tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64652996540512979362024-03-05T05:28:54.033-08:00Paranormal Explained DebunkedExploring the Paranormal from a skeptical view.
Open, honest, fair.
We present the facts and evidence, you decide.Excel Professorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01386313437407814163noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6465299654051297936.post-69003386738969638592008-08-13T08:01:00.000-07:002008-08-21T07:44:21.778-07:00HOAX!!!! Bigfoot Found<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZJHPpt3Z8az_D2lvz36jIy6kurBSCcXLncSZYiyjScpsq7aenZuUjeR2mBRUIx-80dS71H7zHiff0bquxScDxJs4WJvlP1chyv7nqge7-rvvX2qKxSs0r2oCElgHNnlJDDgO-JYndvHW0/s1600-h/bigfoot.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5234017891197980338" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZJHPpt3Z8az_D2lvz36jIy6kurBSCcXLncSZYiyjScpsq7aenZuUjeR2mBRUIx-80dS71H7zHiff0bquxScDxJs4WJvlP1chyv7nqge7-rvvX2qKxSs0r2oCElgHNnlJDDgO-JYndvHW0/s320/bigfoot.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />UPDATE<br />HOAX HOAX HOAX HOAX HOAX HOAX HOAX HOAX<br /><br />----------------------------------------------------------------<br />original report....<br /><br />Well this is indeed interesting. If true, this would change everything in cryptozoology circles. This story is unfolding so stay tuned! Kinda looks like a gorilla head mask but then again I don't know what a Bigfoot looks like. They claim it is 7ft. 7 inches in length.<br /><br />Update: Fox TV news interviewed one of the gentlemen that has examined the body.<br /><br />Update:<br /><br />Could this be the costume?<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLCjh395YS-j3VLz27JNsOzdzuF329Wbhi0dvmIPIxsA7yg_p6dTYbTd4gB1VkDsA43Y0coaza6ZradQEv5i1LS-3HOYXO0kEfIncSIzkoDcF4zOBxXcxWqAc8BqZWtkk-zB1W2F6lHPJl/s1600-h/ats57679_SasquatchMed.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5234103442114452962" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLCjh395YS-j3VLz27JNsOzdzuF329Wbhi0dvmIPIxsA7yg_p6dTYbTd4gB1VkDsA43Y0coaza6ZradQEv5i1LS-3HOYXO0kEfIncSIzkoDcF4zOBxXcxWqAc8BqZWtkk-zB1W2F6lHPJl/s320/ats57679_SasquatchMed.jpg" border="0" /></a>Excel Professorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01386313437407814163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6465299654051297936.post-13839539627823029162008-08-11T16:32:00.000-07:002008-08-11T16:36:31.763-07:00UFO<p><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/s-_yibPQs7c&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/s-_yibPQs7c&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /></p><p>Now here are a few red flags for those searching for paranormal things. </p><p>First, an overdub of music does not lend to credibility. Second, descriptions in foreign languages. This actually helps fakes since people cant read the text. Finally just add a hint of reference in the video to kind of give the ufo a size comparison.<br /></p><p>SURVEY SAYS.... "FAKE"</p>Excel Professorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01386313437407814163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6465299654051297936.post-72939225175015423512008-08-02T18:43:00.000-07:002008-08-02T18:44:26.826-07:00Ghost In Court HousePerhaps this is a crossed wire or an illusion. Perhaps it's something more...<br /><br /><object width="450" height="370"><param name="movie" value="http://www.liveleak.com/e/003_1217603329"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.liveleak.com/e/003_1217603329" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="450" height="370"></embed></object>Excel Professorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01386313437407814163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6465299654051297936.post-63411337964119141262008-07-27T09:38:00.000-07:002008-12-10T20:55:57.449-08:00I always had a facination with this ghost photo.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjvJ2jVWHhNN-xP7bJ69J77WadB_xnXxhcjIv-qjg18PlwfIkz1kdmuLLPtUZxr9_2kuEWuuJ_MhOLhK0FkQ7vm1mLqS3c_DuHRgLajGkAoXDRo5vBrgg88X_UPt6JeSRuKrk9IKH-ZcL6/s1600-h/back_seat_ghost_lg.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5227734643569805090" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjvJ2jVWHhNN-xP7bJ69J77WadB_xnXxhcjIv-qjg18PlwfIkz1kdmuLLPtUZxr9_2kuEWuuJ_MhOLhK0FkQ7vm1mLqS3c_DuHRgLajGkAoXDRo5vBrgg88X_UPt6JeSRuKrk9IKH-ZcL6/s320/back_seat_ghost_lg.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div>Mrs. Mabel Chinnery was visiting the grave of her mother one day in 1959. She had brought along her camera to take photographs of the gravesite. After snapping a few shots of her mother's gravestone, she took an impromptu photo of her husband, who was waiting alone in the car. At least the Chinnerys thought he was alone. </div><div><br />When the film was developed, the couple was more than surprised to see a figure wearing glasses sitting in the back seat of the car. Mrs. Chinnery immediately recognized the image of her mother – the woman whose grave they had visited on that day. A photographic expert who examined the print determined that the image of the woman was neither a reflection nor a double exposure. "I stake my reputation on the fact that the picture is genuine," he testified.</div><div></div><div> </div>Excel Professorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01386313437407814163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6465299654051297936.post-35377109796914588722008-07-23T18:19:00.000-07:002008-07-23T18:21:34.302-07:00Ghost HuntersI was watching Ghost Hunters on the SciFi channel the other day (I do like the show)and I thought to myself……<br /><br /><strong>Why do they hunt ghosts only at night?</strong><br /><br />I mean think about it. Do ghosts only come out at night? If they hunted during the day, they would be able to use better cameras without night vision assistance. Perhaps if they did hunt during the day they would get better results.<br /><br />But then again, it’s easy to get wrapped up in the moment. Perhaps you are in a dark corridor of an old prison. Shadows play tricks on our eyes accustomed to day vision. Perhaps thoughts of things that go bump in the night play off of our good intentions. After all, we as a species are not nocturnal. So hunting at night lends to the anticipation of the hunt, and perhaps to ones imagination.<br /><br />Sounds amplify in ones head when in the dark. A rat or mouse knocking down a cup during the day takes on the forbidding sounds of something more sinister when in pitch dark.<br /><br />And why do they whisper at times? When looking for EVPs the team clearly and loudly asks questions, but when searching, they often whisper? What’s it going to be, you can’t have it both ways. Does noise scare ghosts away and if so, they why speak loudly when trying to capture EVPs?<br /><br />So many questions, so little time……Excel Professorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01386313437407814163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6465299654051297936.post-59132647693278061742008-07-22T14:20:00.000-07:002008-07-22T14:22:12.859-07:00Poltergeist VideoFinall an interesting poltergeist video.<br /><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/p5_RpNgxptQ&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/p5_RpNgxptQ&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Excel Professorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01386313437407814163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6465299654051297936.post-16366012886015184452008-07-16T13:29:00.000-07:002008-12-10T20:55:57.680-08:00Big Foot PhotoFrom <a href="http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/roadbf-martin/">http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/roadbf-martin/</a><br /><br />This was photographed on Friday, June 27, 2008, at 2:05 p.m.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiApf1Cpu8AMTyixjkRsKFpTdbmkXzyQXTALcYWkJbVEGsavww85W7gDLrK4dqA4IWPbOECsMr3JuDrr9qHOgAI_1m1yKRvGrAmiS_a2FT4m0C5v04_wE0eAR2iKna1qe7Bk0D0CorgAakK/s1600-h/bigfoot.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5223713224255424578" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiApf1Cpu8AMTyixjkRsKFpTdbmkXzyQXTALcYWkJbVEGsavww85W7gDLrK4dqA4IWPbOECsMr3JuDrr9qHOgAI_1m1yKRvGrAmiS_a2FT4m0C5v04_wE0eAR2iKna1qe7Bk0D0CorgAakK/s320/bigfoot.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />This picture was taken while we were driving down the road with our camea from home. I wanted to see what I could capture that was moving into the woods that couldn’t be seen. I took this from the car as we drove the road. I was so excited when we put this on the computer and this figure of a Bigfoot was walking back into the woods. This is the area we’ve been working for two years now.<br /><br />Dianna Martin<br /><br />Don't see it??? Right in the middle, back turned walking into the woods.....<br /><br />Looks to me like just part of the trunk. I don't believe the photographer is trying to deceive anyone. It's just one of those random convergences of shadows and light. Or perhaps, just perhaps, Bigfoot has been spotted.....Excel Professorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01386313437407814163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6465299654051297936.post-63979810063839586412008-07-15T04:42:00.000-07:002008-07-15T04:47:23.556-07:00Roswell Object FoundSome person bought a pile of old junk but in amongst it he found a piece of the saucer that crashed at Roswell and had been stored at Area 51...you can see the label is old and looks genuine and is stamped 'TOP SECRET'...it is dated '09 Aug 48'..the recovery site is stated as 'Roswell NM'..the storage location is 'A 51'.<br /><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/6YNciVJ3PbE&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/6YNciVJ3PbE&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Excel Professorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01386313437407814163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6465299654051297936.post-89872443529170509852008-07-14T08:58:00.000-07:002008-07-14T09:03:18.605-07:00Oak island, Treasure, Money PitI love a good pirate story। I love a good mystery. However I am not sure that I would stake a claim on an island and dig for treasure. However many people have done just that on Oak Island.<br /><br />Oak Island is a 140-<a title="Acre" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acre">acre</a> (57 <a title="Hectare" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hectare">ha</a>) <a title="Island" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island">island</a> in <a title="Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunenburg_County%2C_Nova_Scotia">Lunenberg County</a> on the south shore of <a title="Nova Scotia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_Scotia">Nova Scotia</a>, <a title="Canada" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada">Canada</a>. The <a title="Tree" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree">tree</a>-covered island is one of about 360 small islands in <a title="Mahone Bay" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahone_Bay">Mahone Bay</a> and rises to a maximum of 35 <a class="mw-redirect" title="Foot (unit of length)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_%28unit_of_length%29">feet</a> (11 <a title="Metre" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metre">m</a>) above <a title="Sea level" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_level">sea level</a>।<br /><br />Oak Island is noted as the location of the so-called Money Pit, a site of numerous <a class="mw-redirect" title="Excavations" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excavations">excavations</a> to recover <a title="Treasure" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure">treasure</a> believed by many to be buried there। Despite great effort and expense, no treasure has been found, and skeptics have dismissed it as a <a title="Sinkhole" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinkhole">sinkhole</a> and natural cavities.<br />The island is privately owned, and advance permission is required for any visitation।<br /><br />History of the Money पिट<br />Early accounts<br />There are many 19th-century accounts of Oak Island, but they are conflicting, not contemporary, and not impartial।Further, physical evidence from the initial excavations is absent or has been lost.<br />In 1795, 16-year-old Daniel McGinnis discovered a circular depression in a clearing on the southeastern end of the island with an adjacent tree which had a <a title="Block and tackle" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_and_tackle">tackle block</a> on one of its overhanging branches. McGinnis, with the help of friends John Smith and Anthony Vaughan, excavated the depression and discovered a layer of <a title="Flagstone" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flagstone">flagstones</a> a few feet below. On the pit walls there were visible markings from a pick. As they dug down they discovered layers of logs at about every ten feet (3 m). They abandoned the excavation at 30 feet (10 m). This initial discovery and excavation was first mentioned in print in the <a title="Liverpool, Nova Scotia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool%2C_Nova_Scotia">Liverpool</a> Transcriptin October, 1856. More 19th-century accounts followed in the Liverpool Transcript,<a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island#cite_note-Trans001-3">[4]</a><a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island#cite_note-Trans002-4">[5]</a> the Novascotian,<a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island#cite_note-nova001-5">[6]</a><a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island#cite_note-nova2-6">[7]</a> British Colonist,<a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island#cite_note-BC-7">[8]</a> and A History Of Lunenburg County<a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island#cite_note-Desbrisay-8">[9]</a> (however, the latter account was based on the earlier Liverpool Transcript articles and does not represent an independent source).