A bluebird in the garden, a spirit in a house, a kind man on the side of the road. Americans are big believers in angels, although not necessarily the ones with halos and wings. An overwhelming majority, almost regardless of backgrounds and religious convictions, think angels are real, according to an AP-AOL News poll exploring attitudes about Santa Claus, angels and more...
Podcast: Out-of-body experiences
Selling haunted land? Don't spread ghost stories
Mystic claims he has solved the UFO mystery
Nahu, mystic and author of the revolutionary new book UFOs: God from Inner Space asserts that despite contemporary mechanistic discoveries in science, “God is not dead, but alive and well, and can be seen above us in the form of the heavenly light commonly known as UFOs.”..
Inconvenient facts about abductions
Here we have the last straw in my credibility with the “believers.” This will separate those who are serious from the dogmatic lapdogs...
The triangles - the one UFO story that really gets me
By now, readers of this blog should be able to guess that I find the Spooky Paradigm interesting for a couple of reasons, but that I definitely put it in a cultural frame. In other words, I find it most interesting as a culture, a community, a movement, a worldview, something along those lines. I write about it here from that perspective...
From the aura to the aether: the secrets of energy dynamics
When Aristotle (384BC - 322BC) introduced the principal of aether to the world of metaphysics, the concept had already been known for millennia; infact this ancient concept seems to be lost and then re-emerge every couple of thousand years. Aether is part of a form of energy that many cultures were aware of and have given different names to: Taoists called it ‘chi’ and the Babylonians ‘ti’. Those from the Indus valley referred to it as ‘Ódžas’ and the Japanese ‘rei ki’. Likewise, Hebrews referred to it as ‘ruach’, Tibetans as ‘šugs rlung’ and the Vedic religion thought of it as ‘prána’...
This medium has a message
Over a decade ago, Clevelander Susan Averre was searching for something to tell her that there was more to life than what we could see, hear and experience; she felt contacting the spirit of her dead father would prove that. Today, Averre helps others connect with loved ones who have passed on...
Animal mutilations
Animal mutilations, or "mutes," are an interesting part of the Spooky Paradigm. Much of the Paradigm is witness-based, relying on witnesses (especially the vaunted "credible witness"). By contrast and definition, mutilated animals are physical evidence, and the actual process of mutilation or the mutilators themselves are generally not witnessed, though there are some exceptions...
Silver Star Mountain Bigfoot
Are these photos of a Bigfoot, or something altogether else?...
Indian state gripped by fear of witches
Authorities in a remote area of eastern India have appealed to the public not to conduct witch hunts following rumours that roving bands of witches had been killing people swept the region, media reports said Wednesday...
Psychic abilities and the Bible
Mark Twain: cryptozoological hoaxer
Littered throughout the road of the relatively young history of cryptozoology have been speed-bumps: hoaxed carcass specimens. These pranks invariably send prognosticators scrambling and message boards aflutter with debate. Maddeningly, these fraudulent “finds” cast a black-eye upon the field and intermittently separate those critical-thinking investigators from the more precautious scrutinizers...
