Psychic spies, acid guinea pigs, New Age soldiers: the true men who stare at goats
“More of this is true than you would believe,” we’re told, just a few minutes into the movie version of The Men Who Stare At Goats, which opens today. But how many of the film’s outlandish military research projects really happened? Turns out there’s plenty of material in the movie which sticks quite close to the truth — though reality is a bit more complicated...
Alexandra Holzer: Woman in the Paranormal Interview
In April of this year, the paranormal community received the news that the Father of Paranormal Research, Hans Holzer, passed away. Holzer earned other monikers during his lifetime, like “Father of the Paranormal” and “Father of Ghost Hunting.” Holzer wrote more than 140 books on the paranormal...
'We're not the only ones': Crop circles in Maine
People came from all over New England to see Ventura Rocque's crop circles. Three off-center orbs, one bigger than the next, in 3-foot-tall hay in his Gardiner field...
Leyte-Samar priests learn about exorcism
The Devil is not about to change his evil ways. He remains hard at work and makes his vile presence felt through people he possesses. This prompted Fr. Amabe Moslares, 60, parochial vicar of the Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception parish in Guiuan town in Eastern Samar, to attend a seminar late last month on deliverance ministry and exorcism...
Eerie screams spook villagers
This could easily be a Halloween movie but the murder of a woman, eerie screams, and the discovery of skeletal remains in a well are not spooking moviegoers in cinemas but the residents of Kampung MIC here. All was well in the village until Oct 6 when a woman was found murdered in her house; her 22-year-old son who is the prime suspect had allegedly put her body in a travelling bag and left it under the kitchen sink...
Paramount Pictures thanks fans by featuring them in credits on Paranormal Activity DVD and Blu-ray
As the nationwide phenomenon Paranormal Activity makes its way to the $100 million mark at the box office, Paramount Pictures is taking fan appreciation to new heights by giving back to the legion of moviegoers who helped to make the $15,000 movie a hit by featuring their names in the credits of the film's DVD and Blu-ray editions...
The Big Grey Man
In August of this year, Fortean researcher Andy Roberts delivered an excellent lecture on the phenomenon known as "The Big Grey Man of Ben Macdhui" to an audience at the Center for Fortean Zoology's annual Weird Weekend gig; at which I was also speaking. Although some would describe the Big Grey Man as a definitive British Bigfoot, as Andy demonstrates, the story is not quite so clear-cut...
