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		<title>The Trickster Returns</title>
		<link>http://backyardphenomena.wordpress.com/2008/11/21/the-trickster-returns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:14:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa A. Shiel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How does a dog bone get lodged in a tree five feet off the ground?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=backyardphenomena.wordpress.com&blog=5284333&post=296&subd=backyardphenomena&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stick Signs: A Cross in the Barn</title>
		<link>http://backyardphenomena.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/stick-signs-a-cross-in-the-barn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa A. Shiel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the window of my home I have a wooden cross carved by a local artist. The cross has been there fro some time, clearly visible from outside the house.
The stick signs I have discovered over the years have included numerous plus signs and T shapes. I had never found a true cross shape, though, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=backyardphenomena.wordpress.com&blog=5284333&post=197&subd=backyardphenomena&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Paranormal Hot Spots</title>
		<link>http://backyardphenomena.wordpress.com/2008/04/29/paranormal-hot-spots/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa A. Shiel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bigfoot / Sasquatch]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do some locations &#8212; or some people &#8212; act as magnets for paranormal activity? After people read my book Backyard Bigfoot, they often come back to me with the same question: Do you think the phenomena you experienced followed you from Texas to Michigan? I usually say I don&#8217;t know &#8212; because I don&#8217;t. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=backyardphenomena.wordpress.com&blog=5284333&post=137&subd=backyardphenomena&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stick Signs and the Trickster</title>
		<link>http://backyardphenomena.wordpress.com/2007/12/29/stick-signs-and-the-trickster/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa A. Shiel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In previous postings, I talked about the trickster phenomenon and several incidents which occurred on my farm—in my house. One incident happened outside, when I found an apple carefully balanced on a tree. The apple disappeared overnight. On that same morning, however, I also found four stick signs. The one below I found within 30 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=backyardphenomena.wordpress.com&blog=5284333&post=22&subd=backyardphenomena&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Trickster: The Apple from the Blue Sky</title>
		<link>http://backyardphenomena.wordpress.com/2007/12/27/trickster-the-apple-from-the-blue-sky/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 19:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa A. Shiel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I discussed the trickster phenomenon, and several incidents that happened to me. One was the apple balanced in an aspen tree, far from any apple trees. The apple disappeared by the next morning. Another apple incident occurred the previous year.
I had set out from my house with the dogs for our morning walk. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=backyardphenomena.wordpress.com&blog=5284333&post=19&subd=backyardphenomena&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">The apple that fell from the blue sky.</media:title>
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		<title>Trickster: The Falling Thermometer</title>
		<link>http://backyardphenomena.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/trickster-the-falling-thermometer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa A. Shiel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First, the apple appeared in the aspen tree. Next, a snow boot transported itself into the living room. What else would the trickster do in my house?
The answer came on December 17, 2007, four days after the boot incident. The wood stove in my living room has a metal pipe which funnels smoke into the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=backyardphenomena.wordpress.com&blog=5284333&post=15&subd=backyardphenomena&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Trickster: The Blue Boot</title>
		<link>http://backyardphenomena.wordpress.com/2007/12/21/trickster-the-blue-boot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa A. Shiel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the past two days, I&#8217;ve talked about the trickster phenomenon—when inexplicable events happen, events which seem random and somewhat silly. Yesterday I described the apple that appeared and disappeared from a branch stump on an aspen tree, nowhere near an apple tree. Today, I have another story from the trickster files.
Here in the north, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=backyardphenomena.wordpress.com&blog=5284333&post=14&subd=backyardphenomena&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Trickster: The Apple in the Tree</title>
		<link>http://backyardphenomena.wordpress.com/2007/12/20/trickster-the-apple-that-fell-from-nowhere/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa A. Shiel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[November 10, 2007, seemed like any other day. I took my dogs for their morning walk in the woods. We went through the farm gate north of the house, down the trail that leads northwest into the woods. I glanced to the right, into the trees. A flash of red caught my eye. There, on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=backyardphenomena.wordpress.com&blog=5284333&post=13&subd=backyardphenomena&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">The apple that mysteriously appeared in a tree.</media:title>
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		<title>The Trickster in My Backyard</title>
		<link>http://backyardphenomena.wordpress.com/2007/12/19/the-trickster-in-my-backyard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa A. Shiel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Strange things happen. We&#8217;ve all experienced them, though many of us dismiss the inexplicable by whatever lame, pseudo-reasonable excuse we can find. UFO? No, that was fireflies&#8230;on a below-zero night in February. Bigfoot? No, that was a bear standing on its hind feet&#8230;and running bipedally at high speed. Poltergeist? No, that cabinet flew open because [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=backyardphenomena.wordpress.com&blog=5284333&post=12&subd=backyardphenomena&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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