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Contributors
Sean Casteel has written about ghosts,
UFOs and other paranormal phenomena
for 15 years, and is currently a contributing
editor to UFO Magazine. Casteel is also the
author of the book UFOs, Prophecy and the
End of Time, (Inner Light Books/Global
Commun.). His web site features some of
his work at www.seancasteel.com.
Frank Joseph is the editor-in-chief of Ancient American, a writer for
Atlantis Rising, book reviewer for Fate magazine, and author of a dozen
other published books about archaeology. He also teaches classes on Synchronicity at Minnesotas Open U Learning Annex in Minneapolis, MN.
His book Synchronicity and You (Sterling Publ, $12.95) is now available at
any Barnes & Noble or Borders bookstores.
An L.A. native and freelance writer, Ellen Seiden has
written copy for companies and museums, as well as
contributed articles to magazines such as Renaissance,
Mysteries, Cricket, Parents, and Highlights, among others. She also wrote The World of What If, a novel for
young adults, and is currently at work on her next novel.
Tim Swartz is an Emmy award-winning television producer and the author of such books as The Lost Journals
of Nikola Tesla, Time Travel: A How-To Insiders Guide,
and Teleportation: From Star Trek to Tesla. He is also the
editor of Conspiracy Journal, a popular email newsletter
of conspiracies, UFOs, and the paranormal.
Andrew Hind is a local history columnist for several newspapers in his native
Ontario, Canada, and a freelance writer with a special interest in the paranormal and history. Maria da Silva also has a passion for the unexplained, and is
Andrews occasional co-writer. They are currently working on a book
together, entitled Strange Events of Ontario.
Robert Guffeys short stories, articles, and interviews
appear in such magazines as The New York Review of Science Fiction, Steamshovel Press, The Third Alternative,
and the 2004 compendium The New Conspiracy Reader.
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Q UEE N M A RY
LETTERS
By Ellen Seiden
According to hundreds of guests and employees, the spirits of passengers, captains, troops, and
personnel who sailed aboard the Queen Mary move then, as now, throughout the ship. In my
opinion, the Queen Mary is one of the most haunted places in the world, claims Peter James, a
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The loss of 1,513 lives aboard the Titanic during the early morning hours of April 15, 1912, seems
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foretold by more than 50 individuals while many passengers experienced various omens, premonitions, extraordinary coincidences, as well as precognitive dreams prior to the cruise,
making the Titanic disaster among the most unique incidents in the annals of paranormal phenomenon.
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O U R M Y S T E R I O U S U N I V E R S E ...................... ..................3 2
Jersualem Syndrome: A Deluge of Messianic Delusions
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TREASURES
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Half-Time Tales and Sports Legends
M UMMY S C UR SE
By Andrew Hind and Maria da Silva
B ETWE EN S URRE AL ISM
E D I T O R ............ .......... .......... .......... ....8
The Global Consciousness Project: Predicting Future Events
By Frank Joseph
57 T HE T I TAN IC
TO THE
FROM THE
D E E P .. .......... .......... .......... .........36
A R C H A E O L O G I C A L A N O M A L I E S ......................................3 8
F ORTE AN P H ENOMEN ON
CTs Gungywamp Complex
By Robert Guffey
65 T H E F ROZE N T HOUGHTS
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D R . M AS ARU E MOTO
By Tim Swartz
In many ancient civilizations, water was an important part of rituals and festivities,
from births and weddings to commencing business and performing funeral rites.
Although modern science has relegated these ancient beliefs to the quaint world
of tradition and superstition, Japanese researcher and alternative medicine advocate Dr. Masaru Emoto believes that water can actually perceive, remember,
and communicate with its environment.
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B O O K R E V I E W S ... .......... ............... .. ............................ 76

M U S I C R E V I E W S . .......... .. .....................79
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2005 E V E N T S C A L E N D A R . .. .. .......... .......82

T H E C L A S S I F I L E S ......... .. .....................90
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Letters to the Editor
A Nature Spirit, Not an Alien

Dear Editor,
n issue #7, pg. 76 shows a photo not
of an alien but of a forest friend, the
cousin of the Irish Leprechaun. It
looks similar to a squirrel, although
squirrels are smaller and the creature has
the natural ability to attract the attention
of mortals who have not had the veil of
this world removed from their minds,
such as holy men or those who live close
to nature.
The camera was in motion when the
photo was taken, separating the creature
from his natural ability to blend in with
nature. What most wont be able to see,
however, is that there is at least one additional creature in the shotin the dis-
torted area behind the horse on the right

(figure 2).
Unlike squirrels, these creatures travel in pairs and are known to frequent
Japan, where priests have been known
to communicate with them. They live in
trees and especially groves, and can be
most easily detected near water sources
in the moonlight. They move in the
space just outside of human perception
and although they are not warm-blooded, they are indeed flesh and blood and
do die.
Based on this photo, I estimate that
there may be as many as 100 of these
creatures living in the park.
9/11: Debunking the Myths

Dear Editor:
oral decency compels me to
direct your readers to the
March, 2005 issue of Popular
Mechanics and the excellent ar ticle
9/11: Debunking the Myths.
After consulting several hundred
experts that are each named and identified, the editors at Popular Mechanics
collaborated to destroy ever y sacred
argument of 9/11 conspiracy buffs with
rational, simple explanations and common sense.
ROBERT A. GOERMAN
NEW KENSINGTON, PA
HENRY LEWIS, AKA SUN DRAGON,

PALADIN OF THE SILVER WHITE FLAME
HUNTSVILLE, TX
Ask Elvis for a Second Opinion!

Dear Editor:
urely William Lewis was writing in
jest when he came up with his fantasy article on the 9/11 terrorist
attacks in issue #8? If anyone believes
this garbage, maybe they should get a
second opinion from Elvis or John F.
Kennedy. Im surprised that Lewis didnt
mention the fact that Bigfoot and Nessie
were in one of the airplanes.
All joking aside, this kind of idiotic
junk does a great disservice to those who
lost loved ones on that tragic day. Lewis
and Mysteries Magazine should be
ashamed of themselves.
TOM R. KOVACH
PARK RAPIDS, MN
9/11: The Mossad Did It

Dear Editor,
n regards to your recent article in
issue #8 on the 9/11 conspiracy,
congratulations for even broaching
this all-important but most forbidden
topic, but shame on you for not emphasizing the real culprits! Yeah, yeah, your
writer made a brief but understated mention of the Mossad theory, but then suggested that antisemitism could possibly
be behind it!
I
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Letters to the Editor

I live in Queens, about ten miles
north/northeast of Ground Zero. While
driving into Manhattan that morning at
about 10:30 in the morning, I looked
south down 21st St., a wide thoroughfare in Queens, to see it completely clear
of traffic, as the police were already cordoning off the street. Before I even got
to the East side, two blue vans pulled up
and parked on the corner of 21st St. and
35th Ave. All the men were wearing
yamulkes and they immediately began to
distribute glossy placards that read
UNITED WE STAND to people in
the public housing projects nearby.
Obviously, they must have printed
these glossy posters before September
11, as they were printed and ready to distribute them to all of the underprivileged
in the area within about an hour of the
terrorist attacks.
In my mind, it was the Israelis who
masterminded the terrorist attacks of 911 in order to get the U.S. military to
fight Israels enemies.
M
Homosexuality Photo Disgusting
Dear Editor,
am writing to express my feelings
about the article on homosexuality
that appeared in issue #8. I found the
article to be out of place in a magazine
that deals with historical mysteries,
UFOs, and ghosts and the picture that
appeared with the article was disgusting.
If this is to become your new format,
please remove my name from your subscriber list.
R. STEWART
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Dear R,
hanks for your comments and I
appreciate your concerns. Yes, we
will continue to cover the latest discoveries in medicine, science, history, and
archaeology that are not being properly covered by the mainstream media. Sometimes
these discoveries do not align with our societys accepted morals and religious beliefs,
but that does not make such discoveries any
less important. The fact that we objectively
cover new developments in science,
medicine, archaeology, etc, regardless of
whether they are politically correct, sets us
apart (in a good way, I believe), from most
other magazines and newspapers.
So although I cannot guarantee that
future articles will not offend your religious or moral beliefs, I do hope that you
find other sections of the magazine compelling enough reading to overlook those
parts that you might find offensive.
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WILLIAM PURCELL
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Decoding the Zodiac Letter

Dear Sir:
found the recent article on the Zodiac Killer in issue #9 to be very interesting. A few years ago I read about
him and even tried to figure out his
strange code. I surmised that the person
who wrote this code was formerly in the
military and may have worked in the
cryptic code departments of the CIA or
the NSA. I also think he may have had
ties to Maoist Bob Avakian of California.
For example, the code in his
4/20/1970 letter shown in your magazine, the 8 within the circle may relate
to the Chinese (as this is a lucky number
to the Chinese) and the word NAM may
be shorthand for Vietnam.
MYSTERIES MAGAZINE
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Shroud Not a Medieval Forgery

Dear Editor,
any features of the Shroud of
Turin, as mentioned in issue
#8, suggest that it was not a
medieval forgery. First, it is believed that
Jesus hands were pierced, but the
shroud image shows that his wrists were
pierced. Also, the image is nude, but
medieval Christians regarded a nude
depiction of Christ as sacrilege. Finally,
medieval art showed Jesus with a ring
crown while the image in the shroud
wore an Oriental cap-style crown.
JOSEPH FORBES
PITTSBURGH, PA
Ghostly Encounters X2
Dear Editor,
s I read the article on Haunted
Hollywood in issue #7, it
reminded me of my own ghostly
encounters. I first saw a ghost in 1959
when I was nine years old. We had just
moved to Zanesville, OH. There, three
or four times I saw a child who looked
normal, except that he had a glowing
light where his face should have been,
walk across the room and then vanish
into the fireplace. A nextdoor neighbor
said that the the winter prior to purchasing the house, a child had died there.
Then in the 1970s, on a business trip
to the Old Town of Tombstone, AZ,
around dusk, I noticed a chap in turn-ofthe-century garb. I thought nothing of
him, as there were many historic re-creationists wandering around, until I saw
him disappear right through a wall!
J. GRIMES
ELKTON, MD
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Noteworthy
Resurrecting the Mammoth

I
t has been almost 4,000 years since
the last wooly mammoths foraged
on the Siberian plains, but we know
a great deal about them, thanks to
dozens of deep-frozen mammoth carcasses that have been discovered in
recent years in Siberia and Alaska. But if
Japanese reproductive biologist Kazufumi Goto has his way, we may
soon be seeing Wooly Mammothsor a reasonable facsimile
thereofroaming the Siberian
tundra once again.
Although some scientists hope
to use frozen mammoth tissue to
clone wooly mammoths, at present, cloning is only possible
when the nucleus taken from a
living cell is placed into an egg
from which the original nucleus
has been removed. This substitute nucleus, with its DNA, proteins, and other crucial material
intact, then develops like a normal egg. Unfortunately, there are
no living mammoth cells from
which to take a nucleus.
Although finding the nuclear
DNA required to clone a mammoth may be difficult, finding
mammoth sperm may be easier. In
1990, Dr. Goto and his associates used
bovine sperm cells which had been
repeatedly frozen and rethawed to
impregnate a cow. The cow later successfully gave birth to a healthy calf. This suggests that a mammoth corpse which had
been frozen and rethawed might still
contain enough mammoth DNA to fertilize an elephant cell.
When (or if) a male mammoth with
intact sex organs is discovered, Goto
plans to isolate its sperm, then select
sperm cells bearing X chromosomes to
produce female offspring. From there,
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he will fertilize an Asian elephants egg.

After the egg is fertilized and has divided a few times in a test tube, it will then
be implanted in an elephants womb.
Should this succeed, the result will be a
female half mammoth, half elephant.
When this hybrid is of breeding age,
one of its eggs will be fertilized with
some of the remaining mammoth
sperm. In three generations (or about

50 years), the resulting offspring will be
87.5% mammoth.
But providing a home for these
almost-mammoths may prove challenging. During the Pleistocene, much of the
Siberian north was covered with a grassland that was the home of millions of
bison, mammoths, and other grazing
animals. Today, they have disappeared
and the once-rich grasslands on which
they grazed are now dominated by
shrubs or mossy tundras and bogs.
But some scientists are hoping to
change that. Sergei Zimov, director of

Pleistocene Park, a research station located in northern Siberia, is trying to create
a grassland ecosystem maintained by
large northern herbivores similar to
those that existed in Siberia during the
age of the mammoths. Bison, horses, and
musk oxen have already been reintroduced to the region.
Much like grazers such as
buf falo and antelope, these
animals are currently maintaining African grasslands by
consuming shrubs and other
larger plants that would otherwise take over the soil. It is
hoped that these herbivores
will help encourage the return
of the Siberian grasslands
which once provided sustenance for millions of mammoths.
However, many scientists are
skeptical
about
Gotos
prospects for success, even if
intact sperm DNA from a
mammoth is found. Mammoths and elephants have been
separated by about 4 to 6 million years of evolution, says
Dr. Alex Greenwood, a molecular biologist who studies Ice Age
extinctions. This would be like crossbreeding a human and a chimp and
expecting to have a successful generation
of a hybrid, explains Greenwood.
Other researchers are more optimistic. Richard Stone believes that we
could see a cloned mammoth within 20
years. Still, Stone cautions that, the
risk of medical problems could be severe
in resurrecting an extinct speciesyou
might create these really pathetic, miserable creatures.
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Noteworthy
Madness of King George III

May Have Been Caused by Arsenic
ecent tests on a few strands of

hair discovered in a London
museum in 2003 may be evidence that regular bouts of insanity suffered by Englands King George III were
caused by toxic amounts of arsenic that
had accumulated in the kings body over
his lifetime and were made worse by the
medicines used to treat his madness.
King from 1760 to 1820, George is
largely remembered for his bizarre
behavior and wild outbursts, during which he was bound in a
straightjacket and chained to a
chair to control his ravings. His
son was made regent in 1811
when George became permanently incapacitated.
In the 1970s, two psychiatrists examining Georges
medical records at the royal
archive at Windsor noticed a
key symptomdark red
urine, a classic sign of a
genetically transmitted, kidney and blood disorder called
porphyria. Porphyria sufferers
have a shortage of enzymes necessar y for producing haem, a
molecule that transports oxygen
around the body.
Although most people with the disease remain asymptomatic, in its acute
stage, porphyria interferes with the nervous system and can cause severe
abdominal pain, cramps, and seizures.
Porphyria attacks are frequently misdiagnosed as mental illness, even in modern times.
Even though several of Georges relatives had porphyria, the diagnosis was
controversial because George did not
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have any attacks until he was in his 50s

and it is unusual for porphyria to develop
so late in life. The severity of Georges
attacks was also unusual, especially since
men are usually
asymp-
tomatic,
even in the acute stage of the disease.
Tests performed on the strands of hair,
which were found in a scrap of paper
folded into an envelope and labeled
Hair of his Late Majesty, King George
3rd, showed that it was laden with
more than 300 times the toxic level of

arsenic. Experts say that the arsenic alone
might have caused many of the kings
symptoms, and that arsenic, which also
interferes with haem production, is one
of a wide range of substances known to
trigger porphyria attacks.
The researchers also found references
in Georges medical records to his
use of skin cream and wig powder
that contained arsenic, but they
could not account for the massive levels found in his hair.
Then they discovered
records that show that
George was routinely
given James Fever Powders, a famous 18th-centur y patent medicine,
several times each day to
control his madness.
According to a 19th-century almanac and experts
from the Royal Pharmaceuticals Society, the powder was made from antimony, a substance that naturally
contains traces of arsenic.
According to Martin Warren,
professor of biochemistr y at
Queen Mary College at the University of London, accumulated levels of arsenic from the use of cosmetics
might have brought on Georges initial
porphyric attacks, at such a late stage in
life. The combination of the disease and
the arsenic in his medication may have
also triggered more frequent and severe
attacks.
JUDITH KANE
SOURCES: BBC, HARWELL SCIENTIFIC, ROYAL PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY, THE TIMES, LONDON
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Noteworthy
Space Debris May

Have Accelerated
Human Evolution
TIM SWARTZ
The Rooftop Madman A

Frightens Argentinians
n February and March, 2005, hundreds of witnesses in several Argentinean towns claimed to have seen
the Rooftop Madman, who reportedly
is about six feet tall, wears a balaclava
and a cape, and crosses the streets by
leaping dozens of feet from one rooftop
to the next. It also makes a blood-curdling sound like a child cr ying or a
woman screaming as it bounds away
into the night.
One 60-year-old man reported that he
saw the Rooftop Madman in a hallway in
his own home while another woman
claimed to have seen the phantom on the
top of an old pine tree. However, the
creature, while frightening, has not yet
attacked anyone. Even so, one woman
said that the entity pointed at her with its
finger and left her paralyzed, and another
local woman said that during an intense
rain, the phantom managed to jam the
car doors of a vehicle with seven passengers aboard, all whom were armed and
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ready to hunt it down.

Several witnesses have said that bullets
do not affect the creature and that its
eyes gleam red when it mocks those who
try to hunt it. One resident of El Arenal
claimed to have shot the madman 17
times, without effect. But so far, it has
managed to elude capture by both citizens and police.
The creature has also been spotted in
Paran, a large city about 25 miles from
Santa Fe, as well as in the capital of
Entre Ros province in nor thern
Argentina.
Parana police say that an explanation
for the creature would be groundless.
Were only working from phone calls
from residents who claim to see [the
creature], said the police. But for those
who have seen the Rooftop Madman,
there is no need for an explanation. It is
the Devil, they say.
TIM SWARTZ
ccording to a group of German

scientists, a layer of rare material
of
extraterrestrial origin found
in the deep
ocean may
hold the key
to how climate changes
nearly three
million years
ago may have
forced early
humans from the forests and onto the
plains, triggering the impulse to stand
upright for the first time.
Several years ago, a group of scientists from the Technical University of
Munich in Germany discovered traces
of unusual stardust in the Pacific
Ocean, not far from the Hawaiian
Islands. The sediment contained Iron60, an isotope so rare that its origin is
almost cer tainly from outer space,
most likely from an exploding star,
called a supernova.
While they note that no link has yet
been established between the debris
from the exploding star and climate
change, the scientists suspect that the
disappearance of the forests in Africa,
forests that sheltered early humans
nearly 2.8 million years ago, are somehow tied to the explosion.
They believe that the supernova may
have also bombarded the ear th with
cosmic rays that may have eroded the
ozone layer and raised the earths temperature by several degrees. The
resulting loss of forests would have
driven early tree-dwelling humans onto
the plains and savannahs of the continent, forcing them to adapt to their new
environment by walking upright.
While the theory is compelling, other
scientists believe that further research
is needed before such claims could be
more widely accepted.
RICHARD MACKENZIE
SOURCES: REUTERS, WWW.PLANETARK.COM,
DISCOVERY NEWS, WHATS NEW NETSCAPE
SOURCE: INFOBAE.COM
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Noteworthy
Evidence of Human Sacrifice in Egypt
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in a poor state of preservation. None of

the individuals had apparently been
mummified, unlike the other three bodies found in an inner chamber, which
were well-preserved. This, along with the
positions in which they were discovered,
may indicate that they had been buried
alive within the tomb as sacrifices to the
nobles buried there.
Sati, or human sacrifice, was apparently a common custom in predynastic and
early Dynastic Egypt, according to
ancient sources, although there is little

archaeological evidence for the practice.
Unless this tomb was reused in later
periods the position of the bodies
could indicate that these were prisoners
or devotees of the ruler who dedicated
their souls to him after death, said Dr.
Zahi Hawass, chairman of Egypts
Supreme Council for Antiquities.
RICHARD MACKENZIE
SOURCES: NETSCAPE.COM, UNITED PRESS INTL.,
BBC NEWS, AP, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
Dino-Eating Mammal Found
ince the identification of the first dinosaur fossils in the early 19th century, most
archaeologists have theorized that the mammals who llived contemporaneously
with dinosaurs were probably about the size of a rodent and were preyed upon by
the gigantic creatures. But a new discovery in the fossil beds of China may reverse that
image dramaticallya fossilized mammal with its last
lunch, a small dinosaur, still preserved in its stomach.
The mammal, from a species called repenomamus robustus, was about the size of a cat. Its unlucky prey was a baby
psittacosaur, or parrot dinosaur, a small herbivore with a
birdlike beak. The specimens are from the early Cretaceous
period, about 130 million years ago, and are among thousands of remarkable finds from Liaoning province in northeastern China, all possible victims of a volcanic eruption
that produced lethal gases that felled the creatures as they
slept.
Another mammal species, the largest yet found, was also
discovered nearby. This one, about the size of a large dog,
was named repenomamus gigantus for its size. This find
has helped to break a stereotype about early mammals,
stated Dr. Zhe-Xi Luo, a paleontologist at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh. We have always suspected the feeding niches of early mammals were more
diverse, but we never had the proof.
While scientists are unsure of whether
these finds are reflective of mammals
elsewhere during the Cretaceous period,
they do agree that these discoveries
open up previously unknown possibilities
for our understanding of prehistoric life.
XU XIAPING
ecent excavations in Egypt have

unearthed disturbing evidence
that confirm ancient reports of
human sacrifice in Egypt.
Excavating at Heirakonpolis, near the
modern city of Edfu about 370 miles
south of Cairo, a team of Egyptian and
American archaeologists discovered a
large funerar y complex,
in
which the
remains of
at
least
seven people were
f o u n d ,
along with
g r a v e
goods and
even wellpreser ved
textiles. Of
the seven,
at least four
may have been buried alive in the tomb.
The complex was apparently the final
resting place of a ruler of Hierakonpolis,
one of Egypts earliest large urban centers more than 5,000 years ago. In addition to the other four, he was buried with
two other individuals, probably family
members, and a wealth of goods that the
Egyptians believed would be necessary in
the afterlife.
Although much of it was looted in
ancient times, the looters missed some
finds, such as small, rare sculptures of an
ibex and a cows head, crafted from flint
and granite. Also discovered were 46
fragments of a life-size limestone statue
of a human, the earliest yet found, as well
as fragments of ceramic funerary masks
and an outstanding collection of pottery.
The four possible victims were found
RICHARD MACKENZIE
SOURCES: WHATS NEW NETSCAPE, BBC NEWS
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Noteworthy
St. Malachys Papal Prophesies
prophecy by St. Malachy, a 12th-century bishop who predicted the characteristics of the last 111 popes, appears to
have been strengthened by the election of the
new pontiff in April of 2005.
Malachy was born in Armagh, Ireland in
1094. In 1119, he was ordained as a priest by
St. Cellach (Celsus); later, he studied under St.
Malchus; and in 1123 he was elected Abbot of
Bangor. A year later, he was consecrated Bishop
of Connor and, in 1132, he became Primate of
Armagh.
In 1139, Malachy went to Rome to give an
account of the affairs of his diocese to Pope
Innocent II. While in Rome, Malachy received
a strange vision of all the future pontiffs who
were to rule the Church until the end of time.
He committed the
visions to paper
and gave his
manuscript
to Innocent II,
to console him
in
the
midst of
his tribulations.
B u t
The Last 10 Popes of the Prophesies
1
2
The Burning Fire: PIUS X (1903-1914) This Pope showed a burning passion
for spiritual renewal in the Church.
Religion Laid Waste: BENEDICT XV (1914-1922) During this Popes reign,

Communism moved into Russia where religious life was laid waste, as well as
World War I, where millions of Christians died.
3
4
Unshaken Faith: PIUS XI (1922-1939) Pope Pius was an outspoken critic of

Communism and Fascism.
An Angelic Shepherd: PIUS XII (1939-1958) This Pope had an affinity for the
spiritual world and received visions that have not yet been made public. Pius
XII is considered to be one of the great Popes of all time and was considered an
angelic pastor.
Pastor and Mariner: JOHN XXIII (1958-1963) John was the Patriarch of
Venice and led his flock to a modernization of the Church through the Ecumenical Council. John chose two symbols for this Council: a cross and a ship.
Flower of Flowers: PAUL VI (1963-1978) Pauls coat-of-arms depicted three fleurs-de-lis (an iris blossom).
Of the Half Moon: JOHN PAUL I (1978-1978) John Paul I was

born in the diocese of Belluno (beautiful moon) and was baptized Albino Luciani (white light). He became pope on August 26,
1978, when the moon appeared exactly half full. He died the following month, soon after an eclipse of the moon.
Of the Solar Eclipse: JOHN PAUL II (1978-2005) John Paul II was born
on May 18, 1920, during a near total eclipse of the sun over Europe. On
the day he was laid to rest on April 8, 2005, there was a partial solar eclipse
in North America.
The Glory of the Olive: BENEDICT XVI (2005-?) The Benedictines, whose
monastic order includes a branch called Olivetans, have traditionally said
this pope would come from their ranks. Ratzinger was a diocesan priest, not
a Benedictine monk, but may have been honoring the orders founder, St.
Benedict, when he chose his name.
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Peter the Roman. According to prophesy, In the final persecution of the Holy Roman Church there will reign Peter the
Roman, who will feed his flock amid many tribulations, after which the
seven-hilled city will be destroyed and the dreadful Judge will judge the
people. The seven-hilled city is believed to mean Rome.
TIM SWARTZ
the document remained hidden and forgotten in the Roman Archives until its
discover y by an unnamed librarian
almost four centuries later.
The prophecies were first published in
1595 by the Benedictine historian
Arnold de Wyon as part of his book
Lignum Vit. The 111 short, prophetical
announcements (the 112th on the final
Pope Petrus Romanus was added in
1820 by the Thomas A. Nelson Catholic
Publishing House) indicate a noticeable
trait of all future popes.
Some of the phrases are multiple
prophecies, written with ingenious word
play. For example, Pius II, who reigned
for only 26 days in 1503, was aptly
described as De Parvo Homine (from a
little man). His family name was Piccolomini, Italian for little man.
Sometimes the personal history of the
pope played a part in the motto given by
Malachy. For instance, Clement XIII
(1758-69), who had connections with
the government of the Italian state of
Umbria and whose emblem was a rose,
was called by Malachy Rosa Umbriae
(the Rose of Umbria).
Some religious scholars feel that
Malachys prophecies have accurately
predicted the last nine popes, leaving
number 10, Petrus Romanus (Peter the
Roman), in doubt, due to its inclusion
into the prophecies long after they were
originally published. Some scholars have
suggested that according to the prophecies, Pope Benedict XVI could be the
last human pope, and that the final pope
would be the Antichrist.
It has been noticed by researchers
concerning Peter the Roman, who supposedly is to be the last pope, that the
prophecy does not say that no other
popes will rule between him and Benedict XVI. It merely says that he is to be
the last, so there could be more Popes
before the final Catholic pope.
TIM SWARTZ
Recording of the Kennedy

