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BY SEAN SPOSITO FOR THE DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE

HOT SPRINGS — David and Ona Robertson own a 2, 700-square-foot house that looks a bit like an English castle.

And since some castles are reputed to be haunted, it’s maybe not surprising when Ona Robertson, 62, refers to a supernatural extra that came with the purchase.

But the couple was not made aware of it by a close encounter of the weird kind.

It was a disclosure by a real estate agent when they bought the house in 1998.

Ona Robertson, who sports a tattoo of an angel on her back, pauses to sit in the reading room of her house about 1 p.m. on a Monday, her long, pink fingernails clutching a clove cigarette whose ashes she flicks into an ashtray next to her chair.

“I’ve never actually seen him, but you know how you visualize something in the corner of your eye... You get the feeling you’re being watched,” she said.

Real estate agent Tera Jones said she showed the house to a prospect two weeks before the Robertsons bought it.

At the time she was working for BJ Smith Realty of Hot Springs.

“It was one of those days that had big heavy clouds,” she said. “I’d been showing this guy property.

“[And the ghost ] was on the porch. He wasn’t like a ghost like you see in a movie.” Jones said the apparition caused her to run out of the house.

She said she immediately called her boss at BJ Smith and told him what had happened.

The next day, Patsy Doster, a real estate agent who worked for ERA Rushing McAdams Polychron Realtors in Hot Springs at the time, disclosed to her broker the events that Jones said took place at the house.

Ona Robertson said the selling agent told her of the supposed ghost that Jones had seen. Doster had put the house on the market for her relatives, the daughters of Paul Teague, who had died several years earlier.

Linda Averitt, an executive broker at McKimmey Associates Realtors, said: “If there is paranormal activity in the house you are selling, you would need to disclose it.” In the realty business, ghosts are shop talk.

Averitt said she saw the apparition of a skeleton in a house she was showing several years ago.

“I could just see a lady sitting in this chair; of course, she really wasn’t there. My buyer went over to pick [the chair ] up and move it. His hair just shot up,” she said. “He said: ‘ There is something in that chair — there’s a ghost in it !’” Real state agents are bound by law to disclose deaths or events in or around a property that might potentially affect its marketability. Before any house is sold, a seller fills out a legal document called a disclosure form that makes an agent aware of any unusual events related to the property.

But, ghosts aren’t necessarily a part of the clause.

Tim Grooms, a real estate lawyer for the Arkansas Realtors Association, said a “ghost-buster bill” prevents buyers from suing sellers and their agents on the grounds of paranormal activity.

The 2003 law, Arkansas Code 17-10-101, protects real estate agents for failing to disclose “any fact or circumstance or suspicion of the existence of any fact or circumstance that indicates that the real property is psychologically impacted.” The law defines a “psychologically impacted” property as one that “was at any time suspected to have been the site of a homicide, suicide or felony.” Jeb Joyce, a lawyer with the Quattlebaum, Grooms, Tull & Burrow law firm, said “psychological impact” covers hauntings.

Ethan Nobles, a spokesman for the Arkansas State Realtors Association, said such a disclosure might seem extreme, but a real estate agent has a responsibility to the buyer.

“If a seller tells his agent there is something floating around in there, the agent is probably obligated to tell their buyer about it,” he said. “What we tell our Realtors is if there is anything you know that could possibly [affect ] the buyer then go ahead and reveal it.” However, Sharla Law, a Fort Smith Realtor and chairman of the state association’s Risk Reduction Committee, said that during her 16 years on the board, no one has ever directly asked a question regarding haunted houses.

“I’m not saying that it hasn’t happened, I just don’t think it’s a [normal ] thing,” she said, adding that it’s not uncommon to see an item on the phenomena in a trade magazine or newsletter.

Robertson said her house’s ghost is a great excuse when things are misplaced around the home.

“Sometimes, we’ll wake up and things will be out of place,” she said. “And David will say, well, [the ghost ] did it.”

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Summary:
The term synchronicity defines a series of events that seem to be meaningfully connected. Carl Jung described synchronicity as the "acausal connecting principle" -- i.e. a pattern of connection that cannot be explained by traditional laws of cause and effect. Most everyone has witnessed "coincidences" ranging from the mundane to extraordinary, but the question is, are they JUST coincidences, or do they speak for something larger?

The question of synchronicity dovetails with many other intriguing hypotheses, including a holographic model of the universe, ESP, precognition, and a host of other extrasensory and "paranormal" phenomena that have yet to be recognized or understood by mainstream science. I've spent a lifetime noticing and mentally filing away countless little oddities that seem to demand attention. In 1988, I read a newspaper account of the untimely death of NBA star Pistol Pete Maravich. The article made special note of a bizarre "coincidence" connected to Maravich's passing. In 1974, Maravich had told an interviewer, "I don't want to play in the NBA for ten years and then die of a heart attack at age 40." Maravich collapsed and died of a heart attack after playing exactly ten years in the NBA. He was 40 years old.

