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This months topic: Paranormal TV!

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-Ghostlycast staff

Vampires as a sub culture are becoming more and more popular. Take a minute and view the link below to a new video.

Video: http://www.paraurl.com/?vampire-sub-culture

WARSAW, Poland – Researchers said Thursday they have identified the remains of Nicolaus Copernicus by comparing DNA from a skeleton and hair retrieved from one of the 16th-century astronomer’s books. The findings could put an end to centuries of speculation about the exact resting spot of Copernicus, a priest and astronomer whose theories identified the Sun, not the Earth, as the center of the universe.

Polish archaeologist Jerzy Gassowski told a news conference that forensic facial reconstruction of the skull, missing the lower jaw, his team found in 2005 buried in a Roman Catholic Cathedral in Frombork, Poland, bears striking resemblance to existing portraits of Copernicus.

The reconstruction shows a broken nose and other features that resemble a self-portrait of Copernicus, and the skull bears a cut mark above the left eye that corresponds with a scar shown in the painting.

Moreover, the skull belonged to a man aged around 70 — Copernicus’s age when he died in 1543.

“In our opinion, our work led us to the discovery of Copernicus’s remains but a grain of doubt remained,” Gassowski said.

So, in the next stage, Swedish genetics expert Marie Allen analyzed DNA from a vertebrae, a tooth and femur bone and matched and compared it to that taken from two hairs retrieved from a book that the 16th-century Polish astronomer owned, which is kept at a library of Sweden’s Uppsala University where Allen works.

“We collected four hairs and two of them are from the same individual as the bones,” Allen said.

Gassowski is head of the Archaeology and Anthropology Institute in Pultusk, in central Poland, and Allen works at the Rudbeck Laboratory of the Genetics and Pathology Department of Uppsala University.

Copernicus was known to have been buried in the 14th-century Frombork Cathedral where he served as a canon, but his grave was not marked. The bones found by Gassowski were located under floor tiles near one of the side altars.

Gassowski’s team started his search in 2004, on request from regional Catholic bishop, Jacek Jezierski.

“In the two years of work, under extremely difficult conditions — amid thousands of visitors, with earth shifting under the heavy pounding of the organ music — we managed to locate the grave, which was badly damaged,” Gassowski said.

Copernicus is believed to have come up with his main idea of the Sun at the center of the universe between 1508 and 1514, and during those years wrote a manuscript commonly known as Commentariolus (Little Commentary).

His final thesis was only published, however, in the year of his death. His ideas challenged the Bible, the church and past theories, and they had important consequences for future thinkers, including Galileo, Descartes and Newton.

Source: http://www.paraurl.com/?L4trr

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Hello all,

If you are a paranormal investigator looking to get all your report data in to the computer, I have the solution for you.

Its called Paraseeker. Runs on XP, it allows you to create records for each site, type in logs, attach pics, log interviews, and more.

You can see screen shots and purchase it at:

http://www.robscripts.com/shop/viewitem.php?ItemID=6

Regards,

Robert

Hello readers,

There have been a few new additions to the site in the past week or so. 

First, we’d like to welcome Mr. Oberg, The Paranormal Producer!  In his new category, we’ll be able to follow the creative journey in creating a ghost documentry.  I know I will be looking forward to reading the new posts as they come!

Next, we have another new category, Your Stories!  Have you had a paranormal experience?  Perhaps a ghost sighting, a run in with Champ?   Email your stories to show@ghostlycast.com and we will post them.  We do reserve the right to no post your story.

Another new category, Paranormal Events.  Do you have an event you would like posted here?  Send the information to show@ghostlycast.com today!

Podcast.  We are still interested in running a paranormal podcast.  The original idea was that we would post topics here on the site then do the cast on the ‘hot’ stories.  So far, there has not been much interest in posting comments.  We are getting quite a few readers.  If you have a subject you would like to hear more on, please feel free to send your ideas to show@ghostlycast.com or just post a reply to this!

Happy haunting,

Robert

Hello all! 

 We’ve made a couple of new changes to the site.

1. You can now comment on stories WITHOUT creating an account.  I know how people do not like to go though the hastle of creating an account just to make a comment.  Now you can just reply after you read an article with no hastle.  Comments are still moderated and will need to be approved before showing up on the site.
2. New category:  Website reviews.  I’ll take a few minutes each week to reveiw a paranormal website.  Our hope is to help you find some of the hidden gem’s out there on the net.

- Robert

Hello and welcome to GhostlyCast.com. 

Our goal is to create a weekly podcast dealing with the paranormal.  Most topics will be ghost related, however, we will look in to other paranormal topics. 

We invite you to create a login and comment on all blogs. 

- Robert