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The truth is out there.... the Roswell 'UFO incident' 60 years on
 Something happened in Roswell, New Mexico, 60 years ago. A mysterious object, some claim it was a UFO, appeared to crash in the desert of New Mexico. Rumours began to circulating about the discovery of the body of an alien..... "It's all true," claims a veteran of the incident. Watch the footage of the alleged alien autopsy.
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Botswana: Devil on the loose
 A Satanist who tricks other men into bed and a woman who exudes  money, wires and men's genitals from her privates has left many church-goers fearing that the Devil is on the loose once more.
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Madeleine McCann's parents to consult psychics
 The McCanns are on the verge of consulting psychics to help them find their daughter Madeleine. The Portuguese police have already consulted mediums without any apparant success. With scores of 'fake' psychics claiming to have news of the missing girl, can any be trusted?
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The weird and wonderful world of crop circles
Watch this weird and wonderful collection of crop circle photos.  Since their appearance a decade ago, crop circles have consistently perplexed researchers. Aliens or farmers having a laugh..... you decide.
 
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Vatican opens its archives on the Knights Templar
 The Knights Templar are the stuff of legend and their exploits have provided the plots for countless films and novels such as the Da Vinci Code. After nearly 700 years the Vatican is opening up its archive to allow scholars to study the secretive sect. Oh, and never one to miss a money-making opportunity, the Church is selling reproductions of key documents..... Will we ever learn the truth?  
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What are the Knights Templar up to now? (And don't ask Dan Brown!)
 The Vatican's recent decision to release documents on the persecution of the Knights Templar in the 14th Century has piqued interest in the mysterious order. But what are the latter-day Templars up to?
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The 3,000-year-old mystery of Tutankhamun is finally solved
 The mystery behind the sudden death of Tutankhamun, the boy king who ruled Egypt more than 3,000 years ago, may have been finally solved by scientists who believe that he fell from a fast-moving chariot while out hunting in the desert.
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Americans worried more about aliens than nuclear war
 Files just released by the CIA reveal that Americans feared an alien invasion more than nuclear war. The CIA have apparently been fixated on UFOs since the late 1940s. They were not alone..... there was (and perhaps still is) a major turf war between different defence agencies in the US.
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Mysteries and the Unexplained
The man who created the supernatural
 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.
 
Has a famous paranormal researcher returned from the dead?

 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.  

 
Could hypnotism replace anaesthetics in surgery?
 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....
 
 
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Strange Tales 11: Which Story is False?
Can you tell fact from fiction? Play our game. Read the four stories presented. Three of the stories are true, but one of them has been completely manufactured. Detect which...

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Animal Stories
Canada Prepares to Slaughter its Seals

 Over the coming days tens of thousands of baby seals will be clubbed and hacked to death off Canada’s east coast. Hundreds of thousands more will be shot and left to die. The lucky ones will die swiftly. Many will suffer long lingering deaths….

 
Tournament of blood: The sheer horror of horse-fighting
 'Cultural tradition' or the world's cruellest sport? Horse-fighting is big business in the Philippines and has a huge following. Here we reveal the true horror of horse-fighting.... 
 
Rescued Bears Free at Last

 As the early morning mist curled around Dracula's castle, the three bears cautiously sniffed the air and stepped gingerly out of their cages. It was the first time they'd been free of their tiny prison cells for at least a decade......

 


 
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Aliens visited ancient man
Ever since mankind first began painting on cave walls, eerie but familiar beings and objects in the sky have been depicted.
 
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Gadget Reviews
Denon AH-C751 Earphones
 In a word “Amazing”. There’s no other way of describing these Denon earphones. They produce wonderful sound, are built to last and look pretty cool too.

Newsmonster tested these earphones over a couple of months so that we could pick up on those niggling little faults that only show up after a lot of heavy use. These earphones are one of the few things we’ve tested which didn’t seem to have any faults at all. We dropped them too often, trod on them and used them in the pouring rain. Nothing seemed to phaze ‘em. They’re as tough as old boots (probably because they’re made of chunks of machined aluminium) and sound wonderful too.
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