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Zener cards are cards used to conduct experiments for extra-sensory perception (ESP), most often clairvoyance. Perceptual psychologist Karl Zener designed the cards in the early 1930s for experiments conducted with his colleague, parapsychologist J. B. Rhine.
BY ALAN MARTIN
Many today have a genuine interest in the world beyond our own. From research into Ghosts, Demons, Vampires, UFOs and all the strange things that go bump in the night. Many web sites boast the title of having all the Paranormal information you could ever imagine at your fingertips. Many lead you to their sites with supposed real Ghost Photos, Pictures of Bigfoot Or news and info that just makes you wonder... Is It Real?
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Paranormal is a general term that describes unusual experiences that lack a scientific explanation, or phenomena alleged to be outside of science's current ability to explain or measure. In parapsychology, it is used to describe the potentially psychic phenomena of telepathy, extra-sensory perception, psychokinesis, ghosts, and hauntings. The term is also applied to UFOs, some creatures that fall under the scope of cryptozoology, purported phenomena surrounding the Bermuda Triangle, and other non-psychic subjects. Stories relating to paranormal phenomena are found in popular culture and folklore, but the scientific community, as referenced in statements made by organization such as the United States National Science Foundation, contends that scientific evidence does not support paranormal beliefs.
Parapsychology is a discipline that seeks to investigate the existence and causes of psychic abilities and life after death using the scientific method. Parapsychological experiments have included the use of random number generators to test for evidence of precognition and psychokinesis with both human and animal subjects, sensory-deprivation and Ganzfeld experiments to test for extrasensory perception, and research trials conducted under contract to the United States government to investigate whether remote viewing would provide useful intelligence information. The results of such experiments are regarded by some parapsychologists as having demonstrated the existence of some forms of psychic abilities.
In contrast, the consensus of the scientific community is that psychic abilities have not been demonstrated to exist. Critics argue that methodological flaws may explain any apparent experimental successes. The status of parapsychology as a science has also been disputed. Many scientists regard the discipline as pseudoscience because parapsychologists continue investigation although no one has demonstrated conclusive evidence of psychic abilities in more than a century of research.
Laboratory and field research is conducted through private institutions and a relatively small number of universities worldwide. Privately-funded units at universities in the United Kingdom are among the most active today. In the US, interest in research peaked in the 1970s and university-based research is now slight, although private institutions still receive considerable funding. Most of the recent parapsychology research is published in a small number of niche journals.
Parapsychologists study a number of ostensible paranormal phenomena, including but not limited to:
* Telepathy: Transfer of information on thoughts or feelings between individuals by means other than the five classical senses.
* Precognition: Perception of information about future places or events before they occur.
* Clairvoyance: Obtaining information about places or events at remote locations, by means unknown to current science.
* Psychokinesis: The ability of the mind to influence matter, time, space, or energy by means unknown to current science.
* Reincarnation: The rebirth of a soul or other non-physical aspect of human consciousness in a new physical body after death.
* Hauntings: Phenomena often attributed to ghosts and encountered in places a deceased individual is thought to have frequented, or in association with the person's former belongings.
The definitions for the terms above may not reflect their mainstream usage, nor the opinions of all parapsychologists and their critics. Many critics, for example, feel that parapsychologists are engaged in the study of phenomena that disappear under stringent experimental conditions and are thus normal processes.
According to the Parapsychological Association, parapsychologists do not study all paranormal phenomena, nor are they concerned with astrology, UFOs, Bigfoot, paganism, vampires, alchemy, or witchcraft.
Notables in the Field pf Paranormal interest today:
# Loren Coleman - A cryptozoologist and author on issues relating to new animal discoveries and the sightings of Bigfoot, the Yeti, the Loch Ness Monster, and other cryptids.
# Peter Davenport - A ufologist and head of the National UFO Reporting Center.
# Lionel Fanthorpe - An author, drector of Media Studies at Cardiff Academy, president of the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena, and president of the British UFO Research Association.
# Joseph P. Farrell - A theologian specializing in secret history and pseudoarcheology.
# Stanton Friedman - A former nuclear physicist and current author and ufologist specializing in the Roswell UFO Incident.
# Dr. Bruce Goldberg - A hypnotherapist whose research expertise ranges from interdimensional travel to past lives and the power sources of ancient Atlantis
# Rosemary Ellen Guiley - An author who discusses paranormal, visionary, and spirituality topics.
# Richard C. Hoagland - A controversial author on issues relating to NASA's activities, space anomalies, and alleged extraterrestrial architecture (the Face on Mars; obelisks on the Moon), and whom Noory describes as the program's "science adviser."
# Linda Moulton Howe - A reporter and ufologist who appears monthly on Coast to Coast AM, to whom Noory refers as an investigative reporter for the program, and whose phone-in segments he calls "Conversations with Linda."
# Alex Jones - An American radio host, New World Order conspiracy theorist, political activist, and filmmaker.
# Dr. Michio Kaku - A mainstream theoretical physicist who typically discusses topics involving string theory, quantum physics, astrophysics, and other hard sciences.
# Lisa Lee Harp Waugh the Great american Texan Necromancer. Waugh speaks openly to the dead and records their messages and predictions.
# Steve Kates ("Dr. Sky") - An astronomy journalist who discusses planetary events and weather patterns.
# Dr. Evelyn Paglini - A parapsychologist who is a self-promoted psychic and witch.
# Steven Quayle - A frequent contributor who researches giants, global security (especially with regard to giants), weather weapons, and terrorism.
# Dr. Louis Turi - An author, self-promoted hypnotherapist and "astro-psychologist," and motivational speaker.
# David Wilcock - A professional lecturer, filmmaker, and researcher of ancient civilizations, consciousness, and new paradigms of matter and energy, and who was Noory's personal choice as his first guest of 2009 and has become a regular contributor.
# Andrew Wingate - A priest of the North American Old Catholic Church and an End Times prophet.
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The Six Psychic Senses
By Jill Emerson Palmer
Artwork Mike Gambino
In Spiritualism, psychic senses used by mental mediums are sometimes defined differently than in other paranormal fields. The term clairvoyance, for instance, may be used by Spiritualists to include seeing spirits and visions instilled by spirits, whereas the Parapsychological Association defines "clairvoyance" as information derived directly from an external physical source.
When forming your personal Paranormal Team the powers of a psychic, medium or person that channels ghosts is becoming a very important valu able factor. The power or powers that they might possess are very important in locating and understanding a real ghost or haunting. No matter what the depth of their ablities it is a crucial aspect that can put your particular investigation over the top. To understand more of what a real Paravoyer can do you need to undertand their abilities to each degree and use them wisely.
Real Para- Voyant individuals as they are called these days are like bloodhounds to a large a degree. the see, sniff, feel and will follow a ghost through out a location.
Highly developed levels ESP you either have it or you don't!
Extrasensory perception (ESP) is the apparent ability to acquire information by paranormal means independent of any known physical senses or deduction from previous experience. The term was coined by Duke University researcher J. B. Rhine to denote psychic abilities such as telepathy, the sensing of thoughts or feelings without help from the 5 known senses, precognition, the knowledge of future events, and clairvoyance, the awareness of people, objects or events without the help of the 5 known senses. ESP is also sometimes casually referred to as a sixth sense, gut instinct, a hunch, a weird vibe or an intuition. The term implies sources of information currently unexplained by science. Popular belief in ESP is widespread, but skeptics are still not persuaded that there truly is a sixth sense because of the lack of reliable theories and information.
As you progress, your performance should improve greatly. If you get good enough, the computer shows how likely it would be to achieve your score by chance alone. For example, the chance of picking 8 correct cards in 20 trials is only 1 in 1247.
Zener cards are cards used to conduct experiments for extra-sensory perception (ESP), most often clairvoyance. Perceptual psychologist Karl Zener designed the cards in the early 1930s for experiments conducted with his colleague, parapsychologist J. B. Rhine. There are just five different Zener cards: a hollow circle (one curve), a Greek cross (two lines), three vertical wavy lines (or "waves"), a hollow square (four lines), and a hollow five-pointed star. There are 25 cards in a pack, five of each design.
When Zener cards were first used, they were made out of a fairly thin translucent white paper. Several subjects or groups of subjects scored very highly until it was discovered that they had often been able to see the symbols through the backs of the cards.
In a test for clairvoyance, the person conducting the test (the experimenter) picks up a card in a shuffled pack, observes the symbol on the card, and records the answer of the person being tested for ESP (the subject), who must correctly determine which of the five designs is on the card in question. The experimenter continues until all the cards in the pack have been tested.
Third parties may oversee or videotape an experiment to make sure it is conducted fairly. While it is especially important to ensure that the subject cannot see any cards and does not receive any vocal or visual cues from the experimenter, other methods of cheating are possible. To this end, physical separators may be placed between the experimenter and the subject. As with other ESP tests, experiments with Zener cards have used elaborate methods to keep the subject from seeing the cards or the experimenter, sometimes placing the subject in a separate room.
If the subject is informed during the test that specific guesses were correct or incorrect, card counting can increase their accuracy; also, poor shuffling methods can make the order of cards in the deck easier to predict. In his experiments, Rhine first shuffled the cards by hand but later decided to use a machine for shuffling.
Online variations of Zener card tests currently exist on the internet. If properly constructed, tests of this nature can circumvent the issues of bias and cheating common to standard Zener card tests. One such online system, the Anima Project , gathers user results into a master database which is then analyzed using a variety of statistical techniques.
Although Zener cards are usually used to test for clairvoyance, they may also be used to test for telepathy, in which case one subject will draw a card and attempt to mentally project the image on it to the mind of another subject. Here, the statistical tendency of the receiver to report a specific design must be taken into account — for example, they might tend to report receiving an image of a square more than other images — so the deck used must contain an equal number of cards of each design.
If the null-hypothesis (no psychic ability) is assumed and each card selected for testing is chosen in a truly random fashion, a user's success ratio is expected to approach 20% (1 hit per 5 trials) as their number of trials increases. The further the observed scenario is from the expected scenario, the more cause for believing the null-hypothesis is not true (the results are not simply due to chance).
The existence of ESP abilities is highly controversial, and no scientifically conclusive demonstrations of the existence of ESP have been given. Parapsychology explores this possibility, and some experiments such as the ganzfeld have been suggested as good evidence of ESP. The existence of ESP is not generally accepted within the scientific community.
Clairvoyance or "Clear Seeing", is the ability to see anything which is not physically present, such as objects, animals or people. This sight occurs "in the mind’s eye", and some mediums say that this is their normal vision state. Others say that they must train their minds with such practices as meditation in order to achieve this ability, and that assistance from spiritual helpers is often necessary. Some clairvoyant mediums can see a spirit as though the spirit has a physical body. They see the bodily form as if it were physically present. Other mediums see the spirit in their mind's eye, or it appears as a movie or a television programme or a still picture like a photograph in their mind.
Clairvoyance (from 17th century French with clair meaning "clear" and voyance meaning "visibility") is the apparent ability to gain information about an object, location or physical event through means other than the known human senses, a form of extra-sensory perception. A person said to have the ability of clairvoyance is referred to as a clairvoyant ("one who sees clear").
Claims for the existence of paranormal psychic abilities such as clairvoyance are highly controversial. Parapsychology explores this possibility, but the existence of such paranormal phenomena is not accepted by the scientific community outside parapsychology.
