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It’s not quite a haunted house but this plot of land at Boleskine Bay, on Loch Ness in Scotland carries a sinister past.

It was once owned by the “Beast of Boleskine”, occultist Aleister Crowley. Crowley, an author, mountaineer and practitioner of the black arts, owned the Boleskine Estate between 1899 and 1913. The estate was the focus for many of Crowley’s occult activities and experiments. His house later became the home of guitar player Jimmy Page.

The Guardian quotes a real estate agent from Strutt and Parker which says that there has been interest in the 1.9-acre plot of land because of the Crowley connection. Crowley’s home is owned by different people but this plot of land has been in the same family for 40 years. The land has 140 feet of the Loch Ness foreshore and planning permission for a three-bedroom log house. It is listed for £176,000.

[Deidre Woollard, Luxist]

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Directed by: Toa Fraser

Reviewed by: Fergus McShane

Price: £17.99

(1 votes, average: 4 out of 5)

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Plot: Set in Edwardian London, the complicated relationship between Fisk Sr. (Peter O’Toole) and Fisk Jr. (Jeremy Northam) takes a metaphysical turn when they attend a lecture about reincarnation and come across the curiously inviting Dean Spanley (Sam Neil).

Review: Based on the 1930s novella by Anglo-Irish writer Lord Dusany, Dean Spanley is an intelligent, funny, whimsical and emotionally moving adaptation. Peter O’Toole in usual good form (and perfect in his role as a lovable eccentric) helps to make the tumultuous father and son relationship nicely sentimental while not becoming an overtly dramatised hollywood cliche. The under-played roles and literary script help drive the film, which comfortably shifts between themes of death and loss through to the fantastical realm of dogs being reincarnated to human form through the ‘Transmogrification of Souls’.

When the pair come across Dean Spanley, Henslowe Fisk Jr. becomes fascinated with the notion of reincarnation. Then over a series of dinner meetings, and a number of bottles of rare sweet wine, Spanley’s apparent similarity to an old pet forces the curmudgeon O’Toole, to re-examine his own past and his relationship with his son.

There are relatively few films released at Christmas that actually have an interesting moral base coupled with clever plotting and sophisticated humour. Most fall for the in-your-face appeal of cheap jokes and obvious characters. It is extremely pleasant then to come across something breaking the mould: an adult fairy tale of fate that takes itself light-heartedly enough to allow for a suspension of disbelief in the characters.

If you missed this in the cinema, Dean Spanley is a delightful piece of film. An eccentric period tale that is hard not to get taken in by.

A Texas couple and their son were driving along Highway 285 heading home from Carlsbad Caverns when they noticed four lights about 50 feet off of the ground, according to witness testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) database.

The object first appeared to be in a V-formation as it rose to about 1,000 feet.

As they watched, the object “flashed out” in front of them.

The following is an extract from MUFON:

Texas, March 20, 2009 – Triangle lights less than mile from road.

“My wife, son and I were travelling home from Carlsbad Caverns on Friday, March 20, 2009 and around sunset my wife and son saw what appeared to be 4 lights hovering around 50 feet off of the ground, within a mile or so of the car (over some houses).

“My wife initially thought they were towers, but they all moved simultaneously vertically. These lights were pulsating (not at the same time).

“I immediately pulled to the shoulder of Hwy 285 and witnessed what was now 3 lights in a “V” formation (the 4th had disappeared). These lights rose vertically very slowly to a height of approximately 1000 feet in the air and after a brief pause began moving left (north) very slowly.”

[Roger Marsh, UFO Examiner]

The photograph of the strange-looking creature. (Courtesy: Al Watan)

A mysterious figure resembling a human being was sighted in the Doha Corniche’s parking lot, according to a report published in a local Arabic daily.

The report is based on the statement of an Arab expatriate lady who said she had seen the strange figure near the Oryx statue while walking in the area.

Quoting the woman, the daily said she took a picture of it in spite of being terribly frightened.

“She was very soon surrounded by a large number of people who also attested to the fact of what she had seen . But it suddenly disappeared out of their sight when they tried to go near it,” the report added, according to the Gulf Times, Thursday, April 23, 2009.

The image appears to be modeled on the African Kalanoro, somewhat (pictured), drawn by Harry Trumbore, from The Field Guide to Bigfoot and Other Mystery Primates.

[Lauren Coleman, Cryptomundo]

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Each month we collect and collate a wide range of incidents and stories to update our SIGHTINGS archive. If you are interested in strange creatures, UFOs and ghosts that people have been spotting out there, then this may be ideal for you. You never know… there may be a sighting recorded similar to one that you may have had yourself.

CLICK HERE to go straight to our Sightings Archive, or find it under ‘news’.

Or if you have had an odd occurance with any aspect of the supernatural then please get in touch with us by sending in your tales through our EXPERIENCES contact page. Eveything sent in will go towards the Experiences Archive we are currently building for the website.

CLICK HERE to go straight to the Experiences contact form, or locate it on the navigation bar.

Good hunting everyone…

A witness in Wimbledon, London, reports:  ‘I looked out of my flat window, over towards Merton way, and to my surprise noticed a large bright pink jellyfish-looking object surrounded by a pink haze. It appeared to be hovering over or above the pylons in the distance.  It hovered for about five minutes while I frantically searched for my camera. Did anyone else in Wimbledon see it?’ Could it have been an Unidentified Floating Organism as described by Dr Karl Shuker in last month’s Paranormal? See Experiences on page 78-79 for more one unidentified sky beasts. (Wimbledon Guardian)

A ball of flame was seen by a holidaymaker near Whitby Abbey, Graeme Edwards reports: ‘It was travelling south relatively slowly, but too quick for a hot air balloon firing its burners as there was no wind in the sky. It could have been a plane with an engine on fire, or so I thought. My father thought he saw four lights but to me it just looked like a fireball. I also thought it could have been a comet or something burning through the atmosphere. It was difficult to get perspective on it to see how big or close it was as it was pitch black.’ Joanne Rowe also spotted the ball of light a few hours earlier: she said it looked like some kind of rocket. (Whitby Gazette)

Helen Coughlan says she has encountered the ghost of highwayman Bill Saunders on several occasions in Epping Forest and that he has told her he was hanged for a crime he did not commit. Apparently, Saunders, part of Dick Turpin’s gang, refuses to pass over completely to the other side until his name is cleared in a gang murder. Mrs Coughlan said: ‘There was a stench of rotting flesh whenever he was close. While highwaymen were buried in consecrated ground, murderers were hung and their corpses allowed to decompose until they were nothing but bone. He spoke to me and said that he had been staying around the place as he didn’t want to cross over as a murderer, as he was innocent of the crime.  We performed an exorcism which involves the last rites, so now his soul has been commended to God and he seems feels a lot freer now.” Rev Spencer Hayward performed the exorcism with his wife Janet. (The Guardian)

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