Mystical

Religious pilgrims have come to this Coastal Bend town by the hundreds to glimpse an image of Jesus they say began weeping inside a wood-framed house following a grandmother's prayers for a baby in a Houston hospital . The pilgrims were told that the tears were in response to prayers from a young grandmother for her critically disfigured grandson. The Catholic Church has not yet investigated the claims. In a small living room where Gloria Fino, 34, clutched a Bible to her heart, the cardboard print of Christ was displayed. Fino, a Catholic, dabbed cotton balls against two streams of oily substance that trickled from the outside corners of the image's eyes. She gavethem to visitors, one after another.

"I got to wipe the tears," Jamie Gonzalez, 30, said as she steadied herself on the porch with the walker she needed to enter the home. "It's just faith." As the droplets continued to form, visitors took photos in hopes of capturing the mysterious fluid. Fino took the print off the wall, turning it around to show the back. She said the droplets began to flow late Friday night. She had been praying for her 3-month-old grandson, Isaac Tijerina, who was born with his internal organs outside his body. Isaac remained in Texas Children's Hospital in Houston and Fino said doctors' reports have not been encouraging. "I'd been praying to Jesus to send him home," Fino told the Corpus Christi Caller-Times in today's editions. "Hehad a tumor the size of a volleyball that busted. "If you're here and hearing me, give me a sign," was her request to Jesus, she told about 30 people in her home at noontime Monday. "At first there was a big tear just hanging there, not running. Just there in the corner of his eye." She said she summoned her father from his bedroom to see. "We can't always rely on the scientific," said Monsignor Richard Shirley, vicar general for the Diocese of Corpus Christi. "If it's God, it will endure."

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School authorities believe the paranormal event was nothing more that the girls' imagination running wild. Communications officer with the Education Ministry Hilton Braveboy and Public Health Inspectors suggested that mass hysteria was at play. A bizarre series of events led to one 14- year-old Form Two pupil convulsing and screaming that an evil force had entered her body. Investigations headed by the school supervisor for the area led them to an incident on a school bus early on last Thursday, in which two girls began acting strangely. A male pupil who is a Pentecostal, prayed over the girls.At around 10 a.m.

that day, during an English class in Form 3H, another girl began yelling and ran screaming from the class. Three other girls began trembling and crying. The Express was told that after classes went on recess for the day, at least two pupils were "exorcised" by a Pentecostal preacher in San Fernando. Braveboy confirmed the incident, saying "One pupil mentioned something about demons, and told the story to another, and it started circulating and affecting students." Braveboy said that guidance counsellors and religious instructors "are making every effort to guide the students, sit with them, so that it does not get out of hand. It may very well be mass hysteria, considering the age of the pupils(leading to them) being unable to understand the nature of what they heard and unable to interpret it." A senior public health inspector said the psychological phenomenon of mass hysteria was well documented and gave recent cases of primary school children complaining of illness "when one or several classmates become ill". "The symptoms are real but the doctors cannot find anything physically wrong," the official said.

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Nearly six decades ago, a 21-year-old Navy fighter pilot on a mission over the Pacific was shot down by Japanese artillery. His name might have been forgotten, were it not for 6-year-old James Leininger. Quite a few people — including those who knew the fighter pilot — think James is the pilot, reincarnated. James' parents, Andrea and Bruce, a highly educated, modern couple, say they are "probably the people least likely to have a scenario like this pop up in their lives." But over time, they have become convinced their little son has had a former life.From an early age, James would play with nothing else but planes, his parents say.

But when he was 2, they said the planes their son loved began to give him regular nightmares. "I'd wake him up and he'd be screaming," Andrea told ABCNEWS' Chris Cuomo. She said when she asked her son what he was dreaming about, he would say, "Airplane crash on fire, little man can't get out." Andrea says her mom was the first to suggest James was remembering a past life. At first, Andrea says she was doubtful. James was only watching kids' shows, his parents say, and they weren't watching World War II documentaries or conversing about military history. But as time went by, Andreabegan to wonder what to believe. In one video of James at age 3, he goes over a plane as if he's doing a preflight check. Another time, Andrea said, she bought him a toy plane, and pointed out what appeared to be a bomb on its underside. She says James corrected her, and told her it was a drop tank. "I'd never heard of a drop tank," she said. "I didn't know what a drop tank was."

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The CIA used psychics to investigate the Lockerbie bombing and reconstruct images of the baggage container said to have held the bomb that caused PanAm Flight 103 to explode. Declassified documents obtained by the Sunday Herald reveal the extraordinary attempts that were made to glean vital clues relating to Britain’s worst terrorist atrocity – 270 people died when PanAm Flight 103 was blown up over Lockerbie in December 1988. The 26-page report is an insight into the nowdecommissioned Star Gate programme, a $20m CIA initiative which ran from 1972 to the mid-1990s.

It was launched with the aim of training individuals to gather intelligence information by “transcending the boundaries of space and time” through their minds.Using a process known as “remote viewing”, investigators attempted to provide information that could be useful to the intelligence sources about international tensions and major investigations. The files on Lockerbie are included in the declassified Star Gate files held at the US National Archives in College Park, Maryland. They relate to the pivotalmoment in the aircraft’s flight path when the bomb exploded, causing the aircraft to split apart and descend from an altitude of 36,000ft at roughly 1000ft per second. According to the report of June 7, 1990, an unnamed remote viewer was commissioned by the CIA’s Star Gate programme based at Fort Meade, Maryland, for an eight-hour remote viewing session.

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