10 Unexplained Paranormal Events That Changed History

The paranormal is not just personal. These ten paranormal events changed history.

When history reaches a fork in its path, most often its fate is decided by powers beyond the comprehension of most mere mortals. Which is to say that it’s usually the rich people in power, the governments and military leaders, who will affect the course of things. Mainly by waging war on each other, or making great scientific discoveries, or spying on their populace.

All of the biggest events in history – the Moon Landing, two World Wars, the 1966 World Cup win – were decided by forces outside of most people’s reach. Then there are the time when those outside forces aren’t just the establishment who treat the world as their plaything, beholden to their whims. Sometimes, those forces are something…other. Read more

Humanity's Dark Fascination with the Hollow Earth

Mcah Hanks examines humanity's dark fascination with the Hollow Earth legend.

Few of the great fears held by humankind in our path to modernity would rival that of our long dread for the darkness. Fortunately, with the daily cycle of the Earth’s rotation, we are only bathed in that blackness for a few hours at a time. Hence, over the long course of its evolution, humanity has worked mostly by the waking hours, having learned to hide ourselves away as the light recedes, and take our rest during the hours where dangers of the dark become most prevalent. Read more

10 Eerie Ghost Stories from New England Cemeteries

These ten eerie ghost stories from New England cemeteries have endured for centuries.

Few places in the world have as ghostly a reputation as New England. It’s the region that gave us Stephen King and the Cthulhu Mythos. It also has some of the oldest post-colonial settlements in the US, and along with them some of the oldest graveyards.

Half a millennium has been plenty of time for those cemeteries to gather creepy reputations. These weird stories of haunting in New England’s burial grounds could provide plenty of inspiration for any aspiring horror writer. Read more

The Sealed Masoleum Believed to Be a Fully-Functioning Time Machine

The mausoleum of a Victorian Egyptologist’s friend is sealed, but if opened may reveal a shortcut to a Paris cemetery.

Ray Godson and Stephen Coates are both keen to get their hands on a key to the thick bronze door that shields the entrance to an imposing granite mausoleum in Brompton Cemetery in west London.

For Mr Godson, a replacement for the key that went missing in the late 1970s would allow him to pay his respects to Hannah Courtoy, his great-great-grandmother, who is interred in the tomb with two of her three daughters. Mr Coates’s interest is rather more esoteric: he is keen to test a long-held theory that the tomb is a fully functioning Victorian time machine. Read more

Want to See a UFO? Head for the Extraterrestrial Highway

If you've never seen a UFO, but want to, try heading for the Extraterrestrial Highway in Nevada.

Ever secretly dreamed of a close encounter of the third kind? Are you intensely curious as to whether humanity is alone in this universe? Or are you just a massive fan of The X Files? Whatever your reason for wondering about alien life, the best way to get some answers is to find them yourself, and there's no better place to conduct your research than the Extraterrestrial Highway. Also known as Nevada State Route 375, the 98 mile stretch of road has had so many reported UFO sightings that the state eventually started referring to it as the Extraterrestrial Highway. We highly suggest camping or RVing the route as a day or weekend trip from Las Vegas... being in a campground further away from civilization increases your chances for abduction. Plus, the stargazing in this part of the country is unbeatable! Read more

The 4 Alien Being Types

The Grays are the best-known alien, but not the only alien being types that people have reported, according to H.R. Phillips.

Hello, and welcome back to The Heavy Stuff (THS) - a blog to bookmark if you want speculation into realities greatest mysteries. Today's posting is an offshoot of THS's  post earlier last month http://theheavystuff.com/?p=99 - having to do with just how strange the whole `ufo' experience can be to an individual or even a group of individuals. It was in that post that THS speculated that occasionally, and perhaps often,  a  `UFO experience' may involve `different types' of entities.

THS, when mentioning different entity types,  wasn't referring about the internet speculation (with some added  fantasy perhaps) that multiple alien races are here, permenantly,  in Earth's biosphere and are probably interacting with humans (some say dozens of races). No, what THS was and is referring to  is `spaces'* (entities) which do not have an equal `basis' of `common reality' grounding - compared to a human. (Wordy, THS knows, but we will get much more specific in a bit.) Let THS attempt to explain: Read more

The Hidden World of 19th Century Manhattan Tenement Fortune Tellers

Natalie Zarrelli examines the hidden world of tenement fortune tellers in 19th century Manhattan.

In 1993, a restoration was underway at 97 Orchard Street in New York City. Beneath the darkened floorboards of one apartment, left unchanged for 50 years, a thin, frayed piece of paper from the 19th century was discovered; with one side printed in English and the other Yiddish, it advertised the fortune-telling specialties of “The World Famous Palmist and Mind Reader”, Professor Dora Meltzer.

The people who found this paper worked at the Tenement Museum, founded in 1988 to teach the history of immigrant life in New York through old tenement apartments in Manhattan. At the time, the Orchard Street building had recently been acquired, and the museum was renovating the apartment to use as a historical teaching tool. Layers of wallpaper were peeled back, and items from the 1800s through the 1930s were found in the apartments during the process, but this particular paper was a contextual mystery. Read more

An Ancient Nessie? Long-Neck Dinos Once Prowled Scottish Lagoon

Researchers have discovered that a long-necked dinosaur prowled the Isle of Skye's rocky coast - an area that was a lagoon during the Jurassic/

Hundreds of dinosaur footprints and handprints dating to 170 million years ago adorn the shore on the Isle of Skye, making it the largest dinosaur site ever discovered in Scotland, a new study finds. Read more

Mysterious Orb Spotted at Florida Space Walk of Fame

A ghost, UFO, or dust? A mysterious orb was spotted on surveillance cameras at Florida's Space Walk of Fame Museum.

Surveillance cameras at Florida's Space Walk of Fame Museum turned up something that's causing a bit of a stir -- an unidentified flying "orb."

The object in the picture above resembles a typical circular unidentified flying object as reported by so many people around the world. But don't let your eyes fool you. Read more

On the Trail of Florida's Skunk Ape

Science takes a crack at exploring the mystery surrounding Florida's Bigfoot, the skunk ape.

The first time Dave Shealy saw a skunk ape, he says, he was ten years old. It was 1974, a few years after his father had come upon a set of footprints left by the creature—an Everglades version of Bigfoot named for its supposedly pungent odor. Dave was out deer hunting with his older brother, Jack, in the swamp behind his house, in what’s now Big Cypress National Preserve, when he encountered the ape incarnate. Read more

Astronaut Tweets Photo of UFO

American astronaut Scott Kelly tweeted a photo of a UFO taken from the International Space Station.

The truth is out there … maybe. A photo tweeted by astronaut Scott Kelly is generating plenty of extraterrestrial buzz.

Kelly, who recently broke the U.S. record for most days in space, tweeted the picture taken from the International Space Station Sunday. Read more

Have UFO Researchers Discovered a Real Alien Corpse?

Are UFO investigators probing the world's first real alien corpse? UFO researchers claim a mummified "being" they are studying came from outer space, but was buried in a Mayan tomb for hundreds of years.

Alien investigators tried to garner support for their theory that the mummy, reportedly removed from a Mayan tomb in Mexico, is an extra terrestrial and not a child mummy, as sceptics claim.

the 50-inch-long mummy was shown during a UFO conference in Sofia, Bulgaria, where several 'UFO experts" tried to convince the crowds its eyes were too big to be that of a human child, and its "near non-existent ears" mean it is also not of this world. Read more

Bigfoot Hair Found in Ohio Cave

A man calling himself the Squatchmaster claims to have found Bigfoot hair in a cave.

A man says he has found a bunch of hair he believes belongs to a bipedal creature he encountered a few years ago.

YouTuber Squatchmaster, also known as Jeff, released on Saturday evening an 8-minute video showing his expedition leading to a cave in Ohio where he supposedly found what he called “Bigfoot evidence”.  He did not disclose an exact location. Read more

Murdered Spirit Medium's Lottery Picks Too Accurate

A spirit medium may have been murdered for costing underground lottery operators money.

A 41-year-old spirit medium with a reputation for accurately predicting winning numbers was gunned down near his shrine in Nakhon Si Thammarat on Wednesday, and police suspect angry underground lottery operators ordered the murder. Read more

The Mystery of the Nine Unknown Men

Brent Swancer explores the mystery of the secret society of nine unknown men, who are charged with guarding ancient secrets and protecting society from potentially destructive knowledge.

