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Ancient or Modern? What is the message of this rune?

February 2007

by Gavin Callaghan

Close-up view of the front of the Flemingville Stone.

I discovered the stone in the early autumn of 1995, in the cemetery behind the United Methodist Church in Flemingville, New York, while making a study of local history and antiquities. Strangely, just before this, the story of Joseph Smith’s youthful stone-gazing activities along the Susquehanna in the 1820s and his discovery in Palmyra, New York, of the supposed hieroglyphic plates of the Book of Mormon (1830), had been on my mind.

As Whitney R. Cross observes in his book The Burned-Over District, “Across the rolling hills of western New York and along the line of DeWitt Clinton’s famed canal, there stretched in the second quarter of the nineteenth century a ‘psychic highway.’” Weird visionary sects; the 1869 discovery of the supposedly fossilized stone man known as the “Cardiff Giant” in Onondaga County; the hundreds of unexplained stone cairns that dot the local hills; Read the rest of this entry »

Some said she was mad and others that she was guided by Heaven. She was burned as a witch- yet she freed France and was sainted.

September 1952

by Peg Miller

“From the forests Bois-chen…will come a maid…who after throwing down the citadels will slay the stag…and will trouble the isles of Britain with woeful sound.”—Prophecy of the Wizard Merlin.

September 1952- Vol. 5, No. 9

Five centuries ago the world was not so different from today. Most of Europe was clouded by the smoke of destruction and threat of annihilation.

In France men lived in daily fear—humbled beneath the heel of the oppressors from England. Vast stretches of the country were laid waste. Weeds and thistles grew in the fields. Villages were abandoned and the people hid in caves. The uncrowned king, Charles of Valois, cowered in the south of France. Daily the French people consulted prophets and seers for a sign—a sign that 100 years of war would cease.

At dawn on April 25, 1429, in the city of Tours, excitement mounted along every street. A sign had appeared. The court of the Dauphin, the Marshall Generals of France and a simple maid called Joan of Arc had come to the city. Read the rest of this entry »

Ship’s crews disappear in the Atlantic with absolutely no trace, leaving only the empty vessels to float aimlessly.

March 2002

by Dale Gilbert Jarvis

Drawing of Ellen Austin in 1884.

When people think of nautical mysteries, one of the first things that springs to mind is the Bermuda Triangle, the mystical zone defined by Bermuda, Puerto Rico, and the coast of Florida. Within the Triangle, hundreds of ships and aircraft are said to have vanished without explanation. But the warm waters of the Bermuda Triangle are not the only seas associated with Read the rest of this entry »

Psychical researcher Fred Gettings uncovers the fairies and exposes a 60-year-old girlish prank.

November 1978

By Jerome Clark

November 1978- Vol. 31, No. 11

Has the controversy surrounding the Cottingley fairy photo­graphs finally been laid to rest?

For 60 years the question of the authenticity of five pictures taken by cousins Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths of Cottingley, Yorkshire, England, has gone unanswered. Two early analyses, one by Kodak labora­tory technicians, concluded there was no evidence of fakery. And a Mr. Snelling, an expert photographer and employee of a photographic firm, con­cluded the two negatives he examined were entirely genuine, unfaked photo­graphs of single exposure, open-air work, even showing movement in the fairy figures. In 1920, shortly after Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had brought the photographs to public attention in an article in The Strand, the Daily News & Westminster Gazette commissioned its Yorkshire reporter to Read the rest of this entry »

Alien microbes, stowed away on our returning space vehicles, could threaten this planet with deadly danger.

March 1963

by Paul Foght

March 1963- Vol. 16, No. 3

IF GULLIVER TRAVELS, life in our universe may be doomed, or at least altered beyond recognition. “Gulliver” is a one-and-one-half pound instrument package designed to be landed on Mars in a U.S. effort to detect life on our neighbor planet.

