THE PARANORMAL

The paranormal refers to phenomena, supposedly experienced by some people, which are contrary
to science and therefore unexplainable by the known forces of nature. The majority of articles about
the paranormal in Investigator Magazine are from a skeptical perspective
because it's difficult to find
"true believers" willing to defend their beliefs.




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ALCHEMY
ALCHEMY: Edwards 67 ALCHEMY & PHILOSOPHY 65
ALCHEMY IN HISTORY 38 ALCHEMY:  Eddie 117


ASTROLOGY
ASTROLOGY: and Childbirth 176 ASTROLOGY: Origin 105
ASTROLOGY: Edwards 73 ASTROLOGY: Ptolemy 34
ASTROLOGY: Failure 13 ASTROLOGY: Radcliffe and O'Leary 8
ASTROLOGY:  and Horoscopes 213

ASTROLOGY: InPho 14
ASTROLOGY: Starwoman 12
ASTROLOGY: Is it a Scam? 15

ASTROLOGY: Letter 16 METAPHYSICAL DEGREES (Astrology) 83
ASTROLOGY: Obstetrics 23 PLANET ALLIGNMENT 61


CLAIRVOYANCE, PSYCHICS, SEERS, TELEKINESIS
ALEXANDER, Rolf 211

CLAIRVOYANCE 52 PSYCHIC PLANTS 117
CLAIRVOYANCE 136 PSYCHIC PREDICTIONS 7
CLAIRVOYANT WHO KNOWS EVERYTHING 58 PSYCHIC PREDICTIONS 19
BROWN, Rosemary 104 PSYCHIC PREDICTIONS 173
CAYCE, Edgar 43 PSYCHIC SURGERY 61
CAYCE, Edgar 214

CREERY sisters 218

DIXON, Jeane 111 PSYCHIC SURGERY 187
GELLER, Uri  72 PSYCHICS 26 PSYCHICS TESTED 101
MARNSARDT, Ella 14

INNER PEACE 78 PSYCHICS DEFINITION 86
KRYSTAL STARSHINE DEBATE 39-49 PSYCHICS EXPOSED 94
NOSTRADAMUS: Lang 12 PSYCHICS and JOB CLUBS 38
NOSTRADAMUS 25 & 192
PSYCHICS and the POLICE 16
NOSTRADAMUS: Edwards 70 PSYCHICS SUED 176
PSYCHIC ACCUMULATOR 7 SAI BABA 88
PSYCHIC ANIMALS 112 STARWOMAN, Athena 35
PSYCHIC ARCHAEOLOGY 113 STOKES, Doris 114
PSYCHIC DETECTIVES 95 TELEKINESIS 64
PSYCHIC FINDS COLOSSUS OF RHODES 7 TELEKINESIS 115
PSYCHIC LUCK SCAM WAS BAD LUCK13 WARDS, Tom 11


CRYPTOZOOLOGY

BIGFOOT 8
FRANKENSTEIN  45
BIGFOOT HAS DIED 88
GREENLAND MONSTER 39

ICHNEUMON & HALCYON 215

LAKE MONSTERS 216
BIGFOOT and NESSIE 149 LOCH NESS MYSTERY SOLVED 13
BIG BIRD 5 LOCH NESS 1934 MONSTER PHOTO A PRANK 36
CRYPTOZOOLOGY 77 MERMAIDS 57
CRYPTOZOOLOGY AUSTRALIAN 129 WATER MONSTER 50
DRAGONS and GIGANTIC SERPENTS 210
YETI from GIANT APE 63


GAMBLING and LUCK
GAMBLERS "POKIES" 39 GAMBLING PSYCHOLOGY 34
GAMBLERS SUPERSTITIOUS 63 GAMBLING PSYCHOLOGY 110
GAMBLERS LOSE 86 GAMBLERS STILL LOSING 131
GAMBLERS LOSE 96 GAMBLERS: THE LOSING CONTINUES 169

GAMBLING: Still the same message 218
GAMBLERS MOSTLY LOSE 107 LOTTO-WIN SYSTEMS 22


GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS

ALASKA TRIANGLE 216

ATLANTIS 92 BERMUDA TRIANGLE  128
ATLANTIS 96 BERMUDA TRIANGLE 153
ATLANTIS 126 FLAT EARTH 5; 144
ATLANTIS 190
FLAT EARTH 211

FLAT EARTH CLAIMS EXAMINED 215
ATLANTIS LINGUISTICS 192
HOLLOW EARTH 21
BERMUDA TRIANGLE: Bomber Vanishes
HOLLOW EARTH 99
BERMUDA TRIANGLE 62 ULURU 40


