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October 30Seventh Severed Human Foot Found Washed Up On B.C. Shore Vancouver SunAnother foot has washed up on the British Columbia coast. The size eight and a half shoe, replete with foot, was found by two men walking on a Richmond, B.C. beach. Although police claim it doesn't seem to match the others that have washed ashore since 2007, making a total of seven so far, they don't suspect foul play as the ocean and its marine life easily facilitates the separation of limbs from submerged bodies.Healing the sick with the mind. Sound impossible? Not to studies being conducted at the Indiana University School of Medicine. The study's director, Margaret Moga, personally selected skeptical lab assistants to perform healing energy directed at lab mice injected with cancer cells. Expecting a 100 percent fatality rate, the results have been nothing less than astonishing. Initially inspired personally by ancient Chinese methods of herbal and natural remedies, Maga was taken aback with the results of both the control group of mice and the "experimental" group. All mice in both groups, which were expected to die in less than thirty days and those that received the healing energies focused by the lab assistants, lived out full life spans. The preparation for the experiment was straightforward enough--project pure and positive thoughts, feelings and visions personal to the "healer" through a training session, and focus the positive energy through open palms upon the experimental group. After series of treatments, the group receiving healing went into remission and beat the cancer... but so did the group not treated. This would have come as a complete shock if it hadn't already been done in studies, rigidly controlled by other skeptical scientists, before. Does the bio-mind have a large scattered field of energy that encompassed more than the intended mouse?Halloween is a time when the media lowers the “ridicule curtain” and revels in all things otherworldly and strange--all in an effort to attract attention, no doubt. Now what do we have here? American Idol, Bigfoot, and Tom Biscardi? It's a match made in media heaven. Sure there are a lot of ghost stories around as Halloween approaches, but there's a lot about Sasquatch as well this year.CE-3 InexplicataIn a bizarre ET encounter that left physical traces of the event, a 65-year-old woman in La Pampa, Argentina, recently witnessed a strange intruder in her home upon returning from visiting family. She had seen the being once before in 2007 and describes as tall with a flattened face, sunken eyes and thin mouth features. Though she intended to take a picture of the being, she fell faint upon the touch of the being before she could do so. Over the course of then next day a weltering blister formed in an area of her arm causing severe pain. The ET returned again to examine her arm and burst the blister, which produced an abundant quantity of viscous, yellowish fluid. More info at Patricia Hervias on "Los 32 Rumbos." Elsewhere, in a far more mundane story, a Couple has encounter with UFO along Route 63 near Pavilion, NY.The People Of The Sea Unexplained MysteriesMan and the sea has a long history but historians are finding that masn's seafaring history may have been much more extensive than previously believed. In a dense article examining all seafaring cultures, as well as those that weren't known to be boat builders, such as the Solutreans, newer archeological finds such as the Kennewick Man, as well as known artifacts such as the Clovis Point spear, point to migration of peoples across the seas just after the last Ice Age 13,500 years ago. Judging by the currents of the seas, fueled by thermohaline convection, trade winds, as well as varying degrees of sea levels over centuries, is it conceivable that man has always traveled the seas whether for trade or exploration far earlier than agreed upon today?In her recent letter to Larry W. Bryant, OSI FOIA official Anne C. Costa denies his request by asserting that the OSI headquarters possesses none of the requested records pertaining to the RAF Bentwaters' UFO-E.T. encounters of December 1980. If the UFO-coverup whistleblowers in this matter are telling the truth, then whoever controls the sought-for records is lying -- plain and simple. Says Bryant: "Whenever an agency of the U. S. government lies to any citizen, that agency not only betrays the public trust but also merits no further confidence from the body politic."Mountain State Spirit Seekers Society has taken on the Moundsville State Penitentiary in West Virginia on its reported ghostly activities. A former prison that witnessed many executions and murders, the site allegedly offered many convincing pieces of evidence, captured via recording devices as well as through mediumship, claims the investigative group. Jason Gerrard, founder of the society, looks at ghost hunting as a way of helping spirits trapped in another plane and looks to find if the dead have a message to relay. "I want to continue on because I want to help people" says Gerrard, albeit dead people. Elsewhere, The science behind spook hills and The top five spookiest places in Berkshire and Bennington counties.How often does this happen? A witness reports a plane in flames but no plane is reported missing. And when searches take place nothing is found. Are people actually seeing a meteor?