A brain response to a remote stare?
"I have the feeling that we're being watched..." is a familiar saying to most of us, and in some instances, we may turn around and find someone is watching us from afar. This experience of remote staring detection, as it is sometimes called, seems to be rather common among the general population, with surveys in the United States and Europe estimating that between 68 and 94% of people have had the feeling on at least one occasion...
Henry Bauer and the Loch Ness monsters
One of the burdens that AIDS Rethinkers and HIV Skeptics impose on one another is that the HIV/AIDS groupies and vigilantes seize every possible opportunity to assert "guilt by association". I've felt apologetic for some time that my fellow Rethinkers and Skeptics have been tarred by the brush of being associated with Henry Bauer, who is a believer in Loch Ness monsters ("Nessies"). Most recently, Seth Kalichman and Richard Wilson have been trying to make hay from this association, so I thought it might be useful if I made a plain statement about the matter - useful, that is to say, for anyone who is interested in actual facts...
Aliens 'may be living among us' undetected by science
Aliens may be living among us, but we do not know it because they are microbes that do not have the standard biochemistry of Earth-dwelling organisms. As well as the many forms of life based on DNA that are known to science, the Earth may have been home to a second creation of organisms that make up an unremarked realm of "life as we don't know it", according to Paul Davies, of Arizona State University, a cosmologist and theorist of extraterrestrial life...
Obama, Bigfoot, and Bond, James Bond
Ropen Expedition update
Loren Coleman: Garth Guessman called on his satellite phone from Papua New Guinea this afternoon-it was early morning for him. Garth has come back out of the jungle, met up with the MonsterQuest team, and purchased supplies for the trip. After a little filming today, the whole crew is going back with Garth into the deeper jungle to stay for another week. Garth is working with pterosaur expert Dr. Dave Martill from the University of Portsmouth and a bat expert....
Mimicking monsters creatures of the night
Over the course of the last half-a-decade, I have been on several expeditions to the island of Puerto Rico in search of one of the world's most infamous monsters: the blood-sucking Chupacabras. Allegedly a highly vicious killing-machine equipped with fangs, razor-sharp claws, glowing, red-eyes and - according to some eye-witnesses - a pair of large, bat-style wings, the beast has struck terror into the hearts of the population, mystified farmers, police-officers, veterinarians, and the media...
Uri Geller and the great pyramids of Scotland: How does it line-up?
So Uri Geller buying his own "pyramid" in Scotland (OK the island of Lamb) has got some interest - it made the Beeb and the Scotsman, we are discussing it on the forum and Greg has posted a good round-up on over at the Daily Grail. The question is: How do things line-up? Literally. Well let's see. The claims are from Jeff Nisbet's The Pyramids of Scotland...
Halleluyah it's raining fish
During the summer of 1983 I was working in Exmouth. I became friends with one of my co-workers there, a Mrs Rowley, and I often used to visit her at her home where I would stay for an evening meal with her and her two young daughters. One early evening in July the elder of the two girls, who must have been about twelve came running in, greatly excited to tell me that there were three "horrid snakes" in the garden. Replete from an excellent meal, her mother and I wandered out into the garden expecting to find that the girls had discovered a nest of slow-worms, or perhaps grass-snakes. Much to our surprise, there, arranged neatly on the lawn in an almost perfect triangle were three dead, and very dessicated pipe fish...
Fluorescence mystery in red rain cells of Kerala, India
Three years ago in the April 4, 2006, journal Astrophysics and Space Science was a published paper entitled: "The Red Rain Phenomenon of Kerala and Its Possible Extraterrestrial Origin." Kerala is on the Malabar Coast in southwestern India. The astrophysical paper was about an event that occurred in July to September 2001 - and several summers since - when raindrops falling on Kerala stained peoples' clothes. White T-shirts were covered with pinkish-red rain splatters and residents wondered what was happening?..
How to hunt for shadow life
One challenge facing the search for extra-terrestrial life is that it relies on looking for signatures of life that's reliant on water and biomolecules common to all known life. This is a wise approach, yet how might scientists find life as we don't know it -- organisms whose habitat and biochemistry bust the mold of all terrestrial life?..
Mystery surrounding Denver International Airport
Denver International Airport (DIA) has been the subject of numerous conspiracy theories since it's opening in 1995. Many investigators have directly questioned airport officials in an attempt to dispel the myriad of rumours - officials however have been reported to be evasive and secretive which has fuelled the conspiratorial fires. In this article, a number of the DIA's "oddities" along with conspiracy theories surrounding them have been outlined...