Assassination to be Digitized
cientists at the University of Californias Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

are now digitally scanning the only audio recording of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, hoping to create a copy that will answer the question of
how many shots were fired at Dealey Plaza, in Dallas, TX, on November 22, 1963.
The original recording was made on a plastic Dictaphone belt at police headquarters,
through an open microphone on a police motorcycle. But the tape is now so deteriorated
that it can no longer be played, so researchers are using a digital camera to scan the
recordings grooves in order to create a digital image of its sound patterns. They will
then attempt to remove extraneous sounds, such as static, voices, and the motorcycle
engine.
In 1964, the Warren Commission concluded that Lee Har vey Oswald was the sole
assassin, firing three shots from a sixth-floor window of the Texas Book Depository. In
1979, however, analysis of the audio recording by the U.S. Congress House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded that four shots could be heard on the recording,
three from the book depository and one from another location. On that basis, the committee concluded that Oswald probably did not act alone.
Subsequent acoustical analysis by the U.S. National Academy of Science described
the committees determination as seriously flawed, saying that the number of shots
could not be distinguished and that the extra shot heard by the committee might merely
be static or another irrelevant noise.
The digital copy is expected to be completed soon, after which it will be made available to researchers in hopes that modern analytical methods will enable them to answer
conclusively the question of how many shots were fired and whether or not Oswald acted
alone.
JUDITH KANE
SOURCES: LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LAB,
NEW YORK TIMES, ABC WORLD NEWS, BBC, THE INDEPENDENT
SOURCES: BBC, THE CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA
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Noteworthy
Noteworthy
Bronze-Age Perfume
Factory Found
Bronze Age factory that manufactured

per fumes
and
unguents for export throughout the Eastern Mediterranean region
was found in Cyprus in late 2004 by a
team of Italian archaeologists. The sites
remarkable preser vation has even
allowed scientists to reconstruct a number of the fragrances produced at the
site, demonstrating that modern perfumes are not so different from their
ancient counterparts.
The perfumery was part of a larger
complex overlooking the Mediterranean
that included an olive-oil press, a coppersmelting facility, and a winery, indicating
that nearly 4,000 years ago, the site may
have been a center of manufacturing for
a variety of luxury goods

that were exported from
Cyprus to other parts of
the Mediterranean,
including Crete and possibly even Egypt.
Commonly used for
religious and funerar y
purposes, as well as cosmetic ones, per fumes
were both rare and costly in the ancient world.
The blends manufactured at the site at Pyrgos-Mavroraki
used olive oil that was probably pressed
at the facility, mixing it with spices and
fragrant plants, such as myrrh, laurel,
myrtle, cinnamon, and anise.
Hundreds of gigantic storage jars each

holding more than 132 gallons of oil
indicate the massive scale of the operation. The gourds storing the perfume
were often embellished with clay spouts,
handles, and small figures of people and
animals, creating stylish bottles akin to
the fancy packaging of
modern perfumes.
After an ear thquake
destroyed much of the site,
it was apparently abandoned, unwittingly preserving it for the archaeologists who are now trying to
reconstruct the site, find
out how extensive trade
routes connected to the site
may have ranged, and
examine the surprisingly
modern techniques used to craft the perfumes and other goods.
RICHARD MACKENZIE
SOURCES: MUSEU DEL PERFUM (SPAIN), WHATS
NEW NETSCAPE, BBC NEWS
Hacker Arrested Looking for UFO Proof
e is alleged to be the biggest militar y computer hacker of all time,

but the Briton facing extradition to
the United States on charges of breaking
into high-security U.S. militar y
computers was only looking for
proof that UFOs exist, his
lawyer says.
Gar y McKinnon of
Nor th London was
arrested in June, 2005.
He now faces extradition on allegations that
he broke into 53 U.S.
militar y and NASA computers between 2001
and 2002. McKinnon
had been indicted in 2002
on eight counts of computer-related crime in 14 states
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by a U.S. federal grand jury. If a court finds

the 39-year-old unemployed engineer guilty,
he could be jailed for up to 70 years.
It is alleged that McKinnon, known as
"Solo" online, used software available on the internet to scan
tens of thousands of computers on U.S. militar y networks from his home PC,
looking for machines
that might be exposed
due to flaws in the Windows operating system.
Many of the computers he broke into were
protected by easy-toguess passwords, investigators said. In some
cases, McKinnon allegedly
shut down the computer sys-
tems he invaded.
The charge sheet alleges that he hacked
into an army computer at For t Myer, VA,
where he obtained codes, information and
commands before deleting about 1,300
user accounts. Other systems he hacked
into included the Pentagon's network and
U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force computers.
At one stage, the Army's crucial militar y
district of Washington network was shut
down amid fears that the hackers were alQaeda terrorists.
McKinnons lawyer Karen Todner said
that McKinnon believes that the U.S. government knows about the existence of
UFOs and has been concealing it. He also
wanted to expose weaknesses in the U.S.
security systems.
TIM SWARTZ
SOURCE: THIS IS LONDON
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In Passing
Hitler May Have Had F

a Nuclear Bomb
n June, 2005, German and U.S. historians claim to have found a 60year-old diagram showing a Nazi
hybrid tactical nuclear weapon.
The researchers say that the drawing,
discovered in April, 2005, in a private
archive whose owner wished to remain
anonymous, is a rough schematic and
does not imply the Nazis built an atomic
bomb. But new evidence suggests that
the Nazis may have
been closer to that
goal than was previously believed.
The repor t containing the diagram
is undated, but the
researchers believe it
was
produced
immediately after
the end of WWII. It
deals with the work
of German nuclear
scientists during the
war and lacks a title
page, so there is no
evidence of who
composed it.
The Nazis were
far from [developing] a classic atomic bomb. But they
hoped to combine a mini-nuke with a
rocket, historian Rainer Karlsch said.
The [German] military believed they
needed around six months more to bring
the new weapon into action. But the
[Nazi] scientists knew how difficult it
was to get the enriched uranium
required.
Karlsch said that new research in Soviet
and Western archivesalong with measurements carried out at one of the test
sitesprovide evidence for the existence
of the weapon, as well as the discovery

that the Germans had an atomic reactor
near Berlin which ran for a short while.
This was an important development, as
an atomic reactor is necessary not only to
understand how to achieve critical mass,
but also for the production of fissionable
material to make a bomb.
He said the last test, carried out in
Thuringia in March, 1945, destroyed an
area of about 500
square miles, killing
several hundred prisoners of war and
concentration camp
inmates. Allegedly,
the weapons were
never used because
they were not yet
ready for mass production. There were
also problems with
delivery and detonation systems.
Additionally, physicist Werner Heisenberg, the head of
Nazi Germanys
nuclear energy program, failed to
understand a key aspect of nuclear fission
chain reactions. That error, some
researchers say, led him to overestimate
the amount of uranium required to build
a nuclear bomb. However, the German
report contains an estimate of slightly
more than 5kg needed for the critical
mass of a plutonium bomb, which is
close to the real figure. This may suggest
that some Nazi scientists had a better
grasp of nuclear fission than Heisenberg.
TIM SWARTZ
rank Searle, one of the more controversial figures surrounding the Loch
Ness monster myster y, passed
away on March 26, 2005,
at the age of 83 in Lancashire, after a long illness.
Searle achieved minor
celebrity status when he
took his first alleged image
of Nessie on July 27, 1972,
near Balachladoich Farm.
Searle became a mystery himself after
he left Loch Ness in 1983 after allegations that his Nessie photos were hoaxes. Searle had also been accused of
harassing other Nessie investigators and
was being investigated by the local
police when he disappeared.
altech biologist Norman Horowitz,

the scientist who played a role in
understanding genetics, evolutionar y theor y, and whether there is life on
Mars, died June 1, 2005, at his home in
Pasadena, CA. He was 90.
Horowitz was best known
for conceiving of the instruments that were carried to
the surface of Mars aboard
each of the two Viking landers in 1976. Horowitzs
research in molecular biology led to the creation of
the one gene, one enzyme concept,
which holds that each gene in the bacterial (and human) genome ser ves as the
blueprint for only one enzyme that plays
a role in the metabolism of cells.
ayne Prescott Suttles, a softspoken scholar on Pacific

Nor thwest Indian culture,
Sasquatch traditions, and folklore, died
May 9, 2005, of pancreatic cancer at his
home on San Juan Island. He was 87.
Suttles, born in Seattle, WA in 1918,
earned a B.A. in anthropology at the University of Washington and ser ved in the
Navy during World War II. Returning to
the University for graduate studies, he
began field work on San Juan Island that
led him to the study of the culture of the
Salish peoples. But Dr. Shuttles is best
known for his research into the Native
American traditions of Sasquatch.
TIM SWARTZ
SOURCE: BBC
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Noteworthy
Noteworthy
Area 51 Whistleblower
Develops Hydrogen
Conversion Kit
ob Lazar, best known as the man

who claimed to have worked on
UFOs at the infamous Area 51 in
Nevada, has resurfaced recently, saying
that he has developed a cheap, easy way
to produce hydrogen, as well as a con-
version kit that will turn any car into a

hydrogen hybrid. His two vehicles, a
Mitsubishi Endeavor SUV and a 1994
Corvette, have already been converted
and can travel up to 450 miles on hydrogen before switching automatically back
to gasoline.
Lazar says that every car company is
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currently working on a hydrogen system

in which hydrogen-powered cars could
fill up at a local hydrogen gas station.
Lazar, however, says that with his conversion kit, anyone can make the hydrogen fuel themselves at home, using just
water and a solar-powered

generator.
The small lab behind
Lazars New Mexico home,
Lazar built a 30-foot-long
particle accelerator to produce metal hydrides, which
absorb hydrogen gas like a
sponge and releases the fuel after the

hydrides are heated to around 300F.
Hydrides have many advantages over
liquid and gas. One is that the density
of the hydrogen stored in the hydride
can be greater than that of liquid
hydrogen, which means smaller and
fewer storage tanks. Additionally,
hydrogen chemically bonds to the
hydrides so that no free gas is present in
the tank. Even opening the tank will not
release the hydrogen gas, which makes
Lazars storage system safer than even a
cars gasoline tank.
Currently, hydrogen used to fuel a car
has to be compressed and stored either
as a gas or liquid in a large tank. But
using his homemade particle accelerator,
Lazar says he has found a way to manipulate the atomic structure of ordinary
metal hydrides to increase their rate of
absorption.
By using the special metal hydrides,
anyone with a solar or wind-powered
generator can produce and store their
own hydrogen at little or no cost. However, it currently takes a substantial
amount of time to produce a sufficient
amount of hydrogen to fill even a small
tank. As an example, it takes over two
days to fill the smallest short range
tank that will run a vehicle for approximately 75 miles.
Lazar is now working to improve the
output of the hydrogen generator with
the ultimate goal of being able to generate enough hydrogen to fill the tanks
overnight. Lazar is hopeful that his conversion kit
will be available by the
end of 2005 at an estimated cost of $7,000 to
$10,000. Each conversion kit will come with
tanks filled with hydrides
made by Lazars company, United Nuclear.
TIM SWARTZ
SOURCE: KLAS-TV, LAS VEGAS, NV
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Arctic Melting Faster

Than Expected
lobal warming is melting the

Arctic ice faster than expected,
and the worlds oceans could
rise by about three feet by 2100, swamping homes from Bangladesh to Florida,
says a report published by the Arctic
Council, a forum composed of eight
nations with Arctic territories, including
the United States.
The report notes that because of longterm global warming, average winter
temperatures in Alaska, western Canada,
and eastern Russia have increased by as
much as seven degrees over the past 50
years. If the trend continues, about half
of the Arctic sea ice is projected to melt
by the end of the 21st century.
Research indicates that Arctic temperatures are rising by twice the global average and are set to rise by a further 4-7C
(7-13F) by 2100. The Arctic heats
more rapidly than the global average
because dark water, earth, and rock,
once exposed, soak up more heat than
reflective snow and ice. As a result, many
northern animal species, including polar
bears and seals, are likely to become
extinct. Vegetation and animal migration
patterns around the world will shift and
low-lying parts of the world, such as
much of Florida south of Miami, are
likely to experience permanent flooding.
The report also confirms a survey of
the Earths Arctic regions by physicist
Josefino Comiso, senior scientist at
NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center in
Maryland. Comisos findings, released in
2002, show that the permanent ice cover
in the Arctic is melting roughly three
times faster than scientists had thought.
If the melt keeps up at this rate, the ice
cover at the top of the Earth will be
gone before the end of this century.

But Comiso doubts the melt will be as
slow as that. Instead, he believes that as
the dense ice disappears and exposes the
ocean for the first time in millennia, the
water will pull in greater amounts of
solar energy that will, in turn, speed up
the rate of the melt.
Once the Arctic snow and ice have
melted, climates all over the planet will
change. If Arctic areas continue to warm,
scientists speculate that thawing Arctic
soils may release significant amounts of
carbon dioxide and methane that is currently trapped in the permafrost. Slightly
warmer ocean water may also release
frozen natural gases in the sea floor, all of
which will act as greenhouse gases that
may cause the planets temperature to rise
even further.
The American Midwest

could experience warmer
winters
of
almost
five
d e g r e e s
Fahrenheit,
with a loss of
40 percent of
the
typical
snow cover.
Even though
this may sound
positive, food
crops such as
winter wheat
are dependent
on subfreezing
temperatures.
As well, loss of
snow cover
and its associated spring runoff will exacerbate drought conditions in large parts
of North America.
TIM SWARTZ
SOURCES: BBC, THE WASHINGTON POST
Newly Discovered Planet May Harbor Life
newly discovered planet that is less than 15 light-years away from Earth is one of
the most ear th-like yet seen. Astronomers say that the planet, which has only
seven times the mass of the Ear th, is also the smallest extrasolar planet yet
found, proving the possibility that solid, rocky planets like those in our galaxy are not as
unusual as we think.
While more than 150 planets have been found
outside our solar system so far, nearly all of them
are many times the size of Jupiter and Saturn. Only
three other possibly solid planets have been found,
but they orbit the remains of an exploded star, leaving little chance that they may harbor life. However,
the newly discovered planet orbits the star Gliese
876, in the direction of the constellation Aquarius.
This planet answers an ancient question, according to Geoffrey Marcy, a professor of
astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley and leader of the team that found the
new planet. Over 2,000 years ago, the Greek philosophers Aristotle and Epicurus
argued about whether there were other Earth-like planets. Now, for the first time, we have
evidence for a rocky planet around a normal star.
RICHARD MACKENZIE
SOURCES: AP, BBC NEWS
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Noteworthy
Noteworthy
Kensington Runestone May

Have Been Carved by Templars
n 1898, Olaf Ohman discovered a

stone buried under a tree near
Alexandria, MN, inscribed with
ancient runes that, when translated, supposedly said, Eight Goths and 22 Norwegians on an exploration journey 10
men red with blood and dead 14 days
journey from this island year 1362.
Although critics believe the language
on the Kensington runestone (see Mysteries issue #6) is too modern, and that some
of the runes were made up, geologist
Scott Wolter and engineer Dick Nielsen
now believe that the stone is genuine.
When Wolter recently discovered a
dot inside each of four R-shaped runes
on the stone, he and Nielsen scoured
14th-century Swedish rune catalogs and
found that the dotted Rs were a rare
rune that only appeared during medieval
times. The pair also traced the dotted R
to rune-covered graves on the island of
Gotland off the coast of Sweden. These
graves also depicted Templar crosses, the

symbol of a religious order of knights
that formed during the Crusades, was
persecuted by the Church in the 1300s,
and eventually disbanded.
Additionally, in 2000, a geological
study conducted by Wolter on the stone
shows the carving is at least 200 years
old, placing it before Ohmans time.
Wolters findings support the 1910 geological study, which also found the stone
to be genuine. From this, Wolter
believes that the words on the Kensington Runestone may not record the death
of 10 men, but instead may be a secret
code written by the Templars.
Linguists single out two runes representing the letters L and U as evidence
that Ohman carved the stone in the 19th
century. They are crossed, and linguists
say they should not be. A third rune has a
punch at the end of one line. Maybe
theyre saying, Pay attention to me,
Tsunami Quake Altered Time
he power ful effects of the 9.0 earthquake that unleashed a devastating tsunami
across south Asia and beyond in December of 2004 were not limited to the earths
sur face, say NASA scientists Richard Gross and B.F. Chao, who believe that the
quake may have shifted part of the earths mass inward, causing its rotation to accelerate approximately three-millionths of a second and actually affecting time by slightly
shortening the length of an Earth day.
Such changes in the earths rotation are not that unusual, however, as the spin of the earths core seems to accelerate and
slow at different inter vals over time. The reasons for this
are currently unknown. While seismic activity may be a
factor, others suggest that movement of liquid and semisolid material inside the Earth may affect its rotation, in
much the same way as a child on a merr y-go-round can
accelerate or slow down the spinning motion depending
on how close they are to the center point of the ride.
RICHARD MACKENZIE
SOURCES: REUTERS, WHATS NEW NETSCAPE
Wolter said.
As each rune on the stone has a
numerical value, Wolter and Nielsen took
the three marked runes and plotted them
on a medieval dating system called the
Easter Table. When plotted, they came
up with the year 1362. We think, if its
the Templars, they confirmed the date
which is on the stone [1362] by using a
code in the inscription, says Wolter.
Wolter speculates that the Templars,
or a group carrying on with Templar traditions, escaped to the New World more
than 100 years before Columbus and
that the runestone could be a land claim.
However, Wolter offers no explanation
on why the runestone, if it is a simple
land claim, was written in code.
TIM SWARTZ
SOURCE: WCCO, MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL
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IS FOOD BECOMING
LESS NUTRITIOUS?
study of 43 vegetables and fruit

suggests that their nutritional
value has declined over the past
50 years. The research suggests that the
declineswhich range from 6 percent
for protein to 38 percent for riboflavin,
and include declines in calcium, phosphorus, iron, and ascorbic acidmay
result from the fact that farmers have
been planting crops designed to

improve traits such as size rather than
nutritional value.
The study also raises the possibility
that similar declines might be found in
other food crops and concludes that the
most likely explanation is the changes
in cultivated varieties used today, as
compared to 50 years ago. When you
select for yield, says Donald Davis, the
studys lead author, crops grow bigger
and faster, but they dont necessarily
have the ability to make or uptake

nutrients at the same, faster rate.
Perhaps more worrisome would be
declines in nutrients we could not study
because they were not repor ted in
1950magnesium, zinc, vitamin B6,
vitamin E, and dietary fiber, not to mention phytochemicals, Davis says.
Davis paper taps into what should be
a major concern,
according to
Chuck
Benbrook, science
advisor to the
Center for Education and Promotion. However,
he
disagrees with
some of Davis
ideas on the reasons for the
drop in nutrition. Rather, he
thinks that modern production
systems may also
be a contributor.
In other words,
the same variety
of plant may
have dif ferent nutritional values,
depending on how and where it is
grown.
The faster a plant grows/is pushed,
the more intensive the production system, the higher the yield goal, the
greater the chance that the harvest from
that crop will be deficient in some set of
minerals, vitamins, and antioxidants,
Benbrook explains.
TIM SWARTZ
SOURCE: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
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Mysteries of Science
Mysteries of Science
THE GLOBAL CONSCIOUSNESS PROJECT
is nothing in the laws of physics that precludes the possibility of foreseeing the
future. It is possible, in theory, that time
may not just move forwards, but backwards, as well. And if time ebbs and flows
like the tides in the sea, it might also be
possible to foretell major world events.
We would, in effect, be remembering
things that had taken place in our future.
Theres plenty of evidence that time
may run backwards, says Dick Bierman,
a Professor of Physics at the University of
Amsterdam. And if its possible for it to
happen in physics, then it can happen in
our minds, too. In other words, Bierman believes that we are all capable of
looking into the future, if only we could
tap into the hidden power of our minds.
Predicting Future Events

Does a worldwide network
of random number
generators have the ability
to look into the future and
predict major world events?
Scientists with the
Global Consciousness
Project say "maybe."
The Mindsong MicroREG is a miniaturized

REG device that is used in about half the
nodes in the Global Consciousness Project network.
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by Tim Swartz
ccording to a growing number of
scientists, a small, metal box containing a simple microchip may
be capable of predicting major world
events. Not only did it apparently sense
the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks
on the World Trade Center four hours
before they happened but it also forewarned of the December 26, 2004 Asian
tsunami. Its Earth-shattering stuff,
says Dr. Roger Nelson, emeritus
researcher at Princeton University.
Nelsons investigations, called the
Global Consciousness Project, hopes to
detect if humanity shares a single subconscious mind. But the random event generators used in the study have now provided another tantalizing possibility: that
scientists may have unwittingly discovered a way to predict upcoming important world events.
Since 1998, the Global Consciousness
Project, also called the EGG Project (for
electrogaiagram, because its design is
reminiscent of an EEG for the earth), is
an international collaboration of 75 scientists, engineers, artists, and other professionals who have been collecting data
from a global network of random event
generators. The network has grown to
about 65 host sites from around the
world, running software that reads the
output of random number generators and
once every second records a 200-bit summation of each result. The data is then
uploaded to a server in Princeton, NJ,
where it is analyzed.
Scientific Study of the Paranormal

he project has its roots in the
work of Professor Robert Jahn of
Princeton University who, in the
late 1970s, began studying paranormal

phenomena using a Random Event Generator (REG), a computer that generated
either a one or a zero in a random
sequence (See Mysteries issue #6).
During Jahns experiments, volunteers
were asked to concentrate on a number
generator in an attempt to make it produce either more ones or more zeros.
Consistently, ordinary people proved that
by concentrating, they could influence
the REG to produce unequal numbers of
ones or zeros, suggesting that our consciousness can weakly but measurably
affect the physical world.
Wondering if groups of people could
also influence the generator, Nelson connected 40 REGs from all over the world
to his computer in Princeton via the
Internet. Most of the time, the resulting
graph looked like a flat line. But on
September 6, 1997, the graph shot
upwards, recording a sudden and massive
shift in the number sequence. This was
the day that an estimated one billion people around the world watched the funeral
of Diana, Princess of Wales, at Westminster Abbey.
Convinced that the two events were
related, in 1998, he gathered together scientists from all over the world to analyze
his findings. From this conference, the
Global Consciousness Project was born.
A Worldwide Consciousness
ince that time, the project has
expanded and the results have been
startling, to say the least. During
the course of the experiment, the EGGs
have sensed a series of major world events
as they were happening, from the NATO
bombing of Yugoslavia to the Kursk submarine tragedy, to Americas disputed
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election of 2000. The EGGs also regularly detected huge global celebrations,
such as New Years Eve.
The project, however, detected its
greatest shift on September 11, 2001. As
the world watched the horror of the terrorist attacks unfold across New York,
not only did the EGGs register an
unusual spike in activity, but the characteristic shift in the pattern of numbers
had actually begun four hours before the
two planes even hit the Twin Towers!
Skeptics countered that it was only a
coincidence. But in the closing weeks of
December, 2004, the machines went
wild once more. Twenty-four hours
later, an earthquake deep beneath the
Indian Ocean triggered the tsunami that
devastated Southeast Asia and claimed
the lives of more than a quarter of a million people.
The GCP team insists that by using
rigorous scientific techniques and powerful mathematics, it is possible to exclude
random connections. Were perfectly
willing to discover that weve made mistakes, says Nelson, But we havent
been able to find any, and neither has
anyone else. Our data shows clearly that
the chances of getting these results by
fluke are one million to one against.
Critics of the project point out that

there is always some global event that
could be used to explain the times when
the EGG machines behave erratically.
After all, our world is full of wars, natural
disasters, and terrorism, as well as the
occasional global celebration.
Foreseeing the Future
r John Hartwell at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, was the first to uncover
evidence that people could sense the
future. In the mid-1970s, he hooked
people up to hospital scanning machines
so that he could study their brainwave
patterns.
He began by showing them a
sequence of provocative cartoon drawings. When the pictures were shown, the
machines registered the subjects brainwaves as they reacted to the images
before them. But in many cases, these
dramatic patterns began to register a few
seconds before each of the pictures were
even flashed on the screen. It was as
though Hartwells case studies were
somehow seeing into the future, and
detecting when the shocking image
would be shown next.
Strange as it may seem, though, there
Broadcasting a Conscious Field

he GCP researchers admit that
they do not really know what
causes the anomalous results
found in the data. Empirical evidence
suggests that consciousness affects the
noisiness of a random sequence while
entropy (disorder) is reduced. Humans
apparently create a tiny bit of order in the
world around them simply by embodying
structured information.
They also speculate that each of us
could be broadcasting a consciousness
field at a quantum level that becomes
coherent and structured when major
global events occur, ordered information
that is picked up by the REG devices.
Nelson says that while we may be able
to predict a major world event, we will
not know exactly what will happen or
where it is going to happen. However, he
does feel that the real importance of his
work lies in the implication that the
human race may share a global consciousness; some might even call it the
mind of God. Were driven by society to
separate ourselves from each other, he
explains, But we may be connected
together far more intimately than we
realize. z
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Mysteries on Exhibit
Mysteries on Exhibit
East Coast
Midwest
Maryland Science Center
American UFO Museum
BALTIMORE, MD
WISCONSIN DELLS, WI
(410) 685-5225 I WWW.MDSCI.ORG
(608) 253-5055 | WWW.UFOMUSEUM.COM
Titanic: The Artifact Exhibit (through

Sept. 5, 2005) Marvel at the incredible
effort it took to recover these artifacts from
2.5 miles below the
surface of the sea and
learn of the personal
sacrifice and courage
that surrounds the
most important shipwreck of modern maritime history.
Alien Planet Extreme 3D Adventure

(through Sept. 5, 2005) This exhibit
features 3D technology that incorporates
animatronics, lasers, special effects, and a
complex sound environment to create an
adventure that begins in a hologram
room where visitors are welcomed by an
android. Visit a botanical nursery where
eggs are at various stages of hatching and
a cloning laboratory. Other areas include
a toxic waste containment area and an
extraterrestrial morgue.
Science Center of Connecticut
Cincinnati Museum Center
WEST HARTFORD, CT
CINCINNATI, OH
(860) 231-2824 I WWW.SCIENCECENTERCT.ORG
(800) 733-2077 I WWW.CINCYMUSEUM.ORG
Hatching the Past (through Sept. 5,

2005) This interactive exhibit helps
answer some of the questions on
dinosaur reproductive behavior raised by
recent discoveries of dinosaur eggs, nests,
and embryos. Features more than 100
fossils of eggs, nests, embr yos, and
young, as well as paintings and photographs.
SPACE: A Journey to Our Future

(Through Oct. 16, 2005) This exhibit
features
dozens
of
interactive
displays that
allow visitors
to feel the
rumble of a
r o c k e t
launch, touch
a piece of the
moon and Mars, test their space survival
skills, and walk in the footsteps of astronauts.
The Maritime Aquarium

NORWALK, CT
(203) 852-0700 I WWW.MARITIMEAQUARIUM.ORG
Extreme Deep: Mission to the Abyss

(through Sept. 6, 2005) This exhibit
includes displays that delve into the geology, history, biology, chemistr y,
and weather at
the bottom of the
ocean, as well as
the technology
that
enables
oceanographers
to deal with the
crushing pressures of the deep.
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Cranbrook Institute of Science

BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MI
(877) 462-7262 | WWW.CRANBROOK.EDU/INSTITUTE
Strange Matter (through Sept. 5,

2005) From metals with memor y to
micro-machinery, discover the world of
materials science. Use a bowling ball to
try to shatter a pane of heat-tempered
glass or swish a gloved hand through a
substance that morphs from fluid to solid
and back again, at the touch of a button.
Prince Conference Center

at Calvin College
South
GRAND RAPIDS, MI
(616) 526-7800 | WWW.CALVIN.EDU/PETRA
Petra: Lost City of Stone (through

Aug. 15, 2005) This exhibit on the lost
civilization of the
Nabataeans tells the
story of the 19th-centur y rediscover y of
Petra, located at the
ancient crossroads of
the silk and spice trade
routes. The exhibit
highlights new scholarship and recent archaeological discoveries,
many of which are on
view for the first time outside Jordan.
Shipwreck Museum
PARADISE, MI
(877) 744-7973 I WWW.SHIPWRECKMUSEUM.COM
The Haunting World of Shipwrecks

(through Oct. 31, 2005) This exhibit
uses artifacts and first-hand accounts to
explore the perils of maritime transport
along Lake Superiors Shipwreck Coast, the
80-mile stretch of rugged shoreline that
extends west from the museum.
The Field Museum

CHICAGO, IL
(312) 922-9410 I WWW.FIELDMUSEUM.ORG
Dinosaur Dynasty: Discoveries from

China (through April 23, 2006) This
exhibit features authentic fossils and lifesized casts of dinosaur bones that span
180 million years. Touch real dinosaur
bones, meet the longest-necked animal
that ever lived, and more.
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Mary Brogan Museum

of Art and Science
TALLAHASSEE, FL
(850) 513-0700 I WWW.THEBROGAN.ORG
Egyptian Maze (through Sept. 5,

2005) Take a step back in time and learn
about the ancient Egyptians and how
they used math and science to build their
pyramids, tell time, and practice
medicine.
Michael C. Carlos Museum

ATLANTA, GA
Virginia Air &

Space Center
HAMPTON, VA
(757) 727-0900
WWW.VASC.ORG
The Lost Spacecraft: Liberty Bell

7 Recovered (through
Sept. 4, 2005) See the only unrecovered NASA spacecraft, which was used in
1961 for the U.S. second manned space
mission. It was located and recovered in
1999 and will be displayed alongside the
histor y of the space program and the
story of the recovery mission.
(404) 727-4282 I WWW.CARLOS.EMORY.EDU
Excavating Egypt: Great Discoveries

From the
P e t r i e
Museum of
Egyptian
Archaeology, University College
London
(through
Nov. 27,
2005) The
exhibit uses
photographs, excavation notes, and personal journals to bring the science of
archaeology and the early days of Egyptology to life.
The Mariners Museum

NEWPORT NEWS, VA
(757) 596-2222 I WWW.MARINER.ORG
Ironclad Evidence: Stories from the

USS Monitor and CSS Virginia
(through Dec. 31, 2005) This exhibit
includes video clips of the recovery of
the Monitor and artifacts from two legendary Civil War ironclads, including the
original wheel of the CSS Virginia (the
former USS Merrimack) and the Monitors nine-foot propeller, engine register,
brass reversing wheel, distress lantern,
and crewmembers personal items.
West Coast
Museum of the Rockies

BOZEMAN, MT
(406) 994-3466 I WWW.MONTANA.EDU/WWWMOR
Cosmic Questions: Our Place in Space

and Time (through Aug. 31, 2005)
Explore unsolved cosmic mysteries such
as black holes and extraterrestrial life,
and discover what it is like to be an
astronomer. Highlights include an
object theater, a cosmic ray cloud chamber, interactive murals, a video flythrough of the universe, and interactive
computer stations that take visitors
behind the scenes of modern cosmological science.
The Bowers Museum of Cultural Art

SANTA ANA, CA
(714) 567-3600 I WWW.BOWERS.ORG
Challenger Space Center

PEORIA, AZ
(623) 322-2001 I WWW.AZCHALLENGER.ORG
Space Adventures (through Aug. 31,

2005) Learn about space exploration
from moon bases to space ships, and
stretch your imagination with space
adventures from science fiction, books,
television, and cinema.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

LOS ANGELES, CA
(323) 857-6000 I WWW.LACMA.ORG
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of

the Pharaohs (through Nov. 15,
2005) This exhibit features more than
130 treasures from
tombs,
royal
graves, and ancient
sites in the Valley of
the Kings, including 50 objects from
the
tomb
of
Tutankhamun,
including his gold
crown and the
canopic coffinette
that contained his
mummified internal organs.
Mummies: Death and the Afterlife in

Ancient Egypt (through April 17,
2006) This exhibit illustrates the Egyptian ritual
of preparing
the
dead for
the afterlife. It features 140
funerar y
objects,
including
14 mummies and coffins, canopic jars,
offering tables, and tomb furnishings.
Outside the U.S.

