In The Communion Letters, we collected some of the extraordinary letters we received from readers of Communion over 15 years ago. The letters haven’t stopped?we get amazing e-mails every day. We’ve decided to begin posting some of the best of them in our Insight section (with the writer’s permission). Our first one is from “Patty from Ohio,” who talks about a mysterious round grave found over 100 years ago in her area.

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A group of about 1,000 people in the Netherlands caused a small earthquake that measured 1.2 on the Richter scale by jumping up and down at the same time. Seismologists with the weather bureau measured the strength of the quake. The seismologists say the earthquake caused “more than a ripple in a lake.” They were surprised at the earthquake’s strength, because previous similar experiments caused only tiny tremors.

It took more than a tiny earthquake to destroy one of the world’s most advanced civilizations.

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Why does al-Qaeda regularly release video tapes showing images of Osama bin-Laden that contain nothing dated (like a newspaper page) to show he’s still alive, with a voice-over that may?or may not?be his? Since these tapes don’t provide proof that he’s alive, what’s the point? It may be this: no matter who’s doing the talking, the words contain hidden messages to “sleeper cells,” telling them it’s time for a new attack.

When bin-Laden’s message was broadcast over the al-Jazeera satellite channel last weekend, only one country was named: Kuwait. “Islamic countries that take part will not be excluded,” the voice claiming to be bin-Laden said. “This applies particularly to the Gulf states, particularly Kuwait, a launching pad for the crusader forces.”
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Months before her death, Princess Diana wrote a letter to her butler Paul Burrell saying she was afraid that someone was planning to kill her in a staged car accident. She said she feared having “an accident in my car, brake failure and serious head injury in order to make the path clear for Charles to marry.”
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