<br />About eight years after the 1795 dig, according to the original articles and the memories of Vaughan, another company examined what was to become known as the Money Pit. The Onslow Company sailed 300 nautical miles (560 km) from central Nova Scotia near <a title="Truro, Nova Scotia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truro%2C_Nova_Scotia">Truro</a> to Oak Island with the goal of recovering what they believed to be secret treasure. They continued the excavation down to approximately 90 feet (27.43 m) and found layers of logs or "marks" about every ten feet (3 m) and layers of <a title="Charcoal" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charcoal">charcoal</a>, <a title="Putty" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putty">putty</a> and <a title="Coconut" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coconut">coconut</a> <a class="mw-redirect" title="Fibre" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibre">fibre</a> at 40, 50 and 60 feet (12, 15 and 18 m).<br />According to one of the earliest written accounts, at 80 or 90 feet (27 m), they recovered a large stone bearing an inscription of symbols. Several researchers are said to have attempted to decipher the symbols. One translated them as saying: "forty feet below, two million <a title="Pound sterling" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_sterling">pounds</a> lie buried."<a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island#cite_note-Trans002-4">[5]</a> No photographs, drawings, or other images of the stone are known to have been produced prior to its claimed disappearance circa 1912. The symbols currently associated with the "forty feet down..." translation and seen in many books first appeared in True Tales of Buried Treasure, written by explorer and historian <a title="Edward Rowe Snow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Rowe_Snow">Edward Rowe Snow</a> in 1951. In this book he claims he was given this set of symbols by one Reverend A.T. Kempton of <a title="Cambridge, Massachusetts" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge%2C_Massachusetts">Cambridge, Massachusetts</a>.<a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island#cite_note-snow001-9">[10]</a> Nothing more is known about Kempton's involvement in the Oak Island tale.<br />The pit subsequently flooded up to the 33-foot (10 m) level. Bailing did not reduce the water level, and the excavation was abandoned.<br />Investors formed The Truro Company in 1849, which re-excavated the shaft back down to the 86-foot (26 m) level, where it flooded again. They then drilled into the ground below the bottom of the shaft. According to the nineteenth-century account, the drill or "pod auger" passed through a <a title="Spruce" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spruce">spruce</a> platform at 98 feet (30 m), a 12-inch head space, 22 inches (560 mm) of what was described as "metal in pieces", 8 inches (200 mm) of oak, another 22 inches (560 mm) of metal, 4 inches (100 mm) of <a title="Oak" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak">oak</a>, another spruce layer, and finally into clay for 7 feet without striking anything else.<br /><a id="Oak_Island_Association_and_Old_Gold_Salvage_group_years" name="Oak_Island_Association_and_Old_Gold_Salvage_group_years"></a><br />[<a title="Edit section: Oak Island Association and Old Gold Salvage group years" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oak_Island&action=edit&section=3">edit</a>] Oak Island Association and Old Gold Salvage group years<br />The next excavation attempt was made in 1861 by a new company called the Oak Island Association which resulted in the collapse of the bottom of the shaft into either a natural cavern or <a title="Booby trap" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booby_trap">booby trap</a> underneath. The first fatality during excavations occurred when the boiler of a <a title="Pump" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump">pumping engine</a> burst.<a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island#cite_note-HC-10">[11]</a> The company gave up when their funds were exhausted in 1864.<br />Further excavations were made in 1866, 1893, 1909, 1931, 1935, 1936, and 1959, none of which were successful. Another fatality occurred in 1887, when a worker fell to his death.<a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island#cite_note-HC-10">[11]</a> (Six people have been killed in <a title="Accident" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accident">accidents</a> during various excavations.) <a class="mw-redirect" title="Franklin Delano Roosevelt" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Delano_Roosevelt">Franklin Roosevelt</a> was part of the <a class="new" title="Old Gold Salvage group (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Old_Gold_Salvage_group&action=edit&redlink=1">Old Gold Salvage group</a> of 1909 and kept up with news and developments for most of his life.<br /><a id="Gilbert_Hedden_and_William_Chappell_years" name="Gilbert_Hedden_and_William_Chappell_years"></a><br />[<a title="Edit section: Gilbert Hedden and William Chappell years" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oak_Island&action=edit&section=4">edit</a>] Gilbert Hedden and William Chappell years<br />In 1928, a <a title="New York" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York">New York</a> newspaper printed a feature story about the strange history of the island. <a title="Gilbert Hedden" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Hedden">Gilbert Hedden</a>, operator of a steel fabricating concern, saw the article and was fascinated by the engineering problems involved in recovering the putative treasure. Hedden collected books and articles on the island and made six trips there. He even ventured to <a title="England" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England">England</a> to converse with Harold Tom Wilkins, the author of <a class="mw-redirect" title="Captain Kidd" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Kidd">Captain Kidd</a> and His Skeleton Island, believing he had found a link between Oak Island and a map in Wilkins's book.<a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island#cite_note-doyle-11">[12]</a><br />The very wealthy Hedden then purchased the southeast end of the island. He did not start digging until the summer of 1935, following excavations by William Chappell in 1931. In 1939, he even informed <a class="mw-redirect" title="King George VI" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_George_VI">King George VI</a> of <a title="England" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England">England</a> about developments on Oak Island.<br />The 1931 excavations by William Chappell sank a 163-foot (50 m) shaft 12x14 feet to the southwest of what he believed was the site of the 1897 shaft, close to the original pit. At 127 feet (39 m), a number of <a title="Artifact (archaeology)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artifact_%28archaeology%29">artifacts</a>, including an axe, an anchor fluke, and a pick were found. The pick has been identified as a <a title="Cornish people" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornish_people">Cornish</a> miner's poll pick. By this time, the entire area around the Money Pit was littered with the debris and refuse of numerous prior excavation attempts, so exactly to whom the pick belonged is unverifiable.<br /><a id="Restall_family_and_Robert_Dunfield_years" name="Restall_family_and_Robert_Dunfield_years"></a><br />[<a title="Edit section: Restall family and Robert Dunfield years" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oak_Island&action=edit&section=5">edit</a>] Restall family and Robert Dunfield years<br />Excavation by the Restall family in the early 1960s ended tragically when four men died after being overcome by fumes in a shaft near the beach. In 1965, Robert Dunfield leased the island and, using a 70-ton digging <a title="Crane (machine)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crane_%28machine%29">crane</a> with a clam bucket, dug out the pit area to a depth of 134 feet (41 m) and width of 100 feet (30 m). The removed <a title="Soil" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil">soil</a> was carefully inspected for artifacts. Transportation of the crane to the island required the construction of a <a title="Causeway" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causeway">causeway</a> (which still exists) from the western end of the island to Crandall's Point on the mainland two hundred meters away.<a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island#cite_note-HC-10">[11]</a><br /><a id="Triton_Alliance_years" name="Triton_Alliance_years"></a><br />[<a title="Edit section: Triton Alliance years" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oak_Island&action=edit&section=6">edit</a>] Triton Alliance years<br />Around 1967, Daniel C. Blankenship and David Tobias formed Triton Alliance, Ltd. and purchased most of the island. In 1971, Triton workers excavated a 235-foot (72 m) shaft supported by a <a title="Steel" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel">steel</a> <a title="Caisson (engineering)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caisson_%28engineering%29">caisson</a> to bedrock. According to Blankenship and Tobias, <a title="Camera" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera">cameras</a> lowered down the shaft into a <a title="Cave" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave">cave</a> below recorded the presence of some chests, human remains, wooden cribbing and tools; however, the images were unclear, and none of these claims have been officially confirmed. The shaft subsequently collapsed, and the excavation was again abandoned. This shaft was later successfully re-dug to 181 feet (55 m), reaching <a title="Bedrock" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedrock">bedrock</a>; work was halted due to lack of funds and the collapse of the partnership.<a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island#cite_note-ellerd-12">[13]</a><br />The Money Pit mystery was the subject of an episode of the television series <a title="In Search of... (TV series)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Search_of..._%28TV_series%29">In Search of...</a>, which first aired <a title="January 18" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_18">January 18</a>, <a title="1979" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979">1979</a>, bringing the legend of Oak Island to a wider audience. Previously, the story had only been known among locals, treasure hunting groups, and readers of sensational magazines and anthologies.<br />During the 1990s, further exploration was stalled due to legal battles between the Triton partners. As of 2005, a portion of the island was for sale with an estimated price tag of $7 million. A group called the Oak Island Tourism Society had hoped the <a title="Government of Canada" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_Canada">Government of Canada</a> would purchase the island, but a group of American businessmen in the drilling industry did so instead.<a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island#cite_note-www.livescience.com.859-0">[1]</a><br /><a id="After_Triton" name="After_Triton"></a><br />[<a title="Edit section: After Triton" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oak_Island&action=edit&section=7">edit</a>] After Triton<br />It was announced in April 2006 that partners from <a title="Michigan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan">Michigan</a> had purchased a 50 percent stake in Oak Island Tours Inc. for an undisclosed amount of money. The shares sold to the Michigan partners were previously owned by David Tobias; remaining shares are owned by Blankenship. Center Road Developments, in conjunction with Allan Kostrzewa, a member of the Michigan group, had purchased Lot 25 from David Tobias for a reported $230,000 one year previous to Tobias selling the rest of his share. The Michigan group, working with Blankenship, has said it will resume operations on Oak Island in the hope of discovering buried treasure and the mystery of Oak Island.<br /><a id="Treasure_theories" name="Treasure_theories"></a><br />[<a title="Edit section: Treasure theories" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oak_Island&action=edit&section=8">edit</a>] Treasure theories<br />There has been wide-ranging speculation as to who originally dug the pit and what it might contain. Later accounts claim that oak platforms were discovered every 10 feet,<a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island#cite_note-Crooker-13">[14]</a> but the earliest accounts simply say that "marks" of some type were found at these places.<a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island#cite_note-Crooker-13">[14]</a> They also claim there were "tool marks" or pick scrapes on the walls on the money pit and that the dirt was noticeably loose and not as hard packed as the surrounding soil.<a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island#cite_note-Crooker-13">[14]</a> One expedition claimed to have found the flood tunnel at 90 feet, and that it was lined with flat stones.<a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island#cite_note-Crooker-13">[14]</a> However, Robert Dunfield (a trained geologist) wrote that he carefully examined the walls of the re-excavated pit and was unable locate any evidence of this tunnel.<a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island#cite_note-Crooker-13">[14]</a> The five box drains made from flat stones did exist and were identified and recorded by the Restalls.<a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island#cite_note-Crooker-13">[14]</a><br /><a id="Pirate_treasure" name="Pirate_treasure"></a><br />[<a title="Edit section: Pirate treasure" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oak_Island&action=edit&section=9">edit</a>] Pirate treasure<br />The cipher stone, which one researcher is said to have translated to read "Forty feet below two million pounds are buried",<a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island#cite_note-howlett-14">[15]</a> was allegedly last seen in the early 20th century (exact dates are a topic of controversy). Some accounts state that Smith used it as a fireback in his fireplace,<a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island#cite_note-Crooker-13">[14]</a> while others claim it was last seen as a doorstep in a Halifax bookbinder's shop.<a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island#cite_note-Crooker-13">[14]</a> The accuracy of the translation, whether the symbols as commonly depicted are accurate, or if they meant anything at all, remains disputed. Some believe the pit holds a pirate treasure hoard buried by <a class="mw-redirect" title="Captain Kidd" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Kidd">Captain Kidd</a> or possibly Edward Teach (<a title="Blackbeard" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbeard">Blackbeard</a>), who claimed he buried his treasure "where none but <a title="Satan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satan">Satan</a> and myself can find it."