Norwich Castle Museum
and Art Gallery
NORWICH, ENGLAND
01603 493636 I WWW.MUSEUMS.NORFOLK.GOV.UK
Buried Treasure (July 25, 2005-Jan.

13, 2006) Learn how archaeological
discoveries have enhanced our historical
knowledge, revolutionizing our understanding of the past. z
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Our Mysterious Universe
Our Mysterious Universe
A Deluge of Messianic Delusions
TIM SWARTZ
In Israels Holy City, some

tourists unexpectedly
find themselves
compelled to preach the
Gospel. There are theories,
but no one is certain
what causes this
mysterious malady.
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by Tim Swartz
here are some places on the planet that seem almost to radiate a
spiritual power. Early man recognized this and built great monuments on
these sites. Over the centuries, Jerusalem
has emerged as one of these spiritually
energetic places, which makes sense,
considering that this ancient, Biblical
town has been the focal point of devotion by millions of people for thousands
of years. What is most fascinating, however, is the way that some people react to
this energy.
For centuries, pilgrims have been
drawn to Jerusalem for its rich historical
and spiritual tapestry. Most return home

with fond memories of their visit but
others are inexplicably filled with the
burning desire to remain in Jerusalem to
publicly chant and sermonize. This
strange reaction to visiting a religious
site has become so common that it has
been given its own name: the Jerusalem
Syndrome.
Filled with the Spirit
he syndrome was first described
in the 1930s by Jerusalem psychiatrist Dr. Heinz Herman, one
of the founders of modern psychiatric
research in Israel, who noted in some of
his patients an unusual and often temporary mental state of sudden and intense
religious delusions after visiting or living
in Jerusalem.
Jerusalem Syndrome usually affects
only Christians or Jews, and interestingly,
seems to favor Protestants, who account
for 97 percent of all cases. Although the
syndrome affects each person differently,
it generally begins with feelings of nervousness and anxiety, with the pilgrim
feeling a gnawing need to visit various
holy sites. Often, they will then shave off
body hair, cut their nails, and repeatedly
bathe in an attempt to become purified.
They then suddenly have a desire to go
out into the streets to sing hymns and
preach the gospel.
New Mexican resident Amanda Faks
said that while visiting Jerusalem in
2001, she suddenly felt filled with the
Holy Spirit and left her tour group to
star t preaching next to the Wailing
Wall. The words just flowed from my
mouth and even though I was wide
awake and knew what was going on,
she explains, I had no control over
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what I was saying.

Faks was temporarily hospitalized and
after she was sent home, her unusual
symptoms vanished just as quickly as
they had emerged.
Intoxication of the Holy City
r. Yair Bar El, district psychiatrist for the Ministry of Health,
says that for people suffering
from Jerusalem Syndrome, the clinical
picture is always the same. Most have no
past mental instabilities and they do not
see strange things, nor hear voices. They
remember everything they do, and know
who they are.
For those who have been caught up in
the intoxication of the Holy City,
removal from the environment is usually
the fastest cure. Afterwards, most victims
of the syndrome cannot explain what
happened to them. Rather, they feel
embarrassed and usually do not like to
talk about the experience.
However, the district psychiatrist of
Jerusalem, Dr. Moshe Kalian, who has
diagnosed many cases of Jer usalem
Syndrome, disagrees that most sufferers have had no previous mental problems. In our opinion, Jerusalem is a
magnet for certain people who develop
their ideas before they come and act
out their behavior once they are here,
he explains.
But Jerusalem is not alone when it
comes to places that can spontaneously
initiate symptoms of the syndrome in
some people. Places such as Lourdes,
Fatima, and Medjugorje, where there
have been appearances of holy figures
such as the Virgin Mar y, are well
known for sending pilgrims into fits of
religious ecstasy. Cities such as Rome
and Mecca have also seen cases of
Jerusalem Syndrome.
Despite years of study, no one really
knows what causes the syndrome. Perhaps it is jarring for a serious Bible student to arrive in modern-day Israel
KRISTEN PHILIPKOSKI
JERSUALEM SYNDROME
Dr. Dean Hamer discovered that a persons

capacity to believe in God is linked to a
gene that regulates the flow of moodaltering chemicals in the brain.
where, instead of prophets in sandals,

he sees businessmen on cell phones and
soldiers on every corner. Or maybe in
some people there could be a physical
reason for their spirituality, something
that is activated by these highly charged
locales.
Interestingly, one doctor thinks that
he may have discovered a gene that
could be the source of spiritual feelings,
and possibly a reason why some people
are more influenced by religious centers
such as Jerusalem than others.
Locating the God Gene
r. Dean Hamer, director of the
Gene Structure and Regulation Unit at the National Cancer Institute, discovered that people
with VMAT2, a vesicular monoamine
transporter that regulates the flow of
mood-altering chemicals in the brain,
were more likely to develop a spiritual

belief in God.
However, both the scientific and religious communities have criticized
Hamer's thesis. God is not something
that can be demonstrated logically or
rigorously, says Neil Gillman, a professor of Jewish philosophy at the Jewish
Theological Seminar y in New York
City. Even so, Hamer believes that people are born with the genetic propensity
to be spiritual while culture, histor y,
and environment determine whether
one is a Christian, Hindu, Jew, Buddhist, or Muslim.
Additionally, Hamer suggests that all
religions have similar rituals that involve
prayer and meditation, which can lead to
an intuitive sense of Gods presence.
We do not know God; we feel Him, he
explains.
This could be the reason why some
people respond so bizarrely to holy
placesinstead of ones spiritual belief
being determined by a persons genetic
make-up, perhaps the God gene
enables one to be more sensitive to spiritual energies. In certain focal areas, this
energy may be so strong that the victim
acts almost like a radio receiver, and
begins broadcasting for all to hear the
signal that is coursing through their
very being.
Even so, what causes Jerusalem Syndrome remains an enigma. Are the symptoms the product of an unstable mind
and is it a new development or has it
been around for thousands of years? If
the source of the syndrome involves
energies not yet known to current science, might this suggest that historical
Biblical figures such as John the Baptist,
the apostles, and even Jesus Christ were
influenced by this syndrome?
Whatever the reasons, this fascinating
phenomena shows how little is really
understood about mans need for spiritual enlightenment and a direct relationship with the divine. z
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Urban Legends
Urban Legends
Half-Time Tales and Sports Legends

The national pasttime of
baseball and everybody's
favorite football game
provide a rich source for
tall tales, half-truths,
and urban legends.
Did Babe Ruth

inspire the name
for the Baby
Ruth candy bar?
by Charles Rammelkamp
iven that sports involve recordsetting accomplishments in
terms of speed, strength, and
endurance, it is no surprise that they
provide a rich source of urban legends.
But beyond individual feats, sports such
as baseball and football have always
generated tall tales. Indeed, the ver y
origin of the game of baseball is
shrouded in myth.
Baseball is said to have been invented
by Abner Doubleday in Cooperstown,
NY, in 1839, a patriotic conclusion
drawn by the Mills Commission in 1908,
a committee which set out to establish
the American origin of the game. However, Doubleday,
who never claimed
credit for inventing
the national pastime,
was not even in
Cooperstown
in
1839.
The Doubleday
story was nevertheless accepted as fact
until 1939, when
New York librarian
Robert W. Henderson disproved the
Doubleday legend.
Using sources such
as the 1828 rules for
rounders
that
appeared in
Did Babe Ruth Inspire a Candy Bar?

abe Ruth is a baseball player
about whom urban legends have
nearly obscured the real man. His
appetite for food, drink, and women was
legendary and his feats both on and off
the field exist in the murky area between
legend and fact. One such legend was
that the Baby Ruth candy bar was named
after the famed Yankee slugger.
The Baby Ruth candy bar was the
invention of Chicagos Curtiss Candy
Company, which reintroduced its Kandy
Kake bar in 1921 as the Baby Ruth. They
did not get Babe Ruths permission to
use his name, but neither did they market the bar with his image.
However, Curtiss insists that the candy
bar was named after President Grover
Clevelands deceased daughter Ruth,
who died of diphtheria in 1904, even
though Babe Ruth was the most famous
man in America when the candy bar was
introduced.
Interestingly, although they never
admitted to exploiting the baseball players fame, when a competitor tried to
market a Babe Ruth Home-Run Bar
(with the Babes approval) in 1930, Curtiss successfully fought off the challenge
to their candy bars name.
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Urban Legends and the Super Bowl

ut the sporting event that generates the most urban legends is
the Super Bowl. There is a twoweek lag between the AFC and NFC
conference football championships, and
as the tension builds, tall tales grow as
well, such as the urban legend that
sewage systems of major cities have broken down because of the inordinate
number of toilets being flushed during
the games halftime.
This story does not originate with the
Super Bowl, however, which immediately makes it suspect. The same was
said in regards to the final episode of
M*A*S*H in 1983, and even as far back
as 1930 to the heyday of the Amos n
Andy radio show.
A similar rumor is the supposed
greater incidence of spousal abuse on
Super Bowl Sunday than on any other
day of the year. This claim is based on the
physical, sometimes violent nature of the
game and the fact that many men
overindulge in alcohol while watching
the game. But statistics do not
bear the rumor out.
It is also said that the best day
of the year to go to Disneyland is
Super Bowl Sunday, as most
people stay home to watch the
game. While it is true that January tends to be a slower month
at amusement parks, crowds at
Disneyland on Super Bowl Sunday are comparable to those on
any other Sunday during January and February.
There is also the legend that
two-thirds of all avocados sold in
the United States are sold within
three weeks of Super Bowl Sunday. The idea is that Americans
consume guacamole with potato
chips during the Super Bowl.
The Boys Own Book, he demonstrated

conclusively that baseball was derived
from that particular old English game.
But perhaps nothing in baseball is as
legendary as the famous baseball player
Babe Ruth, not even the origin of the
sport.
The Seventh-Inning Stretch

nother colorful baseball legend is
the origin of the seventh-inning
stretch. Some say it began with
President William Howard Taft, who
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exhibition games against the New York

Giants in the Polo Grounds.
President Taft may have inspired the tradition of the seventh-inning stretch.
also inaugurated the custom of the president throwing out the first pitch in 1910
when he tossed a ball to Walter Johnson
of the Washington Senators, who then
went out and threw a one-hitter to beat
the Philadelphia Athletics 3 to 0.
The story goes that while watching a
game, Taft became restless in the small
wooden seats of Washingtons Griffith
Stadium. By the middle of the seventh
inning, he could no longer bear the discomfort and stood up to stretch his legs.
The spectators thought he was leaving
and rose out of respect, but he returned
to his seat a few minutes later, and the
crowd followed suit, thus beginning the
custom of patrons standing up to stretch
during the seventh inning.
However, another legend has it that
clergyman Brother Jasper, who brought
baseball to Manhattan College in the late
19th century, initiated the tradition of
the seventh-inning stretch when, on one
muggy afternoon, he noticed the students in the stands becoming rowdy. To
calm them down, he called a time-out.
This seventh-inning stretch supposedly
became a ritual at all Manhattan College
games and spread to the major leagues in
the 1880s, when the college team played
While sales of avocados do increase

around the time of the Super Bowl, they
only account for about 5% of the annual
sales, which is high, but not the twothirds claimed in the legend. (That 5% is
about 8 million pounds of avocados,
which is a lot of avocados, but it still
pales in comparison to the 14 million
pounds sold annually during Cinco de
Mayo celebrations.)
Finally, there is the legend that stock
market performance can be predicted by
the winner of the Super Bowl. According
to legend, if the AFC team wins, the
market will go down. But if the NFC
team wins, the market will supposedly go
up. Remarkably, the Super Bowl Indicator has been accurate 29 out of 36
times, which, while there is no obvious
causal connection, tends to give credence
to those investors who make their decisions based on such coincidences.
Given the enormous popularity of
sports in America, it is hardly surprising
that rumors based on circumstantial halftruths are circulated with the speed of a
Curt Shilling fastball and come to be
taken for gospel faster than a Tom Brady
touchdown pass. z
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Treasures from the Deep
Treasures from the Deep

New Piece of Titanic Found
MS Titanic Inc., the company
that has exclusive rights to salvage the Titanic, announced in
October of 2004 that a new piece of the
historic ships hull has been founda
piece that broke off from the middle of
the Titanic as she sank. The finding confirms speculation that she not only broke
in half but also split apart in sections.
The discovery is part of a newly discovered debris field that includes several
decks, levels, and portholes, as well as
objects such as a crystal decanter, Turkish bath tiles, parts of beds, and fragments of leather luggage. Objects from
the ships first-class restaurant were also
found, including an intact champagne
bottle, a soft drink bottle from Ireland,
an electric milk scalder, and a spectacular
golden wall sconce.
For the first time, salvagers relied on a
remotely operated vehicle with robotic
arms. The company soon hopes to raise
the hull section, which weighs more
than 90 tons.
Divers Find Napoleonic-Era

Warship off Welsh Coast
ritish divers working off the Pembrokeshire coast of Wales in
November of 2004 discovered
the wreck of a large warship that dates to
the Napoleonic era. Until now, it was
thought that no ships were lost during
the 1797 French invasion of Fishguard.
(According to legend, the invasion was
repelled by local women who dressed in
Welsh uniforms. They were mistaken by
the French as British troops.)
Cannon Recovered from Wreck

of Elizabethan Merchant Vessel
lso in November, the remains of
an Elizabethan armed merchant
vessel were discovered during
dredging of a shipping lane in the
Princes Channel of Englands Thames
estuary.
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mysterious lands of Bia-Punt and Punt,

on the coast of the Horn of Africa,
where the Egyptians obtained a variety
of exotic wares, including gold, ebony,
ivory, exotic animals, and frankincense.
Wadi Gawasis was identified in the
1970s as the likely location of the
ancient seaport of Saaw, which was the
departure point for famous 15th-century
BC naval expeditions by Queen Hatshepsut to Punt. Until now, however,
scholars were unaware of the earlier
expeditions.
It is not clear why the artifacts were
sealed up inside the caves, but it is possible that they were left as offerings to the
gods. The team plans to resume its excavation in December of 2005.
Tudor merchant ship
Although the Tudor ship was first

thought to be a sunken barge, archaeologists were called in when divers found
one of the earliest iron cannons ever
cast in England. They have since recovered the relatively intact bow section of
the ship as well as armaments, cargo,
and a leather shoe sole. They say that
when she sank, the ship was carrying tin
and iron ingots and may have been on a
secret trade mission with Englands
enemy Spain.
Built of East Anglian
oak around 1575, the
100-foot-long vessel is
one of only a few Tudor
merchant ships ever found.
The recently discovered
cannon will be housed at
the Royal Armouries
Ar tiller y Museum in
Hampshire.
Pharaonic Ships Found in Egypt
n December of 2004, a team of
American and Italian archaeologists
discovered two man-made caves in
the bluffs of Wadi Gawasis, on the coast

of Egypts Red Sea, that contained the
remains of Egyptian pharaonic seagoing
ships, the first ever recovered.
Inside the caves, which are constructed with cedar beams and blocks of limestone once used as ship anchors, the
team found a network of larger rooms
and assorted nautical items, including
well-preserved cedar ship beams, sail and
mast ropes, a wooden bowl, a mesh bag,
and fragments of Yemenite potter y.
Scholars say that the
pottery proves that
they either sailed
fur ther than was
previously thought
or were par t of a
complex network
of trade.
Outside
the
caves, the team
found stelae carved
with hieroglyphics
that recount 18thcentury BC expeditions to the
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Found in Nova Scotia River
rchaeologists in Nova Scotia
have discovered more than
10,000 Mikmaq Indian artifacts
in the bed of the Mersey River, near
Kejimkujik
National
Park. The
artifacts,
which date as
far back as
6,000 BC,
were found
during the
summer of
2004, when
the rivers water levels were lowered for
repairs to generating stations, exposing
the riverbed for the first time since dams
were built 75 years ago. But the discover y was kept secret until Februar y of
2005 to prevent looting.
Embedded in the muddy riverbed
were potter y fragments, arrowheads,
spear points, a 3,000-year-old barbed
harpoon for spearing salmon and eels, a
4,500-year-old semi-circular knife used
to process sea mammals, and other
flaked and stone-ground tools. Also
found were the remains of more than

100 ancient campsites and a number of
4,000-year-old fish weirs.
Historians say that they have long
known that there was a functioning
native civilization in the area when the
Europeans began arriving en masse,
but until now, they have found few
relics. They say that they are amazed by
the quantity, quality, and age range represented by the recently discovered
artifacts.
The encampments are once again
under water and the artifacts have been
sent to the Nova Scotia Museum for further study.
Oldest Shipwreck Ever
Found in the Great Lakes
n Febr uar y of 2005, exper ts
announced that the wreck of a
wooden ship on the eastern shore
of Lake Huron is the HMS General
Hunter, a British man-of-war that
played a pivotal role in the struggle
between Britain and the fledgling U.S.
for control of the Great Lakes during
the War of 1812.
After ferr ying redcoats into Ohio,
shelling Cleveland, and playing a key role
The HMS General Hunter
in the British capture of Fort Detroit,

the General Hunter was captured during
the Battle of Lake Erie in 1813 by Commodore Oliver Hazard Perrys American
fleet. The 180-ton, two-masted squarerigger was then used by American forces
to transport troops and supplies until it
was abandoned and sank during a storm
on Lake Huron in 1816.
The oldest shipwreck ever found on
the Great Lakes, it was first discovered in
2001 when a man strolling on the beach
in Southampton, Ontario, Canada,
noticed some timbers sticking out of an
ice buildup at the lakes edge. So far, the
wreck has yielded four cannonballs, a
musket bayonet, gunflints, pistol parts,
hundreds of ceramic pieces, clay pipes,
eating utensils, and 36 buttons from
U.S. and British naval uniforms.
Bronze Age Artifacts
Found Off Devon Coast
n March of 2005, Britains Maritime
and Coastguard Agency announced
that a team of amateur divers and
marine archaeologists had discovered
artifacts from one of the worlds oldest
shipwrecks off Englands South Devon
coast. The artifacts, which are thought
to have been part of the cargo of a 13thcentury BC ship, are being studied at the
British Museum, where exper ts are
investigating the possibility that they
came from the same vessel as a number
of Bronze Age artifacts found nearby in
the 1970s.
Found in 60 feet of water, the artifacts
include palstave axe heads, an adze, a
cauldron handle, a gold bracelet, and
among the earliest sword blades ever
found in northwest Europe. Some of the
3,000-year-old objects are thought to
have come from the Seine Valley of
northern France, and experts say that
they give the clearest picture yet of trade
links with the Continent during the
Bronze Age. z
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Archaeological Anomalies
Archaeological Anomalies
CTs Gungywamp Complex

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MARK MIHALKO
Department of Environmental Protection is in the process of acquiring the 300

acres as part of its open space program.
Gungywamp, meaning temple of the
people in Gaelic, is littered with beehive-shaped chambers, rows of standing
stones, as well as the remnants of a possible ancient altar that lies in the center of
three concentric circles of large quarried
stones. This formation lies near several
large pillar stones and one boulder slab
that is positioned along astrological lines.
Some experts believe that the stone
circles were used as some type of grinder
or mill during colonial times. However,
charcoal found nearby has been dated to
between 280 and 630 AD, long before
the first colonists settled here in the 17th
century. Researchers have also found
Native-American artifacts dating to
around 2,000 BC next to the remains of
small colonial houses.
One of the more intriguing areas of
Gungywamp is the Calendar Chamber,
one of two chambers that sit 50 feet
These standing stones at the Gungywamp

Complex defy easy explanation.
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beam of light slowly moves down the

wall and eventually pours into a small
beehive-shaped crypt near the entrance
of the chamber.
Many experts believe these chambers
are nothing more than colonial storage
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MARK MIHALKO
Were these stones placed

in a circle during Colonial
times or are they the remnants of an ancient altar?
by Mark Mihalko
hen the people of New England think of the city of Groton, CT, they usually think of
submarinesan assumption which is
just, as Groton houses one of the largest
submarine bases in the world. But what
most do not realize is that Groton is also
home to one of the most mysterious
sites in New Englandthe Gungywamp
Complexwhich is located on a hill
overlooking Latham Lake in the northeast corner of Groton, about 1.3 miles
east of the Thames River. This strange
New England site is filled with ancient
ruins, underground chambers, and
strange stone formations.
Originally, the land was used for
forestry and limited farming while the
lake and bogs were used for the cultivation of cranberries. After farming operations on the land ceased in the 1930s,
the YMCA of New London acquired the
property, and operated a camp there for
several decades. Now, the Connecticut
MARK MIHALKO
A former campground
in Connecticut features
unusual stone groupings
and structures of
unknown origins.
below the concentric stone circle. A

small opening at the west end of the
chamber is aligned to allow the setting
sun on both the spring and fall equinoxes to illuminate the inside of the chamber. On these two days each year, the
Top: The Solar alignment in this man-made cave makes it an odd storage facility, as some
historians suggest. Above: An interesting row of standing stones.
facilities. But if that is the case, why

would they have been built to align with
the sun?
Some local Native-Americans claim
that their ancestors built the chambers,
but others believe they were built by an
ancient order of Irish monks who had
been blown across the Atlantic Ocean to
America during a huge storm, hundreds
of years before the Vikings settled in
North America in the 11th century.
These origins stem from the similarities in design and construction of the
site to ancient Celtic megalithic sites
where creating calendars out of stones
that are precisely aligned with important periods of solar activity helped
mark sacred celebrations.
One of the more fascinating bits of evidence supporting this theory is the faded
carvings throughout the site that resemble the Early Christian chi-rho symbol
(which resembles an X intersected by a P)
that symbolizes the name of Christ, a
popular symbol from the fourth to seventh centuries.
There is also an area in Gungywamp
known as the Cliff of Tears, an area
that shows evidence of ancient quarrying, including stone piles and boatshaped cairns. When hiking past this
site, people report feeling depressed
and some even suffer nosebleeds and
bleeding gums.
Geomagnetic readings at the site
indicate a widely fluctuating magnetic
field, which perhaps causes a physical
reaction in some people. Perhaps these
ef fects caused the designers of the
Gungywamp Complex to use the site
primarily for ceremonial purposes,
which would explain the relatively few
artifacts found there.
Whether ancient monks, Indians, or
colonial settlers built the unusual features
at this site, we may never know for sure.
But whoever built these structures definitely left an imprint on both the land and
in the minds of many of its visitors. z
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Crypto Corral
Crypto Corral
Wolverines Return to Michigan

ichigan calls itself the Wolverine State even though the
worlds largest weasel is listed
as endangered there, and only two confirmed sightings have been logged in the
past 150 years. But in 2004, hunters
from Bad Axe pursued a wolverine for
several hours before losing sight of it.
Hearing of this, high school science
teacher Jeff Ford began seeking proof of
the wolverines sur vival. He finally
obtained it in March, 2005, using a trail
SOURCES: HURON DAILY TRIBUNE,
alike hailed the discovery as proof that

species written off by man may still survive in nature. John Fitzpatrick, a leader
of the Nature Conser vancy, also saw
hope for Americas wild lands in the
birds rediscovery. The ivory-bill tells us
that we could actually bring this system
back to that primeval forest here in the
heartland of North America, he said.
DETROIT FREE PRESS
SOURCES: ARIZONA REPUBLIC,
game camera and an infrared motion

detector to snap a photograph of a lone
specimen.
distant shore. But what was it?

