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“A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Odd news highlights this week - plus a few paranormal extras Miracle at Sacre-Coeur . Nun prays. Woman walks. BBC "Edited monologue by Abigail Brown."Other than the BBC link, I can find no additional details for this story.   Ghost Adventures on the Travel Channel, features the old Albion State Normal School in Idaho. IdahoStateJournal. Filming in July, done in secret to prevent the locals from interrupting the shoot. Interviews include a former campus caretaker. Yes, he believes.   Kansas Spooky highlights include a 2013 note from Ariana Grande - who said a trip to the Cemetery in Stull, KS made a memorable impression. KC   Ghosts of Kansas State University: PrairieGhosts , Ghosts of KU: TheKansan Ghost Investigation at Sigma Nu, KU: LJW   - Yes, it is haunted. I was there for the investigation and follow-up. Ghost removed ...

“Ours is the first age in which many thousands of the best-trained individual minds have made it a full-time business to get inside the collective public mind.” - Marshall McLuhan , The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man , The Mechanical Bride , Marshall McLuhan Estate How did I get to the above info? Twitter : I follow Callum Cooper , Telephone Calls from the Dead/ Amazon , and did a quick search to follow his latest activities.  That led to a long read he had bookmarked on StrangeHistory: The Earliest Telephone Call from the Dead. Found more than one item of interest in that piece, including this one: source . Another referenced a book called, The Automaton Ear . Curious, I searched and came up with this post on books, NYTimes , detailing the fascinating story of Marshall McLuhan and that review opened up several important issues - Example : In " Understanding Media ," McLuhan suggests that electric modes of communication--telegraph, ...

"The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." - Eden Phillpotts , The quote appeared in a 1919 book titled “A Shadow Passes” that contained a collection of vignettes depicting scenes in nature. Quote Investigator A few short newsy bits ... IBM : AI will Augment Human Beings. Futurism Creativity , the next upgrade for AI .  IBM opened the floor to a few experts. IBM Hacking AI - Already! Party's over. QZ Lost and found - (add magic ) BoredPanda   Woman finds ring on carrot : BBC - Ring 1/ Sweden 2011, Mashable - Ring 2 /2017 Fake News before it became a meme: Guy Sims Fitch , invented by US Government. Props to the name dept. PaleoFuture.Gizmodo Dying art? Paste Magazine = Prank phone calls, a history. More shenanigans: Art of the Prank Corgi vs. Chicken .. DUCK! TwistedSifter Directed by British filmmaker Magali Barbé, the self-funded sci-fi flick makes you think you are watching a commercial and then... Lost in...