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	<title>Backyard Phenomena &#187; Sociological Aspects</title>
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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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		<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>
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		<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>
		<link>http://backyardphenomena.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/getting-blase-about-bigfoot/</link>
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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>
		<link>http://backyardphenomena.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/revisiting-the-zamora-ufo-sighting/</link>
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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>
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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>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>
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		<category><![CDATA[Connections]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bigfoot-UFO Connection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[evolution & aliens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UFOs & ancient history]]></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[General paranormal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[defining paranormal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Twain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Napoleon Bonaparte]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[semantics]]></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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		<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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		<title>Paranormal: Just a Word, Not an Enemy</title>
		<link>http://backyardphenomena.wordpress.com/2009/06/13/paranormal-just-a-word-not-an-enemy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 13:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa A. Shiel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bigfoot / Sasquatch]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://backyardphenomena.wordpress.com/2008/05/22/paranormal-just-a-word-not-an-enemy/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Few researchers who investigate topics like fairies or ghosts would freak out if you called their research paranormal. As for Bigfoot and UFO researchers...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=backyardphenomena.wordpress.com&blog=5284333&post=158&subd=backyardphenomena&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bigfoot and UFOs ARE Paranormal</title>
		<link>http://backyardphenomena.wordpress.com/2009/06/12/bigfoot-and-ufos-are-paranormal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa A. Shiel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bigfoot / Sasquatch]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we look at what the word paranormal means, we see clearly that the term applies to both Bigfoot and UFOs. Read on for details...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=backyardphenomena.wordpress.com&blog=5284333&post=157&subd=backyardphenomena&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The True Nature of the Paranormal</title>
		<link>http://backyardphenomena.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/the-true-nature-of-the-paranormal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa A. Shiel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sociological Aspects]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[semantics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you know what the word paranormal means? Don't answer too quickly...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=backyardphenomena.wordpress.com&blog=5284333&post=156&subd=backyardphenomena&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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