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Steve Taylor lives in Manchester, England and
is the author of The Fall: the Insanity of the Ego
in Human History and the Dawning of a New
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the book as an astonishing work while Eckhart Tolle has described it as a fascinating
and important book, highly enlightening and
readable. For more information see
www.stevenmtaylor.com
Michael Lohr is a writer/journalist, university
researcher, and professional treasure-hunter.
He is a Fellow with the Mudlark Society of
the British Museum in London and belongs
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Michael Ricciardi is a poet/writer, naturalist, and
teacher living in Seattle Washington. He is also an
award-winning video artist, whose most recent
videoMy Name is HAM, an imagined memoir of
the first chimpanzee in spacepremiered in April at
the Yuri's Night World Party for Space at NASA
Ames Research Center. He is currently writing a childrens novel called The Wizard of Dreams.
An avid historian, Mark S. Longo is
the founder of www.TheOptionsInsider.com. Although the current financial crisis consumes most of his
time, Mark looks forward to the day
when he can return to Newport, RI to
study this mysterious historical oddity
called the Newport Tower.
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41 A MERICA S O LDEST M YSTER Y :
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Newport, RI, has long been famous as the summer playground for the fabulously
wealthy. But nestled amongst the luxurious mansions and the private yachts is a mysterious stone tower whose history has baffled historians for centuries. It is believed to be the
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speak of an earlier time when life was easier and humans lived in harmony with nature
and each other. Most historians believe that these myths are little more than fairy tales,
perhaps the result of our need to idealize the past. However, there is now evidence that
suggests that these myths may contain a kernel of historical truth, a kind of distant folk
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Revealing Stonehenge
Guardians Fought To The Death
rchaeologists are claiming that Stonehenge may
have been the site of ritual battles to the death,
which would explain why recently discovered
male remains from the 2.300 BC, buried with arrows
and a bronze axe, were from Switzerland, not Britain.
Archaeologist Dennis Price says skeletons found at or
close to Stonehenge have often been found buried with
weapons, suggesting that those buried close to the mysterious monument were warriors who died violent
deaths or who led lives of ritual fighting.
According to researchers, there is firm evidence of a
long-standing tradition of sentinels at Stonehenge going
back to when it was originally built in 2,600 BC. But
their function may have been more than just symbolic
guards of the temple; these warriors may have been
part of a complex social system in which they could only
be replaced by someone who defeated them in combat.
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Noteworthy
Albino Killings in
Tanzania Worry Officials
t least 19 albinos, including children, have been killed in Tanzania since the start of the year, their
bodies mutilated in order to harvest their
organs. Addressing the African nation,
Tanzanias President Jakaya Kikwete has
denounced the horrific trend of targeting
albinos for murders.
A beleaguered group whose members
are often shunned as outcasts and die of
skin cancer before they reach 30, albinos
are being targeted by witch doctors who
are now marketing albino skin, bones, and
hair as ingredients in potions that promise
to bring wealth and good fortune.
The young are the prime targets. In
early May, Vumilia Makoye, a 17-year-old
albino, was eating dinner with her family
in their hut in western Tanzania when two
men showed up with long knives. Vumilia
Morgellons Connected
to Lyme Disease
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and
escorting
albino
children to school. Tanzanias president
even sponsored an albino woman for a
seat in Parliament to show his support.
Salvator Rweyemamu, a Tanzanian
government spokesman, said the rash of
killings was anathema to what Tanzania
had been striving toward. This is serious, he continued, because it continues
some of the perceptions of Africa were
trying to run away from.
But the killings go on. They have even
spread to neighboring Kenya, where an albino woman was hacked to death in late
May, with her eyes, tongue, and breasts
gouged out.
CHARLES RAMMELKAMP
However, research done by Vitaly Citovsky, professor of biochemistry and cell biology at Stony
Brook University in New York, suggests that there
may be a link between Morgellons and genetically modified (GM) food, as agrobacterium has
been widely used in creating GM plants since the
1980s.
The association of Morgellons disease with
dirt and soil where agrobacterium lives, the widespread use of agrobacterium in genetically engineered plants, and the ability of agrobacterium
to infect human cells all point towards a possible role of genetic engineering in
the cause of Morgellans disease
via agrobacterium.
The scientists all agree that the
Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
needs to seriously fund further research on the causes of Morgellons beyond the $338,000 that it
has pledged so far.
TIM SWARTZ
SOURCE: CBS-11 DALLAS/FT. WORTH
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he discovery of a 4,000-year-old
vampire burial cairn, believed to
be the worlds first such ritualized
grave, has set the archaeological world on
its ear, as it is similar to ancient Celtic
tombs in Ireland and the British Isles,
which were constructed to prevent
bloodsucking revenants from rising out
of the grave.
The discovery of the gravesite, during a
routine archaeological excavation of an
early Bronze Age burial site in
Mikulovice, eastern Bohemia, means that
the concept of vampires can now be
traced back to the cultural folklore of
Indo-European tribes.
During the sites exploration, archaeologists also discovered the skeletal remains
of a man whose bore the unmistakable
signs of vampiric ritual, including a
bronze spike driven through its chest.
The corpse had also been weighted down
with large stones to prevent it from returning to the world of the living. Only
the ancient Celts in Europe and ancient
Irish tribes carried out such rituals on suspected vampires.
MICHAEL LOHR
SOURCES: BBC & LONDON SUNDAY TIMES
Boy Kidnapped by
Little People in AK
A
n intriguing story circulated out of Alaska in May, 2008 when a hunter recounted how he
found a boy alleged to have been abducted by strange creatures known as the ircenrraat, or
little people who dwell underground, who disorient and trap unwary humans.
Nick Andrew Jr. from Marshall, AK was miles out of town on a snowmachine hunting birds when
he decided to check a different location on a hunch. Stopping to look, he recognized a small boy
standing all alone in middle of the marsh. He asked if he was alone. Scared and crying, the boy just
answered, I dont know.
Andrew took the boy home, noting that there were no footprints in the snow to indicate anyone
had walked into the area. But he counted at least 10 other snowmachiners in the neighborhood,
none of whom had spotted the boy. It
was not until the next day that the boy
said he was brought into Pilcher Mountain, a site often associated with ircenrraat encounters. There, he was
questioned and saw other little beings.
He said he made contact with a little
girl abducted over 40 years ago, Andrew said. She told him who she was
and she wanted help.
After that, the ircenrraat released the
boy. And that's when he came to, I
guess, a few minutes before I found
him.