<a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island#cite_note-howlett-14">[15]</a><br />Some also hold to the theory that Kidd conspired with Avery [who's Avery?] and Oak Island was used as a pseudo community bank between the two.<a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island#cite_note-howlett-14">[15]</a><br />Man made structures under Oak Island do in fact exist as discussed in many books, including a book written by Lee Lamb, daughter of Robert Restall.<a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island#cite_note-lamb-15">[16]</a> Whether these structures are the remains of prior excavation attempts or artifacts left behind by those who allegedly built the Money Pit are unknown. It is known that several documented post-1860 treasure recovery attempts, as described above, ended in collapsed excavations and flooding.<br /><a id="Naval_treasure" name="Naval_treasure"></a><br />[<a title="Edit section: Naval treasure" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oak_Island&action=edit&section=10">edit</a>] Naval treasure<br />Others agree it was dug to hold treasure, but believe this was done by someone other than pirates, such as <a title="Spain" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain">Spanish</a> <a title="Sailor" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailor">sailors</a> from a wrecked <a title="Galleon" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galleon">galleon</a> or <a title="Kingdom of Great Britain" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Great_Britain">British</a> <a title="Troops" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troops">troops</a> during the <a class="mw-redirect" title="American revolution" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_revolution">American revolution</a>. <a class="new" title="John Godwin (author) (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Godwin_%28author%29&action=edit&redlink=1">John Godwin</a> argued that, given the apparent size and complexity of the pit, it was likely dug by French army engineers hoping to hide the contents of the treasury of the <a title="Fortress of Louisbourg" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress_of_Louisbourg">Fortress of Louisbourg</a> after it fell to the British during the <a title="French and Indian War" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_and_Indian_War">French and Indian War</a>.<a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island#cite_note-godwin-16">[17]</a><br /><a id="Marie_Antoinette.27s_jewels" name="Marie_Antoinette.27s_jewels"></a><br />[<a title="Edit section: Marie Antoinette's jewels" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oak_Island&action=edit&section=11">edit</a>] Marie Antoinette's jewels<br />There is a story, like most others regarding the island, that lacks adequate archival sources, or any quoted sources at all, which places the priceless jewels of <a title="Marie Antoinette" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Antoinette">Marie Antoinette</a> (which are historically missing, save for some specimens in the collections of museums worldwide) on Oak Island. During the <a title="French Revolution" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution">French Revolution</a>, when the Palace of <a title="Versailles" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versailles">Versailles</a> was stormed by revolutionaries in <a title="1789" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1789">1789</a>, <a title="Marie Antoinette" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Antoinette">Marie Antoinette</a> instructed her maid or a lady-in-waiting to take her prized possessions and flee. Supposedly, this maid fled to <a title="London" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London">London</a> with such royal items as Antoinette's jewels and perhaps other treasures, such as important artwork or documents, secreted away either on her person (one variation suggests sewn into her underskirts in the case of the jewels, though fails to mention artwork) or as her luggage; it is even said she was perhaps assisted by the remaining officers of the French navy during the uprising at the queen's behest.<br />The story then goes on to say that this woman fled further afield from <a title="London" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London">London</a> to <a title="Nova Scotia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_Scotia">Nova Scotia</a> and through the royal connections she would have had during her service to the queen at <a title="Versailles" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versailles">Versailles</a>, managed to contract the French navy to help construct the famed 'pit' on the island. This theory, as noted, lacks recognized documentation other than that which is folkloric in nature, involves the French navy, which, during the Revolution had an uncertain level of authority, and would place the construction of the Oak Island structure very close to its initial discovery by Daniel McGinnis in 1795. Whether such a complex engineering effort could have been completed in that small space of time is questionable, though no official date of its construction exists. However, other theories do suggest the structure is French and naval in style.<br /><a id="Exotic_treasure" name="Exotic_treasure"></a><br />[<a title="Edit section: Exotic treasure" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oak_Island&action=edit&section=12">edit</a>] Exotic treasure<br />Still others have speculated that the Oak Island pit was dug to hold treasure much more exotic than gold or silver. In his 1953 book, The Oak Island Enigma: A History and Inquiry Into the Origin of the Money Pit, Penn Leary claimed that <a title="England" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England">English</a> <a class="mw-redirect" title="Philosopher" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosopher">philosopher</a> <a title="Francis Bacon" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon">Francis Bacon</a> used the pit to hide documents proving him to be the author of <a title="William Shakespeare" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>'s plays,<a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island#cite_note-leary-17">[18]</a> a theory recently used in the <a title="Norway" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway">Norwegian</a> book Organisten (The Organ Player) by <a title="Erlend Loe" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlend_Loe">Erlend Loe</a> and Petter Amundsen.<a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island#cite_note-amundsen-18">[19]</a> It has even been asserted that the pit might have been dug by exiled <a title="Knights Templar" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_Templar">Knights Templar</a>, and that it is the last resting place of the <a title="Holy Grail" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Grail">Holy Grail</a>.<a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island#cite_note-sora-19">[20]</a><br /><a id="Criticism_of_treasure_theories" name="Criticism_of_treasure_theories"></a><br />[<a title="Edit section: Criticism of treasure theories" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oak_Island&action=edit&section=13">edit</a>] Criticism of treasure theories<br />Critics argue that there is no treasure and that the apparent pit is a natural phenomenon, likely a <a title="Sinkhole" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinkhole">sinkhole</a> and natural caverns.<a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island#cite_note-Nickell-1">[2]</a><br /><a id="Sinkhole" name="Sinkhole"></a><br />[<a title="Edit section: Sinkhole" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oak_Island&action=edit&section=14">edit</a>] Sinkhole<br />Suggestions that the pit is a natural phenomenon, specifically a sinkhole or debris in a fault, date to at least 1911.<a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island#cite_note-20">[21]</a><a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island#cite_note-21">[22]</a><a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island#cite_note-22">[23]</a><a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island#cite_note-Atlantic-23">[24]</a> There are numerous sinkholes on the mainland near the island, together with underground caves (the apparent booby traps are attributed to these latter).<br />The appearance of a man-made pit has been attributed partly to the texture of sinkholes: "this filling would be softer than the surrounding ground, and give the impression that it had been dug up before",<a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island#cite_note-Atlantic-23">[24]</a> and the appearance of "platforms" of rotten logs has been incorrectly attributed to trees or "blowdowns" falling or washing into the depression.<a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island#cite_note-24">[25]</a> An undetermined pit similar to the description of the early Money Pit had been discovered in the area. In 1949, workmen digging a well on the shore of Mahone Bay, at a point where the earth was soft, found a pit of the following description: "At about two feet down a layer of fieldstone was struck. Then logs of spruce and oak were unearthed at irregular intervals, and some of the wood was charred. The immediate suspicion was that another Money Pit had been found."<a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island#cite_note-25">[26]</a><br /><a id="Romanticized_elements" name="Romanticized_elements"></a><br />[<a title="Edit section: Romanticized elements" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oak_Island&action=edit&section=15">edit</a>] Romanticized elements<br />Many elements contained in the Oak Island story, such as the discovery of tantalizing but inconclusive objects and a message in indecipherable code, are common in <a class="mw-redirect" title="Fictional" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictional">fictional</a> works on <a title="Treasure" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure">treasure</a> and <a title="Piracy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy">piracy</a> (such as the <a title="Edgar Allan Poe" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe">Edgar Allan Poe</a> <a title="Short story" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_story">short story</a> "<a title="The Gold-Bug" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gold-Bug">The Gold-Bug</a>"). This has led many to conclude that the early account of the Money Pit is a romanticized combination of several works of nineteenth century fiction conflated with a local story about a search for buried treasure. Similarly, the burial of the supposed jewels of <a title="Marie Antoinette" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Antoinette">Marie Antoinette</a> requires, logically, an assumption that they would someday soon after their concealment be retrieved; as well, the apparent complexity of the Island's 'treasure' structure seems too frivolous an attempt to conceal what the queen's maid could have easily used for her own gain once in <a title="North America" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America">North America</a>. There is little historical context to link the <a title="French Revolution" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution">French Revolution</a> directly to <a title="Nova Scotia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_Scotia">Nova Scotia</a>, save for the ongoing conflicts in <a title="North America" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America">North America</a> between the British and French both at the time and prior.<br /><a title="Joe Nickell" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Nickell">Joe Nickell</a><a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island#cite_note-Nickell-1">[2]</a> identifies parallels between the accounts of Oak Island and the allegory of the "Secret Vault" in <a title="Freemasonry" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemasonry">Freemasonry</a>, similar to the <a title="Chase Vault" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chase_Vault">Chase Vault</a>, identifies many prominent excavators as Freemasons, and suggests that the accounts explicitly include Masonic imagery.<br /><a id="Pit_flooding_issues" name="Pit_flooding_issues"></a><br />[<a title="Edit section: Pit flooding issues" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oak_Island&action=edit&section=16">edit</a>] Pit flooding issues<br />In 1850, treasure hunters discovered fibers beneath the surface of one <a title="Beach" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beach">beach</a> called Smith's Cove. This led to the theory that the beach had been converted into a giant siphon, feeding water from the ocean into the pit via a man made tunnel.<br />The purpose of these fibers has been a source of heated debate among Oak Island researchers; a sample of this material was sent to the <a title="Smithsonian Institution" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithsonian_Institution">Smithsonian Institution</a> in the early 20th century, where it was concluded that the material was coconut fiber.<a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island#cite_note-French-26">[27]</a> <a class="mw-redirect" title="Carbon dating" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dating">Carbon dating</a> was conducted on a sample in the 1960s and returned a date of 1200-1400 AD.<a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island#cite_note-French-26">[27]</a> However, this testing method reveals only when the material began to degrade, not when it was deposited at the site.<br />Oak Island lies on a <a title="Glacier" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacier">glacial</a> <a title="Tumulus" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumulus">tumulus</a> system and is underlain by a series of water-filled <a title="Limestone" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limestone">limestone</a> cavities (<a title="Anhydrite" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anhydrite">Anhydrite</a>), which could potentially be responsible for the repeated flooding of the pit. <a title="Bedrock" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedrock">Bedrock</a> lies at a depth of 160–180 feet in the Money Pit area. However, bedrock does not come to the surface at that end of the island.