Assorted Strangeness

Strangeness inundates our lives; if you haven't noticed it, you're probably not paying attention. This page is a mishmash of weird phenomena and eccentricity -- credible and otherwise. Happy clicking!

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Aliens:

Renowned occultist Aleister Crowley supposedly communicated with an otherworldly being named "Lam." Coincidentally (?), Lam bears an uncanny resemblance to today's reports of "Gray" aliens. Aleister Crowley's Lam & the Little Grey Men takes a speculative look at the similarities.

Metatech: Paranoid alien/mind-control fun for the whole family!

ZetaTalk professes to have all the answers to the UFO/alien mystery. In fact, the site purports to be authored by actual aliens (whose "insights" betray a peculiarly New Age bent). Be afraid. Be very afraid.

The Starchild Project is a privately funded attempt to trace the origins of an unusual skull suspected of having extraterrestrial origins. Needless to say, I have my doubts. But still...

Ancient astronauts, complete with headgear?

The official homepage of Erich von Daniken, pseudoscientist, showman and myth-maker.

Alien Abductions, Inc.: A site about alien abductions with a sense of humor!

Zippy the Pinhead has a close encounter of the commercial kind.

Billy Meier: Yes, he's a fake.

For museum-quality UFO-themed computer art, peruse Out There Graphics.

Psychic phenomena:

PrimaryPerception.com: "There just may be an invisible web that links all of creation, that shows up in the lab as impulses on a GSR, the EKG or the EEG. Come into the world of Biocommunication and see for your self."

The Boundary Institute is one of several relatively new scientific organizations willing to take a look behind the curtain of traditional Western empiricism. A recent finding worth pursuit is an anomalous "spike" produced by random number generators during the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. If science can come to grips with the causal mechanism that produces such "impossible" events, we may eventually be able to observe natural and social phenomena nonlocally, like viewing the entirety of a hologram in a single fragment.

The RetroPsychoKinesis Project deals with the intellectually harrowing, experimentally verified phenomenon of future-to-past information transfer. Is our universe a sort of sentient hologram held together by quantum entanglement? And if so, will we ever be able to "see" all of it at once...?

The Farsight Institute, directed by the controversial Courtney Brown, purports to train aspiring "remote-viewers" to explore extraterrestrial civilizations and their impact on terrestrial society.

More remote-viewing fun: Ed Dames' Psi-Tech. I'll pass on his $200+ home training video library.

Legitimate consciousness and psi-research sites include: Consciousness Research Laboratory, Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research, Koestler Parapsychology Unit, Center for Consciousness Studies.

Ingo Swann's Superpowers of the Human Biomind, a fastidious remote-viewing database.

Want to have an out-of-body experience? Check out The Monroe Institute.

Take a look at the dubious science of Reverse Speech.

Unexplained cross-like reflections adorn a building in Canada.

Weeping statues of the Virgin Mary. Inexplicable circles of light on the sides of buildings. Can the will to believe manifest physically as religious "miracles"? The Miracles Page presents a variety of intriguing phenomena.

The Archives of Scientists' Transcendent Experiences are exactly what they claim to be: intimate reports of the inexplicable clashing with the prevailing paradigm of Western science.

Vogel-Cut Crystals: are crystals "quantum converters" capable of energizing the intellect and body or just pseudoscientific talismans?

The Near Death Experience Research Foundation catalogues testimonials from those who claim limited exposure to the "other side." I personally think the NDE phenomenon deserves rigorous scientific study. Also see Near-Death Experiences and the Afterlife.

Psychic and showman Uri Geller's official website.

Conspiracy:

The Mad Revisionist. What do Newton, Dunkin Donuts and NASA have in common? They're all liars!

Shavertron is an online encyclopedia devoted to the theories and alleged exploits of Richard Shaver, whose bizarre tales of subterranean aliens and robots helped launch the UFO phenomenon into the spotlight of Cold War paranoia.

Chemtrail Central. Ubiquitous jet contrails: business as usual or more than it seems?

David Icke is a man on a mission: to let you know that all world leaders are actually satanic shape-shifting reptiles from another dimension that feed off the blood of sacrificed infants. Now we know what "Dubbya's" smirking about...

Author Jim Marrs' official website. Marrs is the mind behind the assassination conspiracy as depicted in Oliver Stone's "JFK." Lately, Marrs has moved on to Roswell, alien visitation and the Trilateral Commission, an international leadership group endlessly accused of scheming to Take Over the World.

What is this HAARP thing really all about? Weather control? Atmospheric research? Psychotronic warfare? Speculation abounds.

Tetrahedron Publishing Group, spearheaded by Dr. Leonard Horowitz, explores additional nefarious schemes, including the possibility of artificial viruses.

The Millennium Group presents a variety of unsettling cosmic theories. Recommended.