VATICAN SAYS
It is OK
to Believe
In Aliens
TIM SWARTZ
SOURCE: ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS
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In Passing
Maharishi
Mahesh Yogi,
a guru to the
Beatles who
introduced
the West to
transcendental meditation
(TM), died on
Feb. 5, 2008
at his home in the Dutch town of
Vlodrop. He was thought to be 91
years old.
He began teaching TM in 1955
and brought the technique to the
United States in 1959. But the
movement really took off after
the Beatles visited his ashram in
India in 1968, although he had a
famous falling out with the rock
stars when he discovered them
using drugs at his Himalayan retreat.
With the help of celebrity endorsements, Maharishi parlayed
his interpretations of ancient
scripture into a multi-milliondollar global empire. With his
background in physics, he
brought his message to the West
in a language that mixed the occult and science.
Science-fiction writer Arthur C.
Clarke, who co-wrote the epic
film 2001: A Space Odyssey and
raised the idea of communications satellites in the 1940s, died
on March 18, 2008 in Sri Lanka
at age 90.
Clarke
w r o t e
dozens of
novels and
collections
of
short
stories and
more than
30 non-fiction works
during a career that began in the
1950s. He served as a TV com-
Physicist
John
A.
Wheeler, a
visionary
physicist
and teacher
who helped
invent the
theory of
nuclear fission, gave black holes their
name, and argued about the nature of reality with Albert Einstein
and Niels Bohr, died on April 13,
2008. He was 96. Dr. Wheeler
was also involved in the Manhattan Project to build the worlds
first atomic bomb. He later
helped Edward Teller to develop
the even more powerful hydrogen
bomb.
All that
we are is
the result
of what
we have
thought.
The mind is
everything.
What we
think we
become.
Maharishi
Mahesh Yogi
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sphere offers proof that a mile-wide asteroid may have caused tens of thousands
of deaths in a path that extended from
Europe and into the Middle East.
Scientists believe that the incoming
angle of the asteroid was very low and
that it clipped an alpine mountain called
Gamskogel, which caused the asteroid to
explode before it reached its final impact
point. As it traveled down the valley it became a fireball, around six miles in diameter, causing the massive landslide near
Kffels. The ground heating, though
very short, would be enough to ignite
any flammable material (752F), including human hair and clothes. It is probable
more people died under the plume than
in the Alps due to the impact blast, explained Mark Hempsell.
town in South America is living in fear after several sightings of a creepy gnome that
locals claim stalks the streets at night. The small creature, who wears a pointy hat and
has a distinctive sideways walk, was caught on video in March, 2008 by a group of
teenagers.
Jose Alvarez, who caught the creature on his cellphone camera, told El Tribuno that they
spotted the creature in General Guemes, in the province of Salta, Argentina. We were chatting about our last fishing trip. It was 1 a.m. in the morning. I began to film a bit with my cell
phone while the others were chatting and joking. Suddenly we heard a weird noise as if someone was throwing stones. Alvarez said that the group then saw a gnome-like figure jump
from some nearby bushes.
After records showed that locals have reported seeing the creature for decades, police in Salta have launched an investigation. Only
weeks before it was captured on camera, frightened railworkers
called the police to say they had spotted the crab-walking gnome
moving around the train tracks at night.
El Tribuno reported that fear is now so widespread that the town
mayor has been inundated with calls from terrified locals and has
launched a police enquiry into the affair. He said that he was a little
skeptical, but had to respect that gnomes are a part of their culture.
TIM SWARTZ
SOURCE: THE SUN (UK)
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DRS. BAFFLED BY
BLEEDING GIRL
Giant Fish
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cientists who have been examining samples of the meteorite that plunged into the
Peruvian countryside in 2007 say that the
space rock should have shattered and dispersed long before reaching the ground.
The meteorite, which left a 16-yard-wide
crater last September, made headlines when
over 100 people complained that strange gases
coming from the crater made them sick. Although follow-up investigations could find no
reason for the mysterious sickness, experts say
that the event challenges conventional theories
the atmosphere.
However, Dr. Thomas Kenkmann from Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, suggested
that the crater was probably caused by a meteorite traveling at low speed and at a slanting
angle. Under this scenario, the space rock would
have broken into just a few pieces, the largest
of which would have made the crater. Others
suggest that the meteorite was made of iron and
that the bulk of it still remains hidden in the bottom of the water-filled crater.
TIM SWARTZ / SOURCE: BBC
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40,000-YEAR-OLD
A Call from
FOOTPRINTS FOUND the Grave
researcher at Tel Aviv University says that humans may be able to see colors and shapes
with their skin. Engineering professor Leonid
Yaroslavsky explained that skin vision is likely a natural ability involving light-sensitive cells that are connected to neuro-machinery in the body and brain.
He believes that once understood, skin vision could
help the blind regain sight. Yaroslavsky is currently
developing imaging simulation theories, which may
lead to devices that can detect radiation, new nightvision goggles, or near-weightless mechanisms to
steer spaceships to stars beyond our galaxy.
Traditional imaging lenses only work within a limited range of electromagnetic radiation, are costly,
and limited by weight and field of view. But opticless imaging devices could be adapted to any kind
of radiation and wavelength. They could essentially
work with a 360-degree field of view, their imaging
capability determined by computer power rather
than the laws of light diffraction.
TIM SWARTZ
TIM SWARTZ
SOURCE: KTLA-TV
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Mysteries on View
by Roy Stevenson
ucked away in a basement in Seattles Capitol Hill lurks the Seattle
Museum of the Mysteries, a nonprofit museum and research center dedicated to furthering education, research,
and history of paranormal science and ancient civilizations. The museum also explores alternate explanations of reality, such
as UFOs, crop circles, Bigfoot lore, and
local mysteries.
Special exhibits, photographs, artifacts,
Charlette LeFevre,
director of the
Seattle Museum
of the Mysteries.
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n June 21, 1947, Harold Dahl, his son, and two crewmen were salvaging logs
south of Maury Island in the Puget Sound when they saw six doughnut-shaped
disks hovering over the bay. One appeared to be in trouble and the wobbling disk
dropped some sort of shiny metal on the beach and into the water, wounding Dahls son
and killing their dog.
A B-25 bomber then crashed near Kelso, WA, soon after take-off from McChord Field
south of Tacoma, carrying rock samples and pieces of the UFO from Maury Island. Was
the bomber shot down by an unknown government agency to prevent analysis of the
rock samples? Or did someone else have reason for preventing this sample from being
made public?