Its pictures of Bigfoot, Clarkes
mother Georgina Henry told journalists.
Its black and its big. Oh God, its
hugeseven or eight feet high. We can
see him walking, and then turning to
look at [Clarke].
Other observers were more cautious.
Canadian telejournalist Mychaylo Prystupa called the Clarke tape very shaky,
though he retained an open mind.
What I saw was a dark, shadowy figure
in the distance. It appears to be
humanoid and its tall.
The tape has since been sold to the
TV show A Current Affair for an undisclosed amount. To view the video, visit
www.acurrentaffair.com/bigfoot/index.
html.
And on May 20, another Sasquatch
sighting was reported from Nor way
House, Manitoba, where two girls
described their woodland encounter
with a huge creature. Adult searchers
rushed to the scene and repor tedly
found bare footprints larger than a
mans size-16 shoe, which were photographed and preserved. Samples of
Extinct Woodpecker Lives Again

fficially classified as extinct in
the 1960s, the ivor y-billed
woodpecker made a stunning
comeback in April, 2005, with
announcements from Cornell University
that living specimens had been photographed in eastern Arkansas. Participants in a year-long research project
logged at least 15 sightings of the 20inch birds from the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge during 7,000 hours of
surveillance. Previously, the last confirmed report of an ivory-billed woodpecker was filed in Louisiana in 1944.
Ornithologists and cryptozoologists
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Manitoba Sasquatch Video?

n a year when heated controversy
still surrounds the original film of
Sasquatch (or Bigfoot), shot by
Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin in
1967, repor ts of new footage has
emerged from Manitoba, Canada.
In April, Ferr y operator Rober t
Clarke was piloting his craft across the
Nelson River when he repor tedly
glimpsed a big, black figure standing
on the bank, some 975 feet away.
Snatching up his camcorder, Clarke
recorded two minutes and 49 seconds of
some large, dark creature moving on the
Missouri Mysteries
n April 25, 2005,
police in Branson, MO,
announced that they were setting traps for a black panther seen
and allegedly videotapedby several
local residents. Although the cat eluded
its would-be captors, residents of
Columbia, MO, reported a kangaroo-atlarge on April 27. Officers of the Boone
County sheriff s department confirmed
that creatures presence via footprints,
but suggested from their size that it may
be a wallaby. Like the panther before it,
Missouris marsupial remains at large.
SOURCES: KYTV [SPRINGFIELD, MO],

COLUMBIA TRIBUNE, KANSAS CITY STAR
Tahoes Tessie Seen Again

ative legends of Tessie, an
unknown creature that is said
to inhabit Lake Tahoe on the
California-Nevada border, have circulated since the 19th century. Modern sightings date from 1982, when two off-duty
police officers reported that the beast
had interrupted their water-skiing vacation. But in April, 2005, California residents Beth Douglas and Ron Talmage
reported seeing three to five solid black
humps undulating above Lake Tahoes
surface, 100 yards off Tahoe Park Beach.
Skeptics believe that Tessie may be a
giant sturgeon and have proposed a scientific nameAcipenser tahoensisfor
the still-unidentified creature.
NEW YORK TIMES
unidentified hair also were found with

the tracks, described by one witness as
longish, and half black and half white.
Locals remain on alert for more signs of
the mysterious creature.
SOURCES: WINNIPEG FREE PRESS, MANITOBA
TELEGRAPH-JOURNAL,TORONTO GLOBE & MAIL,
WINNIPEG SUN, ARIZONA REPUBLIC
SOURCES: TAHOE WORLD, TAHOE DAILY TRIBUNE
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Nessie Tooth Recovered?

hile Tessie flirted with witnesses in the United States,
its cousinthe elusive Nessie
of Loch Ness, Scotlandmade headlines
once again, this time with claims that
one of the creatures teeth has been
found at the loch.
According to the story, two U.S. college students hired a local guide to take
them on a boat tour of Loch Ness in
March, 2005. During that tour, they
found a mutilated deer carcass ripped in
half, with huge bloody gashes, teeth
marks, and a bizarre bony protrusion
sticking out of an exposed rib. They
retrieved the latter object, described as a
barbed, four-inch-long fang of
unknown origin.
Excited by their discovery, the trio
hailed a passing boat that was occupied
by a stranger who flashed credentials
of a water bailiff before confiscating the
tooth, their camera, and the videotape.
The bailiff then promised to return them
if the witnesses cooperated, but
attempts to retrieve them produced only
official threats to take their passports if
they made trouble. The stor y has a
quasi-happy ending, though, as the
bailiff missed finding another tape of the
tooth, concealed in a backpack.
Enter Bill McDonald, a private investigator and concept designer who
teamed up with author Steve Alten to

search for Nessie in 2004. McDonald
vouches for the fangs authenticity, offering a $5,000 reward for return of the
relic. While he has never seen the tooth
himself, McDonald categorically eliminates the notion raised by some
observers of the tape that the object is
actually a small deer antler that has been
snapped off at its root.
SOURCES: WWW.LOCHNESSTOOTH.COM,
WWW.ALIENUFOART.COM
Mammals, Mammals,
Everywhere
n average 15,000 to 20,000 new
species are discovered each year,
but new mammal finds are
extremely rare. Only six were found
between 1937 and
1995, and none
over the
p a s t
decade
until 2005. The new discoveries this year
so far include a monkey, the Golden
Palace titi from Brazil; a previously unknown fox from Borneo; and
an oddball rodent from Laos,
dubbed the kha-nyou.
Meanwhile, the ongoing Census of Marine Life discovered
500 new species of fish from
2001 to 2003, and estimates that
ten times that number wait to be
cataloged.
On land, the All Species Foundation aims to identify and list all
life on Earth by 2025. The final
tally? No one knows.
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HUNDREDS
HAUNT
t h e Q u e e n M ar y
O
ship for 14 years.

O CTOBER 31, 1967, W ITH
James personal contact with ghosts on
Captain Treasure Jones at the
the Queen Mary began in 1991 while takhelm, the 81,237-ton, 1,019ing the ships Ghosts and Legends tour,
foot British luxury liner the Queen Mary
an eerie walk through narrow spaces and
embarked upon her last voyage, bound
shadows, combined with spooky stories
for Long Beach, CA. Once docked, the
and dramatizations of actual disasters. As
majestic vessel, which was built in ScotJames explains, he was a few feet away
land and launched in 1936and played
from the tour group
host to celebrities, royalty,
when an entity appeared
and the richwas conto him and identified
ver ted into a hotel and
himself as Captain Stark.
tourist attraction, afloat
He told James that he
but securely moored
had been poisoned and
behind a barrier of rocks.
had died in that area.
Yet those who believed
Within seconds of his
this resting place to be
brief encounter with
peaceful were gravely misCaptain Stark, the tour
taken. According to hunguide turned and said,
dreds of guests and
This is where the body
employees, the spirits of
Psychic Peter James
of Captain Stark was
passengers, captains,
found.
troops, and personnel
James alerted the ships historian to his
who sailed aboard the Queen Mary move
encounter with Stark, and accurately prothen, as now, throughout the ship.
vided information about the ship to
In my opinion, the Queen Mary is one
which he had no prior knowledge. He
of the most haunted places in the world,
soon gained access to areas not open to
with a total of 600 entities, claims Peter
the public to conduct research into paraJames, a world-renowned psychic who
normal activity on-board.
conducted paranormal research on the
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The psychics first investigative excursion into the ships ghostly guests began
in the Royal Theater, once the site of the
second-class swimming pool. A female
child entity spoke to James clairaudiently
there and then began to take on a transparent physical form, identifying herself
as Jackie.
According to James, she felt caught
between two worlds and was searching
for her mother, father, and nanny. James
later learned that the childs name was
Jacqueline Tourin, age four or five, who
had drowned in the second-class swimming pool 60 years earlier.
With his videographer and security
guard in tow, in 1991, James contacted
Jackie again and were able to record
audible sounds that she made. A few
weeks later, the Queen Marys general
manager and 15 other ship executives
met at the first-class pool area, where
James was able to coax Jackie to talk in
front of the group. Some were terrified, some of the witnesses cried, while
others like myself were overjoyed,
described James.
The next week, James received a
three-year contract to conduct ghost
research on the ship.
According to James, the spirits onboard do not know that they are dead.
Instead, they are reliving the moments
before they died in a never-ending cycle.
They remain territorial, staying in places
that are familiar, significant, and meaningful to them.
Some were murdered, some committed suicide, and a few drowned in the
pool. Crew members were killed
through industrial accidents, crushed
by 700-pound water tight doors, or
scalded to death when boilers burst.
And many more died on-board during
World War II.
The Grey Ghost
eginning in 1940, the Queen
Mary was pressed into duty as a
transpor t for British troops
through enemy waters. By the end of
1941, she was carrying American troops
as well. Painted grey and aptly called the
Grey Ghost, the ship eventually became
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Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchills

headquarters at sea.
During the war years, she traveled
approximately 660,000 miles and transported over 800,000 personnel, including GI war brides and children to their
new homes in Canada and the U.S. Her
speed enabled her to avoid enemy forces
so ef fectively that Hitler of fered a
$250,000 reward and the Iron Cross to
any German U-boat that could sink her.

Sadly, her speed also proved disastrous. On October 2, 1942, carrying
allied troops 20 miles off the coast of
North Ireland and utilizing a zigzag
cruising pattern to avoid enemy ships,
she accidentally struck a 4,200-ton antiaircraft escort ship, the H.M.S. Curacoa,
slicing it in half. Of the 439 men aboard
the Curacoa, 338 men perished. Com-
manded not to stop, whatever the circumstances, The Grey Ghost had no
choice but to carry on. (In later years,
camera crews sent to the site of the collision near Donegal, Ireland documented
the sounds heard there of desperate
voices and pounding.)
Both fame and infamy followed the
Grey Ghost. While the Queen Mary was
built to carry 3,000 comfortably, the
wartime ship crammed 16,000 troops
onto the vessel, so many that the men
had to sleep in shifts. Worse, heat
exhaustion, and lack of sufficient air and
water caused hundreds to die during the
crossings.
The ship also transported wounded
soldiers and prisoners of war on B Deck
in the Isolation Ward. Here, many
Young German and Italian prisoners
committed suicide rather than face their
fate, says James. Such untimely deaths
are highly conducive to ghost activity.
The spectral remnants of these men continue to roam the ships corridors and
decks, seeking to reconnect with their

life force.
Sightings of Popular Spirits
umerous people have reported
seeing the same spectral
beings, their origins and life
stories unknown. For example, the Elegant Lady, so called because of her glamorous 1940s attire and movie-star looks,
has oft-times been sighted in the ships
Observation Bar.
An eyewitness reports that in the late
1970s, while working as a cocktail waitress on the Queen Mary, she and the bartender were alone and closing up for the
night when a passenger suddenly
appeared out of nowhere. I saw an
image of a beautiful woman sitting at a
table, smoking a cigarette, just staring
off across the room and out the window, she explained. She was wearing
an elegant green dress with gloves, a hat,
and jewelry. Then the apparition just
disappeared.
On July 10, 1966, while on D Deck

facing Door 13 in the engine room, an
area known for intense paranormal activity, a young crewman was crushed to
death during a routine watertight door
drill. Some speculate that he might
have been playing the game Chicken,
tour guide Valerie explains, where you
see if you can beat the door closing.
Apparently, he lost. Since then, a
young, bearded man in overalls has been
seen and felt here and in the space
behind an adjacent escalator called Shaft
Alley. He was even met by a couple touring the Queen Mary in August of 1991.
Passing through Door 13 and starting up
the stairs leading out of the area, the husband said he had a strange feeling that
someone was following him. He looked
back, but saw nothing. Maybe the crewman is here, he laughed to his wife.
The couple was still joking about it as
they continued up the stairs, when suddenly something brushed across his face.
He did not think much about it until
A ghost-cam set up
at the first-class
swimming pool
tapes the area 24
hours a day, seven
days a week. Via a
live feed, the action
filmed there can be
seen at www.ghostsandlegends.com.
Paranormal host Erika Frost

stands in front of the engine
rooms Door 13, which is
believed to be one of the most
haunted parts of the ship.
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they were leaving the ship, proceeding

down the gangway, when the wife saw a
streak of grease that had not been there
before on her husbands face.
Boiler Room Ghosts
ad stories characterize many of the
spirits aboard the Queen Mary and
their presence can be strongly felt
in certain areas of the ship. For instance,
six fathoms (36 feet) below the waterline
lies the dark, cavernous boiler room,
once home to 27 massive boilers that
powered the ship. This space is known
to be 10 to 20 degrees cooler than the
surrounding air, and scores of people
have had encounters with spirits here,
including a four-year-old child named
Dana, who has been seen playing and
sucking her thumb.
In 1959, as passengers were en route
to the United States, Danas father, who
was drinking too much and most likely
depressed, strangled her, her sister, and
her mother, and then shot himself. The
murders occurred in room B474.
Danas been seen intermittently since
1991 and frequently calls for her
mommy, says James. As recently as
May, 2004, James and six others heard
her call, Mommy, mommy.
At the heart of the ship, the pink and
green-tiled, first-class swimming pool
area is inundated with ghosts. The pool
is thought to be the main vor tex of
ghostly activity on the Queen Mary, a
dimensional doorway through which
spirits enter and exit to the other side,
and in so doing, energize themselves,
explains James.
There is one such area to the left facing the pool next to the womens
changing stall, a place where visitors
have experienced tingling sensations,
dizziness, heaviness, and cold. Security
guards at night have reported hearing
children playing and splashing in the
pool.
Security has a book that is thick with
officers own sightings, as well as those
of crew members and tour visitors who
have witnessed women in vintage
bathing suits on the pool decks. For
instance, a tour guide once saw wet foot-
believes that ghosts have the ability to

materialize when they can conjure up
enough electromagnetic energy from
batteries, cell phones, and such. They
then show themselves in full figure.
Water is an excellent conductor of electromagnetic energy, which explains the
frequency of sightings at the pool.
When asked whether the power of
suggestion or the mind playing tricks
may trigger the appearance of ghostly
sightings on the Queen Mar y, James
adamantly says no. He admits that he
may be more intuitive when it comes to
sensing their presence, but one need not
be sensitive or psychic to experience
them. Security guards, maids, guides,
and guests have all encountered spirits
without heightened sensitivity to them.
To contact them, communication is key,
James says. He simply calls out their
names and then asks them to make
themselves known.
Of the over 1.5 million visitors to the
Queen Mary each year, many hope to
encounter paranormal phenomena in
some form, perhaps seeing a fiery orb
containing a face, witnessing a spirit, or
watching a faucet turn on and off by
itself. One tour guide explained, Its
like a fishing expedition. Sometimes they
bite and sometimes they dont.
Still, for those visitors who wish to
experience something other worldly
onboard this historic vessel, there is
always a ghost of a chance. z
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Many ghosts have been seen in

the boiler room, including the
ghost of a four-year-old child who
is sometimes seen playing here.
prints on the pool deck, although the

last person to swim in the pool was the
actress Farrah Fawcett in 1975 for an
episode of Charlies Angels.
Life After life
nterestingly, the ships longest hallway exists on B Deck, the area of
the greatest number of ghost sightings. A guide tells a stor y from a few
months ago in which a female security
guard noticed a child of about three
The ships longest hallway is on

B Deck, the area of the greatest
number of ghost sightings.
years of age standing in a hallway alone.

The child raised her arms to be picked
up, and when the guard approached her,
she vanished. That guard switched to
the day shift, says the guide.
Room 340, an unoccupied space that
has been under renovation since 2000,
has also been reported as a hot spot of
paranormal activity. Each day when
workmen came back to resume construction, their work from the previous
day had been vandalized. Finally, they
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gave up and the room remains unfinished to this day.

The same room (then numbered
B226) was also the subject of an unusual, unexplained incident in 1966. A
woman then occupying the room told
hotel personnel of someone pulling the
covers off of her while she slept. On
another occasion, a housekeeper reported going into the room to make the bed.
After she went to retrieve something
from her cart, she found the sheets piled
in the center of the floor. Another story,
recorded in 1948 in the log of a former

ship captain, stated that a man died in
this room, cause unknown.
Contacting the Other Side
hen tour guides ask that all
cell phones, beepers, and
other electronic equipment
be turned off because ghosts drain the
energy, they are dead serious. Peter
James explains, We are all made up of
electromagnetic energy. At death, a
spirit retains some of this energy and he
The Queen Mar y is located at 1126

Queens Highway at the south end of the
Interstate 710 on the water in Long
Beach, CA. A Paranormal Passpor t
allows visitors to explore ghostly sites onboard, followed by a walk through the
Paranormal Research Center. For further
information on tours and hotel reservations, call (562) 435-3511, or visit
www.queenmary.com or www.ghostsandlegends.com.
For those in search of spirits in a more
intimate atmosphere, join Paranormal
Host Erika Frost, for dinner any Friday or
Saturday evening at Sir Winstons, followed by her Ghost Tour. Call (310) 4991657 for reservations.
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Premonitions
of Disaster
Aboard the
Titanic
T
1,513 LIVES
aboard R.M.S. Titanic
during the early morning
hours of April 15, 1912, seems
to have created an unseen but
potent rift in the very fabric of
time itself. Her sinking was
actually foretold by more than
50 individuals while many passengers experienced various
omens, premonitions, extraordinary coincidences, as well as
precognitive dreams prior to
the cruise, making the Titanic
disaster among the most
unique incidents in the annals
of paranormal phenomenon.
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BY FRANK JOSEPH
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British journalist and

Titanic passenger
William Stead experienced a host of unusual
omens prior to his
sailing on the
doomed oceanliner.
prevented them from sailing.

For instance, Blanche Marshall suffered an hysterical outbreak on April 10,
1912, as she and her family watched the
Titanic steam past the Isle of Wight,
from the roof of their home overlooking
the River Solent. In a virtual panic, she
described a vision in which she saw
masses of people drowning in the freezing waters of the North Atlantic. She
then told her husband, daughters, and
servants that the liner would sink before
it reached New York.
While steaming out of harbor at

Southhampton, Titanics enormous
wake caused another vessel tied up at
moorings to snap her lines and swing
out, threatening to crash into the new
superliner. Collision was avoided by a
mere four feet, and many passengers
regarded the incident as a bad omen,
particularly because the ship they narrowly missed hitting bore the same name
as their final destination: New York.
But this was not the only time the
Titanic collided with another ship prior
to its maiden voyage. The Titanics
maiden voyage was originally planned
for March 20, 1912, but was postponed
for 20 days so that dockyard workers
could make minor repairs, following a
minor collision with one of her two sister ships, the Olympic.
The delay seemed crucially perfect
because it meshed with the fulfillment of
numerous prophecies concerning the
doomed ship, beginning with one of its
most famous passengers, William Steed.
Steads Prophesies
day before the Titanic sank,
British journalist and Titanic
passenger William Thomas
Stead was amusing his fellow passengers
with a tall tale about the discovery of an
ancient Egyptian sarcophagus. According to Steed, anyone who
successfully translated its
inscription was allegedly
doomed to die a violent
death shortly thereafter.
He then quoted the
inscription to demonstrate his disregard for
such
superstition.
Nonetheless, he went
down with the Titanic
two days later.
However, Stead
appears to have had a
fateful relationship
with the doomed
liner, long before
she took him to the
bottom of the sea.
As early as 1897,
palmist
Rober t
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Machray had published a photograph of

Steads palm in the Januar y issue of
Pearsons Magazine. He did so because
during a palm-reading, he was
impressed by Steads life line that
clearly indicated his death at 63.
Indeed, Stead was 63 years of age when
he died aboard Titanic.
In fact, long before the superliner was
even envisioned, Stead published a
prophetic story in Review of Reviews.
Although From the Old World to the
New was written as fiction, it described
a huge passenger ship of the White Star
line, commanded by a Captain Smith.
More than a decade after the story was
published, Titanic sailed under the
White Star line, commanded by a Captain Smith.
Stead also described the hazard of icebergs in his fictional piece, writing with
unconscious foreboding:
The ocean bed beneath the run of the
liners is strewn with the whitening
bones of thousands who have taken
their passages as we have done, but who
never saw their destination.
But Stead did not take his own precognitive fiction seriously. In the year
prior to boarding the doomed vessel, he
was cautioned by Flora Burrows, a London medium, that travel would be dangerous in the month of April, 1912,
and that he would find himself in the
midst of a catastrophe on water, where
a great number of persons would perish.
In fact, Rev. Daniel Carnahan, who
had been a friend of Steads family for
many years, was so overcome with premonitions for tragedy while the Titanic
was being built, that he informed Stead
that the ship would never complete her
crossing to New York.
But none of this phased Stead, who
expressed his excited sense of anticipation for the voyage to Shaw Desmond,
another writer. One day, for no apparent
reason, Desmond was suddenly overcome with a dark certainty that his friend
would soon be dead. However, contemptuous for anything psychic, he
never revealed his true feelings to Stead
before his journey.
But dire prophecies about the Titanic
THE LUSITANIA AND THE CARMANIA
Sinking in a Sea of Synchronicity
hile the Titanic disaster drew to itself an extraordinar y volume of meaningful

coincidence, it was not the only sinking at sea that was touched by synchronicity. Another infamous, oceanlinerthe Lusitaniaalso sank quickly under mysterious circumstances three years after the Titanic went down.
On the last night of his final voyage, Lusitanias captain William Turner saved himself by
making a long, hard swim through cold waters to the Irish coast, off Old Head of Kinsale.
Surprisingly, exactly 50 years before, on the first night of his maiden voyage, he made precisely the same swim to Irelands Old Head, after the merchant vessel on which he
served as a cabin boy was wrecked.
The summer before Lusitania went down, the German steamship Cap Trafalgar was
converted into an auxiliary cruiser and disguised as the Allied oceanliner Carmania, with
eight guns concealed by wooden flaps that could be raised in seconds to point their muzzles seaward. Q-Ships, as they were designated by the British Admiralty, were operated
by both the Royal Navy and the German Kriegsmarine to lure enemy vessels within shooting range under false colors, sending up their real flag only after the enemy had been
fooled and ordered to surrender.
On September 14, 1915, the masquerading German warship confronted its first target
off the coast of Trinidad. But as the two vessels drew together, their crews were astounded to see that both were identical in appearance, even to the name on their sterns. For
the Cap Trafalgar had stumbled upon the very ship she was impersonatingthe Carmania, which the British had secretly transformed into a Q-ship!
The Cap Trafalgar had been redesigned to pass for the Carmania, even down to dismantling its funnel. At the same time, the Carmania had likewise undergone refitting, during which a dummy funnel was added. The Carmania blasted the German counterfeit with
her superior firepower and sank her in under 20 minutes.
The chance of
these two cover t warThe sinking of the Lusitania.
ships that were mirror
images of each other
meeting in the vastness of the worlds
oceans seems beyond
statistical reckoning.
Yet the sea has long
been a metaphor for
that shadowy boundar y between worlds;
between the dynamic,
unseen forces below
and the visible realm
above. Venturing upon
its uncertain sur face,
vesselsand their
passengersenter
that in-between arena
where synchronicity
makes its other wise
unlikely connections
in the greater cosmic
drama.
FRANK JOSEPH
BLACKBURN WITH DARWEN BOROUGH COUNCIL, WWW.COTTONTOWN.ORG
As some measure of the magnitude of

synchronous phenomena associated with
the Titanic disaster, no less than 899
persons who initially booked passage for
her maiden voyage refused to board the
ship because of warnings they experienced in the form of omens, premonitions, dreams, and precognitive events.
An additional 4,066 would-be passengers either missed the sailing or canceled
their reservations, usually under apparently normal circumstances, but sometimes through unusual coincidences that
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Strange Animal Behavior

tories of atypical animal behavior
preceding catastrophic events are
known around the world, and
were not absent from this Nor th
Atlantic disaster. The age-old sailors
belief that rats will leave a sinking ship
long before any apparent danger was
exemplified aboard the Titanic one
day before it sank, when two crewmen in a for ward boiler room
behavior associated with the Titanic

concerned Bess, a thoroughbred
belonging to Isadore Strauss, the cofounder of Macys department store.
The same night he and his wife perished
at sea, the young horse, which was stabled back home at the Strauss estate, in
Westfordshire, England, suddenly died
of undetermined causes. Parapsychologists suggested that the creature, like
many pets before and since, may have
been telepathically in touch with his
beloved master, whose death he felt psychically so strongly that the animal died
himself as well.
PAUL FRYER
were not confined to Stead. As the vessel

was being readied for her maiden voyage, the May issue of Popular Magazine
also featured a fictional story by Mayn
Clew Garnett about the Admiral, an
800-foot-long oceanliner that crossed
the North Atlantic through calm seas,
only to strike an iceberg and sink, leaving
the survivors to be rescued by a steamer.
Similarities between the article and the
real-life tragedy convinced readers that
the story had to have been based on the
Titanics real-life details. But Garnett
claimed he had received most of the
specifics for his novelette in a dream he
had while sailing on the Titanics sister
ship the Olympic.
Although he may have been influenced by physical similarities between
the two ships, it is interesting to note
that Garnetts selection of 43 north latitude for the imaginary Admirals collision with the iceberg was virtually the
same position at which Titanic met her
identical fate.
The Titanic Model: True to the Original
wo weeks after the Titanic was lost at sea, a large wooden crate that had been left
unclaimed at Pier 61 in New York harbor, was opened by por t authorities. When
they pried open the lid, they were surprised to see that it contained a model of the
sunken vessel, a model that had been originally sent to the United States by the White
Star Line for promotional purposes, and was supposed to be returned to the London
offices on the ill-fated ships return voyage.
Interestingly, the 30-foot-long model was accurate in more ways than anyone could
explain. Although a full compliment of 20 davits (pairs of cur ved metal that projected
over the side of a ship for lowering small boats from the oceanliners deck to the oceans
surface) were featured, it showed only a dozen miniature lifeboats, just as onboard the actual vessel, even though the model was supposed to mirror
Titanics blueprints, which specified 20 lifeboats. Moreover, the
models bow was partially ruined and a long crack appeared from
the keel toward the upper deck, mimicking the actual damage sustained by the Titanic during its collision with the
iceberg.
FRANK JOSEPH
One story goes

that a White Star
insignia crumbled to
pieces in the hands
of Mrs. Arthur Lewis
while she was pinning it to her husbands cap right
before boarding the
ship, where he was
a steward. Although
she regarded the
incident as a bad
omen, he dismissed
her anxiety as foolishness.
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saw panic-stricken rodents scampering

away from the starboard bow, for no
discernible cause.
The deadly iceberg str uck
that very spot from where the
rats had fled 24 hours earlier. Fortunately, both men escaped with
their lives because the rats sudden
appearance had made them uneasy
enough to station themselves in the
immediate vicinity of the lifeboats the
following day.
Another incident of strange animal
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Premonitions and
Precognitive Dreams
n another premonition of disaster,
mining engineer Colonel John Weir
almost canceled his first-class ticket
because of distressful feelings he had
about the voyage. Staying at Londons
prestigious Waldorf Astoria Hotel, he
awoke on the morning of April 10 to
find that the water pitcher atop his dresser had mysteriously shattered, soaking
his clothes.
He expressed his premonitory feelings to the hotel manager, who allayed
the Colonels fears enough for him to
reluctantly board the oceanliner. While
at sea, Weir told his secretary about the
burst water pitcher. As he could not
shake his sense of foreboding, he said
he must get of f the Titanic when it
docked in Queenstown, Ireland. Again
dissuaded, he remained aboard. He,
too, went down with the ship only five
days later.
Premonitions of disaster proliferated
around other Titanic passengers prior
to her fateful voyage, as well. For
instance, a White Star insignia apparently crumbled to pieces in the hands of
Mrs. Arthur Lewis while she was pinning it to her husbands cap right
before boarding the ship, where he was
a steward. Although she regarded the
incident as a bad omen, he dismissed
her anxiety as foolishness.
Precognitive dreams are also commonly associated with tragedies at sea.
In a typical example, 45-year-old Ameri-
HYMNS FOR THE DEAD:
A Church Sings for the Doomed Ship
nother unusual dream about the sinking of the Titanic involved a Canadian preacher. In the Toronto Sun of June 13, 1912, it was reported that the Rev. Charles Morgan, minister of Rosedale Methodist Church in Winnipeg, Manitoba, arrived early
at his church one Sunday morning to prepare for the evening service. Before going into
his study, he posted the choirmasters choice of hymns, as he had always done.
When his other preparations were completed, Morgan took a short nap, during which
he dreamt that he saw only surging darkness, but distinctly heard an old hymn. Although
he had not thought of the hymn in years, his dream was filled with the music, accompanied by the sound of rushing water.
The minister awakened with the old hymn still ringing in his ears. He glanced at his
watch, but found he still had a long time before services began, so he dozed off once
more. As before, he dreamed of the same hymn, now sung by a disembodied chorus
against the sound of crashing water. This time, he awoke with a start.
Groggy but with the melody still fresh in his memory, he looked up the old tune and
posted it on the hymn board. Later, during the service, it was the first number sung by the
congregation, even though Hear, Father, while we pray to Thee, for those in peril on the
sea seemed out of place thousands of miles inland.
During the singing, Rev. Morgan was surprised and embarrassed to find his eyes filling
with tears. Only later did he learn that the Titanic was heading for the ocean bottom at
the very same moment his congregation was singing the hymn from his dream.
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can businessman Howard Allen was

about to board the Titanic when a cable
arrived from his wife in Nebraska,
imploring him to cancel his reservations
because she had just had a vivid dream in
which an iceberg sank the vessel in the
dead of night, with a terrible loss of life.
Shaken by her words, Allen traded his
ticket for a berth aboard the liner the
Zaza, which brought him safely to the
United States three weeks after the disaster dreamt of by his wife.
While traveling in Europe during the
spring of 1912, New York lawyer Isaac
C. Frauenthal also dreamt of being
aboard a large ship which collided with
some floating object, before sinking.
His was a long, vivid nightmare, in
which he clearly recalled the sights and
sounds of calamity. Several nights later,
when the identical dream repeated
itself, he told his brother and sister-inlaw that it must be a warning against
their upcoming voyage on Titanic. But
they laughed at his dream and convinced him to go through with their
return trip to America. Happily, all
three survived the sinking foretold in
Isaacs recurring nightmare.
The Case of Parallel Lives
erhaps the most inexplicable
aspects associated with the sinking of the Titanic, however, were
those instances of parallel lives. Such was
the case of Lucien P. Smith, who narrowly escaped death during a terrible fire
aboard the Viking Princess in 1966.
It was his second major disaster at
sea. A survivor of Titanic, he was in his
mothers womb when that ship sank,
just as Titanic passenger Mrs. Astor
was pregnant with her son John Jacob,
Jr. while onboard the ill-fated oceanliner. Both children were born eight
months after the sinking, in which their
fathers perished, and their mothers
died in the same year, 1940.
The destinies of individual lives and
major conflicts are sometimes so powerful that they appear to replay themselves
in the future. Such was the case with
William C. Reeves, who boarded the
tramp steamer Titanian as an ordinary
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In 1935, the Titanian collided with an iceberg at the

same time of night as the Titanics collision in 1912.
The ship was saved from sinking when seaman William
Reeves had a premonition of the collision after reading
the book Futility and alerted the captain to slow the
ship, just in time to save them from running head-on
into the iceberg.
seaman, departing Scotland for New