Humankind has always had a sort of fascination with the idea of secret societies. From the Freemasons to the Illuminati, there is a certain allure to the idea that behind the scenes of our everyday life there are powerful forces at work pulling the strings, privy to knowledge beyond our mainstream understanding, and with access to ancient secrets beyond our wildest dreams. They operate just under the surface of our civilization, their motives and aims enigmatic and inscrutable, working towards ends that we may never fully understand. One such alleged secret society concerns a shadowy group of nine mysterious men, formed in ancient India and charged with guarding ancient secrets and protecting us from the potentially destructive knowledge which we manage to glean from the mysteries of the universe. Operating in secrecy, they are spread throughout the world, silently watching and accruing ever more potent secrets, all the while hidden from our view. These are the Nine Unknown Men. Read more

UFOs Near Delhi Airport Put Indian Military pn High Alert

The Indian air force is authorized to shoot down any suspicious object.

Normally, only regular air traffic is allowed to fly in and out of and around major airports. But, lately, something else -- something irregular -- has shown up at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport (pictured above), putting several official security agencies on "high alert."

On Oct. 30, IGI air traffic control (ATC) viewed suspicious flying objects three times near and around the airport, reports hindustantimes.com. Read more

10 Signs That a Deceased Loved One Is Nearby

Paranormal author John Mayhan says any of these ten signs may indicate that a deceased loved one is nearby.

Several days after my grandmother passed away suddenly in her sleep, I had a dream about her. In my dream, my mother and I went to my grandmother’s house to clean out her closet so my grandfather wouldn’t have to contend with it. As we came into the house, Nanny was sitting on the couch. I was astounded because nobody else could see her. I rushed to where she sat and said, “Nanny! I thought you died.” She wrapped me in her arms and said, “I did die, but I couldn’t leave without saying goodbye to you.” I was only six years old, but the dream is as clear as it was when it happened.

Since that time, I’ve been a student of the paranormal world, learning as much as possible about what happens to us when we die. One thing I’ve discovered is that loved ones often try to contact us after death. Here are some of the ways they might reach out to you. Read more

NASA is up to its old tricks. The International Space Station  (ISS) NASA live camera feed cuts out after suddenly locking on to a mystery glowing UFO.

"UFO was intercepted" by the International Space Station (ISS), claim alien hunters, who allege footage from a NASA live camera feed which zoomed in on a mysterious glowing orb suddenly cut out. Read more

How to Win Yourself a Man Using Witchcraft, According to a 1973 Cosmopolitan Magazine

Cosmopolitan wouldn't dare run an article like this nowadays, but it's interesting to read something from when times were freer.

Are you a woman who's unusually outspoken? Peculiarly bossy? Preternaturally clever? Is anything about you special or extraordinary in any way? Are you single?
Face it: You're probably a witch.

Why not unlock your inner hellcat and fix yourself up with a nice, unsuspecting man? Or extract your revenge on a mean, unbearable one? The secret to everlasting love or sweet vindication is simply your own willingness to embrace the darkness rooted deep within your heart.

Thanks to a May 1973 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine, we have at our disposal the ancient spellbinding recipes of our enchantress forebears, neatly documented in a listicle. A full five magical spells are inscribed there. They are, briefly: Read more

Are Immortals Currently Walking the Earth?

Are immortals currently walking the earth? Taylor Leonard lists several rumored possibilites.

Humanity’s quest for immortality is as old as the human race itself. We now see a Renaissance of new transhumanist ideas that make it seem like technology will be the cure to mortality. What once belonged to the realm of gods and magic is now in the hands of researchers and science – results pending, of course. Though society as a whole may still be on the hunt for ways to live forever, some claim the feat has already been achieved by a small number of people. Here’s a list of these so-called immortals believed by some to be walking the Earth this very moment: Read more

Ghost Cities Mysteriously Appear Over China

Is there a logical explanation for the ghost cities that have mysteriously appeared over parts of  China?

Imagine looking out a window at dusk on a misty evening and seeing the ghostly skyline of a mysterious city floating in the sky above you. This actually happened in early October when residents of Foshan, China, saw a mysterious ghost city hovering over their own city. It happened again a few days later in Jiangxi. Reports of these sightings recalled a similar ghost city appearing over a river in Huanshan City in 2011. Are these mirages, apparitions of ghost cities, views into another dimension or something else? Read more

A Small "T-Rex" Reported in South Texas

Lon Strickler shares a reader account of a Tyrannosaurus Rex sighting in South Texas.

I received the following account a few days ago:

Hello - I noticed your article about small dinosaurs in Hebbronville, Texas. This witness was not exaggerating because I have seen an unknown animal in a field here in Hebbronville.

It was April 2011 and I was walking along W. David St. to my friend's house on Randada Rd. at about 5:45 PM. I had just gotten off work. On the side of the road where I was walking, I saw dust being kicked up into the air and moving along the field. Then the trail of dust was heading toward the road in front of me. I stopped walking not knowing what may be exiting at the road. Read more

Does New FBI Memo Prove THREE Crashes at Roswell?

A new FBI memo suggests that there may have been THREE crashes at Roswell, NewMexico.

A UFO museum that opened in Japan in 1994 was apparently the subject of Federal Bureau of Investigation scrutiny when it opened, according to recent Freedom of Information Access requests.

Employees at Hakui Centre for UFO Research came across what is known as the Hottel Memo while preparing a library of over 10,000 documents, that were to be the main attraction of the museum. The file -- which has otherwise been available since 1970 -- has come to light again, after further FOIA requests have uncovered that the FBI had opened a new investigation in the mid-nineties, over concerns regarding what other information might have been revealed by the Hakui Centre's exhibit. Read more

What Happens During the Witching Hour?

What happens during the witching hour? Sean Foster explores the various beliefs.

Are you a believer in the supernatural? Do you believe that entities like ghosts, demons, witches and other magical creatures actually exist and live among us? If so, then you probably have heard about the witching hour.

As the name suggests, the witching hour is the time of day that people believe that these supernatural beings are most active and powerful. Many different communities have different hours of the day they refer to as the witching hour but the generally accepted time is between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m. Others believe that it is at midnight mainly because it is a special time when the day actually begins.

What happens during the Witching Hour? Read more

10 Military Installations of Conspiracy

Listverse lists ten military installations famous for conspiracies and black projects.

Everyone knows about Area 51, supposedly the center of secret American UFO research and the most secret military installation in the world. While in reality the base has been used for the development of superbombers and stealth aircraft, conspiracy lore has it that it has also been used for a variety of more esoteric research and development projects, including reverse-engineering alien technology, time travel, weather control, teleportation, and energy weapons. Although Area 51 is the most notorious military installation beloved by conspiracy theorists, there are other bases and facilities around the world with their own stories and legends as well. Read more

Are UFOs Poltergeist Events?

Are UFO sightings poltergeist events? A new hypothesis notes some similarities between the two phenomena.

On a recent episode of Coast to Coast AM, host George Knapp interviewed Dr. Eric Ouellet, professor of Defense Studies at the Royal Military College of Canada, about the idea of UFOs being poltergeist events. Quellet outlined his new hypothesis, which posits that UFOs could very well be manifestations of psychic forces humans are projecting onto the world around them. The hypothesis is the culmination of years of parapsychological research into poltergeists which shows that there seems to be a pattern to the activity. Ouellet applied this parapsychological methodology to historical waves of UFO activity and discovered notable similarities. Read more

How to Cast a Revenge Spell

Learn how to retaliate against someone who did you wrong with a revenge spell.

Pale Prophet or Ancient Alien?

Who was the Christ0like figure who walked Ancient America?

The Pale Prophet who visited the Americas in the first century A.D. certainly knew how to make an entrance the people would never forget. And the full story is told in what I, as the author, believe to be an exciting new book titled “The Search for the Pale Prophet in Ancient America,” published by my associate Tim Beckley's Global Communications. Beckley is now co-hosting, along with Tim R. Swartz, the podcast “Exploring the Bizarre” on the KCOR Digital Radio Network.

According to ancient native lore, when the Fair God first arrived at the Polynesian Islands it was with three ships with giant sails like enormous birds with wings uplifted, glowing goldenly in the dawn light. The people watching the events were frozen to immobility. Read more

First Pictorial Representation of Göbekli Tepe Found

Another clue to the hidden history of the human race has been found - the first pictorial representation of Gobekli Tepe

A tiny bone plaque in Sanliurfa museum holds the key to the orientation of 11,500 year-old temple complex.

