The JREF Million Dollar challenge to be discontinued
James Randi has published that the JREF’s Million Dollar challenge for demonstrating paranormal power will be discontinued on March 6, 2010, 12 years after it was first offered...
We know who drew these giant shapes in Peru's desert -- but why?
Everyone here, it seems, has a theory about the Nasca Lines. The mysterious markings on the desert floor are a massive astronomical calendar. That's a popular one. Or maybe they point to hidden reserves of water, the source of life in the desert...
On the right track: toward solving the mystery of the first known UFO photograph
Richelle Hawks: I first saw the image of what has come to be known as the first known UFO photograph many years ago, when someone in a chat room posted a link to it, or otherwise produced it. How odd and anachronistic the object looked in the very vintage photograph, among the scenic background of the snowy mountains. And more strangely, inspecting it closely, I noticed what looked like a swastika emblazoned on its side!..
UFO allegedly splashed down in Kazakhstan
An unidentified flying object might have fallen in the Belaya river in the May district in the Pavlodar region, northern Kazakhstan, a source with the regional emergency situations department told Interfax referring to an eye-witness...
Extraterrestrial reality, societal decline and collapse
One of the major stumbling blocks that I come across in regards to informing the government and mass media propagandized public on UFO issues is exemplified in a question I hear a lot from lay people. The question is, "So what if extraterrestrials are real, what difference does it make if aliens exist? I don't see how any of this is effecting or going to affect me for better or worse?"..
Spaceman mystery?
A pensioner is hoping that unseen files being released this year may solve one of the great Cumbrian mysteries – the spaceman on the Solway. Jim Templeton’s photograph, which showed the mystery “spaceman” behind his daughter, was taken on Burgh Marsh in 1964 and has been seen around the world...
A matter of mind power or miracle?
In 1995, debris from a burning church collapsed on Buffalo, N.Y., firefighter Donny Herbert, depriving him of oxygen for six minutes and consciousness for 10 years. But in what has been described as a medical miracle, Herbert became fully lucid a decade after that tragedy, defying a dim prognosis and allowing him enough time to express love for his wife and four sons. He died just as unexpectedly in May 2005, a month after re-awakening...
Whatever happened to The Amazing Kreskin?
Young George Joseph Kresge -- anyone from the 1970s would know him as The Amazing Kreskin -- read comic strips during his New Jersey youth. His favorite was about a superhero named Mandrake the Magician. The "magician" title, though, was just a convenient alliteration device, for Mandrake's skill set was more in channeling his hypnotic abilities to solve crimes and defeat evildoers...
Giant monkey of New Hampshire
As the voters go to the polls in New Hampshire, it is a good time to pause and recall the “Giant Monkey” of Danville, New Hampshire. Have you heard about it? On September 9, a few years ago, in rural Danville, New Hampshire, search parties were engaged in looking for a Giant Monkey spotted near Pleasant Street and Kingston Road...
10 suggestions for your 2008 reading list
Robert Schneck: The invisible mongoose that lives in the wall has asked me to make a list of the best books I read in 2007. I’m not one to argue, so here’s a double-handful of titles arranged in no particular order...