<br />Upon the invitation of Boston-area businessman David Mugar, a two-week survey was conducted by the <a title="Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woods_Hole_Oceanographic_Institution">Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution</a> in 1995. This is the only known scientific study that has been conducted on the site. After running dye tests in the bore hole, they concluded that the flooding was caused by a natural interaction between the island's freshwater lens and tidal pressures in the underlying geology, refuting the idea of artificially constructed flood tunnels. The Woods Hole scientists who viewed the videos taken in 1971 concluded that nothing conclusive could be determined from the murky images.Excel Professorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01386313437407814163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6465299654051297936.post-35365328523345928402008-07-13T05:17:00.000-07:002008-07-13T05:21:10.881-07:00LochNess Monster Sightings<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/13fLy40MAYA&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/13fLy40MAYA&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/qgqYNwQPwXw&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/qgqYNwQPwXw&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Excel Professorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01386313437407814163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6465299654051297936.post-88708659122886144212008-07-10T10:23:00.000-07:002008-07-10T10:31:43.639-07:00Britney Spears dating Alex Rodriguez!No No No. It’s not true but I wanted to make a point with the title of this blog. Some people will fake UFO, ghost, or even Bigfoot sightings just for the attention.<br /><br />Some people will misinterpret what they saw. These are honest people who for some reason or another got it wrong.<br /><br />Then finally there are those rare few. The ones that are honest and who’s evidence can’t be so easily dismissed. These people and their experiences are what this blog is about.Excel Professorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01386313437407814163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6465299654051297936.post-9406434323330521902008-07-08T13:22:00.000-07:002008-12-10T20:55:57.888-08:00Freddie JacksonHave you ever tried to search for "Best ghost photo" on Google.<br /><br /><br /><br />I have and was disapointed with the results.<br /><br /><br /><br />Lots of reflections of the flash off of water droplets, camera straps, and blurry photos.<br /><br /><br /><br />The one I like the best is...<br /><br /><br /><br />Freddie Jackson<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjamiD5szVpS8LCyhnuGufveVo6bGfuLK6djloO1AjYjS5NzAXcziQrRCjoXaXGl520g9pPwfh6oXEPdFP7KYPQPYq2uzfpNxRCq1uZiFmRg1FdNc86DOQe8ZWgTOdbDSkRjB2B-Z3yBobc/s1600-h/freddie.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220742339974596114" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjamiD5szVpS8LCyhnuGufveVo6bGfuLK6djloO1AjYjS5NzAXcziQrRCjoXaXGl520g9pPwfh6oXEPdFP7KYPQPYq2uzfpNxRCq1uZiFmRg1FdNc86DOQe8ZWgTOdbDSkRjB2B-Z3yBobc/s320/freddie.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />A run of the mill group photo of a World War I squadron became infamous when an extra face appeared behind one of the airmen located on the top row, fourth from the left (see insert for a clearer view). The airmen instantly recognized the face to be that of Freddy Jackson, a mechanic who was killed by an airplane propeller two days prior. His funeral had taken place on that day, but apparently Freddy Jackson wasn't aware that he was not required to show up for it.<br /><p>I still believe that this could be a simple issue of mistaken dates (photo taken prior to his death).</p><p>I WANT TO BELIEVE (but can't yet).<br /></p>Excel Professorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01386313437407814163noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6465299654051297936.post-82277555379561368392008-07-07T08:20:00.000-07:002008-07-07T08:26:25.475-07:00Deja vu<em><span style="color:#000099;">"Boy it seems like I have already covered this topic"....</span></em><br /><br />Déjà vu (<a class="mw-redirect" title="Help:Pronunciation" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Pronunciation">pronounced</a> <a class="internal" title="En-uk-dejavu.ogg" href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/En-uk-dejavu.ogg">/ˈdeɪʒɑː ˈvuː/</a> (<a title="Wikipedia:Media help" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Media_help">help</a>·<a title="Image:En-uk-dejavu.ogg" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:En-uk-dejavu.ogg">info</a>); <a title="French language" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language">French</a> <a class="internal" title="Fr-déjà vu.ogg" href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Fr-d%C3%A9j%C3%A0_vu.ogg">/deʒa vy/</a> (<a title="Wikipedia:Media help" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Media_help">help</a>·<a title="Image:Fr-déjà vu.ogg" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Fr-d%C3%A9j%C3%A0_vu.ogg">info</a>) "already seen"; also called paramnesia, from Greek παρα para, "near" + μνήμη mnēmē, "memory") is the experience of feeling sure that one has witnessed or experienced a new situation previously (an individual feels as though an event has already happened or has repeated itself). The term was coined by a <a title="France" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France">French</a> <a title="Psychic" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychic">psychic</a> researcher, <a title="Émile Boirac" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Boirac">Émile Boirac</a> (1851–1917) in his book L'Avenir des sciences psychiques (The Future of Psychic Sciences), which expanded upon an essay he wrote while an undergraduate. The experience of déjà vu is usually accompanied by a compelling sense of familiarity, and also a sense of "eeriness", "strangeness", or "weirdness". The "previous" experience is most frequently attributed to a dream, although in some cases there is a firm sense that the experience "genuinely happened" in the past.<br /><br />The experience of déjà vu seems to be quite common among adults and children alike; in formal studies 70% of people report having experienced it at least once. References to the experience of déjà vu are also found in literature of the past, indicating it is not a new <a title="Phenomenon" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenomenon">phenomenon</a>. It has been extremely difficult to evoke the déjà vu experience in <a title="Experiment" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experiment">laboratory settings</a>, therefore making it a subject of few <a title="Empirical studies" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empirical_studies">empirical studies</a>. Recently, researchers have found ways to recreate this sensation using <a title="Hypnosis" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnosis">hypnosis</a>.<a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9j%C3%A0_vu#cite_note-0">[1]</a><br /><br />Déjà vécu<br />Déjà vécu refers to an experience involving more than just sight, which is why labeling such "déjà vu" is usually inaccurate. The sense involves a great amount of detail, sensing that everything is just as it was before and a weird knowledge of what is going to be said or happen next.<br />Translated literally as 'already lived,' déjà vécu is described in a quotation from <a title="Charles Dickens" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens">Charles Dickens</a>:<br />“<br />We have all some experience of a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been said and done before, in a remote time – of our having been surrounded, dim ages ago, by the same faces, objects, and circumstances – of our knowing perfectly what will be said next, as if we suddenly remember it!<a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9j%C3%A0_vu#cite_note-2">[3]</a><br />”<br />When most people speak of déjà vu, they are actually experiencing déjà vécu. Surveys have revealed that as much as 70% of the population have had these experiences, usually between ages 15 to 25<a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9j%C3%A0_vu#cite_note-pnoegm-3">[4]</a>, when the mind is still subject to noticing the change in environment. The experience is usually related to a very ordinary event, but it is so striking that it is remembered for several years afterwards.<br /><br />More recently, the term déjà vécu has been used to describe very intense and persistent feelings of a déjà vu type, which occur as part of a memory disorder.<a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9j%C3%A0_vu#cite_note-4">[5]</a><br /><a id="D.C3.A9j.C3.A0_senti" name="D.C3.A9j.C3.A0_senti"></a><br />Déjà senti<br />This phenomenon specifies something 'already felt.' Unlike the implied precognition of déjà vécu, déjà senti is primarily or even exclusively a mental happening, has no precognitive aspects, and rarely if ever remains in the afflicted person's memory afterwards.<br />Dr. John Hughlings Jackson recorded the words of one of his patients who suffered from temporal lobe or psychomotor epilepsy in an 1888 paper:<br />“<br />What is occupying the attention is what has occupied it before, and indeed has been familiar, but has been for a time forgotten, and now is recovered with a slight sense of satisfaction as if it had been sought for. ... At the same time, or ... more accurately in immediate sequence, I am dimly aware that the recollection is fictitious and my state abnormal. The recollection is always started by another person's voice, or by my own verbalized thought, or by what I am reading and mentally verbalize; and I think that during the abnormal state I generally verbalize some such phrase of simple recognition as 'Oh yes – I see', 'Of course – I remember', but a minute or two later I can recollect neither the words nor the verbalized thought which gave rise to the recollection. I only find strongly that they resemble what I have felt before under similar abnormal conditions.<a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9j%C3%A0_vu#cite_note-5">[6]</a><br />”<br />As with Dr. Jackson's patient, some temporal-lobe epileptics may experience this phenomenon.<br /><a id="D.C3.A9j.C3.A0_visit.C3.A9" name="D.C3.A9j.C3.A0_visit.C3.A9"></a><br />Déjà visité<br />This experience is less common and involves an uncanny knowledge of a new place. The translation is "already visited." Here one may know his or her way around in a new town or landscape while at the same time knowing that this should not be possible.<br /><br />Theories involving dreams, <a title="Reincarnation" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reincarnation">reincarnation</a> and also <a title="Out-of-body experience" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-of-body_experience">out-of-body</a> travel have been used to explain this phenomenon. Additionally, some suggest that reading a detailed account of a place can result in this feeling when the locale is later visited. Two famous examples of such a situation were described by <a title="Nathaniel Hawthorne" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Hawthorne">Nathaniel Hawthorne</a> in his book Our Old Home<a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9j%C3%A0_vu#cite_note-6">[7]</a> and <a class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Walter Scott" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Walter_Scott">Sir Walter Scott</a> in Guy Mannering.<a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9j%C3%A0_vu#cite_note-7">[8]</a> Hawthorne recognized the ruins of a castle in England and later was able to trace the sensation to a piece written about the castle by <a title="Alexander Pope" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Pope">Alexander Pope</a> nearly a century earlier.<br /><a class="mw-redirect" title="C. G. Jung" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._G._Jung">C. G. Jung</a> published an account of déjà visité in his 1952 paper On <a title="Synchronicity" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity">synchronicity</a>.<a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9j%C3%A0_vu#cite_note-jung-8">[9]</a><br />In order to distinguish déjà visité from déjà vécu, it is important to identify the source of the feeling. Déjà vécu is in reference to the <a class="new" title="Temporal occurrence (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Temporal_occurrence&action=edit&redlink=1">temporal occurrences</a> and processes, while déjà visité has more to do with <a title="Geography" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography">geography</a> and <a title="Spatial relation" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial_relation">spatial relations</a>.<br /><a id="Scientific_research" name="Scientific_research"></a><br />Scientific research<br />Déjà vu has been subjected to serious psychological and neurophysiological research. Scientifically speaking, the most likely explanation of déjà vu is not that it is an act of "precognition" or "prophecy", but rather that it is an anomaly of memory; it is the impression that an experience is "being recalled". This explanation is substantiated by the fact that the sense of "recollection" at the time is strong in most cases, but that the circumstances of the "previous" experience (when, where and how the earlier experience occurred) are quite uncertain. Likewise, as time passes, subjects can exhibit a strong recollection of having the "unsettling" experience of déjà vu itself, but little to no recollection of the specifics of the event(s) or circumstance(s) they were "remembering" when they had the déjà vu experience. In particular, this may result from an overlap between the neurological systems responsible for <a title="Short-term memory" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short-term_memory">short-term memory</a> (events which are perceived as being in the present) and those responsible for <a title="Long-term memory" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_memory">long-term memory</a> (events which are perceived as being in the past). In other words, the events would be stored into memory before the conscious part of the brain even receives the information and processes it. This would explain why one is, if it ever comes to mind, powerless trying to twist the outcome of the event in order to create a paradox. The delay is only of a few milliseconds, and besides, already happened at the time the consciousness of the individual is experiencing it.