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Spontaneous combustion

Investigators are baffled as to how a man suffered second- and third-degree burns inside his apartment - even though the only sign of a fire was a candle in the bathroom. Knoxville Fire Department crews found the 56-year-old victim inside his apartment bathroom Monday afternoon with third-degree burns to his face and second-degree burns to his hands.

- AP/Miami Herald (link here)

Witchcraft in Lithuania

In these difficult times for creditors, a Lithuanian debt collector is offering an unconventional service to retrieve arrears: witchcraft.

- AP/azcentral (link here)

It is a dilemna

http://dsquared22.com/blog/2007/01/06/the-dilemma-dilemna/

I grew up in that alternate universe that is mentioned in the above link.

Burnt weenie

"I just wanted to burn his penis so it belongs to me and no one else. ..."

- Rajini Narayan, an Australian woman accused of setting her husband's genitals on fire, quoted by AP/azcentral (link here)

Haunted Houses

In a Harris poll last year of 2,000 adults, 41 percent said that they believed in ghosts. Although the National Association of Realtors says that it is not the legal obligation of a real estate agent to tell a prospective buyer about alleged haunting, many agents, like Diane Ragan of Keller Williams Realty in New Orleans, feel that if they hear of something that may distress a buyer, they have the duty to pass it on.


- NY Times (link here)

Phantom signals on radar

An American fighter pilot flying from an English air base at the height of the Cold War was ordered to open fire on a massive UFO that lit up his radar, according to an account published by Britain's National Archives on Monday.

David Clarke, a UFO expert who has worked with the National Archives on the document release, said it was one of the most intriguing stories he had culled from the batch of files released Monday.

He said that the CIA once had a program intended to create phantom signals on radar — and that this may have been an exercise in electronic warfare. Whatever the case, Clarke argued that "there's no doubt something very unusual happened."

- AP/ajc (link here)