Jackie Gleason's occult library on exhibit in Miami
The University of Miami has an exhibit of The Jackie Gleason Collection of Books. It includes approximately 1,700 volumes of books, journals, pamphlets, and publications in the field of parapsychology. The collection offers materials on such topics as: witchcraft, folklore, extrasensory perception (ESP), unidentified flying objects (UFOs), reincarnation, mysticism, spiritualism, mental telepathy, the occult, ghosts, clairvoyance, cosmology, demons, hypnosis, life after death, mediums, psychical research, voodooism, and others...
'Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull': what's the title mean?
He rediscovered love by finding the Ark of the Covenant, redeemed himself by rescuing the Sankara Stones and tasted illumination the second he sipped from the Holy Grail, but what sort of fortune and glory await Indiana Jones in his next adventure, "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull"?..
(Also read: "Search for the Lost Ark")
Flathead Lake Monster hunters
Flathead Lake Monster sightings at Flathead Lake, Montana, have been discussed for a long time. Some of the monster encounters appear to describe sturgeon sightings, while others are of a Nessie-type creature. Since first observed in 1889, the state department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks has recorded sightings with 1993 seeing a near-record 11 cases...
"Dead" man wakes up under autopsy knife
A Venezuelan man who had been declared dead woke up in the morgue in excruciating pain after medical examiners began their autopsy...
Unconventional discoveries, communications media can help human race make progress
In dealing with the challenges and opportunities we face, the merging of conventional and unconventional activities may be helpful on many fronts and in many kinds of endeavors. Information and understanding about various kinds of unconventional approaches and developments can often blend seamlessly with standard ways of doing things and common perspectives. For example, we have discovered, or rediscovered, in recent years that human beings apparently have a “sixth sense” of intuition and instinct that is quite significant...
Apocalypse anticipation
Since the beginning of time, human beings have been predicting the end of the world. It's easy to ignore the crazy man on the corner shouting about Armageddon, but the ancient Mayan civilization — with its freaky-accurate calendar and sophisticated mathematical and astronomical systems — is a bit more difficult to dismiss...
(Also read: "4 Scariest Predictions for Our Planet")
Strange tales
Weird Las Vegas takes readers on an eerie tour of Sin City...
Psychic dogs
Researchers at OpenSourceScience.net have offered a $1,000 prize to dogs who successfully demonstrate they know when their owners are coming home. Many dog owners claim their pets anticipate their arrival by going to wait at a door, window, or driveway. Some claim their dogs do this even when they arrive home unexpectedly or at odd hours...
(Also read: "Are Pets Psychic or Just Super-Sensitive?")
Invisibility cloak turns you into ray of light
While true invisibility cloaks may remain forever a dream, the ability to vanish into an ethereal ray of light is still on the cards. A device that bends microwaves around an object has been shown to render it partially invisible (New Scientist, 28 October 2006, p 29), but Min Qiu of the Royal Institute of Technology in Kista, Sweden, and colleagues argue that total invisibility would require the value of some of the cloak's key electrical and magnetic properties to be infinitely large - something that is impossible...
Pseudoscience nation
As Americans, we are obsessed with UFOs, the mystical Atlantis, Loch Ness, and aliens. Why is it the general public considers scientists "geeks". Why is it that society cares more about these myths that have no evidence, than about scientific puzzlers like mutating viruses, the discovery of the ancient civilization of Ebla recently, or about outer space and its gases? its time for Americans to wake up...
