Extra-terrestrials buzzed London last week – except they almost certainly didn’t. On 17 August one of the local (south London, UK) news websites announced: “UFO spotted in Croydon town centre”. Predictably, the article accompanying this headline was illustrated with a picture of flying saucers. One reader soon joked that aliens had flown to Croydon from...
Category: Science & Fiction
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The Rendlesham Forest UFO Revisited
It’s been called Britain’s Roswell, and it’s back in the news. Rendlesham Forest is in Suffolk, England. It stands close to what was once a twin military airbase (RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge) used by the USAF under the command of Colonel Ted Conrad. In the early hours of a late December morning in 1980...
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Exposed: The 100-Year-Old Riddle Behind Theft of the Mona Lisa
It all began in 1976 when I read a book about famed Italian Renaissance painter Leonardo da Vinci. On a page about the Mona Lisa, it said: ‘On August 21, 1911, an Italian workman named Vincenzo Peruggia stole the painting to take to Italy.’ I was immediately hooked. As a recent film school graduate from...
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Anonymous vs. Facebook – This Time It’s Personal
I am a Facebook user, though I am pretty resentful about it. It’s become one of those addictive time-sucks that modern technology has forced upon us in order to stay connected with the world, or in this case, friends and family. It’s like the advent of the cell phone, somehow we managed to live without...
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Death By Devotion: Tragic Tale of Scientology Celebrity Centre Brainchild Yvonne Jentzsch
It’s funny how people will take lies as gospel and give power to people who have the worst of intentions. It’s gone on for thousands of years, as Cicero pointed out in Roman times: “[F]or there are not so many possessed of virtue as there are that desire to seem virtuous. These last are delighted...
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Paranormal Versus Xenonormal
A quiet revolution is underway in paranormal research. The idea involved is not new — it’s been around for a few years now — and it hasn’t captured the hearts and minds of too many people yet, but it’s an idea with potentially wide-reaching implications and it might just be gathering momentum. It’s based on...
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Ghosts of St Paul’s Cathedral, London
Different people experience the same location in different ways. For many visiting St Paul’s Cathedral this week their surroundings will evoke poignant memories of the wedding of Prince Charles to Lady Diana Spencer, which was held 30 years ago this Friday. Other visitors will be captivated by the history and awe-inspiring magnificence of Sir Christopher...
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Paranormal Report: The Great Orb Debate
If one watches paranormal investigation TV shows — and I do to an extent that is likely not healthy — one cannot help but encounter “orbs.” These are typically small balls of light or energy that show up in video, still, and thermal images from investigation scenes. All serious investigators agree that most of the...
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The Return of Ectoplasm
Ectoplasm used to appear a lot, extruding from the various orifices of spirit mediums during séances in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It’s not something you hear too much about in the 21st century though, so I was startled to read recent claims that a German group photographed this controversial substance just last year. Given its...
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Fairy Tales Get Scary This Summer
The little people are big news this summer, and they’re more frightening than you might expect. Forget the romanticized fairies of Victorian paintings and Disney films. I’m not talking about pretty little silver-voiced beings flitting around on butterfly wings and sprinkling magic dust. The current trend draws on older legends of sinister, shape-shifting entities inhabiting...