Want to get involved in a new research project, using mobile phones and text messaging to test claims that some people know who is calling them before they answer? The experience seems to be quite common, but is coincidence, telepathy or precognition the explanation? The Perrott-Warrick Project on unexplained human abilities has so far produced above chance experimental results with telephone and e-mail telepathy. Now project director Dr Rupert Sheldrake (right) needs 10 UK-based research helpers to test whether precognition is responsible, using automated text messages...
Fire marshal quits over psychic emails
A Wisconsin fire marshal has resigned after 22 years of service after admitting that he consulted psychics to advise with office politics. Tom Weber was accused of working against his boss, fire chief Aaron Harris, and of sending emails to psychics asking whether or not he and his colleagues would succeed in their bid to push Harris out...
Dwindling honeybee population in US puzzles scientists
Scientists looking into the dramatic decline of the honeybee population in the United States say they are baffled by the developments. But they told the U.S. Congress Thursday the drop is threatening the production of a significant portion of the U.S. food supply that relies on honeybee pollination...
The house of miracles
After a 17-year-old boy died, oil began seeping through his bedroom walls and ash appeared on the floor. Some now believe he was a messenger of God...
Irreducible mind and the NDE
Michael Prescott: I've been skipping around in the impressive (and impressively hefty) new volume Irreducible Mind, by Edward F. Kelly, Emily Williams Kelly, et al. The 800-page book, extensively researched and exhaustively referenced, is a major assault on reductionist or physicalist theories of neurology. The authors cite a vast array of borderline phenomena, including psychic phenomena, in order to build their case that the relationship between brain and mind cannot be reduced to simple terms of cause and effect...
Flaming debris close to jet probably meteor
The pilots of a Chilean passenger jet reported seeing flaming debris fall past their aircraft as it approached the airport at Auckland, New Zealand...
ESP research a dying trend
Since age 6, Bryan and James Williams, twins, have been able to read each other's minds -- to an extent. Bryan, sophomore in agricultural education, said if asked to choose a number between one and 10, his brother will guess it correctly every time. In addition to this, he said when his twin is struggling, he can sense it. "If he's ever in a bad situation, I can feel something," he said...
There's something out there: A Bigfoot encounter
A CTV Original documentary examines how a fluke encounter with a Bigfoot has changed a man's life and a small Manitoba community. Is a Bigfoot lurking in the Canadian wilderness? What would happen if it were caught on video?..
Edo period drawing of Kappa, a mythical creature in Japan
Kappa is a mythical Japanese creature, known for its malicious tendencies: Their pranks range from the relatively innocent, such as loudly passing gas or looking up women’s kimonos, to the more troublesome, such as stealing crops...
The night people
From age five to six, Vern would look out his bedroom window in Orrick, Mo., and people with large, fishlike eyes would walk around his yard and sometime into his neighbor’s houses. At the time, this wasn’t strange to him...
Cassini images bizarre hexagon on Saturn
An odd, six-sided, honeycomb-shaped feature circling the entire north pole of Saturn has captured the interest of scientists with NASA's Cassini mission...
