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Hairul Hambali, a spiritual healer, or bomoh, in Malaysia, who claims to have caught a shape-changing vampire the size of two tennis balls, has made prime-time television and newspaper headlines.

The vampire resembles a big wad of cotton with a little face. Hambali says it took about an hour to catch the creature, whose body is covered with what looks like cotton. The vampire will eventually be thrown into the sea to prevent it from harassing humans, he says.

A Note from Whitley Strieber: I am, naturally, disappointed that this vampire turns out to look like a wad of cotton. A far cry from the beautiful Miriam Blaylock in my new novel, the Last Vampire. But then again, maybe this vampire could at least be of some use to Miriam, perhaps as a makeup remover…read more

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Thousands of dead fish are washing up on the shores of Lake Erie and the cause of the deaths is unknown. Fish carcasses lie rotting in coves and on beaches. The stench has gotten so bad that it?s forced homeowners to keep their windows closed.

?It?s a very interesting mystery,? says Bill Culligan, an aquatic biologist who heads the Lake Erie Fisheries Research Station. Scientists are looking into whether a virus, bacteria, weather-related events or zebra mussels may be to blame.
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There is evidence that Mt. Rainier, within sight of Seattle, is getting closer to an eruption. Reports from Canadian sources monitoring the mountain say that a possible volcanic eruption is coming soon, although this was quickly dismissed by the U.S Geological Service (USGS).

However, reporters have witnessed a growing dome over on the southeast side of the mountain face. Last week, sources from the University of Washington said that mud was seen flowing from the mountain. Mt. Rainier has been upgraded to a Level 2 – meaning a possible eruption in 30 to 90 days.
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Two unusual crop formations have appeared in a field near a British radio telescope. One of them is a schematic similar to an image transmitted by the Arecibo radio telescope in 1974.

The broadcast consisted of a transmission of a pictorial message, which has been approximated in one of the two crop formations. The transmission was beamed toward the globular star cluster M13. The cluster is 21,000 light years from earth, and is located near the edge of our galaxy. It contains approximately 300,000 stars. The broadcast used Arecibo’s megawatt transmitter and its 305 meter antenna. It was the equivalent of a twenty trillion watt wide broadcast, but was focused on a very narrow area of the sky.
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