<br /><br />Another theory being explored is that of vision. As the theory suggests, one eye may record what is seen fractionally faster than the other, creating that "strong recollection" sensation upon the "same" scene being viewed milliseconds later by the opposite eye. However, this one fails to explain the phenomenon when other sensory inputs are involved, such as the auditive part, and especially the digital part. If one, for instance, experiences déjà vu of someone slapping the fingers on his/her left hand, then the déjà vu feeling is certainly not due to his/her right hand to be late on the left one. Also, persons with only one eye still report experiencing déjà vu or déjà vecu. The global phenomenon must therefore be narrowed down to the brain itself (say, one hemisphere would be late compared to the other one).<br /><a id="Links_with_disorders" name="Links_with_disorders"></a><br />Links with disorders<br />Early researchers tried to establish a link between déjà vu and serious psychopathology such as <a title="Schizophrenia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenia">schizophrenia</a>, <a title="Anxiety" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anxiety">anxiety</a>, and <a title="Dissociative identity disorder" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociative_identity_disorder">dissociative identity disorder</a>, with hopes of finding the experience of some diagnostic value. However, there does not seem to be any special association between déjà vu and <a title="Schizophrenia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenia">schizophrenia</a> or other neurotic conditions.<a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9j%C3%A0_vu#cite_note-9">[10]</a> The strongest pathological association of déjà vu is with <a title="Temporal lobe epilepsy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_lobe_epilepsy">temporal lobe epilepsy</a>.<a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9j%C3%A0_vu#cite_note-10">[11]</a><a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9j%C3%A0_vu#cite_note-pnoegm-3">[4]</a> This correlation has led some researchers to speculate that the experience of déjà vu is possibly a <a title="Neurology" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurology">neurological</a> anomaly related to improper electrical discharge in the brain. As most people suffer a mild (i.e. non-pathological) <a class="mw-redirect" title="Epileptic" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epileptic">epileptic</a> episode regularly (e.g. the sudden "jolt", a <a title="Hypnic jerk" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnic_jerk">hypnagogic jerk</a>, that frequently occurs just prior to falling asleep), it is conjectured that a similar (mild) neurological aberration occurs in the experience of déjà vu, resulting in an erroneous sensation of memory.<br /><a id="Pharmacology" name="Pharmacology"></a><br />Pharmacology<br />It has been reported that certain drugs increase the chances of déjà vu occurring in the user. Some pharmaceutical drugs, when taken together, have also been implicated in the cause of déjà vu. Taiminen and Jääskeläinen (2001) reported the case of an otherwise healthy male who started experiencing intense and recurrent sensations of déjà vu on taking the drugs <a title="Amantadine" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amantadine">amantadine</a> and <a title="Phenylpropanolamine" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenylpropanolamine">phenylpropanolamine</a> together to relieve flu symptoms. He found the experience so interesting that he completed the full course of his treatment and reported it to the psychologists to write-up as a case study. Due to the <a title="Dopaminergic" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dopaminergic">dopaminergic</a> action of the drugs and previous findings from electrode stimulation of the brain (e.g. Bancaud, Brunet-Bourgin, Chauvel, & Halgren, 1994), Taiminen and Jääskeläinen speculate that déjà vu occurs as a result of hyperdopaminergic action in the mesial temporal areas of the brain.<br /><a id="Memory-based_explanations" name="Memory-based_explanations"></a><br />Memory-based explanations<br />The similarity between a déjà vu-eliciting stimulus and an existing, but different, memory trace may lead to the sensation. Thus, encountering something which evokes the implicit associations of an experience or sensation that cannot be remembered may lead to déjà vu. In an effort to experimentally reproduce the sensation, Banister and Zangwill (1941) used <a title="Hypnosis" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnosis">hypnosis</a> to give participants posthypnotic amnesia for material they had already seen. When this was later re-encountered, the restricted activation caused by the posthypnotic amnesia resulted in three of the 10 participants reporting what the authors termed paramnesias. Memory-based explanations may lead to the development of a number of non-invasive experimental methods by which a long sought-after analogue of déjà vu can be reliably produced that would allow it to be tested under well-controlled experimental conditions. Another possible explanation for the phenomenon of déjà vu is the occurrence of "cryptamnesia", which is where information learned is forgotten but nevertheless stored in the brain, and occurrence of similarities invokes the contained knowledge, leading to a feeling of familiarity because of the situation, event or emotional/vocal content, known as "déjà vu".<br /><a id="Neural_theories" name="Neural_theories"></a><br />Neural theories<br />In the late 20th and early 21st Centuries, it was widely believed that déjà vu could be caused by the mis-timing of <a class="mw-redirect" title="Neuronal" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuronal">neuronal</a> firing. This timing error was thought to lead the brain to believe that it was encountering a stimulus for the second time, when in fact, it was simply re-experiencing the same event from a slightly delayed source. A number of variations of these theories exist, with miscommunication of the two <a class="mw-redirect" title="Cerebral hemispheres" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebral_hemispheres">cerebral hemispheres</a> and abnormally fast neuronal firing also given as explanations for the sensation.<br /><a id="Alternate_explanations" name="Alternate_explanations"></a><br />Parapsychology<br />Déjà vu is associated with <a title="Precognition" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precognition">precognition</a>, <a title="Clairvoyance" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clairvoyance">clairvoyance</a> or <a class="mw-redirect" title="Extra-sensory perception" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extra-sensory_perception">extra-sensory perceptions</a>, and it is frequently cited as evidence for "<a title="Parapsychology" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parapsychology">psychic</a>" abilities in the general population. Non-scientific explanations attribute the experience to <a title="Prophecy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophecy">prophecy</a>, visions (such as received in dreams) or past-life memories.<br /><a id="Dreams" name="Dreams"></a><br />Dreams<br />Some believe déjà vu is the memory of <a class="mw-redirect" title="Dreams" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreams">dreams</a>. Though the majority of dreams are never remembered, a dreaming person can display activity in the areas of the brain that process long-term memory. It has been speculated that dreams read directly into long-term memory, bypassing short-term memory entirely. In this case, déjà vu might be a memory of a forgotten dream with elements in common with the current waking experience. This may be similar to another phenomenon known as déjà rêvé, or "already dreamed." However, later studies on mice indicate that long-term memories must be first established as short-term memories.<br />Not only is the link to dreams as they pertain to déjà vu the subject of scientific and psychological studies, it is also a subject of spiritual texts, as is found, for example, in the writings of the <a title="Bahá'í Faith" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%27%C3%AD_Faith">Bahá'í Faith</a> with quotes like "... perchance when ten years are gone, thou wilt witness in the outer world the very things thou hast dreamed tonight."<a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9j%C3%A0_vu#cite_note-11">[12]</a> and "Behold how the thing which thou hast seen in thy dream is, after a considerable lapse of time, fully realized."<a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9j%C3%A0_vu#cite_note-12">[13]</a><br />Daniel Heady suggested that a feeling of remembering occurs in a sense that a he might realize that what he had dreamt is now a relevant present action that is taking place right here right now.<br /><br />"I was once sitting down in the kitchen noticing that my plate seemed well too familiar, it seemed as if my head motions were foreseen, and that every move would trigger a continuation to happen or so, I had many déjà vu's as a child but this was extraordinary, I knew from the bottom of my heart that I had dreamed this situation years ago, as a little boy, that amazingly an entire piece of memory was regained and I finally understood when and where I was dreaming and how long this dream was, and most importantly how many years ago did I dream."[<a title="Wikipedia:Avoid weasel words" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_weasel_words">who?</a>]<br /><a id="Reincarnation" name="Reincarnation"></a><br />Reincarnation<br />Those believing in <a title="Reincarnation" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reincarnation">reincarnation</a> theorize that déjà vu is caused by fragments of past-life memories being jarred to the surface of the mind by familiar surroundings or people. Others theorize that the phenomenon is caused by <a title="Astral projection" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astral_projection">astral projection</a>, or <a title="Out-of-body experience" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-of-body_experience">out-of-body experiences</a> (OBEs), where it is possible that individuals have visited places while in their <a title="Astral body" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astral_body">astral bodies</a> during sleep. The sensation may also be interpreted as connected to the fulfillment of a condition as seen or felt in a <a title="Premonition" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premonition">premonition</a>. For further cases of remembering information from past lives, see <a title="Ian Stevenson" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Stevenson">Ian Stevenson</a>.<br /><a id="Related_phenomena" name="Related_phenomena"></a><br />Related phenomena<br /><a id="Jamais_vu" name="Jamais_vu"></a><br />Jamais vu<br />Main article: <a title="Jamais vu" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamais_vu">Jamais vu</a><br />Jamais vu is a term in psychology (from the French, meaning "never seen") which is used to describe any familiar situation which is not recognized by the observer.<br />Often described as the opposite of déjà vu, jamais vu involves a sense of eeriness and the observer's impression of seeing the situation for the first time, despite rationally knowing that he or she has been in the situation before.<br />Jamais vu is more commonly explained as when a person momentarily does not recognize a word, person, or place that they already know.<br />Jamais vu is sometimes associated with certain types of <a title="Amnesia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesia">amnesia</a> and <a title="Epilepsy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epilepsy">epilepsy</a>.<br />Theoretically, as seen below, a jamais vu feeling in a sufferer of a <a title="Delirium" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium">delirious</a> disorder or intoxication could result in a delirious <a title="Explanation" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explanation">explanation</a> of it, such as in the <a title="Capgras delusion" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capgras_delusion">Capgras delusion</a>, in which the patient takes a person known by him/her for a false <a title="Double" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double">double</a> or impostor. If the impostor is himself, the clinical setting would be the same as the one described as <a class="mw-redirect" title="Depersonalisation" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depersonalisation">depersonalisation</a>, hence jamais vus of oneself or of the very "reality of reality", are termed depersonalisation (or <a class="new" title="Irreality (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Irreality&action=edit&redlink=1">irreality</a>) feelings.<br />Times Online reports:<br />“<br /><a title="Chris Moulin" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Moulin">Chris Moulin</a>, of the <a title="University of Leeds" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Leeds">University of Leeds</a>, asked 92 volunteers to write out "door" 30 times in 60 seconds. At the <a class="new" title="International Conference on Memory (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=International_Conference_on_Memory&action=edit&redlink=1">International Conference on Memory</a> in <a title="Sydney" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney">Sydney</a> last <a title="Week" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week">week</a> he reported that 68 per cent of the volunteers showed symptoms of jamais vu, such as beginning to doubt that "door" was a real word. Dr Moulin believes that a similar brain fatigue underlies a phenomenon observed in some <a title="Schizophrenia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenia">schizophrenia</a> patients: that a familiar person has been replaced by an impostor. Dr Moulin suggests they could be suffering from chronic jamais vu.