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The Curse of Oak Island


General off-topic forum    12 Replies

Pollux, 2017-12-01, 11:26 PM

For those of you haven't watched The Curse of Oak Island Tv-series....

Here is some backstory of the alleged treasure someone dug in there - and also those bits of evidence they now been digging up.:

  • The Discovery
    One summer day in 1795 Daniel Mc


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A ghost, or not a ghost - that is the question!?!


Ghost, poltergeist, and spirit forum    9 Replies

Pollux, 2017-11-30, 08:15 PM

The people present at the time when the shot was taken, seems adamant that there weren't any young girl with long blond hair amongst them in the group. And if you look at the height of the railing it's quite clear it must have been a somewhat small girl, since her head is in level with the railing t

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Marilyn Schlitz


Psi research forum (ESP and psychokinesis)    7 Replies

Kamarling, 2017-11-30, 07:40 PM

A little synchronicity: yesterday I was browsing the subject of consciousness and came across a video from the Closer To Truth series featuring Marilyn Schlitz. This morning (as it is right now in NZ) I see another Marilyn Schlitz interview from Closer to Truth has been posted at The Daily Grail.

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Parapsychology Foundation Book Expo


General parapsychology    No Replies

Chris, 2017-11-29, 06:15 PM

This year's Parapsychology Foundation Book Expo will take place on Saturday, and features three authors talking about recent books:

  • Leslie Kean - Surviving Death: A Journalist Investigates the Afterlife
  • Ed May - Anomalous Cognition: Remote Viewing Research and Theory
  • Jack Hunter


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An effective energy healer


General paranormal phenomena forum    16 Replies

nbtruthman, 2017-11-29, 06:15 PM

Charlie Goldsmith, energy healer, article

Paper on testing him at a teac

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Crowdfunding appeal to digitise Parapsychological Association publications


General parapsychology    No Replies

Chris, 2017-11-29, 12:00 AM

Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page - Annalisa Ventola is organising an appeal to fund the digitisation of the Parapsychological Association's Proceedings and Research in Parapsychology, to be made available in a searchable database. Her blog post on the project is here:
http://www.parap

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Robert Matthews and Eric Weinstein on scientific progress and lone geniuses


Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    3 Replies

Chris, 2017-11-28, 11:18 AM

Courtesy of the Daily Grail, here's an article by Robert Matthews, Visiting Professor of Science at Aston University in the UK, arguing that over the last few decades "the scientific enterprise has taken a wrong turn", and that scientific progress has stalled. He particularly highlights theoretical

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Dreams and classic songs


General paranormal phenomena forum    9 Replies

Ninshub, 2017-11-26, 08:11 PM

Does anyone ever wonder what's at the origin of some of the most well-known pop songs having come through to their composers in dreams?

Like McCartney with Yesterday, which he just called Scrambled Eggs for a few years before he wrote the lyrics:

[video=youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

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New meta-analysis of dream-ESP studies


Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    13 Replies

Chris, 2017-11-26, 09:14 AM

Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page and Carlos S. Alvarado's blog, here is a new meta-analysis of dream-ESP studies.

On the correspondence between dream content and target material under laboratory conditions: A meta-analysis of dream-ESP studies, 1966-2016
Lance Storm, Simon J. Sherwood, C

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What is space - like most things, ultimately a mystery


Connected philosophy forum (metaphysics, ontology, theology, ethics)    6 Replies

nbtruthman, 2017-11-25, 10:08 PM

An interesting article on this.

At this point, science has discovered a lot of about "space", but like most things its ultimate nature is still is mostly a mystery. In the biggest scheme of things, we don't really know much. So much fo

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