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Scientists who work on the border of reality.

Impossible Science
From human invisibility to amazing demonstrations of levitation, these strange devices, weird experiments and impossible observations - if true - challenge conventional scientific knowledge.

The Real-Life Wizard Behind "Harry Potter"
Over 600 years before Hogwarts School was created, an alchemist claimed to have discovered the incredible secrets of "the sorcerer's stone" - possibly even immortality.

Wizardry That Would Amaze Harry Potter
These scientists would fit right in at Hogwart's School of Witchcraft and Wizardry - except that their astounding conjurings were not works of fiction.

The World's Weirdest Machines
Maybe they work and maybe they don't, but the machines created by these rogue inventors make some astonishing claims... and what some might consider paranormal effects.

Adams Pulsed Electric Motor Generator
Robert Adams says his motor generator is a "free energy" machine. He claims it converts the perpetual motion of sub-atomic particles into electric power.

Alchemy and the Alchemists
Raymond Buckland, creator of The Cards of Alchemy, discusses some of the fascinating history of alchemical practice and reveals his inspiration for creating the cards.

America's Amazing Alchemist
Did Dr. Stephen H. Emmens find the key to the dreams of the medieval alchemists, or was he a clever imposter?

Cold Fusion and Zero Point Energy
An interview with scientists who know a lot about cold fusion, and who suggest that it's possible because of atomic properties we don't yet fully understand.

David Hamel's Workshop
David's workshop is full of strange contraptions that were inspired by ET contact. He uses principles of science that "have not yet been discovered!" Nice work, Dave.

Death Ray Matthews
The death ray is ubiquitous from science fiction. Fortean Times reviews the career of the man who invented it... or so he claimed.

The Farnsworth Multipacitor Tube
The multipactor holds promise in the "free energy" field as a workable electronic device that may produce over 100% efficiency, they say.

Free Energy
Dedicated to clarifying exactly what free energy is, how it works and how it can be applied in your everyday life... for light, heat and power.

The Free Energy Page
Looking for some free energy? Here's a list of inventors and related technical sites. If only these things worked...

Free Energy Pages
Here's another good list of sources, including free energy prizes, companies and inventions.

Forgotten Experiments
Did an American scientist actually succeed in photographing the soul over 50 years ago? And what was the discovery that so frightened a French scientist that he was reluctant to tell anyone?

The Forgotten Technology
A retired carpenter shows how the ancients may have move those massive blocks of stone, to build the pyramids or Stonehenge. Ingenious.

The God Machine
Frankenstein's creation became an image of science's quest for the secrets of life itself. But in 1854, an experiment far stranger took place when a New England clergyman married science and spiritualism in an attempt to build nothing less than a god.

Grindell-Mathews and His Death Ray
Harry Grindell-Mathews, working in his isolated laboratory in Wales, is said to have created a death ray, among other weird inventions.

The Gravito Magnetic Device
Pierre Sinclair provides some information you might need in the construction of your own gravito magnetic device, or GMD. Get busy.

History of Perpetual Motion/Free Energy
Here's a long list of mad scientists who have experimented with, tested, even patented these strange machines.

Immanuel Velikovsky Page
Here's a good starting page about "one of the most controversial scientists of our time" and his radical cosmological ideas.

The Incredible GEET Device
Inventor Paul Pantone says his GEET fuel processor is the "ultimate home production power plant," but he can't get anyone to listen.

Invisibility Achieved?
In 1934, in London, a young scientist places an electro-helmet on his head, steps into a cabinet - and disappears! Fascinating!

Legend of the Golem
Rabbi Loew, legend has it, made a servant out of a lump of clay - the Golem!

Lost Secrets of the Sacred Ark
Recent findings about the exotic properties of monatomic gold and the platinum group metals are rediscoveries of an advanced science understood or at least known by the ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian and Israelite priests.

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