<a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9j%C3%A0_vu#cite_note-13">[14]</a><br />”<br /><a id="Tip_of_Tongue_.28Presque_vu.29" name="Tip_of_Tongue_.28Presque_vu.29"></a><br />Tip of Tongue (Presque vu)<br />Main article: <a title="Tip of the tongue" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tip_of_the_tongue">tip of the tongue</a><br />Déjà vu is similar to, but distinct from, the phenomenon called <a title="Tip of the tongue" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tip_of_the_tongue">tip of the tongue</a> which is when one cannot recall a familiar word or name or situation, but with effort one eventually recalls the elusive memory. In contrast, déjà vu is a feeling that the present situation has occurred before, but the details are elusive because the situation never happened before.<br />Presque vu (from French, meaning "almost seen") is the sensation of being on the brink of an <a title="Epiphany (feeling)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphany_%28feeling%29">epiphany</a>. Often very disorienting and distracting, presque vu rarely leads to an actual breakthrough. Frequently, one experiencing presque vu will say that they have something "on the tip of their tongue."<br /><br />Presque vu is often cited by people who suffer from <a title="Epilepsy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epilepsy">epilepsy</a> or other seizure-related brain conditions, such as <a class="new" title="Temporal lobe lability (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Temporal_lobe_lability&action=edit&redlink=1">temporal lobe lability</a>.<br /><a id="L.27esprit_de_l.27escalier" name="L.27esprit_de_l.27escalier"></a><br />L'esprit de l'escalier<br />Main article: <a title="L'esprit de l'escalier" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27esprit_de_l%27escalier">L'esprit de l'escalier</a><br />L'esprit de l'escalier (from French, "staircase wit") is remembering something when it is too late. For example, a clever come-back to a remark, thought of after the conversation has ended.<br />An example of L'esprit de l'escalier in popular culture can be seen in the TV sitcom Seinfeld. In one episode, the character George Costanza thinks of a perfect comeback-line to an insult he received from a co-worker, but too late to deliver it. While George is rapidly consuming a bowl of shrimp during an office meeting, a co-worker teases him, saying "Hey George, the ocean called. It's running out of shrimp". Only later in the day does George conceive of the perfect comeback: "Well, the jerk store called. They're running out of you."<br /><a id="See_also" name="See_also"></a><br /><a id="References" name="References"></a><br />References<br /><a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9j%C3%A0_vu#cite_ref-0">^</a> "<a class="external text" title="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/5194382.stm" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/5194382.stm" rel="nofollow">Déjà vu 'recreated in laboratory'</a>", BBC News, <a title="2006" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006">2006</a>-<a title="July 21" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_21">07-21</a>. Retrieved on <a title="2006" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006">2006</a>-<a title="July 27" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_27">07-27</a>. <br /><a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9j%C3%A0_vu#cite_ref-1">^</a> Funkhouser, Arthur (1996). "<a class="external text" title="http://www.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=" id="264&cn=" href="http://www.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=doc&id=264&cn=0" rel="nofollow">Three types of déjà vu</a>".<br /><a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9j%C3%A0_vu#cite_ref-2">^</a> Dickens, Charles (1991). Personal History of David Copperfield. Time Warner Libraries. <a class="internal" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1879329018">ISBN 1879329018</a>. <br />^ <a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9j%C3%A0_vu#cite_ref-pnoegm_3-0">a</a> <a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9j%C3%A0_vu#cite_ref-pnoegm_3-1">b</a> <a class="external text" title="http://people.howstuffworks.com/question657.htm" href="http://people.howstuffworks.com/question657.htm" rel="nofollow">Howstuffworks "What is déjà vu?</a><br /><a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9j%C3%A0_vu#cite_ref-4">^</a> Moulin, C.J.A.; Conway, M.A. Thompson, R.G., James, N. & Jones, R.W. (2005). "Disordered Memory Awareness: Recollective Confabulation in Two Cases of Persistent Déjà vecu". Neuropsychologia 43 (43): 1362–1378. <a title="Digital object identifier" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier">doi</a>:<a class="external text" title="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.neuropsychologia.2004.12.008" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.neuropsychologia.2004.12.008" rel="nofollow">10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2004.12.008</a>. <br /><a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9j%C3%A0_vu#cite_ref-5">^</a> Jackson, J.Hughlings. (1888). "On a particular variety of epilepsy (‘intellectual aura’), one case with symptoms of organic brain disease". Brain 11 (11): 179–207, at p.202. <a title="Digital object identifier" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier">doi</a>:<a class="external text" title="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093%2Fbrain%2F11.2.179" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093%2Fbrain%2F11.2.179" rel="nofollow">10.1093/brain/11.2.179</a>. <br /><a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9j%C3%A0_vu#cite_ref-6">^</a> <a title="Nathaniel Hawthorne" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Hawthorne">Hawthorne, Nathaniel</a> (1863). Our Old Home. Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Co.. <a class="internal" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1404374248">ISBN 1404374248</a>. <br /><a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9j%C3%A0_vu#cite_ref-7">^</a> <a class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Walter Scott" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Walter_Scott">Scott, Sir Walter</a> (1815). Guy Mannering otfr The Astrologer. Edinburgh: J. Ballantyne & Co.. <a class="internal" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0766170713">ISBN 0766170713</a>. <br /><a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9j%C3%A0_vu#cite_ref-jung_8-0">^</a> <a class="mw-redirect" title="C. G. Jung" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._G._Jung">Jung, C. G.</a> (1952). "On synchronicity". (Jung's paper is often cited from a 1966 edition, however, this was not the original publication as Jung died in 1961.)<br /><a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9j%C3%A0_vu#cite_ref-9">^</a> <a class="external text" title="http://books.google.com/books?id=" dq="the+deja+vu+experience+alan+brown&pg=" ots="ugU8LkXHOA&sig=" hl="en&prev=" sourceid="navclient&ie=" rls="GGLD,GGLD:2003-49,GGLD:en&q=" sa="X&oi=" ct="title&cad=" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=5flMtjmezeYC&dq=the+deja+vu+experience+alan+brown&pg=PP1&ots=ugU8LkXHOA&sig=-MPgMH6oJTkN4kchoJMKzVgcBwk&hl=en&prev=http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2003-49,GGLD:en&q=the+deja+vu+experience+alan+brown&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail" rel="nofollow">The Déjà Vu Experience, by Alan S. Brown</a><br /><a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9j%C3%A0_vu#cite_ref-10">^</a> <a class="external text" title="http://www.neurologychannel.com/seizures/types.shtml" href="http://www.neurologychannel.com/seizures/types.shtml" rel="nofollow">Neurology Channel</a><br /><a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9j%C3%A0_vu#cite_ref-11">^</a> <a class="external text" title="http://www.ibiblio.org/Bahai/Texts/EN/SVFV/SVFV-7.html" href="http://www.ibiblio.org/Bahai/Texts/EN/SVFV/SVFV-7.html" rel="nofollow">The Valley of Wonderment</a><br /><a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9j%C3%A0_vu#cite_ref-12">^</a> <a class="external text" title="http://bahai-library.com/writings/bahaullah/gwb/079.html" href="http://bahai-library.com/writings/bahaullah/gwb/079.html" rel="nofollow">LXXIX: As to thy question concerning the worlds...</a><br /><a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9j%C3%A0_vu#cite_ref-13">^</a> <a class="external free" title="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,6-2282789,00.html" href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,6-2282789,00.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,6-2282789,00.html</a><br /><a class="external text" title="http://www.pni.org/books/deja_vu_info.html" href="http://www.pni.org/books/deja_vu_info.html" rel="nofollow">Neppe Déjà Vu Research and Theory</a>. Pacific Neuropsychiatric Institute. Retrieved on November 29, 2005.<br />Brown, Alan S. (2004). The Déjà Vu Experience. Psychology Press. <a class="internal" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1841690759">ISBN 1841690759</a>. <br />Draaisma, Douwe (2004). Why life speeds up as you get older. Cambridge University Press. <a class="internal" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0521691990">ISBN 0521691990</a>. <br /><a class="new" title="J. Hughlinks-Jackson (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J._Hughlinks-Jackson&action=edit&redlink=1">J. H. Jackson</a> (1888). "<a class="external text" title="http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/11/2/179" href="http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/11/2/179" rel="nofollow">A particular variety of epilepsy "intellectual aura", one case with symptoms of organic brain disease</a>". Brain 11: 179–207. <a title="Digital object identifier" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier">doi</a>:<a class="external text" title="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093%2Fbrain%2F11.2.179%27%2C" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093%2Fbrain%2F11.2.179%27%2C" rel="nofollow">10.1093/brain/11.2.179',</a>.Excel Professorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01386313437407814163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6465299654051297936.post-30452640536197586832008-07-05T12:54:00.000-07:002008-07-05T12:58:45.822-07:00Gettysburg Ghost VideoMost Authentic ghost footage of all time?<br /><br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_xlyofmznOs&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_xlyofmznOs&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />A couple of issues here. First, youtube compression. Second it’s not exactly the clearest video to view. Could be caused by youtube compression.<br /><br />Interesting non the less. When combined with the word Gettysburg it's even more interesting. I guess if it was in Smallville or nowhere town it might not carry the same weight.Excel Professorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01386313437407814163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6465299654051297936.post-49245158286103379862008-07-02T08:09:00.000-07:002008-07-02T08:15:02.822-07:00EctoplasmFrom Wiki....<br /><br />"Ectoplasm (from the Greek ektos, "outside", + plasma, "something formed or molded") is a term coined by <a class="mw-redirect" title="Charles Richet" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Richet">Charles Richet</a> to denote a substance or <a class="mw-redirect" title="Spiritual energy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritual_energy">spiritual energy</a> "exteriorized" by physical <a title="Mediumship" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediumship">mediums</a>. Ectoplasm is said to be associated with the formation of ghosts, and hypothesized to be an enabling factor in <a title="Psychokinesis" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychokinesis">psychokinesis</a>.<br /><br /><strong>Phenomenon</strong><br />Ectoplasm is said to be produced by <a title="Mediumship" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediumship#Physical_mediumship">physical mediums</a> when in a trance state. This material is excreted as a gauze-like substance from orifices on the medium's body and spiritual entities are said to drape this substance over their nonphysical body, enabling them to interact in our physical universe."<br /><br />Physical mediums are rare in modern culture <em><span style="color:#660000;">(perhaps because someone might want a sample to test?)</span></em>. Physical medium David Thompson is one of only a few individuals in the world today who claims to produce this phenomenon and has provided photographic evidence of ectoplasm produced under red light conditions. <em><span style="color:#660000;">(Ah yes, photographic evidence, perhaps you should look a my post right before this one...)</span></em><br /><br />Although the term is widespread in popular culture, the physical existence of ectoplasm is not accepted by mainstream science. Some tested samples purported to be ectoplasm have been found to be various non-paranormal substances, including <a title="Chiffon" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiffon">chiffon</a> and flakes of human <a title="Skin" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin">skin</a>.<br /><br />Other researchers have duplicated, with non-supernatural materials, the photographic effects sometimes said to prove the existence of ectoplasm.<br /><br />Since its inception in the field of <a title="Spiritualism" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritualism">spiritualism</a>, the concept of ectoplasm has escaped to become a staple in popular culture and fictional supernatural lore. Notable examples include <a class="mw-redirect" title="Noel Coward" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noel_Coward">Noel Coward's</a> 1941 play <a title="Blithe Spirit" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blithe_Spirit">Blithe Spirit</a>, and the 1984 film <a title="Ghostbusters" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostbusters">Ghostbusters</a>; in which "ectoplasmic residue" secreted by ghosts is portrayed as viscous, cloudy and greenish-white, similar to nasal mucus, famously referred to in <a title="Bill Murray" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Murray">Bill Murray's</a> line, "He slimed me!"<br /><a id="In_popular_culture" name="In_popular_culture"></a>Excel Professorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01386313437407814163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6465299654051297936.post-53523627087680959872008-06-26T05:31:00.000-07:002008-12-10T20:55:58.273-08:00Ghost Photos<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhwhNykHdy-aoM7cTbpUpVTaVt6YThjl-ml0SViiawb4vn3EjDruMgHUchJhQgo2NKGG1znkicqh1QErZMY5rbW3ihApXMi9ZPFtyb08WVEAOnYdH18vetfehMv9-5v-xdkcJadGXqjChH/s1600-h/brown+lady.BMP"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5216167180085855170" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhwhNykHdy-aoM7cTbpUpVTaVt6YThjl-ml0SViiawb4vn3EjDruMgHUchJhQgo2NKGG1znkicqh1QErZMY5rbW3ihApXMi9ZPFtyb08WVEAOnYdH18vetfehMv9-5v-xdkcJadGXqjChH/s320/brown+lady.BMP" border="0" /></a><br />"Brown Lady"<br /><br /><br />We have all seen the pictures. A wispy thin figure, transparent. Perhaps a solid form behind a family member as seen in the below picture.