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One man’s scientific achievements making a positive difference on both sides of the veil.

June 2011
by April Slaughter

For most of you reading this blog – especially within the paranormal community – the term Instrumental Transcommunication (or ITC) will be a familiar one. To explain it in the simplest of terms, ITC is communication with ghosts/spirits via use of electronic devices. This differs from Electronic Voice Phenomenon (or EVP) in that the communication is not only heard upon playback of a session recording, but in real-time as it occurs.

Frank’s Box, the Radio Shack Hack, the MiniBox, the Ovilus, and others are among the most commonly known and referred to ITC devices in the field of paranormal research today. Over the past several years, I have collected and personally used each one of these devices in my own research.

Nearly three years ago, I was contacted by an individual by the name of Andy Coppock who had somehow come into possession of a piece of investigative equipment of mine (a K-II meter) that had gone missing. My last name was written on the device, and therefore made the search for its owner a fairly simple task. At the time, I had no idea who he was. Today, I consider him a trusted colleague and friend.

Andy is a biomedical research scientist and laser physicist currently working just outside of Los Angeles, California. His day job consists of designing neurovascular stents (for stroke therapy) and artificial heart valves, but he also happens to be an inventor of several different audio/visual devices used to capture some of the most fascinating phenomena I have ever come across in the paranormal field.

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Spotted over the BBC Radio 1 building, these unidentified flying objects have created quite the stir.

June 2011

by FATE Staff

Strange lights have been appearing over the BBC 1 Radio building for over a week. The mysterious lights are starting to attract a large crowd during their appearances. Spectators are currently looking for an explanation, if anyone has one please contribute.

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An exploration of the blending of the senses without the use of psychoactive hallucinogens.

May 2011

Review by Fate Staff

New Page Books • by Maureen Seaberg

Synesthesia is the unique ability to link colors, sounds and shapes into a surreal sensory experience. Basically, certain letters, sound and smells are experienced as swirling symphonies of color depending on the individual.

To be clear, synesthesia is not a handicap or a dysfunction, but the loss of inhibition in distinguishing between the senses. The condition is rare and most people can’t experience synesthesia without psychoactive hallucinogens. So for those of us left wanting, we have lifelong synesthete and New York Times journalist Maureen Seaberg to take us on a journey thru her eyes and ears.

Seaberg describes her own personal experiences of growing up trying to understand a visual sensation that few understood. And while her personal story is the   Read the rest of this entry »

The force of sound may be a logical explanation for the previously unexplained phenomena of crop circles.

February 2005

by Freddy Silva

During the twilight days of 1998, small articles tucked away in the nether regions of the British press quietly announced “Unknown Force Was Behind Corn Circles, Claims Hoaxer.” This dramatic U-turn by the surviving member of the infamous Doug and Dave duo—the English sexagenarians who since 1991 have misled the world with tales of their crop-flattening prowess with planks of wood—illustrates that the hand of man materialized in crop circle lore long after the real phenomenon manifested.

Although hoaxers claim to have orchestrated the phenomenon in 1978, unpublished evidence at the time showed approximately 200 sporadic reports of Read the rest of this entry »

Have you ever wondered what happened to Viorrey, the little Manx girl, who had the world’s most mysterious friend?

by Walter McGraw

ONCE UPON a time, on a tiny little island, in a tiny little house, there
lived a tiny little animal named Gef who made wee-wee on a great big psychical investigator and screamed: “Go away, clear to hell! We don’t want you here.”

Not true, you think? Let me warn you that in the 1930′s one R. S. Lambert,
then of the British Broadcasting Company, investigated Gef and said, “It is impossible to deny  that there is serious evidence . . . for Gef’s reality . . .” And Lambert was called “crazy” but after lengthy proceedings a British court awarded him 7,000 pounds damages, in effect  acknowledging there indeed was good reason to believe in the existence of a talking mongoose on the Isle of Man. Read the rest of this entry »

An unusual incident create cause for an explanation.

January 2004

by Michael E. Tymn

The prescription bill bottle was found partially inside of the wall directly behind the head board. No plausible explanation has been provided.

“It was like an explosion. I sat up in my bed from a sound sleep, turned the light on, and couldn’t see anything, so I turned the light off and went back to sleep.”

It wasn’t until two days later that Mary Voegele, an 85-year-old resident of Cottage Grove, Oregon, discovered the apparent cause of the “explosion.” Embedded in the wall right behind the headboard of her bed was a bottle of Mentholatum ointment. The bottle was firmly wedged in the wall at a 45-degree angle.

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First hand account of the mysterious Men in Black excerpted from Nick Redfern’s forthcoming book.

Raven Meindel, a cryptozoologist, writer, radio host, and Wiccan priestess who resides in Michigan and, in 2010, was featured on the History Channel’s Monster Quest series pursuing bloodthirsty werewolves, says, “I’ve been interested in paranormal things and UFOs for years, but when I got involved in doing it more seriously, with research and writing, and in a career-like manner, that’s when really strange things started to happen, including a Men in Black experience in April 2008.” Read the rest of this entry »