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    Martha Ghost

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    Many years a young woman by the name of Martha moved to Montgomery to attend Huntington University. The young lady moved to Montgomery despite wanting to stay in New York but she knew of her father’s great love for his home state and her mothers legacy at Huntington. Martha instantly stuck out wearing all red and her décor also being red. Her cold attitude drove everyone away and caused every roommate she had to request a new room. The president of Pratt Hall where the red lady lived also tried to

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    The response, “I knew it!” is a response often used today out of context. Although many people say these words without a second thought, the aspect of knowing something before it happened has been an art practiced and faked for many centuries. In Donald R. Morse’s The Sixth Sense and Beyond, Mr. Morse describes the multiple possibilities of a sixth sense. He describes the “sixth senses” animals have including echolocation, and reptiles sensing pheromones from other species around them. Morse

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    The book Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife, is a non-fiction work by Mary Roach, that explores the unanswered questions about the afterlife. The humorous and scientific exploration includes: whether there is a soul that survives death, reincarnation, near-death experiences and out of body experiences. This is a book about what scientists are doing and have done in their attempt to find evidence that when we die we don’t just turn into bones. Roach attempts to find and the define that soul using

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    Something I’ve noticed, is some people really want to pretend they have super powers. People go like “I never get sick” and that’s not true, you just have been lucky and haven’t gotten sick you mean. Or other weirdos who think they can see events in their dreams? Kinda want to do something drastic just to go like “did you foresee that? No? Because you’re narcissistic, immature and showing like you don’t have a grip. pectus excavatum Sounds like a spell doesn’t it? I was told I looked like Snape

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    Psychics claim to have the ability to see or predict future events. Whether it’s true or false is up to each individual to decide. However, psychics are not the only people who can predict the future; writers can also foresee the future, which is proven through the written evidence of literature they produce. George Orwell, the author of 1984, has portrayed a variety of parallels of modern society through the setting and characters in the novel. Also, he has effectively predicted different aspects

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    Paganism, spiritualism, witchcraft – call it what you may, there’s no denying that the occult is ever-present. In Vancouver, one is particularly accustomed to the crystal shops and new age book stores hiding around each corner – a walk along West 4th in Kitsilano attests to that. With melting pot populations, cities tend to host unconventional ‘schools of thought’; and at the turn of the eighteenth century, two cities, New Orleans and Beijing (formerly Peking) became hubs for the supernatural. Though

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    Alabama Ghost Stories

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    Many people have been inside haunted houses or lived in a haunted house. Some people do not realize actually if there house is haunted or not. People who actually know about a haunted house , they want to visit and video what paranormal activities happen at the haunted house. In Alabama, three places have been visited and recorded of the ghost inthe haunted facility. The word facility is being used because not all ghost exist in houses, they can be in backyard, bridge, anywhere. The big houses you

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    Does ghost exist in real life? It has been a popular question been ask for few decades. Some people encounter the supernatural phenomena, some not. So there are people who believe and people who disbelieves. Therefore, here are some introduction of what ghost really is, where we can find their existence, how can we feel their presence and does science proof the existence of ghost. In traditional belief and fiction, a ghost (sometimes known as a spectre (British English) or specter (American English)

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    Dmt Counter Culture

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    Throughout history the access to the metaphysical world has been of interest for a variety of cultures and religions across the world. Over the years, men have claimed to have travelled to or seen a of glimpse of the spirit world. It has been evident that in many cultures the use of herbs and other organic substance has assisted in this journey through the metaphysical world. The psychedelic experiences of many of these substances are what have been given these individuals experiences that are beyond

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    The purpose of science is to work towards furthering our comprehension of how the world around us works, either by observing certain patterns or collecting empirical evidence with the experimental method. It has been evidenced that “mainstream science” has rejected parapsychology for decades now; textbooks ignore the concept of telekinesis, which is the power to move objects with one’s mind (McGreal, 2014), and science agencies have refused to provide funding for scientific research that studies

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