Representation: Lion’s tail Ruling planet and groupings: Sun; masculine, fixed and fire Associations: Colour: Gold and scarlet Flowers: Marigold Gemstone: Ruby Trees: Walnut and olive Traits Proud, generous and creative. Leonians often need to keep themselves in […]

Is the Yarborough Hotel in Grimsby haunted?

August 3, 2009 by Andrew 4 Comments

The Yarborough Hotel in Grimsby was built in 1851 by the Earl of Yarborough. The Earl was the chairman of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Company who recognised there would an increase in trade in Grimsby when the new railway linked it into the growing network.

The hotel, now a J.D. Wetherspoons pub, is perhaps best known as the location of the Yarborough Riot. During the political riots it is through that voters were kidnapped and held in the hotel.

P.P. Paranormal, a team of experienced paranormal investigators based in North Lincolnshire, contacted the Yarborough Hotel manager Nathan Gregory with a request to investigate the hotel as they believed it was haunted.

Ghost expels 18 school girls from school

August 2, 2009 by Andrew 1 Comment

Image via Wikipedia In Balasore, India, 18 school girls were taken ill after morning prayers. The girls are now refusing to return to Hidigaon Panchayat High School claiming that it is haunted. The Times of India has the story and they report that the incident began with one student – known as Mansai to the […]

Danzan Ravjaa’s Buddhist relics rediscovered in the Gobi Desert

August 1, 2009 by Andrew Leave a Comment

An expedition led by Michael Eisenriegler has found the Buddhist relics which belonged to the 19th century Buddhist master Danzan Ravjaa. The relics, which include statues, art work, manuscripts and personal belongings, were hidden in the 1930s during Mongolia’s Communist purge. Hundreds of Buddhist monasteries were destroyed and looted during this time.

In order to save the relics from destruction they were hidden in a total of 64 crates. These crates where buried in the Gobi Desert by a Buddhist monk called Tudev. Tudev passed the secret of the relics’ locations on to his grandson who was able to rediscover some of the boxes in 1990. Michael Eisenriegler’s expedition has unearthed two more of the historically and religiously important crates.

The meaning of August

August 1, 2009 by Andrew Leave a Comment

August means Augustus Caesar’s month. Augustus Caesar completed the calendar reform started by Julius Caesar and also named a month after himself. Augustus became the first emperor of Rome after Julius was assassinated in 44 BC. Events in August The Feast of the Assumption Born in August? Birthstone: Peridot Flower: Gladiolus Tropical Zodiac: Leo (July […]

The meaning of cat talismans

July 30, 2009 by Andrew Leave a Comment

Originally cat charms were used to signify luck and are common today. The question is whether they represent good or bad luck.

The black cat, in particular, is sometimes seen as unlucky as it represents one of the forms Satan is believed to take as he stalks the Earth. Others will wear the black cat charm to specifically ward against bad luck.

The Romans took the fiercely independent nature of the cat and translated this to the concept of liberty. The ancient Egyptians associated the cat to the moon and drew connections between the dilation and contraction of cat eyes to the waxing and waning of the moon. Egyptian moon gods or goddesses would often be depicted with the wedjat eye in the full-moon disk over their head. The wedjat-eye, however, belonged to Re and was later associated with Thoth, rather than the cats.

Norwich ghost caught on camera?

July 28, 2009 by Andrew Leave a Comment

The Norwich Evening News has published a photograph taken by Andrew Kitt. Could this be the Cinema City Ghost?

Cinema City Ghost / Norwich Evening News
Cinema City Ghost / Norwich Evening News

The photographer admits he felt chills down his spine has he processed the pictures he took at Norwich’s Cinema City complex.

He told press, “It’s not a hoax. Nothing has been done to that image,” and “The hairs on the back of my neck went up when I first saw it. I’m keeping an open mind. I’m not saying it’s a ghost or anything, but it is certainly strange.”

Mark Forstater: A Guided Meditation for the Financially Stressed

July 23, 2009 by Andrew Leave a Comment

Our most savvy readers will know the name Mark Forstater in connection with Monty Python. Mark is also extremely experienced in yoga and mediation techniques. He’s recently released the CD The Age of Anxiety: A Guided Meditation for the Financially Stressed (available online). We reached out to Mark hoping that he might be kind enough […]

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