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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[I was born in Savannah, Georgia, lived there for eighteen (often horrifyingly boring) years and went back on and off when my parents were still alive. As a kid I lived across the street from the colonial era cemetery. Savannah&#39;s...]]></content:encoded>
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      <description>The brief association of scientists and spiritualism and talking to the dead.</description>
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      <description>Dead butcher&apos;s spirit said to haunt Cornwall shoe shop.</description>
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      <description>Malawi&apos;s President Bingu wa Mutharika flees from ghosts in haunted house.</description>
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      <title>Man fined for refusing to have ghosts exorcised</title>
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      <description>Indian man punished for refusing order to have ghosts cast out of his haunted house.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[An Indian farmer Sibon Soren has been fined for refusing to have his home exorcised. He may lose the house since he had to borrow the money with which he paid his fine.The deaths of Soren&#39;s son, wife and grandson,...]]></content:encoded>
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      <description> Students at a Delhi university have been given an unexpected week off - thanks to a ghost on the campus.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[ Boo! There have been no new classes at the Indian Statistical Institute&#39;s Delhi branch since Friday, and most of the students have gone home for a week. The reason is that students have become convinced the institute is being...]]></content:encoded>
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      <description>Man pretended to be Black Ghost and tricked people into hiring him to rid them of the ghost.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Enterprising Indian ghost chaser has been arrested for dressing up as a ghost to scare people who they&#39;d hire him. He confessed to charging hefty amounts for his ghostbusting services and taking home all the gifts that were given to...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Ghost hunting kit works over the web</title>
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      <description>British Telewest Broadband offers a ghost detection kit that works over the internet.</description>
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      <description>Spain&apos;s most famous haunted house is for sale</description>
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      <title>Hotties from the grave</title>
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      <description>Make love to dead people, sexuality of ghosts</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Fleshbot highlights an unexpected source of erotic partnership - the departed: &#8220;For those seeking sexual union with a ghost, the only solution is to seek out haunted mansions and hope for the best, or try to coerce the ghost into...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Ghosts in the toilet</title>
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      <description>Maylasian faith-healer rids toilets of ghosts</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Kuala Lumpur - Exorcists were called in to get rid of ghosts allegedly haunting a national service camp in Malaysia after 20 students became hysterical claiming they had seen apparitions, a newspaper reported Thursday. Sixteen trainees were treated in hospital...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Talking to the Dead : Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism</title>
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      <description>Review of Talking to the Dead : Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism by Barbara Weisberg</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[ Talking to the Dead : Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism (at Amazon) From a review of Barbara Weisberg&#39;s Talking to the Dead : Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism in The New...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Spiritual neurology</title>
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      <description>Neurological studies of experience of Union with God</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[In the first of what he hopes will be a series of experiments, Dr Beauregard and his doctoral student Vincent Paquette are recording electrical activity in the brains of seven Carmelite nuns through electrodes attached to their scalps. Their aim...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Sea of Souls</title>
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      <description>BBC TV show about psychic investigators</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[The BBC is airing Sea of Souls a melodrama built around parapsychological research. The response of a member of Edinburgh University&#39;s Koestler Parapsychology Unit: &#8220;I was horrified,&#8221; says Watt. &#8220;What you do is collect your data and write it up;...]]></content:encoded>
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      <description>Haunted fruit machine in England</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[ The ghost in the fruit machine of a Merton bookmakers has placed it among the most haunted shops of its kind in Britain. Alan French, manager of the Wimbledon Chase branch of William Hill&#8217;s, is convinced a fluttering phantom...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Sometimes her abilities amaze even her, she said</title>
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      <description>Silly psychics, self-deluded people, does it run in the family?</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Perhaps seeing things that aren&#39;t there is an inheritable birth defect. Mrs. Morgan said there are a lot of misconceptions about both her work and the spirit world. One big misunderstanding is that ghosts are harmful. In all her investigations,...]]></content:encoded>
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      <description>Selling and buying a haunted house, Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[As silly as it sounds, if your home has a reputation for ectoplasmic activity, you should disclose it. Disclosing things that go bump in the night, as well as more tangible stigmas could certainly cause your home&#39;s value to drop,...]]></content:encoded>
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      <description>Oakland poltergeist, Francois won&apos;t shut up! Are ghosts profitable?</description>
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      <description>Bogus spook haunts Buxton Inn&apos;s Room 9, brings tourists</description>
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