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UFOs and Aliens: Your True Tales
True stories from readers.
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.
Alchemical Vessels as Soul Containers
Alchemical manuscripts are often illustrated with detailed images of the process of alchemy, often using of a vessel. For the alchemist, the vessel meant much more.
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.
The Amazing Holographic Universe
In 1982 a remarkable event took place. At the University of Paris a research team led by physicist Alain Aspect performed what may turn out to be one of the most important experiments of the 20th century.
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?
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.
Energy Machine of Joseph Newman
Newman, who’s appeared on the "Tonight Show," says his engine is an "unlimited source of free energy" that is safe and economical.
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.
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.
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.
Introduction to Orgonomy and Reich
Excellent background material on the controversial scientist and his theories.
Invisibility Achieved?
In 1934, in London, a young scientist places an electro-helmet on his head, steps into a cabinet - and disappears! Fascinating!
Joe Newman's Free Energy Claims: Are They Valid?
This site says Newman has been taking time, materials and money from people for over 20 years, and has produced no demonstrable device.
KeelyNet
Here's an entire Web site devoted to this rogue scientist, his inventions, his philosophy - and those who are trying to carry out his work.
Laurence Gardner on Ancient Secret Science
Historian and best-selling author Laurence Gardner discusses the powers of white powder gold, the Ark of the Covenant, the Knights Templar and his new sci-fi screenplay centred around the Shroud of Turin.
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.
Lost Technology
Descriptions of remarkable inventions, mysterious phenomena and astounding energy sources.
Madness at the Edge of Science
What is it that we love about the mad scientists in movies and history? Is it because their probing of the unknown piques our curiosity? Or is it that they - at least for a while - get away with more than we can?
The Magic and Mystery of ORMUS Elements
A concentrate of special elements abundant in sea water has exciting potential in improving the soil, increasing crop yields, assisting human and animal health, and even in combatting climate change.
The Mysteries of Ground Radio
This site describes anomalies that manifest when signals are both transmitted and received directly through the ground.
Mysteries of Siberia's "Valley of Death"
Eyewitness reports suggest that an ancient high-tech "installation" in remote Siberia was responsible for sending guided plasma sphere weapons to destroy a meteorite over Tunguska in 1908.
New Philadelphia Experiment Revelations
Documentation that might have something to do with the legendary experiment, and the work of Thomas Townsend Brown, Nikola Tesla and others -- including "lost" material. Look for parts 2 and 3 of this article as well.
Orgone Biophysical Research Lab
This non-profit organization also builds on the discoveries of Reich. Research projects and papers included.
Philadelphia Experiment & Montauk Survivor Accounts
The most in-depth compilation of interviews with survivors of the Philadelphia experiment and Montauk Project to date.
Philadelphia Experiment: What They Didn't Want You to Know
Was it a test that would have been the latest development in a long history of military camouflage: total optical and radar invisibility? Or just an unfounded legend?
Public Orgonomic Research Exchange
Lots of articles from all over the world regarding orgone. Includes listings of workshops, research and news.
Schauberger's Flying Saucer
Schauberger had some radical ideas concerning transportation, energy and vortexes. Here are some of his prototype flying disks (not flying, incidentally).
The Sonic Weapon of Vladimir Gavreau
In the course of developing mobile robots for use in battlefields and industrial fields, Dr. Gavreau stumbled upon infrasonic weapons.
The Story of Joseph Newman's Energy Device
This is the story of a perpetual motion device that kept the U.S. officials busy for half a decade. It also shows how Internet can be used to track down sources about some obscure events.
Top 10 Impossible Inventions That Work
Includes the space energy converter, cold fusion, wireless power, anti-gravity, orgone accumulator, electronic telepathy device and more. We'd like to see them work!
The Ultimate Power Source
Has Arthur Adams of Wales found the secret to free energy? He says it's in a silver-gray mineral he's discovered.
The Water Wizards
An article about Viktor Schauberger and his ideas about "living water" and the enormous amount of energy he claimed are in every drop.
Wilhelm Reich and Orgone Energy
In 1940 Reich built the first Orgone Accumulators, which were boxes that could concentrate Orgone energy in the atmosphere. He claimed that they had astonishing effects.

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