Court: Exorcism is protected by law
Texas justices throw out jury award after teenager alleged church ordeal. The Texas Supreme Court on Friday threw out a jury award over injuries a 17-year-old girl suffered in an exorcism conducted by members of her old church, ruling that the case unconstitutionally entangled the court in religious matters. In a 6-3 decision, the justices found that a lower court erred when it said the Pleasant Glade Assembly of God's First Amendment rights regarding freedom of religion did not prevent the church from being held liable for mental distress triggered by a "hyper-spiritualistic environment."..
Theories of the ancient astronaut
In today's world, it's not uncommon to talk about human beings orbiting the earth, walking on the moon or sometimes somebody who's done that kind of stuff driving cross country in diapers to possibly murder her boyfriend's true love. A long time ago though - say hundreds or thousands of years - mankind must have thought the only thing living way up in the heavens was God himself...
Crowds roll up to see talking head
A human head that laughs and talks is making the crowds gasp at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown. While most stalls lament the lack of business, there has been no shortage of people prepared to fork out R6 to see the head, which is connected to a nearby corpse by tubes. “I cannot believe it ... it must be magic,” a dumfounded Olwethu Gqoboma said yesterday...
Mysteries of time, and the multiverse
In his studies of entropy and the irreversibility of time, Caltech physicist Sean Carroll is exploring the idea that our universe is part of a larger structure. Caltech physicist Sean M. Carroll has been wrestling with the mystery of time. Most physical laws work equally well going backward or forward, yet time flows only in one direction. Writing in this month’s Scientific American, Carroll suggests that entropy, the tendency of physical systems to become more disordered over time, plays a crucial role. Carroll sat down recently at Caltech to explain his theory...
Search for the Wildman, day nine
Almasty teeth, giant snakes, and Indiana Freeman..
UFOs spotted by Navy engineer above the M5 motorway
A Royal Navy aircraft engineer claims to have seen a "glowing" UFO hover over the M5 motorway.
Michael Madden, 25, said he watched in disbelief as the disc-shaped object floated above his head before it "zoomed off at incredible speed". He said the unidentified flying object flew for up to three minutes above junction 21 of the M5, near Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. Mr Madden was on his way back from Manchester with colleague Michael Casson, 22, at 9.50pm on Sunday June 29 when he saw the suspected 'extra-terrestrial' craft...
Jerome Clark on anomalous phenomena
In the most recent issue of Jim Moseley's 'zine Saucer Smear is a summary by Clark of where he stands on the subject of anomalous claims and phenomena that deserves a broader audience...
