http://www.paranormalnews.comKeep up with all article comments using this rss feed.en-ushttp://www.paranormalnews.com/article.asp?articleid=1267I would like to get a copy of this book too. It does look very interesting, and the ideas behind it are very exciting. I imagine it would be a great read and a lot of fun. I would be very surprised if any of this were actually true though. After looking at the sample images, I have to chalk this one up to the old "shapes in clouds" thing. These are blurry, indistinct photos with no indication of scale in them. If you look long enough, you can find anything you like in them. I still want the book, it does look really interesting & fun. Canis5/14/2008 10:07:25 AMhttp://www.paranormalnews.com/article.asp?articleid=1267I'm definately going to buy it. Darn images, makes me too curious not to. Just looking at the sample images on the website, especially the one of the half buried looking thing, it wouldn't surprise me if we are looking at an old set of mining facilities. If that is the case they could have been in operation 100 or 100,000 years ago. A truely fantastic thought.5/14/2008 9:10:32 AMhttp://www.paranormalnews.com/article.asp?articleid=1264Ok my 2 cents is: the one show with the dogs. There is a lot of editing in these shows and sometimes it takes out things that give explanations so maybe there was more to the story of the dogs being killed in that area. The thing about Ryan being religious and using it to find ghosts...Every little bit helps. Alfie is a Pagan totally different to Ryans religion but he depends on her help. Look you don't have to believe in what they are doing just let the show entertain you. Lastly the show was picked up for another season.5/13/2008 10:04:44 PMhttp://www.paranormalnews.com/article.asp?articleid=1256I don't know...I like the egg = mind analogy. Here's an older post that I don't know if you read which uses the same analogy at some point, perhaps a bit more clearly:http://www.paranormalnews.com/article.asp?ArticleID=1197And you're right, this hatching post is one that I was sure would get absolutely no feedback because it is not clear. I have a number of those actually. Try reading my 'Upon which I Jade' post in my personal blog, or the post about Dramatica which compares thought to the structure of salt. But in the mix of all that is a few gems. I leave it up to other conscious minds to sort the chafe from the wheat--and each one sees what I've made completely differently. I can only steer my own car, I suppose, not all the other cars passing me on the highway. Everyone is going somewhere else, anyway.5/13/2008 5:49:42 PMhttp://www.paranormalnews.com/article.asp?articleid=1266Excellent post. Everything has its dual opposite, and they are impossible to remove from one another without destroying its qualities. Like magnets, there are no monopoles of proper moral behavior...since our brains function through electromagnetivity, it makes sense that this polarity affects thought as well.Personally, I don't know if I will ever learn how to appreciate ritualized spirituality, satanic or otherwise. Which is kind of ironic considering my external behavior is extremely ritualistic. Internally, however, there's nothing ritualistic about me. I guess that is just evidence of the electromagnetic movement in my own mind, no? Everything has its opposite. It's about time that we all embrace contradiction as containing the gem of truth none of us seemingly can find.5/13/2008 5:25:48 PMhttp://www.paranormalnews.com/article.asp?articleid=1266Well, this all pretty much sounds like a lot of hype. I don't care what anyone believes as long as they obey the laws that govern us. It is my feeling that the duality of good and evil exist only in the minds of the human race making both God and the Devil very powerful. Regardless of what I individually believe, this kind of thing feeds their mental fire. Satanists are typically uneducated individuals with a-lot of displaced anger. They see the devil as a goat headed beast. What's funny to me is this depiction of the "Devil" is so very recent (about five hundred years). Before that he was depicted as a vampire like creature. They wouldn't know this though because their education is as limited as much as any other fanatical fundamentalist. Whether Christian, Islamic, etc. GP5/13/2008 2:52:17 PMhttp://www.paranormalnews.com/article.asp?articleid=1256LOL! Actually, there are some similarities between essays and paintings. They are both inanimate objects. They are both made my people with some form of medium and are made in a roughly similar way. They are both creative works that are intended to entertain, convey a message or provoke thought, perhaps all of the above. I hate this analogy a lot less than most. It is a lot closer to being intelligible and meaningful than the egg = mind analogy. But I still hate analogies, even this one, and I will