The gift of the Sasquatch
Thomas Hues wants to live among those he calls "the hairy folks." The rest of us know them as the Sasquatch and, around the world, by many other names. The questions of whether these large beings exist and are intelligent have been answered in a resounding yes for the Texas native, who hosts the weekly Sasquatch and Spirituality BlogTalkRadio.com show. ..
Witch trials get play in video game
The Salem Witch Trials have captured the imagination of generations, infusing art, literature and most recently a video game. This summer, Dallas-based game developer MumboJumbo released "Midnight Mysteries: Salem Witch Trials," which has become a popular download at sites like Apple's iTunes...
Author to interpret true-life paranormal experiences in latest book
Author Lorraine Holloway-White is writing her fifth book, a compilation of the paranormal, premonitions, and ghostly experiences shared by people from all over the world...
'Amityville Horror' house moving sale
Cars lined Ocean Avenue and surrounding blocks Saturday as the current owners of the famously known "Amityville Horror" house held a moving sale. Hundreds of people lined up outside 108 Ocean Ave., some hours earlier than the 9:55 a.m. start of the sale, to get a peek inside the house, the scene of the 1974 DeFeo family killings and later the subject of a bestselling book and a string of horror films...
Smurl home haunting 24 years ago
West Pittston became the center of national attention as Jack and Janet Smurl went public with the story of evil demons haunting their Chase Street home. Various otherworldly events such as the appearance of poltergeists, strange disturbing sounds and physical attacks stoked the curiosity of skeptics and experts in the occult. Two such experts, demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren, traveled from Connecticut to verify the Smurl's accounts...
The mindreader's gambit: psychics and the science of perception
Micah Hanks: On numerous occasions in my life, both professionally and on a casual basis, I've had conversations with individuals who claimed to possess psychic abilities. Most often I've been unimpressed, but I'll admit that there have been a few exceptions, albeit those of the rarest variety. Sparing those seldom few, for the most part my experiences have failed to showcase anything I found particularly extraordinary, although in their wackiness they have left me with good fodder for future conversations and storytelling...
Did six Egyptians die while digging for the Hall of Records at Giza?
In September 2009 six Egyptian villagers died while digging an illegal tunnel shaft. The site of the illegal excavation was in the village of Nazlet el-Samman, under a ramshackle house adjacent to the wall surrounding the Giza Plateau-not far from the Sphinx. Newspaper accounts relate that the villagers had been convinced by a charlatan that an ancient treasure could be found by digging down to a tunnel complex under the house...
Freaks of nature: monsters or malformations?
EEG, Hans Berger, and psychic phenomena
Bradley Voytek: Because electroencephalography (EEG) forms the backbone of much of my neuroscientific research, during my first and second years of graduate school I studied a lot about the history and nature of EEG recording and EEG signals. What does all this have to do with Berger? Well that starts with why Berger was trying to record electrical signals from the brain at all. It turns out, Berger was a big believer in psychic phenomena: namely telepathy...
