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Society for Psychical Research Parapsychological Association, the Founded in 1957 in Durham, North Carolina, at the urging of noted parapsychologist J.B. Rhine, the Parapsychological Association (PA) is an international professional organization consisting

One of the foremost researchers into the alien abduction experience, Budd Hopkins helped spread public awareness of this phenomenon through three popular books, Missing Time (1981), Intruders: The Incredible Visitation of Copley

Allen J. Hynek (1910–ca. 1986) An astronomer first at the Ohio State University and then at Northwestern University, where he was chair of the astronomy department, J. Allen Hynek founded the J.

Circles of large upright stones—commonly known as menhirs, which is Celtic for “long stones”—erected in prehistoric times, have been found in various parts of the world. The most famous stone circle is

Stanford Research Institute : Founded as the Stanford Research Institute in 1946 by corporate sponsors connected with Stanford University in California, SRI International, as it is now known, is a large, private

Sagan, Carl (1934–1996) During the late 1980s and the 1990s, American astronomer Carl Sagan was an outspoken skeptic in regard to the existence of extraterrestrials, God, and an afterlife, though in earlier

The Skeptical Inquirer is perhaps the bestknown skeptics’ magazine published today. Subtitled The Magazine for Science and Reason, it is published bimonthly by a leading skeptics’ organization, the Committee for the Scientific

Alfred Watkins (1855–1935) At the age of sixty-six, British photographer and businessman Alfred Watkins developed the concept of ley lines, a grid of straight lines that crisscrossed the countryside in England along

The Taos hum is a strange, low-pitched humming sound that some people claim to hear at various locations around the world. The name of the phenomenon comes from the fact that an

Also called glossolalia, talking in tongues is unintelligible, seemingly meaningless speech, usually uttered while in an altered mental state. In some cases the phenomenon is accompanied by convulsions and/or a loss of