York on April 13, 1935. Ten days later,
at 2300 hours, he was ordered into the
focsle head to stand watch.
Although the sea was calm, the night
was moonless and Reeves began to feel
increasingly uneasy. He then thought of
the novel he had been reading in his
cabinMorgan Robertsons The Wreck
of the Titan, or Futility. Like Steads
prophetic fictional article and Garnetts
Admiral, Robertsons novel described a
superliner that sunk during her maiden
voyage from England to New York, after
striking an iceberg.
Reeves was unable to keep his mind
from drifting back to that dramatic
moment in the book when Titans lookout missed seeing the iceberg in time to
avoid disaster. Also, he could not help
but notice the ironic similarity of his
ships name Titanianand Robertsons
Titanwith the Titanic.
As his sense of irony deepened into
anxiety, he realized that the time was
now 2335, just five minutes before the
hour that the Titanic had struck the
iceberg just 14 years earlier. As Reeves
knew that penalties were severe for raising a false alarm, and as the darkness
ahead showed no sign of danger, for
some moments he hesitated to act. But
at last his feelings of imminent collision
overwhelmed him and he ordered the
bridge to stop all

engines.
No sooner had the ships speed
dropped off and the vessel slowed than
she smashed into several large fragments of ice, which twisted her bow
and disabled her propeller. Coming to a
full stop, Titanians crew were astonished to behold an enormous iceberg
looming directly ahead out of the darkness at 2340, the same hour of the
Titanics collision. Fortunately, an SOS
sent to Cape Race, Newfoundland,
brought rescue to the stranded crew.
Though damaged, the Titanian was
salvaged with no loss of life.
Synchronicity at sea has been associated with some of the most dramatic disasters in maritime history. Perhaps origins
of that phenomenon may be found in
the extremes of emotion generated by
the life-and-death dramas that are shared
by large numbers of people at the same
moment and location. If so, then human
experience might be a power great
enough to actually distort the warp and
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THE TITANIC
and the
MUMMYS
CURSE
A
Ghosts of the Abyss
long list of mysteries surrounds

the demise of the Titanic, foremost among them is the exact reason for her sinking. We all know that she ran
afoul of an iceberg in the frigid waters of the
North Atlantic, but did the luxury liner slip
beneath the waves as a result of human error,
an engineering oversight, or because of a
curse of an Egyptian mummy that was
allegedly being transported in her supposedly
watertight holds?
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by Andrew Hind and Maria da Silva

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This mummy first surfaced in 1910

when English Egyptologist Douglas
Murray acquired it in Cairo. Disregarding warnings that the princess had, in
life, been a member of the mysterious
Cult of the Dead (a cult that venerated,
protected, and served the deceased and
who were reputed to wield mystical
powers), he decided to bring it back to
Britain. Almost immediately, Murray
began to suffer unexpected mishaps.
First, a gun misfired in the scientists
hand and doctors eventually had to
amputate his arm. Then, two colleagues
who accompanied Murray and the
mummy back from Egypt died suddenly
of natural causes en route, followed
closely by two shippers who had handled
the coffin during the voyage.
Vowing to distance himself from the
curse, he sold the mummy to the
British Museum. Yet no sooner had it
changed hands than a museum staffer
tasked with photographing the artifact
died suddenly from mysterious causes.
A day later, the museum
super visor who had
ordered the pict u r e s
taken
mys-
teriously died in his sleep.

Fearing further mishaps, the British
Museum offered the mummy to various
foreign museums for free, even going so
far as to pay all shipping expenses. The
American Museum of Natural History in
New York City agreed to purchase the
mummy (reputedly for $500,000) and
plans were quickly made to transport the
mummy to the U.S.
When the Titanic set sail on her maiden voyage from Southampton on April
10, 1912, the accursed mummy was
stowed within her cargo hold. Four days
later, at 11:40 pm on April 14, 1912,
the Titanic collided with an iceberg off
Newfoundland, killing over 1,500 of its
passengers and burying the mummy at
the bottom of the North Atlantic ocean.
But the curse plaguing the doomed
liner did not go down with the ship.
Instead, the curse merely lay dormant in
the cold depths of the North Atlantic,
only to be revived a century later when
plans were floated to build a full-size
replica of the Titanic.
Efforts to Build a New Titanic
n 1998, a Swiss-U.S. partnership
announced their intention to build a
$500 million modern Titanic,
which would be launched to coincide with the 90th anniversary of
the tragedy in April, 2002. During its maiden voyage, the
ship was to pause for a
memorial service
in the North
Atlantic,
The sarcochagus holding the mummified remains of an Egyptian princess

and member of the mysterious Cult of the Dead was traveling aboard the Titanic
during its fateful maiden voyage. Did the mummys curse cause the oceanliner
to sink? And did the curse transfer over to its proposed successor in 1998?
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where the original Titanic sank.

Well aware of the popularity of Titanic lorein part from the popularity of
the Academy Award-winning film
developers believed the new Titanics
success was assured. While the designers
included modern equipment to detect
icebergs and enough lifeboats to safely
accommodate all passengers and crew,
no one could predict that the mummys
curse would plague their efforts, as well.
Almost immediately after plans for
building the new liner was announced,
the scheme began to suffer setbacks.
Only seven weeks after the press
release, a 50-year-old investor died suddenly in his sleep. Soon, other investors
began to back out of the project, due to
a variety of money and health-related
issues. It was not long before investors,
if only privately, began to foster notions
that the mummys curse had transferred
from the original Titanic to its proposed successor.
Other Mysterious Events
alf a world away, other mysterious events were taking
place. The offices of G&E
Business Consulting and Trust, the
chief shareholder in the project to
revive the Titanic, were located in
Switzerland, a landlocked county with
no maritime tradition.
The curse began to make its presence
known here when mysterious footsteps
were heard entering a room and pausing just beyond the door. But when
employees went in search of the source
of the sound, there was never anyone
there. Instead, employees got the
unnerving feeling of being scrutinized
with disapproving eyes, as if someone were standing in the doorframe where
the disembodied footsteps had
ceased.
This pattern continued
for some time
and culminated a
few months later
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CQD: A Supernatural Call for Distress
ther strange events bedeviled

those involved in the project to resurrect the Titanic. For instance, an
American businessman with an interest in
the enterprise began suf fering what he
believed to be computer glitches every day
in the late afternoon. At irregular intervals
over a period of two hours or so, the letters
CQD, or sometimes just D, would flash on
the computers monitor. A technician called
in to inspect the computer could find nothing wrong, and yet the letters continued to
spontaneously appear.
Eventually, it was brought to the baffled
mans attention that the letters might represent the old telegram distress call that
predated SOS: CQ for all stations and
D for distress. It would have been this
sequencenot the more familiar SOS
that would have been signaled by the Titanic in 1912 to aler t all nearby ships to her
plight. The two-hour inter val in which the
computer malfunctioned also coincided
with the period of the daytaking into
account time zone differencesin which
the Titanic would have been broadcasting
when a female employee, upon hearing

the footsteps and feeling the weight of
gazing eyes upon her, looked up from
her desk to see a man standing in her
door. He was tall, white-haired, and
bearded, and wore a dark-blue naval
uniform. Before she could inquire
whether he was lost or needed assistance, the figure turned and left. By
the time she had reached the hall to
call after him, the white-haired visitor was gone.
But one thing remained behind
in the recesses of her mind. She had
seen the letters R.M.S. on her visitors uniform, but could not place
their significance. Eventually, the
answer was revealed to her. While
it is commonly believed that the
lost liner was H.M.S. (His
Majestys Ship) Titanic, in reality,
it was R.M.S. (Royal Mail Ship)
Titanic. Could the white-haired
gentleman have been an officer
her desperate cr y for assistance: roughly

11:45 p.m. to 1:45 a.m.
The closest vessel to the Titanic at the
time of the disaster, though not the first to
steam to her aid, was the Californian. In
fact, the skipper of the Californian did not
heed the Titanics cr y for assistance and
kept on her original course. For reasons
never satisfactorily explained, the ship's
master paid little heed to the Titanic's signal flares and seemed unconcerned with
the lack of response from their signal
lamps, though members of his crew were
mystified by the circumstances. The Californian could have easily solved the matter
and eased their conscience (not to mention
saved everyone aboard the Titanic) with a
single radio call, but the skipper saw no
need to wake their only trained radio man
after he had worked a 16-hour shift.
In what can only be described as an
eerie coincidence, the businessman with
the malfunctioning computer was based in
Los Angeles, CA.
ANDREW HIND
aboard the ship who went down 86 years

prior, perhaps even Captain E.J. Smith
himself?
After the folly of human arrogance
had doomed over 1,500 lives aboard
the original Titanic, was Captain Smith
concerned that a modern vessel would
tarnish the memory of those who had
perished in the cold Nor th Atlantic
waters so many years ago?
If that was indeed the ghosts motive,
he need not have been concerned.
Whether by curse or lack of investment,
the plans to resurrect the Titanic were
stillborn. The 90th anniversar y of
the disaster has come and gone, and
so, seemingly, has the window of
opportunity for this epic and controversial undertaking.
Of course, the 100th anniversary is
now but a few short years away. Will
the plans to rebuild the Titanic be
revived, and with them, the mummys
curse? Only time will tell. z
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The
Synchronous
Relationship
Between
SURREALISM
and FORTEAN
PHENOMENON
I
by Robert Guffey
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n 1919, the American Charles Fort published his popular

Book of the Damned, at the same time that the French
surrealist Andr Breton founded an anti-literary review
entitled Littrature. The work of both men would
eventually inspire many artists and philosophers
to follow in their respective footsteps. But it is
interesting to note that both men were exploring the hidden realm of dreams, unexplained
phenomena, and meaningful coincidences.
Was the publication of these two mens similar ideas just a coincidence or did it signify a
more synchronous relationship between
them and their work?
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Right: Surrealist artist Andr Breton. Left: Charles Fort.
It is well known that the surrealists of

the early 1900s were heavily influenced
by psychology, particularly the work of
Sigmund Freud, and later by Freuds
student Carl Jung, whose theories concerning synchronicity dovetailed with
their own mystical outlook on life.
Jung developed the term synchronicity after noticing that both he and his
patients had experienced an uncanny
amount of coincidences that clearly went
beyond mere chance. For example, Jung
once related the eerie incident of having
suddenly woken up in the middle of the
night, convinced that someone had just
entered his hotel room, only to find
himself alone in the dark. He was certain
he had been roused by a feeling of dull
pain as if something had struck his forehead and the back of his skull, and yet
he was physically unharmed.
The mystery deepened the next day
when he discovered that not only had
one of his patients shot himself in the
forehead but that the bullet had
lodged at the back wall of the skull.
Inevitably, the time of the tragedy coincided with Jungs fearful experience
from the night before.
Breton recorded similar experiences in
his 1928 book Nadja. According to Breton, one night while speaking to the
artist Pablo Picasso during the intermis-
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sion of Apollinaires Couleur du Temps,

he was approached by a young man who:
stammers a few words, and finally
manages to explain that he had mistaken me for one of his friends supposedly killed in the war. Naturally,
nothing more was said.
A few days later, through a mutual
friend, Breton began corresponding
with the French poet Paul luard,
whom he did not know by sight. On furlough, he came to see Breton, who surprisingly found that the poet was the
same person he had met at Couleur du
Temps!
This striking example of synchronicity
is preceded by a monologue in which he
spoke about relating the events of his
life, only insofar as they were:
at the mercy of chance temporarily escaping my control, admitting me
to an almost forbidden world of sudden parallels, [and] petrifying coincidences.
Indeed, the facts that most interested
Breton were of an absolutely unexpected, violently fortuitous character and of
unverifiable intrinsic value.
Forts Synchronicities
uch petrifying coincidences were
also the core of both Forts private
and professional life. In The Books of
Charles Fort, published in 1941, Fort

related many synchronous stories,
including that of a glass-eyed man named
Jackson who was wanted by the police.
In Boston, the police arrested a man
named Jackson who had a glass eye, but
to their dismay, he was not the same man
they were looking for. They eventually
found their Jackson in Philadelphia.
In a typically sarcastic tone, For t
ruminated over the possibility of universal symmetr ythat if there was a
Murphy with a hare-lip in Chicago,
there must be another hare-lipped Murphy somewhere else.
Fort also listed a series of incidents
that he had clipped out of American and
British newspapers from the years 1888,
1892, 1910, 1911, 1924, 1929, 1930,
and 1931, each of which described similar scenarios. For instance, in one story,
two dead men were found in the desert
only 100 yards from each other, and yet
the authorities claimed that there was no
connection between the two deaths. A
separate story reported the discovery of
a man, dead of heart failure, found sitting on a park bench in the Bronx, NY.
Soon afterwards, another dead man was
found sitting on a bench nearby.
A separate story told of two women
found dead in the River Dee in London,
England. They had no relation to each
other, lived on opposite parts of the
town, and both left their respective
houses at ten oclock in the morning,
exactly two days before their bodies were
found. Still another story described the
execution of three men for the murder
of Sir Edmund Berr y Godfrey, on
Greenberry Hill, London. This would
not be unusual except for the fact that
the murderers were named Green, Berry,
and Hill.
With fastidious documentation, Fort
continued to relate proto-sychronicities
such as these, until he came to the following conclusion:
There is a view by which it can be
shown that there never has been a
coincidence But anybody who
accepts that there is an underlying
oneness of all things accepts that
there are no utter absences of rela-
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tions among circumstancesOr

that there are no coincidences, in the
sense that there are no real discords
in either colors or musical notes
that any two colors or sounds can be
harmonized, by intermediately
relating them to other colors or
sounds.
Indeed, according to Fort, such pattern recognition often involved an
unconscious dance between the observer
and the phenomenon being observed.
Perhaps these synchronicities, he postulated, grew out of our desire to fill in the
blank spaces of life, to find connections
where there were none. Insterestingly,
this was also the goal of the surrealist.

Ernst and the Owlman
n the 1970s, Tony Doc Shiels, a
surrealist magician, painter, and
Punch and Judy professor (an archaic label applied to those who made their
living per forming Punch and Judy
shows) applied the term surrealchemy
to his Fortean investigations in Cornwall
County in the southwest of England.
There, he claimed to have invoked an
entity named Owlman. Sightings of the
fine-feathered daemon were subsequently reported by numerous residents of
Cornwall, all of them independently of
The main character in Ernsts

1939 painting The Robing of
the Bride is reminiscent of
Shiels description of the
Cornish Owlman, which first
appeared in England in the
same year as Ernsts death.
each other.
Strangely, the surrealist painter Max
Ernst visited the Hellford River area of
Cornwallthe exact location where the
Owlman was seenin the 1930s,
accompanied by the Celtic witch-woman
Leonora Carrington. Of course, anyone
familiar with Ernsts work will know that
he had a penchant for drawing entities
with avian features, such as in his 1939
oil painting The Robing of the Bride, in
which his androgynous alter-ego Loplop
has a decidedly bird-like head. Furthermore, the year during which the Owlman sightings occurred also happened
to be the year of Ernsts death.
One might say that the preceding
tidbits are merely coincidences. However, a more surreal-minded person might
propose that the intense creative energy
given off by Ernsts mind during his
stay in Cornwall may have manifested a
thought-form into the physical world,
but that it took the added energy
released upon the artists death to make
this psychic marionette fully visible to
normal human beings.
Though this may sound like pseudoscientific mumbo-jumbo, Carl Jung had
a similar theor y concerning flying
saucers. In his 1959 book Flying Saucers:
A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Sky,
he set forth the proposition that flying
saucers were actually physical manifestations of the collective unconscious, symbols that reflect our anxiety in a nuclear
age and hope for a superhuman source
of salvation, which were given life simply by our overwhelming need for them.
Bretons similarities to Fort,
E r n s t s
strange intersection
with
Shiels,
and
Jungs flirtation
with flying saucers
all prove that there
is a definite relationship between the planks of
Breton and Fort. For each explored the
invisible zones of everyday existence via
dreams, fantasies, and paranormal phenomena. z
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The Frozen
Thoughts
of Dr. Masaru Emoto
By Tim Swartz
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n many ancient civilizations, water was

an important part of rituals and festivities,
from births and weddings to commencing
business and performing funeral rites. It was
believed that water would bring blessings for
prosperity and good health or carry prayers to the
spirits in the world beyond. In fact, water was considered to be the life-blood of the world, carrying
with it the vibration of creation and the essence of
consciousness. Although modern science has relegated these ancient beliefs to the quaint world of
tradition and superstition, Japanese researcher and
alternative medicine advocate Dr. Masaru Emoto
believes that water can actually perceive, remember,
and communicate with its environment.
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The Hado of Water

r. Emoto considered that
water, as the most receptive of
the four classical elements of
earth, air, fire, and water, contained
D
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A photo of water from Japans

Fujiwara Dam, after a Buddhist
monk offered it a prayer.
A freezing room similar to the one used by Dr. Emoto, that includes a microscope with
which to take water crystal photographs and a freezer for freezing water samples.
Hado. He also believes that its vibration

could be observed in its crystal structures. This can best be understood by
considering the way in which no two
snowflakes are the same. When water is
frozen, different subtle influences causes
water crystals to form in an infinite number of designs. However, chlorinated tap
water or heavily polluted water fail to
form crystals at all. But when the quality

of the water is good, complete crystals
will form, each one unique in both pattern and color.
After observing the cr ystallization
process a few thousand times, Dr Emoto
noted that although it was impossible to
capture photos of identical crystals even
from one type of water, there was a ten-
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Dr. Emotos interest in water came

about with his study of matters intrinsic
vibrational pattern at the atomic level,
which he began in 1990. Since there was
no adequate word to describe this concept at the time, he took the Japanese
ideograms for wave and move and
combined them to comprise the expression Hado (pronounced ha-dough),
to describe the smallest unit of energy.
Its basis, Emoto says, is human consciousness.
Since all phenomena is essentially resonating energy, by changing its vibration, we change its substance. Conventional science still does not support this
notion yet quantum physicsand, in
par ticular, the obser ver ef fect of
Heisenbergs uncertainty principle,
where the very act of observing reality
alters itclearly suggests that human
consciousness does alter reality.
The concept of Hado quickly caught
on in Japan and the word soon became
used in everyday conversations, such as
The Hado of this place is really low, or
That person has a really power ful
Hado. Even so, Dr. Emoto soon realized that science knew little about the
true nature of water. Since he believed
that water has the power to heal, he
committed himself to unraveling the
mysteries of that power.
Along with a dedicated team of volunteers, Dr Emoto began collecting water
samples from around the world. His
daily observations were done in a freezer
room using a powerful microscope and
high-speed photography. He would
place each sample of water in a petri
dish, then place them in a freezer for two
hours at negative five degrees Celsius.
Dr. Emoto would then put the frozen
samples under a microscope. When the
temperature rose to about 0 Celsius, a
split moment before the frozen flakes
became liquid, he would take a photo of
the water in its crystalized form.
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The image of water that listened

to a song by James Twyman, who
is shown below, playing guitar.
dency in all of the samples to form a

crystal, almost as if the water was trying
to purify itself.
The Science of Vibrations
o test his theory even further,
Dr. Emoto put a bottle of distilled water between two amplifiers and then played different kinds of
music. Water exposed to music by
Bach, Mozart, or Beethoven created
clear, beautiful crystalline structures.
But water exposed to pop or heavy
metal music was unable to produce
well-structured crystals.
Dr. Emoto then tested the effect of
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directed thoughts on water. All the

water samples that were offered pleasant, calming thoughts showed spectacular crystalline structures while angry
thoughts produced no crystals at all.
After analyzing the results, Emoto concluded that water was capable of memorizing vibrations. Since thoughts and
musical vibrations contain positive and
negative energies, Dr. Emoto suggested
that the water was just reflecting what it
perceived.
Dr. Emoto then tested if water could
perceive energy from pictures and
words, as he believed that words contained vibrations, too. Words such as
thank you or you fool were typed

on pieces of paper and taped to containers filled with distilled water. When these
samples were frozen and then photographed, the results were astonishing.
The samples with positive words created
beautifully formed crystals similar to
snowflakes while negative words created
disturbed patterns or did not crystallize
at all.
If you think of it in terms of vibration, says Dr. Emoto. Its easy to
understand that the spoken word has
a vibration. Apparently, written words
also have a vibration.
As well, each language is different
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A photo of water that has been sent

the message You make me sick. I
will kill you. Notice that it does not
show any crystalline structure.
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Water crystal of mixture

of 251 different waters
from all over the world.
when it comes to the formation of crystals. Japanese has its own set of vibrations that differs from English, so the
vibrations coming from these words are
dif ferent. In other words, nothing
holds the same vibration as the
Japanese word for thank youarigato. Even when there is a mutual
underlying meaning, the words arigato
and thank you create different crystalline structures in water.
Yet regardless of language, words of
appreciation, love, healing, good wishes,
encouragement, and praise create
healthy, whole, and fully developed
water cr ystals. On the other hand,
insults, negative expressions, and refer-
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ences to evil or bad things create

unhealthy, deformed, and unstructured
crystals.
What Does it all Mean?

o what are the implications of Dr.
Emotos research? He believes
that these experiments demonstrate the direct, physical impact that
thoughts, speech, and emotions have,
not only on water but also on larger,
more complex systems that are largely
comprised of water, such as the human
body, which, like the earth, is made up
of 70-75% water. Thus, thoughts and
emotions can affect the quality of water
in our body, hence affecting the condition of our health. Stress, a cause of
many illnesses, is a result of the negative
energy we carry in our bodys water. So
for greatest health and well-being, Dr.
Emoto believes that we should create
positive energy flows between ourselves
and all other living creatures.
Sometimes, when people cannot see
the immediate results of their prayers
and affirmations, they think that they
have failed. But Dr. Emotos research
suggests that the thought of failure itself
becomes imprinted in the physical
objects that surround us. In other
words, even when immediate results are
invisible, they are still there.
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The crystal that was formed

when the words ai ni arigato,
are spoken, Japanese for
thank you.
The water crystal of the same mixture

of waters, after being dedicated to the
vibration of Love, Thanks, and Respect.
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For more info. on Dr. Emotos work and

his future speaking engagements, visit
www.thank-water.net, www.hado.net, or
www.masaru-emoto.net.
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The water crystal that formed

when the thoughts love and
thanks were sent to the water.
The Japanese character for spirit is a

combination of the characters for rain
and soul. People who have seen ghosts
report seeing them in places where there
is a lot of humidity, rain, or fog, as if the
imprint of the soul can more easily take
form when surrounded by moisture.
Although
most people
have
been
brought up to
believe that
ghosts
are
something to
be scared of,
Dr.
Emoto
believes that by
simply projecting the thought
for any spirits
trapped in the
water crystals to
get lighter,
this act may be
enough to help
them transition
to the other
side.
Whether or
not
one
believes that
the soul resides
in water, Dr.
E m o t o s
research proves
that water is
responsive to
our
ever y
thought and
emotion and
that we can heal
and transform
our planet
and ourselves
by not only
thinking positive thoughts,
but also by putting those positive
thoughts into action. z
Spirits in the Matrix

and thus fall back to the Earth to redo
r. Emoto also believes that the
their lives.
cr ystals literally embody the
In the past 100 years, the worlds
spirits of our deceased ancespopulation has increased from one biltors. For instance, when ice melts, the
lion to six billion. During this time, war
crystalline structure becomes an illuand materialism have dominated the
sionit is there yet because it can no
planet. Rather than being able to
longer be seen it
is not there. Similarly, when a person dies, their
body loses several
grams of weight,
what some people think of as the
weight of the
soul.
I think that
the soul has mass
and
that
it
returns to water
molecules, says
Dr.
Emoto.
And because it
has mass, it is
af fected by the
gravitational pull
of the earth. So
sometimes, the
soul cannot transition over to the
other side.
Buddhism
teaches about
attaining satori,
or
reaching
enlightenment.
According to
this philosophy,
those who attain
satori cannot
become ghosts,
The water crystal for the song "Imagas they have
ine" seems to exactly represent the
achieved a cerlyrics, as each crystal is independent
tain stage of
and yet all are in wonderful harmony.
development at
the soul level. So
after death, they return to the Absolute
detach from our desires, the opposite
(or God), first, before moving onto
has been true. In this environment, few
their next assignment in the astral
people have been able to attain satori,
worlds beyond the physical plane. But
so few souls have been able to return
those who have not yet been able to
home. Instead, Dr. Emoto believes
completely let go of their ego and
that they have remained on Earth in the
worldly attachments cannot reach satori
form of water.
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The water crystal for Christmas.
Christianity
Buddhism
Judaism
Islam
The crystal of water that was

shown all five religions' names.
Note what looks like a human
head at the top of the crystal.
Could this be an image of God?
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Book Reviews
Book Reviews
Worlds End: 2009
Mercury Retrograde
Prophesies for the Coming

Messiah and Armageddon
Its Myth and Meaning
BY PETER LORIE
ISBN: 1585423165
ISBN: 1585422843
$15.95, PENGUIN/TARCHER, 2004
$23.95, TARCHER/PENGUIN, 2004
enerally, writers who tr y

to calculate the coming
of the end-times fall into
one of two camps
alar mists
who
believe that judgment is imminent
(such as the Millerites of 19th-centur y New York and
evangelical Christians) and those who
insist that the end is
comfor tably far of f.
Worlds End: 2009
fir mly places author
Peter Lorie in the
alarmist camp. All the
hallmarks are there:
his interpretation of
canonical, divinely inspired
texts such as the Biblical books
of Daniel and Revelations; his
insistence that he has uncovered the secret knowledge of
the texts that other writers have
incorrectly interpreted (including
some intriguing Greek, Latin,
and Hebrew numerology); and
references to past prophecies
that have been fulfilled. His conclusion: that the time of judgment is nigh.
Though no one can truthfully
say what the future brings,
thankfully, we can at least be
reassured that, thus far, the
alar mists have been proven
wrong. Nonetheless, for those
wishing to read an example of
apocalyptic
literatureor
glimpse the apocalyptic mindset
that is such a per vasive undercurrent in our societyWorlds
End: 2009 is a fascinating read.
KEN MONDSCHEIN
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BY PYTHIA PEAY
ercur y in retrograde
the periods when the
planet
Mercur y
appears to run
backward in
its orbithas
become a synonym
for
chaos and
disor der.
To avoid the
n e g a t i v i t y,
three times
a year, many
people avoid
making any
kind of lifechanging
decisions
and put off
lar ge purchases and travel
plans until Mercur y goes direct
(appears to be moving for ward
again). But with Mercur y Retrograde: its Myth and Meaning,
astrologer Pythia
Peay offers a more
constructive
approach to the
problem. Those
who do not have
the luxur y of hiding out while Mercur y is in retrograde can instead
learn impor tant
lessons about
ourselves, our
universe, and
our priorities during these chaotic times.
Peay begins
with an in-depth explanation of
what the planet Mercury means
in both astrology and mythology.
She then explains what hap-
pens when a planet goes retrograde. (The planet is not really

moving backwards; its movement is actually an optical illusion caused by diver gences
between its orbit and ear ths
orbit.)
Along with these technical
explanations, Peay provides
practical advice on how to deal
with Mercur y when in retrograde. She explains how a Mercur y Retrograde in the Zodiac
of Cancer dif fers from one in
Capricorn or Libra, for example.
She talks about how it manifests in a natal chart and how it
acts in conjunctions and oppositions. Most impor tant, she
describes how we can use this
as a time for reflection and meditation rather than fearing the
disorder this planetar y alignment usually brings. By taking
things easy and letting things
happenrather than tr ying to
control eventsPeay says we
can benefit from the random
events it inspires.
Peay includes an excellent
glossar y in the book and an
astronomical almanac which will
help interested beginners
in
applying her
lessons to
daily
life.
Still, Mercury
Retrograde is
probably
more suited
f
o
r
astrologers
who already
know the diff e r e n c e
between a sun
sign and a rising sign, or the
differences between the ascendant and the midheaven.
KEVIN FILAN
There is No Death and

There are No Dead
BY TOM AND LISA BUTLER
ISBN: 0972749306
$18, AA-EVP, 2003
f the dead can communicate

with us via mediums, automatic writing, and Ouija
Boards, why cannot they just
pick up the phone or send an
email? According to Tom and
Lisa Butler, directors of the
American Association of Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP),
sometimes they do. Their book
There is no Death and There are
No Dead provides numerous
anecdotes of spirits making
contact with the living via radio,
telephone, computer, tape
recorder, and answering
machine.
EVP has been captured
around the world, and the Butlers provide a wide sampling,
from Brazil to Great Britain.
They even describe a haunted
saloon in Nevada where spirit
voices were recorded of f the
static sounds caused by running a Krups coffee-maker!
But this book does not just
provide an overview of research
in EVP; it also provides instructions on how to conduct ones
own research. The merits of various types of recorders are discussed; the usage of software
to edit out background noise
and amplify EVP is explained;
and schematics for a video
setup to generate EVP-conducive static are provided. The
Butlers even discuss phenomena that can mimic EVP, even recommending skepticism on the
part of the investigator.
There is no Death and There
are No Dead is not likely to convince any dyed-in-the-wool unbelievers, who will dismiss the
modulated background noises
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EVP to the minds innate need
to create order out of randomness. Even the video captures

featured in the book are fuzzy,
at best (although their poor
quality may also be due to difficulties in reproducing these
images in print).
However, those who retain an
open mind and are willing to
conduct some of the experiments themselves will find this
book worthwhile. Even if you do
not see depar ted relatives in
your TV static, you may well find
this an enjoyable read.
KEVIN FILAN
A Glimpse of Heaven
The Remarkable World of
Spiritually Transformative
Experiences
BY CARLA WILLS-BRANDON, PH.D.