tell you why: It does not contain any real meaning. You said: "Arguing about the validity of one of my essays is the equivalent of arguing about the validity of a painting." What is the meaning behind "arguing about the validity of a painting"? It could be good, it could be bad. Only you know for sure what you meant by that and you did not tell us. It would have been better if you had just said something like "Arguing about the validity of one of my essays is a waste of time,(or super cool, or whatever) because...." If you do not make you message clear, there is hardly any point to writing at all. Of course if it brings you happiness to do it, there is no harm in it. I certainly enjoy reading your stuff, even if I do not always get your point. Regards, Canis 5/13/2008 11:12:49 AMhttp://www.paranormalnews.com/article.asp?articleid=418HI crisrj214, I believe you are mistating the definition of the golden ratio, and overstating its meaning. There was a theory in the 19th century that tried to show the golden ratio could be found in nature, plants, animals & took its ultimate form in the human body, thus proving that we are higher beings than the other creatures on this planet. In practice, this was shown to be hogwash due to the high variability between individual examples of the same species. I would be hard pressed to know how to apply the golden ratio to blurry, shadowy aerial photos with any kinda of accuracy. I think that you could get a positive or negative outcome with no trouble. It would only depend on what you wanted the result to be. Please do not think I am trying to slam you, I just want to be helpful. I enjoyed reading your post and it made me think. I do agree that if you could demonstrate with certainty that phi were encoded in the mars hill/face it would be some pretty good evidence that it was constructed. Here is the wikipedia article on the golden ratio, it is pretty good. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio Regards, Canis5/13/2008 10:29:44 AMhttp://www.paranormalnews.com/article.asp?articleid=418If they have the dimensions of the "face"/"hill", whichever you prefer, then they could see if the proportions follow the golden rule. I can't remember exactly, but you take the distance from your eyes to your mouth divided by the distance from the bottom of your nose to your mouth. Or something like that. Anyway, you will always get the number 1.618 or phi. This number is called the golden ratio and it is found in all living things including plants. If phi were to turn up from the face that would be some pretty hard evidence to ignore.5/13/2008 9:24:45 AMhttp://www.paranormalnews.com/article.asp?articleid=1264"Watch the episode where the dogs are constantly killing themselves in the road." This is a good example of the problem I have with the show. The client mentioned in this episode that two dogs had got hit by cars on thier front road and that she thought they had comitted suicide. I guess it was to escape the ghosts. There is nothing unusual about dogs getting hit by cars. The road looked like it had a fairly sharp bend in it in front of the house they were investigating. I know a person that lives on a rural road at a bend like that and there are at least a couple of dogs hit there every year. On the show, it was immediatly accepted with no question whatsoever that the dogs had comitted suicide. Is this really a solid way to investigate the supernatural? I think that every episode of this show is basically a rush to judgement. Any story or fact they come across is almost always interpreted as being a true supernatural occurance. They seem to apply very little in the way of critical thinking to what they are told. I am sure the group is sincere and really wish to help people out. I do not think it helps someone to reinforce thier belief that they are being preyed on by supernatural forces if that is not realy the case. I do enjoy watching, but not as a serious investigation of the paranormal. Perhaps if it were an hour show, they could present more of thier findings show that I am wrong about the rush to judgement. (assuming there are more findings)5/12/2008 1:54:16 PMhttp://www.paranormalnews.com/article.asp?articleid=1226Though it looks like a meteor, the course it makes is really strange. Almost like a ship's movement. It is possible that it is indeed a UFO. Was anything found in the area saying it was in fact a meteor?5/12/2008 12:20:48 PMhttp://www.paranormalnews.com/article.asp?articleid=1264The show has not been canceled. It has not been officially renewed either. A&E will announce it when they think it's good business sense for them.5/8/2008 8:05:16 PMhttp://www.paranormalnews.com/article.asp?articleid=1264Great post. I haven't been keeping up on it ever since the season ended and I wasn't aware that it was being canceled. As for Ryan being disrespectful for moving rocks, yes, but if it's all scripted, does