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World War Two radio continues to pick up vintage broadcasts despite not having any power.

A 70-year-old radio at a Scottish heritage centre has been picking up vintage broadcasts featuring Winston Churchill and the music of Glen Miller.

The Pye valve wireless at Montrose Air Station, a heritage centre that tells the story of the men and women who served there, has no power and is not connected to any source of electricity.

The aerodrome has been a source of paranormal sightings and sounds for almost a century, with reports of ghostly figures, eerie footsteps and door handles turning, but the mysterious wireless broadcasts have had even the most sceptical staff at the station searching for a rational explanation.

The vintage radio set is kept in a recreation of a 1940s room. Several people have heard Second World War era broadcasts including the big band sound of the Glenn Miller orchestra and speeches by Winston Churchill. The broadcasts come on at random and can last for up to half an hour.

Technicians who examined it removed the back, but found “nothing but cobwebs and spiders”.

Read on at news.stv.co.uk

A bright spiralling light, believed by astronomers to be a rocket launched from Cape Canaveral, was spotted in skies across Australia’s east coast just before dawn Saturday, sparking a UFO frenzy.

Described by some witnesses as a “lollipop-type swirl”, the cloud of light was seen over the country’s three easternmost provinces — New South Wales, Queensland and the Australian Capital Territory — shortly before sunrise.

“It had a distinct bright centre, much like a bright star … (with) trails spiralling and fattening out from it,” Canberra resident James Butcher told broadcaster ABC of the spectacle, which he said lasted two or three minutes.

Other witnesses likened the spectacular phenomenon, footage of which was quick to hit the Internet, to a “huge revolving moon” with a swirl in the middle, or an illuminated cloud moving high and fast above the horizon.

“It certainly had that lollipop-type swirl … but it was travelling low and fairly fast, and as it went past me and I looked up, it looked like a row of lights, maybe four lights,” one Brisbane resident said.

Astronomer Andrew Jacob, acting curator of the Sydney Observatory, said it was most likely SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, launched Friday from Cape Canaveral shortly before dawn broke over Australia.

“It fits best, a rocket travelling overhead with something venting out of it, fuel venting out of the motor,” Jacob told AFP.

“The rocket’s probably tumbling or spinning a little which creates a spiral effect, a little like water coming out of a hose when you spin it. That’s the best explanation I have so far, probably the most likely one.”

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If Sebenzile Nsukwini’s bones are anything to go by, the World Cup is going to pass off without a hitch and hosts South Africa are destined for great things.

“Eish, it is looking very good for South Africa,” the 33-year-old Zulu witch-doctor said after casting her eyes over a seemingly random scattering of animal bones and sea shells during a seance in downtown Johannesburg.

“Look, the trouble is far, far away. No bombs,” she added, pointing to a polished and highly decorated knuckle-bone lying apart from the mass of trinkets strewn across the concrete floor in the corner of a dingy bus station.

A weekend newspaper report, vehemently denied by the South African government, of an “80 percent chance” of a terrorist attack during the June 11-July 11 soccer spectacular suggests her confidence is not universally shared.

But in Africa, where mysticism and magic play a part in many people’s lives, pronouncements from a ’sangoma’ such as Nsukwini can carry as much weight as those from governments, especially when it comes to the murky world of security agencies.

In sport, too, sangomas have been a regular but unofficial fixture on the African team sheet, using their ability to commune with the dead to determine a player’s fortunes and whether a dose of sympathetic magic and traditional ‘muti’ potion is in order.

Predicting the outcome of a World Cup is beyond a sangoma’s normal remit, although Nkuswini was confident enough to say South Africa would “be strong” despite being a lowly 83rd in the FIFA rankings and 125-1 outsiders according to the bookmakers.

There was more certainty from 78-year-old Nigerian soothsayer John Adatiri, who was able to make a precise call on the outcome despite admitting it was the first time he had analysed a soccer tournament in his 50 years as a mystic.

After a brief but intense stare into a two-sided mirror pulled from an old wash bag in his zinc-roofed hut in Lagos, Adatiri declared: “Nigeria go play quarter final. Brazil go win.”

In Ivory Coast, another West African nation with big World Cup hopes, fans have been going to juju priests and a charmed grove near the capital to conjure up some magic on the pitch.

“We are visiting our sacred forest two or three times a week to support the fight,” said Gnahouleou Emile, president of the national side’s supporters’ club.

