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The Anomalist 2
Spring 1995
157 pages, illustrated, $9.95.
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Betting on the Mars Face
A Commentary by Tom Van Flandern
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Was the First "Bigfoot" a Hoax?
by Loren Coleman
"The year is 1958. Television is in its heyday . . .
Drive-in theaters are all the rage . . . three movies making the
circuit are Half Human, The Abominable Snowman of the
Himalayas and I Was a Teenage Werewolf . . . the stage
was set for Bigfoot...8
On Human Origins: Out of Siberia?
An Interview with Yuri Mochanov by Patrick Huyghe
"This northern origins hypothesis was abolished to the
archives of science, not because it contradicted general scientific
trends or ideas, but because confirmation for it could not be found. So
the concept was forgotten. But here are some new facts an d the concept
starts to work again. [The] Diring [site] forces us to re-examine the
forgotten concept that North and Central Asia was the original homeland
of humanity...28
The Great Pigeon Mystery
by Rupert Sheldrake
"The budget for my pigeon experiments so far has been
about a thousand dollars. This kind of research is inexpensive and
fascinating. In any case, I can assure you that the homing of pigeons
is a real mystery, even though people will tell you otherwise . Anyone
who actually works in the field and who knows the literature
understands that it is completely unsolved. And pigeon homing, as well
as the homing of dogs and cats, and the migration of fish, birds, and
other animals, all point to faculties that w e have yet to take into
account....48
Groking Galloping Gertie: An Anecdotal Exposition
of Remote Viewing
by David Ritchey
"Something about the emotions related to the event makes
words inappropriate. Words don't work. The feeling, if it could be
expressed in words, would be something like 'Get the hell out of here!
Leave me alone!' . . . There's a sense of anger, a sense of outrage, a
sense of violation . . . there's an insistence being conveyed that 'the
hand of man' doesn't belong here..52
From Fait Divers to Folklore and Back Again
by Hilary Evans
"If we can believe the experts, wolves rarely if ever
attack humans, and then when only sufficiently maddened by hunger.
Similarly, eagles do not fly with babies, and would not be physically
able to even if they wished to do so. The motivation usually ascribed
by behavioral scientists to the narrators of these tales--that they are
projecting society's collective fears onto a suitably spine-chilling
'villain'--is doubtless correct. But that does not explain the process
whereby stories of this kind come to be told, not as some occurrence
involving an unnamed friend of an equally unnamed friend, but to
specified people in specified places on specific dates." The same also
applies, Hilary points out, to encounters with the Virgin Mary and
alleged alien beings..68
Myths, Mutes and More
by Dennis Stillings
"There are very few events of historical significance
that do not eventually become elaborated by folklore and myth. In the
realm of folklore and myth--that is to say, in the realm of psychic
reality--it makes little difference whether or not an histor ical event
'really' happened as reported. To the extent that the event has an
unknown or unexplained component, a psychological vacuum is created
which is readily filled by the mythic imaginings of the human psyche.
This mythogenesis is not confined to su ch elusive exotica as Bigfoot
or flying saucers; it can just as well accompany completely 'ordinary'
events of the day....80
Organ Theft Rumors in Guatemala: Some Personal
Observations
by John Shonder
"I first heard the rumors from my secretary in Guatemala
City in December of 1993. She assured me that the body of a child had
been found at the side of a road with its chest cut open and its heart
and other organs missing. A note which said 'Thanks fo r the organs'
(in English) had been left in the chest cavity....88
Alien Dreamtime
by Robert Baker
"If the oxygen supply is further restricted, the sexual
pleasure centers in the brain are stimulated. Knowledge of this
phenomenon is often used in autoerotic aphyxia.... It is also why the
alien abduction syndrome is replete with images of alien rape, the
probing of sex organs, and so forth. Frequently, this sort of sexual
arousal is carried over from REM sleep and, in the male, usually
results in penile erection."...94
Backscatter: Letters to the Editor........138
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