it matter? Besides, Ryan didn't trust the elder as to it being a holy spot. I don't know if I would have, either. And yes, I know the story of Lorraine being a fraud, but I also heard Defeo's lawyer was lying and not Lorraine and her husband and the Lutzes. That whole case is loaded with multiple plot lines which has cemented it in paranormal lore and it all made her a welcomed addition to a paranormal-based program. Has anyone ever interviewed Lorraine about the fraud accusation? I don't believe in demons the way that many catholics do since most of them were just dressed up pagan gods to convert the peasantry, so the case that she's a "fraud" has a certain appeal any which way you look at it. Regardless she seems to bring a sense of peace to people she speaks to, so I don't really have a problem with her Beelzebubs, Baals, and Belials.In both the instance of Ryan moving rocks when he was told not to, and the instance where Defeo's lawyer could be the one lying, you never know who you should listen to, and those arbitrary decisions in everyone's head creates that massive variety of people out there. Was Ryan being disrespectful? Not if the elder was wrong. Is Lorraine a fraud? Not if Defeo's lawyer who didn't receive all of his attorney fees from the Lutzes was making up that they made it up. People can be just as haunted as houses, and if the Lutzes moved out, you could make a case that so did the supposed spirits.5/8/2008 4:27:46 PMhttp://www.paranormalnews.com/article.asp?articleid=1264Given the high production values and scripting, Paranormal State certainly made for great entertainment, right up there with Most Haunted. However, I have two problems with Ryan's religious beliefs: first is a lack of respect for the beliefs of others. This was seen in the episode where they call in a Penobscot elder who walks them around a property and points out a rock formation and tells them not to disturb it. So what do they do as soon as he leaves? Break out the shovels and start digging. This was nothing short of arrogant and disrespectful, not to mention stupid - as any experienced ghost hunter will tell you: always show great respect for sacred sites of Native Americans. To do otherwise is to invite trouble. And let's not forget his ending that episode by burying Christian medals on Native American land. Secondly, it's one thing to have religious beliefs, it's another thing entirely to allow those beliefs to hinder the search for truth. If you hold the belief that the world is flat, you'll ignore any evidence that it's round. This was pretty evident through out the season. Then you have his obsession with demons. Real ghost hunters run into demons how often? Once in a lifetime? And yet Buell comes across three in three weeks? Again, great entertainment, but factual - hardly. And then you have his beginning every evp session by asking: Are you a demon? I don't know much about demons but I think it's a little naive to expect a real demon to be truthful. And I would think a "Yes" answer is more likely to be a nefarious spirit trying to take advantage of the fears of those asking.Finally, Lorraine Warren may be adorable, but she's also a complete fraud: she and her husband were primarily behind the claim that the Amityville house was infested with demons, a claim that was put to rest when DeFeo's lawyer, William Weber, admitted that he and the Lutzes made the whole thing up over many bottles of wine. No demons, in fact not even haunted according to subsequent investigations and residents. It's my understanding that this show has been canceled, and there won't be a second season...5/8/2008 2:59:15 PMhttp://www.paranormalnews.com/article.asp?articleid=1218You can see the whole pilot episode (Part 1-5) on YouTube. John's stuff starts half way through Part 3. You can read some of his book on the Google Book Search.5/7/2008 11:11:45 AMhttp://www.paranormalnews.com/article.asp?articleid=1218One of the witnesses, John Predovan, wrote Curved Memories. His MySpace page says he's writing another book. If you check out the case comments too you'll see there's a lot more to this story.5/7/2008 11:09:34 AMhttp://www.paranormalnews.com/article.asp?articleid=1263Jeff,You did a fantastic job on the show and I have been getting FLOODED with emails to have you back ASAP. They have been downloading your archive like crazy! Thank you again so very much for the interview and I hope we can do it again soon.Todd BatesPresident/CEO/Radio HostHVRN Corporationwww.hauntedvoicesradio.com"Bringing Paranormal To The World"5/4/2008 12:20:46 PMhttp://www.paranormalnews.com/article.asp?articleid=1095Maybe it's like a glockenspiel, but said by someone with peanut butter in his mouth.5/2/2008 5:39:13 PMhttp://www.paranormalnews.com/article.asp?articleid=1095What is a brockenspeil?5/2/2008 3:26:54 PMhttp://www.paranormalnews.com/article.asp?articleid=1259LMAO!!5/2/2008 3:24:59 PM