I have been scouring all known earthly networks to bring you the freshest reports on paranormal, extranormal, and outright surreal events. This week:

• A Malaysian man haunted by a hungry ghost who has demanded sex from him every night for the past 16 years seeks help through medium. Read more [1].

• A woman receiving treatment for diabetes at a state-run hospital in eastern India lost one of her eyes after ants nibbled away at it. Read more [2].

• A film-maker is invited to take part in a secret ceremony of the Brazilian religion Santo Daime, where followers drink a hallucinogenic jungle brew. Read more [3].

• “Dad, I love you and probably won’t never see you again” bid a US soldier leaving for Iraq. Now he is dead, as predicted by psychic. Read more [4].

• Only in India: a straight faced newspaper editorial about how advances in science and technology are helping us to understand the “the mind of an advanced alien of type IV civilization.” Read more [5].