This intriguing mystery is just one of the UFO sightings explored at the museum.
ROY STEVENSON
Archaeological Anomalies
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by Kelly Bell
hen the first atomic bomb was
detonated in the New Mexico
desert in 1945, its heat melted
the desert sand into millions of small glassy
fragments in a process called vitrification.
Some of the scientists who examined this
debris were stunned to find it looked identical to the tektites that, for centuries, have
been found in the vast region stretching
from Tasmania to north of the Philippines
and the East Indies to East Africa. Although tektites had long been assumed to
be meteorites, there was the question of
why, if of extraterrestrial origin, none have
fallen in recent times? Furthermore, nearly
all meteorites are composed of iron or
stonenot glass.
The 1945 New Mexico atomic test may
provide a clue. Considering the lack of any
other plausible explanation, could it be that
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tion is downright sobering:
It was as if the elements had been unleashed. The sun spun round. Scorched
by the incandescent heat of the weapon,
the world reeled in fever. Elephants were
set on fire by the heatThe water
boiled, the animals died, the enemy was
mown down and the raging of the blaze
made the trees collapse in rows as in a
forest fire
Horses and war
chariots were burnt
up, and the scene
looked like the aftermath of a conflagration. Thousands of
chariots were destroyed,
then deep silence descended on the sea.
The winds began to blow and the Earth
grew bright. It was a terrible sight to
see. The corpses of the fallen were mutilated by the terrible heat so that they no
longer looked like human beings.
There is no way of knowing how long
before the Mahabharata was written that
this Hiroshima-type incident took place,
but the real question is how could the ancients have known how to perfectly describe an atomic blast if they had not
actually witnessed it? If there were witnesses who later described these events,
they would seem to have been quite fortunate to have survived the great burning.
It is likely that the reason for the paucity
of accounts of how the vitrification occurred is that few survived to tell the tale.
Aerial Warfare
verall, it appears that long ago,
someone with an extremely advanced technology laid waste to
a great deal of the Earths surface. By returning to primeval India, we find evidence that this war was aerial as well as
terrestrial.
An Indian classic from millennia ago
recounts how three floating cities were
destroyed by what sounds like nuclear
missiles. Known as the Drona Parva, it
A typical
tektite.
traveling between
the Ganges River and
the mountainous area of
Rajmahal when he came
across stone ruins he described as
having been fused together like
lumps of tin struck by a stream of molten
steel.
Then during a 19th-century hunting
expedition deep inside an Indian forest,
British sportsman/explorer H.J. Hamilton got the shock of his life when he
stumbled upon an ancient building that
had been exposed to such heat that its
walls were crystallized. Filled with curiosity, he got the shock of his life when he
entered the structure:
Suddenly the ground gave way under
my feet with a curious noise. I got into a
safe place and then widened the hole,
which had appeared, with my rifle butt
and lowered myself into it. I was in a
long and narrow corridor.
Easing his way cautiously down the
passage he saw a table and chair in which
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wo beachcombers who found 110 pounds of whale vomit while walking their dog near
Criccieth, North Wales, could become millionaires as a result of the find. Commonly
known as ambergris, the clear substance vomited by sperm whales darkens and hardens
over time and becomes a sweet-smelling, waxy substance that has long been used in manufacturing perfume. It usually washes up in the Americas and Australia, so it is unusual for it to
be found on a British beach.
JUDITH KANE
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team of underwater archaeologists working off the coast of a tiny island near the Dominican Republic have discovered the wreck of the Quedagh Merchant, the last ship captained by legendary buccaneer William Kidd.
In 1696, Kidd was given a letter of marquee signed by Englands King William III, authorizing him to hunt pirates and seize the ships of Britains enemies at sea. Kidd was sent to the
Red Sea and Indian Ocean, where pirates
were attacking ships owned by the British
East India Company. Early successes
against the French earned him wealth and
glory, but his expedition ran into difficulties,
including a leaky ship and an outbreak of
cholera that devastated his crew. Kidd then
refused to allow the British navy to press
members of his crew into service and often
failed to turn over the 10 percent of his plunder that all privateers were supposed to
remit to the Crown.
In 1698, Kidd captured the Quedagh Merchant, a 500-ton Moorish trader loaded with
gold, silver, and valuable textiles. After seizing the ship, which was sailing under a
French flag, he learned that the captain was
an Englishman and briefly considered handing the ship back, but his crew threatened
to mutiny, so instead he renamed it Adventure Prize and set sail for the Caribbean.
When he arrived there, he learned that the ship had officially been part of an East India Company convoy and that he had been declared a pirate and was a wanted man.
Kidd loaded gold, silver, and silk onto a smaller, less conspicuous sloop and sailed to New
York in an ill-fated attempt to plead his case and clear his name of
criminal charges. But the men with whom he entrusted the
Quedagh Merchant looted the ship of its remaining treasure and
then set it ablaze and adrift.
Kidd was arrested and charged with piracy and the murder of a
crew member. He was sent to London, where he was tried, convicted, and hanged in 1701, but the hangmans rope broke during
the execution, leaving Kidd only slightly injured, so he was hanged
a second time. His body was left hanging for three tides of the River
Thames, and was then locked in a gibbet (an iron cage), dipped in
tar, and left dangling over the Thames for two years as a warning to
would-be pirates.
The wreck of the Quedagh Merchant, was found just 70 feet from
the coast of Catalina Island in crystal-clear waters that are less than
10 feet deep. Experts say that studying the wrecks construction,
contents, and armaments has potential for revealing further information about Captain Kidd and piracy in the Caribbean and offers
a rare opportunity to test the historical record against the archaeological record. The wreck site will ultimately be converted to an underwater preserve, accessible to divers and snorkelers.
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Young Women.
In 1937, Norman Baker, a charlatan doctor, purchased the Crescent to turn it into a
hospital and health resort. Baker began his
medical practice by starting a hospital in
Muscatine but in 1936, he was convicted of
practicing medicine without a license. Despite this setback, Baker remodeled the
Crescent and in the process, removed some
of its distinctive wooden handrails and balconies. He also covered fine woodwork in
jarring shades of red, orange, black, and yellow paint. He decorated his own penthouse
in shades of purple and hung machine guns
from the walls. In addition, he installed secret escape passages for himself, in case
members of the American Medical Association came after him to shut him down.
Baker moved his cancer patients from
Iowa to Arkansas and attracted other patients by advertising his health resort at the
Crescent as a place where one could be
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cured of cancer without having to undergo x-rays or surgeries.
