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Ouija board is spelt with a ‘ja’ at the end, so why is it commonly pronounced ‘wee-gee’ or ‘weejee’ and not ‘wee-juh’ as you would expect it to be? Some people will tell you that in British English the word is pronounced “wee-juh,” while an American English speaker would say “wee-gee”. However, this is not the case as the majority of British English also say “wee-gee”. The word is so commonly pronounced in both versions,…
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Although the UFO controversy began in the summer of 1947, it’s a fact that encounters with alleged aliens in that era were all but non-existent. In fact, it wasn’t until the early 1950s when people began to make claims to the effect that they had undergone face-to-face encounters with aliens. In nearly all of the cases, the aliens were very human-like. The only differences were that they sported heads of long blond hair, which, of…
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Nuclear energy is capable of creating vast amounts of power without carbon footprint-stomping emissions (there are some byproducts we need to deal with, but that’s what nuclear tombs are for, right?) at a scale and consistency difficult to match with wind and solar. But there’s barriers to widespread, French-style adoption of nuclear power beyond public perception, political will, and thousand-year nuclear waste: fuel. The power behind nuclear power comes from rending uranium atoms; a tiny amount of the element unleashes energy…
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Over the village of Chobanka in the Kardzhali region of Bulgaria, a rare type of UFO was caught on video – a long cigar-shaped object with a metallic sheen. This object was accidentally filmed while shooting the surroundings of the village and was also not immediately noticed on the video. It was moving very fast against the background of a dark thundercloud. The UFO appears twice in the video, first from the left edge, then…
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Some paranormal investigators call this early Panasonic digital dictaphone “the most effective recorder in the world for capturing EVPs,” but there are countless arguments stacked up against its effectiveness. The recorder has earned its reputation thanks to prominent investigators like Zak Bagans from the ghost hunting show ‘Ghost Adventures’ and Steve Huff founder of the YouTube channel Huff Paranormal. Despite these endorsements, the DR60 isn’t fit for purpose as an EVP recorder. Before we look…