Paranormal
September 6, 2024
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From the “Kids, don’t try this at home” vault comes word that researchers studying ceramic pottery from an ancient Egyptian embalming workshop near one of the oldest pyramids ever made have discovered the magic formula for preserving human bodies used by Egyptian funeral directors. The ingredients list contains some surprises and shows the impressive amount of work they devoted to this mysterious process. Now that we think about it, this formula probably belongs in the…
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The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea A bright flash of gamma rays from the constellation Boötes that lasted nearly one minute came from a kilonova, as we described in a new paper. This finding challenges what astronomers know about some of the most powerful events in the universe. The unusual cosmic explosion was detected by the Neil Gehrels Swift observatory on Dec. 11, 2021, as the satellite orbited Earth. When astronomers pointed…
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There is something incredibly eerie about historical war sites. Standing at a location where thousands of soldiers fought and died can unsettle you to the bone. Knowing of reported ghost sightings in that area? That is just downright terrifying. Welcome to Gettysburg, a vicious three day battle fought during the height of the American civil war that left a total of around 51,000 casualties. Most people are taught the details of this battle during history…
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In August 2020, a picture of an unidentified hairy hominid was taken in a distant area of Pierce County. A person by the name of J Louie sent the controversial picture to the Rocky Mountain Sasquatch Organization, and it has recently been getting a lot of attention on social media. “When we lived in Pierce, the house we lived in had a good sized area of land at the back of the property,” she wrote.…
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Paranormal teams and investigators often talk about their decades of experience and there are countless books written to teach people how to hunt ghosts, but since normal everyday people see ghosts and capture evidence that’s of the same standard as decades-old paranormal teams, is it really something you need to study to be good at? There are of course investigators who have adopted flawed methodology and techniques, but experience and knowledge doesn’t guarantee an investigator…