World’s largest-ever study of near-death experiences
The AWARE (AWAreness during REsuscitation) study is to be launched by the Human Consciousness Project of the University of Southampton – an international collaboration of scientists and physicians who have joined forces to study the human brain, consciousness and clinical death...
Paranormal team finds its spooky at the pub
From the first moment the new landlady stepped into the Bracken Arms pub she felt it was haunted — now she knows it is. Angie Bailey hired the White Rose Paranormal Investigation Team to conduct an operation in her pub after feeling “a presence” there 12 months ago. More than 20 people turned out on Saturday, at 11pm, to see if they could find any spooks and stayed until the early hours of the morning...
Hunt for ghostly soldier of 1645
Paranormal investigators in Northampton will be on the look-out for the spirit of an officer killed in Collingtree in 1645 at a special heritage weekend. A re-enactment of the run-up to The Battle of Naseby will start on Friday in Collingtree village, where soldiers took over The Wooden Walls of Old England pub on their way to fight in the civil war...
Mutilations: an interview with Raul Oscar Chaves
Readers of Inexplicata have become familiar over the years with the reports provided by Raul Oscar Chaves, one of Argentina’s most prominent researchers of cattle mutilations and UFO activity. He took time from his busy schedule this week to answer a few questions regarding the current wave of animal mutilations occurring in his country...
Behold Azazel: the extraterrestrial - revisited
Stephen Yulish PhD: On January 3, 2007 my article, Behold Azazel: the Extraterrestrial, was published in UFO Digest. In that article, I first introduced all of you to the image of Azazel which I had channeled years earlier from the spirit world and is shown again above. I later used that image as the basis for my character of the extraterrestrial, i.e. fallen angel in both of my novels, The Great Harpazo Deception and Invasion: Israel. I explained how I had haphazardly derived the name from the Jewish pseudopigraphal book, The Apocalypse of Abraham...
Spooked by a ghost? Not me!
Everybody likes a good ghost story and there’s nothing like a haunted pub to get the regulars talking. Amy Fenton enters into the spirit, in more ways than one, and stays the night at a spooky Lakeland inn...
Pankalankas: Australia’s mystery people
This was shared from Rex Gilroy’s site: On an Aboriginal settlement in the Alice Springs district in 1982, noted documentary film maker, Mr Bill Marshall, entertained the Aboriginal children one evening with a video copy of the American documentary feature film. “Mysterious Monsters”. When the world-famous footage of a ‘Bigfoot’ [filmed near Bluff Creek in California's Pacific north-west by the late Roger Patterson] came on the screen, the children began shouting “That’s Pankalanka, that’s Pankalanka”!..
Superstitions evolved to help us survive
Darwin never warned against crossing black cats, walking under ladders or stepping on cracks in the pavement, but his theory of natural selection explains why people believe in such nonsense. The tendency to falsely link cause to effect – a superstition – is occasionally beneficial, says Kevin Foster, an evolutionary biologist at Harvard University. For instance, a prehistoric human might associate rustling grass with the approach of a predator and hide. Most of the time, the wind will have caused the sound, but "if a group of lions is coming there’s a huge benefit to not being around," Foster says...
