ASSAP E-news

The December E-news bulletin from the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena contains a quite astonishing range of items, all the way from straight academic parapsychology - such the Koestler Parapsychology Unit's efforts to encourage prospective registration of psi experiments - to fringes that are quite as wild as anyone could wish for:
https://mailchi.mp/a3e14fe98bc9/august-2...ws-2495313

UFO expected December 24

Many believe that on the night of December 24 a special UFO crosses the globe delivering presents to deserving children. For more than 60 years the North American Air Defense (NORAD)  team has been ready to track this event. Here is a link to the NORAD site, which contains other fun and games for the young at heart.

That's certainly a new way to describe Santa Claus.

That's certainly a new way to describe Santa Claus.

If we're getting seasonal, there is this article from the Daily Grail, complete with a video, entitled "Santa is a Psychedelic Mushroom":
https://www.dailygrail.com/2019/12/santa...-folklore/

At which I'm tempted to shout "Humbug!" but I'll resist.

If we're getting seasonal, there is this article from the Daily Grail, complete with a video, entitled "Santa is a Psychedelic Mushroom":
https://www.dailygrail.com/2019/12/santa...-folklore/

At which I'm tempted to shout "Humbug!" but I'll resist.

Maybe I should just post a link to Ronald Hutton's debunking of this theory (which according to Andy Letcher's book "Shroom" actually originated with Robert Graves in 1972) in his book "Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain" (2001):
https://books.google.com/books?id=Tb0Cmb...&lpg=PT196