What are those things that go "bump in the night"?  We have all had those eerie, unexplained experiences.   We all know someone who is quick to tell us a ghost story, or a "friend of a friend" who really did pick up that disappearing hitchhiker.  So we are told. 

On  Monday, February 27th, from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM, at the Plymouth Public Library, some of those phenomenom will find an explanation, According to Eric Francke, of Faunce Church and Mar's Hill Seminary.  

"Most people believe in some type of supernatural world, but it is not really congruous with what they say they believe about God or their religious faith.  As if they are two different belief systems."  said Eric Francke about the lecture.   "My goal is to show what is likely myth, and what might be factual, when it comes to spirits, ghosts and demons.". 

The library is located at 132 South Street, Plymouth MA, and the lecture is going to be in the Fehlow Room. 

"The subject tends to generate a lot of fear, based on the sensational movies and imagery that we are all familiar with"  Francke continued.   "But the bottom line is Jesus gave his followers authority and power over everything, and all the power of the enemy.   There is a knowledge that once gained, banishes all fear from an individual when it comes to dealing with the subject.".  

The lecture is descibed as a  "A factual look at the paranormal, including ghosts and hauntings.  Attention will be given to how various cultures and religions have interpreted paranormal phenomenon, as well as how the Judeo-Christian tradition has understood it, in terms of exorcism, demonic possession, and the like"

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 Sponsored by Faunce Church and Mar's Hill Seminary.

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Coming to the new year is frequently a time to look ahead, and also a time to reflect on the year gone by. And for us, it gives us the rare opportunity to look back at the people who said one year ago, that they were looking ahead at the future, and telling us what was going to happen in 2011. Yes, its the annual “Psychic Year in Review”.

Before moving to what psychics got right and what they got wrong, here are some of the things that none of the dozens of self-proclaimed and big name psychics had foreseen for 2011:

• The “Arab Spring” which saw the overthrow of Egypt, Libya (with the resulting death of Qaddafi), and deadly protests in Syria, Yemen, and other countries.

• The earthquake and devastating tsunami in Japan

• The killing of Osama Bin Laden

• The impending collapse of the Euro

• The Occupy Wall Street protests worldwide.

• The death of Steve Jobs

In short, they missed pretty much anything of significance. And these people charge big money to tell people the future. Instead, here are some of the more significant predictions:

1. There would be a serious earthquake in California that would knock the “Hollywood” sign down flat. (Craig Hamilton-Parker, “Psychic to the Stars”). He also predicted a nuclear industrial accident in India, and chemical accident in China, like the Bhopal incident. His predictions of a divorce announcement for the Beckham's and a record cut by Paul McCartney and Yoko Ono he at least is acknowledging was 100% off.

2. “World Psychic” Lamont Hamilton is claiming a “win” on the fact that he predicted that in 2011, there would be cell phones capable of video chat, and many websites were tracking the browsing habits of site visitors. Okay, so perhaps Lamont's is a little behind the times. These are akin to someone predicting that next year, IBM will start building a “Personal Computing” device called the “PC”. Lamont also predicted the invention of personal levitation devices for people in 2011, and “reverse microwaves” in peoples kitchens that could freeze something in seconds. Oops.

3. Sidney Freidman, who has been featured on The View and The Today show, claims his 20 major predictions for 2011 were mostly correct. He predicted that there would be a major bridge malfunction in New York City. That was fulfilled, he says, because the Occupy Wall Street protestors caused a traffic jam in Brooklyn one day. He predicted that Lady Gaga would be teaching at a university. He says that prediction was accurate, because there were small school aged children singing in her Thanksgiving day special. Eerie!

There was one undeniably correct prediction for all of the big name psychics, which was that of the “Psychic Twins”, Terry and Linda Jamison. They went way out on a limb on “The View” and predicted that in 2011, Pres. Obama would not win re-election. Whether they realized or not that election isn't until 2012 is still up for debate, but nevertheless, they are technically accurate!