Within parapsychology, clairvoyance is used exclusively to refer to the transfer of information that is both contemporary to, and hidden from, the clairvoyant. It is differentiated from telepathy in that the information is said to be gained directly from an external physical source, rather than being transferred from the mind of one individual to another.
Outside of parapsychology, clairvoyance is often used to refer to other forms of Anomalous cognition, most commonly the perception of events that have occurred in the past, or which will occur in the future (known as retrocognition and precognition respectively), or to refer to communications with the dead (see Mediumship).
Clairvoyance is related to remote viewing, although the term "remote viewing" itself is not as widely applicable to clairvoyance because it refers to a specific controlled process.
Within the field of parapsychology, there is a consensus that some instances of clairvoyance are verifiable. There is also a measured level of belief from amongst the general public, with the portion of the US population who believe in clairvoyance varying between 1/4 and 1/3 over the 15 year period from 1990 to 2005.
The concept of clairvoyance gained some support from the US and Russian governments both during and after the Cold War, and both governments made several attempts to harness it as an intelligence gathering tool
According to skeptics, clairvoyance is the result of fraud, self-delusion, Barnum effects, confirmatory biases, or failures to appreciate the base rate of chance occurrences. For example, in a scientific experiment of clairvoyance, a purported clairvoyant participant will inevitably make correct guesses some of the time (i.e., during some of the trials within the same experiment), simply because of chance. Furthermore, because of the nature of the statistical tests used by experimenters, a very small proportion of all experiments conducted will yield an overall statistically significant result (suggesting that clairvoyance took place at above-chance levels), again simply because of chance. A proper summary of the experimental evidence on clairvoyance should include a summary of all experiments that were conducted, taking into account their probabilities of turning out false positive and false negative results, and making sure that studies are not included in the review selectively. Some researchers on clairvoyance have tended to purposefully exclude negative findings from their reviews , thus biasing their own conclusions.
There have been anecdotal reports of clairvoyance and 'clear' abilities throughout history in most cultures. Often clairvoyance has been associated with religious or shamanic figures, offices and practices. For example, ancient Hindu religious texts list clairvoyance amongst other forms of 'clear' experiencing, as siddhis, or 'perfections', skills that are yielded through appropriate meditation and personal discipline. But a large number of anecdotal accounts of clairvoyance are of the spontaneous variety among the general populace. For example, many people report seeing a loved one who has recently died before they have learned by other means that their loved one is deceased. While anecdotal accounts do not provide scientific proof of clairvoyance, such common experiences continue to motivate research into such phenomena.
The earliest record of somnambulistic clairvoyance is credited to the Marquis de Puységur, a follower of Mesmer, who in 1784 was treating a local dull-witted peasant named Victor Race. During treatment, Race reportedly would go into trance and undergo a personality change, becoming fluent and articulate, and giving diagnosis and prescription for his own disease as well as those of others. When he came out of the trance state he would be unaware of anything he had said or done. This behavior is somewhat reminiscent of the reported behaviors of the 20th century medical clairvoyant and psychic Edgar Cayce. It is reported that although Puységur used the term 'clairvoyance', he did not think of these phenomena as "paranormal", since he accepted mesmerism as one of the natural sciences.
Clairvoyance was a reported ability of some mediums during the spiritualist period of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was one of the phenomena studied by members of the Society for Psychical Research (SPR). Psychics of many descriptions have claimed clairvoyant ability up to the present day.
While experimental research into clairvoyance began with SPR researchers, experimental studies became more systematic with the efforts of J. B. Rhine and his associates at Duke University, and such research efforts continue to the present day. Perhaps the best-known study of clairvoyance in recent times was the US government-funded remote viewing project at SRI/SAIC during the 1970s through the mid-1990s.
Some parapsychologists have proposed that our different functional labels (clairvoyance, telepathy, precognition, etc.) all refer to one basic underlying mechanism, although there is not yet any satisfactory theory for what that mechanism may be.
Parapsychological research studies of remote viewing and clairvoyance have produced favorable results significantly above chance, and meta-analysis of these studies increases the significance. For instance, at the Stanford Research Institute, in 1972, Harold Puthoff and Russell Targ initiated a series of human subject studies to determine whether participants (the viewers or percipients) could reliably identify and accurately describe salient features of remote locations or targets. In the early studies, a human sender was typically present at the remote location, as part of the experiment protocol. A three-step process was used, the first step being to randomly select the target conditions to be experienced by the senders. Secondly, in the viewing step, participants were asked to verbally express or sketch their impressions of the remote scene. Thirdly, in the judging step, these descriptions were matched by separate judges, as closely as possible, with the intended targets. The term remote viewing was coined to describe this overall process.
In order to explore the nature of remote viewing channel, the viewer in some experiments was secured in a double-walled copper-screened Faraday cage. Although this provided attenuation of radio signals over a broad range of frequencies, the researchers found that it did not alter the subject's remote viewing capability. They postulated that extremely low frequency (ELF) propagation might be involved, since Faraday cage screening is less effective in the ELF range. Such a hypothesis had previously been put forward by telepathy researchers in the Soviet Union.
The first paper by Puthoff and Targ on psychic research to appear in a mainstream peer-reviewed scientific journal was published in Nature in March 1974; in it, the team reported some degree of remote viewing success. One of the individuals involved in these initial studies at SRI was Uri Geller, a well-known celebrity psychic at the time. The research team reported witnessing some of Geller's trademark metal spoon-bending performances, but admitted that they were unable to conduct adequately controlled experiments to confirm any paranormal hypothesis about them.
Electroencephalography (EEG) techniques were also used by team to examine ESP phenomena. In these investigations, a sender, who was isolated in a visually opaque, electrically and acoustically shielded chamber, was stimulated at random by bursts of strobe-light flickers The experimenters reported that, for one receiver, differential alpha block on control and stimulus trials were observed, which showed that some information transfer had occurred. In contrast, this person's expressed statements of when the stimulus occurred were no different than that which would be expected by chance. The researches were unable to identify the physical parameters by which the EEG effect was mediated.
After the publication of these findings, various attempts to replicate the remote viewing findings were quickly carried out. Several of these follow-up studies, which involved viewing in group settings, reported some limited success. They included the use of face-to-face groups, and remotely-linked groups using computer conferencing.
The various debates in the mainstream scientific literature prompted the editors of 'Proceedings of the IEEE' to invite Robert Jahn, then Dean of the School of Engineering at Princeton University, to write a comprehensive review of psychic phenomena from an engineering perspective. His paper, published in February 1982, includes numerous references to remote viewing replication studies at the time.
Clairvoyance experiments involving Zener cards currently exist on the internet. One such online system, the Anima Project, gathers user results into a master database which is then analyzed using a variety of statistical techniques.
Clairaudience or "Clear Hearing", is usually defined as the ability to hear the voices or thoughts of spirits. Some Mediums hear as though they are listening to a person talking to them on the outside of their head, as though the Spirit is next to or near to the medium, and other mediums hear the voices in their minds as a verbal thought.
These indiviuals that possess these powers are actually hearing an EVP "ELECTRONIC VOICE PHENOMENON" as it actually happens. Many startling voice captures of full conversations are ofen recorded as these persons communicate with a spirit or ghost in a full conversation. Some say they actually hear it in their ears as if somone is either whispering or speaking clearly and audiably to them. still others say they hear it in their minds.
The ear is the sense organ that detects sounds. The vertebrate ear shows a common biology from fish to humans, with variations in structure according to order and species. It not only acts as a receiver for sound, but plays a major role in the sense of balance and body position. The ear is part of the auditory system.
The word "ear" may be used correctly to describe the entire organ or just the visible portion. In most animals, the visible ear is a flap of tissue that is also called the pinna. The pinna may be all that shows of the ear, but it serves only the first of many steps in hearing and plays no role in the sense of balance. In people, the pinna is often called the auricle. Vertebrates have a pair of ears, placed symmetrically on opposite sides of the head. This arrangement aids in the ability to localize sound sources.
In the field of parapsychology, clairaudience [from late 17th century French clair (clear) & audience (hearing)] is a form of extra-sensory perception wherein a person acquires information by paranormal auditory means. It is often considered to be a form of clairvoyance. Clairaudience is essentially the ability to hear in a paranormal manner, as opposed to paranormal seeing (clairvoyance) and feeling (clairsentience). Clairaudient people have psi-mediated hearing. Clairaudience may refer not to actual perception of sound, but may instead indicate impressions of the "inner mental ear" similar to the way many people think words without having auditory impressions. But it may also refer to actual perception of sounds such as voices, tones, or noises which are not apparent to other humans or to recording equipment. For instance, a clairaudient person might claim to hear the voices or thoughts of the spirits of persons who are deceased. Clairaudience may be positively distinguished from the voices heard by the mentally ill when it reveals information unavailable to the clairaudient person by normal means (including cold reading or other magic tricks), and thus may be termed "psychic" or paranormal.
Audition is the scientific name for the perception of sound. Sound is a form of energy that moves through air, water, and other matter, in waves of pressure. Sound is the means of auditory communication, including frog calls, bird songs and spoken language. Although the ear is the vertebrate sense organ that recognizes sound, it is the brain and central nervous system that "hears". Sound waves are perceived by the brain through the firing of nerve cells in the auditory portion of the central nervous system. The ear changes sound pressure waves from the outside world into a signal of nerve impulses sent to the brain.
Interaural level differences (ILDs), sometimes called interaural intensity differences (IID), are differences of the soundpressure level arriving at the two ears; and are important cues that humans and animals use to localise higher frequency sounds. The interaural time difference is another source of information for sound localization. Our ears are only sensitive to sound pressure changes.
Neurons sensitive to ILDs are excited by stimulation of one ear and inhibited by stimulation of the other ear, such that the response magnitude of the cell depends on the relative strengths of the two inputs, which in turn, depends on the sound intensities at the ears.
In the auditory midbrain nucleus, the inferior colliculus (IC), many ILD sensitive neurons have response functions that decline steeply from maximum to zero spikes as a function of ILD. However, there are also many neurons with much more shallow response functions that do not decline to zero spikes.
Clairsentience or "Clear Sensing", is the ability to have an impression of what a spirit wants to communicate, or to feel sensations instilled by a spirit. the field of parapsychology, clairsentience is a form of extra-sensory perception wherein a person acquires psychic knowledge primarily by means of feeling or touching an object. The word is from the French clair, “clear,” + sentience, “feeling,” and is ultimately derived from the Latin clarus, “clear,” + sentiens, derived from sentire, “to feel”.
In addition to parapsychology, the term also plays a role in some religions. For example: clairsentience is one of the six human special functions mentioned or recorded in Buddhism. It is an ability that can be obtained at advanced meditation level. Generally the term refers to a person who can feel the vibration of other people. There are many different degrees of clairsentience ranging from the perception of diseases of other people to the thoughts or emotions of other people. The ability differs from third eye in that this kind of ability cannot have a vivid picture in the mind. Instead, a very vivid feeling can form.
