Saturday, April 20

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‘The Exorcist’ Hollywood’s Imagination, And Our Obsession With Evil
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‘The Exorcist’ Hollywood’s Imagination, And Our Obsession With Evil

50 years later, ‘The Exorcist’ continues to possess Hollywood’s imagination, reflecting our obsession with evil. When the “The Exorcist” premiered 50 years ago, in December 1973, some theatergoers fainted or broke down in tears. A few even vomited. The film, which cast a young Linda Blair as a girl claiming to be possessed by the devil, was an almost instant success, with moviegoers waiting in line for hours to secure tickets. It went on to gross over US$440 million worldwide. The horror film eventually received two Oscars, for Best Sound and Best Adapted Screenplay. In the 50 years since, the cultural fascination with Satan has persisted. But as religiosity has waned, popular portrayals of Satan have also changed. Rather than embody pure evil, Luciferian characters that are complicated – ...
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How To Evaluate The Evidence Of Ghostly Activity
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How To Evaluate The Evidence Of Ghostly Activity

Are ghosts real? A social psychologist examines the evidence. Is it possible for there to be ghosts? – Madelyn, age 11, Fort Lupton, Colorado Certainly, lots of people believe in ghosts – a spirit left behind after someone who was alive has died. In a 2021 poll of 1,000 American adults, 41% said they believe in ghosts, and 20% said they had personally experienced them. If they’re right, that’s more than 50 million spirit encounters in the U.S. alone. That includes the owner of a retail shop near my home who believes his place is haunted. When I asked what most convinced him of this, he sent me dozens of eerie security camera video clips. He also brought in ghost hunters who reinforced his suspicions. Some of the videos show small orbs of light gliding around the room. In others, y...
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The Top 10 Most Haunted Houses In The World
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The Top 10 Most Haunted Houses In The World

Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp (Oswiecim, Poland) - Haunted houses aren't just homes, per se. The top 10 most haunted houses in the world include any building that houses people, and this is one of the grimmest places in the world. The Auschwitx Concentration camp is has one of the most blood-stained histories in the world, with over 2 million deaths in a five-year period (1940-45). The torture and genocide that took place here is some of the most horrific in human history. Raynham Hall (Norfolk, England) - Home to England's most famous ghost, the brown lady. According to folk legend, a picture of the brown lady was captured in the mid-1930's, and that picture remains one of the most authentic ghost pictures ever taken. The Whaley House (San Diego, California) - The most ...
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The Secret World Of Witches
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The Secret World Of Witches

Night runners are male or female witches, with extra ordinary powers, who get possessed with an evil spirit to cause nuisance at night by doing all sorts of wicked activities while people are asleep. When they get possessed, they go in trance and develop weird and abnormal characteristics ranging from sensing a human being from far, producing a red light from the tip of their tongues, climbing thorny trees, ridding on wild animals like hyenas, hippos and huge snakes, most of which they rare as pets. These wizards come in all ages, ranging from middle age teenagers to mature men and women, but of course strong enough to dare the race at night. They run nude in the pitch of darkness, but they never get hurt. They are so sensitive, that trapping them is almost impossible. Most of the time...
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Photographer Shannon Taggart Takes Viewers Inside The World Of Séances, Mediums And Orbs – As Spiritualism’s Popularity Grows
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Photographer Shannon Taggart Takes Viewers Inside The World Of Séances, Mediums And Orbs – As Spiritualism’s Popularity Grows

The word séance conjures images of darkened rooms, entranced mediums, strange occurrences and spirit voices. For many contemporary audiences, these visions might seem like something out of the past, or perhaps a movie, rather than a living belief system. For the past 20 years, American photographer Shannon Taggart has explored modern spiritualism, a religion whose adherents believe in communication with the dead. Her photographic series “Séance,” which was recently on view at the Albin O. Kuhn Gallery at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, provides a window into this often misunderstood religion. As a curator and art historian who has researched apparition photographs and the art of conspiracy theory, I was drawn to Taggart’s images because they offer a lens through which to e...
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How Can You Tell If A Tarot Reader Is Psychic?
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How Can You Tell If A Tarot Reader Is Psychic?

After I had had a number of readings, I started to think about how it was possible for someone to predict what would happen to me as time went by. I wondered if certain things would only happen because I had ended up believing that they would happen. If this was the case, it was as though a reader was planting seeds in mind; seeds that I would water overtime. Through giving energy to these seeds, they would gradually end up growing into plants and trees. It's Your Choice I ended up having a reading with someone who said that nothing was set in stone and that everything could change when I went back out into the world again. This person was aware of how the mind worked and didn't want me to believe that I didn't have a choice. I thought that what he said sounded accurate, or it would...
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WHAT IS A GHOST AND HOW TO KNOW IF YOU HAVE ONE IN YOUR HOME!
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WHAT IS A GHOST AND HOW TO KNOW IF YOU HAVE ONE IN YOUR HOME!

SUPERNATURAL What is a Ghost? I do not always see ghosts, but I sense and feel them, hear them and sometimes even smell them. When we physically die, our souls leave our bodies, and most of the time we move on to the other side. Once in a while a soul will choose, for one reason or another, not to go to the other side. It will choose to stay here on earth, becoming an earthbound spirit or ghost. Our souls are made up of energy. A ghost may have the appearance of our physical body only transparent like a watercolor. Souls can also appear as a streak of light or a ripple of energy, much like a heat mirage. When a soul appears it may also have on clothing similar to that which it wore in life. There are many reasons why ghosts choose not to go to the other side. We are in death as we ar...
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