OBEs induced in the lab?
Several days ago, the University College London reported on a study recently published in Science, in which neuroscientist Dr Henrik Ehrsson claims to have induced out-of-body experiences in volunteers in his lab. If you read the article, you might see that this is a clever study that provides great insight into our bodily perceptions and sense of self. But have these scientists really induced the same sort of out-of-body experiences that have been studied by parapsychologists for decades? Poking around the Internet for the blogsphere's reaction, it looks like I'm not alone when I say 'no'...
Military Intelligence and the Connection to UFOs
'Asian Atlantis' discovered
A researcher investigating underwater rock formations off the coast of Japan believes they are the remnants of an Asian equivalent of Atlantis — an ancient civilisation swallowed up by the ocean. Marine geologist Masaaki Kimura says he has identified the ruins of a city off the coast of Yonaguni Island on the southwestern tip of Japan...
Mystery of the medieval skulls still has archaeologists scratching their heads
A study into the mysterious changing skull shape of medieval man casts serious doubt on current theories...
Ghost lights that dance on Banni grasslands when it’s very dark
The deserts of the Rann of Kutch, which melt into the arid Banni grasslands hold many unexplained mysteries apart from the varied species of birds. Spread across 3,846 sq km, this grassland is witness to a strange light phenomenon on any dark night. Locals who have been seeing it since time immemorial, call it Chhir Batti in their Kutchhi-Sindhi language, with Chhir meaning ghost and Batti meaning light...
Ghost hunting in Manitou Springs
Paranormal investigators are looking into reports of strange activity in several Manitou Springs businesses. Mike Olson is a local Private Investigator turned Ghost Hunter. He says, "What I say to the skeptics is definitely give us a call and come out with us and I will make a believer out of you!" He uses the latest video and audio recording equipment to try to collect scientific evidence to prove paranormal activity...
Indeed a haunting
Hearing noises in your attic after midnight? Seen a spirit or two wander your halls? Who are you going to call? The Historical Society of Smithfield recently called the Pawtucket Paranormal Society to investigate unknown happenings at its headquarters, the historic Smith-Appleby House...
Psychic goes behind bars
Joseph Tittel can't escape his job no matter how hard he tries. A couple of Halloweens ago, Tittel of Bristol Township stopped by Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia for the former prison's annual scarefest, Terror Behind the Walls. Instead of meeting sheet-clad ghosts and goblins, the psychic medium came face-to-face with the real thing...
German scientist Von Braun was at Roswell during UFO crash
In 1947, a controversial event took place in New Mexico near the town of Roswell. The "Roswell Incident," as it has come to be known, remains the paramount case in UFO crash/retrieval history. In addition to the claims of a downed alien ship, alien bodies were said to have been recovered from the debris...
Soul suckers
Highgate Cemetery in north London is a spooky place at the best of times, and rumours of ghosts occupying its Victorian crypts and tombs have existed since its consecration in 1839. And the fact that Karl Marx, father of communism, is buried there only adds to its mystique. However, when a phantom figure was seen in the cemetery in 1967, followed by the discovery of animals sucked of blood in nearly Waterloo Park, rumours began of a vampire...
1930: Boy attacked by strange animal
His faithful dog was all that prevented Frank Tomlinson, 11-year-old son of Harmon Tomlinson, residing southeast of Tipton on the Rolla L. Hobbs farm, from being torn to pieces by a strange wild animal which attacked the lad when he was driving the cows from pasture to the house for milking Monday evening...
Science and the afterlife
Interview with Deborah Blum, author of “Ghost Hunters: William James and Scientific Search for Life after Death”...
Making a new psychic friend
Among her many gifts, Linda Stanton is a spiritual counselor, past life reader, spiritual medium, interfaith minister and inspirational speaker. She has a bachelor of arts in divinity from the Universal Brotherhood and has been practicing her craft for 25 years. She has clients all over the world and teaches body, mind and spirit workshops and lectures...
