Never say die: Why we can't imagine death
Almost everyone has a tendency to imagine the mind continuing to exist after the death of the body. Even people who believe the mind ceases to exist at death show this type of psychological-continuity reasoning in studies. Rather than being a by-product of religion or an emotional security blanket, such beliefs stem from the very nature of our consciousness...
Could strange mars craters be from a fallen third moon?
Was there a third Martian moon orbiting the planet? Did Phobos and Deimos have a triplet sibling? According to the discovery of two elliptical impact craters, there might just have been another moon, but it ploughed into the Red Planet's surface a long time ago. The moonlet would have been approximately 1.5 km wide (0.9 miles), and it will have succumbed to the Mars gravity, entering the atmosphere at a shallow angle. As it tumbled through the atmosphere it broke in two, hitting the surface and creating two elongated impact craters, near-perfectly aligned...
Elephant-shaped Ganesh growth cured my ills, Queens man says
To most people, the purple flower that sprouted between two concrete slabs in a Queens backyard would be just a hardy vestige of summer. Sam Lal sees something more. The Jamaica man is convinced the mysterious blossom is an incarnation of the elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesh - and neighbors and friends are flocking to see it...
Synchronicity and the paranormal
Some researchers maintain that "paranormal" occurrences are interlinked by an underlying syntactical logic. Maybe we should attempt a more formal, quantitative analysis of these claims. One example that I find oddly amusing is the famous Hopkinsville, KY "invasion," in which a family opened fire on bizarre, goblin-like beings that they assumed were alien visitors...
The hyped panic over 'War of the Worlds'
Frank Stanton sensed trouble. Sitting in his living room on the night of October 30, 1938, the young CBS executive tuned in to catch Orson Welles's adaptation of H.G. Wells's War of the Worlds. The program sounded crisp and engaging — but a bit too realistic. Stanton grabbed his coat and headed back to CBS' headquarters on Madison Avenue. Pushing his way through chaotic hallways jammed with reporters, police, and network employees, he reached his desk and telephoned his friend Paul Lazarsfeld...
Military personnel form paranormal team
Night is falling over farms along the Red River like a wet, cold blanket. Fall arrived on a single day and now, every October sunset feels like Halloween. While other families gather closer to their hearths, the MPI family is getting ready to visit a graveyard. Organized less than a year ago, MPI _ Military Paranormal Investigations _ is one of a growing community of men and women nationwide who are interested in looking at the supernatural through scientific eyes. No mediums or psychics are involved; MPI members said they have come to each of their nearly 20 investigations so far as skeptics ready to disprove a myth...
Local winery certified haunted by ghosts hunters
The Old North State Winery and Brewery might get a little spooky at night, but that doesn’t bother one of its the owners, Ben Webb. He doesn’t mind the spirit known as Restless Soul, who has been said to roam the winery at night and make its presence known with loud footsteps, banging or closing doors. Nope, he doesn’t mind at all. In fact, he’s rather relieved it was certified haunted by the Eastern Carolina Paranormal Investigators who visited the winery Friday and Saturday to investigate reports of paranormal activity...
Is the Jersey Devil’s range increasing?
New Jersey’s pine barrens might qualify as the strangest stretch of woods in the world. It is completely out of place, a huge thick pine forest with only a sparse rural population situated among developed and largely urban New Jersey. The Pine Barrens is just the type of place for a cryptid, and boy does it have one. Of course, I speak of the Jersey Devil...
