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A rescue search (by both air and sea) is underway to locate the missing crew of what is being referred to as a "ghost ship" off the coast of Queensland, Australia. The ship was spotted by a coastwatch plane. The vessel is a 12 meter (29 foot) catamaran. Rescue personnel found the yacht empty.
According to an Emergency Management spokesman, the vessel was found with the engine running. The sails were up; one was found to be badly torn. Computers on board the yacht were also running. The radio and GPS systems were both operational.
A laptop was found set up on a table. Like the other items on board, it was running. A table was set for a meal. All was in readiness - the food and utensils were on the table. The only thing missing were the people waiting to eat.
Police have advised that the yacht was purchased by three men. Apparently, the trio were sailing it back to West Australia. Emergency workers did find three lifejackets on board, along with an emergency beacon. No life rafts were found.
Rescuers are using the yacht's navigational systems to try to retrace her movements. It is hoped that this action will help to shed some light on this mystery. In what I would consider to be a great understatement, the spokesman described the situation as being "a bit strange."
This certainly is a puzzle. If the radio is working, why wouldn't the crew call for help? Why abandon ship without life jackets and the emergency beacon? If the yacht was set-upon by pirates, they would have taken the vessel. What are we left with then? Sea monsters? Alien abductions? What do you think?
Posted by Jodee Redmond
It's Friday the 13th. Will you be going about your business as usual? Staying in bed until tomorrow?
I am not especially superstitious about Friday the 13th. I tend to think of it first thing in the morning. Later on in the day, I take a moment to think about whether I am having a good day or whether something unfortunate has happened.
If everything is going well, then I don't put much stock in the idea of Friday the 13th as being an unlucky day. If I were to have many things go wrong on Friday the 13th, I might start to think of it as being an unlucky day. If we think of Friday the 13th (or any other day) as being bad or unlucky, to a certain extent it turns into a self-fulfilling prophecy.
I have often heard that bad things happen in threes. If I am having one of those days when things are not going the way I would have planned, I remind myself of the rule of threes, as it were. If I can find three things that have gone wrong, not matter how minor, then after that point my day starts to get better. Or it seems to.
I think that if I decide that my day will get better at a certain point, it will. I have stopped focusing on what has gone wrong or what could go wrong. Instead, I get on with what I need to do that day. The bottom line, to my mind, is that whether it is Friday the 13th or not, it's a question of mind over matter.
Posted by Jodee Redmond
The petition, with 500 signatures attached, was presented to Canada's House of Commons by Mike Law on March 28, 2007. Law has stated that he does not personally believe in the existence of Bigfoot, but that petitions are presented to the government as a service to constituents.
Todd Standing, the man behind the petition, claims to have a 12 second video tape showing footage of the elusive creature. Standing developed the video into a 30-minute documentary, entitled "Sylvanic." The film's title is derived from a term used in southern British Columbia to refer to the "shadow guardians of the mountains."
Standing considers the fact that the government would consider his petition to be a victory in itself. He has refused to state where his video tape was shot, citing concerns that Bigfoot hunters will descend on the area and attempt to shoot the animal.
Standing will be a guest on Art Bell's paranormal radio show, Coast to Coast, on April 8, 2007. He is expected to discuss Bigfoot in general, his own experience, and his work in trying to have Bigfoot designated as a protected species. Standing will make his documentary film available to the public at a number of stops on his tour of the Canadian West. All proceeds are being donated to local Humane Societies.
The Canadian government has 45 days to respond to Standing's petition.Visit the Sylvanic Project web site to learn more about Todd Standing and his work.
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David Schrader and Tim Dennis explore the supernatural with their weekly online radio broadcast, The Darkness on the Edge of Town. The show is broadcast on Sunday evenings from 10 p.m.-midnight CST.
The pair also offer trips to such locations as the Stanley Hotel (featured in the film, "The Shining"), the Queen Mary, and Eastern State Penitentiary. Fees for the weekend events are in the range of $180-$250.00, which does not include the cost of travel to the location or accommodation.
If you are looking for a frightfully good time on your next vacation, perhaps you should consider signing up for one of these offerings. To learn more, please visit the darkness radio web site
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Raines does see the dearly departed, but not in the way we would normally think; the images he sees come from his imagination. Raines has the ability to picture a murder victim as they were in life. This ability allows Goldblum's character to consider the evidence in front of him in a new way.
Rains' character has been pushed to the edge; his partner, Charlie, was killed in the line of duty. The fact that Raines works on his own now does not stop him from having conversations with Charlie.
The first two episodes of "Raines" will air on Thursday nights at 9 p.m. (NBC). The show will then move to the Friday night at 9 time slot.