Psychometry is related to clairsentience. The word stems from psyche and metric, which means "to measure with the mind". Psychometry (Greek: psukhe, "spirit, soul"; + metron, "measure") is a form of extra-sensory perception in which a psychic is said to be able to obtain information about an individual through paranormal means by making physical contact with an object that belongs to them. In recent years, the term has been superseded in favor of "token-object reading" so as to avoid potential confusion with the psychological term, "psychometry".
The term psychometry was coined by Joseph Rodes Buchanan in 1842. Buchanan developed the theory that all things give off an emanation.
"The past is entombed in the present, the world is its own enduring monument; and that which is true of its physical is likewise true of its mental career. The discoveries of Psychometry will enable us to explore the history of man, as those of geology enable us to explore the history of the earth. There are mental fossils for psychologists as well as mineral fossils for the geologists; and I believe that hereafter the psychologist and the geologist will go hand in hand, the one portraying the earth, its animals and its vegetation, while the other portrays the human beings who have roamed over its surface in the shadows, and the darkness of primeval barbarism. Aye, the mental telescope is now discovered which may pierce the depths of the past and bring us in full view of the grand and tragic passages of ancient history..
The concept of psychometry is a popular theme for stage act and Séance; with participants being asked to provide a personal object to be "read" by a medium or psychic. It was used as the basis for Johnny Smith's visions in Stephen King's 1979 novel The Dead Zone and its subsequent 2002 television adaption.
Clairalience or "Clear Smelling" is the ability to smell a spirit. Some people claim to smell exotic perfume or flowers or cigar smoke, things like that, when a real ghost is near.
Yvonne Brown a Florida Resident who can smell when ghosts where around her. This phenomena has been reported by many who search for the lost souls of the dead in the paranormal zone. In Browns view ghosts have various odors associated with them and no to specters or spooks smell the same.
Many famous ghosts have been known for their fragrances associated with their hauntings. Perfumes, food smells, or unnatural these odors are often encountered at the sites where they haunt. A group in California, The Ghost Hunter of Para- Haunt research recently went hunting for Marilyn Monroe's ghost. They said they encountered the smell of roses and disinfectant. Their group psychic medium Mary Simmons said that ghosts she has encountered recently are more fragrant when their more famous. In her opinion the ghosts that smell the best are the most sought after. She also told me that when hunting for the ghost of james dean she could smell a sexy manly smell of men's cologne. And when searching for the ghost of John Belushi she encountered the heavy odor of almonds and chewing gum.
Why? Simmons says she does not really know. Her explanation is that this is what the particular spirits that haunted the location wanted her to experience.
Dylan Merchant a ghost hunter from the UK tells me that the ghost of Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) King of England, smells like burning parchment paper, and wax and his wives each have distinctively different smells.
Olfaction, the sense of smell, the ability of humans and other animals to perceive odors. As described by the Roman philosopher Lucretius (1st Century BCE), different odors are attributed to different shapes and sizes of odor molecules that stimulate the olfactory organ. The modern counterpart to that theory was the cloning of olfactory receptor proteins by Linda B. Buck and Richard Axel (who were awarded the Nobel Prize in 2004), and subsequent pairing of odor molecules to specific receptor proteins. Each odor receptor molecule recognizes only a particular molecular feature or class of odor molecules. Mammals have about a thousand genes expressing for odor reception. Of these genes, only a portion are functional odor receptors. Humans have far fewer active odor receptor genes than other mammals and primates.
Each olfactory receptor neuron expresses only one functional odor receptor. Odor receptor nerve cells function like a key-lock system: If the airborne molecules of a certain chemical can fit into the lock, the nerve cell will respond. There are, at present, a number of competing theories regarding the mechanism of odor coding and perception. According to the shape theory, each receptor detects a feature of the odor molecule. Weak-shape theory, known as odotope theory, suggests that different receptors detect only small pieces of molecules, and these minimal inputs are combined to form a larger olfactory perception (similar to the way visual perception is built up of smaller, information-poor sensations, combined and refined to create a detailed overall perception). An alternative theory, the vibration theory proposed by Luca Turin, posits that odor receptors detect the frequencies of vibrations of odor molecules in the infrared range by electron tunnelling. However, the behavioral predictions of this theory have been called into question. As of yet, there is no theory that explains olfactory perception completely.
However, research is still being done, and institutes like the Monell Chemical Senses Center are working to uncover the secrets of olfactory perception.
Clairgustance or "Clear Tasting" is the ability to receive taste impressions from a spirit. In the field of parapsychology, clairgustance is defined as a form of extra-sensory perception that allegedly allows one to taste a substance without putting anything in one's mouth. It is claimed that those who possess this ability are able to perceive the essence of a substance from the spiritual or ethereal realms through taste.
Taste (or, more formally, gustation) is a form of direct chemoreception and is one of the traditional five senses. It refers to the ability to detect the flavor of substances such as food and poisons. In humans and many other vertebrate animals the sense of taste partners with the less direct sense of smell, in the brain's perception of flavor. In the West, experts traditionally identified four taste sensations: sweet, salty, sour, and bitter. Eastern experts traditionally identified a fifth, called umami (savory). More recently, psychophysicists and neuroscientists have suggested other taste categories (umami and fatty acid taste most prominently, as well as the sensation of metallic and water tastes, although the latter is commonly disregarded due to the phenomenon of taste adaptation. Taste is a sensory function of the central nervous system. The receptor cells for taste in humans are found on the surface of the tongue, along the soft palate, and in the epithelium of the pharynx and epiglottis.
For a long period, it has been commonly accepted that there are a finite number of "basic tastes" by which all foods and tastes can be grouped. Just like with primary colors, these "basic tastes" only apply to the human perception, ie. the different sorts of tastes our tongue can identify. Up until the 2000s, this was considered to be a group of four basic tastes. More recently, a fifth taste, Umami, was added by a large number of authorities in this field.
Umami is the name for the taste sensation produced by compounds such as glutamate, and are commonly found in fermented and aged foods. In English, it is also described as "meatiness", "relish", or "savoriness". The Japanese word comes from umai for yummy, keen, or nice. Umami is now the commonly used term by taste scientists. The same taste is referred to as xianwèi in Chinese cooking. Umami is considered a fundamental taste in Chinese and Japanese cooking, but is not discussed as much in Western cuisine.
Humans have taste receptors specifically for the detection of the amino acids, e.g. glutamic acid. Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins and are found in meats, cheese, fish, and other protein-heavy foods. Examples of food containing glutamate (and thus strong in umami) are beef, lamb, parmesan and roquefort cheese as well as soy sauce and fish sauce. The glutamate taste sensation is most intense in combination with sodium ions, as found in table salt. Sauces with umami and salty tastes are very popular for cooking, such as worcestershire sauce for Western cuisines and soy sauce and fish sauce for Asian cuisines.
The tongue can also feel other sensations, not generally called tastes per se or included in the five human tastes. These are largely detected by the somatosensory system.
Prickliness or hotness
Claircognizance or "Clear Knowing", is the ability to know something without receiving it through normal or psychic senses. It is a feeling of "just knowing". Often, a medium will claim to have the feeling that a message or situation is "right" or "wrong." Knowledge acquisition involves complex cognitive processes: perception, learning, communication, association and reasoning. The term knowledge is also used to mean the confident understanding of a subject with the ability to use it for a specific purpose if appropriate.
Symbolic representations can be used to indicate meaning and can be thought of as a dynamic process. Hence the transfer of the symbolic representation can be viewed as one ascription process whereby knowledge can be transferred. Other forms of communication include imitation, narrative exchange along with a range of other methods. There is no complete theory of knowledge transfer or communication.
In psychology and the cognitive sciences, perception is the process of attaining awareness or understanding of sensory information. It is a task far more complex than was imagined in the 1950s and 1960s, when it was predicted that building perceiving machines would take about a decade, a goal which is still very far from realizable. The word perception comes from the Latin perception, percepio, , meaning "receiving, collecting, action of taking possession, apprehension with the mind or senses."
What one perceives is a result of interplays between past experiences, one’s culture and the interpretation of the perceived. If the percept does not have support in any of these perceptual bases it is unlikely to rise above perceptual threshold.
Perception gives rise to two types of consciousness; phenomenal and psychological. The difference everybody can demonstrate to himself/herself by simple opening and closing his/her eyes. Phenomenal consciousness is full of rich sensations that are hardly present when eyes are closed. Psychological consciousness is well researched and measured. It occurs half a second after a stimulus starts. If a weak stimulus lasts less, it is unlikely to be perceived. The capacity of psychological consciousness is also well measured. Depending on methods used the capacity ranges between seven and forty symbols or percepts at one time.
There are two basic theories of perception: Passive Perception (PP) and Active Perception (PA). The passive perception (conceived by René Descartes) is addressed in this article and could be surmised as the following sequence of events: surrounding ? input (senses) ? processing (brain) ? output (re-action). Although still supported by mainstream philosophers, psychologists and neurologists, this theory is nowadays losing momentum. The theory of active perception has emerged from extensive research of sensory illusions, most notably the works of Richard L. Gregory. This theory is increasingly gaining experimental support and could be surmised as dynamic relationship between “description” (in the brain) ? senses ? surrounding.
Perception is one of the oldest fields in psychology. The oldest quantitative law in psychology is the Weber-Fechner law, which quantifies the relationship between the intensity of physical stimuli and their perceptual effects. It was the study of perception that gave rise to the Gestalt school of psychology, with its emphasis on holistic approach.
In the case of visual perception, some people can actually see the percept shift in their mind's eye. Others who are not picture thinkers, may not necessarily perceive the 'shape-shifting' as their world changes. The 'esemplastic' nature has been shown by experiment: an ambiguous image has multiple interpretations on the perceptual level.
Just as one object can give rise to multiple percepts, so an object may fail to give rise to any percept at all: if the percept has no grounding in a person's experience, the person may literally not perceive it.
The processes of perception routinely alter what humans see. When people view something with a preconceived idea about it, they tend to take those preconceived ideas and see them whether or not they are there. This problem stems from the fact that humans are unable to understand new information, without the inherent bias of their previous knowledge. The extent of a person’s knowledge creates their reality as much as the truth, because the human mind can only contemplate that which it has been exposed to. When objects are viewed without understanding, the mind will try to reach for something that it already recognizes, in order to process what it is viewing. That which most closely relates to the unfamiliar from our past experiences, makes up what we see when we look at things that we don’t comprehend.
This confusing ambiguity of perception is exploited in human technologies such as camouflage, and also in biological mimicry, for example by Peacock butterflies, whose wings bear eye markings that birds respond to as though they were the eyes of a dangerous predator. Perceptual ambiguity is not restricted to vision. For example, recent touch perception research (Robles-De-La-Torre & Hayward 2001) found that kinesthesia-based haptic perception strongly relies on the forces experienced during touch. This makes it possible to produce illusory touch percepts.
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Pseudoscience is a methodology, belief, or practice that is claimed to be scientific, or that is made to appear to be scientific, but which does not adhere to an appropriate scientific methodology, lacks supporting evidence or plausibility, or otherwise lacks scientific status. The term comes from the Greek root pseudo- (false or pretending) and "science" (from Latin scientia, meaning "knowledge"). An early recorded use was in 1843 by French physiologist François Magendie, who is considered a pioneer in experimental physiology.