It was found during routine excavations at the 11,500-year-old site of G>bekli Tepe in southeast Turkey, but no one had recognised exactly what the carved lines on the small bone plaque showed. That was until Matthew Smith, a British telecommunications consultant living in Qatar, visited Sanliurfa’s new archaeology museum, which contains a large collection of objects found at the proto-Neolithic site located just 8 miles (13 kilometres) away towards the northeast. He would seem to have recognised something everyone else had missed, and this was that the little plaque – just 6 cm in length, 2.5 cm in width and 3-4 mm in thickness – bore on its upper surface two T-shaped features positioned side by side. The context of the plaque’s discovery, i.e. at Göbekli Tepe, makes it clear these T-shaped etchings are pictorial representations of the T-shaped pillars found in all the key enclosures uncovered so far at the site. Read more

The Mothman Eyeqitness Acounts

The Mothman sightings were some of the best-documented paranormal incidents in history. Lon Strickler offers some of the eyewitness accounts.

In celebration of author John Keel and the Mothman Festival in Point Pleasant, WV this weekend, I'm offering a few Mothman eyewitness accounts from the past:

Mothman Comes Home Read more

Science Says Auras Are Real and Yours Could Identify You

A new  study found that auras are real and could be used to identify you.

You have an aura, except it isn’t made of purplish light; it’s your personal cloud of dead skin cells, fungus and many, many microbes. And researchers are learning to be able to identify you by it. Trillions of bacteria live on and in the human body. Together, these bacteria make up what researchers call the human microbiome. A new study out of the U.S. determined that an occupied room is microbially distinct from an unoccupied one also showed detectable differences between people’s microbial cloud “signatures,” including identifying their gender. Read more

Mysterious Creature Rips Apart Cars in Oklahoma

Cars are being ripped apart at a car lot in Oklahoma, and it appears to have been done by a mysterious creature.

Is there a demented steel-jawed chupacabra with a taste for oil tearing apart automobiles at a car lot in Oklahoma? Before you scoff, local police are concerned enough that they’ve set traps to capture this motor vehicle monster that leaves behind piles of mangled parts and car bodies covered with bite marks, hair and blood. Read more

How to Hear Spirits

Psychic Kelli Coffee explains how to hear spirits

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The Patterson Bigfoot Film: What Skeptics Still Can't Explain

So, the Patterson-Gimblin Bigfoot film has been totally debunked, right? Not really, says Taylor Leonard.

The most famous of all alleged “Bigfootage” ever produced, the Patterson-Gimlin film remains an iconic artifact of the unknown. Shot nearly five decades ago on Bluff Creek in California near the Oregon border, the minute-long scene recorded onto 16mm film by Roger Patterson accompanied by Bob Gimlin depicts a subject covered in brown hair walking upright away from the camera. Frame # 352 captures the subject in its most memorable and revealing pose relative to the camera, an image which has since become the face of Sasquatch-related pop culture around the world.

In the 40+ years since the release of this alleged Bigfoot documentation dozens of brains have picked over its every detail. Some such as the late Dr. Dmitri D. Donskoy, a leading expert on human biomechanics, believed the subject to be nonhuman. Others outright deemed it an easy-to-spot fraud, including the late “father of cryptozoology” zoologist Bernard Heuvelmans. Countless TV specials have aired the footage for the public to decide for themselves – oftentimes showing highly deteriorated copies of copies of copies. Numerous people have come forward over the years claiming to have either manufactured a suit for the film or having been a performer in a suit in the film, providing little evidence beyond their own word and the testimony of friends and family. Read more

Ghostly Infideltiy

For the first time in the history of the courts a ghost appeared as a correspondent in a divorce suit.

Here's an interesting article that was published in the Boston Post on June 10, 1900:

GHOST IN TROUBLE

St. Louis, June 9 -- For the first time in the history of the courts a ghost will appear as correspondent in a divorce suit next Tuesday. The ghost is that of William J. Florence, who was one of the best actors who ever graced the boards. Mr. Florence, of course, in life was full of fun, a great practical joker. It may be that Mr. Florence's spirit has continued to play pranks. Charles L. Bates, an expert on diamonds in the largest jewelry store here, names the spiritual Mr. Florence as correspondent in his suit for divorce from his wife, Mrs. Lou E. Bates, who has herself brought a suit for divorce, in which she names as correspondent a "grass widow and Spiritualistic medium." But, it turns out, the grass widow is in the flesh. She is Miss Marion L. Wilson of El Paso, Tex., who once lived at the home of the Bateses here. Read more

My Sex Magic Ebook Has Been Published!

Does it seem as if everyone is having more sex than you are? Have you been going through a sexual dry spell? Have you been "friend-zoned?" Has the passion cooled in your relationship? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, sex magic may be able to help you. Sex magic is the attempt to increase the passion of someone, or to seduce them as a sex partner through magical means rather than through direct action. It can be implemented in a variety of ways, such as spells, rituals, dolls, talismans, or potions.

5 Reasons Not to Ghost Hunt with Lights Out

On ghost hunting TV shows, the calssic way to kick off the investigation is with, "Lights out," but is that actually the best way to hunt for ghosts?

Ever since Ghost Hunters premiered, paranormal enthusiasts seem to mimic television and ghost hunt in the dark. In today’s paranormal world it has become the standard practice to do all investigations with the lights off. But when asked why people investigate with the lights off, most people have no idea why it’s actually done. It’s presented on television this way for entertainment purposes, as it looks frightening. There are a number of reasons why we actually shouldn’t ghost hunt with the lights out. Read more

The Disturbing Consequences of Seeing Your Doppelganger

Supposedly, we all have a doppelganger. Anil Ananthaswamy explores the disturbing consequences of seeing your double.

More than two decades ago, Peter Brugger, as a PhD student in neuropsychology at the University Hospital Zurich in Switzerland, was developing a reputation as someone interested in scientific explanations of so-called paranormal experiences. A fellow neurologist, who had been treating a 21-year-old man for seizures, sent him to Brugger. The young man, who worked as a waiter and lived in the canton of Zurich, had very nearly killed himself one day, when he found himself face-to-face with his doppelganger. Read more

Third Dog-Man Reported in Pennsyvania

Lon Strickler has received a third report of a "dog-man" sighting in Central Pennsyvania.

I received the following report on Monday...I contacted the witness by telephone shortly thereafter:

I am sending this to you in light of hearing about some other recent PA sightings so I wanted to share my experience.  Read more

Even UFOs Are Following Trump

Despite his stance on illegal aliens, UFOs were spotted following Donald Trump.

Take me to your leader.

That's what you hear in classic sci-fi  movies when the little green men land. But those words are also apropos in this election season.  When the 2016 presidential race ends, what leader will those ETs be taken to? Read more

Gigantic Ancient Monolith Discovered off Sicily Is 10,000 Years Old AT LEAST

More of the hidden history of the human race has been revealed. Researchers have discovered a gigantic monolith off Sicily that is 10,000 years old - at least.

During a high-resolution mapping of the seafloor surrounding Sicily, researchers discovered an ancient treasure: a stone monolith spanning 39 feet (12 meters), resting on the bottom of the Mediterranean.

Stunned, the researchers sent down divers with cameras and video recorders to get a closer look at the monolith, which had broken into two parts. They dove 131 feet (40 m) underwater in an area called the Pantelleria Vecchia Bank, located about 37 miles (60 kilometers) south of Sicily. Read more

Monsters in America

A map of America, created by artist Mark Adams, reveals the monsters feared the most in each state.

From the Jersey Devil to the Mothman, the US is filled with fictional creatures that have come to life in the nation's imagination.

Now one artist has decided to draw these cryptids by hand, revealing the beasts that are feared the most in each state.

'The map is a bit of a declaration of optimism and wonderment as to what might be possible on planet Earth,' artist Mark Adams told Dailymail.com. Read more

The Black Man at the Crossroads

Blues legend Robert Johnson was supposed to have made a deal with the devil to obtain his musical talent.  Hoodoo has a tradition of crossroads spirits, but what exactly are these entities?

Note: Makes sure to read the section titled "controversy" at the end of this blog post.

In Hoodoo lore, The Black Man At The Crossroads is a survival of an African Trickster Spirit. Similar entities can still be found in the living religions of Voodou, Santeria, Lukumi, Candomble, IFA, and the like. Since Hoodoo is not a religion, The Black Man is not worshipped, but he is to be highly respected. Because of his trickster nature, the Black Man is often called, 'The Devil', but such title is most definitely not one that is synonymous with the Biblical Satan. Instead, the term, 'The Devil' is a reference to the trickster nature of the entity. Similar African tricksters associated with the crossroads have also been referred to as 'The Devil'. Read more

Fairy Circles Continue to Mystify

Fairy circles continue to mystify science. If fairies don't make them, what does?

