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Found 11 posts tagged ‘paranormal’

Old News – June 8, 2022

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Same here. "Flickering lights, strange noises all in a day's work." Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2000.

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#haunted #ghost #paranormal #vintage headline #headline

Old News – May 23, 2022

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If you're seeking an integrated ensemble, "paranormal [and] paranoid look good together," especially if photographed with a Polaroid. Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 1999.

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#paranormal #vintage headline #paranoia #headline

This May Surprise You – October 31, 2020

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We drove 90 minutes to a ruined cemetery, inspired by this passage from the fantastic play The Tenth Man by Paddy Chayefsky. When we passed a hearse and drove behind a truck branded with the word “BEYOND,” we knew we were on the right road.

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#cemetery #graveyard #occult #prof. oddfellow #pendulum #paranormal #video #penetralia

This May Surprise You – October 30, 2020

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Some folks are saying that Of Feeding & Caring For Sheet Ghosts doesn't actually exist. We offer proof, but as with seemingly all paranormal issues, not everyone agrees on what constitutes actual evidence.

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#vintage illustration #halloween #ghosts #sheet ghost #paranormal #illustration

Restoring the Lost Sense – January 17, 2020

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From UFO Review, 1979.

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[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]

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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #ghost #ghost hunter #paranormal #ad

This May Surprise You – December 27, 2019

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The phrases "ironed sheet ghost" and "laundered sheet ghost" are both Googlewhacks, delivering zero results. But we may have ruined that with this controversial new release: Of Feeding & Caring For Sheet Ghosts.. Some folks are saying that the booklet doesn't actually exist. We offer proof, but as with seemingly all paranormal issues, not everyone agrees on what constitutes actual evidence.

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#halloween #ghosts #sheet ghost #hallowe'en #paranormal

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought – December 15, 2019

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"The paranormal is about paradox, not proof; about meaning, not mechanism; about myth, not math. Most of all, however, the paranormal is about the 'coincidence' or fundamental unity of mind and matter. Two of [Philip K.] Dick's favorote scholars captured this truth in two Latin sound bites: the mysterium conjunctionis, or 'mystery of conjunction,' of C. G. Jung and the coincidentia oppositorum, or 'coincidence of opposites,' of Mircea Eliade." —Jeffrey J. Kripal, footnote in Philip K. Dick's Exegesis

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#paranormal #philip k. dick #paradox #coincidence

The Right Word – October 1, 2018

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Today we call them "paranormal investigators," "ghost hunters," or Ghostbusters, but in the early 1900s they were known as "ghost breakers." Our image is from the title page to The Ghost Breaker by Charles Williams Goddard & Paul Dickey, 1915.

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Hindpsych: Erstwhile Conjectures by the Sometime Augur of Yore – June 26, 2017

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I put my "Spirit Box" radio to the test and received 44 mind-bending answers. Ghostly voices from the atmosphere answered these exact questions:

What is on the dark side of the moon?

Were extraterrestrials at play in ancient Egypt?

Is the universe a hologram?

Is there life on Mars?

Is time an illusion?

What is at the bottom of a black hole?

Can we live forever?

What is the universe made of?

How did life begin?

Is the end of the world imminent?

Are we alone in the universe?

What is consciousness?

Why do we dream?

What's so weird about prime numbers?

Is there such a thing as free will?

Are we being monitored by extraterrestrials?

What is the secret of Area 51?

Is time travel possible?

What makes us human?

Are there pyramids on Mars?

Does the legendary continent of Atlantis exist?

What is the secret of UFOs?

Can you tell us about Bigfoot?

Are poltergeists ghosts or demons?

Are there aliens among us?

What's at the bottom of the ocean?

Are there pyramids on the moon?

Where does a missing sock go?

What is the secret of crop circles?

Is the nature of these spirit voices angelic or demonic?

Does the flat earth theory hold water?

Is there an objective reality?

What should we know about quasars?

What of the Flat Earth theory?

What is the face on Mars?

What should we know about UFOs? (And more.)

The answers to these questions are courtesy of voices captured through the "Spirit Box" (as seen on the Travel Channel show "Ghost Adventures"). Upon being asked a very specific question, the machine sweeps through the otherworldly static in the atmosphere for single words or series of phrases.

The answers I received in most cases shocked me; several answers disappointed or frightened me, but I present them exactly as they were received. Some answers are especially eerie (like the one about what is on the dark side of the moon and the one about Bigfoot), and I've flagged those so that you can listen to them at your own discretion.

Here's where you can get the 20-page report complete with embedded audio, if you're interested:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/525029968/44-mind-bending-answers-via-a-spirit-box

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* Historians must reconstruct the past out of hazy memory. "Once upon a time" requires "second sight." The "third eye" of intuition can break the "fourth wall" of conventional perspectives. Instead of "pleading the fifth," historians can take advantage of the "sixth sense" and be in "seventh heaven." All with the power of hindpsych, the "eighth wonder of the world." It has been said that those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it. Therein lies the importance of Tarot readings for antiquity. When we confirm what has already occurred, we break the shackles of the past, freeing ourselves to chart new courses into the future.

#eerie #occult #ghosts #supernatural #paranormal #spirit radio #ghost hunting #spirit box #spirit voices

Precursors – September 14, 2015

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Here's some early evidence of the ghostly spirit spheres called "orbs," from the Pennsylvania College for Women's Pennsylvanian yearbook, 1918. (For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.) This should also be of interest: How to Believe in Your Elf.

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#vintage illustration #otherworld #ghost hunter #vintage yearbook #yearbook #orbs #spirit orbs #ghost orbs #paranormal #spirit photography #illustration

Restoring the Lost Sense – February 23, 2012

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"Why I believe in telepathy": an illustration from a 1912 issue of Hampton's magazine. The caption reads: "While I was praying, I saw, hovering above my head, some gold circles."

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#occult #prayer #vintage #paranormal #telepathy #praying