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The
Anomalist 5
Summer 1997
160 pages, illustrated, $9.95
Cover art by John Griffin
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Too Many Anomalies, Not Enough Time
A Commentary by T. Peter Park
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Deep Secrets:
Is the Navy Telling Idaho Residents a Whopper of a Fish Story?
By Patrick Huyghe
Lake Pend Oreille in northern Idaho, the world's 26th largest
freshwater lake, is twice as deep as Scotland's fabled Loch Ness. As it
turns out, it's almost as deep in monster lore, too, with its own
reports of what is now known as the Pend Oreille "Paddler." Throw in
WWII Nazis, rumors of nuclear subs and secret missile firings, and the
Paddler's tale takes on some tortuous twists and turns. Patrick Huyghe
tries to straighten it out...8
Mindsight:
How the Blind Can "See" During Near-Death Experiences
By Kenneth Ring and Sharon Cooper
The Near-Death Experience is interesting enough in its own right. Now
it's even more interesting. Turns out even people blind from birth
report "seeing" during the experience! "In our study," Ring and Cooper
write, "such reports, replete with visual imagery, were the rule, not
the exception, among our blind respondennts. Altogether, 80 percent of
our entire sample claimed some visual perception during their
near-death or out-of-body encounters"...28
The Channeled Myths of James Merrill:
New Tales of Atlantis and Akhnaton
By John Chambers
Here's a trivia question to stump your literary friends. What recently
deceased poet won a Pulitzer Prize for an epic poem he claimed was
channeled through a Ouija board? The answer is James Merrill, author of
The Changing Light at Sandover. You'll never look at
his work quite the same way again...41
Jules Verne:
Science Fiction Writer, Psychic, or Remote Viewer?
By Joseph W. McMoneagle
Our second literary sampling this issue examines the remarkably
successful career of Jules Verne. How did he manage to get the future
right so much of the time? Was it writing talent alone, or was
something else involved?...59
UFOs:
For RAND Use Only
By Karl T. Pflock
For years rumors have run rampant concerning the significance of "UFOs:
What to Do?"--an internal report written by RAND Corporation astronomer
and staffer George Kocher and first published in November of 1968. What
emerges in this revealing essay is not only a case study of how UFO
reports should be investigated, but a classical UFO report largely
ignored in the flying saucer literature. This one even had writing on
the side...72
Cosmic Dancers on History's Stage?
The Permanent Revolution in the Earth Sciences
By Mike Davis
We devoted almost a third of the issue to this truly earthshaking
examination of the history of the solar system, based on Herbert Shaw's
monumental and pioneering--but also largely overlooked--Craters,
Cosmos, and Chronicles. Why bad things happen to good planets, and
why a planetary disaster might not be such a bad thing after all...87
Backscatter...143
Contributors...155
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