GHOSTS, HAUNTINGS, POLTERGEISTS:
EVP Experiments: Upping the ante for evidence
Brian Parsons: Audio recording technology has come a long way since I started out in 1996. My first recorder was a small radio sized recorder (sometimes called a shoebox recorder) shoebox recorder that used regular cassette tapes. One tape could record 30 or 45 minutes per side with two sides, but the rule was to not record on both sides as "bleeding" of voices or noises could potentially occur...
EARTH MYSTERIES:
Oklahoma man reports "strange sounds" and "sky trumpets" near his home
Red Dirt Report recently received a tip from a reader in a suburban/rural area between Owasso and Claremore, Okla., in Rogers County. The reader, who we will call "Owen," gave a very eerie account of what took place at his home on a "beautiful day" in either late September or early October of 2011. Owen was home recovering from a knee operation and had his patio doors open so his dogs could go in and out and he could enjoy the fresh, autumn air. That is when Owen - retired from the U.S. military - heard something that chills him to this day...
PSYCHIC PHENOMENA:
Does telepathy conflict with science?
Recently, journalist Steven Volk was surprised to discover that leading skeptical psychologist Richard Wiseman has admitted that the evidence for telepathy is so good that "by the standards of any other area of science, [telepathy] is proven." Mr. Volk goes on to write, "Even more incredibly, as I report in Fringe-ology, another leading skeptic, Chris French, agrees with him."..
TIME AND SPACE:
Rihanna: My alien obsession
As a kid in Bridgetown, Barbados, she would spend hours sitting on her porch, watching for UFOs - on the orders of her dad Ronald Fenty...
Hippies head for Noah's Ark: Queue here for rescue aboard alien spaceship
A mountain looming over a French commune with a population of just 200 is being touted as a modern Noah's Ark when doomsday arrives - supposedly less than nine months from now. A rapidly increasing stream of New Age believers - or esoterics, as locals call them - have descended in their camper van-loads on the usually picturesque and tranquil Pyrenean village of Bugarach. They believe that when apocalypse strikes on 21 December this year, the aliens waiting in their spacecraft inside Pic de Bugarach will save all the humans near by and beam them off to the next age...
