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