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A Puzzling Encounter
Having great respect for cemeteries and believing in the dignity of the dead, the following incident is offered in general terms. Hopefully, no one would vandalize or disrespect the final resting...
View ArticleCalling All Angels--Open Casting For Reality TV
This was in my inbox....Hey Cullan,My name is Carissa and I am an Associate Producer at V2 Films, a television production company based in New York City. I am currently working on a new real-life...
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Ancient Ghosts
[from The Anomalist] "The First Paranormal Investigator Northern Ghost Investigations -- To track this guy down, you have to travel back a mere 2000 years to Greece where a man called Athenodorus...
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When The Bough Breaks...
Dating back, at least, to 1785 is this Mother Goose rhyme familiar to most people:Hush-a-by babyOn the tree top,When the wind blowsThe cradle will rock.When the bough breaks,The cradle will fall,And...
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Happy 7th To Me
Just realized I have been blogging for 7 years this month. Strange State was briefly a website for about a year prior to that, but didn't get much traffic, so you'd be forgiven for never having seen...
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Secrets of Underground Paris
In 2004 Paris police discovered a movie theater / restaurant in a large, previously unknown cavern beneath that city's elite and wealthy 16th Arrondissement, near the Trocadero.Over 170 miles of...
View ArticleWeirdness From The Web--But Is It To Be Believed?
The following stories were gleaned from posts on Pinterest. Amid a jumble of re-posted images bearing obviously faked iPhone ghosts and clearly staged CGI videos of extraordinary feats, a gem or two...
View ArticleI'm Still Here
Haven't been posting much lately because, frankly, there hasn't been much worth writing about. I am still around though and much more active on the facebook page. If you aren't already following me...
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Clients: Must or Mistake?
Here's a topic for you paravestigators... Clients: Must or Mistake? Let me know your thoughts on the concept of taking on "clients". Is it a distraction to real work? If clients are seeking help, is...
View ArticleCan You Solve The Mystery of Cicada 3301
In early 2012, a 4chan user posted a steganograph (a way to conceal data within code, text, images...) that said someone or something called Cicada 3301 was recruiting intelligent people. It's your...
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The Dancing Plague
In the summer of 1518, the town of Strasbourg in France was literally dancing in the streets--and no one could explain why.It seemed a strange sort of plague had taken hold of the city, beginning with...
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THE ENIGMA OF THE BLACK KNIGHT SATELLITE
For some time now, the legend of The Black Knight Satellite has floated through the literature on UFOs and other Forteana. The myth that has arisen over the years is of an object of unknown origin that...
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"Reincarnated" Child Catches His Own Killer.
If the tales recounted in German therapist Trutz Hardo's tome, "Children Who Have Lived Before: Reincarnation Today," are to be believed, then one particularly precocious 3-year-old has led police to...
View ArticleListen To The Music Of The Trees
Bartolomaus Traubeck recorded the following by taking a PlayStation Eye Camera to transcribe via a program called Ableton Live the rings of various trees into music that is strange, evocative, and...
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What Preys On The Predator?
As part of a project to better understand the elusive and mysterious lives of Great White Sharks, Australian scientists tagged some, set them free, and studied the telemetry. But four months into the...
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FRIDAY 13 GHOSTLY TALES TURNED SPOOKY
Oklahoma City-- The Spirit of Oklahoma Storytelling Festival, sponsored by the state arts organization, The Territory Tellers, held a free ghost tales concert on the first night of the event. It was...
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Unmasking Internet Hoaxes
It never ceases to amaze me, in a digital age where facts are literally at your fingertips, how so many can still be fooled by Internet urban legends and hoaxes. Yet, almost daily, we find examples of...
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Summer Movies
There are just some movies that become summer favorites. Something about summer makes me want to watch them more so than other times of the year. These are a few of mine (in no particular order). What...
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Ancient Acoustics and the Almighty
According to a report at phys.org a unique acoustic attribute within a 5,000 year old mortuary temple on the island of Malta produces two distinct resonance frequencies (at 70Hz and 114Hz). The...
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