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Filmmaker Psychs Out Psychics and ET Believers
By Monica Garske - AOL NewsMany of us have given a few bucks to some alleged psychic to tell us stuff we already know, but what if you spent your entire life savings looking into the future, attempting to contact ghosts and protecting yourself from aliens? That's the premise behind filmmaker Blake Freeman's newest documentary, "Gawd Bless America," in which he travels across America with a 69-year-old "believer" named LeRoy Tessina who's gone bankrupt after years of buying into fraudulent fortune-tellers and alien-protection devices. In hopes of setting Tessina straight, the duo set out on a weird cross-country ...
How to Make a Zombie, Haiti-Style
By Lee Speigel - AOL News
(Sept. 21) -- The undead are all around us, and have been for decades. Zombies are in our mass consciousness, invading art, literature, entertainment and even education. But at the heart of this fear-mongering revolution is a single question: Is it all pure fiction, or are there in fact real zombies? That depends on your definition of the word "zombie." Everett Collection Zombies invade a rural area in the 1968 classic "Night of the Living Dead." For filmmakers in Hollywood, zombies are half-dead figures that lumber toward you with arms outstretched, stinking of rotting flesh. But in ...
Haitians Believe 'Hidden Forces' Stymie Rebuilding -- and They're Right
By Christine Wicker - Politics DailyMany Haitians believe unseen forces demand a sacrifice of life force in return for riches. That Vodou belief equips them to understand Haiti's situation far better than their putative rescuers, who operate within a myth that doesn't match Haiti's reality nearly as well, writes Elizabeth McAlister, associate professor of religion at Wesleyan University. ...
Some Haitians See Hand of God in Earthquake
By not in system - AOL NewsPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Jan. 17) -- Deeply religious Haitians see the hand of God in the destruction of biblical proportions visited on their benighted country. The quake, religious leaders said Sunday, is evidence that he wants change. Exactly what change he wants depends on the faith: Some Christians say it's a sign that Haitians must deepen their faith, while some Voodoo followers see God's judgment on corruption among the country's mostly light-skinned elite. And then there's American evangelist Pat Robertson, who said Wednesday that Haiti had been cursed by a pact he said its slave ...
Seahawks 2006 Goal: Reverse the Curse
By albaNY Hawker - AOL NewsI remembering seeing a fan with a sign at the NFC Championship Game last year that was very creative and nearly prophetic. It read: Reverse The Curse!Red Sox - 2004White Sox - 2005SeaHox - 2006 However, unlike the Boston Red Sox, who traded away Babe Ruth for No No Nanette, the 30-year drought from the Super Bowl experienced by the Seahawks was because they were bad, not because they were cursed. From bad drafts, to bad players, to bad owners, to bad coaches, and bad management, there was always a definitive reason why the Seahawks were the "lovable losers" of the Pacific Northwest, which ...
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