Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Norman Mailer, whose brilliant book The Naked and the Dead (1948) made him world-famous, has revealed his belief in life after death, karma and reincarnation. He gives his reasons in an interview with Los Angeles Times staff writer Josh Getlin (4 February 2007) which coincides with publication of his latest novel, The Castle in the Forest, about Hitler’s childhood...
Hole punch clouds in Acadiana
On January 29, 2007, inhabitants of Acadiana, the Cajun heartland in southern Louisiana, saw unusual looking cloud formations. These “hole punch” clouds were just as apparent from above as they were from below. This pair of images shows the hole-punch clouds captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite (top) and from the ground (bottom). The MODIS image shows a number of round holes in a blanket of cloud cover over Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas. A few of the “holes” are elongated, with what appear to be smaller clouds inside them...
(Also read: "Clouds of Suspicion")
An impostor in the family
Imagine, if you will, that one by one your friends and family– the people closest to you– are being removed and replaced with exact duplicates. Although they are identical in appearance and manner, you are certain that these people are not your loved ones. They are impostors. While most people would become deeply paranoid in such a scenario, there are some individuals who experience such things every day without fear… and just wonder, "why?" Such is the life of people stricken with Capgras' Syndrome...
(Also read: "Doppelganger!")
Tomorrow's paranormal news
I'm a news junkie. I read newspapers, I read magazines, I watch the evening news, I listen to news on the radio. And, of course, I read lots of news on the internet, and naturally (for me), I routinely find my way to sites devoted to paranormal news. Something I've noticed is that when I'm reading a "conventional" news site - be it news about astronomy, or politics, or general science, or medicine - I can usually get a reasonably coherent and perhaps "thematic" picture of what's going on, based upon my reading. Not so with paranormal news sites, though. If conventional news sites are oatmeal, paranormal news sites are Chex mix. With anchovies and pickeled butterfly tongues...
UFOs are as common in Space as planes in the sky Space Agency experts say
Astronauts often detect Extraterrestrial space craft trailing Space Shuttle other missions" the India Daily reports. "Evidence has come up which now points to the fact that there are thousands of alien space ships that control the space around the Earth. The alien space crafts follow the terrestrial missions closely," The India Daily further reports, which also obtained information that, "The astronauts see them all the time...
Plea deal for 3 teens in ghost-hunt case
Three would-be ghost hunters in hot water with San Mateo County prosecutors agreed Monday not to trespass when seeking out the paranormal, one of their attorneys said. It started as a teenage prank on Thanksgiving night -- a ghost search at an old Pacifica elementary school, where a girl was rumored to have died...
The night watch
On April 2, the predator paid a visit to a farm owned by Isauro Melgar in Corozal’s Barrio Negro. The Moca Vampire killed eight goats and a dozen rabbits on the property. This loss was particularly painful for the small farmer, since the breeding rabbits had been quite valuable...
(Also read: "The Blood-Sucking Creature from Hell")
Metaphysics: a 'third stream' of US religion
A few years ago, the American press began reporting an explosive increase of books on spirituality. The explosion continues. As I write, Amazon.com lists 4,747 books on spirituality published in 2006, compared with 1,325 in 1996, and 303 in 1986...
Skin samples rife with unknown bacteria
Crookston Sasquatch sightings
In 1990, Wisconsin taxidermist and artist Curtis Christensen created the “world’s most unique Bigfoot in existence,” above, and kept it to himself in his barn for a few years. When I talked to Christensen in 2004, he shared that he merely wished to create the model because he had an interest in doing so and he wanted to see how big it would be. (His model stands 8 feet tall and weighs nearly 500 pounds.) In June 1995, Crookston, Minnesota, based on a series of local sightings, declared itself the “Bigfoot Capital of the World.” Badger State taxidermist Christensen heard about that and contacted the executive director of the Crookston Development Authority. “Would Crookston like to obtain my Bigfoot to go with your new worldwide fame?”, he asked them...
