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One of the more peculiar rumours to emerge from California this week is that Steven Spielberg is planning to launch a social networking for people preoccupied with the paranormal and supernatural. Although as MC Hammer is involved with a social networking for dance, perhaps that's not so strange.
TechCrunch's 'multiple sources' say the site will invite users to share their spooky tales, and would also feature photos and video of, um, ghosts and the like. A team in LA had been working on this with Yahoo but when that failed, they carried on anyway.
On background, Spielberg has a preoccupation with the extraterrestrial (ET, Close Encounters, War of the Worlds) and the paranormal (Poltergeist, The Haunting, Twilight Zone) but we'll file this under niche/eccentric for now. It's a great fit for internet cultery, giving a credible home to those less-than credible UFO home videos (dirt on the lens) that drift into shot from time to time.
