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The Earliest End Of The World Prophecy? As the year 2012 approaches, everyone from niche blogs to mainstream media talk about the end of the world theories. Everyone goes on about Maya, Nostradamus etc. However, what is the oldest "end of the world prophecy"?... Read on

Bible Fight - Flash Game These days it is perfectly normal to make fun of things that previous generations wouldn't even dream about laughing at. For example, final fight between Jesus and Satan. Do you think your grandparents would be making fun of it? These days it is normal so this nice little flash game went completely unnoticed without any scandal or media attention. The game is called "Bible Fight". It's description says:... Read on

Mr Bean In Hell This video has been around for a while, but I keep running into loads of people who haven't seen it and they just have that blank look on their face when someone pulls up some quote from there. If you haven't seen this video just sit back, relax, click play and get ready to laugh.... Read on

Secret Societies Documentary Secret societies and all the conspiracy theories around them are a huge subject these days. You could easily think that this is something typical for 21st century America. You wouldn't be right though. The stories and rumors about different secret societies has been around for a while now and not only in the US. The book from the above image is from a French book about secret societies that... Read on

Brenda Alison - Magnet Woman Image credit : Video Screenshot / Sun Magazine The picture above is taken from a youtube video and it is really worth the proverbial thousand words. It shows Brenda Allison, a 50 y.o mother of one in a hardware store demonstrating for the camera how metal objects stick to her.... Read on

Illustrated History Of Baphomet Baphomet is a part of popular culture today. You can buy figures and pendants with it. It is impossible to go to any heavy metal concert without seeing people who wear it on the necklace. But where did it come from? Is it really an ancient figure as some claim? Here is a short history of Baphomet taken from “Hexagradior, the bible of magic” accompanied by additional illustrations and... Read on

Happy Friday the 13th ! Image credit: DesktopNexus As anyone who hasn't spent the last 2,000 years on Mars, in a cave, under the rock, with fingers in their ears already knows, Friday the 13th has a long history of being considered unlucky.... Read on

About OccultCenter.Com - Meet The Host The world is a place that still holds unexplored phenomena. On one side there is the blind skepticism calling everything paranormal a fraud or lunacy. On the other side is the blind faith and superstition that believes every conspiracy theory and spits three times upon a sight of a black cat. Between them there is a whole world worthy of open-minded research.... Read on

Creature crossing the road caught on video As the cameras became progressively cheaper and more ubiquitous, many enthusiasts of paranormal and cryptozoology were expecting major advances in their fields of interest. Now there would be photos and videos for people to show everyone what they saw. World wouldn't just have to "take their word for it". The reality is a bit different. The internet is full of photos and videos of all kinds, and people still... Read on

Video: "Ghost Hand" Pushes Beer Off The Table We have all heard of cases where things get moved or knocked around the room without anyone touching them. Now one such event has been caught on CCTV camera. Sean Moore left his drink during the weekly quiz at the New Inn in Gloucester, UK. Mark Cooke, 35, the proprietor of the bar said that he heard "stories" about the bar but was skeptical. However, he says "But the... Read on

Deal With Devil The Real Cause of Haiti Earthquake While the world is gathering support and aid to help Haiti after the January 12 Earthquake, Pat Robertson enlightened us with an explanation of why the disaster happened in the first place. It's because Haitians (actually their ancestors) made a pact with the devil. Simple, isn't it?... Read on

Quotes From Quran Appearing On Baby Ali Yakubov, a nine month old boy has become somewhat of a celebrity in Dagestan, a republic in Russia. Quotes from Quran started appearing on his skin. The first word that appeared was "Allah". What soon followed was a succession of various quotes of Quran verses.... Read on

Ghost of Michael Jackson on CNN camera? Some people really like attention. Pop stars are typical examples of that. However, too much is too much. It seems that even death can't stop Michael Jackson from getting into the news.... Read on

Healing Power Of Prayer - Case Of Gabby Mathis Can prayer heal? Sociologist Wendy Cadge found that the first ever scientific research into this controversial subject was published back in 1965. Between then and 2006 there were 18 similar studies published in English. In short, the result of the studies is that there is no definitive result. It turned into a ping-pong between scientists who find evidence that prayer can heal, and then the next team finds "no... Read on

More Hogwarts Fun The entire Harry Potter world is just a magnet for poking fun at. This time guys at Cracked.com take a more critical look at Dumbledore. You just have to see his job application. As they point out - he "has single-handedly endangered more children than a MySpace made of unmarked vans." See the rest here: http://www.cracked.com/funny-339-dumbledore/... Read on

Reincarnation - James Leininger Case James Leininger and Anne Barron. Photo copyright: Soul Survivor website Reincarnation is a word coined from Latin prefix "re" meaning "to repeat", and "carnis" - flesh. It is a belief that after the death of a human body a soul is re-born in another body (not necessarily human). Although this idea is in the very foundations of Hinduism, a religion of over 900 million people in India, many people... Read on

El hombre murciélago (bat-man) reported in La Junta, Mexico Blogs and news in Mexico are buzzing with reports about a strange creature. A number of people spotted it and reported their encounters to police in La Junta, Mexico.... Read on