A 2,000-kilometer strip of desert stretching across Namibia is pockmarked with mysterious “fairy circles.” From Angola to South Africa, millions of these bare patches of dirt (which can be seen on Google Earth if you know where to look) dot the landscape, each some five to 10 meters across. And they are not static; they grow and shrink and disappear and reappear. Read more

Hoodoo Papers and Petitions

The written word can have magical power. Here is how hoodoo practitioners use papers and petitions.

In the Hoodoo tradition, one is typically advised to write one's petition on brown paper torn, usually from a grocery type sack, on all four sides by hand. This is thought to make the paper pure. However, there are instances where the practitioner is allowed to cut the paper with a pair of scissors. The use of scissors is seen as symbolic of using weapons such as swords, knives, and daggers against one's enemies. Some situations in which you would cut your petition paper with scissors can include when driving two people apart, or working enemy tricks. Read more

Pterodactyl Sighting Terrorizes Villagers

Numerous villagers in New Guines have reported seeing what appears to be a Jurassic period pterodactyl.

Indonesia have reported sightings of an unidentified flying creature which seems to fit the description of a Jurassic period pterodactyl, a creature that lived more than 150 million years ago, reports the Kalimantan Press this morning. Read more

Florida Skunk Ape Caught on Video

 A video purports to show Florida's skunk ape near Plant City.

A video that purports to show a large, man- or ape-like creature in Alderman’s Ford park has been making the rounds on the Internet.

The 22-second video, taken from a great distance and without commentary, depicts a furry, dark figure walking along the tree line before disappearing into the forest. The footage was reportedly shot at the county park off County Road 39. Read more

Apollo Astronaut Says Aliens Tried to Prevent Nuclear War

Apollo astronaut Edgar Mitchells says aliens tried to save America from nuclear war.

Aliens came to Earth to stop a nuclear war between America and Russia, according the bizarre claim of a former astronaut.

Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon, says high-ranking military officials witnessed alien ships during weapons tests throughout the 1940s.

The UFOs, he says, were spotted hovering over the world's first nuclear weapons test which took place on July 16, 1945 in the desolate White Sands deserts of New Mexico. Read more

The Mystical Mysteries of Mt. Shasta

Brent Swancer examines the mystical mysteries surrounding Mt. Shasta.

Mountains have always enthralled and inspired awe in mankind since time unremembered. We have lived in their shadows, worshipped at their feet, spun epic legends around them, feared them, revered them, and sacrificed to them. They have been the muse for countless artists, writers, and philosophers for thousands of years and inspired adventurers to push past their limits to ascend them. Mountains have also long drawn to them countless inexplicable mysteries and myths that gravitate around their craggy, cloud covered peaks and taunt those of us who would try and understand them. Although there are many deeply mysterious mountains in the world, one that surely stands out as exceptional is Northern California’s Mt. Shasta, a mountain which seems to know no end to the depths of bizarreness. Ancient lost civilizations, UFOs, Bigfoot, strange creatures, anomalous people, and numerous other unexplained phenomena, Mt. Shasta is just dripping with high strangeness. Let us explore the weird, wonderful, and indeed often surreal world of this mystical mountain realm. Read more

8 Signs That Your Child Might Be Psychic

Best-selling paranormal author Joni Mayhan gives parents eight signs that psychic children often display

Mary-Jane’s five-year-old daughter Shaely ran from the bathroom screaming, telling her mother there was a monkey man in the mirror behind her as she brushed her teeth. After calming down her daughter, Mary-Jane hesitantly approached the bathroom, fearful of what she might find.

Would she discover a real live person who broke into their home? Or could it be connected to the other events that had transpired over the course of the past few months? She stepped into the bathroom, finding it empty. As she leaned against the doorframe, she wasn’t sure whether to be relieved or more concerned. Read more

Comic Featured "The Face on Mars'" 17 Years Before Mars Probe's Famous Photo

A 1959 comic featured "The Face on Mars" seventeen years before the Mars probe's famous photo.

Here's your daily dose of weird: Almost four decades ago a strange photograph was taken of Mars by the Viking 1 space probe, which appeared to show a massive humanoid-looking face carved into the Red Planet's landscape, staring back at the orbiter's lens. The so-called 'Face on Mars' would go on to become a fixture in theories about extraterrestrial alien life, though later more high-resolution photographs of the region had NASA dashing thoughts of it being an artificial creation. Read more

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Silicon Valley Turns to Mystics for Advice

Silicon Valley tech workers are turning to psychics and witches for advice, says Jeremy Lybarger.

Ten thousand miles from Silicon Valley, in a room near the Black Sea, Yegor Karpenchekov dreams of money. At night, while the rest of Odessa sleeps and cocaine smugglers drift in and out of the port under cover of darkness, Yegor logs onto FaceTime and talks to a 70-year-old woman in San Francisco. Her name is Sally Faubion, and five months ago she recruited Yegor from the freelancer marketplace UpWork to code her apps. She believes "divine intervention" brought them together; for Yegor, it was likely $20 per hour and the promise of steady work. Read more

Elongated Skull Found at Russian Stonehenge

A skeleton with an elongated "alien" skull was unearthed at the Russian Stonehenge. If this was a tribal tradition as archaeologists say, why did it start?

A skeleton with an unusual-shaped skull has been unearthed on a site known as Russia's Stonehenge.

When images of the remains were first published, UFO enthusiasts rushed to claim they were proof that aliens had once visited Earth. Read more

Real-Life Paranormal Mysteries

Lon Strickler shares some reader accounts of paranormal mysteries.

The following accounts were submitted several years ago by blog readers:

Hauntings...or Haunted?

"I have had a number of weird experiences in my life, in different places. I don't know if I just happen to have lived in several "haunted" places or if I'm the one that's haunted. My Mom thinks I have a haunting that follows me around, but I don't have experiences everyplace I've lived. My kids have had a couple sightings too, once with a friend over and they all saw it. I'll include those, but neither of those experiences were in places where I had experiences. Weird."
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The Most Paranormal Places in Chicago

As a major metropolis, Chicago has a plethora of paranormal places. Taylor Leonard describes some of the Chicago locations most notorious for paranormal activity.

Chicago is mostly known for its world famous urban architecture, museums, and sports venues. Due to countless tragedies and horrors over the years it’s also one of the more haunted metropolises in the United States. If you’re traveling to the Windy City or live there now you might want to check out the following Chicago locales notorious for paranormal activity: Read more

Sex Magic: Bring More Money into Your Life with This Sexy Ritual

Layla Martin reveals how to use sex magic to increase the flow of money into your life.

Retired Air Force Colonel Claims New Evidence Will Blow the Lid off Rendlesham UFO Sighting

Col. Charles Hall says Air Force encountered "some type of superior intelligence" that could "change size, change shape" during the Rendleshan UFO sighting.

A retired Air Force colonel says he has new evidence to throw light on one of the most notorious UFO reports in history -- the 1980 sighting near the Bentwaters Royal Air Force Base in the UK.

Col. Charles Halt has collected sworn statements from air traffic controllers, on duty in 1980 at Bentwaters. They tell him that they witnessed a UFO on radar performing incredible aerial maneuvers. And they were afraid of talking about this until they retired. Read more

Is the Loch Ness Monster a Giant Catfish?

A top expert has changed his mind about the Loch Ness Monster.

FOR 24 years he has assiduously watched the waters of Loch Ness convinced that it holds a family of prehistoric monsters.

But now Steve Feltham, who is recognised by the Guinness Book of Records for the longest continuous monster hunting vigil of the loch, believes Nessie is no plesiosaur but a giant catfish first introduced by Victorians. Read more

Peru's Nazca Lines Reveal Mysterious New Animal Images

Researchers have discovered previously unseen Nazca lines that reveal mysterious new animal images.

The Nazca Plateau in Peru contains two dozen new geoglyphs that predate by two centuries the famous monkey, spider and hummingbird listed at the UNESCO World Heritage site.

Almost invisible on the surface, the images were captured by researchers from the University of Yamagata in Japan thanks to 3-D scans of the ground a mile north of the city of Nazca.

The team discovered 24 geoglyphs of animals, “some of which probably depict Andean native camelid, llamas,” the researchers said in a press release. Read more

Why Is the Devil's Hour So Terrifying?

