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The Mystery of the Margate Shell Grotto
In 1835 a labourer was digging a field just outside the English seaside town of Margate. His work was interrupted when he thrust his spade in to the soil and it simply vanished in to the ground...
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The Greenock Catman, Scotland’s Glowing-Eyed, Rat-Eating Mystery
For nearly five decades, residents of Greenock, Scotland have been reporting encounters with a "catman". When he was captured on camera, people finally...
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Wizards, Workings and Walk-Ins: Be My Baby(lon)
There's been little news on the project as of late but last year we heard that Ridley Scott was developing a miniseries based on the life of Jack Parsons, the co-founder of Jet Propulsion Laboratories and inventor of solid rocket fuel... By Christopher Knowles.
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Phantom Eye Patients See and Feel with Missing Eyeballs
Amputees often feel eerie sensations from their missing limbs. These “phantom limb” feelings can include pain, itching, tingling, or even a sense of trying to pick something up. Patients who lose an eye may have similar symptoms—with the addition of actual phantoms...
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Strange Events During The New Madrid Earthquakes of 1812
UFOs, loud booms, strange creatures,the Missouri witch hunts, plagues. a comet and a native american prophecy. Events surrounding the earthquake.
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Why Some Civil War Soldiers Glowed in the Dark
They called it “Angel’s Glow.”
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Are Multiple Personalities Always a Disorder?
Members of the multiplicity community insist that they're healthy, happy, and even normal—they just have up to hundreds of personalities contained within one body.
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We Subconsciously Predict, and React to, Emotional Events in the Future: Study
It is possible that our subconscious mind somehow “sees” events 1 to 10 seconds in the future. Before we are consciously aware of an event, our bodies...
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Why have we stopped seeing UFOs in the skies?
Ghost and UFO sightings are down. Psychics are in decline. Are we more discerning now, or just afraid to trust anything?
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Our deep need for monsters that lurk in the dark
Sea monsters are the stuff of legend - lurking not just in the depths of the oceans, but also the darker corners of our minds. Why are we drawn to these creatures, asks Mary Colwell.
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What’s Killing the Babies of Vernal, Utah?
A fracking boomtown, a spike in stillborn deaths and a gusher of unanswered questions.
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The Tyranny of Physicalism: You’re Either a God or a Goofball
“Reality leaves a lot to the imagination” - John Lennon
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The ‘Unfathomable’ Pursuit of Personal Tunneling
When Leanne Wijnsma digs a tunnel, it needs to be in a public place. She marks the spot where it will begin and the spot where it will end, and she begins....
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Sheldrake-Shermer, Materialism in Science, Opening Statements
Through the months of May, June, and July of 2015, TheBestSchools.org is hosting an intensive dialogue on the nature of science between Rupert Sheldrake and Michael Shermer. This first month, the focus is on materialism in science.
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Sheldrake-Shermer, Mental Action at a Distance, Opening Statements
Through the months of May, June, and July of 2015, TheBestSchools.org is hosting an intensive Dialogue on the Nature of Science between Rupert Sheldrake and Michael Shermer. During the second month, June, the focus will be on mental action at a distance.
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[Novel] Experiment [again] confirms quantum theory weirdness
The bizarre nature of reality as laid out by quantum theory has survived another test, with scientists performing a famous experiment and proving that reality does not exist until it is measured. Physicists at The Australian National University (ANU) have conducted John Wheeler's delayed-choice thought experiment, which involves a moving object that is given the choice to act like a particle or a wave. Wheeler's experiment then asks - at which point does the object decide?
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10 People Who Claimed To Visit Other Planets
Over the last couple of centuries, many individuals have claimed to visit other planets through astral projection or through secret, possibly alien, technology. Since the 1970s, most alien stories have been about small gray men abducting humans but usually staying on Earth, which seems a pity...
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Remains of sea creature washed up in Far East
With fur on its tail and twice the size of a human being, no one yet knows what the animal is.
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Is the Himalayan Yeti a real animal?
For decades people have reported seeing an ape-man roaming the snowy wastes of the Himalayas. Is there any truth to the tales?
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Neuroscience: The man who saw time stand still
One day, a man saw time itself stop, and as David Robson discovers, unpicking what happened is revealing that we can all experience temporal trickery too. (2014)
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