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FATE gets the scoop from Zecharia Sitchin modern day linguist and biblical scholar.

January/February 2010

by Phyllis Galde

Zecharia Sitchin and Phyllis Galde.

Zecharia Sitchin, an eminent Orientalist and biblical scholar, was born in 1922 in Baku, Azerbaijan, then a part of the USSR, and was raised in Palestine. There, he acquired a profound knowledge of modern and ancient Hebrew, other Semitic and European languages, the Old Testament, and the history and archaeology of the Near East. A graduate of the University of London with a degree in economic history, he worked as a journalist and editor in Israel for many years prior to undertaking his life’s work: The Earth Chronicles.

One of the few scholars able to read the clay tablets and interpret ancient Sumerian and Akkadian, Sitchin based the ten volumes of The Earth Chronicles series, beginning with Read the rest of this entry »

FATE Magazine picks the brain of a Midwest grown ghost hunting group.

April 2011

by Christine Goodrich

Name of Group: Supernatural Investigators of Minnesota (SIM)
Date Formed: 03/13/2010, Founded by Jerry Ayres
Names of Members Jerry Ayres, Mae Kelley, Stephanie Ayres, Katie Sonmor, Kacie Ayres, George Donaldson,  Andrew Jaffe
Contact Information: 612.703.9399 – siminnesota@gmail.com

Describe the members of your team. What are their areas of expertise?

Our team is made up of seven members, and all have full-time careers outside of ghost hunting. The SIM Crew is made up of a variety of people from all walks of life. We have several who are sensitive to paranormal activity, a couple who are skeptics and we also have a psychic on board.

What makes your group different from other groups?

Supernatural Investigators of Minnesota strives to acquire Read the rest of this entry »

Brandy Green is well known from Syfy’s Ghost Hunters International as the case manager working among cast members Robb Demarest & Joe Chin. From a young age, Brandy had personal experiences in the paranormal, fueling the interest. She began her search hoping to find some answers. She is a local Minnesotan. We were lucky enough to catch up with her between speaking appearances.

• How did you become interested in the paranormal?

As a child, I spent much of my time in South Minneapolis at my maternal grandmother’s home. At that time the house was already well over 100 years old with an interesting history, which doesn’t automatically mean a place is haunted; however, there was certainly some strange activity occurring within the walls of that home. Almost everyone that either lived in or stayed at the house experienced something paranormal. Radios, televisions, lights, and battery operated toys missing batteries would turn on and off with no aid from the living. Full bodied apparitions were seen by two family members, people would hear and feel breathing, movement, shadows, extreme anxiety in certain areas of the home, etc. That house had a little bit of everything and I had my share of odd experiences as a child and in my young adult life. Activity was also encountered at my other grandmother’s home as well. So, needless to say, it was this activity that drew me to paranormal research. With my combined knowledge in psychology, anthropology, and history, I have been researching claims of paranormal activity for years. It only seemed natural that I would end up involved in research such as this.

• You’ve been everywhere in your travels with Ghost Hunters, Int’l.  What was your favorite location?

My favorite location would have to be my bed in my house. *haha* I really enjoyed Costa Rica because of the diverse climate. Costa Rica is the size of West Virginia and is the seat of twelve different ecosystems containing extremely diverse wildlife on land, in the sky, and in the water. I enjoyed Poland not because of the country itself but because of the case that we had which was the Wolf’s Lair where the infamous Operation Valkyrie happened. Robb and I had a great time investigating together at the compound, and we walked away with perhaps more questions than answers. Read the rest of this entry »

Vyktoria Pratt Keating Interview

It was in the city of Sedona, where Vyktoria Pratt Keating performed her mystical harmonies, that something amazing happened that would alter her perspective and her music forever. Although she had played many shows before, this would be the first time that her audience connected with her on a level that went far beyond previous experience. As an artist, Keating is an intellectual and metaphysical visionary with a down-to-earth style.

This niece of the famous horror actor Boris Karloff began playing her favorite Beatles and Bob Dylan tunes at the age of seven. Since then, she has been constantly perfecting her craft. Keating has toured the world with bands such as Jethro Tull, offering her the opportunity to spread her paranormal poetry with gypsy-like finesse.  Read the rest of this entry »

What would you do if an eight-foot tall glowing, handsome male being appeared in front of you?

As a young married housewife, Judith Darlene was stunned, nearly in shock, and speechless.

This radiant being, who called himself Ramtha, became a very important part of this woman’s life and spiritual development. She is now known throughout the world as JZ Knight, and has come a long way from a hardscrabble life in the South. She was born in 1946 in Roswell,  New Mexico, and moved with her family to Texas where work in the cotton fields provided a meager sustenance, living in a state of poverty in a poor shack.

JZ grew up with many hardships and obstacles. Loneliness, disease, and prejudice were some of her teachers. She has been married three times, and has two sons.

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Fate recently had the distinction of a personal interview with renowned physicist Michio Kaku when he visited Minneapolis. Kaku is the author of Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Telepotation, and Time Travel. Kaku is the Henry Semat Professor of Theoretical Physics at the City University of New York Graduate Center.

Other Dimensions

PG: You are a proponent of string theory, which envisages an 11- or 13-fold dimensional universe. How do you envisage these extra dimensions?

MK: We live in a three-dimensional world. Length, width, height, and we also have the fourth dimension, which is time. But anyone who talks about higher dimensions is sometimes called a crackpot. Now, when I was a child, I used to go to the Japanese tea garden in San Francisco where there are fish swimming in a shallow pond. And I imagined being a fish myself. And if I was a fish, I could travel forward, backward, left, and right, but the concept of “up” made no sense because the pond is the universe. Read the rest of this entry »