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		<title>What Was The Best Paranormal Story of 2009?</title>
		<link>http://backyardphenomena.wordpress.com/2009/12/31/the-best-paranormal-story-of-2007/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa A. Shiel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On this New Year&#8217;s Eve, I could list what I consider the best paranormal news items of the past year. But why read my blathering, when you could voice your own opinion?
So, I invite all you readers to leave a comment telling me what you think was the best paranormal news story of the year. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=backyardphenomena.wordpress.com&blog=5284333&post=24&subd=backyardphenomena&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Open Your Mind, Let In a New Idea</title>
		<link>http://backyardphenomena.wordpress.com/2009/12/11/open-the-door-to-a-new-idea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa A. Shiel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General paranormal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[open-mindedness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You would think paranormal researchers would have open minds. I mean we research things like hairy bipeds science tells us cannot exist and alien craft science tells us cannot exist. We get scoffed at, laughed at, ridiculed, and attacked. So we should be tolerant of new and different ideas. If only!
Too many paranormal researchers despise [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=backyardphenomena.wordpress.com&blog=5284333&post=113&subd=backyardphenomena&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Our Sightings Count, Yours Don&#8217;t</title>
		<link>http://backyardphenomena.wordpress.com/2009/12/07/witnesses-vs-bigfoot-researchers-round-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa A. Shiel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bigfoot / Sasquatch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bigfoot Sightings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Controversies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General paranormal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sociological Aspects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bigfoot researchers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elitism in Bigfoot research]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If a person witnesses a purse snatching, and the next day witnesses another purse snatching, what would you say?
Most people would ask what the snatcher looked like, can you identify him, was the victim injured, etc. Nobody would suggest the person imagined the purse snatchings, or fabricated them to get attention. Yet witnesses who claim [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=backyardphenomena.wordpress.com&blog=5284333&post=38&subd=backyardphenomena&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Blasé about Bigfoot</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:46:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa A. Shiel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bigfoot / Sasquatch]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bigfoot expedition vacations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elitism in Bigfoot research]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Are researchers getting blasé about Bigfoot sightings? Another report of a hairy, bipedal creature strolling across the road&#8230; yawn. Boredom might explain the explosion in researchers and other groups offering so-called expeditions that are really glorified vacations. Instances of Bigfoot engaging in more daring behavior, such as shaking cars or chasing people, are rare these [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=backyardphenomena.wordpress.com&blog=5284333&post=822&subd=backyardphenomena&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Revisiting the Zamora UFO Sighting</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa A. Shiel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General paranormal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sightings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sociological Aspects]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[1964 New Mexico sighting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1964 police officer Lonnie Zamora witnessed a strange craft with two beings standing outside it. His sighting &#8220;stirred an Air Force investigation, subsequent sightings almost daily in other parts of the country and the declaration by an official of the International Lunar Society that earth again had been visited from another world.&#8221; Zamora passed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=backyardphenomena.wordpress.com&blog=5284333&post=814&subd=backyardphenomena&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stan Gordon: 50 Years of Paranormal Research</title>
		<link>http://backyardphenomena.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/stan-gordon-50-years-of-paranormal-research/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:42:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa A. Shiel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bigfoot / Sasquatch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General paranormal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UFOs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;When there&#8217;s something strange in your neighborhood, give Stan Gordon a call.&#8221; Click here to read the rest of this article.
Posted in Bigfoot / Sasquatch, General paranormal, UFOs Tagged: paranormal researchers, Stan Gordon      <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=backyardphenomena.wordpress.com&blog=5284333&post=809&subd=backyardphenomena&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Paranormal in Michigan</title>
		<link>http://backyardphenomena.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/the-paranormal-in-michigan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:31:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa A. Shiel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Archaeology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General paranormal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mystical Michigan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Explore the mystical and esoteric in Michigan on Chad Stuemke&#8217;s website:
http://www.chadstuemke.com/
I recommend the Michigan relics article, for a piece of forgotten history.
Posted in Archaeology, General paranormal Tagged: mystical Michigan      <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=backyardphenomena.wordpress.com&blog=5284333&post=784&subd=backyardphenomena&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>UFOs: The Forbidden Connections</title>
		<link>http://backyardphenomena.wordpress.com/2009/08/07/ufos-the-forbidden-connections/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa A. Shiel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ancient Enigmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ancient History]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Connections]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Evolution / Human Origins]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bigfoot-UFO Connection]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What topics are ufologists afraid to discuss? Read on for the answer...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=backyardphenomena.wordpress.com&blog=5284333&post=731&subd=backyardphenomena&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Paranormal Future Beckons Us</title>
		<link>http://backyardphenomena.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/the-paranormal-future-beckons-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa A. Shiel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bigfoot / Sasquatch]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[defining paranormal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fear]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Napoleon Bonaparte]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tacitus]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Stop fearing conquest by a word. Read on to find out what famous thinkers have to say about fear...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=backyardphenomena.wordpress.com&blog=5284333&post=160&subd=backyardphenomena&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flesh-and-Blood, Nuts-and-Bolts Paranormal Phenomena</title>
		<link>http://backyardphenomena.wordpress.com/2009/06/14/flesh-and-blood-nuts-and-bolts-paranormal-phenomena/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa A. Shiel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bigfoot / Sasquatch]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[General paranormal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sociological Aspects]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[defining paranormal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A phenomenon cannot be paranormal and be real. Oh really? Read on for more...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=backyardphenomena.wordpress.com&blog=5284333&post=159&subd=backyardphenomena&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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