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Summary Bibliography: Richard S. Shaver/Richard Shaver in the Underworld

https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1152   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Sharpe_Shaver https://thechiseler.org/home/richard-shaver-in-the-underworld Richard Shaver in the Underworld In 1932, Richard Sharpe Shaver was working on the assembly line at a Ford auto plant in Detroit when he began noticing something strange. Every time he picked up his spot welder, he found he could hear the thoughts of the other workers all up and down the line. If that wasn’t odd enough, he also began hearing the anguished screams of what he determined to be people being beaten and tortured in caverns miles beneath the earth’s surface. Shaver concluded that it was the unique configuration of the coils in his spot welder that allowed him to access these thoughts and distant sounds. Disturbed by this, understandably enough, Shaver soon left his job with Ford. Around this same time, his brother died, a loss which affected him deeply, and he got married and had a baby daughter. Then he vanished for...

Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies Announces Winners of Afterlife Evidence Contest

  https://www.singularfortean.com/news/2021/11/5/bigelow-institute-for-consciousness-studies-announces-winners-of-afterlife-evidence-contest TOBIAS WAYLAND (an old story but interesting) Updated 11/11/21 The Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies (BICS) announced the winners of its afterlife evidence contest this week, awarding $1.8 million to the top 29 essays capable of providing “in the best way the best evidence for establishing that the other side is real.” Billionaire Robert Bigelow, the entrepreneur behind Budget Suites of America and Bigelow Aerospace, founded the institute in June of 2020 to "support research into both the survival of human consciousness after physical death and, based on data from such studies, the nature of the afterlife." The top prize of $500,000 went to Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD for his presentation entitled Beyond the Brain: The Survival of Human Consciousness after Permanent Bodily Death. Mishlove’s evidence included "video snippets and ...

People in Strange Sciences Series: Ivan T Sanderson

https://discover.hubpages.com/religion-philosophy/People-in-Strange-Sciences-Series-Ivan-T-Sanderson Beginnings Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Ivan Terence Sanderson (1911-1973) had an interest in what people often call "strange sciences," cryptozoology and paranormal topics. Sanderson also is well known for his nature writings and was a legitimate scientist.   At age 17, Ivan Sanderson went on a trip around the world which lasted at least a year. He spent a large portion of time in Asia during this cross-global journey. He earned a B.A. in zoology from Cambridge University and also went on at Cambridge to earn his M.A. degrees in ethnology and in botany. Zoology: classification of animals and related details Ethnology: study of culture and ethnic groups Botany: study of plants (very generalized explanations of zoology, ethnology and botany above)  Sanderson was able to go on several expeditions while in his youth and visited many tropical areas in the 1920s and 30's and...

The Story of The Flatwoods Monster

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The Flatwoods Monster Case - Ivan Sanderson's 1953 report

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Skinwalker Ranch: Hoax Or A Hub Of Paranormal Activity?

https://www.iflscience.com/skinwalker-ranch-bastion-for-the-paranormal-or-hoax-69969       DR. RUSSELL MOUL

Gods and Aliens - Prophets aned Predictions

“ For we be brethren of the Rosie Crosse We have the Mason word, and second sight Things for to come we can foretell aright” 1638 poem By Wayne Ruple Could every one of our religions have origins in that other world – wherever and whatever it is? The Islam religion was founded when prophet Muhammad had a vision of the angel Gabriel presenting him a silk cloth with holy writing on it. The Mormon faith originated in 1821 when Joseph Smith was directed by the angel Moroni to locate engraved gold plates in an Indian mound in upstate New York which he translated into the Book of Mormon . The plates conveniently disappeared after the translating. The book OHPSE was written in 1880 by New York dentist Dr. John Newbrough after he awoke to find beings, appearing as pillars of light, instructing him to buy a typewriter and sit for an hour each day and type the “holy” words. Despite not knowing how to type, Newbrough turned out 1,200 words per hour that compiled a massive cosmol...

Strange Face In The Window

 A strange face-like image can be seen in a window of the Pickens County Courthouse in Carrollton, Alabama

On The Trail Of The Strange In Alabama

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  I have been  interested  in and chasing after high weirdness all my life as a reporter and writer for several newspapers, magazines and social media. "Ghostly Alabama" is my second book on such matters and I hope to finish and have it for sale within the next few months.  In the book I take a look at many of the "haunted" sites around the state including houses, businesses, bridges, roads,, woodlands and cemeteries.  Most of these areas host unusual sounds, blobs of light, tracks in the ground, changes in temperature, and ghostly shapes of individuals and animals. My first book "Manifestations - UFO Sightings and Cow Mutilations in Alabama" covered mostly UFO sightings and the very strange cattle mutilations, particularly those around Fyffe, Alabama.  My actual experinece with high weirdness has been limited to only one occurrence in an old farm house the family lived in when I was a teenager.  One cold winter night before falling asleep I saw a stra...