Officially, Bakers cures consisted of
nothing more than drinking spring water
and using various home remedies. Although most official reports say that
Baker did not actually kill anyone with his
medical treatments, local legends say that
Baker experimented on both the living
and dead. For instance, one of his miracle
cures for brain tumors was said to involve
peeling open a patients head and pouring
a mixture of spring water and watermelon
seeds directly onto the brain. He also is
rumored to have performed other bizarre
experiments, including live dissections.
The many who died from these experiments, or from their own untreated illnesses, were said to have been burned in
an incinerator in the middle of the night.
Since Baker claimed that he could cure
cancer in a matter of weeks, he had to
hide the fact that numerous patients were
dying every month. So those in the advanced stages of illness were moved to an
asylum area, where they died in extreme
pain.
Finally, in 1940, the law caught up with
Baker, and the so-called hospital was
closed, Baker was fined a minimal $4,000,
and sentenced to four years in Leavenworth Prison. After his release from
prison Baker moved to Florida and lived
comfortably until his death in 1958.
The Crescent began a comeback in
1946, when new owners started restoration and again opened it as a hotel. Many
changes were made through the years,
and today, the elegant old hotel continues
to fascinate its many visitors with its
strange history. Ghost tours are regularly
available for those wanting to learn the
Crescents secrets where various entities
are often seen, heard, and photographed.
Reported Ghostly Sightings
oom 218 is said to be a particular
hotspot for strange paranormal
occurrences. There is a specter
that hotel staff call Michael the Irishman
who is seen on the spot where the workman fell to his death. Room occupants
often say that in the room doors slam shut
mysteriously, and they hear footsteps
when no one is there. One guest was violently shaken awake at night to find that
no one else was in the room. Another
guest awoke in the middle of the night
and saw blood spattered all over the walls
and ran downstairs screaming. But when
hotel staff examined the room, they could
find no traces of blood.
Another reported ghost at the Crescent
is that of a distinguished-looking man
with a mustache who is dressed in oldfashioned, formal clothing who is often
seen in the lobby where people speak to
him, but he never responds. The hotel
also has a photograph, made by an unknown photographer, which shows a
misty figure slouching in the closet
of Room 202. And Room 419 is
reportedly occupied by Miss
Theadora, who often locks the
door to keep people out and has
been known to pack a guests bags
and put them by the door in a
spectral encouragement to vacate
the premises.
Another well-known ghost is
that of a nurse who is seen pushing a gurney down the hallways of
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any religions have erected monuments to their faith, but only
the Sky Kingdom built a twostory pink teapot, a concrete fishing boat,
and an orange umbrella-shaped building.
While a casual visitor might have mistaken
Ayah Pins spiritual headquarters for an
amusement park, many of his Malaysian
countrymen were not amused. Despite
constitutional guarantees of freedom of religion, the Sky Kingdom and its leader
have been the subjects of a vigorous campaign of persecution for years.
In 1973, Pin declared himself Gods latest incarnation. (Prior incarnations, according to Pin, include Shiva, Buddha,
Jesus, and Mohammed). As God, he asserted that he had reincarnated on earth
with yet another message for mankind:
you all come from me, and to return to me
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t the end of World War II, Admiral Richard E. Byrd was considered a relic of a more romantic
time when there were still parts of the
world that remained unexplored. Nevertheless, in 1946, Admiral D.C. Ramsey,
chief of naval operations, created the
Antarctic Developments Project with the
58-year-old Byrd as leader of the expedition. Even though the Antarctic Developments
Project
(code-named
Operation Highjump) was publicly
called an exploration and research operation, the basic objectives were not scientific or economicthey were military.
History tells us that Operation Highjump was simply an expedition of discovery to Antarctica that also included a
unique opportunity to test out military
equipment in the harsh Antarctic envi-
ronment. However, from the very beginning, there were elements about the mission that seemed unusual. For instance,
for a mission of exploration and discovery, Operation Highjump used an amazing number of military personnel, ships,
planes, and even a submarine. Three
Naval battle groups included 12 ships,
the submarine USS Sennet, six R4-D
(military version of the DC-3) transport
planes, and over 4,000 men.
The central group of Operation Highjump reached the Bay of Whales on January 15, 1947, and established Little
America IV, complete with three runways. The aircraft carrier Philippine Sea
carried six R4-D transport aircraft and
Admiral Byrd to the edge of the ice pack.
The R4-Ds successfully took off from the
flight deck of the Philippine Sea and
reached Little America six hours later.
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The R4-Ds then conducted extensive aerial mapping that included a two-aircraft
flight to the South Pole.
Although the original mission statement declared that the operation would
last four months, Byrd unexpectedly
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A New York ABC
n April 19, 2008, Tsermaa Plumley heard an intruder rummaging
through the compost heap outside her home in Keene, NY. Peering
through the window at the visitor, she told
her husband, Its a huge black cat!
Dan Plumley grabbed his camera and
rushed outside to confront a black panther. Later, speaking to the Lake Placid
News, he said,
This must have been an exotic pet that
had gotten too big for its owners. It had
to be four and a half to five feet long from
its head to the tail. I judged its length in
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ritish wildlife artist Polyanna Pickering produced a policestyle photo-fit drawing of the elusive Himalayan yeti in
June, 2008and she credits it, at least in part, to soccer
star David Beckham!
Pickering was on a private yeti hunt in Bhutan when she approached a remote monastery. The sites sole occupant was a
monk, who proved to be both a proud anglophile and an obsessive
David Beckham fan. Pickering explained her mission after talking
soccer, and the monk produced a supposed 100-year-old yeti
scalp. Pickering told London reporter Richard Holt, I was told this
was from a Migoi, their name for the
yeti. All I know is, it was bigger than
any human or ape scalp I have ever seen. It had tufts of reddishblack fur coming out of it and was mounted on a pole and seen as
a holy relic. Aside from tufts of hair, the scalp also had shards of
bone attached.
Monastery regulations forbade taking photos of the scalp, but
Pickering sketched it, then expanded her drawing into a full-body
likeness. She also collected numerous local eyewitness accounts of
the creature, suggesting that it is well-known to Bhutanese natives.
I was amazed, she said, when they told me of regular sightings,
close encounters, and even tales of people being carried off by
the Migoi. Their descriptions were so detailed, I ended up
doing this photo-fit with them all sitting round telling me to
alter this or how that should look.
Jonathan Downes, founder and head of Europes Centre for Fortean Zoology, told the Telegraph, This is potentially explosive. If this scalp is authentic and has
bone still attached, it will probably be the single most
important zoological find since the discovery of the
coelacanth.
