At first, scientists from Harvard, a college in Massachusetts, were trying to randomize a medical study so God wouldn’t know. Now a group of venerable academic psychologists under Dr. Stephen Kosslyn from the same institution reports developing a methodology to study extrasensory perception (ESP), and obtaining the “strongest evidence” yet against the existence of ESP…
Asteroid impacts or massive volcanic flows might have occurred around the time dinosaurs became extinct, but a new book argues that the mightiest creatures the world has ever known may have been brought down by a tiny, much less dramatic force – biting, disease-carrying insects…
Driving north from the tourist beaches on U.S. 60, the streetscape turns suburban. Houses keep the ocean out of view. On the higher ground to the left, you come to a starkly modern building that could pass for a university research library. It’s all the world headquarters and offshoots of Edgar Cayce’s Association for Research and Enlightenment, and whether you spend a few minutes or days here hinges on your view of Cayce…
Dennis Kucinich has taken a lot of flak for saying that he once saw an unidentified flying object near Shirley MacLaine’s house back in 1982. The Wall Street Journal just did a front-page story on it, adding to the Kucinich-as-silly-person storyline. But what if he really did see something—just not an alien spaceship?..
This Friday will be the official launch of the new publication of the reasonably-priced hardback edition of Ivan T. Sanderson’s classic book, Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life, from Cosimo Classics. This new printing contains a new preface I’ve written, and I will have a few copies, hot off the press, literally, for sale at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York City…
Happy New Year one and all and while our thoughts turn to the potential the next year will have (those of us not lying on the couch feeling sorry for themselves after over indulging last night, best not to mention piercing headaches!!) but to round things off nicely we’ll look back on the stories we blogged up last year, which, we hope, have gone some way to reflecting the interesting stories of the year, as well as our own peculiar obsessions…
A few years before the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington, I worked on a timber-cruising crew near that mountain. We stayed in a barn-like lodge and ate at a nearby diner. During breakfast one morning, Harry R. Truman, who owned Harmony Falls Lodge on Spirit Lake, came in. He was wearing an ancient raincoat and the same wrinkled cap he wore years later when he told a cameraman, a helicopter pilot and the world that he’d never leave his mountain. Days later, it blew…Mystery space machines – part 3Truth is stranger than science fiction
A brief historical overview concerning the significance of flying saucers, Planet X, and little green men from Mars in American pop culture. Most notably, comic books…