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October 28New Thunderbird Sighting Still on the TrackOn Sunday night in Pacifica, Missouri, witnesses describe seeing "a massive flying creature...It was brownish/grey and the body portion was at least the size of a large adult human." It was about 200 feet away and seemed to be following their car. Elsewhere, The Chinese Cat Girl; Sasquatch hunters hope to find proof in Dolly Sods in Virginia; and a 1936 film that claimed to show the first evidence of the Loch Ness monster can be seen online beginning at 8:20 in this video: The Loch Ness Monster: Proof at Last!A Disastrous Democracy Paranormal MusingsMany cultures believe in the jinx--a symbol or person courting bad luck seemingly at every turn. But what happens when the suspected jinx is a president of a country? Many locals of Indonesia are adamant that Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the Indonesian president, is indeed a harbinger of ill fortune for the country. Citing the number nine in his birthday and the many natural disasters that have befallen on the country over the last few years, opposition party leaders have been quick to underscore, and link, the tragedies to his presidency. So what's a jinx to think? Yudhoyono apparently doesn't believe in any of it.Local Community Center Staff Report Friendly Haunting Examiner-EnterpriseYou might be expecting to read the usual ghost story at this time of year, but you might be surprised at some of the unusual phenomena Bartlesville Oklahoma Community Center Managing Director Bud Sexson describes in this story. Have you ever read about anyone not being able to see their reflection in a glass when all the people around could see theirs? Elsewhere, Tools of the ghostly persuasion used to find spooks, goblins, and ghosts and The Best "Real Life" Ghost Cameos: Real or Fake?Did Chinese Ships Discover America? The ProvinceA researcher whose father found old maps posits Chinese voyages to the west coast of North and South America in a 2000 BC. Her father, Dr. Hendon M. Harris Jr., a third-generation Chinese-born missionary, came across an ancient Chinese map in an antique shop in Korea in 1972. Such ancient Chinese voyages would explain "why a number of placenames in the Americas mean something in Chinese, such as Peru, or 'white mist,' in Chinese, but not in Spanish. And why certain symbols associated with Indian drawings found in America are nearly identical to Chinese writing; why native American infants share Asian babies' 'Mongolian spots,' a birthmark near the base of the spine, as well as Asian bloodlines and jawlines; and why ancient villages in China bear a resemblance to native American settlements, right down to the teepees."How Long Is A UFO? The Big StudySays CUFOS UFOlogist Mike Swords: "I am not sanguine about the odds on us discovering these hard-wired patterns that many UFOlogists have sought as the 'holy grail.' But, one wonders if there are not much subtler patterns, or at least 'fingerprints' of the agenda operators which can be found. This post is about a rare case of such a find..." The "long" in the title refers to the length of the UFO experience. The data show that reports that turn out to be IFOs are far different in terms of the length of the experience than true UFO experiences.The Red Orb! Chris Holly's Paranormal WorldAn odd sighting of a red orb in the early 1970s has left a profound impact on the couple who witnessed it. As she prepared for bed, Chris Holly called her husband up to look at a strange light in tall pine tree outside their bed room window that seemed to partially illuminate the room. Having taken a look at the object her husband was at a loss as to what it was - and the next thing they remembered they were lying in their still made bed with an strange groggy feeling. The married couple's relationship deteriorated from that point on, yet they stayed on good terms. Years later and both remarried, it was at a Halloween party thrown by the ex-husband that things started to become frighteningly clear. Did the couple undergo an abduction that has manifested in different outlets between the two? Elsewhere, An Oregon AbductionA Talent for the Paranormal North Jersey NewsOenophile Craig McManus, owner of a wine emporium in Tenafly, New Jersey, seems to have a talent that isn't just picking a perfect Pinot for a dinner party, he's a ghost hunter and channeler of the deceased. Author of four published books, creator of a haunted tour in Cape May and possessing abilities to communicate with the departed, McManus embraces what at first "freaked" him out. Calling it "ambush channeling," those that come in contact with McManus run the risk of knowing what loved ones on the other side have to say to them. But finding seances draining, he moved on to be an historian of ghostly haunting. Elsewhere, Peter Jordan brought a hauntingly good time to APSU and Hunting Augusta’s ghostsAlso a digital tribute by Rita J. King: Goodbye Mac Tonnies.