The latest news from the News Monster team. http://www.newsmonster.co.uk Mon, 21 Jul 2008 01:39:33 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.newsmonster.co.uk/paranormal-unexplained/could-hypnotism-replace-anaesthetics-in-surgery.html It sounds ridiculous and terrifying in equal measure but could hypnotism replace general anaesthetics in surgery? Many doctors certainly think so. Belgian surgeons have carried out over 6,000 operations using only hypnosis to dull the pain including hysterectomies and major abdominal surgery.... Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.newsmonster.co.uk/weird-stuff/new-ufo-witness-reopens-1970s-mystery-of-the-welsh-roswell.html One of Britain's greatest UFO riddles refuses to go away as a new witness emerged today - 34 years after the alleged 'close encounter'. The Government is said to have covered up 1974's event in North Wales, where scores of residents reported a massive tremor, strange lights in the sky and secret-service-style 'men in black' scouring the area. Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.newsmonster.co.uk/paranormal-unexplained/the-man-who-created-the-supernatural.html Supernatural frogs falling from the sky, mysterious airships, spontaneous human combustion... it all fascinated Charles Fort, whose appetite for the paranormal lives on today in sci-fi, conspiracy theories and that quirky chronicle of the unknown, the Fortean Times. Wed, 13 Jun 2007 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.newsmonster.co.uk/paranormal-unexplained/has-a-famous-paranormal-researcher-returned-from-the-dead.html The spirit of Montague Keen watched helplessly as his body was loaded into an ambulance. His wife, Veronica, stared blankly into the distance, tears flooding down her face. Her friends whispered words of hope, but in her heart she knew her husband was dead. Tue, 06 Nov 2007 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.newsmonster.co.uk/paranormal-unexplained/the-sinister-images-caught-on-camera-that-could-prove-poltergeists-do-exist.html Objects flying through the air. Mysterious claw marks on a man's skin. And vicious death threats... left by a ghost. It sounded beyond belief. But then a sinister image was caught on film..... Thu, 22 May 2008 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.newsmonster.co.uk/weird-stuff/files-released-on-ufo-sightings.html Secret files on UFO sightings have been made available for the first time by the UK's Ministry of Defence. The documents, which can be downloaded from the National Archives website, cover the period from 1978 to 1987. Wed, 14 May 2008 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.newsmonster.co.uk/paranormal-unexplained/has-csicop-lost-the-30-years-war.html It holds itself up as the home of intelligent Scepticism. Its aim is to 'de-bunk' paranormal fraudsters and the self-deluded wherever they rear their heads. But what have they achieved over the past 30 years? Tue, 13 May 2008 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.newsmonster.co.uk/paranormal-unexplained/making-millions-from-the-financial-markets-using-astrology.html Christeen Skinner is an astrologer to numerous British companies and financial institutions. Here she outlines her predictions for the coming months and years. If you’re an investor - or even a homeowner - it might make uncomfortable reading.... Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.newsmonster.co.uk/paranormal-unexplained/mystery-deepens-around-the-enfield-poltergeist.html Ghostly rapping sounds, levitating furniture, fireplaces ripped out of walls. The Enfield Poltergeist case is the most mysterious and inexplicable of modern hauntings. Was the case real, fake or a symptom of mass-hysteria? Newsmonster investigates.... Wed, 14 Nov 2007 01:00:00 +0100 http://www.newsmonster.co.uk/paranormal-unexplained/i-died-in-jerusalem-in-1276-says-researcher-who-underwent-hypnosis-to-reveal-a-former-life.html The last time I died was in Jerusalem in 1276. Pope Gregory X’s Crusade against Islam had collapsed and the Christians of the city would soon be abandoned to their fate..... Wed, 13 Jun 2007 01:00:00 +0100