The term is derogatory, because it is used to indicate that something is being inaccurately or deceptively portrayed as science. Accordingly, those labeled as practicing or advocating a "pseudoscience" normally dispute this characterization. There is disagreement among philosophers of science and among commentators in the scientific community about whether there is a reliable objective way to distinguish "pseudoscience" from non-mainstream "science".
Professor Paul DeHart Hurd argued that a large part of gaining scientific literacy is "being able to distinguish science from pseudo-science such as astrology, quackery, the occult, and superstition". As it is taught in certain introductory science classes, pseudoscience is any subject that appears superficially to be scientific, or whose proponents state that it is scientific, but which nevertheless contravenes the testability requirement or substantially deviates from other fundamental aspects of the scientific method.
Pseudoscience has been characterised by the use of vague, exaggerated or untestable claims, over-reliance on confirmation rather than refutation, lack of openness to testing by other experts, and a lack of progress in theory development.
Approaching the paranormal from a research perspective is often difficult because of the lack of acceptance of the physical reality of most of the purported phenonema. By definition, the paranormal does not conform to conventional expectations of the natural. Despite this challenge, studies on the paranormal are periodically conducted by researchers all from various disciplines. Some researchers study just the beliefs in the paranormal regardless of whether the phenomena are considered to objectively exist. This section deals with various approaches to the paranormal: anecdotal, experimental, and participant-observer approaches, the skeptical investigation approach and the survey approach.
For believers, ghosts are generally seen to be the spirit or soul of a deceased person. Alternative theories expand on that idea and include belief in the ghosts of deceased animals. Sometimes the term "ghost" is used synonymously with any spirit or demon , however in popular usage the term typically refers to a deceased person.
The belief in ghosts as souls of the departed is closely tied to the concept of animism, an ancient belief which attributed souls to everything in nature. As the nineteenth-century anthropologist James Frazer explained in his classic work, The Golden Bough, souls were seen as the creature within that animated the body. Although the human soul was sometimes symbolically or literally depicted in ancient cultures as a bird or other animal, it was widely held that the soul was an exact reproduction of the body in every feature, even down to clothing the person wore. This is depicted in artwork from various ancient cultures, including such works as the Egyptian Book of the Dead, which shows deceased people in the afterlife appearing much as they did before death, including the style of dress.
A widespread belief concerning ghosts is that they are composed of a misty, airy, or subtle material. Anthropologists speculate that this may also stem from early beliefs that ghosts were the person within the person, most noticeable in ancient cultures as a person's breath, which upon exhaling in colder climates appears visibly as a white mist. This belief may have also fostered the metaphorical meaning of "breath" in certain languages, such as the Latin spiritus and the Greek pneuma, which by analogy became extended to mean the soul. In the Bible, God is depicted as animating Adam with a breath.
Numerous theories have been proposed by scientists to provide non-paranormal explanations for ghosts sightings. Although the evidence for ghosts is largely anecdotal, the belief in ghosts throughout history has remained widespread and persistent.
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The advice on how to use real Ghost Hunting equipment can only be be answered by real researchers with years of experience in the ghost hunting field. Many would be Ghost Hunters only shop Paranormal Detection Equipment, Electronic Ghost Hunting Detectors because they think it is cool and want to try their hand at it. Usually without any prior training or other interest then doing what they think is cool.
Paranormal investigators make use of over a dozen different tools and electronic devices to help track down and locate possible evidence of paranormal. But are they in your ghost Hunters toolbox?
I can remember the day when individuals went into a very haunted house armed only with a Camera: 35mm camera with black and white film and/or infrared film. It took no more then that to make many into true believers. Today it is all about full documentation with no errors, and sworn testimony to the level that it makes us all look suspect. that is if we don't have or do what they do on TV.
A Ghost Hunter from JACKSON, MS. she wrote me telling me in her long email that she had been ghost hunting professionally for over 5 years. And that she was an upstanding Member of the TAPS Family.
Her request was for me to explain how to use the EMF detector she owned for 4.5 years and never quite got the hang of. In truth I discovered she actually used it because the clients who she investigated for expected it. But she had no clue to what the readings actually meant.
My advice is: Determine which ghost hunting methods you'll feel most comfortable working with: sensory or scientific. Sensory includes the use of dowsing rods, wind chimes and even psychics, sensitive's or mediums.
Scientific employs gadgets such as video cameras, thermal imaging scopes and electromagnetic field (EMF) detectors. Some ghost hunters use a combination of both.
At UnivCon 2008, Brian Harnois gave a presentation entitled "21st Century Ghost Hunter" wherein he questioned the tools that are used for ghost hunting on paranormal television shows. He discusses Flir, digital voice recorders, IR cameras, and more. Keep in mind that this is edited together, and therefore is not the full lecture.
Many of us realize that both amateur and professional ghost hunters will appreciate the extensive range of ghost hunting equipment available to suit any budget and any level of experience. But people just don't buy something because you think it's cool. Electronic equipment adds objectivity and reliability to your paranormal research. But if your knowledge and use of the item is weak why pull it out?
If you must learn from your Ghost Hunting or other Ghost Hunters mistakes you should retreat and start at the beginning. These beginner's kit is great for hobbyists and novice ghost hunters.
This Basic ghost Hunters Beginners Toolbox or Paranormal Investigation kit should include:
1 ELF Zone EMF Meter
1 Ghost Research book
1 video or digital camera
And of these important three items one should know all the ins and outs and instruction concerning the fine art of Paranormal investigation.
EMF meters, Infa red thermometer, RF meters, digital voice recorders and all usual Ghost Hunting equipment, cameras and video recorders are always the most important things to have. They verify what is going on that you can't see or detect with your five senses.
ATN Thermal-Eye X200xp System Description The Thermal-Eye X200xp is the smallest and lightest handheld thermal imaging camera available on the market today. It is designed for a variety of applications including public safety security and military. Easy to Use, Thermal Imaging Camera - Enter the world of professional investigations with the ultimate piece of tech equipment, also see: Thermal Imaging Camera!
GAUSSMASTER: This long-time favorite meter for beginning ghost hunters is back! The meter offers an easy-to-read analog scale, a unique built-in audio signal and an auto shut off switch when not picking up energy changes. It's hand-held, lightweight and easy to use in both light and dark locations. If you are just starting out in this field, this is the meter for you and operates with a standard 9-volt battery (not included). $39.95
TRI-FIELD NATURAL EM METER..... The personally recommended meter of researcher TROY TAYLOR! One of the most sensitive devices on the market and one of the most complex. It is not always recommended for beginners and is so sensitive that it can even pick up the fields of living persons. It was originally designed to read the activity of geo-magnetic storms so it can be delicate to carry around in an investigation. The best use for it is to place it in a stationary location and allow it to pick up movement in the extended range around it. It can also be used as a hand-held device but must be used carefully. Features a continuous analog reading and a SUM setting that allows it to pick up electric and magnetic fields at the same time. Signals any changes in field with an audio alarm. Highly recommended for the experienced ghost hunter!
TRI-FIELD METER: This is our Best Selling Basic Meter! This device combines magnetic and electric readings in one package for fast and accurate measurements. It has been adapted for paranormal research for several years and can be used by hand in taking readings of locations. In addition, this newly upgraded device is more sensitive than ever before! Features a continuous analog reading and a much higher sensitivity than ordinary meters... much easier to use than other Tri-Field Meters, it also features the options to have it upgraded by the manufacturer to include a light and audio signal. Highly recommended for the beginning ghost hunter over cheaper meters! Only $129.95
PERSONAL EMF ALARM: Just like the acclaimed TriField Meter, this has the addition of an audible alarm (that works for electric, magnetic, or RF) and you can set the alarm threshold at any level you want. The unit can be left unattended and it will alert you to the presence of a field above the threshold so you don't have to stare at the meter or you an even be in another room. Note that the threshold can be set to screen out any background EMF. As an alternative, and array of these meters can be set out over an area and the movement of a field can be tracked as the various meters sound their alarms. Remember, this is a 3-axis meter, so you don't miss important information just because the meter was not aligned properly.
ATN Thermal-Eye X200xp System Description The Thermal-Eye X200xp is the smallest and lightest handheld thermal imaging camera available on the market today. It is designed for a variety of applications including public safety security and military. $189.95
MAG-TEMP: Simultaneous EMF and Temperature Readout with Illuminated Display ! Easy to use and versatile meter gives you the chance to measure EMF readings and temperature with one device. It also gives you a wealth of information, and lots of options. Mag-Temp offers both single axis AC Magnetic field measurement and real-time air temperature readings. The display illumination is so bright, you can almost use it to find your way in dark areas, although it can be used with the light on or off. The read-out is in high resolution and offers a fast response. A basic 1-inch k-type thermocouple is included and it can be used with a variety of commercially available thermocouple probes for extended temperature ranges. Operates with a 9-volt battery. This is a step-up from the meter featured below and while slightly more in cost, is highly recommended and should be a standard tool in every ghost hunter's kit. Only $99.95
EMF Hunter: Easy to use and versatile meter that combines EMF radiation readings and temperature in a compact design. Offers and easy-to-read LED indicator and sound, so it can be used in dark locations. The temperature probe on this device is external, on the end of a six-foot cable (included). This makes it ideal for testing locations in that any EMF and temperature changes are occurring in the same spot as the investigator. This device (like the IR thermometer with the Type K Probe and the Dual Pocket Thermometer -- see both below) makes any other type of temperature sensing device obsolete. This basic meter offers both in one unit and is essential for your tool kit. Only $69.95
Peak/Hold 2-Range Gaussmeter
Peak/Hold 2-Range Gaussmeter: Another easy to use meter and a low-cost, single axis device. This unit is comfortable in your hand and features an easy-to-read digital screen -- with some added options over other meters of this type. The "peak" feature allows the investigator to let the meter run over extended periods to identify the highest fields in the area. The "hold" feature holds the current read-out, making this a great device for large areas or when searching for the highest readings at a particular location. Only $99.95!
EMF FIELD TESTER 200A: An easy to handle meter that is very simple to use with an on-off switch and a digital read-out screen that gives you a constant reading of any activity that you encounter. This is also an extremely reliable meter for measuring changes, readings and fluctuations in the EMF field of a location. We recommend it to anyone who prefers a digital reading rather than an analog scale. Only $89.95
IR THERMOMETER WITH TYPE K PROBE: This is the ideal probe that has long been recommended by the AGS and is now finally available! Measures temperature remotely and, most importantly, locally! This unique item combines a high resolution IR non-contact thermometer for checking temps at a distance with a probe that measures air, surface or internal temperatures at the location of the meter. The local, type K probe not reads temperatures at the immediate location, it does so safely with a flexible probe so ghost hunters don't have to worry about hurting themselves in the dark! This unit also has a backlit screen and an adjustable high / low alarm which alerts the user when it exceeds programmed limits. Highly recommended! $129.95
DUAL POCKET THERMOMETER: Long recommended by the AGS and finally available! Measures temperature both remotely and locally! This unique item combines a high resolution IR non-contact thermometer for checking temps at a distance with a probe that measures air, surface or internal temperatures at the location of the meter. Both readings can be displayed at the same time. Essential for accurate temperature readings during an investigation! $69.95
Wireless 4 Zone Thermometer WIRELESS 4 ZONE THERMOMETER: Measure Local and Three Remote Temperatures at the same time! This is a great item when you want to monitor the air temperature at up to 4 different locations simultaneously. Base station is one location, and you get 3 remote sensors which you can place up to 80 feet away*. Unit displays time, temperature at base station, and one of the remote sensors. One button toggles display of all three remote sensors. Updates quickly. Displays in °F or °C and will record minimum and maximum temperatures. Great for ghost hunters in any location! Moderately priced at just $69.95
*The maximum transmission range is 80 feet in a straight line (line of sight). Walls and obstructions can reduce transmission range by as much as 25-30 feet.
