Paranormal investigators write book
Like many people, Clarence Rice was skeptical about unexplained phenomena at first, but he now is a field investigator and team leader for the Chippewa Valley Paranormal Investigators. "I came to believe we really don't know what's out there, and it left me wanting more," Rice, 39, of Eau Claire, said. "If people go with their gut feelings, they might accept paranormal things a little bit more."..
Hypnagogia may be explanation for some reported paranormal phenomena
Hypnagogia ,or sleep paralysis, has been known in one form or another throughout human history. Basically, it involves the sensation of being awake, trying to move, and being unable to do so. Often, this paralysis is accompanied by a buzzing sound and/or by the sensation of some type of entity sitting on your chest or otherwise holding you down to prevent you from moving. It is generally a terrifying experience. Some studies estimate that up to 60% of the population will experience hypnagogia at some point in their lives...
Elvis Presley haunted house up for sale again
For the third time this year, the house with the Elvis Presley ghost is up for sale. No, it's not the big house in Graceland. Plus it's not any one house. A couple of con artists have been caught after selling at least twenty other versions of the "House Haunted By Elvis Presley' all through the South...
Shirley MacLaine interviews Nick Redfern
More Madagascan mystery mammals
A recent ShukerNature blog entry documented a selection of reports suggesting the possible survival into recent history of various giant lemurs on Madagascar. However, these are not the only cryptozoological mammals on record from this Indian Ocean island mini-continent, as demonstrated by the following pair of enigmas...
Florida vampire to run for President
Not satisfied with living in Florida, Jonathon "The Impaler" Sharkey wants to move to Washington, D.C., to become the nation's first vampire president, reports CBS affiliate WTSP. Sharkey, 45, spent Friday on a Greyhound bus with his new fiancee, Audrianna Foster, a 19-year-old girl from Ohio he met online. She too believes she is a vampire, or vampyre...
Medieval child's brain to unlock human thought processes
The almost perfectly preserved brain of a medieval toddler who died 800 years ago is set to provide ground-breaking information into human thought processes. The brain was found mummified inside a wooden coffin in boggy soil close to Quimper, in Brittany, before being placed in formalin solution...
Team's quantum object is biggest by factor of billions
Researchers have created a "quantum state" in the largest object yet. Such states, in which an object is effectively in two places at once, have until now only been accomplished with single particles, atoms and molecules. In this experiment, published in the journal Nature, scientists produced a quantum state in an object billions of times larger than previous tests...
Aykroyd and the end of the world
The apocalyptic movie "2012" wasn't good enough for the Oscars to take seriously. But a small cast of celebrities are taking the hit film's premise seriously: that 2012 could be the end of the world as we know it. Stars who have ruminated publicly about 2012 being The End include Woody Harrelson, Lil' Wayne, Joe Rogan, Montel Williams and the grande dame of New Age spirituality, Shirley MacLaine. You can add Dan Aykroyd to that list...