Best-selling paranormal author Joni Mayhan explores why the devil's hour is so terrifying.

As the clock approaches the hour of 3AM, something strange happens in the world around us. The veil between the living and the dead grows thinner, allowing free passage between the two dimensions. Demons, ghosts and interdimensional creatures slip into the land of the living, creating havoc and tormenting us as we lay in bed sleeping. They call it the Devil’s Hour.

Some people find themselves waking up every night during the Devil’s Hour, feeling a chill in the air as though they aren’t alone. They might awaken from a nightmare that seems all too real, only to find themselves face to face with their night stalkers. Many believe it’s more than just lost souls wandering our plane of existence, that it’s the work of demons who are mocking the Holy Trinity of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. Since Jesus Christ died on the cross at 3PM, they use the opposite hour to torment the living in the same manner they might hang crosses upside down. Read more

How to Make a Symbolic Hieronymus Machine

You may have heard of radionics, aka psionics, but were put off when you found out how much the machines cost. Experimenters have discovered, however, that symbolic devices work just as well as the physical devices. Learn how to build one of the most famous radionics machines yourself.

Build your own Symbolic Hieronymus Machine with these handy graphics.

Click on the images above for the high resolution versions. (Note: the dial is a separate image, so download both!)

The Symbolic Hieronymus Machine image can be downloaded and printed out, and should fit nicely on a Letter or A5 size sheet. Read more

How Can You Control Your Dreams?

he ability to manipulate our dream worlds goes beyond the science fiction plot of the movie Inception. A dream expert from Harvard University explains how it works

Some dreams feel so revelatory—if only returning to sleep would take us back there. It turns out, however, that our ability to shape our dreams is better than mere chance. In the blockbuster movie Inception, Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his compatriots use drugs and psychological profiles to trigger specific dreams in people. Although the heavy sedation and level of detail incited are far-fetched, dream control isn't entirely a Hollywood fantasy. Read more

Learning How to Become a Paranormal Investigator

Have you ever wanted to become a paranormal investigator? Christie Gainer gives a rundown on what it takes.

Many people who have a strong interest in the paranormal often ask how to become a paranormal investigator. Read on to learn what it takes to investigate paranormal phenomenon like a professional. Read more

Roswell's Unanswered UFO Questions

After almost seventy years, Lee Speigel says there are still unanswered questions about the Roswell crash.

Something crashed near Roswell, New Mexico, 68 years ago. The first military authorized press release stated, "RAAF (Roswell Army Air Field) Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch In Roswell Region." That's right, the military was the first to indicate it was a flying saucer. Read more

Lady Gaga Hires Ghost Hunters to Protect Her from Evil Spirits

Lady Gaga has hired a team of ghost hunters to protect her from evil spirits.

Most rational people who believe in spirits are at least somewhat scared by them. Celebrities are no exception, as Lady Gaga seems to be terrified of the possibility of rubbing elbows with evil spirits. Lady Gaga has spent upwards of $30,000 buying a team of professional ghost hunters EMF equipment just so they could sweep any tour venue and hotel before she agreed to reside in the premises. Read more

Flying Saucer and Flying Humanoids Reported in India

A flying saucer and flying humanoids have been reported in India.

A young boy in Kanpur, India, hoping to takes some pictures of clouds instead photographed what appears to be a classic flying saucer. Meanwhile, Indian sews programs are showing videos of what look like flying humanoids over Nellore that some say look vaguely familiar.

On June 24, 7-year-old Abhijeet Gupta thought he was taking pictures of a glider flying through the clouds but knew it was something else when it began changing colors and emitting lights. Here’s part of his description: Read more

ET Go Home: Is It Time to Retire the ET Hypothesis?

Greg Bishop thinks it's time to time to retire to extraterrestrial hypothesis as an explanation for UFOs.

If you can’t at least consider the possibility that the human race has been involved in some sort of interaction with a non-human intelligence for a great deal of recorded history, you may stop reading now. The thousands of reports and accounts of gods, aliens, djinn, fairies, tricksters and other entities that pop up through the ages might be wishful thinking, or there is something very weird going on. If nothing else, it is far more interesting to consider the latter possibility. Read more

5 Reasonss Not to Ghost Hunt in the Dark

Ghost hunting in the dark seems to be traditional, but there are several reasons not to ghost hunt with the lights out.

Ever since Ghost Hunters premiered, paranormal enthusiasts seem to mimic television and ghost hunt in the dark. In today’s paranormal world it has become the standard practice to do all investigations with the lights off. But when asked why people investigate with the lights off, most people have no idea why it’s actually done. It’s presented on television this way for entertainment purposes, as it looks frightening. There are a number of reasons why we actually shouldn’t ghost hunt with the lights out. Read more

Man Displays Personality of Child Organ Donor After Transplant Surgery

This story of a man who displayed personality characteristics of of a child organ donor after receiving a kidney transplant raises the question of just where do our memories actually reside?

In March of 1996, forty-eight year old Albert Morrow spent several days recovering in a Georgia hospital bed after a successful kidney transplant. Relegated to a strict diet and regimented liquid intake, his multiple requests for a glass of cold milk were denied by the attending health care personnel. Even in his sleep, the nurses would hear him muttering about drinking milk and eating chocolate chip cookies. During a visit, Albert’s wife, Joyce, learned of her husband’s desire for milk and complained that it must be some kind of reaction to the medication as Albert was lactose intolerant and had avoided dairy in any form for over thirty years. Read more

How the Power of Suggestion Can Ruin Your Ghost Hunt

Several things can influence your ghost hunt negatively if you're not careful.

Paranormal investigations are very difficult to carry out if you’re trying remain neutral or objective. What information is shared before and during can influence the investigation greatly, as the power of suggestion can influence others whether you mean it to or not. Below is a small list of common things that can influence your investigation negatively. Read more

UFOs Spotted Above Loch Ness

Are aliens searching for Nessie? UFOs have been spotted above Loch Ness.

Forget the fabled Loch Ness Monster. Now we've got something else just as strange at Scotland's famous lake where, according to legend, a prehistoric beast makes its home.

Move over, Nessie, UFOs seem to take a liking to your backyard. A tourist unexpectedly photographed what looks like a pair of disc-shaped objects flying above the water of the 22-mile-long freshwater lake. Read more

Has the “Flat Earth Theory” Found a New Audience?

 The "Flat Earth" theory was disproved long ago, right? It seems to have found a new audience, though.

It’s the last thing that most would ever think they would have to make a case for in the modern world: why the Earth is indeed a globe, and not a flat plane covered with topographical features like mountains and valleys, drifting along like an island in space.

Strange as it may sound, this was precisely the kind of argument I recently found myself having to address, in response to a discussion that took place on an online radio show which apparently brought the so-called “flat earth theory” back into question… at least in the minds of some. Read more

10 Alchemists and Their Strange Discoveries

Did you know that mathematician and physicist Isaac Newton was also an alchemist? He and other alchemists left a strange modern legacy, according to Debra Kelly.

Simply put, alchemy is the study of the transmutation of base metals into gold or other precious metals. While alchemist have long been relegated to the fringe, modern scientists are finding that the alchemists were just a little bit right. Not all the way, because there are plenty of alchemical theories that, if true, would mean we’re living in an entirely different world. In some instances, though, historic alchemists did have a lasting impact on the world around them—just not the way they expected. Read more

People All Over the World Are Reporting Night Hags

Paranormal investigator Joni Mayhan examines possible explanations for the sleep paralysis creatures known as night hags.

Jason woke up every night feeling pinned to his bed. The terror was very real. He could feel an unknown presence looming above him in the darkness. His hobby of photography had recently taken him to several reportedly haunted locations. Did something follow him home?

Jason has always been intrigued by abandoned buildings. A recent road trip with a handful of fellow photographers brought them to several paranormal hotspots. They spent a few hours at each location, focusing on the architecture and scenery. While he didn’t necessarily get any creepy vibes while shooting the location, he still worried that something might have tagged along for the ride. What else could have woken him up in the middle of the night? The possibilities are as follows: Read more

Fleets of UFOs Seen Flying over England and Georgia

UFOs in these numbers are more likely part of the secret space program than extraterrestrial visitors.