MONITOR 4: GEIGER COUNTER This device measures Alpha, Beta, Gamma and X-ray radiation and like other devices of this type, searches for fluctuations in radiation which will point to a disturbance in spirit energy. Great for investigations with an easy to read analog meter, red light counter, audible indicator.. and all in a hand-held unit It can also be used to check background levels of radiation in a location and uses a Geiger Mueller tube with a thin mica window. Includes a 9-volt battery. $299.95
ION DETECTOR: Unique in this price range, this hand-held ion detector possesses excellent sensitivity, is fully electrostatically shielded and can take accurate readings even under adverse conditions. This device can be adjusted to measure positive, or in paranormal investigation cases, negative ions separately. Much like with an electro-magnetic field detector, the ions in the air will measure a high disturbance when spirit energy is present. This device is great for investigations also because it is sensitive to natural effects like radiation, electrical storms and radon.... thus, is not easily disturbed by power outlets. It operates much in the same way as the Tri-Field Meter as it is not recommended for the beginner. Uses 2 9-volt batteries (included) $499.95
PORTABLE INFRARED MOTION SENSOR: Passive infrared technology is used to detect motion and temperature changes in a controlled area, which is vital for not only protecting the integrity of an investigation and for anomalous motion. The device sounds when motion is detected and then produces a loud alarm if not deactivated. Highly recommended! The sensor offers a 110 degree horizontal view and a 20 degree vertical view as far as 30 feet from the unit. Operates on 2 standard AA batteries and can be switched on and off from 30 feet away with a remote device. Great for paranormal research! $19.95
Decide how regularly you plan to ghost hunt. Ghost hunting as an occasional hobby doesn't require the use of the more sophisticated equipment, so there's no need to invest heavily in technology.
Go ghost hunting with someone who does it regularly. See what equipment they use and recommend and ask them for recommendations on local sources for equipment.
Use things you already own to avoid investing a lot of money up front. Start with the basics such as a camera, flashlights and a way to record investigation data such as with a notebook and pen or voice recorder.
Take into consideration the types of places you want to investigate and who will be with you. Walkie talkies come in handy for keeping in contact when covering large spaces such as cemeteries. Compasses not only help in navigating unfamiliar territory, they also react to magnetic fluctuations, which ghosts are said to sometimes influence.
Determine which equipment you are most likely to use if you are pursuing a scientific approach to data collection. Comparison shop at electronics and camera stores to be sure you are getting the best price and warranty on the equipment you purchase.
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Recording investigation data such as the date and location of the investigation, who's present and start time and finish times helps to preserve the integrity of the hunt. And of cousre it is real documentation.
Keep a lookout for used equipment, especially the more pricey and prized items like infrared thermal scanners, night vision equipment and air ion counters. Today pawn shops and ebay are filled with them.
Make sure to carry extra batteries. Many paranormal investigations do last for many, many hours. It's also theorized that ghosts drain available energy sources, such as batteries, to manifest. You want to make sure your equipment always has a power source in case you encounter Ghostly activity off the scale.
Don't spend a lot of money on fancy equipment for your first ghost hunting excursion. See if your well suited for becomoing a real Paranomal Investigator first.
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Ten Things You can Do To Invite A Real Ghost To Your Home
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5. Consider investigating your home for a haunting. Some experts believe actual people live in haunted homes and don't even know it!
6. Go to a well known Haunted Hot Spot in your city and Town and Loudly invite the ghosts that haunt that spot to follow you home.
7. Hold a Dumb Supper
8. Ask a real Witch or Voodoo Priest Or Priestess to curse you with a plague of real ghosts. Occults of this sort usually know how to capture real ghosts and get them to do their bidding.
9. Tell ghost stories: Sometimes many say Just telling real ghost stories will draw them to you!
10. Put out a tall Glass Of Wild Turkey,101 proof, 3 lbs of Almond Macaroon Cookies. Two Cubes of Sugar. This is guaranteed to work says a leading Paranormal Expert in the field. Works well in Southern, Tropical Arid Areas of the county. He Told us that in a very serious tone.
The possibility of extraterrestrial life is not, by itself, a paranormal subject. Many scientists are actively engaged in the search for unicellular life within the solar system, carrying out studies on the surface of Mars and examining meteors that have fallen to Earth. Projects such as SETI are conducting an astronomical search for radio activity that would show evidence of intelligent life outside the solar system. Scientific theories of how life developed on Earth allow for the possibility that life developed on other planets as well. The paranormal aspect of extraterrestrial life centers largely around the belief in unidentified flying objects and the phenomena said to be associated with them.
Unidentified flying object (commonly abbreviated as UFO or U.F.O.) is the popular term for any aerial phenomenon whose cause cannot be easily or immediately determined. Both military and civilian research show that a significant majority of UFO sightings have been identified after further investigation, either explicitly or indirectly through the presence of clear and simple explanatory factors (see Occam's Razor). The United States Air Force, which coined the term in 1952, initially defined UFOs as those objects that remain unidentified after scrutiny by expert investigators, though the term UFO is often used more generally to describe any sighting unidentifiable to the reporting observer(s). Popular culture frequently takes the term UFO as a synonym for alien spacecraft. Cults have become associated with UFOs, and mythology and folklore have evolved around the phenomenon. Some investigators now prefer to use the broader term unidentified aerial phenomenon (or UAP), to avoid the confusion and speculative associations that have become attached to UFO.
Studies have established that only a small percentage of reported UFOs are actual hoaxes, while the majority are observations of some real but conventional object—most commonly aircraft, balloons, or astronomical objects such as meteors or bright planets—that have been misidentified by the observer as anomalies. A small percentage of reported sightings (usually 5 %–20 %) are classified as unidentified flying objects in the strictest sense (see below for some studies).
The post World War II UFO phase in the United States began with a famous sighting by American businessman Kenneth Arnold on June 24, 1947 while flying his private plane near Mount Rainier, Washington. He reported seeing nine brilliantly bright objects flying across the face of Rainier. And the birth of todays UFO craze began.
Certain scientists have argued that all UFO sightings, in the strictest sense, are misidentifications of prosaic natural phenomena and historically, there was debate among some scientists about whether scientific investigation was warranted given available empirical data. Very little peer-reviewed literature has been published in which scientists have proposed, studied or supported non-prosaic explanations for UFOs.
UFO reports became frequent after the first widely publicized US sighting – reported by private pilot Kenneth Arnold in 1947 – that gave rise to the popular terms "flying saucer" and "flying disc". Since then, millions of people have reported that they have seen UFOs.
Early in the history of UFO culture, believers divided themselves into two camps. The first held a rather conservative view of the phenomena, interpreting it as unexplained occurrences that merited serious study. They began calling themselves "ufologists" in the 1950s and felt that logical analysis of sighting reports would validate the notion of extraterrestrial visitation.
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The second camp consisted of individuals who coupled ideas of extraterrestrial visitation with beliefs from existing quasi-religious movements. These individuals typically were enthusiasts of occultism and the paranormal. Many had backgrounds as active Theosophists, Spiritualists, or were followers of other esoteric doctrines. In contemporary times, many of these beliefs have coalesced into New Age spiritual movements.
Both secular and spiritual believers describe UFOs as having abilities beyond what is considered possible according to aerodynamics and physical laws. The transitory events surrounding many UFO sightings also limits the opportunity for repeat testing required by the scientific method. Acceptance of UFO theories by the larger scientific community is further hindered by the many possible hoaxes associated with UFO culture.
Unexplained aerial observations have been reported throughout history. Some were undoubtedly astronomical in nature: comets, bright meteors, one or more of the five planets that can be seen with the naked eye, planetary conjunctions, or atmospheric optical phenomena such as parhelia and lenticular clouds. An example is Halley's Comet, which was recorded first by Chinese astronomers in 240 B.C. and possibly as early as 467 B.C.
Other historical reports seem to defy prosaic explanation, but assessing such accounts is difficult. Whatever their actual cause, such sightings throughout history were often treated as supernatural portents, angels, or other religious omens. Some objects in medieval paintings can seem strikingly similar to UFO reports. Art historians explain those objects as religious symbols, often represented in many other paintings of Middle-Age and Renaissance.
Shen Kuo (1031–1095), a Song Chinese government scholar-official and prolific polymath inventor and scholar, wrote a vivid passage in his Dream Pool Essays (1088) about an unidentified flying object. He recorded the testimony of eyewitnesses in 11th-century Anhui and Jiangsu (especially in the city of Yangzhou), who stated that a flying object with opening doors would shine a blinding light from its interior (from an object shaped like a pearl) that would cast shadows from trees for ten miles in radius, and was able to take off at tremendous speeds.
Cryptid is a term which is used in cryptozoology to refer to a creature whose existence has been suggested but lacks scientific support. This includes purported organisms such as Bigfoot, Yeti, Chupacabra, Tazmanian Tigers, Mothman, Champ, Pterodactyls, Grunch and the Loch Ness Monster, as well as extinct species claimed by cryptozoologists to be living today, such as dinosaurs.
The term was coined by John E. Wall in a 1983 letter to the International Society of Cryptozoology newsletter.
Evidence for the existence of cryptids is typically limited to anecdotal evidence or other forms of evidence insufficient to withstand normal scientific scrutiny by the general zoological community.
The existence of several cryptids has been debunked through scientific investigation by cryptozoologists, zoologists, and other interested parties. Some allegations have been exposed as deliberate hoaxes (for example, The Surgeon's Photograph). Still, cryptozoology is a subject that has made its way into popular culture and often intrigues media consumers, as illustrated by shows like Monster Quest, Destination Truth and The Secret Saturdays.
The following is a list of cryptids and relicts, those animals studied under the field of cryptozoology. Their presumptive existence is often derived from anecdotal or other insufficient scientific evidence.
Every animal on this page is marked as one of the following:
* Unconfirmed – cryptids whose existence is alleged but not demonstrated.
* Discredited – [explanation] – cryptids who have a body of evidence against their existence.
* Proposed [animal name] – cryptids with an accepted alternative explanation.
* Extinct – animals who are now extinct, but which cryptozoologists believe may have an extant relict population.
Or as one of the following, if it is not considered a cryptid anymore:
* Confirmed – [animal name] – animals once thought to be cryptids but whose existence has now been confirmed.
* Hoax – cryptids once thought to be real, but for which it has been conclusively proven that they were a hoax.
