Angels and Demons and Aliens, Oh My!
- Book Reviews, Headline, Mystery of History, Paranormal, UFOs, Uncategorized
- June 15, 2012
Believe me, I strongly debated posting this article, but as a venue of debate about the vagaries and intersections of myth, legend and history it is a part of what we do. All evidence should be considered equally. For a variety of reasons I will recuse myself from comment. Likely there will be plenty.. The full
READ MOREWhat is the Voynich Manuscript? From PlosOne.org The Voynich manuscript–named after the Polish-American antiquarian Wilfrid Voynich, who owned it since 1912 until his death in 1930-is perhaps the most widely known example of a book written in an as yet undeciphered script. Its author and language are unknown, and no other document in the same
READ MOREA UFO conference is coming up this summer to be held in the desert during the Perseid Meteor shower (yeah, there’s a good idea.) CONTACT IN THE DESERT will he held at the Joshua Tree Retreat Center August 9-11, 2013 A weekend of exploration into ancient aliens, human origins, UFO sightings, and the need to
READ MOREIs it possible to suffer a scare so horrendous, that your very own soul leaves your body? In some sort of abandon-ship! type of act. Can a person die from a fright they suffered, even if it was in the past? There’s a psychological phenomenon that’s been categorized as a cultural illness. A phenomenon that
READ MOREOkay, I know that many of you can cite this material by heart, but for those few who have been living in caves, without television, radio, internet, newspapers, books, friends, or NetFlix some background might be useful for what follows. I ask you to be just a little patient, or face it I have no
READ MOREArthur C Clarke wrote: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Does that apply to the actions of supposed divine powers as well? William of Ockham postulated the principle urging one to select from among competing hypotheses that which makes the fewest assumptions and thereby offers the simplest explanation of the effect. One of
READ MORETime to change things up a bit. Thom Powell is a science teacher from Portland, involved in the search for Bigfoot not from the point of view of someone who has anything to prove, rather as someone who recognizes there are things in the world we do not know. He is also an author in
READ MOREBy far one of the most entertaining and inspiring presentations at the Primal People’s Conference had only a tangential relation to Bigfoot. And yet, this presentation served as an object lesson for how Bigfoot effects us, inspires us, and touches our lives. Kelly Milner Halls stood before the audience and proudly proclaimed, “I get paid
READ MOREThe world of UFOlogy is rife with stories like this. I found this one and decided to take a closer look at it. Please pardon my breaks in the narrative for my analysis. I have a bad tendency to interrupt people in the middle of what they are saying when it makes no sense. Daniel
READ MORESkeptiko.com posted a very interesting interview with Deborah Blum author of Ghost Hunters – William James and the Hunt for Scientific Proof of Life After Death. Blum is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of several books. In this Skeptico interview, host Steve Volk interviews Deborah Blum on the issues with science reporting and
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