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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unpublished memoirs of the last head of the Air Force's Project Blue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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