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Name ↓ Other names ↓ Status ↓ Description ↓ Location ↓
Adjule Kelb-el-khela Unconfirmed Canine – unrecognized canid form report from western part of Sahara by local people, and live in packs. Possible some isolation population of very rare African wild dog. North Africa
Agogwe Unconfirmed Small bipedal Eastern Africa
Ahool Unconfirmed Flying animal, giant bat Indonesia
Akkorokamui Unconfirmed Fish Japan; Thailand
Almas Abnauayu, almosty, albasty, bekk-bok,
biabin-guli, golub-yavan, gul-biavan, auli-avan,
kaptar, kra-dhun, ksy-giik, ksy-gyik, ochokochi,
mirygdy, mulen, voita, wind-man, Zana Unconfirmed Primate or hominid Asia/Caucasus
Altamaha-ha Altie Unconfirmed River animal Georgia (U.S. state)
Amarok Discredited Giant wolf of Inuit mythology Arctic
Ameranthropoides loysi "Ameranthropoides loysi" De Loys' ape Proposed – probable misidentification of a spider monkey Primate South America
Amomongo Negros ape Unconfirmed Primate Negros, Philippines
Andean Wolf Hagenbeck wolf, Andean mountain wolf, Dasycyon hagenbecki Extinct Canine High Andes
Ayia Napa sea monster O filikos teras, Nappis Unconfirmed Cross of various prehistoric sea creatures Cyprus
Barmanou Unconfirmed Primate Middle East/Asia
Batutut Ujit Unconfirmed Hominid East Asia
Bear Lake Monster Unconfirmed Lake animal Idaho/Utah (United States)
Beast of Bodmin Moor Beast of Bodmin Unconfirmed Large felid United Kingdom
Beast of Bray Road Michigan Dogman, Wisonson Werewolf Unconfirmed Carnivorous mammal Wisconsin (United States)
Beast of Busco Churubusco turtle; Oscar Unconfirmed Reptile/dinosaur United States
Beast of Dean Moose-pig boar-like mammal United Kingdom
Beast of Gévaudan Unconfirmed Carnivorous mammal France
Bergman's bear God bear; irkuiem Extinct Bear Asia
Bessie Unconfirmed Lake animal Lake Erie, North America
Bigfoot Sasquatch, Skookum Unconfirmed Hominid or primate North America
Black Shuck Old shuck Unconfirmed Carnivorous mammal Coast of East Anglia, England
Bloop Unconfirmed Gigantic creature/Unconfirmed sound South American southwest coast
British big cats Alien big cats (ABCs), phantom cats, English lions
beast of Bodmin, Beast of Exmoor Proposed escaped animals Carnivorous mammal Great Britain
Brosno dragon Unconfirmed Lake animal Lake Brosno, Russia
Bukit Timah Monkey Man BTM Unconfirmed Forest-dwelling hominid or primate Singapore
Bunyip Unconfirmed (legendary creature) Lake and cave animal Australia
Burmese gray wild dog Unconfirmed Canine Burma
Buru Extinct Reptile or giant lungfish India
Burrunjor Arnhem Rex Unconfirmed Living dinosaur Australia
Cadborosaurus willsi "Cadborosaurus willsi" Caddy, "Cadborosaurus" Unconfirmed Sea animal Pacific Coast of North America
Canvey Island Monster Proposed anglerfish or batfish Bipedal United Kingdom
Champ Champtanystropheus "Champtanystropheus" Unconfirmed Lake animal Lake Champlain, North America
Chessie (sea monster) Discredited Sea animal Atlantic Coast of United States/Chesapeake Bay
Chupacabra Goat Sucker Unconfirmed Reptile/Mammal/Canine, possibly 2 species; thought to be a supernatural/alien creature by some Mexico/Puerto Rico/Texas
Con Rit Many-finned Sea Serpent, Cetacean Centipede, Great Sea-Centipede, Cetioscolopendra aeliana Unconfirmed Sea animal Southeast Asia, coast of Algeria
Dingonek Jungle walrus Unconfirmed A walrus that reportedly lives in the heart of Africa Western Africa
Dahu Unconfirmed Herbivorous mammal France, Switzerland
Deinotherium Extinct Herbivorous mammal Africa
Devil Bird Ulama Discredited Bird Sri Lanka
Dobhar-chu Carnivorous mammal Discredited Ireland
Dover Demon Unconfirmed Bipedal, alien-like Dover, Massachusetts, USA
Dragon Unconfirmed, Mythical Flying serpent-like reptile (occasionally has legs) Worldwide
Ebu Gogo Homo floresiensis, "Hobbit" Supposedly extinct, but allegedly still seen by some Small primate or possible early hominid Flores, Indonesia
Elasmotherium Giant Rhinoceros Extinct Herbivorous mammal Asia
Elwedritsche Unconfirmed Mammal Germany
Ennedi tiger Hadjel, Gassingram, Vossoko, Mourou N'gou, Mamaimé, Dilali, Saber-toothed cat Extinct Carnivorous mammal Chad, Africa
Emela-ntouka Chipekwe, Irizima, Aseka-moke Unconfirmed Reptile/Dinosaur or an undiscovered aquatic rhinoceros Republic of the Congo
Fangfish Mouthfish Discredited A red-eyed fish with huge fangs (only 2 pics exist, and it is a corpse) A beach
Fear liath Am Fear Liath Mòr, The Big Grey Man of Ben MacDhui, Greyman Unconfirmed Primate; possible humanoid Scotland
Flatwoods monster Green Monster, Braxton County Monster Unconfirmed Extraterrestrial; spade-headed-alien United States, West Virginia
Flying Rod Sky Fish, rod, sky squid Discredited Possible bird or insect, likely a camera illusion Worldwide
Fouke Monster Boggy Creek Monster Unconfirmed Primate; possible humanoid United States, Arkansas
Fur-bearing trout Discredited Fish with hair; hairy trout North America
Garou Loup Garou, Cajun werewolf Unconfirmed Wolf-like creature US, Louisiana
Gazeka Discredited Mammal Papua New Guinea
Gambo Unconfirmed Sea animal Africa
Getzko Gyetzko Unconfirmed Hominid Poland and Belarus, Eastern Europe
Giant anaconda Unconfirmed Giant snake South America
Giant Snake of Mt. Tsurugi Unconfirmed Reptile Japan
Giglioli's whale Amphiptera pacifica "Amphiptera pacifica" Unconfirmed Sea animal Off Chile, Scotland and France (Mediterranean)
Globster Unconfirmed Decaying sea animal Australia, New Zealand, Caribbean
Gloucester Sea serpent Great Sea Serpent of New England Unconfirmed Sea serpent Massachusetts, United States
Gnomes Goblin Unconfirmed Small humanoid Argentina
Goatman The Maryland Goatman, Chevo Man Unconfirmed Bipedal United States, Wisconsin, Maryland, New York State
Grassman Kenmore Grassman, Ohio Grassman Unconfirmed Bigfoot-like; primate Kenmore, Akron, Ohio, United States
Grass Mud Horse Caonima, Cao Ni Ma Hoax Alpaca-like China (Gobi Desert)
The Grinning Man Indrid Cold, Karl Ardo, Demo Hassan (names of supposed Grinning Men encountered by contactees) Unconfirmed Extraterrestrial, Men In Black (MIB) Elizabeth, New Jersey and Point Pleasant, West Virginia, United States
Gunni Hoax Antlered, wombat-like marsupial Marysville and surrounding area, Victoria, Australia
Grootslang Unconfirmed Elephant with a serpent's tail Richtersveld, South Africa
Hibagon Hinagon Unconfirmed Primate Japan
High-finned sperm whale Unconfirmed Cetacean Shetland Islands
Hodag The Dag; Nasobatilus Discredited; the main original proponent of its existence later admitted it to be a hoax Carnivorous mammal/lizard United States, Wisconsin
Homo gardarensis "Homo gardarensis" Discredited Hominid (acromegalic Homo sapiens?) Greenland
Hoop snake Hoax Reptile United States/Australia
Huaychivo Discredited Carnivorous mammal Yucatan (Mexico)
Hyote Discredited Canine United States, Maryland
Igopogo Unconfirmed Lake animal Lake Simcoe, Ontario
Iliamna Lake Monster Unconfirmed Lake animal Lake Iliamna, Alaska
Inkanyamba Unconfirmed Lake animal Africa
Isshii Issie Unconfirmed Lake animal Japan
Jackalope antelabbit, aunt benny, Wyoming thistled hare, stagbunny Hoax, influenced by rabbits infected with the Shope papilloma virus Herbivorous mammal North America
Japanese Wolf Extinct Carnivorous mammal Japan
Jersey Devil Leeds Devil Unconfirmed Winged bipedal horse United States, esp. New Jersey
Kaijin Unconfirmed Sea Monster Japan
Kala Bandar Black Monkey, Monkey-man of Delhi Unconfirmed Big black monkey seemed to be the reason of disaster in areas around Old Delhi (India) India
Kappa Gatarō, Kawako Unconfirmed, Mythical Bipedal Japan
Kasai Rex Discredited Reptile/Dinosaur, possibly Carcharodontosaurus Africa
Kikiyaon Unconfirmed Carnivore bird Africa
Kingstie Lake George Monster Discredited Lake animal North America, Lake Ontario
Kongamato Unconfirmed Pterosaur/Bird/Bat Kenya
Kraken Legendary large squid Sea animal World's oceans
Kting Voar Holy Goat, Snake-eating Cow, Khting Vor, Linh Duong, Pseudonovibos spiralis Discredited Herbivorous mammal Vietnam, Cambodia
Kumi Lizard Extinct; unconfirmed Reptile/Giant monitor lizard New Zealand
Kusshii Unconfirmed Lake animal Japan
Lagarfljóts Worm lagarfljóts ormurinn Unconfirmed Lake animal Iceland
Lake Tahoe Monster Tahoe Tessie Discredited Lake monster California and Nevada, United States
Lake Tianchi Monster Lake Chonji Monster Unconfirmed Lake animal China
Lake Van Monster Monster of Lake Van Unconfirmed Lake animal Turkey
Lake Worth monster Lake Worth Goatman, Texas Bigfoot Unconfirmed Carnivorous mammal United States, Texas
Lariosauro Como Lake Monster Unconfirmed Water reptile Italy
Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp Lizard Man of Lee County Unconfirmed Bipedal United States, South Carolina
Lizard Men Draconian, Reptoid, Dinosauroid, Dragonoid, Reptilian Unconfirmed, Theoretical Bipedal Worldwide
Loch Ness Monster Nessie, Nessiteras rhombopteryx Unconfirmed Lake monster Loch Ness, Scotland
Loveland Frog Loveland Lizard Unconfirmed Bipedal lizard or frog, first saw in Loveland, Ohio Ohio, United States
Lusca Unconfirmed Sea animal World's oceans
MacFarlane's Bear Ursus inopinatus Extinct Carnivorous mammal Canada
Mahamba (giant crocodile) Unconfirmed Reptile Republic of the Congo
Maltese Tiger Blue Tiger Proposed tiger with abnormal coloration due to mutation Carnivorous mammal China
Mamlambo Unconfirmed Lake animal South Africa
Manananggal Unconfirmed Humanoid Philippines
Manatee of Helena Unconfirmed Manatee St Helena
Mande Barung Mande Burung, Indian Yeti Unconfirmed Humanoid North East India
Manipogo Winnipogo Unconfirmed Lake animal Lake Manitoba, Canada
Manticore Discredited Lion-Dragon Asia Mainland
Mapinguari Unconfirmed Herbivorous mammal Amazon Rainforest
Maricoxi Unconfirmed Primate South America
Marozi Spotted Lion Unconfirmed Lion-like cat Africa
Marsupial Lion Thylacoleo, Thylacoleo carnifex Extinct Carnivorous marsupial mammal Australia
Mbielu-Mbielu-Mbielu Unconfirmed Reptile/Dinosaur Republic of the Congo
Mecheny Unconfirmed Primate Asia
Megalodon Carcharodon Extinct, Considered by some to still exist Giant prehistoric shark World's oceans
Megalania prisca Giant Australian monitor lizard Extinct Reptile/Giant prehistoric Komodo Dragon Australia
Menehune Unconfirmed Primate United States, Hawaii
Merpeople Mermaid Merman Unconfirmed, many hoaxes have been discredited. Man-Fish The Seven Oceans and several seas
Messie Unconfirmed Lake creature Lake Murray, South Carolina, U.S.
