Category: "Features"

Inner Space: Chilling Out and Solving Problems With Subconscious Meditation

Do you ever find yourself frazzled, stressed, and worn down by the trials and tribulations of everyday life? Do you feel like certain people, places, and things are sucking all the good energy out of you, leaving you feeling like a husk of negative vibes? Wish you had a safe place to escape..

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Bigfoot Speaks, Monster Baiting, and Alien Meat: Week In Weird #1

Hey, Weirdos! In the very first edition of The Week in Weird: The Sasquatch speaks, a lightning strike brings alien mystery meat with it, the latest Bigfoot hoax is outed by a homeless man, mad scientists create glowing sheep, David Lynch fans film a sea-monster, and how you can earn an easy thousand bucks being [...]

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Casting Curses: Hexes and The Dark Side of the Placebo Effect

Imagine you’ve just signed up for an experiment at your local University. You get ushered into a room where the nice cute co-ed in white lab coat explains that you will be taking a new experimental drug for chronic pain. That’s what brought you to volunteer. Pain has been part of your life ever since [...]

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Smoke and Mirrors: Occult Detectives & The First Paranormal Investigations

While not everyone who frequents this website is an investigator beyond reading and imagining the possibilities, we do have our fair share of ghost hunters, occultists, and Forteans. Hell, Who Forted may be run by some of the most active investigators in the business. So, where does …

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Brewing Up Bigfoot: A Conversation with Olympia Beer

The world wide web has been abuzz lately with discussion of the million-dollar reward offered by Olympia Beer for the safe capture of a Bigfoot. Many of the details have been laid out through their press release and the contest’s website. Having read the company’s official statement, I felt the need to inquire a bit [...]

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Ask a Wizard: What the %@($ are the Black-Eyed Kids?

The Vicar does not generally believe automatically in anything paranormal, which some might think an odd viewpoint for a man to adopt when he is a self-described Wizard. Of course, to be entirely fair to my masters, mentors, and brethren, the title is not really self-bestowed. Moreover, the members of my specific order are the [...]

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Telepathic Girl Baffles Researchers with Her Ability to Read Minds

Being autistic, Nandana Unnikrishnan is not like other girls her age. Despite the troubles that come with such a developmental disorder, autism sometimes lends itself to unusual and amazing talents, but never one like this: Nandana is allegedly telepathic. According to initial testing…

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Busted: A Metaphysical Murder in Chicago

Back in 1877, a publication known as the Religio-Philosophical Journal kept an eye on all things Spiritualism. With around 10,000 subscribers, the weekly periodical was founded in Chicago on 1865 by Stephen S. Jones. The press was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1871, yet despite the heavy financial loss, Jones resurrected the journal from [...]

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Where’s the Beef? Thoughts on the Lack of Paranormal Evidence

When skeptics and believers alike look for evidence in the paranormal fields of inquiry the overwhelming question regards evidence. Where is it? What is it? What should be counted as evidence? We have video, picture, and eyewitness testimonials, and even physical evidence in some cases, but it never seems to hold up. Why is that? [...]

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Book Review: “Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend”

This book could be called “A History of Bigfoot Hoaxes.” Unfortunately there is no shortage of material. Joshua Blu Buhs has done a thorough job of researching the Bigfoot phenomenon from the skeptical scientist’s point of view. He considers Bigfoot to be an entirely mythical creature…

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