The threat that this space probe presents is very real and very understandable. It is the threat of contamination by microorganisms carried to Mars in or on the Gulliver mechanisms. Most biological scientists believe that microorganisms from the earth could survive in the Martian environment, and the environment might allow the earth-organisms to breed and multiply unhindered. Such unrestricted reproduction by even the simplest organism could completely alter the scheme of life on Mars in mere short hours. Read the rest of this entry »

Critical events in the Middle East today suggest that the grim Biblical prophecy of Armageddon may be fulfilled.

March 1957

by Robert N. Webster

March 1957- Vol. 10, No. 3

In the middle of November, William H. Stoneman, famed war correspondent of the Chicago Daily News, stood upon a promontory in Northern Israel. A few hundred yards to the east, across the narrow valley of the Upper Jordan, were the fortifications of the Syrians.

At the point where Stoneman stood were the ruins of an Israeli village which the Syrians destroyed in May 1948. The trenches of the Israelis faced those across the Jordan.

To the southwest lay the lush valley of Esdraelon.

And above it commanding the valley, rose the heights of Armageddon.

Armageddon—a name to strike terror in the hearts of all students of the Bible and of prophecy. Armageddon—scene of the last and greatest battle that the world will ever know. Read the rest of this entry »

My Proof of Survival

January 2000

by Linda McDonald Williams

My husband Joe and I have had several paranormal experiences during our lives, individually before we met, and since our marriage 31 years ago. We are down-to-earth, commonsense people not given to flights of fancy. Our experiences are accepted as important facets of our lives and sometimes, the lesson to be learned from an encounter is not always clear at the moment it happens. This is an account of one experience I had:

It was a chilly Monday night in the fall and my husband was watching a football game on a TV set in our bedroom, while I sat in the living room watching a movie on another set. It was about 9:30 p.m. I had been watching a movie and dozed off, which I was prone to do occasionally when left alone to watch TV while my husband was in another room of our home. I had nodded off and upon waking, it was a little after ten o’clock. Having missed about 30 minutes of the movie I had planned to see, I decided to go to bed to read, a favorite ritual of mine. Read the rest of this entry »

True Mystic Experiences

November 2000
by Pamela Krommendyk

Out of no where the white wolf appeared streaking across the road.

This experience happened high in the mountains in the Flagstaff, Arizona, area at midnight.

I was tired of driving and my children were sleeping beside me as I drove on through the night. I started to get that heavy eyelid feeling more intensely as the twelve o’clock hour approached. I was thinking intensely about the man I loved so dearly; only a day ago we said goodbye in California. Little did I know at the time that I would never see him again. Read the rest of this entry »

Should we beware of a “blue star”?

March-April 2009

by Frank Joseph

An illustration depicting a scene similar to Mayan predictions.

Although the Mayan calendar’s termination due to occur on the morning of December 21, 2012, is receiving increasing attention as the world approaches this controversial Winter Solstice, less well known is a Native American tradition regarding that same date. Read the rest of this entry »

The Bloodsucking Corpse of English Tradition.

December 2007

by Daniel J. Wood

“A deadly thing,” they say, “has fastened on him;

“He has taken to his bed and will never get up again.” —Psalm 41:8,

Book of Common Prayer

"The Vampire" by Philip Brune-Jones circa 1897.

Of all the monsters that haunted our traditional folklore, none has so fascinated the modern mind as the vampire. Man, demon, or some combination of both, the vampire stepped to center stage in our popular culture with the publication of Bram Stoker’s Dracula in 1897, and his influence shows no sign of waning at the beginning of the 21st century. But as the image of the fictional vampire lives on, we gradually lose sight of the traditional vampire, the vampire of folklore and history, a creature more ancient and more terrible than a thousand Wallachian princes. This monster did not keep a polite distance before the kill like some aristocratic stranger; instead, he was a friend, a neighbor—even the husband who once shared your bed. He was a corpse who returned from the grave to kill. Read the rest of this entry »