Minhocão Unconfirmed Caecilian South America
Minnesota Iceman Homo pongoides "Homo pongoides" Unconfirmed Primate United States, Minnesota
Mitla Fawcett's zorro or Fawcett's cat Unconfirmed Carnivorous mammal Bolivia rainforest
Mngwa Nunda Unconfirmed Carnivorous mammal Africa
Moa Extinct Giant flightless bird New Zealand
Moehau The Hairy Moehau, The Moehau Monster Unconfirmed Primate New Zealand
Mokele Mbembe Unconfirmed Reptile/Dinosaur Republic of the Congo
MoMo Missouri Monster Discredited Primate United States, Missouri
Mongolian Death Worm Allghoi (or orghoi) khorkhoi Unconfirmed Worm-like animal Gobi Desert
Mono Grande Unconfirmed Hominid South America
Montauk Monster Mounty Unconfirmed Possible partly decomposed and mutilated carcass of a dog which looked like a monster Montauk, Long Island
Morag Unconfirmed Lake animal Scotland
Mothman Indrid Cold, The Grinning Man (Human form) Unconfirmed Winged bipedal West Virginia, United States
Muckie Unconfirmed Lake animal Lakes of Killarney, Ireland
Muc-sheilch Unconfirmed Lake animal Scotland
Muhuru Unconfirmed Reptile/Dinosaur Kenya
Mussie Unconfirmed Lake animal Ontario, Canada
Muwa waray-waray, mawa Unconfirmed Primate, forest-dwelling hominid Eastern Samar, Philippines
Muhm mumh Unconfirmed Primate, Mountain-dwelling hominid; Female shaped animal (some old inhabitants say it was a goat-like creature, with head of female). Several dead bodies of Muhms were reported after great Earthquake of 1935. Quetta, Pakistan
Mylodon Extinct, though considered by some to still exist Giant prehistoric ground sloth Southern Patagonian forests
Nabau Unconfirmed Giant snake Malaysia
Naga Naga, Nak, Phaya Nak Unconfirmed Legendary large snake Mekong river border between Thailand and Laos
Nahuelito Unconfirmed Lake animal Argentina
Nandi Bear Chemosit, Chimiset, Chimisit, Duba, Engargiya, Gadett, Ikimizi, Kerit, Kikambangwe, Kikomba, Koddoelo, Ngoloko, Sabrookoo, Shivuverre Proposed hyena Carnivorous mammal Africa
Ndendeki (giant turtle) Unconfirmed Reptile Republic of the Congo
Neo-Giant Unconfirmed Primate Worldwide
Ngoima (giant monkey-eating Eagle) Unconfirmed Carnivore bird Republic of the Congo
Ningen Unconfirmed Sea monster with human features Antarctic Ocean. Pacific Ocean near Japan.
Ngoubou Unconfirmed Reptile/Dinosaur Cameroon
Nguma-monene Unconfirmed Reptile/Dinosaur Republic of the Congo
Người Rừng Forest People Unconfirmed Primate Vietnam
Nyalmo Unconfirmed Primate Asia
Ogopogo N'ha•a•itk, Naitaka Unconfirmed Lake animal Lake Okanagan, Canada
Old Yellow Top Unconfirmed Primate Canada
Olitiau Unconfirmed Winged animal Cameroon
Orang-Bati Unconfirmed Bipedal Indonesia
Orang Mawas Mawa, Orang Dalam, hantu jerang gigi Unconfirmed Primate Malaysia
Orang Pendek Unconfirmed Primate, has been associated with Homo floresiensis Sumatra
Owlman Cornish Owlman, The Owlman of Mawnan Unconfirmed Bird England
Ozark Howler Unconfirmed Carnivorous mammal United States, Arkansas & Missouri
Phantom cats Alien Big Cats (ABCs) Proposed escaped animals Carnivorous mammal Worldwide
Phantom kangaroo Proposed escaped animals Marsupials Various
Phaya Naga Unconfirmed Lake animal Laos, Thailand
Pinatubo lake monsters Discredited – groups of fish swarming together, seeming like an unknown creature Lake animal, giant eel Zambales, Philippines
Pogeyan Unconfirmed – known to local people, sighted by Western naturalist Grey felid; possible leopard colour morph or out-of-place Asian lion Ghats (Himalayan foothills), India
Popobawa Unconfirmed Africa
Pope Lick Monster Unconfirmed Bipedal United States, Kentucky
Pouakai Extinct Large carnivourous eagle New Zealand
Pressie Unconfirmed Lake creature United States, Michigan
Pukwudgie Unconfirmed Bipedal United States, Massachusetts
Queensland Tiger Unconfirmed Carnivorous mammal Australia
Raijū Unconfirmed Lightning creature Japan
Rat king Unconfirmed Group of rats Europe
Renton River Beast Unconfirmed Humanoid United States/Pacific Northwest
Rhinoceros Dolphin Unconfirmed Cetacean
Road Troll Discredited Humanoid United States
Ropen Indava, duwas, seklo-bali, kundua, wawanar Unconfirmed Flying animal/Pteradactyl Papua New Guinea
Row Discredited Reptile New Guinea
Ryugyo Unconfirmed Sturgeon-like fish Japan
Salawa Seth, Salaawa Unconfirmed Carnivorous mammal Egypt
Sea monk Discredited – misidentifications of known animals Sea animal World's oceans
Sea monsters Unconfirmed Sea animal World's oceans
Sea serpent Unconfirmed Sea animal World's oceans
Setontot Discredited Malaysia
Selma Seljordsormen Unconfirmed Lake animal Lake Seljord, Telemark, Norway
Shug Monkey Unconfirmed Primate Europe
Shunka Warakin Unconfirmed Carnivorous mammal; wolf-like, boar-like, hyena-like American West (especially Montana)
Sigbin Unconfirmed Canine, Cat-fox, civet Philippines
Simurgh Dog-bird "Dog-bird" Unconfirmed Bird Iran
Sirrush Mushrushu Unconfirmed Reptile/Dinosaur Africa, Ancient Babylon
Skunk Ape Unconfirmed Primate Florida, United States
Skvader Hoax Mammal Sundsvall, Sweden
Slow Down Unidentified sound Sea creature Pacific Ocean
Smilodon Saber Tooth Tiger Extinct, though considered by some to still exist Prehistoric felid Deep jungles in Colombia, southern Argentina
Steller's Sea Cow Extinct Sea animal Bering Strait
Storsjöodjuret Unconfirmed Lake animal Sweden
Stronsay Beast Discredited – identified as basking shark Sea animal Orkney, Scotland
Sucuriju Gigante Giant Bull Eater; Giant Anaconda Unconfirmed Giant boa Amazonia
Takitaro Unconfirmed Giant fish Japan
Tatzelwurm Unconfirmed Reptile/Amphibian European Alps
Thunderbird Unconfirmed Giant bird North America
Thylacine Tasmanian Tiger, Tasmanian Wolf Extinct (possibly still existent and is still a main priority for Tasmanian government to keep safe in case it is) Carnivorous marsupial Tasmania, Australia
Tjutjuna Chuchunaa Unconfirmed Primate Russia
Trinity Alps giant salamander Unconfirmed Salamander United States, California
Trunko Unconfirmed Sea animal South Africa
Tsuchinoko Unconfirmed Reptile/Snake Japan
Tsul 'Kalu Unconfirmed Primate American West
Turtle Lake Monster Unconfirmed Lake monster Saskatchewan, Canada
Tapire-lauara Unconfirmed Lion/Pig The Amazon Rainforest
Unicorn Unconfirmed, Mythical Horse Europe
Veo Unconfirmed Carnivorous mammal Indonesia
Waheela Unconfirmed Carnivorous mammal Canada
Waitoreke Unconfirmed Carnivorous mammal New Zealand
Willy Unconfirmed Aquatic creature Willoughby, Vermont, USA
Wippy Whippy Unconfirmed Lake monster Lake Massawippi, Canada
Wolpertinger Crisensus bavaricus "Crisensus bavaricus" Hoax Mammal Germany
Winnie Unconfirmed lake monster Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire
Wucharia Unconfirmed Canine Danakil depression, Eritrea
Yeren Unconfirmed Primate (possible hominin) China
Yeti Abominable Snowman Unconfirmed Primate Asia (Himalayas)
Yowie Unconfirmed Primate Australia
Zuiyō Maru "plesiosaur" New Zealand Monster Discredited – Basking shark carcass Christchurch coast of New Zealand
If you have ever witnessed a real ghost, an apparition, a poltergeist, a ecto mist or captured a real Ghost Photo or video. Then you are one of the select few that no amount of persuading can change your opinion that ghost do exist. Ghosts research, evidence, and discussion will probably get you nowhere with a septic.
Reasoning, deduction collection of paranormal encounters with ghosts and understandings to form an honest opinion."Can I help you?" is the next question one might ask a real ghost. What we really mean is, "You look suspicious. What are you doing here?"
There are many factors that might keep a persons soul, spirit or ghost earthbound. But the exact one true reason is emotional attachment. It could be said that what it is they hold dear or fear, holds them tightly to this world. Reasons do vary, but attachment issues, cause, reason and logic dictates they of course or not ready to move on to the great reward.
San Marcos, Texas is a city that has many ghosts. Current EVP's from all over the town always come back with the ghost asking the Paranormal Investigators. "What are you doing Here?" I guess they have the same questions we do about who and what is going on. Investigators from Homewood, Illinois, Henderson, North Carolina, Kochi, Kerala, Trujillo, La Libertad, Ankara, Toulouse, Midi-Pyrenees, La Mesa, California, and Tamworth, Staffordshire have all reported ghost asking them just that. These Cities are very haunted and when visiting them don't freak out if the ghost ask you this question directly.
Bellefontaine, Ohio ghosts are said to often scratch this on to the stomach legs or backs of individuals who try to hunt for them. A recent young Woman claims that a ghost scratched her cheek with the words in deep long razor blade like gashes.
A email I got recently came from a Practicing Necromancer in Chowchilla, California. Their question was, "as Necromancers What are we doing here?" I guess they want to know my motives reasons and desires to do what I am doing. Reveal what I am revealing. Or just basically telling the truth!
Is that what we want a ghost to answers us?
Just to give us proof or reason of cause.
But for What!
The number one talked about place for ghost hunting seems to be cemeteries. They are well known for being creepy places, associated with Halloween, ghosts, and goblins. The haunted cemetery in In Valencia, Carabobo is a very haunted location. And as are the ones in Dallas, Texas, Pacoima, California,
Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, Kalamazoo, Michigan and Covington, Kentucky.
