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A Photo of Jesus On May 2, 1972, the magazine La Domenica del Corriere (basically the Italian equivalent of Parade) published a picture of Jesus Christ (above, left). This wouldn't be a big deal, except the picture was supposedly a photo. And it had been taken by a living monk, Benedictine scholar Pellegrino Ernetti of... Continue Reading →
Gotta have his hustle tight.The Pimp Daddy of UfologyThis year marks the 30th anniversary of the first public appearance of Bob Lazar.If you're at all interested in UFOs, you've probably seen video clips of Lazar chatting calmly and matter-of-factly about his experiences with extraterrestrial spaceships warehoused in the Nevada desert. In his Dan Dreiberg glasses... Continue Reading →
1959: Jacqueline Gay Hart Jacqueline Gay Hart, known as Gay to her friends, was the lovely 21-year-old daughter of marketing wizard Ralph Hart, the president of Colgate Palmolive International. Ralph had scraped his way to the top from the humblest of beginnings - trapping muskrats in Alberta to support his widowed mother when he was just... Continue Reading →
This is what you get for waking up in Vegas. I don't know if Darlene "Dar" Heatherington is well-known beyond the Canadian border, but around these parts she's a household name. And when people say that name, they either have a very strong opinion on it, or they're utterly confounded by the whole thing and... Continue Reading →
Before there was Jim Bakker, before there was Jerry Fartwell, before there was Jimmy Swaggart, there was Sister Aimee. Born to an Ontario farming family in 1890, Aimee Kennedy was born again at age 17, and married a Pentacostal preacher named Robert Semple a short time later. After Semple died on a missionary trip to... Continue Reading →
Part I is here.The SolutionThe amnesia explanation was too dodgy to convince everyone, and instead of curtailing rumours, it only caused curiosity about the “missing eleven days” to escalate over the years.One curious person was Jared Cade, a young Christie fan and collector from Australia. He had studied the mystery carefully, and in the end... Continue Reading →
The media hoo-rah surrounding South Carolina governor Mark Sanford's recent "disappearance" brought to my mind some far stranger voluntary disappearances, most of them involving the very same thing that supposedly drove Gov. Sanford into the arms of his Argentine mistress: True love. Or, in some cases, the lack of it.Agatha ChristieAgatha Christie remains not only... Continue Reading →
Conspiracy Monday has been pre-empted by Kaycee Nicole Redux. But this time, the Sick Teenager Hoax is even more disturbing than usual... This time, the perp presented herself as a sweet 15-year-old Idaho cancer patient named Jonathan Jay White. Jonathan was diagnosed with brain cancer in April 2008, and like Kaycee Nicole he soon attracted... Continue Reading →
Dolls, wolves, and perverts. Oh my. At long last, this is the final post of the psychic detectives/ghostbusters series (you can read the other posts by clicking on Psychic Detectives or Ghostbusters in the sidebar menu). Enjoy! The Smurl Haunting The following information comes primarily from The Haunted, a 1988 book written by Scrantonian Herald... Continue Reading →
Some hoaxes are stupid. Some are weird. Some are boring. And some are completely freaking evil.For the past six months or so, a blogger called April's Mom has been keeping hundreds of readers on the edges of their seats, awaiting the birth of her baby girl. In her first post, A.M. explained that prenatal testing... Continue Reading →
Swallowing The Camel 