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Here are some of the stories Sightings is following in the news.

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Are you a true believer?

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How sure are you of the existence of Bigfoot or ghosts or the possibility of extraterrestrial

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contact in our lifetime?

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Now before you answer, watch this report about a London betting firm that wants you to put

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your money where your mouth is.

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In London, England, hookmakers like William Hill are willing to give you odds on just

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about anything.

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I suppose it goes back to the early 60s when we first were offered a bet by somebody who

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wanted to base ten pounds that man would walk on the moon by the end of that decade.

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And basically we offered him a thousand to one, pushed him out of the office and never

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thought we'd see him again.

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Unfortunately we did in July 1969 when he won ten thousand pounds from us.

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But the publicity they received from that bet was priceless and now William Hill will

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take bets on everything from the date of alien contact to conclusive proof of Bigfoot and

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the odds might surprise you.

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There are a number of bets for which we'll offer standard odds for example.

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Bigfoot seems to run concurrent with Yeti in our bets and that's currently the same

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price as Nessie at the moment, 500 to one, that within a year of your bet conclusive

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proof will be forthcoming.

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We currently offer 33 to one that NASA will officially confirm the existence of intelligent

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extraterrestrial life on or before December 31st 1999 and we'll give you to the end of

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the century and of course that doesn't have to be a little green man.

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As sightings of UFOs, Bigfoot and Nessie fluctuate, so do the odds.

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However, there is still one paranormal bet yet to be wagered.

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The one that surprises me we've never had and I'm not quite sure why, is for conclusive

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proof of the existence of ghosts.

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In the 20 years that I've been taking these types of bets, I ask for that and I'm very

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surprised that they haven't because I would like the challenge of coming up with a wording

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for the bet that would enable some entailment, getting that conclusive proof.

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William Hill bookmakers won't say how much money has been wagered on the supernatural

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so far only that it is substantial.

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In Washington DC NASA officials have announced that their Mars probe will photograph the

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Martian region where many claim to have seen a giant face.

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It is our plan to, within our normal sequencing, whenever we go over the Sidonia region to

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collect images and it is also our plan to put those images on the internet upon acquisition.

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We think we have done all the things that we can possibly do within the framework of

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this mission to try to address this question of the face on Mars.

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The hope is that new detailed pictures will quell rumors that NASA is hiding knowledge

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of seemingly man-made structures on Mars.

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By transmitting pictures from the global surveyor directly onto the world wide web, NASA hopes

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to solve the face on Mars mystery once and for all.

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We'll have more stories in the news next time.

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Now here's what's coming up as sightings continues.