ROSWELL, N.M. — The Earthlings trying to get the International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell built say construction on the planned facility has been put on hold indefinitely.

Museum director Julie Shuster said in an interview Monday with the Roswell Daily Record that the museum project is on indefinite hold due to circumstances beyond their control.

Efforts to build a 30,000 square-foot, space age looking building have been under way for five years.

Shuster would not say what caused the museum to be delayed or possibly tossed altogether other than something happened to set the project back.

Shuster says the museum's board intends to revisit the plans after this year's UFO Festival.

You can buy china plates, copies of Kate Middleton's ring, copies of the dress she wore to the announcement of her engagement, condoms that have a picture of William and Kate on the box and advise you to "Lie back and think of England" when you use them, stuffed teddy bears, posters, barf bags (they say "Throne Up" on them), you name it. The Royal Wedding is off the hook, and its popularity is only second to Diana's wedding to Prince Charles. Upwards of a billion people are expected to watch the Royal Wedding live on Friday. The whole world loves the Royals, and as it turns out, so do our neighbors in other galaxies.



UFOs are a royal tradition. Prince Philip is described as a "keen UFO follower" for the last 36 years. Prince Charles got chased by a glowing red object in 1986 while piloting a RAF airplane. The Queen herself is interested in crop circles and has been photographed inside one. Earl Mountbatten, uncle of Prince Philip, has been said to see UFOs up close. Given the long standing relationship that our friends from other worlds have had with the Royal Family, although they are not on the guest list, it isn't surprising that UFOs would want to attend Kate and and William's Royal Wedding. AOLNews reports:

Filer says his center averages more than 1,000 sightings a month, and he expects to get a few UFO reports from the area surrounding Westminster Abbey, the site of the April 29 wedding.

There are two reasons behind Filer's prediction: In the last few weeks, he's been getting reports from British Royal Air Force pilots who reported seeing UFOs over the English Channel, and, more importantly, he says the royal family is very interested in the UFO phenomenon.

It would indeed be an interesting thing if that interest was returned. What kind of gifts would aliens bring to a Royal Wedding? Hopefully not another toaster.

Beverly HIlls

The Paul Bern Death House of Beverly Hills is a weird one. He'd been married to Jean Harlow for only two months when director, screenwriter, and producer Paul Bern was found naked and shot in the head inside his home at 9820 Easton Dr. Death motive theories include: suicide due to impotence, murder by crazy ex-wife, and murder by MGM's studio manager. Gripskipper reports claims from Creepy LA that, "subsequent owners have reported sobbing and the sounds of a struggle from the location of the shooting," and also that Sharon Tate stayed here, telling friends she was awoken "by Paul Bern's ghost, who showed her a vision of herself, tied up and slaughtered."

Long Beach

The Queen Mary is certified haunted according to the countless seekers who claim to hear voices, rattling chains, and maritime clanking on their paranormal ghost tours and overnight stays. If that doesn't sound creepy enough, simply pay someone to scare the bejeezus out of you at their Shipwreck Haunted House event. After a spin through the Ministry-soundtracked, boat-bowels maze, you will BEG for a haunted room. You will also be peeing yourself. Gross.

Hollywood Hills

Dan Ackroyd cites his former haunted Los Angeles address as the inspiration for Ghostbusters. However the house at 7708 Woodrow Wilson Drive is probably not brimming with Zuul, it's more likely the former owners Mama Cass Elliot or Natalie Wood.

Pasadena / Altadena

Despite architectural arches and rows of romantic lampposts, Colorado Boulevard's "Suicide Bridge" has a less than glamourous past -- it's said the bridge claimed the life of a construction worker during completion, as well as many greatly depressed Great Depression jumpers who continue to haunt the location and Arroyo Seco below.

And who can forget the Enchanted Forest. If you like to be chased by red orbs and headless apparitions through hots spots in a tar black forest, make sure to add this vaguely located woodland treasure to your map.

Playa Del Rey

Really? You need to be told not to build on the Ballona Wetlands? Not building on wetlands seems like an obvious gimme, especially when those wetlands are found to contain human remains a from Native American burial ground. Didn't anyone see Poltergeist? Construction crews and locals have reported strange mists and a plague of unexplained problems.

Downtown LA

Mobster tales, prohibition-era folklore and Great Depression suicides have lead to rumors of underground tunnels and major spookings at the historic Alexandria Hotel. LAist operatives went to investigate a while back and spoke with residents who reported chills in front of the Rudolph Valentino suite and someone touching their hair in the middle of the night... could be a mouse?

Addressing these allegations, the team spoke with a security guard and several employees who confirmed supernatural sightings of a little girl walking around in a white gown, as well as access to said tunnels (our not-so-fearless ghost hunters found only blocked access when they tried to get downstairs).

Continuing their shadow quest, the team found a room closed for construction and was quietly let in by their newly befriended security guard. Inside, they heard phantom footsteps from a room upstairs that was said to be empty and closed off. Then, "in the dark corner, we all saw this white glowing mist. We thought it was a trick so we shut the door and it was still there. OF COURSE I ran out screaming."

The energy in the ballroom was also deemed unsettling, with several explorers reporting unusual headaches. They were told the ballroom mirrors are known to show an unexplained image of a lady and were slanted oddly as not to reflect each other.

Similar sights and sounds, doors and elevators inexplicably opening and closing, spectral apparitions, and decidedly creepy vibes were also reported at the PE Lofts, Mercantile Lofts and the Cecil Hotel (where the Night Stalker serial killer, Richard Ramirez, once lived).

The Forever 21 offices downtown also appear to be a portal to the dark side. According to an employee, the building was formerly some variety of a mental facility as evidenced by the marketing department occupying the padded rooms. Insert joke here. We were told that stylists and reps keep clothes for photo shoots in the floor to ceiling padded chamber with a single, thick window and a giant lock. Employees reported seeing a vanishing girl inside late night and for some reason they don't like to stay there after dark anymore.

Angelino Heights

If I were Michael Jackson I would totally haunt the Thriller house in Angelino Heights. And then moonwalk to the Pantages if I got lonely.

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ACCORDING to Chinese folk tales, the gates of hell open annually during the Hungry Ghost month, which causes more deaths in this period, but Singapore statistics show a different story, China Press reported.

The daily reported that the seventh month of the lunar calendar, which usually falls in July and August, did not show a rise in the death toll.

Some funeral parlour operators said their business even declined compared with other months.

An undertaker said his business dropped 10% to 20% on the seventh month, so he would usually travel overseas on this particular period.

However, there were a number of undertakers who said their business increased as old people easily fell sick due to the weather change in the seventh month.

A feng shui master jokingly said it was baseless to claim that more people died during the Hungry Ghost month.

“The ‘officers’ from hell are too busy monitoring the ghosts, which can roam freely during the month, so they may not have time to take in new ones,” he said.

Another feng shui master said some older people believed that their spirit might be forced to wander around if they died during the month.

The daily also reported that a temple caretaker did not cut her hair for nine years to show her faith in God.

The 65-year-old Indian from Teluk Intan, known only as Soma, also did not wash her hair during the period, causing her hair to tangle and become hard like tree bark.

“This is the second time I have kept my hair for so long.

“The first time I kept it for 10 years before it dropped off,” she said.

Soma said she was used to people staring at her hair and that her mane did not affect her daily life.