ISBN: 1580629474
$12.95, ADAMS MEDIA, 2003
n Glimpse of Heaven, Dr.

Carla Wills-Brandon explores
some of the over 2,000 Spiritually Transformative Experiences (STEs) she has compiled
in over a decade of research.
More importantly, she provides
advice and suppor t for those
Crop Circles Revealed

Language of the Light Symbols
BY JUDITH MOORE AND BARBARA LAMB
ISBN 1-891824-32-5
$25, LIGHT TECHNOLOGY, 2004
o the skeptic, Crop Circles Revealed might read like fantasy literature of the Harry Potter ilk; indeed, fairy tribes
of ancient England are said to have witnessed the formation of crop circles and the authors seem to have a cult-like
agenda to promote. But even the most rational, scientific reader will concede that Crop Circle Revealed is thoroughly
researched and impressively organized. Indeed, when it is purely descriptive, this book is absolutely absorbing.
The volume opens to 81 breathtaking color plates of stunning
crop circles formed in Wiltshire and Hampshire Counties in rural England, mostly from 1997 to 2000.
In the book's introductor y comments, the authors compare crop circles to growth in human consciousness and the presence of extraterrestrials. Indeed, crop circles seem to be "tools to expand
our consciousness."
The authors then record the accounts of those who have witnessed the creation of crop circles. A
discussion of geometric principles and mathematical characteristics underlying crop formations is
likewise interestingif briefas is a section on numerological interpretations of the patterns.
But once the discussion moves on to ancient star hieroglyphs that compose a universal ascended
star language originated from the Great Central Sunand lessons from Laiolin, a cosmic extraterrestrial who speaks through Moorethe book becomes annoyingly jargony, with abstract self-referential sentences that do not make much sense, such as: The intent was to develop courage and
motivation, and to activate the heart chakra energies to sustain inventive genius balanced with the
God love source, the heart center of planetary resonance. Huh?
Some of the discussion just sounds ridiculous, such as the supposed link between crop circles
and the DNA code of not only the House of David and the bloodline of Christ but also Native Americans and Mayan spirits. Toss in aliens and you get something that only Dumbledore could appreciate! But that is only part of it. In truth, the subject is fascinating and mysterious, and the authors capture this essence in both photographs and historical descriptions, even while smothering the subject
in make-believe.
who have experienced STEs.

Many who have experienced
visits from deceased loved ones
live in shame, keeping their
experiences secret so they will
not be thought unbalanced.
Often, they have sought help
from counselors or clergymen,
only to be dismissed as crazy.
These people will find WillsBrandons book an invaluable
guide, as she provides examples of others who have had
similar experiences, as well as
an extensive list of open-minded
organizations and professionals
who can help those who have
had their own personal experiences with STEs.
In fact, mental health professionals and spiritual leaders
would do well to read this book.
For, according to Wills-Brandons researchand that of
many others who have worked
in this fieldSTEs are relatively
common. Understanding this,
and understanding that the phenomenon may be an impor tant
part of the grieving process, will
help psychologists, hospice
workers, and ministers to listen
with sympathy and understanding about such experiences. It
will also help them avoid dismissing impor tant experiences
as delusions or wishful thinking.
For even a positive STE can
be a traumatic experience. Precognition, visits from the dead,
or other
anomalous
experiences can
shatter
o n e s
cherished
CHARLES RAMMELKAMP
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Music Reviews
Book Reviews
Reconsidering Atlantis
A New Look at a
Prehistoric Civilization
BY J. ALLAN DANELEK
ISBN: 1-931942-03-X
$14.95, GALDE PRESS, 2003
any scholars, psychics, and

archaeologists have expended
reams of paper tr ying to prove
that the lost continent of Atlantis was a real place, tr ying to
match the details mentioned in Platos dialogs with ever ything
from the Minoan civilization to a mysterious superpower from
another world. While each of these suggested sites for Atlantis
has its merits, all essentially fall under the same set of assumptions, including the assumption that Atlantis existed relatively
recently. However, in Reconsidering Atlantis, J. Allan Danelek
sees the situation with a fresh perspective that forces us to reexamine our views of history, time, and our own future.
Danelek, by his own admission, is no scholar on science, histor y, or archaeology, although, as he puts it, There are no
Atlantis experts, only experts with opinions on Atlantis. In this
case, his lack of formal training is a boon rather than a hindrance
because it frees him from preconceived notions, allowing him to
examine the issue with fresh eyes.
Using logic rather than accepted wisdom, Danelek questions
the traditional view of human civilization as being only about
5,000 years old, suggesting instead that our own version of history might only be the latest in a long string of civilizations, each
growing to a high level of sophistication before obliterating itself
with its own technology. Atlantis, he speculates, is not a where
but a when; any one of these past civilizations might have provided inspiration to Platos tale, as well as a frightening reminder of
our own possible fate.
Highly readable, this new analysis of the Atlantis legend is a
thought-provoking look at one of the Wests oldest and most pervasive stories, as well as a fascinating speculation into the most
remote recesses of our past, humanitys fascination with
progress and technology, and how lethal that fascination could
become.
RICHARD MACKENZIE
paradigms, and force one into

the realization that the world is
a far bigger and a far stranger
place than one had ever thought
possible. So Wills-Brandon provides some helpful suggestions
for those who are struggling to
integrate an STE into their daily
lives. She also provides some
courageous autobiographical
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examples of how various STEs

turned her world upside down,
and how she was able to
become a stronger and more
fully functional person by
accepting the lessons providedfor her.
However, Wills-Brandon does
not provide many guidelines on
how to distinguish an STE from
a true delusional episode. While

not ever yone who hears voices
or talks with entities is mentally
ill, there are illnesses which produce such symptoms. A discussion of the various organic and
inorganic causes for hearing
voices, dj vu, and other incidents which can mimic STEs
would probably be beyond the
scope of this book. Still, it would
have been wor thwhile to
acknowledge the possibility that
an STE might actually be stressrelated or symptomatic of an
underlying medical problem.
That being said, this is an
excellent and much-needed
book. Wills-Brandon may not
prove the existence of life after
death, angelic visits, or precognition, but she cer tainly proves
beyond any reasonable doubt
that many people have experienced something that is not
easily explained away.
KEVIN FILAN
The Museum of Hoaxes

A History of Outrageous
Pranks and Deceptions
BY ALEX BOESE
ISBN: 0-452-28465-1
$12, PLUME, 2003
he difference between an
urban legend and a hoax
is that an urban legend is
a falsehood that might be innocently propagated whereas a
hoax is perpetrated for profit or
done just for the satisfaction of
pulling the wool over someones
eyes. Alex Boeses
encyclopedic collection of hoaxes is
amusing and clarifying in its catalog of
hoaxes through the
ages, with explanations of ever ything
from the hoaxes of
18th-centur y
satirist Jonathan
Swift to the origin of the Ponzi

scheme by early 20th-centur y
charlatan Charles Ponzi.
The book is arranged chronologically, star ting with the
medieval trade in fake church
relics and the 12th-century letter
to Byzantine emperor Manuel
Comnenus from Prester John, in
which he claimed to have discovered the Fountain of Youth in a
remote Indian kingdom. As the
book moves into the 19th centur y, Boese relates some of the
greatest pranks of history, such
as Orson Welles 1938 War of
the Worlds broadcast. Financial
and stock market hoaxes, April
Fools Day hoaxes, Shakespeare
forgeries, and UFOs all get mentioned here, as well.
Modern historical hoaxes
such as William Randolph
Hearsts Spanish-American war
hoaxes that brought the United
States into war in 1898and
the infamous Tawana Brawley
case in 1987also are
described. Hoaxes down to the
present day, including some
internet hoaxes and famous
Y2K pranks, also get attention.
Boese concludes with a short
chapter on how to avoid being
hoaxed, but it feels a bit tacked
on, as if it was added at the last
minute to give some legitimacy
to this amazing collection of
tricks, dodges, and deceptions,
and the outrageous people who
have perpetrated them.
If the book has any drawbacks, it is the relentlessness with which
the hoaxes are documented, until the
details become a
numbing blur of the
thousands of times
people eho have been
tricked by con-men over
the ages.
Tibetan Master
Chants
BY LAMA TASHI
CD#: JSG1188
SPIRIT MUSIC
ver the past several years, lar ger

numbers of meditative chant CDs have
made their way onto
music store shelves. But
Tibetan Master Chants is
a tr uly unique musical
of fering. Featuring the
Deep Voice chant of
Tibetan Buddhism, the
I Choose Love
BY ELAINE SILVER
CD#: 89178-01112
SILVER STREAM MUSIC
nyone billed as the Fairie Queen has a lot to live up to. Unfortunately, Elaine Silver misses
the mark with this saccharine collection of songs that would repel even the wee folk. It is not
that the music is bad. Silvers voice is adequate and her accompaniment on guitar, bodhran,
and fiddle, however spare, is decent enough. The acoustics are good as well, but her wordy, obtuse
songs are filled with supposedly edifying messages, such as:
I am open I am free
Divine emotions are healing me
Im complete and I am whole
Sanctified in my heart and soul
These lyrics then devolve from passable inspiration to sheer torture in a matter of minutes.
A bizarre combination of Christian, neo-Celtic pagan, and
Hindu beliefs are drawn upon in the various songs, all of
which share the concepts of oneness, unity, self-awareness, and the divinity of the self. But these ideas are presented haphazardly without regard to their sometimes contradictor y teachings. The references to fairies in this
context of peace and harmony, are ironic, too, considering
that fairies are anything but the delicately flitting, cheerful,
pixiedust-sprinkling beings one sees in a Disney movie, but
instead are rather capricious, sometimes destructive, and
oftentimes cruel.
There is no doubt that Silver is sincere in the context of
her music; it is just that she seems to be wearing glasses
so rosy that the petals are still blooming. Peace, love, harmony, and unity might be beautiful things, but one does not want to be whacked over the head with
this message, either. Perhaps Silvers positive emphasis on kindness and oneness is one we need to
hear, but there are probably few among us who are ready to hear it presented in quite this fashion.
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CD is designed so that even a

novice can chant along, if
desired, and a bell or Tibetan
singing bowls are used as auditory cues to indicate the beginning and end of each chant.
Tibetan Master Chants features another collaboration
between Jonathan Goldman,
known for his research on healing through sound, and Lama
Tashi, Principal Chant Master at
the Dalai Lamas Drepung
Loseling Monaster y in India.
Lama Tashi is obviously a master of his craft and this CD is a
fine tribute to his work and the
Tibetan meditative tradition he
is helping to preserve.
A wor thy successor to their
previous ef for ts on The Lost
Chord and Medicine Buddha,
the CD utilizes a number of traditional chants for healing and
meditation, on various themes
from purification to wisdom,
protection, and enlightenment.
The sound quality throughout
is cr ystal clear; despite the
gravelly vocals, not one syllable is lost.
The subtle, resonant sound
of the CDs mantras and sutras
are each dedicated to a different aspect of Buddha and the
bodhisattvas, and are intended
to develop ones spiritual, emotional, and physical potential.
The extensive liner notes provide explanations and translations for each chant.
Fascinating for its vocal qualities and its effect on both the
mind and body, Tibetan Master
Chants is a fine choice for meditation, yoga, or just as background music. The CD also
grants us a singular glimpse
into an ancient culture, archiving this remarkable sound for
posterity.
RICHARD MACKENZIE
CHARLES RAMMELKAMP
CD provides a
glimpse into this
rarely seen and
even less-heard
musical tradition.
The
unusual
sound of Deep
Voice
chanting
takes a bit of getting used to, with
its rocky bass overtones. But it is
soothing rather
than grating, alternately booming and
soft, and yet gravelly and ringing. The
RICHARD MACKENZIE
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In the Theater
White Noise
(2005)
he subject of electronic
voice phenomena, or EVP,
is a fascinating one, so
much so that it is surprising that
it has not become fodder for a
major feature film before this.
The idea that those who have
passed on can use electronic
equipment to communicate with
the living is rife with possibilities
for engrossingand perhaps
even disturbingcinema. Unfortunately, its use in the film is a
springboard into a miasma of
horror-movie clichs. With an
incomprehensible plot and hamhanded acting, the film takes an
intriguing concept and piledrives it into the ground.
When his wife disappears one
night after a long day at work,
Jonathan Rivers (Michael
Keaton) is shocked and devastated, but not nearly as startled
as when a mysterious man
appears outside his home and
later, at the architectural firm at
which he works, and claims to
have communicated with her
from the other side. When his
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wifes body is discovered a few

days afterward and her death is
ruled an accident, Rivers follows up on the strangers message and discovers the bizarre
phenomenon of EVP, where tape
recordings and videotapes that
seem like only static or interference upon their recording reveal
messages that may be from the
deceased upon playback.
Strange occurrences, including phone calls made to Rivers
from his deceased wifes cell
phone, help to convince him of
the reality of these communications. Meeting others who have
experienced the EVP messages
shows him how reassuring and
healing they can be to bereaved
loved ones. However, while
most of the messages are
benign, others are threatening.
And as Rivers continues to
receive messages from his wife,
the messages tone gradually
changes from loving to a warning, almost predicting the unsettling deaths and disasters that
seem to follow his growing
obsession with EVP.
The dont mess around with
the boundaries between the liv-
ing and the dead theme rapidly

becomes overused, going so far
as to include a ridiculous scene
with a psychic, whose Leave it
to the professionals-style warning against the evil energies
coming through sounds like it
would make a per fect public
ser vice announcement for the
paranormal research community. Other subplots, however, are
sadly neglected, including
Rivers relationship with his
young son, who is constantly
being shuffled of f to stay with
his mother while Rivers delves
deeper into the supernatural.
While a strong point could have
been made about how his
obsession with the dead is
affecting his relationships with
those closest to him, the matter
is never addressed.
The films climax is also a
convoluted disaster that initially
tries to tie up the myriad loose
ends, but gives up in the middle, leaving the audience not
with the provocative philosophical questions one might expect
from a film of this nature, but
rather wondering what, exactly,
happened.
RICHARD MACKENZIE
In the Theater
National Treasure
(2004)
gypt has the tombs of its

pharaohs; Italy and
Greece have archaeological treasures; South America
has Mayan gold; and China has
its Great Wall. Yet due to Americas relative youth as a nation,
there has been little time to
establish the national mythos
that most other cultures possess. National Treasures producer Jer r y Br uckheimers
attempt to correct this oversight
in an imaginative fusion of histor y and fantasy that is both
entertaining and educational.
The film follows Ben Gates
(Nicholas Cage) and a motley
crew of friends and foes on their
quest for a fabled treasure, the
knowledge of which has been
passed down through his family
for nearly 200 years. The treasure, consisting of valuables
from the ancient world and
added to by various powers
before falling into the hands of
the Knights Templar, who had
appointed themselves as its
guardians, eventually made its
way to America and was hidden
by our Masonic Founding

Fathers. A series of keys and
clues draw Gates, his one-time
friend and now rival Ian Howe
(Sean Bean), and Abigail Chase
(Diane Kr uger), a historian
whose exper tise is document
conser vation, into a treasure
hunt that takes them from a
frozen shipwreck to a labyrinth
beneath New Yorks Trinity
Church.
While the concept is a creative oneand its use of histor y (both little-known facts and
more popular ones enshrined in
the popular imagination) is both
original and commendablethe
film eventually becomes tiresome, skipping from locale to
locale and following the same
predictable pattern: find a clue,
decipher its meaning, and outrun ones opponent to the next
location. There is not much
room for original characterization here, either. Cage is
doomed to por tray the sensitive, slightly addled hero (as
seen in films such as The Rock
and Con Air) while Bean is
stereotypically cast as a coldly
two-dimensional villain.
Despite its flaws, National
Treasure is an enjoyable romp
through U.S. histor y. While at
times lacking in incident, the
inventive use of cherished parts
of our nations past (who can
resist the idea of Ben Franklin
as the inventor of the original
3D glasses?) reminds us that it
is our ver y histor y that may be
our greatest treasure of all.
Suspect Zero (2004)
n the recent plethora of

supernatural crime thrillers,
Suspect Zero is one of the
better entries. While far from
per fect, its unique take on
crime investigation sets it apart
from others in the genre.
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The film begins when disgraced FBI agent Thomas Mackelway (Aaron Eckhar t) is transferred to New Mexico after a
debacle that ended in the
release of a suspect in several
murders. Soon after arriving
there, he receives strange messages filled with terse descriptions and gruesome sketches of
crimes, identified only by locations and cr yptic numbers.
When he finds that some of the
sketches depict some of his
own, seemingly unrelated investigations, he begins to connect
them to the growing number of
cases found in the messages.
When the cases he investigates all turn out to be the
deaths of various serial
killersincluding the suspect
whose case destroyed his
careerhe begins to hunt for
the mysterious artist behind the
sketches, unsure of whether the
person responsible for eliminating these criminals is a vigilante
out to help him or a serial killer
himself. The clues eventually
lead him to Benjamin ORyan
(Ben Kingsley), a former FBI
agent who can remote view, or
sense and experience events in
dif ferent locales and times,
given nothing more than a set of
location coordinates. Trained as
part of a secret government project, he wants not only to be free
of his ability, but also to help
Mackelway, in whom he recog-
nizes the same talent.

Intriguing and stylish in its
execution, the film constantly
leaves the audience in suspense, foreshadowing events
through ORyans sketches but
never revealing the full picture,
leaving room for dramatic and
star tling twists. Yet even as it
heightens the suspense, one
never has the chance to make a
connection with them, which is
unfor tunate, considering the
potent emotional content inherent in the films subject matter.
Apart from this, Suspect Zero
is an enthralling, chilling movie
that will hold the interest of
crime buf fs and paranor mal
enthusiasts alike.
The Bell Witch

Haunting (2004)
WILLING HEARTS PRODUCTIONS
DVD#: 89076-08572
n the early 19th century, hundreds of witnesses attested

to the peculiar and terrifying
events that took place from
1817 to 1821 in Richardson
County, TN in the household of
John Bell. Based on the eyewitness accounts of family and
friends, the tale is a chilling
one; the videos production values, however, are less than
adequate to convey the true horror of the events they may have
experienced.
Beginning in 1817, Bell and
his family dealt with constant
harassment by a spirit that inexplicably appeared on their proper ty and then eventually made
its way into their home and their
lives. From eerie howls and
scratching noises to moving furniture, the entity made its presence felt long before it star ted
to communicate with the family
and their puzzled guests. Possessing a twisted sense of
humor, it seemed to enjoy discomfiting the Bells guests by
revealing their secrets to the
whole community, all the while
hedging all queries as to its own
origins and purpose. Gradually,
the spirits whimsy turned to
violence as it began to attack
various family members for no
apparent reason.
The story is the stuff of nightmares; despite the lack of scientific proof, the hundreds of
people who witnessed its rampage, from well-regarded members of the community to skeptics and investigators, leave
little doubt that something very
strange was taking place on the
Bells property.
While the attempt to bring
this stor y to light is a wor thy
one, the low-budget production
values detracts from the tales
impact. The acting is exaggerated and melodramatic, the script
is simplistic, and the knowing
asides to the audience about
how the U.S. will never have a
single uniform currency quickly
become annoying rather than
funny. The juxtaposition of comedy, especially the literal bathroom humor that is sprinkled
throughout the film, is childishly
graphic rather than amusing.
While The Bell Witch Haunting
remains a fairly faithful rendition of the facts of the case,
much of its force is lost in a
mire of confusion.
RICHARD MACKENZIE
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2005 Event Listings

ARCHAEOLOGY
ANCIENT LOST CITIES: TUNISIA & LIBYA
Nov. 10-22, 2005; Tunisia and Libya
ANCIENT SPLENDORS OF CHINA
Sept. 6-23, 2005; China
ANCIENT SPLENDORS OF IRAN
Sept. 13-Oct. 1, 2005; Iran
BRONZE AGE CIVILIZATIONS OF GREECE
Nov. 3-16, 2005; Greece
DALMATIAS HISTORIC CITIES & GLORIOUS
ISLANDS
August 12-23, 2005; Adriatic Sea
JOURNEY OF AENEAS
Oct. 6-20, 2005; Mediterranean
NORTHERN INDIAS ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY
Sept. 26-Oct. 15, 2005; Northern India
Contact: Archaeological Institute of America Tours,
PO Box 938, 47 Main St., Suite 1, Walpole, NH
03608, (800) 748-6262 | Email: aiatours@sover.net
| Web: www.archaeological.org/pdfs/tours/AIAtours_schedule
BIBLE & ARCHAEOLOGY FEST VIII
Nov. 18-20, 2005; Philadelphia, PA
BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY SOCIETY SEMINARS
Aug. 14-20, 2005; Portland, OR
Sept. 8-10, 2005; Chicago, IL
Oct. 25, 2005; Albuquerque, NM
BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY SOCIETY TOUR:
EGYPT IN DEPTH - FROM PHARAONIC
TO CHRISTIAN
Nov. 2005; Egypt
ISRAEL WITH AVNER GOREN
Oct. 2005; Israel
ROMAN BRITAIN
Fall 2005; British Isles
OXFORD UNIV. BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY SEMINAR
August 7-19, 2005; Oxford, England
Contact: Biblical Archaeology Society, 4710 41st St.
NW, Washington, DC 20016, (800) 221-4644 or
(202) 364-3300 | Email: travel@bib-arch.org | Web:
www.bib-arch.org/bswbTravel
LOVELAND ARCHAEOLOGICAL
SOCIETY STONE AGE FAIR
September 24-25, 2005; Loveland, CO
Cost: Free | Email: info@stoneagefair.com | Web:
www.stoneagefair.com/stone_age_fair | Features
exhibits, live demonstrations, and speakers, including Dr. Dennis Stanford, Dr. Pegi Jodr y, Dr. Marie
Wormington, Dr. George Frison, Dr. C. Vance Haynes
Jr., Dr. Robson Bonnichsen, and many others.
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SAVING PLACES CONFERENCE

