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A devil of a mystery from Smethwick
There is a pub in Smethwick, just outside Birmingham, in the West Midlands, England, called the Blue Gate that may lay claim to erstwhile cryptozoological fame. Mysteries researcher and author Nick Redfern now resides in the USA, but he formerly lived only a few miles from Smethwick, and on 5 November 2007 he gave me the following fascinating information - derived from the great-uncle of a friend, Eddie, of Nick's father...
Florence group addresses paranormal
When he was growing up, Matt Forman says he'd hear strange sounds at odd times, and he was convinced he was having run-ins with the paranormal. Intrigued, he wished there was a place where he could go and talk to someone about the things he thought he was hearing. Now at age 35, Forman, who lives in Florence, is co-founder of the Northern Kentucky Paranormal Society, a local group that tries to debunk so-called paranormal events...
For sale: One haunted house
A lovely lake view and a forest-bordered yard apparently aren't enough to lure eager buyers with checkbooks in hand. It's a matter of marketing, I'm convinced. After reading an article in The New York Times, I've decided that I need to advertise our abode as a haunted house. The Copper Queen Hotel in Bisbee, Ariz., does a booming business because it has spread the word that ghosts wander within its walls. Apparently, lots of people are eager to share accommodations with ghosts...
Mysterious hauntings in mysterious places
On Halloween we allowed ourselves to swerve away from what we recognize to be rational and become more accepting of the so called non-status quo.
We harbor the fact that there are spirits haunting our world for one cause or another...
Close encounter with Bigfoot prompts lifelong search
On a warm summer night in 1997, local Bigfoot researcher and part-time gold-mining enthusiast William Allen Barnes was plunged headlong into the world of cryptozoology. Barnes was camping alone near Greenhorn Creek, southeast of Grass Valley. He was asleep in a small pup tent with the rain flap up when a loud noise woke him sometime after midnight...
The ghost experiment that never was
Bruce Duensing: This post is not intended to be disparaging of those who investigate paranormal locations using their own funds, energy and enthusiasm geared to their curiosity. Rather, it is a litmus test I have arranged as a means to evaluate the evaluation of such phenomenon. As a retired process engineer, one of the first things I learned was that the first criteria is to be self skeptical and to measure three times and cut once. Even then, you are simply playing with probability. Ask someone what a "critical path" is and the the critical dependencies between the activities that lead toward a result...
More on Almas
Dale Drinnon: While researching the reported possibly-recent-possibly-Neanderthaloid teeth from Inner Mongolia, I came across this terracotta piece, which looks rather as if it is meant to depict an Almas skin (with the hair removed): it is rather saggy and baggy and "deflated" looking. But for the fact that there is a finger or a toe missing off each of the hands and feet, they match what is reported of the Almas...
A devil of a mystery from Smethwick
There is a pub in Smethwick, just outside Birmingham, in the West Midlands, England, called the Blue Gate that may lay claim to erstwhile cryptozoological fame. Mysteries researcher and author Nick Redfern now resides in the USA, but he formerly lived only a few miles from Smethwick, and on 5 November 2007 he gave me the following fascinating information - derived from the great-uncle of a friend, Eddie, of Nick's father...
Florence group addresses paranormal
When he was growing up, Matt Forman says he'd hear strange sounds at odd times, and he was convinced he was having run-ins with the paranormal. Intrigued, he wished there was a place where he could go and talk to someone about the things he thought he was hearing. Now at age 35, Forman, who lives in Florence, is co-founder of the Northern Kentucky Paranormal Society, a local group that tries to debunk so-called paranormal events...
For sale: One haunted house
A lovely lake view and a forest-bordered yard apparently aren't enough to lure eager buyers with checkbooks in hand. It's a matter of marketing, I'm convinced. After reading an article in The New York Times, I've decided that I need to advertise our abode as a haunted house. The Copper Queen Hotel in Bisbee, Ariz., does a booming business because it has spread the word that ghosts wander within its walls. Apparently, lots of people are eager to share accommodations with ghosts...
Mysterious hauntings in mysterious places
On Halloween we allowed ourselves to swerve away from what we recognize to be rational and become more accepting of the so called non-status quo.
We harbor the fact that there are spirits haunting our world for one cause or another...
Close encounter with Bigfoot prompts lifelong search
On a warm summer night in 1997, local Bigfoot researcher and part-time gold-mining enthusiast William Allen Barnes was plunged headlong into the world of cryptozoology. Barnes was camping alone near Greenhorn Creek, southeast of Grass Valley. He was asleep in a small pup tent with the rain flap up when a loud noise woke him sometime after midnight...
The ghost experiment that never was
Bruce Duensing: This post is not intended to be disparaging of those who investigate paranormal locations using their own funds, energy and enthusiasm geared to their curiosity. Rather, it is a litmus test I have arranged as a means to evaluate the evaluation of such phenomenon. As a retired process engineer, one of the first things I learned was that the first criteria is to be self skeptical and to measure three times and cut once. Even then, you are simply playing with probability. Ask someone what a "critical path" is and the the critical dependencies between the activities that lead toward a result...
More on Almas
Dale Drinnon: While researching the reported possibly-recent-possibly-Neanderthaloid teeth from Inner Mongolia, I came across this terracotta piece, which looks rather as if it is meant to depict an Almas skin (with the hair removed): it is rather saggy and baggy and "deflated" looking. But for the fact that there is a finger or a toe missing off each of the hands and feet, they match what is reported of the Almas...