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The
Anomalist
4
Autumn 1996
144 pages, illustrated, $9.95
Cover art by Jim Harter
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Nine Reasons to Fear the Paranormal
A Commentary by Michael Grosso
[full
text]
Project Blue Book's Last Years
by Colonel Hector J. Quintanilla (ret.)
"In April 1963 I was informed of a new assignment
at
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base..." So begins this
excerpt from the
unpublished memoirs of the last head of the Air
Force's Project Blue
Book. You read about his first UFO investigation,
his feelings toward
astronomer J. Allen Hynek, and the most puzzling
case of his
watch--Socorro... 8
The Earth's Second Moon
by Paul Schlyter
There's a word that's tailor-made for an idea like
this--lunacy. But, as it happens, the "discovery" of
the Earth's second
moon has a respectable pedigree. Nor is it entirely
wrong... 24
Keen on Crop Circles
by Montague Keen
By all precedents it should have been a seven-year
wonder, about ready to be interred alongside
epidemics of Victorian
ouija board messages or unexplained but evanescent
outbreaks of mass
hysteria, juvenile spoon-bending or localized
UFO-spotting: but the
crop circle phenomenon shows no signs of abating. An
agricultural
journalist reports...34
Wired Spirits
by Steve Mizrach
The idea of contact with the dead is as old as the
hills. But the medium through which the contact has
taken place has
undergone dramatic technological improvements in the
past half
century--from tape recorders and radios to
telephones and computers. A
n anthropologist looks at these new wired spirits
and finds trouble in
cyberspace... 58
Dangerous Vision: The Phantom of Broad Mountain,
Pennsylvania
by Gary S. Mangiacopra
Murder is the most hideous of crimes. But it's made
even
more ghastly when the murderer has disfigured his
victim beyond
recognition to hide his or her ghastly deed. Thus
began the local
legend of the Girl Phantom of Broad Mountain. For
the residents o f
Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, the discovery of such a
brutal murder
shattered the quiet spring of 1925. So sensational
was the murder that
for the two weeks that followed, the local
newspaper, the Pottsville
Republican, carried almost daily accounts of
the state police
investigations that tried to identify the unknown
female victim and her
escaped assailant...72
De Loys's Photograph: A Short Tale of Apes in
Green
Hell, Spider Monkeys, and Ameranthropoides
loysi as Tools of
Racism
by Loren Coleman and Michel Raynal
Perhaps the most famous photograph in cryptozoology
is
the snapshot of an animal, said to be an ape, seated
on a wooden crate,
taken in the rainforests of South America, allegedly
in 1920.
Adventurers, popular anthropologists and early
cryptozoologists have
retold the story of this South American ape
photograph so many times,
that it has become one of the field's most
celebrated illustrations . .
. It is time to ask why the animal in the photo was
promoted as an
"ape"--instead of just being viewed as a curious
picture of a large
spider monkey. The answer lies in racism...84
Screams From the Stream: Science Reacts to Forbidden
Archeology
by Michael A. Cremo
The anthropologist Richard Leakey, like [Jonathan]
Marks, reacted to Forbidden Archeology by
name-calling rather
than discussing the evidence reported in the book on
its merits. In a
letter to me dated November 8, 1993, Leakey said:
"Your book is pure
humbug and does not deserve to be taken seriously by
anyone but a fool.
Sadly there are some, but that's part of selection
and there is nothing
that can be done."...94
An Egyptian State of Mind
by Colin Wilson
If the maverick Egyptologist Schwaller de Lubicz is
right, the ancient Egyptians and their predecessors
possessed some
comprehensive knowledge system that offered them a
unified view of the
universe and human existence. If so, then the really
important question
would be: What does it all mean? One implication,
according to
Schwaller, is that there must be some method of
accelerating the pace
of human evolution...104
The Mysterious Phenomenon of Loading.
by Betty Eisner with a comment by Larry Dossey
Some individuals take on the troubles of others,
often
experiencing the psychological and physical symptoms
of the other.
Eisner reports that this sharing or "loading"
sometimes occurs between
distant individuals who have no specific knowledge
of what is happening
to each other. Dossey notes that researchers in
parapsychology have
long been aware of these distant phenomena. They are
often referred to
as "telesomatic" events, a term derived from Greek
words meaning "the
distant body."...128
Contributors....140
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