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Colossal Calamari
he capture of a rare colossal squid
(Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) made
global headlines in 2007. When it
was hauled aboard the fishing vessel San
Aspiring, it tipped the scales at 1,090
pounds and measured 26-33 feet long
(estimates varied). Once frozen and transported to the Museum of New Zealand
Te Papa Tongarewa, however, its tentacles
began to shrink. By the time it was defrosted and dissected in May 2008, the
specimen measured only 14 feet. Furthermore, researchers discovered that the
squid they had identified as female was,
in fact, a male.
Still, the squid was no disappointment.
Its partially collapsed eyeball measured
10.63 inches in diameter, suggesting that
it would have been 12-16 inches wide in
life, the largest eye of any creature known
to science. Nor is the present specimen
the largest known colossal squid. Its beak
measures 1.7 inches long, but other beaks
retrieved from sperm whale innards have
topped two inches, suggesting that their
owners exceeded 46 feet overall.
Argentinas Dogsucker
he cryptid known as el chupacabra
(the goat-sucker, in Spanish)
first appeared in Puerto Rico, then
moved on from there to infest most of
Latin America, several parts of the United
States, and isolated beachheads in Europe. Descriptions of the creature vary
widely, and so does its taste for domestic
t 6 a.m. on May 19, 2008, Missouri sheriffs deputy Donn Hall shot and killed a domesticated black panther which had tried to invade a womans rural home outside
Neosho, in Newton County. Captain Richard Leavens was skeptical when his department received the 911 distress call but it took two blasts from Halls 12-gauge shotgun, plus
10 rounds from his .45-caliber Glock 21 automatic pistol, to finish off the big cat.
Agents from Missouris Department of Conservation were summoned to examine the threefoot-long, 60-pound carcass. They determined that the pantheractually a melanistic leopardwas an immature male that had been surgically de-clawed. That operation marked the
cat as a former pet or occupant of some menagerie, but the information brought police no
closer to identifying its one-time keeper(s).
A different explanation was advanced for the black panther seen at northern Californias
Point Reyes National Seashore, north of San Francisco, in April of 2008. Hiker John Balawejderwho, with his daughter Alani, saw the cat and has prepared an academic paper on the
incidentbelieves it was a melanistic cougar or mountain lion.
This lion was not darkish, not a brownish-tawny like some Ive seen, but jet black, Balawejder told the San Francisco Chronicle. Despite his confidence, most zoologists deny the
existence of melanistic cougars, noting that no confirmed specimen has ever been captured
or killed.
But witness Don
Callen
snapped
three photos of a
supposed
black
cougar on his 52acre Santa Rosa
property in late
April, using a stationary digital camera from a range of
50 feet.
Case
closed?
Hardly!
Jack
Dumbacher, a curator at
the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, examined Callens photographs and
ranked them as enticing, but ultimately inconclusive. That would be a really exciting find,
if thats what it was, Dumbacher allowed, but he suggested that the creature in Callens
photos might also be a large domestic house cat.
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animals. Goats have never been the chupacabras only victims, but it seemed
noteworthy to Argentinean journalists
when a mystery mauler in Rosario (Santa
Fe Province) revealed an appetite for
dogs.
The attack occurred on May 1, 2008
when a Rosario resident heard his dogs
barking in the pre-dawn hours. He ignored them, and when he finally went out
to check the dogs at noon, he found one
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ney was recorded by Venetian shipmate Antonio Zeno. Zenos letters, which were published in 1558, described landmarks and
native tribes that were indigenous to North
America.
More recently, evidence of a possible Sinclair presence in North America was then
found carved into a rock in Westford, MA,
which bears the image of a knight in full
plate armor. The style of the knights armor
is similar to the type worn during Henry
Sinclairs voyage and the knights shield
bears the heraldic symbol of the Scottish
Gunn clan, a close relation and ally of the
Sinclairs.
Additional evidence of Sinclairs voyage
to North America can be found in Rosslyn
Chapel in Scotland, which was built by the
Sinclair family in 1446. The chapels walls
are adorned with carvings of corn, a vegetable that was not introduced to Europe until Columbus voyage nearly 50
years after the chapel was built. (See
Mysteries, issue #1)
Some scholars also believe that
the Newport towers architecture
is proof of Templar involvement
in its construction. The
towers round design, complete with a fireplace
carved into the second
story, is reminiscent of
another
round tower
with a high
fireplace in the St. Clair church in Corstorphine, Scotland, which was built by the Sinclair family. It is also the burial site of Prince
Henrys daughter. In addition, the use of the
Scottish ell in the towers construction suggests that a Scotsman, or at least someone
familiar with their measurements, was present when the tower was built.
Theories abound as to why Henry Sinclair may have built the tower. Some believe
that he constructed it as a reminder to future generations of the ways of the Templar
Order. Others believe that he built it to be
used as a church during their stay in the area.
Still others suggest that it was built to defend against Indian attacks or to serve as a
lookout for approaching ships.
Along with the true reason for the towers
construction, the real motive behind Sinclairs perilous voyage to the New World remains a mystery. Templar legends claim
that a handful of knights sailed to
America to prevent the Orders greatest possession, the Holy Grail,
from falling into the hands of
their enemies. This belief has
motivated treasure hunters
for generations, to search
the many islands along
Sinclairs suspected
route,
including
Oak Island near
Nova Scotia
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line from the governors 1677 will that referred to the tower as my stone-builte
windmiln. He also is believed to have
drawn inspiration for the tower windmill
from an almost identical structure in
Chesterton, England, and several scientific
studies of the Newport Tower have lent this
theory credence. In the late 1940s, an archaeological dig around the tower failed to
find any Norse or medieval European tools
or artifactsonly Colonial-era items were
recovered from the dig. Then in 1993, a
team of Danish researchers carbon dated the
towers mortar to the mid-17th century, precisely the time that Arnold was supposed to
have built his windmill.
However, these findings did not put an
end to the debate over who originally built
the tower. Critics say that the mortar was installed during a 17th-century restoration.
These claims are based on an archaeological
dig that was conducted in the late 1940s by
the Society of American Archaeology. This
dig found Colonial-era masonry tools and
timbers in the ground around the tower,
suggesting that the tower was once surrounded by a wooden structure similar to
those used in restorations.
These critics have also raised questions
about the accuracy of the carbon-14 testing.