A pathologically incurious, self-described "skeptic" who hears of this might instantly react, "So what? Coincidences happen everyday." Of course, that is true. But it is simply NOT RATIONAL to blindly assert that every so-called "coincidence" that permeates our lives is without meaning. More and more human beings are exploring reality from a more holistic premise. The purely materialistic view of the Universe has lost credibility in the eyes of many, because it does not reflect the world we live in (most of us, anyway).

In a previous multimedia presentation, we discussed the research of Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, and the abundance of evidence for "interspecies telepathy" and psychic powers of animals. No narrow, materialistic, self-described "skeptic" can explain how a pet, separated from its family, can traverse hundreds or even thousands of miles over unfamiliar ground to return to its loved ones. And yet, countless well-documented accounts exist of animals doing precisely that. But HOW? It is stupid, incurious, and unforgivably lazy to not seek to know the meaning behind such mysteries. And yet most self-described "skeptics" have never really wondered if any meaning is even there.

This video presentation is far off the beaten path for Thunderbolts.info. I've compiled a list of strange pop culture "coincidences" connected to September 11th, 2001. Similar lists have been presented elsewhere on the Internet, and I'm sure I've not included all of the pertinent info. It is not my intention or expectation to persuade viewers who are not inclined to believe in "that sort of thing." I only ask that the viewer refrain from negative, knee-jerk reactions without a moment or two of circumspection. And since this presentation deals with "coincidences" in Hollywood movies, consider for a moment this quote from Mel Gibson's character in the M. Knight Shyamalan movie "Signs," and ask yourself -- which type of person are you?
"People break down into two groups when the experience something lucky. Group number one sees it as more than luck, more than coincidence. They see it as a sign, evidence, that there is someone up there, watching out for them. Group number two sees it as just pure luck. Just a happy turn of chance. I'm sure the people in Group number two are looking at those fourteen lights in a very suspicious way. For them, the situation isn't fifty-fifty. Could be bad, could be good. But deep down, they feel that whatever happens, they're on their own. And that fills them with fear. Yeah, there are those people. But there's a whole lot of people in the Group number one. When they see those fourteen lights, they're looking at a miracle. And deep down, they feel that whatever's going to happen, there will be someone there to help them. And that fills them with hope. See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you? Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles? Or do you believe that people just get lucky? Or, look at the question this way: Is it possible that there are no coincidences?"
Michael Goodspeed

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It's a currently big news in Indonesia. Metal wires about 10-20 cm long grow from a woman's body! Skeptics initially thought that is must be "self-inflicted". Doctors however, have other theories but have given up on providing any scientific or medical explanations.

The woman had this problem for 17 years and currently being investigated by the Ministry of Health. Initial consultation with doctors and specialists found that the wires are also inside her body. At this stage, there were no current medical explanations or any case ever exist. Hence, there is but only one other possible consideration… Occult magic.

Her name is NOORSYAIDAH. A 40 years old kindergarten teacher from Sangatta, East Kutai. Her first symptoms started manifestating in 1991. The metal wires grew out of her chest and her belly. There was no explanation then (or even now). During the first week wires kept falling off from her body and were gone. A month later, the wires grew back again and from that time onward the wires did not fall. They kept growing!

One of her sisters said that she tried to help by trimming the wires. Alas, whenever she trimmed the wires, the wire retreated as if it were hiding and then popped up in another part of Noorsyaidah’s body.

There have been 4 Medical Specialists taking this matter seriously and have treated her in several ways. And as the result, doctors can’t figure out what exactly is happening to her. The doctors have taken an X-Ray image from her stomach and found that there are more than 40 metal wires inside her and some of them are bursting out of her skin. They looks like a living phenomenon. The wires are able mobile and therefore can change location at will, Thus the doctors are forced to use a magnet to scan the exact position of the wires. The wires bursted out without any symptoms of Tetanus, but she said that they’re hurting her like when needles sting.

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By ANDREW HANON, SUN MEDIA

In recent weeks, Edmonton ethno-historian Nathan Carlson has been called everything from a raving lunatic to an egomaniac trying to raise his own profile by exploiting a horrifying tragedy.

"It's been terrible," he said yesterday. "I can't believe the things people have been calling me."

Carlson is one of the world's leading experts on what he calls Windigo phenomenon, a condition where people believe they have been possessed by a Windigo, a mythological native monster with an appetite for human flesh.

Carlson was horrified last month over the beheading and alleged cannibalism on a bus bound from Edmonton to Winnipeg and its parallels to the Windigo phenomenon.