The world we live in could be a hologram We all saw some SF movies with holograms in them and thought "cool". Then we have all seen "Matrix" and thought "naaah, no way that could be for real" (at least those of us who are not so much into tin foil hats). But now scientists "bumped" into some data that may be interpreted as "grains" of the hologram universe. However, it should be pointed out that the word... Read on

Xmas Humor - God vs. Santa List Here is a funny little list of differences of "Santa vs. God". You can click the image to enlarge it. It comes from the Unreasonable Faith blog.... Read on

Pope Benedict predicted economy crash back in '85? Every time something big happens, rumors inevitably appear that someone predicted it. The usual suspect in such cases is Nostradamus, but this time the prophet was none other than the Pope Benedict XVI.... Read on

The Lists Of The "End Of The World" Dates Another "End of the world" gone by. So there I was today with a cup of decaf in my hand looking out of the window in the general direction of Switzerland. Some people promised an end of the world today and I was curious to see how it looks. Luckily for all of us the Large Hadron Collider, the largest atom smasher to-date, has started, did its thing, turned... Read on

Spirit of Killed Priest Scares Kids Photo copyright: http://24sata.hr Newspapaers in Croatia are reporting that 23 kids in a small Croatian town of Generalski Stol saw a ghost of their tragically deceased priest.... Read on

Harry Potter Parody Comic I stumbled upon this cute piece of parody making fun of Harry Potter. Not sure how the hard-core fans will take this, but for anyone interested - just click on the image to enlarge it or go here: http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0253.html... Read on

21 Grams - Weight Of The Soul? Photo by:costi These days the term "21 grams" is a part of popular culture. Holywood even made a movie with that title. Some people quote as "scientific fact" that "scientists measured people losing 21 grams of weight when they die". Is it really so? Where did that number even come from? Here are hard facts about it:... Read on

Damanhur - Once Secret Underground Temple It was 1991 when police, acting on the tip from the suspicious villagers in Italian valley of Valchiusella, knocked on the door of Oberto Airaudi over an alleged tax evasion. They found nothing. It was just one more of those anonymous tips and routine visits. They had no idea how close they came to something monumental and completely unrelated to tax issues they were so concerned about.... Read on

Mother Lifts Car To Save Child - Supernatural Moms Or Just Adrenaline? Everyone heard the story of a kid trapped under a car and then his mom lifts the car and saves the day. Some use this story to illustrate the power of adrenaline, some to point out that "cars are too heavy to be lifted by a woman using only one hand, so it's something to do with supernatural." The problem is that this story was told too many times... Read on

Amusing Video - Is Psychiatry "Supernatural" ? It's an old story. A number of people, some of which very educated and informed, call Psychiatry a "pseudo science". Even celebrities like Tom Cruise are of the same opinion. Why is this so? Here is a short video that will quickly and thoroughly illustrate the background of it. Recently, someone turned my attention to this funny short video on YouTube and we both found it thought provoking. Why?... Read on

Beauty Queen Fired Over Tarot And Reiki Or How Reiki Became "The Dark Side"... Sometimes one wonders what it must have felt to live in the old times. You know - bigotry, primitivism, "our beliefs are right and the rest of the world is wrong", "it's sin to have a bath more than twice a year" and that sort of stuff. Even though it's 21st century now, sometimes we still get to experience such spirit of middle... Read on

Natasha Demkina - Girl With X-Ray Eyes Image Credit : Discovery Channel documentary 'The Girl with X-Ray Eyes" It all started in 1997 and in a rather East-European way. Natasha Demkina was only 10 when she underwent a surgery to have her appendix removed. When it was time to go home she could hardly move. Ultrasound revealed that surgeon forgot the medical cotton inside her. She was operated again to have it removed. About a month... Read on

A Haunted Swing in Firmat, Argentina? Firmat, a quiet city in Argentina has recently come under media spotlight and gathered quite a following on YouTube. A swing on the children's playground started swinging on its own as we can see in the video below. Note that one person stops the swing but after a short while it slowly starts swinging again while the other two next to it stay still.... Read on

Teacher In Trouble Over Faust Opera We all believe that witch hunts are a thing of the past and can not really happen in our time. In fact, they only happen in different shape and form. In 2006 it happened to Tresa Waggoner, an opera singer who was teaching first through twelfth grades in Bennett, Colorado. It started when Opera Colorado's educational outreach team scheduled a visit to her school. To introduce the students to... Read on

Magnetic Personality? No, Really Magnetic People Everyone heard about people who have "magnetic personality", but when you meet Liew Thow Lin, a 70-year-old retired contractor from Malaysia, this expression gets a whole new meaning. Metal objects are actually sticking to his body which earned him a nickname "magnet man" in some media. He says he noticed that ability quite a while ago while he worked as a contractor and tools would stick to him. You... Read on

Pope John Paul II Appearing In Flames? On April 2, 2007 Grzegorz Lukasik, a 26 year old Pole attended a vigil commemorating second anniversary of death of Pope John Paul II. It took place on Matyska mountain in southern Poland. Only when he came home and looked at the pictures he snapped, he realized that the photograph taken at 21.37:30 - at the hour of pope's death shows flames forming the image of the pope waving... Read on