Michelle Yim considering 'ghost marriage'

February 27, 2010 by Webmaster

Grieving Hong Kong actress Michelle Yim may finally fulfill her late boyfriend Wan Chi Keung's longtime wish to marry her.

The actress is considering arranging minghun, or a ghost marriage according to Chinese traditions, to formalize their relationship, said reports.

During their 26-year-long relationship, Wan had often expressed his desire to marry Michelle, and even proposed to her on a few occasions. The actress once said that they felt more in love without being legally married.

In the eyes of friends and the public, the couple was already deemed inseparable. >> READ MORE

Film crew gets spooked by ghostly figures at Old Changi Hospital

February 23, 2010 by Webmaster

STOMPer Sheena is spooked by the encounter she had with a film crew at Old Changi Hospital. The crew was filming their upcoming documentary, 'Haunted Changi'. According to her, they managed to capture a lot of scary footage with shadows and figures when they visited on a night close to the anniversary of the Japanese invasion in World War Two.

The STOMPer said in an email:

"Our documentary film crew was spooked at Old Changi Hospital (OCH). We also captured many 'things' on camera.

"There are figures and shadows in some of the shots from our footage. >> READ MORE

Churchill demanded UFO briefing: secret files

February 20, 2010 by Webmaster

LONDON (AFP) – Hundreds of UFO sightings by Britons, including one who developed a skin condition after a supernatural encounter, emerged in files out Thursday which also show Winston Churchill's interest in the issue.

The most unusual of the newly declassified Ministry of Defence files tells how a man in Ebbw Vale, south Wales, claimed his car was surrounded for five minutes by a "tube of light" in 1997.

The man, who reported the incident to police, was sick the next day and also developed a mysterious skin condition.

"First sighting seemed like a massive star moving towards the car," the previously top secret police report said. >> READ MORE

Thousands of dinosaur footprints uncovered in China

February 8, 2010 by Webmaster

BEIJING (AFP) - – Archaeologists in China have uncovered more than 3,000 dinosaur footprints, state media reported, in an area said to be the world's largest grouping of fossilised bones belonging to the ancient animals.

The footprints, believed to be more than 100 million years old, were discovered after a three-month excavation at a gully in Zhucheng in the eastern province of Shandong, the Xinhua news agency reported.

The prints range from 10 to 80 centimetres (four to 32 inches) in length, and belonged to at least six different kinds of dinosaurs, including tyrannosaurs, the report said Saturday. >> READ MORE

Indonesian horror flick about menstruating ghost withdrawn

February 6, 2010 by Webmaster

JAKARTA - Indonesian film producers said Friday they had withdrawn a horror-comedy movie about a menstruating ghost from cinemas due to threats from hardline Muslims.

"We did this because the reaction to the film is outrageous. The situation is still tense," K2K production house manager Evelin Hutagaol told AFP.

"Hantu Puncak Datang Bulan" (The Menstruating Ghost of Puncak) was screened to a selected audience in Jakarta earlier this week and was due for general release on Thursday.

The producers said they made significant cuts to the film before it was approved by the mainly Muslim country's censorship board, including most of the sex scenes. >> READ MORE

Woman sexually assaulted by 'ghost'

February 4, 2010 by Webmaster

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- A man was charged for sexually assaulting his neighbor by taking advantage of her being scared by his bizarre and ghostly appearance.

The suspect, a 39-year-old man surnamed Liu, sneaked into his neighbor's home at 4 a.m. on Nov. 5, 2008, after a few drinks and wearing only a white undershirt and patterned shorts. To cover his face from his victim, Liu pulled the undershirt over his head. >> READ MORE

Da Vinci may return from grave to solve Mona Lisa riddle

February 1, 2010 by Webmaster

Scientists seeking permission to exhume the remains of Leonardo da Vinci plan to reconstruct his face to discover whether his masterpiece, the Mona Lisa, is a disguised self-portrait.

A team from Italy’s National Committee for Cultural Heritage, a leading association of scientists and art historians, has asked permission to open the tomb in which the Renaissance painter is believed to lie at Amboise castle, in the Loire valley, where he died in 1519, aged 67. >> READ MORE

Avatar kills geezer

January 24, 2010 by Bacon

A 42-year-old Taiwanese man with a history of high blood pressure has died of a stroke after becoming somewhat overexcited watching blue blockbuster Avatar.

The man, who suffered from hypertension, began feeling unwell during the screening in Hsinchu and was unconscious on arrival at hospital. Tests revealed he had suffered a brain haemorrhage.

"It's likely that the over-excitement from watching the movie triggered his symptoms," an ER spokesman told AFP. >> READ MORE