Category: Paranormal
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NOTE: I used to have several older essays on the paranormal posted on my author site. When I recently updated the site, I removed all this material and decided to post it here. This essay was originally posted in 2004. —– Psychics and Trickery I'm sick of Uri Geller. I mention this because, more…
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NOTE: I used to have several older essays on the paranormal posted on my author site. When I recently updated the site, I removed all this material and decided to post it here. This essay, originally posted in 2003, has been slightly abridged and reworded, mainly to eliminate references to outdated links. A response from…
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NOTE: I used to have several older essays on the paranormal posted on my author site. When I recently updated the site, I removed all this material and decided to post it here. This essay was originally posted in 2004. —- Why I'm Not a Skeptic For the past couple of years, as a sideline…
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NOTE: I used to have several older essays on the paranormal posted on my author site. When I recently updated the site, I removed all this material and decided to post it here. Here's one of those essays, originally posted in 2004. —- The Dark Side of the Paranormal Years ago, on a whim,…
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NOTE: I used to have several older essays on the paranormal posted on my author site. When I recently updated the site, I removed all this material and decided to post it here. Here's one of those essays. Note that the essay dates from a decade ago, and, as pointed out below, the rules of…
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Conan Doyle for the Defense, by Margalit Fox, tells the gripping story of Oscar Slater, a German-born Jew who was arrested in Glasgow for the brutal murder of an elderly, wealthy woman, Marion Gilchrist. Sentenced to death, Slater won a reprieve at almost the last minute when his sentence was changed to life imprisonment at…
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This isn't so much a book review as a summary of The Simulation Hypothesis, by Rizwan Virk. I'd highlighted a lot of text in the ebook, so I decided to reproduce many of these highlights as a general indication of what the book is about. I may do an actual review in the future. For…
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Something a little different this time: an interview with Richard Reichbart, author of the newly released study The Paranormal Surrounds Us (which includes an afterword I was privileged to write). The book has been put out by McFarland, a well-known and highly respected publishing house specializing in academic titles. Here's the book description from the publisher's…
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I want to recommend a fascinating new book: The Paranormal Surrounds Us, by Richard Reichbart. Not only did I enjoy the book a lot, but I had the honor of writing an afterword for it. But the afterword isn't the reason to buy it. The real reason is the author's in-depth treatment of major…
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I’ve been noodling a little more on the subject of UFOs after reading a second book by Jacques Vallee, The Invisible College, and part of a compendium of UFO reports edited by Leslie Kean, UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record. What strikes me most strongly about the subject are the many similarities…