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRgoGGJUts3ZdUSK-U2et_m7Rqf4fp0RZdOIIwf3R_zDNCXIB3TjPSBDNH_trfBeW3dvszTEQlPuup2axDDMq0ENaJwcxGasvmq2T1dWTIXV7ifKaMckXEb3onfWCVT85bjUChjEYFmLtb/s1600-h/Denise+Russell.BMP"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5216168039978405106" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRgoGGJUts3ZdUSK-U2et_m7Rqf4fp0RZdOIIwf3R_zDNCXIB3TjPSBDNH_trfBeW3dvszTEQlPuup2axDDMq0ENaJwcxGasvmq2T1dWTIXV7ifKaMckXEb3onfWCVT85bjUChjEYFmLtb/s320/Denise+Russell.BMP" border="0" /></a><br />"Dennise Russell"<br /><br />But can photos be trusted. It was common for early photographers to take “spirit photos”. A simple trick done by multiple exposing film. Digital technology has now removed the negative that film used to have. The negative was an important tool to verify the authenticity of a picture.<br /><br />Digital photos do have a trace to help investigators determine if they have been altered. Unfortunately with Youtube, Flicker, and numerous forums on the internet, it is rare to actually get to the original picture.<br /><br />This leads to rampant deception and hoaxing. Computer power was to be an aid in detecting real photos but in reality, it has become a road block to finding the truth.<br /><br />Videos also now come under the same tainted pool due to computers and simple off the shelf software that can make amazingly real images.<br /><br />So, we can’t say that all photos and videos are fake but wading through the pool of false ones taints the whole field of photographic and video evidence.<br /><br />Perhaps the only way to know for sure is if a ghost walks right into a scientific lab filled with researchers waiting to put the ghost through double blind studies.Excel Professorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01386313437407814163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6465299654051297936.post-68887108927776063102008-05-07T06:36:00.000-07:002008-05-07T06:42:43.520-07:00Sleep paralysis<p><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/omzsLqbgRaU&hl=" width="425" height="355" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent"></embed></p><p>From Wiki... </p><p>Sleep paralysis is a condition characterized by temporary paralysis of the body shortly after waking up (known as hypnopompic paralysis) or, less often, shortly before falling asleep (known as hypnagogic paralysis).</p><p>Physiologically, it is closely related to the paralysis that occurs as a natural part of REM (rapid eye movement) sleep, which is known as REM atonia. Sleep paralysis occurs when the brain awakes from a REM state, but the bodily paralysis persists. This leaves the person fully conscious, but unable to move. In addition, the state may be accompanied by terrifying hallucinations (hypnopompic or hypnagogic) which cause an acute sense of danger. Sleep paralysis is particularly frightening to the individual due to the vividness of such hallucinations. </p><p>The hallucinatory element to sleep paralysis makes it even more likely that someone will interpret the experience as a dream, since completely fanciful, or dream-like, objects may appear in the room alongside one's normal vision. Some scientists have proposed this condition as a theory for alien abductions and ghostly encounters.</p><p>The paralysis can last from several seconds to several minutes "after which the individual may experience panic symptoms and the realization that the distorted perceptions were false". </p><p><strong>Folklore<br /></strong><a class="image" title="Ambox style.png" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ambox_style.png"></a><br />In African American culture, isolated sleep paralysis is commonly referred to as "the devil riding your back".</p><p>In the Cambodian, Laotian and Thai culture, sleep paralysis is referred to as "pee umm" and "khmout sukkhot". It describes an event where the person is sleeping and dreams that ghostly figure(s) are either holding him/her down or the ghosts can just be near. The person usually thinks that they are awake but is unable to move or make any noises. This is not to be confused with "pee khao" and "khmout jool" which refers to a ghost possession.</p><p>In <a title="Hmong people" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hmong_people">Hmong</a> culture, sleep paralysis describes an experience called "dab tsog" or "crushing demon" from the compound phrase "dab" (demon) and "tsog" (crush). Often the sufferer claims to be able to see a tiny figure, no larger than a child, sitting on his or her chest. What is alarming is that a vast number of American Hmong, mainly males, have died in their sleep prompting the Centers for Disease Control to create the term "Sudden Unexpected Nocturnal Death Syndrome" or "SUNDS" for short.</p><p>In Vietnamese culture, sleep paralysis is referred to as "ma de", meaning "held down by a ghost". Many people in this culture believe that a ghost has entered one's body, causing the paralyzed state.</p><p>In <a class="mw-redirect" title="Chinese culture" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_culture">Chinese culture</a>, sleep paralysis is known as "鬼壓身" (simplified: 鬼压身) (<a title="Pinyin" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinyin">pinyin</a>: guǐ yā shēn) or "鬼壓床" (simplified: 鬼压床) (<a title="Pinyin" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinyin">pinyin</a>: guǐ yā chuáng), which literally translate into "body pressured by a ghost" or "bed pressured by a ghost." </p><p>In <a title="Japanese language" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_language">Japanese</a> culture, sleep paralysis is referred to as kanashibari (<a class="external text" title="http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%87%91%E7%B8%9B%E3%82%8A" href="http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%87%91%E7%B8%9B%E3%82%8A" rel="nofollow">金縛り</a>, literally "bound or fastened in metal," from kane "metal" and shibaru" to bind, to tie, to fasten"). This term is occasionally used by English speaking authors to refer to the phenomenon both in academic papers and in <a title="Popular psychology" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_psychology">pop psych</a> literature. </p><p>In <a title="Hungary" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungary">Hungarian</a> folk culture sleep paralysis is called "lidércnyomás" ("lidérc pressing") and can be attributed to a number of supernatural entities like "lidérc" (wraith), "boszorkány" (witch), "tündér" (fairy) or "ördögszerető" (demon lover). The word "boszorkány" itself stems from the Turkish root "bas-", meaning "to press".</p><p>In <a title="Iceland" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceland">Iceland</a> folk culture sleep paralysis is generally called having a "Mara". Mara is an old Icelandic word for a mare but has taken on the meaning for a sort of a devil that sits on ones chest at night, trying to suffocate the victim. </p><p>Kurdish people call this phenomenon a "mottaka", they believe that some one, in a form of a ghost or perhaps an evil spirit, turns up on top the of the person in the middle of the night and suffocates him/her. Apparently this happens usually when some one has done something bad.<br />In New Guinea, people refer to this phenomenon as "Suk Ninmyo", believed to originate from sacred trees that use human essence to sustain its life. The trees are said to feed on human essence during night as to not disturb the human's daily life, but sometimes people wake unnaturally during the feeding, resulting in the paralysis. </p><p>In <a class="mw-redirect" title="Turkish" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish">Turkish</a> culture, sleep paralysis is often referred to as "karabasan" ("The dark presser/assailer"). It is believed to be a creature which attacks people in their sleep, pressing on their chest and stealing their breath. </p><p>In Mexico, it's believed that sleep paralysis is in fact the spirit of a dead person getting on the person and impeding movement, calling this "se me subió el muerto" (the dead person got on me). </p><p>In many parts of the Southern United States, the phenomenon is known as a "hag", and the event is said to often be a sign of an approaching tragedy or accident. </p><p>Ogun Oru is a traditional explanation for nocturnal disturbances among the Yoruba of Southwest Nigeria; ogun oru (nocturnal warefare) involves an acute night-time disturbance that is culturally attributed to demonic infiltration of the body and psyche during dreaming. Ogun oru is characterized by its occurrence, a female preponderance, the perception of an underlying feud between the sufferer's earthly spouse and a ;spiritual' spouse, and the event of bewitchment through eating while dreaming. The condition is believed to be treatable through Christian prayers or elaborate traditional rituals designed to exorcise the imbibed demonic elements.</p><p>In Zimbabwean Shona culture the word Madzikirira is used to refer something really pressing one down. This mostly refers to the spiritual world in which some spirit--especially an evil one--tries to use its victim for some evil purpose. The people believe that witches can only be people of close relations to be effective, and hence a witches often try to use one's spirit to bewitch one's relatives.</p><p>In Ethiopian culture the word Dukak is used. Dukak is believed to be some form of evil spirit that possesses people during their sleep. This experience is also believed to be related to use of <a title="Khat" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khat">Khat</a>. Most Khat users experience sleep paralysis when quitting after a long time of use.<br />In Ireland it is also known as "the hag." The expression originates from reports of an old woman that was believed to be seen near the sufferer during paralysis. </p><p>Several studies have shown that African-Americans may be predisposed to isolated sleep paralysis also known as "the witch is riding you," or "the haint is riding you." In addition, other studies have shown that African-Americans who have frequent episodes of isolated sleep paralysis, i.e., reporting having one or more sleep paralysis episodes per month coined as "sleep paralysis disorder," were predisposed to having panic attacks. This finding has been replicated by other independent researchers.</p><p>External links<br /><a class="image" title="Ambox style.png" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ambox_style.png"></a><br /><a class="external text" title="http://www.spis.org.uk" href="http://www.spis.org.uk/" rel="nofollow">Sleep Paralysis Information Service</a><br /><a class="external text" title="http://www.iacworld.org/English/Resources/Articles/SleepParalysisAndItsCauses.asp" href="http://www.iacworld.org/English/Resources/Articles/SleepParalysisAndItsCauses.asp" rel="nofollow">Projective Catalepsy: Out-of-Body Experience & Sleep Paralysis</a> by International Academy of Consciousness<br /><a class="external text" title="http://www.stanford.edu/~dement/paralysis.html" href="http://www.stanford.edu/~dement/paralysis.html" rel="nofollow">Sleep information and links</a> from Stanford University<br /><a class="external text" title="http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/~acheyne/S_P.html" href="http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/~acheyne/S_P.html" rel="nofollow">Sleep Paralysis and Associated Hypnagogic and Hypnopompic Experiences</a> from University of Waterloo<br /><a class="external text" title="http://wikihow.com/Cope-With-Sleep-Paralysis" href="http://wikihow.com/Cope-With-Sleep-Paralysis" rel="nofollow">How to Cope with Sleep Paralysis</a><br /><a class="external text" title="http://www.csicop.org/doubtandabout/sleep/" href="http://www.csicop.org/doubtandabout/sleep/" rel="nofollow">Waking Up to Sleep Paralysis</a><br /><br /></p>Excel Professorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01386313437407814163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6465299654051297936.post-81389628233498122552008-03-18T06:52:00.000-07:002008-12-10T20:55:58.471-08:00Red Eyed Animals<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8FWmuORGH3J_8Hh8RPhKalVBqsSjOhiAit333VqWGWdxZTmrsr5aAhQb7uYW7fO6WJWODefGXQsKEqj7Mx1jI1cheN-9oZTuws_0TPPXJgrF1my8GW55-NvWOXP-Q4Ae-il9ww2xImNXw/s1600-h/images.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5179080816034558178" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8FWmuORGH3J_8Hh8RPhKalVBqsSjOhiAit333VqWGWdxZTmrsr5aAhQb7uYW7fO6WJWODefGXQsKEqj7Mx1jI1cheN-9oZTuws_0TPPXJgrF1my8GW55-NvWOXP-Q4Ae-il9ww2xImNXw/s320/images.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />Ever look outside in the dark and see something. You shine a light and bingo. Red eyes looking at you. Very creapy. I happened to me once. Thoughts of the Chupacabra ran through my thoughts. But then rational thinking took hold and tada!!! a logical answer.<br /><br /><br /><br />From wiki...<br /><br /><br />Causation<br />The light of the flash occurs too fast for the <a class="kLink" oncontextmenu="return false;" id="KonaLink9" onmouseover="adlinkMouseOver(event,this,9);" style="POSITION: static; TEXT-DECORATION: underline! important" onclick="adlinkMouseClick(event,this,9);" onmouseout="adlinkMouseOut(event,this,9);" href="http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread342352/pg1#" target="_top">iris</a> of the eye to close the pupil. Light passes through the blood-rich area alongside the iris (called the choroid) and then strikes the <a class="kLink" oncontextmenu="return false;" id="KonaLink10" onmouseover="adlinkMouseOver(event,this,10);" style="POSITION: static; TEXT-DECORATION: underline! important" onclick="adlinkMouseClick(event,this,10);" onmouseout="adlinkMouseOut(event,this,10);" href="http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread342352/pg1#" target="_top">retina</a>. Some of the light is reflected back out through the iris. The camera records this reflected light which has now passed twice through the reddish choroid. This principle is used in fundoscopy, an examination of the retina with an opthalmoscope, wherein a positive reddish-orange reflection is a normal finding.