The actual range of dates produced by the
tests was from 1410 to 1970, so the mid1600s date was determined by comparison
with a control sample taken from a nearby
17th-century house.
In addition to questions about the scientific findings, two other questions about the
Arnold theory remain unanswered. If the
tower is a Colonial structure, then why was
not the English foot used in its construction? In addition, why would anyone put a
fireplace in a windmill that was used to store
highly flammable grain dust?
Will the truth about this bizarre structure
ever be known? Perhaps not, but the mystery is part of the towers enduring appeal. It
is impossible to walk through the tranquil
streets of Newport and not be intoxicated
by the idea that the Vikings, Chinese, or
even the Knights Templar may have walked
that same ground centuries earlier. In a
country whose origins date back only a few
hundred years, it is exciting to think that a
true wonder of world history may be sitting
right under our very noses. z
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were a lot easier than those of the agricultural peoples who came after them.
Until around 8,000 BC, all humans lived
as hunter-gatherers and survived by hunting wild animals and foraging for nuts,
fruit, and vegetables. When anthropologists
began to look at how contemporary
hunter-gatherers used their time, they were
surprised to find that they only spent 12 to
20 hours per week searching for food, between a third and a half of the average
modern work week!
Strange though it may sound, the diet of
hunter-gatherers was better than many modern peoples. Apart from the small amount
of meat they ate (10%-20% of their diet),
their diet was practically identical to that of
a modern-day veganno dairy products and
a wide variety of fruits, vegetables, roots,
and nuts, all eaten raw (which nutrition experts say is the healthiest way to eat). This
partly explains why skeletons of ancient
hunter-gatherers are surprisingly large and
robust and show few signs of degenerative
diseases and tooth decay.
The hunter-gatherers of Greece and
Turkey had an average height of five feet
ten inches for men and five feet six for
women. But after the advent of agriculture,
these declined to five feet three and five feet
one. Likewise, an archaeological site in the
lower Illinois Valley in central USA shows
that when people started cultivating maize
and switched to a settled lifestyle, there was
an increase in infant mortality, stunted
growth in adults, and a massive increase in
diseases related to malnutrition.
Hunter-gatherers were also much less
vulnerable to disease than later peoples. In
fact, until the advances of modern medicine
and hygiene of the 19th and 20th centuries,
they may well have suffered less from disease than any other humans in history.
In fact, many of the diseases which we
are now susceptible to only actually arrived
when we domesticated animals. Pigs and
ducks passed the flu on, horses gave us
colds, cows gave us the pox, and dogs gave
us the measles. And later, when dairy products became a part of our diet, we increased
our exposure to disease even more through
drinking milk, which transmitted at least 30
different diseases. In view of this, it is not
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difficult to see how they could have low status while performing such an important
economic role. The healthy, open attitude
that ancient hunter-gatherers had toward the
human body and to sexshown by the
massive numbers of sexually explicit images
and objects archaeologists have discoveredsuggests that the oppression of
women appears to be closely linked to a
sense of alienation from the human body
and a negative attitude to instincts and bodily processes.
Contemporary indigenous peoples were
sexually egalitarian, too. Before European
conquest and colonization, many of them
traced descent and ownership of property
through the mothers rather than the fathers side of the family. And as anthropologist Tim Ingold notes, in immediate
return hunter-gatherer societies (that is, societies that lived by immediately using any
food or other resources they collected,
rather than storing them for later use),
women usually chose their own marriage
partners, decided what work they wanted to
do and worked whenever they chose. And if
a marriage broke down, they had custody
rights over their children.
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t is significant that the Bible tells us that
the Fall occurred as a result of Eve eating from the apple of knowledge and
that Adam and Eve then realized that they
were naked so they sewed fig leaves together
and covered themselves. This suggests that
the Fall was linked to the development of a
new self-awareness, which gave them the
ability to observe and judge themselves.
In a similar way, the ancient Indian epic
the Mahabharata says that the holy men of
old were self-subdued and free from envy,
suggesting a lack of self-awareness and selfassertion. According to the Chinese myth of
the Age of Perfect Virtue, when human beings fell out of the Tao, they developed a
new kind of individuality and self-sufficiency.
According to Chuang Tzu, the true man of
ancient times,
did not grow proud in plenty, and did not
plan his affairs He could commit an
error and not regret it, could meet with
success and not make a show.
In other words, these ancient men acted
without analyzing their behavior, presumably because they were less self-aware, and
so free from feelings of guilt and pride.
Chuang Tzu also hints at how this new individuality led to a new kind of intellectual
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Experimentation and Research
(CERN), the site of the recently completed Large Hadron Collider (LHC),
the worlds largest particle collider and
perhaps the most complex machine ever
built. Just put online, the LHC will start
out at low energies, and soon will be
running at full strength, producing the
highest directed energy collision ever
produced on Earth, 362 megajoules of
work-energy per collision beam (or the
equivalent of 100 kilowatt hours). Perhaps for this reason, there has been much
apprehension concerning what might
happen when the collider is fully powered up.
The concern has been expressed like
this: what if a high-energy collision is induced between matter and anti-matter
particles, causing a local tear in the spacetime fabric and creating a mini black hole
that sucks the matter of this world into
its escapeless, gravitational void?
LHC scientists dismiss this as exaggerated fear-mongering. The collider has
numerous safety features (such as a particle beam escape valve that kicks out any
aberrant beam from the machine in a few
microseconds). Further, the LHC does
not have the power to create and sustain
a real black holeone capable of sucking
in an entire solar system. Even if a miniblack hole were to be created, it would
be within the electromagnetic confines of
the machine, and would only last a tiny
fraction of a second.
The principle goal of the LHC is to reveal the so-called god particle: the Higgs
Boson, which is about 120 times more
massive than a proton, and gives mass to
all other particles as they emerge from
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In quantum physics, a particles spin determines much of its interaction with other
particles. In this regard, there are two main
species of particle: fermions, which have half
integer spins, and bosons (named after the
renowned Bengali physicist Satyendra Nath
Bose), which have whole integer spins.
Fermions are elementary particles while
bosons are composite particles (those having smaller constituent parts), with the exception of four gauge bosons, one for
each of the four forces. Bosons are deeply
mysterious particles; at high energies, they
change their behavior and act like a group
of fermions. But unlike fermions, multiple
bosons can occupy the same space and time.
The Higgs Bosonnamed after quantum
physicist Peter Higgsat the moment, just
exists only in mathematical equations, where
its presence is required for other particles to
derive their mass. But soon enough, scientists hope, the Higgs Boson will be detected
by the LHC via the smashing and shattering of two protons at speeds approaching
99.99999% of the speed of light.
