Mysterious animal mummy
This specimen isn't just any old dead animal... it's internationally famous, having been widely discussed in the news media, and the subject of correspondence between mammalogists across the USA. It has variously been identified as a dinosaur or as some sort of embryo, but is clearly the mummified carcass of a mammal. It was discovered in a cave in Namibia...
Incan bones found in Norway
Archeologists in Sarpsborg have found one thousand year old skeletal remains that appear to be Incan. The skeletal remains were found during conservations work at St. Nicolas church in Sarpsborg, a city 73 kilometers (45 miles) southeast of Oslo, NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting) reports. One of the skulls had characteristics that indicate he was an Inca, the South American people centered in Peru...
Is there anybody out there?
If there is life out there, is anyone really that bothered any more? The start of the modern UFO era was 1947 - when an American pilot observed flying disks scooting across the sky heralded a global obsession with the new phenomena. As the number of sightings grew, the nature of people's experiences grew increasingly vivid and a plethora of conspiracy theories became ingrained in contemporary folklore...
Hemingway curse
The copycat effect even affects celebrity families. Learned behavior and the modeling power of the copycat effect may be a stronger link than even biological predeterminism. The so-called "Hemingway Curse" is one such example...
(Also read: "The Truth About the Superman Curse")
Ivor expands his hidden abilities
Fabric shop proprietor Ivor Holland lifted the thin veil of mystery separating the material world from the spirit world. Ivor, who owns Quality Textiles in Surrey Street, Littlehampton, discovered he was a natural psychic medium a few years ago when a former member of the Most Haunted TV show team, Derek Acorah, told him so...
Multiple black spheres reported
About ten years ago at my mom’s house in Pagosa Springs, Colorado at about 4pm myself, my sister, my mom, and my nephew saw two UFOs in the sky. My sister is the one that actually brought it to our attention. The UFOs appeared to be be black spheres assembled together in rough rectangular shapes with one of the UFOs having a "flagella-like" protusion of black spheres extending from the top middle part of the 'rectangle'...
Prospective study of near-death experiences
This prospective study of NDEs published in Lancet has been out for a while, but if you haven't read it before you should definitely take a look. The design of the study, which set it apart from previous NDE studies which were based on surveys, is that it consisted in conducting interviews of all patients treated for cardiac arrest at a series of European hospitals...
(Also read: "Your True Tales: Near-Death Experiences")
The UFO “repeaters” phenomenon
Venerated UFO researcher J. Allen Hynek used to say that if a UFO case involved a witness who had experienced multiple sightings, this disparaged their credibility. What Hynek (and most other UFO researchers) didn’t want was ammunition for fundamentalist skeptics who associated “repeaters” with wide-eyed publicity-seeking wackos. Unfortunately, this overlooks some important facts and famous, well-supported cases...
James on the ghost trail at haunted hotel
A young producer hopes to make a real-life horror film at a supposedly haunted hotel. Seventeen-year-old James Pembridge has enlisted the sixth sense of a local medium to entice any ghosts out of the woodwork. The Cirencester College student, from Freshbrook,was due to conduct the ghost hunt at the Bull Hotel, in Fairford, where spirits are rumoured to walk through walls...
Meeting the spirits
Daniel Pinchbeck: All through my childhood, I felt certain that something extraordinary – absolutely amazing and out of the ordinary – was going to happen to me. The world seemed bursting with a secret that nobody would divulge, and someday this tremendous mystery would be revealed. Simply because they were older, I assumed that all adults had passed through this portal into the miraculous essence of existence, although they never spoke about it...
Psychic commanders, ESP pigeons in military studies
Col. John Alexander wasn't the only one in the American military establishment, trying to harness psychic powers to help win the Cold War. A quick trip through the archives of the Defense Technical Information Center reveals dozens of studies and serious military-academic papers on, shall we say, non-traditional phenomenon...