Seeing one UFO is getting to be pretty common. Two generates a little more interest. See a fleet of UFOs and you get some attention. That’s what’s happening in Cheltenham, England and Conyers, Georgia, after large numbers of UFOs were seen over those cities this week. Are these mysterious lights signs of an invasion or aliens checking out B&B’s in the Cotswolds? Read more

African Shaman Demonstrates Levitation

A German film crew captures an African shaman performing levitation. If this is a trick, it's a pretty good one.

The Charlie Charlie Challenge Was a Giant Publicity Stunt for a Horror Movie

Rather than being another example of teenagers experimenting with the occult, it turns out that the Charlie Charlie Challenge was a marketing campaign for a new horror movie..

We’ve already written about the insane that social media trend #CharlieCharlieChallenge in which teenagers use pencils like a Ouija board boast on a racist rumor about a “Mexican demon” named “Charlie” – because that’s a common name for a Mexican demon.

Anyways, it was a giant marketing campaign. So you have been brainwashed, fooled, tricked, hoodwinked, and manipulated by an advertising agency. Read more

Skinwalker Ranch: The Most Top Secret Paranormal Mystery of the Century

Paranormal investigator Joni Mayhan describes the incredible variety of paranormal phenomena that occur at Skinwalker Ranch.

Skinwalker Ranch is hands down one of the most mysterious places on Earth, crossing over into nearly every category of the paranormal world. Where else could UFO sightings be linked with poltergeist-like activity, interdimensional portals, shapeshifting humanoids and mutant wolf encounters?

We’ve been obsessed with this case for years, ever since discovering it through a Paracast episode. Ever since then, we’ve been feverishly accumulating as much material as we can to try and understand what the hell is going on at what seems like a military installation devoted to experimenting on paranormal entities…. Read more

Is the Moon Hollow?

Is the moon hollow? Lee Speigel examines what's behind the theory.

In 1998, images from the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft revealed something startling from Phobos, the unusual large moon orbiting Mars.

It appeared to be a very tall, 400-foot-high rectangular-shaped object jutting straight up and casting a long shadow on the surface of Phobos, as seen in the picture below. Read more

The Charlie Charlie Challenge

A Twitter craze has gone viral as young people to seek life advice and dating tips from a Mexican demon called Charlie.

A terrifying new Twitter craze has been sparked by claims a simple ritual can be used to summon the spirit of a Mexican demon called Charlie.

A ouija board-inspired game called the CharlieCharlieChallenge has surged across social media, prompting vast numbers of youngsters to claim they have successfully communicated with a sombrero-wearing spook. Read more

5 Signs 2015 Could Finally Be The Year of Alien Disclosure

Bestselling paranormal author Gare Allen says five signs point to 2015 being the year of UFO disclosure.

With information more readily available than ever and groups like WikiLeaks making top secret government files not so top secret, disclosure related to the existence of aliens is more likely now than ever. 2015 is about half over, but there are signs that we can still expect to receive the long-awaited ET disclosure before the year’s up. Read more

Who Were the Giants of Ancient America?

The fact that giants existed in pre-Columbian  America is actually surprisingly well-documented by accounts of the discovery of giant skeletons and the oral histories of American Indian tribes. Here is a survey of some the the best evidence.

Few Americans alive today are aware that once real giants roamed the land – giant red-haired humans. Most Americans believe that the Native Americans were the first to inhabit the North American continent. Yet there were others – a much more ancient race that walked the hills and valleys, the plains and deserts of the pre-Colombian Americas.

Evidence of giant humans – people seven to twelve feet tall – exists in the fossil records, tools and other artifacts recovered from archaeological digs. Giant skeletal remains have awed and sometimes frightened researchers and explorers as far back as the Sixteenth Century. Read more

A Civil War Bigfoot Sighting?

Bigfoot sightings didn't begin with the Patterson film. Indians, explorers, and hunters reported Bigfoot sightings long before then.

How much do we know about early encounters with Bigfoot / Sasquatch? The native people of North America had hairy people legends and many of those traditional tales remain today. When European explorers and hunters arrived on the continent, there were a few accounts of upright hairy beast encounters. The Arkansas Wild Man is one of the best known early Bigfoot sightings...below is the original newspaper text: Read more

Can Pets Come Back as Ghosts?

Bestselling author and paranormal investigator Joni Mayhan explores whether pets can come back as ghosts.

After one of Sandy’s cats passed away, she spent the next few months mourning the loss. She’s always had cats as pets, but Gremlin was special. She had a strong bond with the black and brown tabby that went beyond normal human pet companionship. He often sat on her shoulder and kneaded his paws into her shoulder muscles, giving her a massage.

His memory didn’t fade over the next few years though. She still found herself thinking about him frequently, missing him much as she would have missed a human family member who had died. She was both surprised and stunned when he came back to visit five years after his passing in ghost form. Read more

Top 10 Most Haunted Woods and Parks in the Midwest

It's not only houses that are haunted. Here are ten haunted woods and parks in the Midwest.

With the summer tourist season fast approaching, we at Mysterious Heartland have prepared a list of some of the most unusual places in the great  outdoors that you can visit. While these are all nice places to experience nature not too far from home, you may also encounter something of the supernatural variety. Be warned, however, some of these places hide very real dangers, not the least of which include hazardous terrain. So visit them alone–at your own risk! Read more

A Simple Evocation Ritual

Evocation is the act of summoning a spirit. The spirit may be an angel, demon, god or goddess, or some other entity. Usually, the purpose of an evocation is to ask the spirit to perform a task. The evocation rituals in the famous magical grimoires, such as The Goetia, are not only complex, but also require hard-to-obtain magical tools and clothing. While that is certainly one way to summon a spirit, it is not the only way. You do not have to evoke a spirit to physical appearance in order for it to carry out a task for you.  A simple evocation ritual can be used to attract a spirit to fulfill a request.

Exploring Americ'as Monsters: Florida

The skunk ape is not the only mysterious creature living in Florida. Jason Offutt describes other monster sighted in the Sunshine State.

Zombies, cannibals, and freaks. Florida is known for terrifying creatures that stalk the streets and swamps of this Southern state, and that’s just the locals, such as Jonathon “The Impaler” Sharkey of Tampa. Sharkey has run for the highest political office in the United States three times since 2004 to become the first vampire president, according to CBS News. He claims he’s a direct descendent of Vlad the Impaler. He’s also been accused of brainwashing teenage girls, and intimidating a judge. Just another happy, carefree story from the Sunshine State.

Even without the people, Florida is a scary place filled with alligators, hybrid man-eating pythons, escaped kangaroos, and herpes-infected monkeys Read more

Identifying and Dealing with Negative Entities

Although most spirits are not negative, some certainly are. John Moore reveals how to identify and deal with negative entities from astral parasites to demons.

Lately it seems everyone I speak to about a new case believes they have some negative entity or demon haunting them. Most forget that about 80% of paranormal claims have a perfectly logical and natural cause. Of the remaining 20% of claims that are paranormal less than 1% are truly in human or demonic in nature. This article is for after those cases that truly are paranormal in nature and have no natural explanation. The most common cause I have run across for this idea that there is a demon in the house is simply a misinterpretation of a spirits attempts to communicate. There are some key factors to look for during a paranormal investigation that indicate a negative or demonic entity which we will discuss later. It must also be noted that this article is simply to clarify some misconceptions and offer some help to those afflicted by these entities. However, after reading this no one should consider themselves ready to do battle with a demonic or inhuman entity under any circumstances. It takes years of training and experience to deal with these entities and one mistake can have severe consequences for all those involved. The best thing to do if you suspect something inhuman or demonic is present is to contact a team experienced in extreme paranormal activity or spiritual warfare for help. Read more

Mind Really Does Affect Matter: Decades of Research Prove It

Mind really does affect matter, and decades of research prove it.

The Orch-Or model of consciousness isn’t a well-known theory, even in paranormal circles that would benefit from it during debates with skeptics. Yet, as an outlook on the nature of consciousness,Orch-OR may hold more potential for uniting the fields of scientific and paranormal research than any other body of work in existence.

Let’s start by acknowledging that there exists research out there contravening a number of science’s most dearly held truths. The inability of scientists to unite the fields of general relativity and quantum mechanics–as well as the growing mystery as to the nature of dark matter and dark energy–is more than enough reason to take a closer look at some of the unbreakable pillars of science: specifically, the idea that the human mind cannot affect matter without a physical medium—or telekinesis. Ask 99 out of 100 scientists out there whether or not there is evidence that mind affects matter, and 99 times you will be told, “No”.