February 8-10, 2006; Denver, CO
Cost: $195 | Contact: Colorado Preservation, Inc.,
(303) 893-4260 | Email: info@coloradopreser vation.org | Web: www.coloradopreser vation.org |
Learn about current preser vation programs, projects, trends, and technology through workshops
and the only regional trade show of preser vation
goods, services, and products.
ASTROLOGY
ANNULAR ECLIPSE FROM THE SAHARA SANDS
September 25-October 6, 2005; Tunisia
Cost: $2,694 (incl. air fare, accomm. and most
meals) | Contact: MWT Associates, (877) 707-7827
Email: tours@melitatrips.com | Web: www.melitatrips.com | Join guest lecturers Michael Bennett,
director of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific,
and Dennis Mammana, author and photographer.
BLACK FOREST STAR PARTY
September 2-4, 2005;
Cherry Springs State Park, PA
Web: www.bfsp.org/starparty/index.cfm
IDAHO STAR PARTY
September 9-11, 2005; Bruneau, ID
Web: isp.boiseastro.org
MID-ATLANTIC STAR PARTY
November 1-8, 2005; Robbins, NC
Web: www.masp.org
OKIE-TEX STAR PARTY
September 1-9, 2005; Kenton, OK
Web: www.okie-tex.com
OREGON STAR PARTY
September 1-4, 2005; Indian Trail Springs, OR
Contact:
(503)
306-2992
|
Email:
ospinfo@patch.com | Web: www.oregonstarparty.org
SAN FRANCISCO ASTROLOGICAL
SOCIETY LECTURE SERIES
Last Thursday of each month; San Francisco, CA
Cost: $10 | Email: cmckenna@powerfood.org | Web:
www.astrologyclub.org | Upcoming topics include
Compassion and the Problem of Astrological Prejudice, Traditional Astrology, and Astrology and the
Biblical End Times.
STARFEST 2005
August 4-7, 2005; Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Contact: Nor th York Astronomical Society, 26
Chryessa Avenue, Toronto, ONT, M6N 4T5, Canada |
Email: inquiries@nyaa-star fest.com | Web:
www.nyaa-starfest.com/starfest
STELLAFANE CONVENTION
OF AMATEUR TELESCOPE MAKERS
August 5-6, 2005; Springfield, VT
Contact: Stellafane Convention, PO Box 50, Belmont, MA 02478 | Email: tom@bbso.njit.edu | Web:
www.stellafane.com
Table Mountain Star Party
August 4-6, 2005; Ellensburg, WA
Email: thomj@icehouse.net | Web: www.tmspa.com
CROP CIRCLES
CROP CIRCLES AND SPIRITUAL RENEWAL TOUR
August 23-31, 2005; Southern England
October 4-12, 2005; Southern England
Cost: $3,950 | Contact: Ron Russell, PO Box
460760, Aurora, CO 80046 | Email: ron@cropcircles.org | Web: www.cropcircles.org | Join Rev. Gail
Barrow Finlay, Ron Russell, and guest exper ts to
visit Neolithic temples, henges, stone circles, ley
lines, energy veins, barrows, great cathedrals,
labyrinth, Merlins barrow, Avebur y, and more in
Glastonbury, Marlborough, and Salisbury. Includes a
private access to Stonehenge and a private ceremony at the Chalice Well.
CROP CIRCLES TOUR
August 6-20, 2005; Southern England
Cost: $995 | Contact: Earth Mysteries & Sacred Site
Tours & Well Within, PO Box 1563, Nevada City, CA
95959,
(530)
740-0561
|
Email:
sacredsitetours@tesco.net or wwithin@nccn.net |
Web: www.nccn.net/~wwithin/cropcir | Visit the the
magnificent Tor, Chalice Well, gardens, abbey and village at Glastonbury; West Kennet Long Barrow, Silbury Hill, and the incredible stone circles and formations of Avebury. Enjoy a private, before-hours group
entrance inside the circle at Stonehenge. Learn
about crop circles, ley lines, energy and more.
ENGLANDS MYSTERIOUS
CROP CIRCLES AND STONEHENGE
August 9-16, 2005; Wiltshire, England
Cost: $1,975 for seven nights in England | Contact:
Dr. Chet Snow, PO Box 1738, Sedona, AZ 86339,
(928) 204-1962 | Email: chetsnow@npgcable.com |
Web: www.chetsnow.com/cropcircles | Visit Salisbury cathedral, Avebury stone circles, historic town
of Marlborough, and the Barge Inn (called the croppies pub). Includes an aerial flight over the major
2004 crop circle formations, special access to the
inner circle of Stonehenge for group toning and meditation, and paid admission to the Wiltshire Crop Circle Conference.
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2005 Event Listings

FIELD RESEARCH TRAINING INTENSIVE
August 8-16, 2005; Wiltshire and Hampshire, England
Contact: Ron Russell, PO Box 460760, Aurora, CO
80046 | Email: ron@cropcircles.org | Web:
www.cropcircles.org | Use Electrostatic and Magnetic Meters and other equipment to plot energy fluctuations, construct a legal test bed formation, and
par ticipate in a skywatch on a sacred site using
CSETI protocol. Includes discussion and training in
Resonant/Remote Viewing. Guest research experts
include Rodney Ashbury, Paul Vigay, Busty Taylor, Dr.
Simeon Hein, Lucy Pringle, Matthew Williams, and
others. All costs of this non-profit research training,
including airfare, hotel and meals, and field training
are tax-deductible. No previous experience necessary.
SIGNS OF DESTINY 2005: CROP CIRCLES, MARY
MAGDALENE & SACRED SPACE
November 18-20, 2005; Phoenix, AZ
Cost: $225 until August 30; $275 thereafter | Contact: Dr. Chet Snow, PO Box 1738, Sedona, AZ
86339, (928) 204-1962 | Email: chetsnow@npgcable.com | Web: www.chetsnow.com/signs | Speakers include Sir Laurence Gardner, Graham Hancock,
Margaret Starbird, Michael Glickman, sacred sites
photographer Santha Faiia, William Henr y, Linda
Moulton Howe, Francine Blake, Nancy Talbott, Jeffrey Wilson, Clarisse Conner, and Chet Snow.
THE WILTSHIRE CROP CIRCLE EXPERIENCE
August 6-13, 2005; Wiltshire, England
Cost: $1,777-$1,885 | Contact: Denni Clarke, PO
Box 2155, Freedom, CA 95019, (831) 761-3655 |
Email: dclarke@cropcirclespirit.com | Web:
www.cropcirclespirit.com | Focusing on first-hand
experience in the fields in the heart of Crop Circle
country, includes a private visit to Stonehenge and a
day in Glastonbur y. Experience the magic and
sacred relationship we have with crop circles, the
ancient landscapes, and the mysteries that abound
while exploring and investigating new formations
and many ancient sacred sites with exper ts and
researchers.
UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SPRING CONFERENCE
April 9, 2006; Dorchester, Dorset, England
Cost: 20.00 until April 6th; 25.00 in advance I
Contact: Mrs. V. Kingston, 26 Rex Lane, Chickerell,
Dorset, DT3 4AY England, 01305 830057 I Email:
dorchester.conference@virgin.net I Web: universityoflife.users2.50megs.com/page28 I Speakers
include Graham Philips, Barbara Lamb, David
Kingston, and others.
CRYPTOZOOLOGY
EAST COAST BIGFOOT CONFERENCE
September 24, 2005; Jeannette, PA
Cost: $5 | Contact: Eric Altman, PBS Director, 26
Cardinal Drive, Jeannette, PA 15644, (724) 3745555 | Email: bigfootboy_2000@yahoo.com | Web:
www.pabigfootsociety.com/6th_annual_meeting |
Features displays, memorabilia, auction of Bigfoot
collectables, and speakers, including Mike Frizell,
Travis McHenry, Don Keating, and others.
FORTNITE 2005
November 5-6, 2005; Baltimore, MD
Email: FortFest99@yahoo.com
Web: www.forteans.com
INTERNATIONAL CRYPTOZOOLOGY
ART SYMPOSIUM AND EXHIBITION
October 28-30, 2005; Lewiston, ME
Contact: Loren Coleman, Director, International
Cryptozoology Museum, PO Box 360, Portland, ME
04112 | Email: lcoleman@maine.rr.com | Exhibition
will feature the finest examples of cryptozoological
art from around the world, including native works,
eyewitness drawings, forensic sketches, paintings,
models, and sculptures of cryptids. The symposium
will include invited speakers and selected artists.
MOTHMAN FESTIVAL
September 17-18, 2005; Point Pleasant, WV
Email: jef fwamsley@eurekanet.com | Web:
www.mothmanlives.com
TEXAS BIGFOOT CONFERENCE
October 14-16, 2005; Jefferson, TX
Contact: Craig Woolheater, Texas Bigfoot Research
Center, PO Box 191711, Dallas, TX 75219, (877)
529-5550 | Email: conference@texasbigfoot.com |
Web: www.texasbigfoot.com/events5 | Speakers
include Dr. Jeffrey Meldrum, Jimmy Chilcutt, Rick,
Noll, Loren Coleman, and others.
OTHER
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR NEAR-DEATH
STUDIES NORTH AMERICAN CONF.: MESSAGE
AND MEANING - THE NDE AS A TOOL FOR LIVING
September 8-10, 2005; Virginia Beach, VA
Contact: IANDS, PO Box 502, East Windsor Hill, CT
06028-0502, (860) 882-1211 | Email:
office@iands.org | Web: www.iands.org/conf
M.A.R.S. MAGICAL ANCIENT REALMS
October 7-9, 2005; Metarie, LA
Cost: $55; $25 single-day pass | Email:
jam4pets@aol.com | Web: www.magickalancientrealms.com | Exposition covering all aspects of the
unusual, including paranormal, alternative sciences,
mysticism, magic, ancient mysteries, ancient technology, UFOlogy, cr yptozoology, and all manner of
mysteries. Speakers include Kiria Gypsy, Monte Plaisance, Kalila Smith, Raymond Buckland, Derek
Bartlett, Malefica, Raquel Digati, Ed Fitch, Trish Winkler, Jim Pacifico, Elliot Gor ten, Oberon Zell, and
Shawn Poirer.
PATH OF EMPOWERMENT
March 18-19, 2006; Sedona, AZ
Cost: $160; one-day pass $95 I Contact: I Contact:
Dr. Chet Snow, PO Box 1738, Sedona, AZ 86339,
(928) 204-1962 I Email: chetsnow@npgcable.com I
Web: www.chetsnow.com/barbara I Trance channel
Barbara Marciniak and the Pleiadians offer wisdom
for freeing oneself and the planet from ancient invisible bonds, the latest information on astrological
forecasts, accepting responsibility, understanding
how the mind build frequencies that build reality,
how to produce energy to change realities, how
understanding accelerates energy, how to design
your own world, what are alien agendas, how to
cope with the craziness of it all, and group toning
exercises and limited physical exercises.
THE PROPHETS CONFERENCE SERIES:
WHAT THE BLEEP DO WE (K)NOW!?
August 12-14, 2005; Vancouver, BC, Canada
October 14-16, 2005; Phoenix, AZ
Cost: $325 until Jan. 21; $375 thereafter (group
disc. and single-day passes avail.) | Contact: Myster y School, PO Box 567, Kula, Maui, HI 96790,
(888) 777-5981 | Email: axiom@greatmystery.org |
Web: greatmystery.org/bleep5 | Bringing together
filmmakers, scientists, theologians, and visionaries,
along with individual presentations, panel discussions, book signings, a bookstore and merchandise
area, and other exhibits, these conferences examine the mysteries and mar vels of our minds and
bodies, showing ways to come to a deeper understanding through beauty, genius, and a life path in a
complicated, fear-driven, and rapidly changing world.
SYLVIA BROWNE PRESENTS:
SECRETS & MYSTERIES
August 15, 2005; Seattle, WA
September 14, 2005; Long Island, NY
September 16, 2005; Philadelphia, PA
September 18, 2005; Detroit, MI
October 2, 2005; Boston, MA
November 12, 2005; San Francisco, CA
November 14, 2005; Los Angeles, CA
December 4, 2005; Honolulu, HI
Contact: Hay House, (800) 654-5126 | Email:
office@sylvia.org | Web: www.sylvia.org/home/lectures.cfm | Psychic Sylvia Browne will satisfy your
curiosity about the unexplained secrets and mysteries of this world. From the Great Pyramid to Stonehenge, Sylvia reveals amazing facts about some of
the worlds most mysterious sites, and fascinating
and mystifying subjects such as crop circles, vam-
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pires, voodoo, magic, Atlantis, extraterrestrials, and
much more. One of Sylvias psychic friends - John
Holland, Sonia Choquette, or Gordon Smith - will
participate in each event.
SYLVIA BROWNE PRESENTS:
VISITS FROM THE AFTERLIFE
October 4, 2005; Calgary, Alberta, Canada
October 6, 2005; Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Contact: INprove Productions, 2005 Donald St.,
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, R3L 2T4, (204)
255.4239 or (866) 743-7326 | Email:
events@inprove.ca | Web: www.inprove.ca/events_
sylvia | Psychic Sylvia Browne will answer questions
and discuss how she contacts loved ones who have
passed on, explain what life is like on the other
side, Angels and Spirit Guides, and teach about the
powerful role your mind can play in your health and
happiness, how to take an active part in healing and
protecting yourself, how to expand your mind to
enhance all aspects of your well-being, and how to
prevent negativity from making you ill.
VOYAGE OF THE SOUL:
A PSYCHIC EXPERIENCE AT SEA
August 17-24, 2005; Alaska
November 1-9, 2005; Western Caribbean
Contact: Mindbodytravel, (800) 874-1996 | Email:
info@hayhouse.com | Web: www.hayhouse.com/
event_details.php?event_id=151
PARANORMAL
A HAUNTED WEEKEND IN GETTYSBURG
September 23-25, 2005; Gettysburg, PA
Cost: $550 (double occ.) | Contact: Southern
Ghosts, 1106 New Hampshire St., Orlando, FL
32804, (407) 234-6611 | Email: info@southernghosts.com | Web: www.southernghosts.com/
Events/Gettysburg.asp | Perform EVP and psychic
experiments at several haunted properties and the
Gettysburg battlefield using high-tech equipment.
Features private tours of the Gettysburg historic
downtown district and battlefield, a moonlight ghost
tour of Seminary Ridge, a walkthrough of the haunted Farnsworth House snipers nest, investigation of
the Lightner farmhouse and other locations, exploration of Underground Railroad sites.
BELL WITCH CAVE EXCURSION
August 27, 2005; Adams, TN
Cost: $175 I Contact: (888) 446-7859 I Email: ttaylor@prairieghosts.com I Web: www.prairieghosts.
com/overnight I Visit the Bell Witch Cave, as well as
historic and haunted sites in southern Illinois,
including Illinois Iron Furnace, Cave in Rock, Garden
of the Gods, and more.
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CHICAGO SUPERNATURAL CRUISE
August 13, 2005; Chicago, IL
September 3, 2005; Chicago, IL
September 4, 2005; Chicago, IL
Cost: $24 | Contact: Richard T. Crowe, PO Box
557544, Chicago, IL 60655, (708) 499-0300 |
Web: www.ghosttours.com/cruise | Cruise the
Chicago water ways, river, and lakefront and hear
tales of myster y and wonder, such as the Lake
Michigan ghost ships, lake monsters, jinx ships,
haunts of the skyline, the Eastland tragedy, the truth
about cement overshoes, Lake Michigan Triangles, and more.
CHICAGO HAUNTINGS BLACK BALL
October 30, 2005; Willow Springs, IL
com/ursula I Features lives music, drinks, food,
door prizes, special drawings, ghostly presentations, and plenty of eerie entertainment. Come in
costume as your favorite "Dead Chicagoans" with
prizes for best costumes.
EAST OF MIDNIGHT SPECTRAL
SHADOW TOURS WITH THE UNDERTAKER
Various dates ; Chicago, IL
Cost: $45-$100 | Contact: Carl The Undertaker,
(708) 638-6950 | Email: undertakertours@yahoo.
com | Web: www.shadowtours.com | Designed and
conducted by a licensed funeral director and
embalmer, these tours take you to both well-known
crime scenes and haunted locations and obscure,
out-of-the-way places that few people have even
heard about.
ELECTRONIC VOICE PHENOMENA WORKSHOP
September 3, 2005; Lily Dale, NY
September 17, 2005; Reno, NV
October 21-23, 2005; Rhinebeck, NY
Contact: AA-EVP, PO Box 13111, Reno, NV 89807 I
Email:
aaevpsuppor t@aol.com
I
Web:
www.aaevp.com/calendar
GADZOOKS! GHOSTS!
OVERNIGHT AT THE HAUNTED BLACK SWAN INN
September 17, 2005; Pocatello, ID
Email: gadzooks_ghosts@sbcglobal.net I Web:
www.gadzooks-ghosts.com
GHOST CONVENTION INTERNATIONAL
September 9-11, 2005; Long Beach, CA
Cost: $100; $50 single-day; $25/workshop | Contact: Ghost Convention Intl, 44729 Fern Avenue,
Lancaster, CA 93534, (661) 723-0962 | Email:
info@ghostconint.com | Web: www.ghostconint.com
| Meet paranormal researchers, attend useful and
informational seminars, and tour the haunted
Queen Mary.
GHOST CRUISE ON THE

SKIPJACK MARTHA LEWIS
October 15, 22, and 29, 2005;
Harve de Grace, MD
Cost: $25 (incl. dinner and cruise) I Contact: Cynthia Beane, (410) 939-4121 I Web: www.mystandlace/events
GHOST FEST 05
August 5-7, 2005; Red Boiling Springs, TN
Email: ghostfest@apsociety.com | Web: www.apsociety.com/ghostfest/index | A weekend festival devoted to ghosts and hauntings, with speakers, workshops, spirited tours and more.
GHOSTHUNTERS WEEKEND
AT THE INN AT JIM THORPE
October 28-30, 2005; Jim Thorpe, PA
Contact: Philadelphia Ghost Hunters Alliance I
Email: Rayd8em@aol.com I Web: members.aol.
com/SpiritNRGs/InnJT I Seminar will feature equipment classes, evidence classes, ghost tours, and
an investigation.
GHOSTLY GETTYSBURG DINNER & TOUR
September 17, 2005; Gettysburg, PA
Cost: $65 I Contact: New Jersey Ghost Hunters
Society, PO Box 574, Chatham, NJ 07928 I Email:
laura@njghs.net I Web: www.njghs.net/pages/
1/index I Tour haunted sites and investigate the
eerie battlefields and Sachs Covered Bridge with
special guest Mark Nesbitt, author of The Ghosts of
Gettysburg.
HAUNTED CASTLES OF IRELAND
October 25-30, 2005; Dublin, Ireland
Cost: $1,699 | Contact: Butch Hart, Fugazy Travel,
1550 Hendersonville Road, Asheville, NC 28803,
(800) 221-7181 or (828) 274-2555 | Email:
butchh@fugazync.com | Web: shadowboxent.
brinkster.net/ParaEx/Ireland/HauntIre
HAUNTED LOUISVILLE
& WAVERLY HILLS EXCURSION
August 20, 2005; Louisville, KY
com/overnight I Tour Indiana's haunted Marengo
Cave and haunted Louisville locations, including the
Waverly Hills Sanitarium and the Belle of Louisville.
HAUNTED VIRGINIA PARANORMAL CONFERENCE
August 19-20, 2005; Williamsburg, VA
Cost: $70 (lunch incl.) | Contact: Old Dominion Paranormal Investigators, c/o Ray Finchum, 6084 Lockett Road, Rice, VA 23966 | Email: odpifounder@virginiaparanormal.com | Web: virginiaparanormal.com
| Features ghost tours, displays, vendors, authors,
and speakers, including L.B. Taylor Jr., Dale Kaczmarek Rosemary Guiley, Mark Nesbitt, Ed Okonowicz, Patty Wilson, Scott Crownover, and more.
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HAUNTED WEEKEND IN SAVANNAH II

August 26-28, 2005; Savannah, GA
Cost: $750 I Contact: Southern Ghosts, 2120 Black
Mangrove Drive, Orlando, FL 32828, (407) 2346611 I Email: info@southernghosts.com I Web:
www.southernghosts.com I Includes lectures on and
use of high-tech equipment; electronic voice phenomena and intensive paranormal investigations of
the Moon River Brewing Company and the historic
and haunted Planters Inn; moonlight ghost tour of
Savannah's historic district; and more.
HORRIFIC HAUNTED HALLOWEEN HOLIDAY
Oct. 27-Nov. 3, 2005; Transylvania, Romania
Cost: $1,799 | Contact: Tours of Terror, 315 Derby
Avenue, Orange, CT 06477, (866) TERRORTOUR or
(203) 795-4737 | Email: TOURSofTERROR@aol.com
Web: www.dractour.com | Spend Halloween in Draculas Castle. Follow in the footsteps of Jonathan
Harker from Bram Stokers novel Dracula. Visit
haunted hotels and castles, creepy graveyards,
supernatural sights, and spend a night of fun and
fear in Draculas Castle. Open to all ages.
MANSFIELD REFORMATORY GHOST HUNT
August 12, 2005; Mansfield, OH
September 3, 2005; Mansfield, OH
September 16, 2005; Mansfield, OH
November 5, 2005; Mansfield, OH
November 19, 2005; Mansfield, OH
Cost: $50 I Contact: Ohio State Reformatory Preservation Society, 100 Reformatory Road, Mansfield,
OH 44905-1208, (419) 522-2644 I Email:
info@mrps.org I Web: mrps.org
MICHIGAN GHOST CONFERENCE
October 8, 2005; Westland, MI
Email: ghostwatcher@comcast.net | Web: ghostwatchers.org | Includes a buffet dinner, socializing
with paranormal investigators, a ghost photo slide
show, a raffle for paranormal prizes, a tarot reader,
an aura photographer, book signings, and guest
speakers, including keynote speaker Dale Kaczmarek, president and founder of Chicagos Ghost
Research Society.
NEW ENGLAND GHOST CONFERENCE
October 22, 2005; Lewiston, ME
Cost: $50 | Contact: Bill Washell or Nancy Caswell,
1260 Lisbon St., 2nd front, Lewiston, ME 04240,
(207) 782-2032 | Email: meparanormal@
yahoo.com | Web: www.mainesparanormalresearchassoc.com | Speakers include John Zaffis,
Rev. Larry Elward, Deb Elward, Derek Bartlett, Carrie Shimkus, Bill Washell, Keith Johnson, Sandra
Johnson, Mike Sinclair, and others.
PARANORMAL & SPIRITUALITY CONFERENCE

September 17-18, 2005; Beaver Falls, PA
Cost: $20 I Email: spiritsearch13@yahoo.com I
Web: lilyrosecurios.tripod.com/id26 I Speakers
include Ray Buckland, Raquel Digati, Gavin Frost,
Yvonne Frost, Linda Zimmerman, Reggie Bannister,
Gigi Bannister, and others.
PARANORMAL WEEKEND IN NEW ORLEANS
November 4-6, 2005; New Orleans, LA
Cost: $550 | Contact: Southern Ghosts, 2120 Black
Mangrove Drive, Orlando, FL 32828, (407) 6164697 | Email: info@southernghosts.com | Web:
www.southernghosts.com/main/Event.asp?event_i
d=8 | Investigate the Ashley House and the existence of genuine hauntings, residual hauntings, and
psi phenomena.
PENN STATE PARANORMAL
RESEARCH SOCIETY UNIV-CON
October 21-23, 2005; University Park, PA
Contact: Paranormal Research Society, c/o PA State
University, 125 HUB/ROBESON Center, University
Park, PA 16802, (814) 867-3435 I Email:
bretts@pennstateprs.com I Web: www.clubs.psu.
edu/up/paranormal I Features workshops, ghost
tours, investigations, paranormal market and fair,
workshops, speakers, and much more.
ROSE CITY PARANORMAL CONFERENCE
October 14-16, 2005; Portland, OR
Email: Catherine@trailsendparanormalsocietyoforegon.com | Web: rosecityparanormalconference.
bravehost.com | Speakers and guests include
Michael Jones, Martina and Todd Baker, Eric Byerly,
authors Jefferson Davis and Leonore Sweet PhD, Liz
Freske, and others.
SHIPWRECK HALLOWEEN TERROR FEST
October 29, 2005; Long Beach, CA
Contact: The Queen Mar y, Attn: Haunted Encounters, 1126 Queens Highway, Long Beach, CA
90802,
(562)
435-3511
|
Email:
ghostmaster@ghostsandlegends.com | Web:
www.queenmary.com/html/specialevents.php4?se
ction=annualevents | The Queen Mar y is transformed into The Most Terrifying Place on Earth,
with a new creation that will deliver ultimate horror
to daring mortals; mazes, the House of Hallucinations in 3D Frightvision, Decks of the Dead, Factory of Fears, and Top Hats Terror Factory; the
sexy Fright Mistress and her lair; the Boiler Room
Club; and live bands in a three-level dance party.
SOUTH JERSEY GHOST
RESEARCH GROUP SEMINARS
October 22, 2005; Washington Township, NJ
October 28, 2005; Glendora, NJ
Contact: (877) 478-3168 | Email: pubrelations@
sjgr.org | Web: southjerseyghostresearch.org | Use
our equipment in a haunted building with our investi-
gators plus video and audio presentation with

