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Kann man eigentlich seinem eigenen Tod entkommen? Nein, meinen die Produzenten der höchst unterhaltsamen “Final Destination” – Horrorfilme, wenn deine Stunde gekommen ist, kannst du dem Tod nicht entflüchten. Und wenn du es trotzdem versuchst, wird der Sensenmann dich jagen und dich irgendwann zur Strecke bringen. Auch wenn die Hollywood’sche Personifizierung des Todes als unachgiebiger [...]

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Neulich, beim Bücherräumen ist er mir wieder in die Hand gefallen, dieser unglaublich dicke “World Of Strange Phenomena Omnibus” von Charles Berlitz- dem Herrn, der (wie hier schon mal berichtet) eigentlich “schuld” ist an meinem unbändigen, nie vergehenden Appetit auf die seltsamen Ereignisse, die mir zeigen, daß die Welt anscheinend doch kein so wohlgeordneter, dreidimensionaler [...]

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It is said, in the Scientific American, that according to the Warrentown (Va.) Solid South, a number of persons had seen white-robed figures in the sky, at night. The story in the Richmond Dispatch is that many persons had seen, or had thought they had seen, an alarming sight in the sky, at night: a [...]

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Hartford, Conn., Aug. 12 — Angelo Faticoni, known as “The Human Cork”, because he could stay afloat in water for fifteen hours with twenty pounds of lead tied to his ankles, died on August 2 in Jacksonville, Fla., it became known here today. He was seventy-two years old. Faticoni could sleep in water, roll up [...]

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In Science, March 9, 1888, we read of a block of limestone, said to have fallen near Middleburgh, Florida. It was exhibited at the Sub-tropical Exposition, at Jacksonville. The writer, in Science, denies that it fell from the sky. His reasoning is: There is no limestone in the sky; Therefore this limestone did not fall [...]

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Fort für euch 9 – The Revival

Liverpool Echo, Jan. 18 — “Wales in the Grip of Supernatural Forces!” This was in allusion to the developing frenzies of the revival, and the accompanying luminous things, or beings, that had been reported. “Supernatural” is a word that has no place in my vocabulary. In my view, it has no meaning, or distinguishment. If [...]

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There are many accounts of poltergeist-phenomena that are so obscured by the preconceptions of witnesses that one can’t tell whether they are stories of girls who had occult powers, or of invisible beings, who, in the presence of girl-mediums, manifested. But the story of Angelique Cottin is an account of a girl, who, by an [...]

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New York Tribune, Sept. 2, 1921: “J.C.H. Macbeth, London Manager of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company, Ltd., told several hundred men, at a luncheon of the Rotary Club, of New York, yesterday, that Signor Marconi believed he had intercepted messages from Mars, during recent atmospheric experiments with wireless on board his yacht Electra, in the [...]

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I don’t know what will be thought generally of our data, but in the New York Times, July 6, 1873, the writer of General Notes tells of something that he considered “the very worst case of delirium tremens on record.” This was before my time. He copied from the Bonham (Texas) Enterprise — that a [...]

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There were accounts in the London newspapers, of Dec. 2 and 10, 1922, of a scare in places east and west of London. In a street, in Uxbridge, Middlesex, a woman found that her braid had been cut off. She had been aware of no such operation, but remembered that, in a crowd, her hat [...]

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