This is partially the result of esoteric academic circles that only push forward certain kinds of research. To a large extent, parapscyhology and mind anomalies research is not considered a legitimate field; it is considered pseudoscience, right up there with chakras, holistic medicine, and karma. So even if these scientists know—and a great many probably do—about the Orch-Or model of consciousness, and the decades long work of The Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) program, they simply don’t care to think of it as revolutionary. Read more

UFO Seen Hovering over Nepal

A UFO was seen hovering over the region of Nepal hit by the recent earthquake.

A UFO was recorded hovering over areas of Nepal devastated by the recent earthquake at the same time as new images taken by a European Space Agency radar satellite show that Mt. Everest appears to have shrunk as a result of the quake. Has damage to the planet’s highest mountain raised concern among aliens? Read more

Haunted Doll Causes Nausea and Chest Pains

Videos and photos of a doll known as Peggy are supposed to have caused a range of symptoms in people viewing them.

Known as Peggy, the allegedly possessed child's doll is now owned by Jayne Harris, a paranormal investigator who has a keen interest in the unexplained and the occult.

Head of the "Haunted Dolls" organization in Shropshire, England, Harris received Peggy from the doll's former owner who had been trying to get rid of it on the basis that it had been responsible for a spate of terrifying nightmares and inexplicable ill-health. Read more

Ghost of An Old Man Terrorizes Couple in Florida Home

bestselling paranormal author Gare Allen tells how the ghost of an old man terrorized a couple in their Florida home.

“I would see a tall, thin shadow man in the corner of the room. He would appear to be watching me. Then, he would disappear and I would hear a loud shout in my ear. I could feel breath on my skin as he scolded me.” J.K. recalled of her time in her haunted home.

“It seemed like the perfect house.”

Thus begins countless stories of ghost hauntings and terrorizing encounters that force unsuspecting homeowners to flee for safety. This was certainly the case for newlyweds J.K. and her husband, Doug. Read more

How to Search for the Loch Ness Monster from Your Computer

You don't have to go to Scotland to search for the Loch Ness Monster. With Google Street View, you can search for Nessie from your computer.

You don't have to rent a boat to hunt for the Loch Ness Monster any more. You don't even have to travel to Scotland.

Google mounted a Street View camera on a boat to give people a 360-degree view of the 23-mile-long loch in all its murky glory, and to allow armchair monster hunters around the world to join the search for Nessie.

You can start your search -- or just check out Loch Ness and get a monsters-eye view of the famous ruins of Urquhart Castle -- right here. Read more

Can Water Dowsing Be Taught?

Inspired by Russell Crowe's new film, our man tried his hand at dowsing.

In his new film, The Water Diviner, Russell Crowe plays a tough Australian bush farmer possessed of mystical powers, which he uses to divine that everything that subsequently goes wrong is the fault of the British.

Russell’s character travels to Turkey in 1919, hoping to learn the fate of his three sons who have failed to return from the Battle of Gallipoli, but his quest is thwarted by the hostility and snivelling incompetence of British officialdom, and his only reliable ally is his gift.

Divining is the ancient practice of holding rods or a forked branch, which supposedly react to the “energy” of things underground. Some claim that evidence of divining can be found in Neolithic cave paintings, but its popularity seems to have taken off in the 15th century as a method of finding metal deposits, and today in Britain there is a small but in-demand corps of professional diviners. Read more

6 Secret Places Google Earth Doesn't Want You to See

Here are six secret places that Google Earth has blocked, erased, whited out, or replaced with other images, along with the possible reasons.

Possibly one of the easiest ways to find secret government projects is to look at how well they are hidden in Google Earth. Government agencies, corporations, or private individuals can request that Google block satellite views of their location from Google Earth users. Some requests to “hide” their location are trivial while others can be quite revealing via their intent.

Here are several hidden Google Earth locations that are blocked, erased, whited out, or replaced with other images. Read more

UFOs Show Up During War, Says Ex-Air Force Intelligence Officer

UFOs confront soldiers during wartime, says an ex-Air Force intelligence officer.

The public rarely hears about interactions between military personnel and unexplained aircraft -- especially during wartime.

As time goes on, however, UFO stories stuck behind red tape begin to see the light of day. The Vietnam War saw its share of UFO activity in the 1960s.

One close encounter, in 1968, involved the crew of an American patrol boat that reported two glowing circular craft following them in the demilitarized zone that separated North and South Vietnam Read more

Voodoo and Black Magic: Are They Real?

Are voodoo and black magic real? Bestselling paranormal author Gare Allen examines the mysterious death of C. Wheeler.

In August of 2012, C. Wheeler, a retired man in his late sixties, was found dead in his bathtub inside his Florida home. Mr. Wheeler had not been seen for three days and his unmoved car in the driveway prompted his neighbors to investigate. Forcing their way into his home, the formidable stench of death confirmed their suspicions and they immediately called the authorities. With no signs of foul play, a break-in or fingerprints, police ruled the death a suicide and cited the kitchen carving knife embedded in Mr. Wheeler’s throat as the obvious cause of death.

Several days passed and Mr. Wheeler’s family had begun removing his personal belongings from the home in preparation of placing it on the market. His next door neighbor answered their door to find the late Mr. Wheeler’s elderly mother, hunched over and holding letters in one hand and a plain, white doll, made of yarn, in the other. Read more

Obama Won’t Talk About UFOs but His Pilot Saw One

Obama won't talk about UFOs, but one of his pilots saw one.

President Barack Obama’s former Counselor John Podesta said on the day he left office in February that his biggest regret was not securing the disclosure of the government’s UFO files. The president himself was asked about this on the “Jimmy Kimmel Live” talk show and said “I can’t reveal anything” and “Well, you know, that’s what we’re instructed to say.” Is there anyone in Washington who will admit to have seen a UFO? How about one of Obama’s pilots? Read more

Magical Techniques: The Art of Scrying

This video explains what scrying is and how to do it.

The Men in Black Mystery

Lon Strickler presents a few of the more interesting accounts of Men in Black that he's collected.

As many of the readers know, the infamous 'Men in Black' phenomenon grabbed a foot-hold in paranormal nomenclature after these strange individuals were observed in and around Point Pleasant, WV during the 13 month period prior to the collapse of the Silver Bridge. The recent presentation of 'The John Keel Files' on 'Destination America' depicted much of the MIB activity that occurred in 1966-67.

Beyond that specific bizarre period of Mothman, UFO and other odd encounters, the MIB phenomenon continues to occasionally arise after civilian sightings of UFOs and alien beings.

As to their identity and purpose, there are many questions put forward by UFO researchers and enthusiasts. Are they human or non-terrestrial? Who do they represent or work for? Are they dangerous? Are they part of a government or universal conspiracy? What do they want to know?

Here are a few of the more interesting accounts I've collected over the years: Read more

Video Shows Bizarre Black Ring Hovering over Village Before Vanishing into Thin Air

Is this a UFO? A video shows a black ring hovering over a village near Asiana, Kazakhstan, before vanishing into thin air.

Eerie footage of a strange, black ring floating in a clear blue sky before vanishing into thin air has sparked UFO rumours among sky-watchers.

The sinister shape hovers ominously above the village of Shorthandy village, near Astana, Kazakhstan, for several minutes as shocked locals watch in confusion. Read more

Pendulum Magic

Using a pendulum is one of the simplest and easiest forms of divination to learn. Richard Webster says a pendulum can literally work miracles.

A pendulum is a small weight attached to a length of chain or thread. When someone holds it by the thread and asks a question, the weight moves and provides the answer. It is an amazing tool that can be used for many different purposes.

Just recently, a friend of mine decided to buy a car. He looked through the advertisements in the daily paper and asked his pendulum about the cars that sounded interesting. The pendulum gave a positive response to six cars, and eventually told him which car he should buy. He looked at all six, and finally bought the car that the pendulum had indicated. Read more

Is the Legend of Spring Heeled Jack Worth a Second Look?

Spring-heeled Jack is an entity that first appeared during the Victorian era. Is the legend of Spring=heeled Jack worth a second look?

Beginning in the Spring of 1888, a series of grizzly murders would shake the city of London so badly that, even today, they remain among the most famous crimes ever committed. Attempts at bringing the killer to justice have led to numerous theories about the identity of the man who became known to history as Jack the Ripper. Today, despite a number credible leads that have been presented since Jack’s reign of terror, along with new evidence that employs modern science to try and crack the case, a conclusive case for The Ripper’s identity has remained elusive.