Covington, Kentucky is well know for it's many cemetery ghost photos and just recently for documentation of over 39 ghost asking in EVP"S "What Are You Doing Here?" Saint Charles, Missouri has had the same phenomena going on for many years. A local Psychic tells me of being asked that question from a Ouija board spirit or demon right before she got possessed by the Devil that haunted her board.
Silverdale, Washington has had it's well over fair share of hauntings and ghost! EVP's are the main paranormal occurrences as is phone calls from the dead. Many residents often tell of Ghosts from beyond the grave calling up family and wishing them well. They also report that they always ask, "What are you doing there." when they call.
Lawrence, Massachusetts Ghost seem to only respond to you if you ask them. "What are You Doing Here?" The response is usually confusing to them because the realize they are seen or felt and will react to helping you document them.
Stull Cemetery, that defy all definitions of a “ very haunted cemetery“. They are places that go beyond the legends of merely being haunted and enter into the realm of ultra paranormal.
They are places said to be so terrifying that the Devil himself holds court with his worshippers there... and in the case of Stull Cemetery in Kansas, is one of the “gateways to hell” itself! And Many report always hearing or recording the whispers of ghost and even the Devil Himself asking the question quite clearly.
Stull Cemetery, and the abandoned church that rests next to it, is located in the tiny, nearly forgotten Kansas town of Stull. There is not much left of the tiny village, save for a few houses, the newer church and about twenty residents. However, the population of the place allegedly contains a number of residents that are from beyond this earth! In addition to its human inhabitants, the town is also home to a number of legends and strange tales that are linked to the crumbling old church and the overgrown cemetery that can be found atop Stull’s Emmanuel Hill. For years, stories of witchcraft, ghosts and supernatural happenings have surrounded the old graveyard. It is a place that some claim is one of the "seven gateways to hell."
Investigating at cemeteries can bring fantastic results, depending on which cemetery you are investigating and more importantly, the history behind it, the land, previous burials, etc. Cemeteries can be a good starting point because you don't have to worry about dealing with home owners or anyone who is afraid of paranormal activity they may be experiencing in their homes. Always get permission before you and your group (or even just friends) go snooping around a cemetery at night. Most cemeteries close at dusk and you can be ticketed by your local police after dark if they consider you to be trespassing. A good starting point for getting permission is the police department for the city where the cemetery resides. They can then point you in the right direction as far as who owns the cemetery, and who to ask for permission.
The strange ghosts of Decatur, Illinois will usually answer you back with strange answers. Many believe it's because these ghosts are being trained to respond and love the city and the Ghost Hunters so much they are more then apt to communicate with you directly. The Haunted Decatur Tour was created by Skip Huston and author Troy Taylor in 1994 and is one of the longest running ghost tours in the state of Illinois and has won several awards for being one of the most authentic in the Midwest. In 2009, Troy Taylor has re-created the tour for a whole new look at an even darker side of the city -- revealing more murders, scandals, sins and spirits than have ever been featured on the tours before! This is the tour that the "powers that be" in Decatur don't want you to see -- an open and honest look at the reason that Decatur has earned its sordid reputation and a celebration of the unusual history that has placed Decatur squarely on the map as one of the most haunted cities in America!
The Ghost of Decatur some say are all there to delightfully only to ask you. "What Are You doing Here?"
Many rumors abound to why the Ghost Of Decatur, Illinois are so apt to carry on longer EVP conversations then in other cities? Well the answer is maybe they have been asked too much, by the hundreds of real Ghost Hunters that descend upon the town each year.
Join A Paranormal Investigation Group
Paranormal groups nation wide offer the novice an opportunity to research, hunt and experience real hauntings and their locations all across America. Many focus on Halloween as the best time to do actual large scale ghost hunts. The sooner you join a group the sooner you can participate. Or join a Paranormal investigation Meet-up Group. Or start a group of your own.
Coast to Coast AM is a North American (US and Canada) late-night syndicated radio talk show which deals with a variety of topics, but most frequently ones that relate either to the paranormal, or to alleged conspiracies. It was created by Art Bell, airs seven nights a week 10:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. Pacific Time, and is distributed by Premiere Radio Networks.
Coast to Coast AM Official website covers unusual topics, and is full of personal stories related by callers. While program content varies, most nights are focused toward the paranormal, and subjects such as the occult, remote viewing, hauntings, shadow people, psychic predictions, metaphysics, conspiracy theories, UFOs, crop circles, cryptozoology, hollow earth theory and science fiction literature, among other paranormal and unusual topics. Since the terrorist attacks carried out in the United States on September 11, 2001, the events of that day (as well as conspiracy theories surrounding them) and current U.S. counter-terrorism strategy have also become frequent themes. George Noory also takes interest in the 2012 Doomsday prediction, and believes something will happen.
After the theme song is played (Giorgio Moroder's "The Chase" from Midnight Express,) the broadcast is typically kicked off with a reading of current events or news stories by the host, usually with at least one bizarre or peculiar story. This is usually followed by a guest interview for the rest of the first hour (with open phone lines if there is enough time), then a lengthier three-hour interview with a second guest. For the last hour of the show, people may call in to ask questions of the second guest. Every so often, host George Noory will flip the show's format and have the longer interview guest on first to fill the first three hours of the show. In this format, the primary interview begins after the reading of the news and then the first break. In the last hour in this "flipped" format, the last hour will sometimes feature guest with a shorter subject or, more often than not, be simply an hour of open lines. Occasionally, round table discussions are held on one of the show's common topics. Conventional topics are sometimes discussed, with interviews with notable authors and political talk sometimes featured.
On rare occasions, hosts have cut interviews short when it became clear that guests were being dishonest, unethical, unintelligible, abusive, or patronizing. When this happens, the rest of the show will be filled with open lines. Guests that have interviews cut short due to bad phone connections for example, or at the last minute becoming unavailable are generally rescheduled for a later date.
Some guests have been challenged. However, the overall tone of the show is generally friendly toward paranormal and fringe views, and apart from panel discussions and advertised debates, guests are generally free to air their views unopposed.
In 2008, George Noory volunteered an elaboration of the show's policy respecting the controversial opinions of regular guests. He explained that, provided there was no element of hostility toward third parties, it was program policy to allow expression of opinion unchallenged. He gave as an example Richard C. Hoagland's contention that features on Mars are artificial, constructed by a civilization that once inhabited the planet. Noory accepted that this opinion has no support whatsoever in the planetary science community, but said that C2C exists in part to provide a forum for such eccentric ideas. He added that, since guests are never paid appearance fees, it is inevitable that promotion of books, videos, and web sites is often a motivation for guests to sacrifice a night's sleep.
During hours of "open lines", calls are taken and put on air. Under George Noory, open lines have added topics for callers to share their experiences or stories about a particular issue or situation. The show has multiple call-in numbers for:
1. "East of the Rockies"
2. "West of the Rockies"
3. "First-time callers"
4. "International callers"
5. A "wild card" line
As of 2007, George Noory has added a "Special Line", which is a dedicated line, with varying subjects, such as the "People who are Aliens," "Time Travelers," "Area 51 personnel," etc.
They are all announced at the beginning of each broadcast by Ross Mitchell. On special occasions, Coast to Coast AM rolls out more numbers, including lines that are reserved for special "themed" callers, for example those who claim to be from other dimensions, time periods, and those possessed by spirits.
The Halloween edition of Coast to Coast AM becomes Ghost to Ghost AM, as listeners call in with their ghost stories. The New Year's Eve show usually entails listeners calling in their predictions for the coming year, and the host (commonly Art Bell) rating the predictions made a year earlier. In recent years, the host of the New Year's Eve prediction show has been cautioning the open line callers that they may not predict the assassination of any person or the death of the US president.
The first lady of conjuring the Dead. The ancient art pf Necromancy is still alive today with Waugh at it's main investigator. LISA LEE HARP WAUGH Is a necromancer in the 21st century. She is by what may call a real conduit to the world of the dead. She dressers in ceremonial robes, draws magical circles on the floor and commands spirits from Heaven, Hell and all places in between to appear before her and communicate with the living. As a teenager she studied heavily The Black Arts by Richard Cavendish and The Grand Grimoire by A.E Waite, the Malleus Maleficarum and anything she could get her hands on by the great by Eliphas Levi, John Dee and the great beast, Aleister Crowley. www.ghosthuntersofamerica.com
A professional Necromancer and founder of the Sorcerers and Necomaner Guild of greater Houston, Texas. Waugh has been practicing and conducting rituals for many paranormal investigators for over 20 years. Waugh also paints many spiritual and common murals and lives in a small Texas town with her three dogs. She also over the years makes ceremonial candles and is active in ghost hunting in the deep South. Summoning the dead to communicate with the living is a natural daily occurrence for Waugh. "I have been doing this since I was a child." " When I lived in Galveston, Texas about 15 years ago, I was introduced to the ancient rights of ceremonial Necromancy as a ritual by a great shaman called Freebird, and because of him and his diligence to the art, I still practice it until this day." "However, if a spirit has something vital to impart to you, they will call upon you, not vice-versa and no ritual is needed".
She then Got involved with the local Hoodoo Voodoo's of the area and new doors where opened to her concerning communicating with the dead.
Waugh was baptized and trained in the secret dark religion by Bianca The Voodoo Queen of New Orleans. Waugh lived in New Orleans for 3 years until she learned all about spells, hex's and how to hoodoo voodoo people as she says.
Waugh also owned and managed the fantastic Candle Making Company in Galveston, Texas for many years that catered to the eclectic patrons taste of many of the states visitors and just curious. She then moved to Houston's Famous Vodoun area 5th ward. This now where she resides to this day. Her home today is a testimony to Necromancy and her new found religion of Voodoo Hoodoo.
Necromantic practitioners such as Waugh conducts, and entails respect and reverence not only for the spirits of the dead, but for the spirits of Hell, Heaven and all places in between. Waugh has a large home one room she has painted black where she calls the good spirits. Another painted all black where she calls the infernal spirits.
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Waugh is often compared today in her facial features and many similar practices as being a modern Dr. John Dee. He of course was one of the most fascinating characters of the Elizabethan period just as Waugh is recognized as such in modern times. The events of Dee's life are filled with science, experiments, astrology and mathematics which he aligned with magic, the supernatural and alchemy! All of which is Waugh's personal passion and driven honest beliefs. These are also stead fast traditions she does and true in practicing openly. A few of her select followers say she is the actual reincarnation of John Dee. Waugh also practices astrology, and is very continuously studying the Black Arts.
Waugh, a real big hearted Texas gal does not comment on any of this privately or publicly ... for she is humble in her paranormal studies and research to the core. Gina Lanier a close friend of her's relates: "Waugh is a very outgoing friendly, charming and a downright loveable person, and gets along equally well with the living and the dead." Lanier and Waugh once investigated a real Haunted Texas Federal Prison together for close to two years in the early 1990's and had many startling paranormal adventures while there.
Lisa Lee Harp Waugh's accomplishments have been achieved through hard work, persistence, and a goal-oriented attitude required to overcome obstacles and reach difficult goals. Waugh shares her approach to communicating with the dead's success in this motivational performance that's sure to inspire Paranormal Investigators to excel in their life.
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