News ArchivesOn Thursday, the British National Archives released thousands of pages of the government’s classically understated responses to sightings of flying saucers and other unidentified flying objects... CHICAGO — Illinois will no longer do business with Bank of America until the bank restores credit to the shuttered factory here where workers are continuing their sit-in, Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich announced Monday. Posted: 12/8/2008 12:00:00 AM Reads: 105 Submitted By: jeff Source: www.nytimes.com Category: Conspiracy Theories Late summer is not optimum devil-hunting time. For one thing, the creature tends to reveal itself more often in winter, when the somewhat suffocating Pine Barrens of South Jersey carry an extra sense of dread. For another, the ticks are murder this time of year. Posted: 10/3/2008 12:00:00 AM Reads: 95 Submitted By: jeff Source: www.nytimes.com Category: Cryptozoology COME OUT, YOU DEVIL The Pine Barrens, a largely undeveloped area of South Jersey, has produced many stories. Among them is the long-standing tale of the Jersey Devil, and some people are still looking for the creature. “I’m the first one to say, ‘Yeah, I search for the Jersey Devil, ha-ha,’ ” Laura Leuter says. “But why, to this day, do people still report sightings?” Posted: 9/9/2008 12:00:00 AM Reads: 97 Submitted By: jeff Source: www.nytimes.com Category: Cryptozoology You tell yourself: “This is ridiculous. What a waste of money. ...” And yet, skeptical as you are, you long for the Lovers or the Ten of Cups to appear in your spread, and catch your breath with fright if Death or the Hanged Man pops up. Posted: 8/20/2008 12:00:00 AM Reads: 92 Submitted By: jeff Source: www.nytimes.com Category: Remote Viewing Was it was a spirit looking for something to read in the middle of the night? Or was it, as some killjoys suggest, just a spider? At the southern end of Madagascar lie four enormous wedge-shaped sediment deposits, called chevrons, that are composed of material from the ocean floor. Posted: 11/15/2006 12:00:00 AM Reads: 109 Submitted By: jmoore Source: www.nytimes.com Category: Space More than shimmering rings and a smoggy moon the size of a planet set Saturn apart in the solar system. It also has an unusual hot spot at the tip of its south pole. Posted: 2/8/2005 12:00:00 AM Reads: 97 Submitted By: clayroy Source: www.nytimes.com Category: Space WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 - The budget increase Congress just voted for NASA is a clear endorsement of President Bush’s plan to send astronauts back to the moon and later Mars, the head of the space agency said Tuesday. Posted: 11/24/2004 12:00:00 AM Reads: 94 Submitted By: clayroy Source: www.nytimes.com Category: Space A reversal could knock out power grids, hurt astronauts and satellites, widen atmospheric ozone holes, send polar auroras flashing to the equator and confuse birds, fish and migratory animals that rely on the steadiness of the magnetic field as a navigation aid. Posted: 7/14/2004 12:00:00 AM Reads: 89 Submitted By: clayroy Source: www.nytimes.com Category: Science Controversies This pleasant young man from Colorado in a short-sleeved white shirt has been identified by the Dalai Lama of Tibet as the latest of many reincarnations of a Buddhist saint who lived in northern India 400 or 500 years ago. Posted: 6/12/2004 12:00:00 AM Reads: 166 Submitted By: clayroy Source: www.nytimes.com Category: Reincarnation Observations of giant clouds of galaxies far out in space and time have revealed new evidence that some mysterious force began to push the cosmos apart six billion years ago, astronomers said yesterday. Posted: 5/19/2004 12:00:00 AM Reads: 98 Submitted By: clayroy Source: www.nytimes.com Category: Space Carlene Huesgen is not afraid of death, she says. Not since she felt herself slip from her body, float to a hospital ceiling and move toward a bright light three decades ago. Posted: 4/15/2004 12:00:00 AM Reads: 76 Submitted By: clayroy Source: www.nytimes.com Category: Mysterious Phenomena Rob Behler isn’t saying Max Cleland’s Senate seat was stolen by rigged electronic voting machines, but he insists it could have been. Mr. Behler, who helped prepare Georgia’s machines for the 2002 election, says secret computer codes were installed late in the process. Votes "could have been manipulated," he says, and the election thrown to the Republican, Saxby Chambliss. Posted: 2/29/2004 12:00:00 AM Reads: 102 Submitted By: clayroy Source: www.nytimes.com Category: Conspiracy Theories SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 12 — For nearly three decades Robert Smithson’s "Spiral Jetty" lay underwater in the Great Salt Lake. Since 1999, as drought has lowered the water level, this famous American earth sculpture — a 1,500-foot coil of black basalt rocks — has slowly re-emerged. Posted: 1/13/2004 12:00:00 AM Reads: 93 Submitted By: clayroy Source: www.nytimes.com Category: General NO one knows Vlad the Impaler’s drinking tastes beyond, well, his favorite refreshment. Yet a beer brewer and a soft-drink bottler are two early sponsors of a proposed theme park in Romania to be built around the character of Dracula. Posted: 1/11/2004 12:00:00 AM Reads: 85 Submitted By: clayroy Source: www.nytimes.com Category: General No one knows how many people believe in voodoo. People who monitor religious belief in the New Orleans area, however, put the number of voodoo practitioners here well into the tens of thousands or beyond. Posted: 11/30/2003 12:00:00 AM Reads: 107 Submitted By: clayroy Source: www.nytimes.com Category: Voodoo Polls show that about half of Americans believe in paranormal phenomena. "For some reason, a lot of people want it to be so," said Dr. Robert L. Park, a professor of physics at the University of Maryland and the author of "Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud." Posted: 11/11/2003 12:00:00 AM Reads: 96 Submitted By: clayroy Source: www.nytimes.com Category: General PASSAIC, N.J., — She is said to have appeared in some pretty strange places in the area — a grotto in upstate New York, a backyard in Marlboro and a smudgy window in Perth Amboy. But many here believe that on a vacant lot where drugs were once freely traded in this North Jersey city, the Virgin Mary is now appearing in, of all things, the form of a tree stump. Posted: 11/4/2003 12:00:00 AM Reads: 98 Submitted By: clayroy Source: www.nytimes.com Category: Religion The most improbable item in science fiction movies is not the hardware — the faster-than-light travel, the tractor beams, the levitation — but the people. Posted: 8/25/2003 12:00:00 AM Reads: 89 Submitted By: clayroy Source: www.nytimes.com Category: New Science 12> |