The infamous killer of Whitechapel was by no means the first eerie figure to terrorize Londoners by night. Five decades before Jack the Ripper first scrawled his name in red ink on a letter sent to London’s Central News Agency, a less murderous–though far more strange–series of incidents would arouse similar terror among the people of London, and under a similar name that remains one of the most odd and evocative in the annals of Forteana. Read more

CNN Reporter Attacked by Evil Spirit During Live Segment

A CNN reporter was attacked by an evil spirit during a live segment.

A CNN news reporter claims that an evil spirit attacked her and one of her crew members while she was doing a live segment about a haunted house in Pennsylvania. According to a report from Movie Pilot on Wednesday, the reporter said that she and her crew members were scratched and pushed down the stairs. Read more

10_Year-Old Boy Remembers Past Life as 1930s Hollywood Actor

A ten-year-old boy remembers a past life as a 1930s Hollywood actor.

“Mom, I have something I need to tell you. I used to be somebody else.”

Those were the words that five-year-old Ryan Hammons told his mother as he was being tucked into bed five years ago, according to NBC News’s Today.

Ryan reportedly began having vivid nightmares at age four. The next year, Ryan told his mother he wanted to “go home” to Hollywood, and related stories about meeting actress Rita Hayworth, taking trips to Paris, and dancing on Broadway. The boy said he had once lived on a street with the word “rock” in it. Read more

Does New Theory Pinpoint Location of Atlantis?

An author's quest leads to a location for the lost city of Atlantis off the coast of Morocco.

Type the word “Atlantis” into Google and 120 million results pop up. Like El Dorado or Shangri-la, the legendary sunken city of Atlantis hovers on the horizon of our imagination, tantalizing, mysterious, unreachable. Meet Me in Atlantis: My Obsessive Quest to Find the Sunken City pulls together the tangled web of conjecture—and sticks a new locator pin in the map. Read more

Magical Seals: How to Use Them as Talismans

Magical seals are symbols that act as material links to spiritual powers. They can be found in The Greater Key of Solomon, The Goetia, and other grimoires. Ceremonial magicians and witches typically use the seals to summon the spiritual power associated with them. Folk magic practitioners, on the other hand, usually don't perform spirit evocations with them. Instead, they use the seals as talismans.The method below is typical of how magical seals are used in folk magic traditions, such as hoodoo and New Orleans voodoo.

Former NYPD Cop Claims 9/11 Debris Haunted by Female Ghost

Former NYPD lieutenant Frank Marra says the 9/11 debris is haunted by a female ghost.

She was there to protect and serve.

A number of workers at the Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island who were sifting the rubble from the 9/11 attacks reported seeing a female ghost holding a tray of sandwiches, a new book ­reveals. Read more

Ghosts and Aliens: Is There a Connection?

Bestselling author and paranormal investigator Joni Mayhan explores the connection between ghosts and aliens.

When I began researching this topic, I must admit that I was firmly in the skeptic’s corner. I am open minded to many things paranormal, but this took my belief system to a level I couldn’t immediately facilitate.

In my experience, there are Ghost Camps and there are Alien Camps. People who belong to one seldom venture into the other. We might appreciate the findings and the stories that are passed around in the other camp, but we do little more than nod and smile. Read more

How to Use Magical Seals

There are many types of magical seals from different traditions. This video explains what magical seals are and how to use them

Ghostly Voice Calling for Help from Overturned Car Save's Baby's Life

A ghostly voice calling for help from an overturned car in a river saved a baby's life.

Police officers encountered something strange when they responded to a car accident in Utah on Sunday. The officers heard an eerie female voice calling for help and when they followed the voice, they found a baby girl, NBC News reported yesterday. Read more

Pictures Found in Attic May Shed Light on Roswell Incident

Will photos found in an attic confirm or debunk details of the Roswell Incident?

Pictures found in an attic may shed some light on the UFO incident in 1947. Slides that were kept secret for 25 years will now be revealed in Mexico. Read more

Edison Worked on a Device to Record the Voices of the Dead

A long-lost chapter from Thomas Edison's memoir reveals that he was so interested in communicating with the dead that he worked on a spirit phone.

A long-lost chapter of the memoir of Thomas Edison has been found and published in France and it contains details of the great inventor’s plans to build a device to record the voices of the newly departed.

Edison’s original memoir is called “Diary And Sundry Observations” and was published in 1948, 16 years after his death. The first edition of the book contained a last chapter called “Spiritualism,” a collection of essays in which Edison talks about his beliefs in an afterlife and a way to communicate with the dead. Read more

Teleportation, ESP, and Time Travel: 10 Tales of Superpowers

LiveScience takes a look at human superpowers throughout history - and at which ones scientists are working to make a reality.

The idea of people with superpowers is one that has long captivated audiences. Modern-day movies, graphic novels, TV shows and video games are full of fictional stories involving people who have acquired extraordinary and seemingly impossible abilities. The real world has plenty of fantastic claims as well spurring on debate and study.

One person who made fantastic claims was Pedro Ruiz Calderón, a Catholic priest who was brought to trial in Mexico City in 1540. Calderón claimed that he could teleport between continents, make himself invisible, predict the future, make women fall in love with him, find buried treasure, summon and exorcise demons among other abilities. Research by John Chuchiak IV, a professor at Missouri State University, sheds light on his trial.

LiveScience takes a look at superpowers throughout history. Some of them appear impossible while scientists are working on others to make them a reality. Read more

10 Scientific Explanations for Ghostly Phenomena

So-called paranormal skeptics simply call paranormal witnesses liars, hoaxers, and frauds, but there are ten possible scientific explanations for ghost sightings.

According to a 2005 Gallup poll, 37 percent of Americans believe in haunted houses, and according to a 2013 HuffPost/YouGov poll, 45 percent believe in ghosts. These are surprising numbers, but the next time you hear a spooky sound, don’t call the Ghostbusters—get a scientist instead. Behind every shadow, poltergeist, and disembodied voice, there’s a perfectly rational explanation. Read more

The 8 Most Mysterious Disappearances of All Time

Mysterious disappearances are endlessly fascinating. This list could have been extended to ten if they had added Ambrose Bierce and Judge Crater.

Thousands of humans go missing everyday. Unfortunately, the explanation is usually crime–kidnappings, abductions or murder. In other instances, a person can runaway to escape something, or forge a new identity.

A missing persons case that can’t be explained is considered a cold case. Of these cold cases, the vast majority have rational explanations, but investigators simply do not have the physical evidence they need to put the puzzle together. Still, there are a small percentage of cases that seem to defy logic altogether. Read more

Parallel Worlds Exist and Interact with Our World, Say Physicists

This could explain at least some paranormal phenomena.

Quantum mechanics, though firmly tested, is so weird and anti-intuitive that famed physicist Richard Feynman once remarked, "I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics." Attempts to explain some of the bizarre consequences of quantum theory have led to some mind-bending ideas, such as the Copenhagen interpretation and the many-worlds interpretation.

Now there's a new theory on the block, called the "many interacting worlds" hypothesis (MIW), and the idea is just as profound as it sounds. The theory suggests not only that parallel worlds exist, but that they interact with our world on the quantum level and are thus detectable. Though still speculative, the theory may help to finally explain some of the bizarre consequences inherent in quantum mechanics, reports RT.com. Read more

Is That CANNED Laughter aT 2:01-2:03 of This Good Morning America UFO Coverage?

It could be canned laughter, or the GMA panel could just be that stupid.

As you can read in the description of this blog above... I look at how the MSM handles the very few `UFO' cases that they choose to look at nowadays - 3 years after/passed the official UFO Disclosure statement by the Obama Administration. So, I found this gem from 2014... a true rarity.... of someone in Harrisburg Pennsylvania who caught an unknown object on their phone camera. Read more

UFO Sighting Results in Possible MIB Encounter

Lon Strickler reports that a UFO witness thinks he may have also had a Men in Black encounter. If he did, they seem to have updated their wardrobe.

I received the following report on Sunday evening. I needed to edit the original for various reasons:

Hello Sir. I was directed to you by a forum contributor who reads your website. I work as a night security officer at a warehouse in Plainfield, Indiana. The building is located about a mile west of the Indianapolis International Airport on Reeves Rd. At the time of the incident I was working with another security officer. Read more

A Spell to Protect Your Love from Another

Many people turn to magic in order to get something - usually money, love, or power. However, once you have obtained your desire, in order to keep it, you must protect it. If you have love, there are jealous people who want to take what you have. This spell is used to protect your lover from being stolen by another. It protects your relationship from rivals who want to seduce your lover.