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The BeginningIn July 1955, a paperback copy of Morris K. Jessup's recent book The Case for the UFO arrived at the Office of Naval Research in Washington, D.C.Jessup was an auto parts salesman who had once studied for a doctorate in astrophysics at the University of Michigan (he is sometimes misidentified as an astronomer). He... Continue Reading →
Hoaxes from Space Part IIAbout ten years ago, a teenage Evangelical Christian boy I knew was talking about the space program when he suddenly burst out, "Why do rich people want to live on the moon, anyway? Don't they know it's going to turn to blood?"Though I didn't know it at the time, he was... Continue Reading →
Ong's Hat As legend has it, Ong's Hat is an isolated ghost town in the New Jersey pine barrens, almost completely uninhabited since the 1930s. Now it consists of just a road, a few houses, and a cafe. The village was said to be a swinging place at one time, full of saloons and rowdy... Continue Reading →
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 →
July 10th was the 153rd birthday of Nikola Tesla, maverick inventor, eccentric, and idol of many a free energy fanatic. So here are just a few of the wild rumours, tall tales, and conspiracy theories that have sprouted up around Tesla since his death in the 1940s. Sadly, the man's real work and legacy have... Continue Reading →
In case you're not wasting largish chunks of your life digging into odd conspiracy theories, like me, here's a relatively coherent capsule of the Swine Flu conspiracy, combined with the FEMA concentration camp/mass grave conspiracy (from the Goldenheart Chronicles blog): "We now have more than 500 FEMA concentration camps which have been built all over... Continue Reading →
I'm getting a lot of hell from Truther friends for not blindly accepting the latest *PROOF* from Stephen E. Jones. Some days, I just sit around and wait for the Mock Turtle to show up.
To celebrate, you can watch NOVA's excellent recap of the Dover trial, "Intelligent Design on Trial", online here! If you can find a copy, I also recommend Randy Olson's comic documentary Flock of Dodos, which I think is a good answer to Expelled (even though it came out before Expelled). The Discovery Institute was so... Continue Reading →
(AKA Plastic and Aluminum) Mystical-quantum gizmos + your water = plain ol' water I first heard of the Stirwand when Dr. Deagle, in his Granada Forum lecture, mentioned "special wands from Global Light Network that can actually change the structure of water to help ease specific conditions". This sounded like yet another structured water scam,... Continue Reading →
Swallowing The Camel 