Michael Prescott's Blog
Archived blog focusing on the paranormal
Category: Idiocy
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In honor of Halloween, some paranormal books I'd like to see … Happy Halloween!
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In doing a little research today, I noticed that the Wikipedia pages for Charles Richet and Cesare Lombroso both include the same claim: that each man had a sexual affair with medium Eusapia Palladino. The source of this claim, in both cases, is the book The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero,…
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Happily, my new comment moderation policy has made it impossible for MU! and the other merry pranksters to continue their lunkhead flame war. Of course, their comments still show up in my Typepad account. For the most part, each of them just accuses all the others of impersonating him (if you can follow that). It's…
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A while ago, a reader pointed me to a brief entry about yours truly on the anti-paranormal site RationalWiki. I doubt many people actually read this site, so the fact that the entry is largely inaccurate doesn't really bother me. Still, having nothing better to blog about right now, I thought I'd go through it line…
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Regular readers know I'm of the opinion that the works of Shakespeare were actually written by Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford. This position is, to put it mildly, controversial, and among the academic community it has not found many takers. Some of the arguments put forth by Shakespearean scholars are quite complicated…
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To celebrate another year of blogging, here's a cryptic crossword with themes drawn from this blog's contents. Click on the image to see a full-size pop-up. When the puzzle is done, the red squares, read from left to right, line by line, will spell out a message. If you haven't done a cryptic crossword,…
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I don't often root for the skeptics at the James Randi Educational Foundation, but an email I just received from Winston Wu of SCEPCOP has, for once, put me squarely in the skeptics' corner. Here's the complete, unedited email: Upcoming 9/11 team debate on Coast to Coast on July 31, which I'm consulting on Hi…
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I probably don't focus enough on the fraudulent side of the paranormal, so here's a reminder that not all psychics are what they claim to be. From the Associated Press, via Yahoo News: A New York man is suing a New Jersey psychic, claiming she defrauded him of nearly $250,000 he paid her to craft…
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Today I woke up to the welcome news that Oprah Winfrey may be ending her TV show before long. It may surprise you that I would react favorably to this development, inasmuch as Oprah has had good things to say about paranormal phenomena, and has sometimes used her show to spotlight books on the subject.…