If and when this happens, its discovery
will confirm the Standard Model of Quantum Mechanics which, with the exception of
a particle for mediating gravity (the graviton), will then be complete. The problem is
that at the high energies achievable by the
LHC, the Standard Model breaks down and
starts spitting out mathematical gibberish,
such as negative probabilities. So physicists
are eager to find more particles, otherwise
their model will fail to explain extremely
high energy conditions.
But physicists are confident that the LHC
will detect a treasure trove of particles, such
as the elusive graviton, which mediates the
force of gravity across the cosmos. Although
Einstein, in his General Theory of Relativity,
did not envision a particle that mediates
gravity, in Quantum Mechanics, every force
has a corresponding particle. If no such particle is revealed, then this may mean that
Einsteins General Theory of Relativity
(GR) may be wrong or incomplete.
Unifying the Fields with Strings!
here has been a historical problem
merging Quantum Theory (QT) and
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uantum physics is the study of subatomic (smaller than an atom) particles. These particlesprotons,
electrons, neutrons, photons, and more
exotic ones such as mesons, muons, and
quarkscombine in different ways to produce the physical matter of the universe.
They also carry the four forces, or types of
energy, that comprise the cosmos: electromagnetism (sound and light), The Strong
Force (which hold atoms together), the
Weak Force (governs radioactive decay),
and gravity (which keeps the Earth in orbit
around the sun).
A hadron is a composite particle comprised of three quarks stuck together by
three gluons. One of the configurations
of quarks and gluons is a proton, the large
particle that sits in the center of, for example, a hydrogen atom, accompanied by
a neutron and encircled by an electron (in
the case of heavier elements, there are
more protons, neutrons, and electrons).
So then, a large hadron collider is a proton collider, and smashing two protons together at energies almost equivalent to
the energy of the universe moments after
the Big Bang should reveal constituent
matter more fundamental than even
quarks and gluons.
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processes. And GR has been accurate in predicting events on the super-huge scale of
solar systems, supernovas, and galaxies. But
the two theories use different mathematical
mechanics. Thus, physicists have long
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The Parapsychology
REVOLUTION
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An Interview with
Dr. Robert
Schoch
A geologist and paleontologist by
profession, Dr. Schoch has studied
some of the greatest ancient monuments around the world including
the Great Pyramids, the Sphinx,
and the underwater structures near
Yonaguni Island, Japan. He has
also written several bestselling
books, including his most recent,
The Parapsychology Revolution.
by Michael Lohr
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visited the grandson? Or was the grandmother thinking about her loved ones, including the grandson, as she lay dying, and
a telepathic connection manifested on the
part of the grandson as a vision of his grandmother standing at the foot of his bed?
Is there any evidence to support
the existence of past lives?
mong the best evidence for reincarnation is the work of the late Dr.
Ian Stevenson (University of Virginia) who worked with young children
who apparently remembered former lives.
Stevenson was able to actually identify (at
least to his satisfaction) the former personality. Typically in the cases documented by
Stevenson, the previous personality, or former incarnation, died no more than a few
years before the child was born and lived
not very far away.
The young child would recount aspects or
memories of the former life typically between the ages of two and five, but these
would fade away in the ensuing years. In
many cases, the children showed behavioral
traits that could be related to the previous
personality, and where the former personality died violently, birthmarks were found on
the child corresponding to wounds in the
former personality.
Some claim that this is incontrovertible
evidence for reincarnation. But Stevensons
evidence can also be interpreted simply as
the telepathic transmission of limited sets
of data from one person to another. When
it comes to past-life regressions, I tend to
believe that many recovered past lives are
fictional, although they may involve bits of
information from another time, place, or
persons that were acquired paranormally.
Another line of compelling evidence for
the reality of paranormal phenomena is the
study of presentiments or pre-sponses,
essentially a form of short-term precognition as measured by physiological parameters (heart rate, electrodermal activity, and
so forth). Numerous replicated experiments have demonstrated the physiological
responses of individuals to, for instance,
disturbing photographs a second or two
before they are actually viewed by the person. According to conventional science,
this should not be possible.
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The Origins of
Psychic Phenomena
Poltergeists, Incubi, Succubi,
and The Unconscious Mind
BY STAN GOOCH
ISBN: 978-1-59477-164-4
$16.95, INNER TRADITIONS, 2007
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The I-Files
ISBN 0-915024-74-8
$14.95, TRAILS BOOKS, 2008
The M-Files
ISBN: 0-915024-66-7
$14.95, WISCONSIN TRAILS, DATE
The W-Files
ISBN: 0-915024-59-4
BY JAY RATH
$14.95, TRAILS BOOKS, 2007
ay Rath is an award-winning
journalist and humorist who
has contributed to National
Public Radio and various national
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another subject dear to Raths
heart, and sure enough, he finds
putative evidence of the mythic
civilization both in Illinois and Wisconsin. Minnesota, not to be outdone, weighs in with artifacts
suggesting that errant Vikings
were on the prowl 130 years before Columbus sailed the ocean
blue.
Rath is a cartoonist as well as
an author and his
comedic sketches illustrate these three volumes. They
are
accompanied by several photos, sketches,
and engravings. Each
book includes a placename index and a short
bibliography.
Dedicated paranormal researchers may
rue the absence of
larger subject indexes,
but Raths books are for enjoyment, not scholarly research. In
that pursuit, they are all highly
successful.
MICHAEL NEWTON
cluding astronomy.
In 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, Pinchbeck explains that
both the completion of this great
cycle and the return of Quetzalcoatl represent mythical archetypes, and not necessarily an
actual event. The underlying
meaning of these archetypes suggests a shift in the very nature of
the human psyche. Pinchbeck discusses such global problems as
terrorism, mass consumption, the
war in Iraq, and climate change,
analyzing each topic as symptoms
of a suffering society in desperate
need of change.
Pinchbeck also discusses Frederich Nietzsches concepts of will
to ignorance and will to superficiality, two ideas that give cause
to the current mood of ambivalence and apathy, and discusses
what needs to be accomplished to
lift humanity out of this quagmire.
He assails the diametrically opposedbut equally destructive
fundamentalist religion and secular humanism for their utter lack
of spirituality. He pleads
ost authors wait until their twilight years to pen memoirs, but Nick
Redferns 43 years have been so jam-packed with mysterious adventures that he has already published two volumes recounting his
exploits. Now, after detours to Roswell and other assorted eerie destinations,
Redfern has produced a memoir of the years preceding his adventures
chronicled in Three Men Seeking Monsters (2004). Here, readers are privileged to eavesdrop on Nicks courtship of his bride and track his move from Britain to the
Lone Star State where, naturally, he discovers no shortage of things that go bump in the night.
