1920 Chicago was rocked by the murder of Ruth Wanderer by her husband Carl. It was known as “The Case of the Ragged Stranger”.
But was the demise of Carl Wanderer predicted 5 years earlier by his dying mother?
Incredible, but true!

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Read more on Carl Wanderer:
Mark Gribben: The Ragged Stranger, or “Truth is Relative”
Wikipedia: Carl Wanderer
New Humanist: Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties by Michael Lesy
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by John Young
What do you do if you are trying to introduce your cat to your household – and your house is haunted? How do you introduce your new cat to the ghosts who, well, may be part of your family?
Yeah, I know, most people will probably lift a disdainful nostril at this. I suspect that the majority don’t believe in the Supernatural, and to tell you the truth I shouldn’t either.
I’ve got a scientific background, having graduated in Chemistry and worked as an Industrial Chemist for many years. As such, I’m fully aware that Science doesn’t recognize the Supernatural.
Now, I have to qualify that. In the 1970’s there was an ongoing movement on the part of the scientific community to investigate supernatural phenomena, and an entire issue of the magazine Science was devoted to it. After several years of investigation, the community concluded that the Supernatural does not exist — primarily because supernatural phenomena are not reproducible.
For a fact to be established by the Scientific Method, it has to be reproducible – identical results must be obtained under identical conditions by all researchers repeating the same experiment. Because of this, Science concluded that the Supernatural doesn’t exist. Results of experimentation were not repeatable.
It wasn’t amenable to the Scientific Method.
But the nagging question remains: if a phenomenon isn’t measurably reproducible, does it mean that it’s not there?
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Down in the Province of Entre Rios, Argentina, a strange creature is lurking. Is this just a large Chupacabra, or is it something else entirely.
This strange creature appears in smallholdings and fields, slaying farm animals, as well as calves and sheep. The people became so scared that this creature caught the attention of the Argentinian national news.
The entity started its reign of terror around September last year when a local family found a dead chicken. Near the body was a large footprint in the dust and strange marks were all around the body.
The family, who know the area and it’s animals very well, did not recognize the marks, much less the footprints. It did not belong to any animal that they know in the area.
The following night, early in the morning, the heard noises and their son, Matias saw a bizarre figure scrambling away into the vegetation behind their house. He described the figure as at least 1.7 meters tall and extremely quick moving.
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