infrared video clips, photographs, and EVPs from
actual cases, photo and equipment displays,
demonstrations, Q&A, AJGR Kids Club events, and
lots more.
SOUTH JERSEY GHOST
RESEARCH GROUP LECTURE SERIES
October 6, 2005; Franklinville, NJ
October 13, 2005; Bellmawr, NJ
October 19, 2005; Manahawkin, NJ
October 20, 2005; Bayville, NJ
October 26, 2005; Point Pleasant, NJ
October 27, 2005; Mt Laurel, NJ
Cost: Free | Contact: (877) 478-3168 | Email: pubrelations@sjgr.org | Web: southjerseyghostresearch.
org | Video and audio presentation with infrared
video clips, photographs, and EVPs from actual
cases, photo and equipment displays, demonstrations, and Q&A.
THE TWISTED NIGHTMARE WEEKEND
August 5-7, 2005; Middleburg Heights, OH
Cost: $25 adv; $35 door (single-day passes avail.) |
Contact: Keith Kline, 1901 Marks Avenue, Akron,
OH 44305 | Email: info@twistednightmareweekend.com | Web: www.twistednightmareweekend.
com | Guests include Bruce Campbell, JR Bookwalter, Patrick Desmond, Robyn Griggs, Joe Knetter,
Josh Medors, Debbie Rochon, Rune Shepherd,
Brinke Stevens, Tom Sullivan, and others.
TULSA GHOST CONFERENCE
September 18, 2005; Tulsa, OK
Cost: $30 ($45 incl. optional ghost tour/hunt) | Contact: Paranormal Investigation Team of Tulsa, PO
Box 803, Broken Arrow, OK 74013 | Email: PITTfounder@cox.net | Web: www.pittok.com | Features
informative lectures, ghost stories, door prizes,
ghost photos, EVPs, and speakers, including Troy
Taylor, Darren Dedo, Russell White, Tonya Hacker,
and Ursula Bielski.
VAMPIRE INFESTATION: OHIO STATE
REFORMATORY HAUNTED PRISON EXPERIENCE
Sept. 30 through Oct. 31, 2005; Mansfield, OH
Cost: $13 | Contact: Mansfield Reformator y, 100
Reformator y Road, Mansfield, OH 44905, (419)
522-2644 | Email: info@hauntedx.com | Web:
www.hauntedx.com
WEST VIRGINIA PENITENTIARY
ALL NIGHT GHOST HUNT
August 20, 2005; Moundsville, WV
September 10, 2005; Moundsville, WV
November 12, 2005; Moundsville, WV
Cost: $50 | Contact: Pat Kleinedler, c/o MEDC, 818
Jefferson Avenue, Moundsville, WV 26041 | Email:
medc@ovis.net | Web: www.majda.net/events |
Spend an eerie night in the haunted West Virginia
Penitentiary.
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WORLD UFO & PARANORMAL EXPO
September 25, 2005; Denver, CO
Cost: $20 adv; $25 door | Contact: Dana Cain,
WUPE, 5061 South Stuar t Cour t, Littleton, CO
80123 | Email: dana.cain@worldnet.att.net | Web:
www.wupe.net | Features panel discussions, handson workshops, rare videos, social events, dealers
room, participation programs, debates, films, and
speakers on topics including UFOs, unknown animals, crop circles, ghosts, ancient technology, lost
cities, weird science, cattle mutilations, Mars,
Egypt, Bigfoot, psychic phenomena, alien abduction,
secret societies, and more.
REMOTE VIEWING
ADVANCED EXCURSION II - FOCUS 21
November 12-13, 2005; Phoenixville, PA
Contact: Barbara Kauf fman, (610) 983-9310 I
Email: bkauffman@auriclights.net I Web: www.auriclights.net
BASIC CONTROLLED REMOTE VIEWING TRAINING
August 20-22, 2005; Amarillo, TX
September 8-11, 2005; Perth, Australia
September 15-18, 2005; Perth, Australia
September 24-26, f2005; Amarillo, TX
October 15-17, 2005; Amarillo, TX
November 5-8, 2005; Vigo, Pontevedra, Spain
Cost: $1,000 I Email: lindabuchanan@charter.net I
Web: www.crviewer.com/calendar
CONTROLLED REMOTE VIEWING
5-DAY APPLICATIONS AND TRAINING COURSES
Various Dates; Boulder City, CO
Cost: $500 | Contact: Dr. Angela Thompson Smith,
(702) 293-3696 | Email: Catalyst@peoplepc.com |
Web: mypeoplepc.com/members/catalyst/catalyst/id4
FARSIGHT ADVANCED SRV
AND MONITORING WORKSHOP
October 23-26, 2005; London, England
Contact: Lynda Cowen, Director, Farsight Remote
Viewers Association, 2140 East Southlake Blvd.,
Suit L605, Southlake, TX 76092, (817) 481-4262 |
Email: silentvisitor@char ter.net | Web: www.farsight.org/updates
FARSIGHT VOYAGER TRAINING
IN BASIC SCIENTIFIC REMOTE VIEWING
August 17-21, 2005; Atlanta, GA
October 19-23, 2005; London, England
Contact: Lynda Cowen, Director, Farsight Remote
Viewers Association, 2140 East Southlake Blvd.,
Suit L605, Southlake, TX 76092, (817) 481-4262 |
Email: silentvisitor@char ter.net | Web: www.farsight.org/updates
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GATEWAY EXCURSION WEEKEND WORKSHOP
July 23-24, 2005; Phoenixville, PA
October 29-30, 2005; Phoenixville, PA
Contact: Barbara Kauf fman, (610) 983-9310 I
Email: bkauffman@auriclights.net I Web: www.auriclights.net
GATEWAY EXCURSION WORKSHOP
September 17-18, 2005; Tucson, AZ
November 5-6, 2005; Tucson, AZ
Contact: Amy T. Sharp, 9840 Nor th Western Fork
Trail, Tucson, AZ 85742, (888) 845-9942 I Email:
aredifer@hotmail.com I Web: www.monroeinstitute.org/programs/gateway_outreach_trainers
GATEWAY VOYAGE
August 27-September 2, 2005; Faber, VA
September 10-16, 2005; Faber, VA
October 1-7, 2005; Faber, VA
October 29-November 4, 2005; Faber, VA
December 3-9, 2005; Faber, VA
Cost: $1,695 (incl. room and board) | Contact: The
Monroe Institute, 62 Roberts Mountain Road, Faber,
VA 22938, (866) 881-3440 or (434) 361-1252 |
Email: TMIprograms@aol.com | Web: www.monroeinstitute.org | Voyage into the farther reaches of your
own consciousness. With the aid of Hemispheric
Synchronization sounds, total immersion in a timeless retreat, the guidance of senior trainers, feedback on your experiences, and the group sharing of
experiences, you will be carried gently into four progressively deeper altered states of consciousness.
GUIDELINES
September 17-23, 2005; Faber, VA
Cost: $1,695 | Contact: The Monroe Institute, 62
Rober ts Mountain Road, Faber, VA 22938, (866)
881-3440 or (434) 361-1252 | Email: TMIprograms@aol.com | Web: www.monroeinstitute.org |
Provides learning methods through which communication can be established with greater par ts of
ones self-awareness, providing an overview beyond
our typical perception.
HEARTLINE
August 12-19, 2005; Faber, VA
November 12-18, 2005; Faber, VA
Explores your internal landscape that promotes selflove, self-trust, and self-acceptance. Par ticipants
learn to let go of perceptions of resistance and fear
as they move into a greater sense of wholeness, balance, and harmony.
INTERMEDIATE CONTROLLED
REMOTE VIEWING TRAINING
October 21-23, 2005; Alamogordo, NM
Cost: $1,000 I Email: lindabuchanan@charter.net I
Web: www.crviewer.com/calendar
LIFELINE
November 5-11, 2005; Faber, VA
Offers training in states of consciousness. Participants learn to contact those who have made the
transition from physical reality and who need assistance in moving forward.
MC2 - MANIFESTATION AND CREATION SQUARED
This workshop provides tools to experience the
potentials of human existence by expanding belief
systems and enhancing ones abilities to influence
time-space events non-physically (energetically).
Uses the most reliable and successful principles
discovered in the practice of psychokinesis (PK) and
of directing energy for healing.
PLANETARY INTELLIGENCE WORKSHOP
October 22-23, 2005; Boulder, CO
Cost: $295 | Contact: The Institute for Resonance,
1942 Broadway, | Suite 314, Boulder, CO 80302,
(303) 440-7393 | Web: www.mountbaldy.com | Get
in touch with your planetary intelligence and inner
awareness and practice exercises that allow you to
connect with your bodys intelligence and natural
ability to sense natures intelligence.
REMOTE VIEWING AND
TRANSFORMATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
February 3-5, 2006; Big Sur, CA
Web: www.espresearch.com/#workshops I Presented by Russell Targ.
REMOTE VIEWING PRACTICUM
Offers training in the ability to perceive events and
locations across distance and across time; employs
a team concept (a monitor/inter viewer, a remote
viewer, and a judge) with participants learning each
role; emphasis on the five basic behaviors common
to successful remote viewers.
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RESONANT VIEWING TRAINING

September 16-18, 2005; Bolder, CO
Cost: $395 I Contact: The Institute for Resonance,
1942 Broadway, Suite 314, Boulder, CO 80302,
(303) 440-7393 I Email: simeon@mountbaldy.com I
Web: www.mountbaldy.com I Fine-tune your sensing
skills and open your mind to a new world of perception within. Learn the principles of Resonant Viewing, including detecting and sensing all types of sensory and dimensional information.
STARLINES
For those who possess a passion for exploration
and self-discovery and an enduring love and respect
for the Life Force in all of its expressions. Participants explore the myster y and majesty of energy
systems throughout the Milky Way galaxy and
beyond, moving gradually into new states of awareness, being, and perception.
WESTERN INSTITUTE OF REMOTE VIEWING
2-DAY WEEKEND WORKSHOP
August 20-21, 2005; Phoenix, AZ
September 17-18, 2005; Eugene, OR
October 1-2, 2005; Virginia Beach, VA
November 5-6, 2005; Sacramento, CA
December 3-4, 2005; Chicago, IL
Contact: The Western Institute of Remote Viewing,
218 Main St. #634, Kirkland, WA 98033, (800)
824-3730 or (888) 540-6085 | Email: waynecarr@
remoteviewers.com | Web: www.remoteviewers.com
SACRED SITES/PILGRIMAGES
ANCIENT MYSTERIES REVEALED CONFERENCE:
A MYTHICAL LOST CIVILIZATION
November 1-8, 2005; Malta
Contact: Power Places Tours, Inc., 1506 Costilla St.,
Colorado Springs, CO 80904, (800) 234-8687 or
(719) 448-0514 | Email: travel@powerplaces.com |
Web: www.powerplaces.com/maltahancock | Travel
with Graham Hancock as he shares new revelations
concerning the neolithic temples and ancient sites
of Malta, with its exalted yet mysterious past.
AVALON TO CAMELOT: A JOURNEY
THROUGH THE MYTHS OF TIME
September 7-16, 2005; Glastonbury, England
Cost: 1550 | Contact: Gothic Image, 7 High St.,
Glastonbur y, Somerset BA6 9DP, England,
+44(0)1458 831281 | Email: tours@gothicimage.
co.uk | Web: www.gothicimagetours.co.uk/arthurian
| Visit sacred shrines and meet and spend time with
some of Britains most respected teachers, authors
and ceremonialists, who share their knowledge and
insights into the history, myths and legends of the

sacred landscape and the Pagan and Christian heritage of the British Isles.
ENCHANTING SCOTLAND: A CELTIC JOURNEY,
SACRED SITES, MYSTERY & MYTHOLOGY
August 19-31, 2005; Scotland
Cost: $2,395 | Contact: Sheri Nakken, Earth Mysteries & Sacred Site Tours & Well Within, PO Box 1563,
Nevada City, CA 95959, (530) 740-0561 | Email:
ear thmysteriestours@tesco.net
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Web:
www.nccn.net/~wwithin/scot | Explore the legends,
mysteries, and myths of Scotland, including Loch
Ness and the highlands and lochs of western Scotland; the standing stones and circles, cairns,
mounds, and ancient sites of Argyll, Callanish, the
Isles of Skye and Lewis, and the Orkney Islands;
mysterious Roslyn Chapel and Glen, and more, with
workshops and special teachings in Celtic and preCeltic mythology and practices, fairy kingdom teachings, Scottish history and folk practices, and Roslyn
Chapel and the Knights Templar.
MYSTERIES OF FRANCE: THE CELTS, THE
GODDESS, THE BLACK MADONNA, ANCIENT
SITES, MERLIN, AND EARTH MYSTERIES
October 15-27, 2005;
Languedoc-Roussillon, Southern France
Cost: $2,295 | Contact: Earth Mysteries & Sacred
Site Tours & Well Within, PO Box 1563, Nevada City,
CA 95959, (530) 740-0561 | Email: sacredsitetours@tesco.net or wwithin@nccn.net | Web:
www.nccn.net/~wwithin/france2 | Visit Brittany,
Mont St-Michel, the Char tres Cathedral, and the
ancient sites, chateaus, medieval castles, ancient
caves, subterranean rivers and caves, the Mediterranean Sea, the Pyrenees, spas and spring water,
Gothic cathedrals, Romanesque churches, abbeys,
walled cities, and sites of great mystery, including
the Holy Grail myster y, the Magdalen myster y,
Rennes-le-Chateau mystery, the Cathars, ley lines
and geometric alignments on the land, Nazi treasure
hunters, and more.
MYSTERIOUS WALES
September 17-26, 2005; Wales
Cost: 1595 | Contact: Gothic Image, 7 High St.,
Glastonbur y, Somerset BA6 9DP, England,
+44(0)1458 831281 | Email: tours@gothicimage.
co.uk | Web: www.gothicimagetours.co.uk/wales |
Explore the land of the Mabinogion, Merlin, cromlechs, stone circles, holy wells, and many secret
magical places. Visit Snowdonia and the Druid isle
of Anglesey, as well as Cardigan Bay, the Gower
peninsula, Gwent, and Pembrokeshire, the ancient
land of Dyfed, with its Celtic crosses, weeping yews,
and misty Preseli mountains.
MYSTICAL BRITAIN
August 1-8, 2005; Salisbury, England
Contact: Power Places Tours, Inc., 1506 Costilla St.,
Colorado Springs, CO 80904, (800) 234-8687 or
(719) 448-0514 | Email: travel@powerplaces.com |
Web: www.powerplaces.com
MYSTICAL IRELAND: CELTIC JOURNEYS,
ANCIENT SITES & HISTORYS MYSTERIES
September 24-October 6, 2005; Ireland
Cost: $2,295 | Contact: Sheri Nakken, Earth Mysteries & Sacred Site Tours & Well Within, PO Box 1563,
Nevada City, CA 95959, (530) 740-0561 | Email:
ear thmysteriestours@tesco.net or wwithin@nccn.
net | Web: www.nccn.net/~wwithin/irel | Explore
Celtic legends, folklore, and mythology, and the
mountains and loughs (lakes) that are the homes of
the gods and goddesses. Visit ancient, magical,
sacred, and inspirational sites, with teachings in
Celtic and pre-Celtic mythology and mysteries and
Irish history.
MYSTICAL SCOTLAND
August 23-September 6, 2005; Scotland
Cost: $3,555 | Contact: Denni Clarke, PO Box 2155,
Freedom, CA 95019, (831) 761-3655 | Email:
dclarke@cropcirclespirit.com | Web: www.cropcirclespirit.com | Mysteries abound amongst heather-clad
hillsides, tranquil lochs and sacred islands - Kilmartin Glen, with its mysterious cornucopia of sites
dating back over 5000 years; the Isle of Iona, once a
Druid stronghold, now a pilgrimage site; the relatively recently discovered haunting Callenish stones on
the remote Isle of Lewis. Interact with the Gaelic
community experience a Ceilidh with traditional
song and dance, attend the Oban Highland Games,
folk museums, historical castles; sail to Fingals
Cave; journey along Loch Ness; stay on the of Isle of
Skye, and more.
PILGRIMAGE TO ANCIENT GREECE - HOLY
ISLES, SACRED TEMPLES AND ORACLE SHRINES
September 1-15, 2005; Greece
Contact: Mar tin Gray, PO Box 4111, Sedona, AZ
86340 | Email: mar tin@sacredsites.com | Web:
www.sacredsites.com/pilgrimages/greece_2005 |
Join Martin Gray and Thanassis Vembos to visit the
holy islands of Patmos and Tinos, the great oracle
shrine of Delphi, many sites in and around Athens,
and other little-known magical places in the Peloponnese, with lectures on the archaeology, mythology,
and culture of ancient Greece and special teachings
on Nomadics movement meditations.
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SACRED SITES OF SOUTHWEST ENGLAND
Summer 2006; Southwest England
Contact: Denni Clarke, PO Box 2155, Freedom, CA
95019, (831) 761-3655 | Email: dclarke@cropcirclespirit.com | Web: www.cropcirclespirit.com | This is a
journey of discovery for those who would like a real
taste of Englands mysteries. Explore Crop Circles,
Stone circles, the land of Avalon (Glastonbury) and
its Ar thurian legends, and Cornwall, the last
stronghold of Celtic tradition in England, and birthplace of Arthur. Visit the most beautiful of Englands
countryside, from the lush loveliness of Wiltshire to
the spectacular wilder scenery of North Cornwall.
THE SACRED IN NATURE AND NORSE MYTHOLOGY
September 7-18, 2005; Norway
Cost: $2,195 | Contact: Earth Mysteries & Sacred
Site Tours & Well Within, PO Box 1563, Nevada City,
CA 95959, (530) 740-0561 | Email:
wwithin@nccn.net | Web: www.nccn.net/~wwithin/
norway | Visit Viking burial mounds, Supphellebreen,
Boyabreen glacier, the English church of St. Olav,
the Norwegian Glacier Museum, and the magnificent
mountains and lakes, breathtaking waterfalls, mystical fjords, and timeless glaciers of this land overflowing with incredible nature, with special teachings
in the sacred in nature, Norse mythology, histor y
and legend.
SHAMANISM/SHAPESHIFTING
FIVE DAY SHAMANIC COUNSELING TRAINING
August 22-26, 2005; San Francisco, CA
Contact: Journeywork Institute, PO Box 13160, Portland, OR 97213, (503) 282-6315 | Email: flanagin4@msn.com | Web: www.shamanism.org/workshops/schedule_advanced
LEARNING TO REMEMBER:
ANCIENT TEACHINGS FOR MODERN TIMES
November 3-13, 2005; Ecuador
Cost: $2,800 | Contact: Joyce Kendall, Earth Heart
Farm, (603) 524-7829 | Email: energyjk@att.net |
Web: www.earthsummitllc.com | Journey focusing on
the teachings of the Quichua, descendants of the
Inca. Learn how to apply ancient wisdom to our lives
and spiritual pursuits today. Travel deep into the jungle, visit sacred waterfalls, and work with plant spirit
medicine.
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MASTERS CIRCLE OF REMEMBERING: LIFE
EMPOWERMENT AND SHAMANIC REIKI
CERTIFICATION
Winter 2005; West Whately, MA
Contact: Lyn Rober ts-Herrick, (212) 674-0525 |
Email: shamanicreiki@aol.com | Web: www.dreamchange.org/projects/oct-dec2004 | Eighteen-month
intensive training program emphasizes personal
development/ empowerment, the natural and compassionate brilliance that arises from a fine attunement to spirit. The program focuses on cleansing on
the soul level, aligning with the deeper intentions of
the soul, and expanding awareness. It offers the
information and experience needed to develop and
teach all levels of Reiki, cultivating the confidence
and inspiration to trust innate wisdom in order to
become uniquely gifted healers and teachers.
MEDICINE WHEEL: CIRCLE OF POWER TRAINING
November 20, 2005; Sedona, AZ
Cost: $425 | Contact: Crossing Worlds Journeys and
Retreats, PO Box 623, Sedona, AZ 86339, (800)
350-2693 or (928) 203-0024 | Email:
journeys@crossingworlds.com | Web: www.crossingworlds.com/wheel2 | Learn to work powerfully with
ceremony, spiritual healing, cosmic energies,
ancient principles of the power of the circle,
shamanic insights - healing, drumming, sound healing, new inspiration, and balance direct from the
Source, working together for the benefit of all, energy work, and sending our heart wave out to the cosmos. Will focus on deepening skills with setting
intention, holding space, using different shapes of
wheels, different types of ceremonies, symbolism,
reading the signs, protocols and responsibilities,
group dynamics, shamanic journey, energy work in
the wheel, grounding and centering, honoring, cosmic alignment, use of different types of sound healing, and plant kingdom helpers.
NEW YEARS WEEKEND SOUL JOURNEY RETREAT
December 29, 2005-January 1, 2006; Sedona, AZ
Cost: $850 (group disc. avail.) | Contact: Crossing
Worlds Journeys and Retreats, PO Box 623, Sedona,
AZ 86339, (800) 350-2693 or (928) 203-0024 |
Email: journeys@crossingworlds.com | Web:
www.crossingworlds.com/retreat | Develop attention, intention, intuition and presence, with a focus
on soul-retrieval, emotional healing, working with the
energies of nature, opening to vision, ceremonial circles, freeing innate body wisdom, shamanic journey,
reading the signs, and native medicine principles.
PEACEMAKING: SHAMANISM, PEACE & HEALING

August 26-28, 2005; Whitney, Ontario, Canada
Cost: $447 | Contact: The Edge, 100 Ottawa
Avenue, Box 329, South River, Ontario, Canada P0A
1X0, (800) 953-3343 | Email: edge@shamanismcanada.com | Web: www.shamanismcanada.com/
upcomingevents | Conflict offers a sacred opportunity to be peace-makers. Our challenge is to take what
we know, to deepen our collective learning, and
become the peacemakers and healers of our times.
As peace makers we begin to heal a long history of
trauma that spans the generations and whose
seeds live in the soil on which we stand. As aspiring
peacemakers we share in the task of the Shamans.
Our times ask us to redefine old paradigms of warriorship into a model of peacemaking and healing
that is strong and courageous. This weekend workshop explores peace, justice, harmony, balance, and
spirit from a variety of traditions.
SHAMANIC ASTROLOGY ADVANCED NIGHT
SKY SAMHAIN SCORPIO CROSS-QUARTER
NIGHT SKY TRACK GATHERING
November 2-6, 2005; Faywood Hot Springs, NM
Cost: $320 (incl. CD recording of classes) | Contact:
Carolyn Brent, (520) 744-0506 or Daniel Giamario,
(310) 281-7651 | Email: p3@Shamanic
Astrology.com or jdgiamario@ShamanicAstrology.
com | Web: www.shamanicastrology.com
/2004_Samhain | Features Samhain sunrise, sunset, and night sky ceremonials at the Stone Circle
overlooking the hot springs, as well as classes with
Daniel Giamario, Carolyn Brent, John Dumas, sound
healer Didgeridoo, and the Shamanic Astrology
staff, which will focus on a close morning conjunction of Venus and Jupiter; morning star Venus; Mars
cycle emerging from the underworld; Saturn stationar y retrograde preparing to move back into the
Sacred Hoop; the moon approaching the last quarter in Leo for very dark skies.
SHAMANIC ASTROLOGY AUTUMNAL
EQUINOX NIGHT SKY WILDERNESS CAMP
September 22-25, 2005; Dyer, NV
Cost: $300 | Contact: Daniel Giamario, 11301 Vista
Avenue, Grass Valley, CA 95945, (310) 281-7651 |
Email: p3@shamanicastrology.com or jdgiamario@
shamanicastrology.com | Web: www.shamanicastrology.com/events01 | Features sunrise and sunset
autumnal equinox ceremonials and night sky viewing
at an ancient solstice petroglyph myster y school
overlooking nearby hot springs with Daniel Giamario,
Carolyn Brent, John Dumas, and the Shamanic
Astrology staf f. Includes classes in experiential
Shamanic Astrology, high desert mountain hiking,
and wilderness hot springs.
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INTENSIVE TRAINING
October 15-19, 2005; Sedona, AZ
Cost: $420 | Contact: Carolyn Brent, (520) 7440506 | Email: p3@ShamanicAstrology.com | Web:
www.shamanicastrology.com/events01 | Daniel Giamario, Carolyn Brent, special guest Tom Lesher, and
others will teach in-depth chart analysis, counseling
techniques, and the most impor tant tools of
Shamanic Astrology: the Shamanic Timeline of
Astrological Cycles, the Seven Primar y Shamanic
Planetary Initiation Processes; and Planetary Aspect
Complexes of the Outer Planets.
SHAMANIC PADDLING ADVENTURE
upcomingevents | Awaken the dreamer within you
and explore your souls landscape. Connect with
nature and all that stirs within you as you open your
awareness and learn to journey with your eyes open
and dialogue with the spirits of nature.
SHAMANIC REIKI MASTER PRACTITIONER
(PRE-REQUISITE TO APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM)
October 7-9, 2005; West Whately, MA
Contact: Lyn Rober ts-Herrick, (212) 674-0525 |
Email: shamanicreiki@aol.com | Web: www.dreamchange.org/projects/oct-dec2004
SHAMANISM AND THE SPIRITS OF NATURE
August 20-21, 2005; Mt. Airy, MD
Contact: Foundation for Shamanic Studies, PO Box
1939, Mill Valley, CA 94942, (415) 380-8282 |
Email: info@shamanicstudies.com | Web: www.
shamanism.org/workshops/schedule_advanced
THE WAY OF THE SHAMAN BASIC WORKSHOP
August 27-28, 2005; Campbellford, ONT, Canada
Contact: Foundation for Shamanic Studies, PO Box
1939, Mill Valley, CA 94942, (415) 380-8282 |
Email: info@shamanicstudies.com | Web:
www.shamanism.org/workshops/basicwk | Workshop introduces shamanism for divination, problemsolving, and healing. Initiation into classic shamanic
journeying for awakening dormant spiritual abilities,
including connections with nature, restoring spiritual
power and health, and applying shamanism to help
heal oneself, others, and the planet.
TREE MEDICINE: CONNECTING WITH THE

SPIRITS OF NATURE
upcomingevents | Participants will be introduced to
a variety of ways to connect with the spirit in all
things. Using nature as our mirrors, we merge into
the wind, water, ear th, and fire, learning of their
strength and sharing their wisdom. Learn how to
communicate with the trees, plants, and rocks; to
know their ancient ways; and to nurture your relationship with the spirit of the tree. Experience harmony with yourself and the natural world.
UFOS AND ALIENS

BAY AREA UFO EXPO
October 15-16, 2005; Santa Clara, CA
Cost: $33/one-day pass, $59 two-day pass until
August 1; $38/one-day pass, $63/two-day pass
thereafter ($20 charge for each workshop ticket) |
Contact: Victoria Jack, Executive Producer, 2351
Alexis Lane, Tracy, CA 95377, (209) 836-4281 |
Email: thebayareaufoexpo.com | Web: www.thebayareaufoexpo.com | Sixty-five exhibitors, hosts
Robert Perala and Ruben Uriarte, keynote speaker
Dean Haglund, and others.
MEET THE ANDROMEDANS SEMINAR
August 7-19, 2005, Kailua-Kona, HI
Cost: $1,699 | Contact: Joan Oceans Dolphin Connection, PO Box 102, Captain Cook, HI 96704,
(888) 755-7750 | Email: dolphco@aloha.net | Web:
www.etfriends.com/Seminars
MUFON ORANGE COUNTY PUBLIC PROGRAMS
August 17, 2005; Costa Mesa, CA
September 21, 2005; Costa Mesa, CA
October 19, 2005; Costa Mesa, CA
November 16, 2005; Costa Mesa, CA
Contact: MUFONOC, 5267 Warner Avenue #275,
Huntington Beach, CA 92649, (714) 520-4836 I
Email: info@mufonoc.org I Web: mufonoc.org/program I Speakers include Esen Sekerkarar (UFOs in
Turkey), Dr. Lynne Kitei (The Inside Story of the Mysterious Lights over Phoenix), Nick Pope, and Christopher O'Brien.
NATIONAL UFO CONFERENCE
September 2-4, 2005; Hollywood, CA
Cost: $49 per day until August 1; $55 per day thereafter | Contact: NUFOC, 1621 West 26th St., San
Pedro, CA 90732, (310) 514-1595 | Email: johnmiller@nufoc.org or lisadavis@nufoc.org | Web:
www.nufoc.org | Speakers include Richard Dolan,
Jim Marrs, Nick Redfern, Dr. John Miller, Lisa Davis,
and others.
NWSURC UFO CONFERENCE

August 5-6, 2005; Saskatoon, SAK, Canada
Web: www.cccrn.ca | Speakers include Stanton
Friedman, Chris Rutkowski, Fern Belzil, Ken
Burgess, Paul Anderson, and others.
UFO, ALIEN, AND PROPHECY CRUISE
October 2-9, 2005; Eastern Caribbean
Cost: $1,299 (includes airfare) I Contact: Pat Quinteros, (702) 515-1813 I Email: pat@workshopcruises.com I Web: www.mufonvsb.org/CONFERENCES_1 I Lecture and workshop topics include
Nostradamus, UFOs, the Bible Code, aliens, prophecies, and more. Speakers include Derrel Sims, Doris
Sims, Jerry Pippin, Victor Baines, and Homey3.
UFO CRASH RETRIEVAL CONFERENCE
November 4-6, 2005; Las Vegas, NV
Cost: $159 until October 15th; $169 thereafter I
Contact: Ryan Wood, 14004 Quail Ridge Road,
Broomfield, CO 80020, (720) 887-8171 I Email:
rswood@majesticdocuments.com I Web: www.ufoconference.com I Speakers include Reme Bacca,
Richard Dolan, Ed Gehrman, William F. Hamilton III,
Linda Moulton Howe, Dr. Roger Leir, Nick Redfern,
Peter Robbins, Tom Valone, Dr. Rober t M. Wood,
and Ryan S. Wood.
UFOLYMPICS
August 13-14, 2005; Hooper, CO
Cost: $10 per event | Contact: UFO Watchtower,
2502 City Road 61, Hooper, CO 81136, (719) 3782271 | Email: UFO-WatchTower@webtv.net | Web:
www.ufowatchtower.com | Speakers include Jim
Hickman, Chuck Zukowski, Debbie Zieglemeyer,
Christopher OBrien, Pat Brady, Bill Cullen, Nancy
Red Star, Mar y Munoz, Priscilla Three Spirit Wolf,
Gloria Hawker, Paola Harris, and special guest The
Perseids Meteor Showers.
WORLD UFO & PARANORMAL EXPO
September 25, 2005; Denver, CO
Cost: $20 adv; $25 door | Contact: Dana Cain,
WUPE, 5061 South Stuar t Cour t, Littleton, CO
80123 | Email: dana.cain@worldnet.att.net | Web:
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room, participation programs, debates, films, and
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VOL. 2, #3, ISSUE #10

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The whole universe is the expression

Vol. 3, #2, Issue #10

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

S C I E N C E . .. .. ........ .. ........ .. ... .. ........ .. .......2 8

E X H I B I T . .. .. ........ .. ........ .. ... .. ........ .. .......3 0

U R B A N L E G E N D S .. .......... .. ........ .. ........ .. ........ .......... .. .. 3 4

60 T H E S YNCHRONOUS R E LAT IONS HI P

N O T E W O R T H Y ... .......... ............. .................... .. ........ ...1 0

Half-Time Tales and Sports Legends

By Andrew Hind and Maria da Silva

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E D I T O R ............ .......... .......... .......... ....8

The Global Consciousness Project: Predicting Future Events

D E E P .. .......... .......... .......... .........36

CTs Gungywamp Complex

C R Y P T O C O R R A L .. .......... .. ........ .. ........ .. ........ .......... .. .. 4 0

B O O K R E V I E W S ... .......... ............... .. ............................ 76

2005 E V E N T S C A L E N D A R . .. .. .......... .......82

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9/11: Debunking the Myths

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Taste the Magic of

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KIM GUARNACCIA, EDITOR

Decoding the Zodiac Letter

Shroud Not a Medieval Forgery

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more than 300 times the toxic level of

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Evidence of Human Sacrifice in Egypt

in a poor state of preservation. None of

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Dino-Eating Mammal Found

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