Another reincarnation of 'Ghosts of Virginia' is here
L.B. Taylor Jr. has recently self-published "The Ghosts of Virginia: Volume XII". In this volume, Taylor explores ghost stories from central and southwest Virginia as well as Civil War-era stories. Nearly 25 years after the publication of his first Virginia ghost book, "Haunted Houses," Taylor is finding that there is a wealth of ghost stories and paranormal phenomena waiting to be discovered...
Who speaks for Earth?
After decades of searching, scientists have found no trace of extraterrestrial intelligence. Now, some of them hope to make contact by broadcasting messages to the stars. Are we prepared for an answer?...
Why time seems to slow down in emergencies
In The Matrix, the hero Neo could dodge bullets because time moved in slow motion for him during battles. Indeed, in the real world, people in danger often feel as if time slowed down for them. This warping of time apparently does not result from the brain speeding up from adrenaline when in danger. Instead, this feeling seems to be an illusion, scientists now find...
The Ararat anomaly
The Ararat Anomaly is the name given to a controversial structure (or object, or rock formation, depending on your perspective and opinion) that can be found on Mt. Ararat, Turkey. For some, it's the remains of the legendary Ark of Noah. For others, it's nothing at all. But for the Intelligence community of the United States, it's been a mystery that has attracted their keen attention over the course of the last few decades...
The thing on the stairs
The house in South Euclid, Ohio, had been on Telhurst Road since the early years after World War I. It was a Sears Modern Home, a mail-order house popular before the Great Depression. Nobody lived in the house long, and, during the years of 1967 to 1975, Lisa Falour discovered why...
Bigfoot prank almost results in tragedy
Authorities say they exploited fears of area residents concerning reports of Bigfoot being spotted near the Coffee/Geneva County Line. A teenager wore an outfit depicting the mythical Bigfoot creature. He then carried a fellow young person on each shoulder...
Mammoth space-blast: Sanderson vindicated
In Ivan T. Sanderson's 1960 Saturday Evening Post article, "Riddle of the Frozen Giants," he wrote of his catastrophic astronomical theory to explain the frozen mammoths and frozen wooly rhinos. Sanderson was laughed at for his thoughts. But was he right, after all?..
Hamlet's journey
Did literature's most famous character have a near-death experience? Literally, no. But figuratively or symbolically, maybe yes...
Wonderful Fortean wonders
Just in case you missed it, The Charles Fort Institute is having a contest of sorts. It is for the Seven Fortean Wonders of the World and you can vote. It is starting out with 79 contenders. The great thing about it is that there are certain things on that list that I don't remember ever hearing about. I love hearing about mysteries that I have missed out on! So I decided to give a brief summary of these mysteries that I had missed...
He puts the "X" in X-Zone
"Welcome to The 'X' Zone, where fact is fiction and fiction is reality, where people dare to believe and dare to be heard. Now, here's your host, Mr. Rob McConnell." These words, or minor variations of them, have been a kind of "music" to the ears of legions of fans of The "X" Zone Radio Show, which is a live, four hour talk show five nights per week and is created and hosted by longtime Canadian broadcaster, Rob McConnell...
The box at the end of the world: Homespun efforts to contact the spirit world
The desire and models for direct, two-way contact with the otherworld is likely as old as we human beings. Anciently, there are ancestor cults, mushroom cults, shamanistic societies and the like. More historically recently, there are various forms and manners of occultism, Spiritualism, and very recently, the pop-culture phenomenon of ghost hunting...
