Do some of us avoid tragedy by foreseeing it? Some scientists now believe that the brain really CAN predict events before they happen...
(Also read: "Amazing Predictions")
Mathematicians design invisible tunnel
Researchers have cooked up blueprints for a "wormhole" that allows light to travel unseen from one point to another...
Skeptic demonstrates psi
In 1995, Rupert Sheldrake began an investigation of a dog named JayTee and his apparent ability to know when his owner, Pamela Smart, was on the way home. Dr. Sheldrake became aware of JayTee when Smart answered an advertisement in the paper looking for dogs who seemed to know when their owner was returning home...
Swimming Maine Mystery animal
Is the videotape a mystery animal that you can identify? Does the state of video technology tease us into thinking we can get images of cryptids that will assist the advancement of cryptozoology? Is this just a long distance view of a beaver or other known small mammal swimming across a waterway?..
Remote viewing - the UFO extraterrestrial problem
Anyone who has been keeping up with UFO and ET-abduction news during the last 30 years must realize that Earthlings have a problem that is increasing in scope and meaning. It goes far beyond the exciting technological possibilities hinted at by UFO hardware and the allegedly "advanced intelligence" of beings who create and fly it...
(Also read: "What You Need To Know About... Remote Viewing")
Has CSICOP lost the 30 years' war?
CSICOP has ceased to exist, it was announced in the Jan./Feb. 2007 issue of Skeptical Inquirer (SI) in an editorial entitled 'New Directions for Skeptical Inquiry'. It has been replaced by something called 'The Center for Scientific Inquiry' (CSI), the stated aims of which sound virtually identical to those of CSICOP. So why the change?..
On the road with the "Mirage Men"
Past lives: Pat's a master at unlocking secrets of the past
As a little girl, Patricia Watson was uncannily perceptive. Growing up in South Wales, her parents could keep no secrets: "They could not hide anything from me," admits Patricia, with a laugh...
(Also read: "The Past Lives of Children")
Bar wants to chat with ghosts from 102-year-old fire
Halloween is still five months away but there's talk of haunting spirits, ghostly happenings and unexplained mysteries at one of Macomb County's liveliest nightclubs...
Mutilated bull: No blood, no clues
Robert Allen wasn't surprised when the story of the cattle mutilation last October in the small town of Kanjilon, N.M. was buried way inside the local paper. After all, the hoopla over cattle mutilations - which were a big subject back in the 1980s - has died down in the last decade or so. The problem is that while the newsworthiness of the subject has died down, cattle mutilations have not...
To treat the dead
Consider someone who has just died of a heart attack. His organs are intact, he hasn't lost blood. All that's happened is his heart has stopped beating—the definition of "clinical death"—and his brain has shut down to conserve oxygen. But what has actually died?..
The Heart of darkness: vanishings, pygmy elephants, and Mokele-Mbembe
Meditation sharpens the mind
Three months of intense training in a form of meditation known as "insight" in Sanskrit can sharpen a person's brain enough to help them notice details they might otherwise miss...
Did ancient biotech create "Nephilim"?
In the study of the Old Testament Book of Genesis, beings of great stature called "giants" appear, which some scholars believe came into existence after powerful angels known as 'Watchers' descended to earth and used women (or their biological matter) to construct bodies of flesh, which they used to "extend" themselves into the material world...
A room full of strange tails
When Alex Dove opened the 16th-century book on witchcraft, something black and scaly fell out into her hands. Dove, who works in the books department at auctioneers Lyon & Turnbull, was horrified when she realized it was the body of a frog, wizened by time and pressed flat between the pages...
