Japan's Yeti: Hibagon
Hairy bipeds are reported from all over the world. North America has its Sasquatch and Skunk Apes, the Himalayas its Yeti, Southeast Asia its Orang Pendek. Could there be a similar such creature inhabiting the remote mountains of Japan?..
Is global warming forcing Bigfoot to move north?
If you were a nine-foot tall animal covered in dense fur - say, Bigfoot - you would probably seek cooler climes if temps began inching up. That's the hypothesis one Queens College biologist posed to me last night - without, I should note, acknowledging that such an animal exists at all...
Best pareidolia ever
Have you seen Jesus today? The photo above may be a good chance. Sent by Jessica Lundgren from Sweden to paranormal.about.com, you can see the clear profile of a giant bearded man with closed eyes. It does resemble common representations of a fellow named Jesus. Even though that enormous Jesus head doesn't quite fit into the rest of the image. What's going on there? Jessica writes that "the child died short after the photo was taken"...
Ganzfeld hallucinations
The cognitive science journal Cortex has just released a special issue on the neuropsychology of paranormal experiences and belief, and contains a fantastic article on hallucinations induced by the Ganzfeld procedure. The Ganzfeld procedure exposes the participant to 'unstructured' sensations usually by placing half ping-pong balls over the eyes so they can only see diffuse white light and by playing white noise through headphones...
Cryptid-ape inhabited island vanishes
Loren Coleman: Lake Nippenicket (above) is a freshwater lake in the town of Bridgewater, Massachusetts. The lake borders a tiny portion of Route 104, and is near the vicinity of I-495 and Route 24. Most of the lake is included with the Hockomock Swamp Wildlife Management Area, within the Bridgewater Triangle (a term I coined over 25 years ago to describe the location of an intriguing anomalistic and cryptozoological concentration in this section of southeastern Massachusetts). Jeff Belanger has informed me that the island in the middle of Lake Nippenicket ("The Nip") in the Bridgewater Triangle, Massachusetts, has disappeared. Red-haired little apes were seen on this island in the 1970s and 1980s...
Inside Summum: free speech and mummies
In that Greek temple of justice Americans call the Supreme Court, Summum, a religion founded 33 years ago and practiced by a handful of people, rose to national prominence last week, but its adherents worship in another classical structure -- a copper-plated pyramid off Interstate 15 in Salt Lake City...