<br /><br />I mean, think about all those photos you take of your family with the dreaded red eyes. Most cameras nowdays even correct for this by strobing the flash.Excel Professorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01386313437407814163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6465299654051297936.post-35399249450856615482008-03-14T11:04:00.000-07:002008-03-14T11:07:43.666-07:00Dyatlov’s Pass<a href="http://www.sptimes.ru/story/25093">http://www.sptimes.ru/story/25093</a><br /><br />Nine experienced cross-country skiers hurriedly left their tent on a Urals slope in the middle of the night, casting aside skis, food and their warm coats.<br /><br />Clad in their sleepwear, the young people dashed headlong down a snowy slope toward a thick forest, where they stood no chance of surviving bitter temperatures of around minus 30 degrees Celsius.<br /><br />Baffled investigators said the group died as a result of “a compelling unknown force” — and then abruptly closed the case and filed it as top secret.<br /><br />The deaths, which occurred 49 years ago on Saturday, remain one of the deepest mysteries in the Urals. Records related to the incident were unsealed in the early 1990s, but friends of those who died are still searching for answers.<br /><br />“If I had a chance to ask God just one question, it would be, ‘What really happened to my friends that night?’” said Yury Yudin, the only member of the skiing expedition who survived.<br />Yudin and nine other students from the Ural Polytechnic Institute embarked on the skiing expedition to Otorten Mountain in the northern Urals on Jan. 28, 1959. Yudin fell ill near Vizhai, the last settlement before the mountain, and was left behind.<br /><br />What happened next has been reconstructed from the diaries of the rest of the group and the photographs they took. Copies of the diaries, photos and investigators’ records were reviewed for this article.<br /><br />The skiers, led by Igor Dyatlov, 23, set up camp for the night of Feb. 2 on the slope of Kholat-Syakhl, a mountain next to Otorten. They pitched their tents at around 5:00 p.m., investigators said, citing photos that they developed from rolls of film found among the abandoned belongings.<br />Why the nine skiers picked the spot is unclear. The group could have detoured just 1.5 kilometers down the mountain to a forest, where they would have found shelter from the harsh elements.<br /><br />“Dyatlov probably did not want to lose the distance they had covered, or he decided to practice camping on the mountain slope,” Yudin said by telephone from Solikamsk, a town near Yekaterinburg, where the institute, now named Ural State Technical University, is located.<br /><a href="http://www.sptimes.ru/index.php?action_id=4&photo_id=5258" target="_blank"></a><br />When the group left the institute for the expedition, Dyatlov promised to send a telegram as soon as they returned to Vizhai from Otorten Mountain, which he said would be by Feb. 12.<br />But Yudin said Dyatlov told him when they parted ways that the group would probably return a few days later than planned.<br /><br />As such, no one was worried when the group failed to reappear on Feb. 12.<br /><br />Only on Feb. 20, after relatives raised the alarm, did the institute send out a search-and-rescue team of teachers and students. The police and army dispatched their airplanes and helicopters later.<br /><br />Puzzling Evidence<br />The volunteer rescuers found the abandoned camp on Feb. 26.<br />“We discovered that the tent was half torn down and covered with snow. It was empty, and all the group’s belongings and shoes had been left behind,” Mikhail Sharavin, the student who found the tent, said by telephone from Yekaterinburg.<br /><br />Investigators said the tent had been cut open from inside and counted traces of footprints from eight or nine people in meter-deep snow. The footprints had been left by people who were wearing socks, a single shoe or were barefoot.<br /><br />Investigators matched the footprints to the members of the group, saying there was no evidence of a struggle or that other people had entered the camp.<br /><a href="http://www.sptimes.ru/index.php?action_id=4&photo_id=5259" target="_blank"></a><br />The footsteps led down the slope toward the forest but disappeared after 500 meters.<br />Sharavin found the first two bodies at the edge of the forest, under a towering pine tree. The two — Georgy Krivonischenko, 24, and Yury Doroshenko, 21, were barefoot and dressed in their underclothes.<br /><br />Charred remains of a fire lay nearby. The branches on the tree were broken up to five meters high, suggesting that a skier had climbed up to look for something, perhaps the camp, Sharavin said. Broken branches also were scattered on the snow.<br /><br />The next three bodies — Dyatlov, Zina Kolmogorova, 22, and Rustem Slobodin, 23 — were found between the tree and the camp. The way the bodies were lying indicated that the three had been trying to return to the camp.<br /><br />The authorities immediately opened a criminal investigation, but autopsies failed to find evidence of foul play. Doctors said the five had died of hypothermia. Slobodin’s skull was fractured, but the injury was not considered fatal.<br /><br />It took two months to locate the remaining skiers. Their bodies were found buried under four meters of snow in a forest ravine, 75 meters away from the pine tree. The four — Nicolas Thibeaux-Brignollel, 24, Ludmila Dubinina, 21, Alexander Zolotaryov, 37, and Alexander Kolevatov, 25 — appeared to have suffered traumatic deaths. Thibeaux-Brignollel’s skull had been crushed, and Dubunina and Zolotarev had numerous broken ribs. Dubinina also had no tongue.<br /><br />The bodies, however, showed no external wounds.<br /><br />The four were better dressed than the rest, and those who had died first had apparently relinquished their clothes to the others. Zolotaryov was wearing Dubinina’s faux fur coat and hat, while Dubinina’s foot was wrapped in a piece of Krivonishenko’s wool pants.<br />Deepening the mystery, a test of the clothes found they contained high levels of radiation.<br />The investigation, however, was closed after a few months, and investigators said they could not find anyone to accuse of wrongdoing. Case files were sent to a secret archive. Skiers and other adventurers were barred from the area for three years.<br /><a href="http://www.sptimes.ru/index.php?action_id=4&photo_id=5261" target="_blank"></a><br />Igor Dyatlov<br />“I was 12 at that time, but I do remember the deep resonance that the accident had with the public, despite the authorities’ efforts to keep relatives and investigators silent,” said Yury Kuntsevich, head of the Yekaterinburg-based Dyatlov Foundation, which is trying to unravel the mystery.<br /><br />Investigators first explored the theory that the local Mansi people had killed the skiers in revenge for trespassing on their land. No evidence, however, was found to back up the theory; Neither Otorten nor Kholat-Syakhl were considered sacred or taboo places by the Mansi, case documents said.<br /><br />Further debunking the theory, a doctor who examined the bodies in 1959 said he believed that no man could have inflicted the injuries because the force of the blows had been too strong and no soft tissue had been damaged, “It was equal to the effect of a car crash,” said the doctor, Boris Vozrozhdenny, according to case documents.<br /><br />‘Bright Flying Spheres’<br />In 1990, the chief investigator, Lev Ivanov, said in an interview that he had been ordered by senior regional officials to close the case and classify the findings as secret. He said the officials had been worried by reports from multiple eyewitnesses, including the weather service and the military, that “bright flying spheres” had been spotted in the area in February and March 1959.<br />“I suspected at the time and am almost sure now that these bright flying spheres had a direct connection to the group’s death,” Ivanov told Leninsky Put, a small Kazakh newspaper. He retired in Kazakhstan and has since died.<br /><br />The declassified files contain testimony from the leader of a group of adventurers who camped about 50 kilometers south of the skiers on the same night. He said his group saw strange orange spheres floating in the night sky in the direction of Kholat-Syakhl.<br /><br />Ivanov speculated that one skier might have left the tent during the night, seen a sphere and woken up the others with his cries. Ivanov said the sphere might have exploded as they ran toward the forest, killing the four who had serious injuries and cracking Slobodin’s skull.<br /><a href="http://www.sptimes.ru/index.php?action_id=4&photo_id=5262" target="_blank"></a><br />Yuri Yudin<br />Yudin said he also thought an explosion had killed his friends. He said the level of secrecy surrounding the incident suggests that the group might have inadvertently entered a secret military testing ground. He said the radiation on the clothes supported his theory.<br />Kuntsevich agreed, saying another clue to the deaths was the fact that the faces of the first five bodies had been inexplicably tan. “I attended the funerals of the first five victims and remember that their faces look liked they had a deep brown tan,” he said.<br /><br />Yudin also said the released documents contained no information about the condition of the skiers’ internal organs. “I know for sure that there were special boxes with their organs sent for examination, “ he said.<br /><br />No traces of an explosion, however, have been found near Kholat-Syakhl.<br /><br />No Records of Missiles<br />While a missile fired from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan could have reached the northern Urals, there are no records of any launches at the time, said Alexander Zeleznyakov, a historian on Soviet missiles and a senior official with the Korolyov Rocket and Space Corporation Energia. The Soviet Union’s other main launch pad, Plesetsk, only opened in late 1959. Zeleznyakov also said the surface-to-air missiles that could have been launched from the pads had not yet been built.<br /><br />The Defense Ministry and the Yekaterinburg regional prosecutor’s office said they had no immediate information, citing the age of the case.<br /><br />Kuntsevich said he had led a group to the area last year and found a “cemetery” of scrap metal that suggested the military had conducted experiments there at some time.<br />“We can’t say what kind of military technology was tested, but the catastrophe of 1959 was man-made,” he said.<br /><a href="http://www.sptimes.ru/index.php?action_id=4&photo_id=5263" target="_blank"></a><br />A metal fragment from Igor Dyatlov’s Pass that Kuntsevich believes to be evidence in the case.<br />Yudin said the military might have found the tent before the volunteer rescuers. He said he had been asked to identify the owner of every object found at the scene and had failed to find a match for a piece of cloth that looked like it had come from a soldier’s coat, a pair of glasses, a pair of skis and a piece of a ski.<br /><br />Yudin also said he had seen documents that led him to believe that the criminal investigation had been opened on Feb. 6, 14 days before the search team found the tent.<br /><br />Dyatlov’s friends have looked into whether the deaths might have been caused by an avalanche. Setting up the camp on the slope might have disturbed the snow above, causing it to tumble down a few hours later. This would explain the ripped tent, which the skiers would have had to cut open to exit.<br /><br />Skeptics of this theory point out that the skiers left the camp by foot and traveled more than a kilometer in minus 30 C.<br /><br />Thibeaux-Brignollel would have been unconscious due to his shattered skull, said Mikhail Kornev, a doctor with the S.M. Kirov Russian Medical Military Academy.<br />But his friends could have carried him. After all, investigators could not decide whether there were eight or nine pairs of footprints in the snow.<br /><a href="http://www.sptimes.ru/index.php?action_id=4&photo_id=5260" target="_blank"></a><br />Also, Dubinina and Zolotarev could have walked with their broken ribs, Kornev said. “I can grant this possibility since the situation was extreme,” he said.<br /><br />Six former rescuers and 31 independent experts gathered Friday in Yekaterinburg to look for answers about the incident. They concluded that the military had been carrying out tests in the area and had inadvertantly caused the deaths.<br /><br />But “we still lack documents and ask the Defense Ministry, the space agency and the FSB to provide us with them to obtain a full picture,” the participants said in a statement.<br />The conference was organized by Ural State Technical University, the Dyatlov Foundation and several nongovernmental organizations.<br /><br />What really happened on the night of Feb. 2, 1959, may never be known. But Dyatlov is unlikely to be forgotten anytime soon.<br /><br />The area where the group set up their last camp has been officially named Dyatlov’s Pass.Excel Professorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01386313437407814163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6465299654051297936.post-29159223505353410512007-11-01T09:30:00.000-07:002007-11-01T09:42:22.243-07:00Most Haunted Live Halloween Special 10/31/2007Haloween Show 10/31/2007<br /><br /><br /><br />At the end of the broadcast during the highlights clips Yvette Fielding clearly kicked a cabinet door to make a noise.<br /><br /><br /><br />Most Haunted is a fun show to watch but it is as real as Mork from Mork and Mindy.<br /><br /><br /><br />There are many examples that you can easily find on the internet showing the trickery.<br /><br /><a href="http://badpsychics.com/thefraudfiles/modules/news/article.php?storyid=45">Videos of fakery from Most Haunted</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16303507&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=spooky-truth--tv-s-most-haunted-con-exposed-tv--name_page.html">Another link to read</a>Excel Professorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01386313437407814163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6465299654051297936.post-17017670998872065572007-11-01T09:25:00.001-07:002007-11-01T09:27:24.006-07:00A StartThis log will be a repository for honest and open reviews of modern day societies mysteries. The internet has provided a great deal of information for people searching for the truth. We here will try to weed out and expose fake, deceptive or misinterpreted events from the truly unexplaned.Excel Professorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01386313437407814163noreply@blogger.com0