How a poltergeist, a type of ghost, was ‘tried for murder.’
Richard Parsons was becoming seriously alarmed by the mysterious noises at his home in Cock Lane, London, England, in the 1760s.
The strange rappings had continued for several months and …

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AP – Naked time got a little too public for a former Georgia mayor.

AP – Naked time got a little too public for a former Georgia mayor.

AP – A casket minus a cadaver yielded nearly 100 pounds of marijuana after a traffic stop in Dallas. William Dale Crock of Cave City, Ark., was in jail Friday on a marijuana possession charge, plus traffic and seat beat …

AP – Authorities said a couple got into a fight using Cheetos. The Bedford County Sheriff’s Department said a 40-year-old man and 44-year-old woman became involved in a ‘verbal altercation.’ Somehow, the orange puffy snacks were used in the assault.

AP – Authorities said the same house caught fire two nights in a row this week. Nassau County, N.Y., Fire Marshal Michael Mennello said both fires were deemed accidental. They appeared to be related to construction work. No injuries were …

AP – Authorities said a man using the drive-through at a Tallahassee bank deposited $200 and a small bag containing marijuana and cocaine. Police said an employee at the Wachovia Bank called police Wednesday after the unusual deposit. An officer …

AP – A high school secretary illegally changed grades in a school computer system to improve her daughter’s class standing, according to criminal charges filed Thursday.

Reuters – The mystery of crop circles in poppy fields in Australia’s southern island state of Tasmania has been solved — stoned wallabies are eating the poppy heads and hopping around in circles.

Reuters – Operators of an unauthorized New York airport van service that took five French tourists on a high speed chase in an attempt to evade police were charged Wednesday with unlawful imprisonment.

Reuters – Norwegian oil and gas group StatoilHydro is trying to reverse a ban on the sale of alcohol at petrol stations in Lithuania, claiming it may lead to massive lay-offs, daily Dagens Naeringsliv said on Wednesday.

Reuters – A monkey urinated on Zambian President Rupiah Banda as he spoke to journalists …

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Did this woman die from spontaneous human combustion or is there a more logical explanation for her death?
Phyllis Newcombe and her fiancee were leaving the dance floor of a Chelsmford, England, ballroom on the 27th. August 1938 when suddenly her …

Priests and clergyman may be particularly vulnerable to spontaneous human combustion
This clergyman apparently became a victim of human spontaneous combustion during a visit from his native England to New York City during the Victorian age.
While away from his parish in …

Some victims of human spontaneous human combustion may be in a state of unusual combustibility, as this victim appears to have been
The charred remains shown here are of ‘a slim lady, 85 years old, who was in good health’ when …

Spontaneous human combustion may be influenced by the force of the Earth’s magnetism, according to one theory.
The Earth’s magnetism is surprisingly uneven, it is is unequally distributed around the globe, and …

Spontaneous human combustion may be caused by depression leading to suicide, according to one theory
Veteran fortean investigator Vincent Gaddis noted that a high proportion of victims of spontaneous human combustion had apparently given up on life.
Reviewing the cases of spontaneous human combustion in …

Some early pathologists theorised that spontaneous human combustion was in certain circumstances caused by the body producing gases that combusted or `caught fire’  on exposure to quantities of oxygen.
The distinguished scientist Baron …

Workmen are seen here clearing away the remains of the chair in which a suspected spontaneous human combustion victim died.
Mrs Mary Reeser, a widow of 67, …

One of the most amazing coincidences occured during World War 2 when the Allies were planning the invasion of Normandy on D-Day in 1944.
Every aspect of the invasion was a …

It’s been suggested that Hitler and other high ranking Nazis were obsessed with the occult, or `black magic’, and that they were even `black magicians.’
But if this is true, …

Probably the earliest reliable report of spontaneous human combustion was reported in Verona, Italy, in the 18th. century.
According to a statement by Bianchini, a prebendary (clergyman) of Verona, dated 4 April …

A man has died after swallowing a fly which laid maggots in his stomach that gruesomely ate him when he was still alive!
This true story is reminiscent of the old Burl Ives (an American folk …