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from within. Even a supposed special counsellor to the Minister of Justice in Oslo, Norway, was said to have believed the story. The tale turned out to be the work of Age Rendelin, a teacher from near Oslo, who claimed to have faked the story and "supporting evidence" in order to test media verification tech- niques. (Sources: Strange Magazine #9, 1992; Biblical Archaeology Review, Nov.-Dec. 1990; Christianity Today, 16 July 1990) MYSTERY MAN FALLS FROM THE SKY IN FRANCE HEAVEN SENT Thai authorities have seized a foot- ball-sized meteorite weighing 37 lbs, which villagers began to worship after it crashed to earth recently. The seizure was ordered under laws stating that “all objects fallen from other planets or even from the sky” were state property. As Ms Denise Brisson, a pensioner in the town of Eaubonne near Paris, was talking to her brother-in-law on the phone last week, when she heard some- thing heavy hit the ground of the family garden just outside the window. ‘ When Ms Brisson looked outside, she discovered with amazement a frozen man, about 35 years old, buried 15cm in her garden's rich soil. Since then, the mystery of the man who fell from the sky hasn't stopped puzzling French police. The police are certain the man must have fallen from a plane, as the family's garden is situated near Paris's giant Roissy airport. But how he became frozen, and the lack of any identification, has the authorities baffled. The mystery deepened when 50 Russian roubles were found in the dead man's pockets. These particular roubles have not been in circulation for years. (Source: The Australian, 17-18 July 1993) Psychiatrist Oscar Dominguez, 45, shot dead a woman patient in his Sao Paulo office as she told him about her sex life. "I couldn't take those nutcases any more," he told a court, where he faced a 25-year sentence. (Source: Daily Star [UK], 27 November 1992) The battling mining town of Lithgow, in the Blue Mountains, is celebrating an extraordinary lucky streak which has seen a handful of families become rich overnight. The amazing run of luck began a cou- ple of weeks ago, when a resident pulled off a rare $10,000 linked jackpot at the Lithgow Workmen's Club. The champagne kept flowing when a young family next door took out a $500,000 Lotto prize and another neighbour won a $23,000 motorcycle. A few days later, another neighbour across the road had three shares in a $350,000 first-division Lotto prize. Then, a one-dollar Instant Lottery ticket left another resident $25,000 richer, another family hit the jackpot with a $100,000 lottery windfall, and a Lotto syndicate won a $14,000 second- division prize! (Source: Sun-Telegraph, 13 June 1993) Shy married couple, Sachi and Tomio Hidaka, both 34, waited 14 years to make love—and died of heart attacks the first time they tried it. They had no history of heart trouble according to their doctor in Chiba, Japan. (Source: Daily Mirror, 1] October 1992) HELL UNDER SIBERIA A HOAX? Uri Geller has won one of his legal actions against US magician James Randi. The action stemmed from an interview by Randi in 1989 in the Japanese magazine Days Japan , pub- lished by Kodansha, one of the coun- try's largest publishing houses. Geller, who was awarded costs, said the allegation was defamatory and dam- aging to his business and family. Randi had asserted that metallurgist Dr Wilbur Franklin, who had endorsed Geller's metal-bending feats, became so ashamed when Randi ‘discredited’ Geller, that he shot himself. In fact, Franklin died of natural causes. Various international periodicals, (including NEXUS vol.2, #9) reported that geologists from the Joint European Science Drilling Project drilled a nine- mile hole into the Siberian earth and heard the screams of damned souls MIEWLIC Geller has other suits pending against Randi, including one in Washington DC. "Randi has claimed that I was convicted for the work I did in Israel. You can imagine how harmful that is to me and my family," he said. “I have never been arrested, let alone convict- ed, of anything, anywhere in the world." (Source: Fortean Times #69, 1993) 54¢NEXUS STRANGE DEATHS LUCKY STARS IN LITHGOW URI GELLER VS JAMES RANDI AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 1993