Humans:

Among the late contactee George Adamski's ideological disciples are the Raelians, a forward-looking bunch of quasi-scientific celestial pontificators who can be viewed as a less nerdy version of the Heaven's Gate cult. Some of the concepts they advocate are actually pretty interesting. Clonaid, for example, is the first company dedicated to cloning humans (the Raelians haven't actually done it yet, but...) A compendium of Raelian thought can be found at UFOLand while Subversions.com functions as the group's online manifesto.

It's high time you acquainted yourself with paranormal veteran John Keel, author of "The Mothman Prophecies" and other mind-bending classics.

Check out paraphenomena enthusiast Gerry Forster's voluminous, well-informed website.

Hieronimus and Company by Dr. Bob Hieronimus and Zoh Hieronimus is a holistic, meticulously organized "New Paradigm" resource well worth bookmarking. Hieronimus' broadcasting is lively, intelligent and increasingly vital.

Bob Frissell: rebirther, gonzo New Age anthropologist, skeptic, believer, and author of at least one contemporary cult classic on sacred geometry and extraterrestrials.

Self-proclaimed UFO expert Kal K. Korff, author of an expose of the Billy Meier hoax and a rather poor attempt to scotch the Roswell incident. As far as paranormal debunkers come, Korff is as petty and annoying as they come.

MenWhoLookLikeKennyRogers.com. It's an invasion! Run for your lives!

George Hansen is one of the relatively few author/researchers in the paranormal community who seems to understand the ramifications of What's Really Going On.

Zo's Literature and Artwork documents experiences and insights attained through meditation and out-of-body experimentation.

Zakas' site, www.aliensurgeon.com, is an uncategorical compendium of Fortean strangeness: UFOs, Martian anomalies, conspiracy theories...they're all here, loaded with some of the gnarliest animated .GIFs I've ever seen. Trippy and fun.

Earth enigmas:

Sphinx Stargate by Dr. Paul A. LaViolette: ancient cataclysms, zodiakal ciphers, ET communication and much more.

The Meru Project. In their own words, "The Meru Project has discovered an extraordinary and unexpected geometric metaphor in the letter-sequence of the Hebrew text of Genesis that underlies and is held in common by the spiritual traditions of the ancient world. This metaphor models embryonic growth and self-organization. It applies to all whole systems, including those as seemingly diverse as meditational practices and the mathematics fundamental to physics and cosmology..."

Cryptozoology: the scientific pursuit and classification of anomalous and/or seldom-seen animals that may or may not exist. Loren Coleman authors The Crypozoologist, a helpful guide to those intrigued by John Keel's "Mothman."

The Dark Star Theory by Andy Lloyd suggests that the ubiquitous "winged disk" of ancient Babylonian art is symbolic of a vanished stellar phenomenon.

Paul Anderson's Canadian Crop Circle Research Network is a promising resource for students of crop circles ("cerealogy").

The technically impressive 2002 crop formation above bears a "disc" embossed with ASCII computer code. Deciphered, it reads:

Interestingly enough, this was the third formation in an apparent annual sequence. Many expected a fourth -- and even more impressive -- formation to materialize in the British fields in August of 2003, but hopes were dashed when no obvious successor to the "alien head" formation appeared. Perhaps no one should have been surprised; the ASCII text clearly tells us that the "conduit" is "closing" -- evidently for good. Whether the work of nonhuman intelligence or industrious hoaxers (I personally lean toward the latter possibility), the "alien head" stands as one of the most complex and ambitiously rendered crop formations in the history of the phenomenon. Deliberately blurring the formation (below) results in an eerily three-dimensional "TV"-like image.

New crop formations are dutifully catalogued by Swirled News and CropCircleResearch.com. The elegantly designed Circlemakers is a treat for the senses and the mind.

Carl P. Munck's PyramidMatrix.com is devoted to the concept that ancient archaeological sites on Earth--and Mars--can be integrated into a deliberate mathematical scheme.

The enigmatic "Eltanin Antenna," located 13,500 feet below the Atlantic Ocean. Discovered in 1964, its origin remained a mystery until 2003, when it was identified as a weird sea sponge.

News and resources:

The Paranormal and UFO Information Network (PUFOIN): a great roundup of science and paranormal news.

Fortean Times magazine is the best of its kind. The editors take a panoramic look at weirdness that's funny and very refreshing.

The Anomalist is a thorough, credible and engrossing online zine that charts breaking weird developments and historical anomalies.

Pravda may once have been a no-nonsense state-controlled news organ, but its current online incarnation has a curious tendency to mimic the West's Weekly World News.

Other:

Get away from it all! The Time Travel Fund proposes negotiating with people from the future by offering them the cash of today.

5thworld.com represents a variety of excellent publishers committed to intelligent New Age books. This site contains a wealth of recommended titles.

Crank Dot Net is a vast and painstakingly assembled site devoted to bringing you the most bizarre "fringe" sites on the Web. Crank.net is cross-referenced and the sites are individually rated for your convenience.

The Paradigm Clock is an ever-changing speedometer of our culture's incipient acknowledgement of extraterrestrial intelligence. Does not include snooze alarm.

Orgone Biophysical Research Laboratory, Inc.

KeelyNet: anti-gravity, etc.