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The first step is to determine, as best you can, whether or not you truly have a legitimate case of a haunting. Not all hauntings are alike, and they may exhibit a variety of phenomena. Some hauntings feature a single phenomenon - such as a particular door slamming shut that occurs repeatedly - while others consist of many different phenomena, ranging from odd noises to full-blown apparitions.
Here's a partial list of phenomena that might indicate that your house is haunted:
Those are some of the most common experiences of those who think their houses are haunted. Yet even stranger things can happen...
MYSTERIOUS WOMAN
Karen was just having an everyday family photo taken... and a ribbon of mysterious light seems to emanate from the girl's mouth. When the light ribbon is blown up, however (wait for the photo to change), it actually proves to be the face of a blonde woman. Looking at the woman's image from left to right, her mouth appears to close then open again, as if she is talking.
By Jeanna Bryner, LiveScience Staff Writer
posted: 13 June 2007 11:15 am ET
A gigantic bird-like dinosaur weighing as much as a car towered over
its relatives about 70 million years ago, a new finding suggests.
The unearthed beaked dinosaur
was not full-grown, yet it tipped the scales at more than 3,000 pounds.
Paleontologists who discovered its remains estimate the behemoth was
just 11 years old when it perished.
Chinese scientists unearthed the skeletal remains of the dinosaur, now named Gigantoraptor erlianensis, in the Erlian Basin of Inner Mongolia, China.
Oddly large
At up to 16 feet tall and 26 feet long, Gigantoraptor dwarfed its relatives, a group of small, feathered theropods called Oviraptorosaurs. The hefty dinosaur weighed 35 times more than other Oviraptorosaurs.
"It's one thing to find a big dinosaur," said Matthew Lamanna,
assistant curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Carnegie Museum of
Natural History, "but it's another thing to find a big dinosaur from a
lineage that was thought to be small." Lamanna was not involved in the
discovery.
In addition to its size, Gigantoraptor sported several
bird-like features, such as a longer arm and more avian-like leg, not
present in its relatives. The scientists say this finding sheds light
on theropod (two-legged carnivorous dinosaurs) evolution leading to the
emergence of birds.
Xing Xu of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and Lin Tan of
the Long Hao Institute in China, as well as their colleagues, discuss
the finding in the June 14 issue of the journal Nature.
Oddly shaped
Gigantoraptor was also much ganglier than other dinosaurs.
Typically, larger dinosaurs had proportionally stouter limbs and
shorter lower legs than their smaller relatives. Relative to its size, Gigantoraptor had unusually slender limbs and lengthy legs.
"It increases our conception of the diversity of dinosaurs," Lamanna told LiveScience.
Based on its close relationship to other feathered species, Gigantoraptor
likely had feathers on its tail and arms, which were used as a display.
While body-covering feathers act as insulation, and would have been
necessary for the smaller dinosaurs, Gigantoraptor probably didn't need such a cold protector, the scientists suggest.
"It's unexpected discoveries like this that show, 'Hey we know a lot
about dinosaurs but there's still so much left that we don't know,'"
Lamanna said.
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