At Witch School, spelling has new meaning
When Witch School came to town, Mayor Terry Prillaman stopped in to welcome the owners, as he does whenever a new business opens. "If you don't like them, don't patronize them," he says. "It's like a tattoo parlor: You don't have to go in."..
How monsters are made
Two of America's mysterious creatures have recently reared their furry heads: Bigfoot and the goat-sucking chupacabra. On Sept. 16, 2007, a hunter in the Allegheny National Forest got photos of what some claim is a Bigfoot. The hunter had fastened a remote-trigger camera to a tree and when he returned he was surprised by images of a dark, four-legged animal that he did not recognize...
Shirley Maclaine urges America to make UFO findings public
Veteran actress Shirley Maclaine has called on the U.S. government to make its files on Unidentified Flying Objects (U.F.O.s) public. The Oscar winner was delighted when her close friend and Republican presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich revealed he believes in alien spacecraft in a recent interview. And the 73-year-old hopes his confession will prompt lawmakers to follow the lead of other countries by opening up their U.F.O. files...
Tourism cashes in on the dark side
Fancy a day trip to Chernobyl? What about a visit to Auschwitz? Or how about following in the footsteps of Dracula in Transylvannia. Welcome to the emerging phenomenon of Dark Tourism. There’s no shortage of tourists looking for sun and beach breaks or shopping and sight seeing. But a new generation of travellers is looking for a completely new experience dabbling with the dark side...
Parrot demonstrating telepathy - the N'Kisi project
I first saw the reference to the N’Kisi project – a research into the telepathic abilities of a Congo African Gray Parrot, named N’Kisi at our Skeptiko.com podcast forums where Alex Tsakiris, the podcast host, wrote about it as an example of a research done on animal communication. This appears to be an interesting study and it was actually published in the Journal of Scientific Explorations at Testing a Language-Using Parrot for Telepathy...
(Also read: "Are Pets Psychic or Just Super-Sensitive?")
A shadow in the night
Lindsie Harlan of Austin, Texas, often wrestles with sleep. One night in the spring of her senior year in high school, the math education major at Austin Community College, awoke to find something dark, something cloaked in shadows...
Pilots to tell their UFO stories for the first time
The American public is not alone when it comes to sighting what the US Air Force has labeled Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs). So too have former governors, high level military and government officials, highly trained airplane pilots and aviation experts. The phenomenon is real. It happens worldwide. No one is sure about its nature. Experts from seven countries will divulge what they have discovered about UFOs at a November 12 panel discussion moderated by former Arizona Governor Fife Symington (R) at the National Press Club (www.freedomofinfo.org)...
Anthropoidipes ameriborealis
Some species have been described and accepted by science, merely from their footprints. This has occurred most famously with dinosaurs. Jeff Meldrum, Ph. D., Idaho State University, has come forth with a new moniker by which we may talk about Sasquatch. But it is not a “new name” for Bigfoot. Meldrum has given the tracks a new label, Anthropoidipes ameriborealis (“North American ape foot”), in his just-published paper, “Ichnotaxonomy of Giant Hominid Tracks in North America.”..
When reality is unreal: the ufologists and the metaphysicians
Sending his cancer a signal
"I want to see the treatment work," says John Kanzius, whose cancer has recurred. He knows the process he developed may not be ready in time to save his life, but the project was never about him.
John Kanzius, sorely weakened by leukemia treatments, drew on his lifetime of working with radio waves to devise a machine that targets cancer cells. The miracle: It works...
Telepathy EEG correlations in distantly located participants
Have you ever picked up the phone and knew it was your sister? Or you dreamed something and it really happened like that afterwards? In a recent survey, 45% of those who responded said that they had personal experience of telepathic communication. However, research over the last 70 years has provided enough evidence to convince some scientists that phenomena such as telepathy and clairvoyance do exist and may be occurring some of the time throughout the general population...
