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The
Anomalist 6
Spring 1998
154 pages, illustrated, $9.95
Cover art by Sal Amendola
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On the Role of Stage Magicians in Biological Research
A Commentary by Jacques Benveniste and Peter Jurgens
[full text]
Night Out on the Earth Plane
by John Chambers
Happy families are all the same; unhappy families are
unhappy in different ways, said Leo Tolstoy. Channeling classes are a
lot like families--all the members become intertwined through the
shared experience of past lives and channeled entities--but, unlike
happy families, happy channeling classes are hugely different, from one
group to the next and from one session to the next. From one week to
the other you never know what vital or ribald or humorously sage
spirits are going to come shining through or struggling out, or what
remarkable or quite unpretentious past lives (the latter being usually
the case, given the common lot of humankind) will come filtering up
through the veil of your present lifetime....11
The Time-Warp Chronicles
by Chris Woodyard
My ancestors are Swiss, a nation noted for an obsession
with time and its precise measurement. The family I grew up in was
positively Calvinist about the subject. To be on time was the highest
form of virtue; unpunctuality was possibly the sin against the Holy
Ghost that could not be forgiven. For me, however, time has always had
a certain fluidity. Some historical periods reach out to me with a
vividness and an emotional impact that erases centuries....47
Moses' Radioactive Death Machine:
Graham Hancock's Arguments from Silence
by Mike Heiser
While scholars debate whether biblical archeology is
currently experiencing its death pangs, popular interest in
archeological research pertinent to matters of faith appears anything
but dead. One example of the public's fascination with the field is the
success of British journalist Graham Hancock's book The Sign and
the Seal: The Quest for the Lost Ark of the Covenant (Crown, 1992).
Hancock's book achieved bestseller status, and his views on the ark of
the covenant have been featured on several television specials, most
notably National Geographic's Explorer series. Hancock has also written
or co-authored two other volumes dealing with ancient studies that have
also sold in large numbers. Among his highly controversial conclusions
in The Sign and the Seal are his assertions that Moses was an
Egyptian sorcerer skilled in the harnessing of radioactive material,
that the ark of the covenant was actually a radioactive weapon, and
that its use in Israelite religion derived from an Egyptian festival....54
Dead Cows I Have Known:
A Fresh Look at the Cattle Mutilation Mystery
by Ted Oliphant III
When I moved to Fyffe, Alabama in 1990, I originally
planned to stay from three to six months to follow up on the UFO
reports. It turned into three years. I spent a lot of time with the
police departments, and eventually got permission to "ride along" with
some of them, most notably, the Fyffe Police Department. Then in August
1991 I was hired by The City of Fyffe as an emergency services
dispatcher, in charge of dispatching the police, fire department and
ambulance services. In September of that year I was hired as a
part-time police officer. In January of 1992 I attended and graduated
from the North East Alabama Police Academy and became a full time
officer.Eight months later a series of unexplained cattle deaths began
occurring on Sand Mountain.... 88
Demon Moose
by Martin Kottmeyer
Something mysterious and disturbing happened in Dover,
Massachusetts in April 1977. Over a period of two nights, four people
in three locations saw a smallish beast with a peculiar head shaped
more or less like a watermelon. Bill Bartlett, the first witness, said
it had eyes that glowed a bright orange. His sketch showed a creature
standing on four spindly limbs that each ended in long fingers that
splayed over some rocks it seemed posed on. It had a slender torso and
a neck that looked inadequate to the task of holding that long head. It
acquired the catchy tag "The Dover Demon"...104
The Mystery Animals of Hong Kong
by Jonathan Downes and Richard Muirhead
We have often been asked how there could be any "mystery
animals" in a small place the size of Hong-Kong. After all, the island
of Hong-Kong, ceded by the British from the Chinese in 1843, is only
thirty square miles in area. The tiny portion of the mainland known as
Kowloon, which was ceded 18 years later is only three and a half square
miles in size, and even the disputed lands leased from China on a
ninety nine year lease in 1898 is only an area of 355 square miles. The
border with The Republic of China is only 17 miles long and most of the
200 or so (no-one seems to know the exact figures) islands which make
up the colony are barren and rocky.The fauna, however, is rich and
varied, and because of the changing political, and socioeconomic roles
of the colony, because of its place on the borders of Palearctic and
Tropical systems, and possibly most important, because of its unique
position as a "cross-roads" at the mouth of the Pearl River, its
zoofauna is constantly changing....111
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