Redferns Memoirs are not confined to Texas, however. His quest for the bizarre is endless, taking him
to Canada (in search of Ogopogo), to Wisconsin (tracking werewolves), to the Puerto Rican jungles (seeking Chupacabras), and to Roswell, NM (pursuing alien corpses). Along the way, he investigates vampires,
man-eating catfish, spectral pets, and other oddities.
Whether or not you buy Redferns theories on any particular beast or phenomenon, it is always a treat
to watch him in action, racing around the countryside with rowdy friends, hot on the trail of monsters or
the next pub down the road. Memoirs gives us a peek inside his hectic life and what a life it is!
MICHAEL NEWTON
Extraordinary Animals
Revisited
BY DR. KARL P.N. SHUKER
ISBN: 978-1-905723-17-1
$28, CFZ PRESS, 2007
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offer detailed information on
beasts both mythical and mundane.
Here, readers will find themselves enthralled by singing mice
and crowing snakes; extinct
beasts that survive,
despite death sentences imposed by
modern science;
sea monsters and
hulking
globsters; giant spiders,
flying
jackals, and furry
woodpeckers. At
the same time,
skeptics will app r e c i a t e
Shukers scientific rigor in exp l a i n i n g
natures mysteries
and his facility for baring hoaxes.
Extraordinary Animals Revisited is lavishly illustrated with 54
exotic 19th-century engravings, a
few modern drawings, and eight
photographs. Its exhaustive bibliography includes more than 300
sources, again, fully updated from
the original edition, with new
books and articles published
through 2006. An index of animal
names, both popular and Latin,
guides readers quickly and conveniently to their curious creatures
of choice.
This monumental work is highly
recommended for all ages.
MICHAEL NEWTON
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The Parapsychology
Revolution
BY DR. ROBERT M. SCHOCH
AND LOGAN YONAVJAK
$16.95, TARCHER/PENGUIN, 2008
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into the murky world of the paranormal, including clairvoyance,
telepathy, distance healing, remote viewing, past-life regression,
and the existence of ghosts.
Starting with documented
cases as early as the 1880s, The
Parapsychology Revolution provides a thorough review of the research of such scholars as Ian
Stevenson and J.B. Rhine. Among
the many additional case files reviewed, Schoch and Yanovjak consider the parapsychological
research of Dr. William G. Roll and
the electromagnetic field research
of Dr. William Jones, the extrasensory perception research conducted at Duke University and the
PSI studies by Dr. Stephen Baumann at the University of North
Carolinas Spring Creek Institute.
Based upon these and many
other scholarly probes into the
paranormal, Schoch and Yanovjak
make the case that there is something mysterious and unexplained
happening, and that parapsychology is a valid area of study that
needs to be further pursued.
In addition, the concepts of
reincarnation and past-life regression are analyzed and applied to
quantum mechanics. What results is a rather groundbreaking
hypothesis that hints at the possibility that past life memories may
actually be a form of quantum
telepathy, where the remnant
memories of the deceased download
into the minds of the
living. Those individuals that are sensitive
to
such
experience, especially the young,
may have anothers memories
placed in their
mind at random.
This essentially
establishes the
theory that the
human mind can
Strange Guests
BY BRAD STEIGER
ISBN: 1-933665-17-3
$12, ANOMALIST BOOKS, 2006
ny English-speaking fan of paranormal or Fortean literature should recognize the byline of Brad Steiger, an
Iowa native with 162 books to his credit. The
work in hand, described by Steiger as his first
conventional book, was originally published
in 1966.
Strange Guests devotes itself to the poltergeist phenomenon, with 35 short chapters detailing various cases from 1662 to 1964. (A
passing reference to hauntings in 335 AD provides no details.) The tales are not collected chronologically, nor are
they sorted geographically. Like much of Steigers work, the book resembles a collection of short articles or columns.
Shortcomings of this workas with most of Steigers paperback
originalsinclude the absence of an index or anything resembling
source documentation. Skeptics will predictably dismiss the tales as
fantasies or fabrications, but believers and undecided readers will
enjoy Steigers excursions into the bizarre.
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water-boarding. Most noteworthy
is that Klein maintains her journalistic integrity in the face of the
ultimate insanity she so describes.
The Shock Doctrine may open
the doors for psychoanalysts to
push beyond the sexual repression envelope and confront the
very evil which fuels disaster capitalism. If only Milton Friedman
were alive to read this remarkable, scathing work and witness
the devastating consequences of
his delusional ideas.
JAYE BELDO
sion to Mars in
the mid-1970s,
in
which
a
human face was
discerned among
the photographs
of the Martian surface, and from
which
Hoagland
other analysts deduced signs of intelligent life. Working
backwards, Hoagland
and Bara unravel a
NASA cover-up of the
discovery of civilizations more advanced than that of Earth. Such
a revelation would have devastating social consequences, a
Brookings Institution study asserted, leading to a complete disintegration of society and a rise
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once hamhanded and offhanded,
clumsy attempts to influence the
audience that instead make them
more wary. While the film occasionally mocks itself as well as the
genre it inspired, the sense of fun
that shone through in the previous
films is largely lacking here, overwhelmed by an overblown sense
of its own importance. The hokey
New Age mysticism engendered
by the titular object clashes oddly
with all the mayhem that it takes
to discover the fact that alien lifeforms were apparently the first archaeologists.
Taken with a full shaker of salt,
the film is enjoyable but predictably shallow, and its sheer unbelievability at times stretches
that sense of enjoyment nearly to
the breaking point.
RICHARD MACKENZIE
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vivors, it is hard to tell who is who
except for the fact that the unaffected are still alive.
While one could interpret a
strong environmental message to
the film, the vagaries of the plot
leave the true nature of this cataclysm in the air (literally). The characters' various speculations about
its causefrom global warming to
a biological defense mechanism
developed by plantsultimately
become more intellectually stimulating than their plight. Ultimately,
our powerlessness in the face of a
natural disaster and our vulnerability to the whims of nature is its
most profound theme.
Despite the prolonged suffering
for both characters and audience
induced by the torturous dialogue
and slow plotting, at its core, The
Happening is an unflinching look
at human behavior in a crisis.
RICHARD MACKENZIE
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