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In 1868, construction began on a new mental asylum in Athens, Ohio, in order to provide urgently needed mental health care to the area at a time when such facilities were facing massive overcrowding around the nation. The hospital was meant to operate under a new groundbreaking plan proposed by the American physician Dr. Thomas Story Kirkbride, who wanted to reform mental health care and make it more humane and pleasant for patients in an…
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At the recent Space Renaissance Festival held in Berlin, I attended a talk by Michael Waltemathe from the Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany on the so-called “overview effect,” a term coined by author Frank White in his 1987 book of the same name. Science writer Jeffrey Kluger has described this effect as “the change that occurs when [astronauts] see the world from above, as a place where borders are invisible, where racial, religious, and economic…
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When did Americans first encounter these mysterious phenomena in the sky? You might think it was in 1947, when pilot Kenneth Arnold reported seeing nine high-speed objects near Mount Rainier in Washington, coining the term “flying saucers”. Or maybe you think it was in 1949, when rancher Mac Brazel found a strange wreckage near Roswell, New Mexico, sparking rumors of a crashed alien spacecraft. But the truth is that America’s first UFO sighting was way…
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Since I started researching Ghost Box communication I have repeatedly heard other investigators say that they “left their Ghost Box running,” or “let the box run and just let it record.” In my opinion and from my experience and messages I have received in sessions this is a very big no no! A Ghost Box is a device that enables the reception of radio signals and dices them up into small bits and pieces or…
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Lori – who claims to have been home alone at the time – said her ‘heart stopped’ after she replayed the chilling footage and witnessed a dark figure dash in and out behind her while she spoke to Shana. The store manager said: “I’d only just moved into my apartment, so I was video chatting with my friend to show her around and I was just talking about general things. It was nothing out of…