Actor Timothy Hutton was such a special child that a team of ghostbusters once used him as a conduit to the dead. The “Beautiful Girls” star's mother was fascinated with one husband-and-wife team of ghost hunters and took her young son to a lecture they hosted. Throughout the bizarre event, the wife of the team couldn't take her eyes of Hutton, who was eight at the time...
Project Alpha
Today a reader, Travis, asked me about Project Alpha, the famous episode from the early 1980s in which superskeptic James Randi arranged for two young magicians to infiltrate a parapsychology lab in order to confound the researchers. Over the years, this strange incident has assumed almost legendary proportions in the minds of some skeptics and reporters, who claim that the researchers were totally fooled...
Many people just forget about intuition
Sometimes people tell me: ‘I wish I can feel and hear and experience like you do, but I cannot do that. I am normal and not born as a paranormal or intuitive person like you.’ I don’t agree with this kind of thinking. Every one of us is born with intuition. Could it be that you hide it away, that you only think that you are not experiencing it? Or in other words that you are just not conscious of your sixth sense any more?..
University of Missouri professor understands the power of the Kalanoro
Under the surface of Madagascar, deep in the caves sacred to the Antakarana and Tsimihety peoples, lurk the Kalanoro. A recent Internet story alleges Navy SEALs photographed a group of 13 Kalanoro in the late 1990s-early 2000s in the Democratic Republic of the Congo – far from the island of Madagascar. These Kalanoro were described as a gray “unidentified ape” with quills that run along its spine...
On the wildman's trail
Adam Davies knows all about Neanderthal man. In his spare time he travels the world as a cryptozoologist, a term for those who study or search for animals that are rumoured to exist but for which conclusive proof is missing, including the search for creatures now generally believed to be extinct...
"Bleeding" Jesus portraits draw crowds in India
Thousands of people are flocking to a policeman's house in India's remote Andaman Islands to pray in front of two portraits of Jesus Christ, which are said to have been "bleeding" for the past two weeks, police and witnesses said...
NASA Confirms Solar Storm Near 2012
This week researchers announced that a storm is coming — the most intense solar maximum in fifty years. The prediction comes from a team led by Mausumi Dikpati of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). "The next sunspot cycle will be 30% to 50% stronger than the previous one," she says. If correct, the years ahead could produce a burst of solar activity second only to the historic Solar Max of 1958...
Thousands seek access to healing power in Espinazo
It's been a year since her nephew plunged a knife into her back, but Mariana Robles is still in pain. The physical wound has long ago healed, but Robles still can't find inner peace since the attack, which she described as attempted murder by a family member. "To this day, I still don't believe it," said Robles, 25. Robles was one of thousands of people who took her anguish to this weathered desert village three hours south of Eagle Pass over the weekend in search of supernatural healing that included full immersion in a fetid pool of ash-gray water...
Malaysian museum defies calls to shut down "ghost" exhibit
A museum in mainly Muslim Malaysia is defying calls for it to stop a popular exhibition featuring ghosts and other supernatural beings, arguing it has educational value, a report said Tuesday. Western Negri Sembilan state's museum has attracted about 20,000 visitors to view the ghost and genie exhibition since its launch on March 10, the New Straits Times reported...
Duke patents mind-controlled weapons
Work on Brain-Machine Interface (think monkey controlling a joystick with its thoughts) is old news, but a patent granted earlier this month underscores researchers' confidence that a broader set of military applications is possible: like controlling weapons with your mind...
Brain damage turns man into human chameleon
In his 1983 fake documentary 'Zelig', Woody Allen plays a character, Leonard Zelig, a kind of human chameleon who takes on the appearance and behaviour of whoever he is with. Now psychologists in Italy have reported the real-life case of AD, a 65-year-old whose identity appears dependent on the environment he is in. He started behaving this way after cardiac arrest caused damage to the fronto-temporal region of his brain...
