In Pure Spirit

Sir Patrick Stewart the actor famous for his appearances in StarTrek and X-Men as well as his sterling performances in Shakespeare plays has said he saw a ghost while performing Waiting for Godot.

Sir Patrick has been performing the play with fellow X-Men star Sir Ian MacKellen and being followed by a film crew from Sky Arts.

Sir Ian asks Stewart, “What happened, what threw you?” after the two actors go offstage for the interval.

“I just saw a ghost. On stage, during Act One,” Patrick Stewart replies. The Sky camera man didn’t record the image but the actor describes the ghostly figure as wearing a beige coat and twill trousers.

One disk has been deployed in the moat of Osaka Castle and the other for Osaka’s Dontoburi canal. Sadly, the alien cleaners aren’t commercially available as they’re not cost effective. They’ve been bought to run along with the 2009 Osaka Aqua Metropolis festival.

Image via Wikipedia Tropical dates: 23 July to 23 August Sidereal dates: 17 August to 16 September (approx) Representation: Lion’s tail Ruling planet and groupings: Sun; masculine, fixed and fire Associations: Colour: Gold and scarlet Flowers: Marigold Gemstone: Ruby Trees: Walnut and olive Traits Proud, generous and creative. Leonians often need to keep themselves in [...]

The Yarborough Hotel in Grimsby was built in 1851 by the Earl of Yarborough. The Earl was the chairman of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Company who recognised there would an increase in trade in Grimsby when the new railway linked it into the growing network.

The hotel, now a J.D. Wetherspoons pub, is perhaps best known as the location of the Yarborough Riot. During the political riots it is through that voters were kidnapped and held in the hotel.

P.P. Paranormal, a team of experienced paranormal investigators based in North Lincolnshire, contacted the Yarborough Hotel manager Nathan Gregory with a request to investigate the hotel as they believed it was haunted.

Image via Wikipedia In Balasore, India, 18 school girls were taken ill after morning prayers. The girls are now refusing to return to Hidigaon Panchayat High School claiming that it is haunted. The Times of India has the story and they report that the incident began with one student – known as Mansai to the [...]

An expedition led by Michael Eisenriegler has found the Buddhist relics which belonged to the 19th century Buddhist master Danzan Ravjaa. The relics, which include statues, art work, manuscripts and personal belongings, were hidden in the 1930s during Mongolia’s Communist purge. Hundreds of Buddhist monasteries were destroyed and looted during this time.

In order to save the relics from destruction they were hidden in a total of 64 crates. These crates where buried in the Gobi Desert by a Buddhist monk called Tudev. Tudev passed the secret of the relics’ locations on to his grandson who was able to rediscover some of the boxes in 1990. Michael Eisenriegler’s expedition has unearthed two more of the historically and religiously important crates.

Image by euthman via Flickr August means Augustus Caesar’s month. Augustus Caesar completed the calendar reform started by Julius Caesar and also named a month after himself. Augustus became the first emperor of Rome after Julius was assassinated in 44 BC. Events in August The Feast of the Assumption Born in August? Birthstone: Peridot Flower: [...]