South Africa’s sangomas have also done their bit, slaughtering a cow at the new 95,000-seater Soccer City stadium near Johannesburg to bless the pitch and give national side Bafana Bafana (The Boys) a spiritual boost.

However, insiders say traditional beliefs might be on the wane at top domestic clubs due to an influx of non-African coaches who prefer to get their team spirit from the training manual rather than the afterlife.

“All the muti stuff was before my time,” said Linda Moreotsene, a soccer reporter at the Sowetan newspaper.

“I can’t say I’ve seen any smoke or herbs being burned in the changing rooms. Many of the top sides have got European coaches now and they don’t think much of that sort of thing.”

Nevertheless, for many ordinary South Africans, muti — derived from the Zulu word for ‘tree’ — is a potent force and ‘muti killings’, in which a child or old person is murdered for their body parts, are not unheard of in remote areas.

Muti markets boast a stomach-churning array of decaying animals and aromatic herbs said to cure everything from dodgy knees to marital mishaps — afflictions common to many of the players now landing on South African soil.

“This one here is for sore legs,” said 56-year-old muti merchant Lawrence Mkise, pointing to a sack of powdered orange bark. “And this will make you strong, just like a donkey,” he said, with a wink and suggestive thrust of his fist.

“And this one will get your wife back. You rub it on your hand and call out her name. But it is very expensive.”

[via: reuters.com]

Reports of big cat sightings in the Norwich area have flooded in since the Evening News revealed that a large black cat-like animal had been spotted by a motorist off the A47.

Phil Grimes was driving eastbound on the single carriageway A47 from Norwich when he saw an animal in a field about 200 yards away off the road near North Burlingham, on Friday, May 28.

He said the animal had a heavy, thick tail, looked like a black leopard, and was about the size of a German Shepherd in height, but had a longer, distinctly cat-like body.

Since then eagle-eyed readers have told us their own stories of seeing big cats and providing more evidence that Norfolk is a hot spot for sightings.

Ten-year-old Ella Jennings said she was walking with her family along the A47 at Cringleford on Easter Sunday when they spotted a big cat.

She said: “It was between 6pm and 7pm when we could see a black figure in the grass.

“It stood still as if frozen and then ran behind a tree. We then moved back and spotted it again.

“Dad was going through all the animals it could be. The creature appeared to be too big to be a normal cat or dog although it did move like a cat. We all wondered if it was some kind of big cat.”

Alan Cunningham was driving from Norwich on the A47 about three weeks ago and had just crossed the Brundall roundabout.

He said: “Laying on the freshly cut grass verge to my left, just before the slip road for Shack Lane, was a larger than domestic size black cat.

“What first grabbed my attention was the size of its front legs and paws as it was laying on its right side facing the oncoming traffic. I’m fairly certain it was a Monday morning about 7am and the cat laid there for at least three days.”

Meanwhile, Ted Mobbs, from Taverham, spotted a big cat near Reepham Fisheries last September.

He said: “I was fishing and I was startled by a medium sized speckled, Lynx-type wild cat.

“I kept very still as it passed by at about 12 to 15 ft. Its ears were long and very pointy.

“I estimate it to be between 30 and 40 inches long, with a thick ringed-type tail. It was not a domesticated animal and looked like a well-fed killing machine.

“A few weeks later the owner of Reepham Fisheries said a nuisance otter they had, had been killed recently. I wonder?”

[via: eveningnews24.co.uk]

A mystery illness resembling human drunkenness has caused hundreds of native birds to fall out of the sky in the tropical Australian city of Darwin.

The brightly-coloured lorikeets are receiving treatment at an animal hospital with symptoms similar to alcohol abuse in people.

It is unclear what is causing Darwin’s inquisitive and gregarious lorikeets to unceremoniously fall to Earth.

Vets say it could take some birds several months to recover.

The mystery ailment often strikes these small parrots at the end of the wet season in Australia’s rugged Northern Territory.

About 200 birds are being looked after by vets suffering what appears to be a giant hangover.

The splendidly-coloured birds with blue faces, red beaks and green wings are a sorry sight.

Bleary-eyed and dishevelled, the cantankerous patients are suffering from headaches and a lack of energy. Many seem to want just a good lie down.

Tests have failed to reveal the cause of their distress and their rehabilitation could take a few months.