Less than two weeks prior to the incident, the accused killer - Edmonton newspaper carrier Vince Weiguang Li - had delivered issues of the Edmonton Sun featuring an extensive interview with Carlson, detailing his studies of grisly accounts of beheadings and cannibalism by Albertans in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

But when Carlson said in a nationally-circulated interview that he was horrified that Li might well have read the feature just days before the bus attack, Carlson became the object of ridicule on some Internet discussion boards.

"Windigo? Really? This is a joke, right? Does Carlson honestly believe this? *sigh*" sneered one poster.

"The Windigo business ... has no place in the news," wrote another.

"The devil made me do it has never been a strong defence for violent crime. I don't blame you for being ashamed of your bretheren believing in Windigo.

"As Canada slides down the slippery slope of immorality, get used to hearing about more evil spirits released into your earthly plane, above the 49th parallel," wrote another on U.S. discussion board.

"People thought I was saying the bus killing was caused by Windigo possession," Carlson said.

"But what I really said was there might be a connection between the article and the incident."

He was afraid that the article might have put ideas in the head of someone already seriously mentally ill, not that anything supernatural had occurred.

http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Edmonton/2008/08/25/6562541-sun.html

Electronic gadgets, locusts, refrigeration plants ... opinions on what is creating the Sudbury Buzz have been pouring into the Free Press from around the world...

George Bemiss, from Melbourne, Australia thinks the buzz is the background noise to modern life. He said: "You are so packed together over there in your little country and your houses are so full of electronic gadgets. I'm afraid you are just paying ADVERTISEMENTthe price of 21st century life. Switch everything off for a change and see what happens."

Louise Stebbings from Chesham in Buckinghamshire, said: "I've just read your report about the buzzing noise Sudbury residents are hearing at night and I was amazed – I am hearing the same noise most nights, except I live in Chesham.
"I have absolutely no idea what it can be – my neighbour downstairs can't hear it at all. I haven't reported it to the council (I thought they would think I was mad) but I'll be following your story online to see if you find the resolution."

David Riddlestone, Chaucer Road, Sudbury blames Tesco. He said: "Since Tesco was built, on a still night you have been able to hear the hum of the refrigeration plant on the Chaucer Estate. Bearing in mind the building work now being carried out it is quite possible that the sound is now being pushed in another direction towards Springlands. My guess is that's where it is coming from."

A Long Melford resident, who did not want to be named, said he could hear the "awful" noise in the village. He said: "I notice this noise, especially at night and the description is exactly as described – as if a stereo is on full volume but without the sound. I live facing the old railway and have fields directly in front so it's feasible that I can hear it from somewhere in Sudbury, although I did wonder if it was from Acton Industrial Estate."

Tim Reynolds, from Long Melford, said it was obvious where the buzz was coming from ...
"There is no doubt in my mind that the buzz is coming from the UFO spotted above Melford Church a few weeks ago. I mean there is no way that aliens flying over the area and buzzing sounds in peoples' heads could just be made up."

Killer Krause aka the Bear Hunter from Pennsylvania, USA, believes he has the answer.
"That buzzing noise people are hearing could be an insect that we call a locust. They come out of the ground every 13 years to mate and lay eggs. We are hearing it this year here in the USA and I live in Pennsylvania."

Swebbie, Sudbury: "I live on the Chilton Views estate and I also hear the buzzing and like reported, its so obvious at night. I thought it was coming from the the Middle School which is opposite us – it sounds like an alarm of some sort. It's worst depending of which way the wind blows!"

Attila, Sudbury: "Could this be worse than the continuous barking and yelping of a dog from 6.30 first thing in the morning to past 2.00 in the early hours of the morning, in all weathers, for well over six months, and the authorities seem incapable of being able to do anything about it?"

Eric Hanson, from Minneapolis, USA, said he uncovered the the cause of an identical noise years ago.
Mr Hanson investigated an annoying, constant whine in his neighbourhood, thinking it was an electrical transformer.
He said: "I finally determined it was not electrical but came from an aluminium rooftop turbine. The noise commenced when I saw the turbine begin spinning and ceased when the wind stopped.
"I wonder if a Sudbury building installed something like this recently. It might even be a defective lot installed by a contractor on a number of roofs. Prevailing breezes would make the hum almost constant, but low enough to be imperceptible during busy daylight hours. Let me know if I am correct."

Stephen Smith from Molnlycke, Sweden, said: "A possible source of the humming noise could be large numbers of bees gathering nectar in an avenue of trees (limes), which I myself heard in several places in Sweden this summer."

David Payne from Acton thinks the noise is due to underground electricity cables. He said: "Some of the noise could definitely be from cables underground and the buzz of sub stations. They do cause a humming sound very similar to the sound that has been described. Someone needs to investigate where the cables and substations are to see if that is the cause."

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