The Great Sphinx of Giza reborn as a lion in the desert
The Sphinx in Egypt might have originally had the face of a lion, it is claimed. And it could be much older than previously thought, investigations led by a British geologist suggest. Egyptologists have long argued the monument outside Cairo, which has the head of a pharaoh and the body of a lion, was built soon after the first pyramid - around 4,500 years ago...
The Pinatubo Monsters
If you live in a Filipino village with an economy primarily based on fishing, it could present quite a problem if five monsters suddenly show up in your water keeping everybody land-locked out of fear. Some say this is what caused the current world-wide economic meltdown. Others claim we just made that up right now. Still others claim five snake-like black beasts did show up in the local waters of a Philippine island of Luzon...
Photography captures spirit of the spirit world
Most photography professors wrap up the semester with a final student show. Instructor Nathan Lewis, on the other hand, concluded his course in the musty basement of a Minneapolis duplex, attempting to make contact with a ghost. "We're a group of people who mean you no harm. Is there a way you could show us you might be here?" On this night, Lewis and four photography students crouch between a home water heater and an old hideaway sofa, hoping for a signal from the spirit world...
OpenSourceScience Medium Experiment
Guest: Hospice specialist Janice Ervin discusses the OpenSourceScience medium experiment...
Paul Dale Roberts meets Count Saint-Germaine
Paul Dale Roberts: Since I place my contact information into all of my articles, I get contacted by individuals from all around the world, who make bizarre claims. Let me introduce you to Charles Germaine (Note: Charles is a fictitious name to protect the interviewee). Charles contacted me via cell phone. His claim is that he is no other than the immortal Comte de Saint-Germaine. Yep, I am talking about the one and only immortal Saint Germaine!..
Seen from space: a secret temple?
The news story certainly plays straight into recent memes- a British archaeologist spots massive stone carvings in the Andes from satellite photos, and the use of a secret Arabian alphabet there as well...
What's old is new: 12 living fossils
To navigate the currents of ecological fate, most creatures adapt — but a few have stuck to their evolutionary guns. Known as living fossils, they lasted for millions of years with barely a change, even as their relatives went extinct or took different paths across the tree of life. Many are now threatened or endangered. But with some luck and a little help, living fossils will be able to survive the age of humans, too...
Ghosts, aliens and us
David Klinghoffer: When my wife and I had our twin baby boys circumcised in our home last year, the Hasidic rabbi who performed the bris left us with a surprising parting gift: an amulet for protection against demons. It was a laminated card printed with Hebrew texts including imprecations against Lilith, a female demon of the night. Alluded to in the Hebrew Bible and the Talmud, she seduces men to sin and kills infants in their sleep. When I queried the rabbi about this, especially about some esoteric and incantation-like phrases on the card that I couldn't decipher, he gracefully dodged, referring me to unspecified kabbalistic secrets...
'Ghost' spooks Jamie Kennedy
Working on "The Ghost Whisperer" has already started spooking comedian Jamie Kennedy. His character, professor Eli James, died — briefly — in a house fire at the beginning of this season. Guess what happened around that same time? The set used for Eli's apartment caught fire and was destroyed in a real-life blaze. Though the fire swept through an entire lot, only "The Ghost Whisperer" set was fully consumed and destroyed. "That's some scary (stuff)," Kennedy says with a small laugh...