When the groggy lorikeets do finally emerge from this debilitating fog, they will be released back into the wild, where they roam in large, noisy flocks.

These extrovert creatures are generally fussy eaters.

They are one of the few types of parrot that feast mainly on nectar and pollen but are best known for the shrill way they go about their daily business.

[via: news.bbc.co.uk]

Smart homes which can detect when someone falls ill or has forgotten to take their medication will soon be commonplace in Britain, scientists claim.

A week-long series of strange occurrences in a Gloucester pub, The New Inn, has culminated in CCTV footage of a pint of beer being pushed from a table with no one around it at the time.

Previously patrons had heard the sounds of ghostly footsteps and rattling doors, common noises to most public houses that date back to the 1300s. But nothing has been so clear and unexplainable as this latest happening.

The Gloucester Active Paranormal Society (GAPS) have now been prompted to investigate the self-propelled pint at The New Inn, with one member of GAPS, Lyn Cinderey, there at the time.

“The quiz night was absolutely amazing,” she said.

“There were a few people in the bar, and four people saw this glass – a full pint – just lift up and fall on the floor. The glass didn’t even break.

“The rest of us looked around and heard the thud. We just couldn’t believe it. It was right there in the middle of the quiz.

“I’ve been investigating this [reputedly haunted] building for a long time and I’ve never known it so active.

“Activity has risen since 1 February when new managers, Mark and Samantha, arrived. Their daughter has been talking to a young girl – there is reputedly a young spirit girl there.”

For more go to news.bbc.co.uk.

A news study has suggested that people who play computer games before sleep may have a greater awareness and control over their dreams.

The research shows people who play more games more often have lucid dreams, where they look upon themselves from a third-person perspective. And also that they have a greater level of control over actions taken in the dream.

More recent studies by Jayne Gackenbach, a psychologist at Grant MacEwan University in Canada, look into the idea that comparatively, gamers when faced with a nightmare, will take the initiative and aggressively fight their way out of the dream scenario with relatively little fear. This early hypothesis could mean that people who suffer frequent sleep depriving nightmares may find a solution in virtual reality gaming.

Read more at livescience.com.

Josef Stalin blocked two attempts to kill Adolf Hitler during the Second World War, fearing that his replacement as Nazi leader would make peace with the Western Allies, a top Russian general said.

A plan to attack Hitler’s bunker in 1943 and a 1944 plot involving an assassin who had gained the trust of the Nazi leadership were both cancelled on Stalin’s orders, General Anatoly Kulikov told a historical conference in Moscow on Tuesday.

“A plan to assassinate Hitler in his bunker was developed, but Stalin suddenly cancelled it in 1943 over fears that after Hitler’s death his associates would conclude a separate peace treaty with Britain and the United States,” Russia’s RIA news agency quoted Gen Kulikov as saying.

In 1944, the Soviets again plotted to kill Hitler after a potential assassin managed to gain the trust of the Nazi leadership. “A detailed assassination plan was prepared, but Stalin cancelled it again,” Gen Kulikov was quoted as saying.

Hitler killed himself on April 30, 1945, as Soviet forces closed on Berlin, effectively ending the war in Europe and setting the stage for the Cold War stand-off between Russia and the West.

An estimated 27 million Soviet citizens died in the 1941-1945 war with Nazi Germany.

Gen Kulikov was Russia’s interior minister from 1995 to 1998 under President Boris Yeltsin. He said that the Club of Military Leaders, which he heads, would include details of the assassination attempts in a forthcoming book on the Second World War.

[via: telegraph.co.uk]

An extraordinary crop circle based on the ‘world’s most beautiful maths theorem’ has appeared in a field next to a windmill in Wiltshire.

The complex disc, which measures 300ft across, appeared to the east of Wilton Windmill near Marlborough in a blazing yellow rape seed field.

It appeared on Saturday just 25miles from another circle that popped up a fortnight ago by the Iron Age hill fort of Old Sarum

Lucy Pringle, a renowned crop circle researcher was puzzled by what appears to be a hidden code based on complex numbers within the shape.

She said: ‘I believe it contains binary, a numeral system, or base-2 number system that represents numeric values using two symbols, 0 and 1.

‘Working from the centre outwards, people are suggesting it has a connection to Leonhard Euler’s theorem e^(i)pi+1=0 which is thought to be one of the most beautiful theorems in mathematics.’

Read on at dailymail.co.uk.

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