Secrets in the stone
On the south wall of Rosslyn Chapel, alongside the entrance historically used by women, is a very curious carving. It shows a blindfolded figure, kneeling between two pillars and holding a Bible, with a noose lying loosely around his neck. To anyone familiar with the rites of Freemasonry, this carving bears a remarkable similarity to a Masonic initiation ceremony. But if Alan Butler and John Ritchie, the authors of Rosslyn Revealed, are correct, the resemblance is anything but coincidental...
Southern Illinois' ghosts are their faults
Werewolves of Elkhorn
For decades, terrified eyewitnesses have reported encounters with otherworldly creatures on country roads near Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. We sent a brave team of investigators to separate monster from myth...
Ghosts aren't real, physicist says -- to Americans' dismay
It may be the season for vampires, ghosts and zombies. Just remember, they're not real, warns physicist Costas Efthimiou. Obviously, you might say. But Efthimiou, a professor at the University of Central Florida, points to surveys that show American gullibility for the supernatural. Using science and math, Efthimiou explains why ghosts can't walk among us while gliding through walls, like Patrick Swayze in Ghost. That violates Newton's law of action and reaction. If ghosts walk, their feet apply force to the floor, but if they go through walls they are without substance, the professor says...
Professors seek alien radio waves
The question of whether human beings are the only intelligent life in the universe has baffled scientists for decades. Two Harvard professors think they have identified the equipment they will need to recognize radio waves from outer space, though one of them remains skeptical that alien signals will ever be found...
Ghost hunters seek out Jesse James
Jesse and Frank James and their bank-robbing gang are the stuff of Wild West legend. So are rumors that their boyhood home here is haunted...
Reporter checks out the future with Salem's psychics
I like to keep the future where it belongs. I always figured since I don't worry about the future, the future shouldn't worry about me. But I was wrong. Salem is full of people who worry about the future, and for $30 they'll spend 15 minutes or so worrying about mine. Or yours...
Sci-Fi’s Mothman non-investigation
On October 26, 2006, "Sci-fi Investigates" broadcast their "Mothman" episode. While it had a few moments that are pure entertainment and certainly funny, it had little or nothing to do with "investigating" Mothman or unexplained phenomena. The program was a forensic failure...
Wildcat Mountain’s secret
The story is there’s gold in them there hills — and its guarded by a ghost...
Realm of spirits draws closer as leaves fall
At this time of year, when some believe that a veil between the world we see and the world we don't is thin, people who say they are gifted with the power to talk to spirits are especially busy. It's Halloween, after all. Some call such folks psychics, but those in the business prefer other titles, such as readers...
One, maybe two, more mysterious radio bursts from galactic center
A year and a half ago in early March 2005, I reported at Earthfiles about a physicist’s report in Nature concerning a powerful and repeating burst of radio waves toward the center of our Milky Way galaxy in a region known as SNR 359.1-00.5...
Woman in White: Ghost of White Rock Lake
The ghost of a woman in a white evening gown, dripping lake water, has terrorized residents around White Rock Lake in Dallas for many years. Alternately called Woman in White, Lady in White or Lady of White Rock Lake, her spirit manifests in different ways...