FORTUNE TELLING / PROGNOSTICATION METHODS

DIVINATION 78 PALMISTRY 11
DIVINATION by BOOKS 39 PALMISTRY 60
OMENS and DIVINATION 196
PALMISTRY 93
ESP - EXTRASENSORY PERCEPTION 130 PALMISTRY CHEIRO 215
ESP and the Mind 68 PARANORMAL JUSTICE 26
ESP EXPERIMENT 75-79 RUNES 86
LAST WORDS OF DYING PERSONS 214

MANTIC ARTS 89 SCRYING / CRYSTAL BALL GAZING 20
NUMEROLOGY 58
TAROT 109
NUMEROLOGY 141 TARATOLOGIST 12
NUMEROLOGY 151 TEALEAF READING 26
NUMEROLOGY 154 TEALEAF READING 68


HEALING and HEALERS
AGPAOA, Tony 212
FAITH CURES  62
ARIGO, Jose 211
FAITH HEALING 138
BABA, Sai 211
FOUNTAIN of YOUTH PETER KELDER 179
CRYSTAL QUACKERY 71 GODLY CANCER CURE 6
CRYSTALS 5 MEDICAL QUACKERY 26
CRYSTALS 42 MIRACULOUS HEALING HOW IT WORKS 15
CRYSTALS 134 MYSTICAL HEALING ENERGIES 77


PYRAMIDOLOGY
PYRAMID PSEUDOSCIENCE 121 PYRAMIDOLOGY 13
PYRAMID SCAM 99 PYRAMIDOLOGY 137

PYRAMIDOLOGY by JWs 209


SUPERSTITIONS

BOOMERANGS - SUPERSTITIONS 217
MARRY A VIRGIN 23
DROWNING SUPERSTITION 9 MOON MYTHS 34
FRIDAY 13th 5 SPITTING 31
FRIDAY 13th 20 SUPERSTITION AROUND THE WORLD 14
FRIDAY 13th CALENDAR 11 SUPERSTITION INFLUENCED HISTORY 24
HEXED, JINXED, CURSED 5 SUPERSTITION INFLUENCED HISTORY 43
LADDER SUPERSTITION 11 SUPERSTITIONS AMERICAN 140


UFOs / ALIENS
ADAMSKI, George 210
UFO: Visitors? 94
ANDREASON, Betty 211

AUTOPSY HOAX 45 UFOs: Alien Encounters Debate 87
CROP CIRCLES 53 UFOs: Brunt vs Thomas 9
CROP CIRCLES  99 UFOs: Circular Evidence Circulates 21
CROP CIRCLES 135 UFOs: Close Encounters With What? 9
FACE ON MARS 5 UFOs: Cover-up Hoax 9
NAZCA LINES 61 UFOs: Darwin 135
UFO: Adelaide Mystery Light 15
UFOs: Edwards 65
UFO: Cover-Up 9 [From: Sunday Mail 1989] UFOs: Jungian Perspective 64
UFO: Dreamers 63 UFOs: Lecture by author Robert Sheaffer 7
UFO: Extraterrestrials 110 UFOs: Missing Time 9
UFO: Hunt 1978 Resumed 2
UFOs: New Investigation Requested118
UFO: Investigation 3
UFOs: No Record of any ancient visits 14
UFO: Investigator's UFO 202

UFO: Maralinga Mystery 6
UFOs: On the Internet 84
UFO: Meeting 47 UFOs: Skeptics and Lance Storm 63
UFO: Meeting 54
UFOs: Take Off (A Brief History) 2
UFO: Nullarbor Plain 66 Von Daniken 13
UFO: Speculations 15
Von Daniken 93


MICELLANEOUS OTHER TOPICS

ALBA, Thea 2011 [Miraculous dexterity]
MIN-MIN LIGHTS 97
ANIMAL LONGEVITY (A. Poyntz, 1845) 203
NATURAL LAW PARTY and MAHARISHI 30
ANIMAL LONGEVITY [Update of Poyntz 1845] 203
NEW AGE 85
ARTEFACTS 49 NEW AGE GURU: CARLOS CASTANEDA 63
ARTEFACTS 124 NIBIRU (Planet) 177
AURAS 46 NINJA 25
BACKMASKING 11
BACKMASKING 143 OCCULTOPEDIA 162
BACKSTER, Cleve [Conscious plants] 212

BLAVATSKY, Madame 105 ODDBALL EARTH 45
BLAVATSKY, Madame 212 [Psychic gifts]

BOTTLE, W.J.M. [Phenomenal memory]
PARANORMAL BELIEFS of NAZI LEADERS 218
BOW and ARROW MYTHS 218

BREATHARIANISM 69 PARANORMAL FOUNDATION 72
CIRCUS TRAGEDY (Tabloid) 17 PERPETUAL MOTION 145
DOGON 47 P.R.I.S.M. 64; 70
DOOMSDAY GUN 15 RAIN MAKING PROPOSAL 160
ENERGY SOLUTION 118
RESURRECTION of GIRL 55
FAIRY STORY 24
SALEM SYNDROME 25; 31
FENG SHUI 91 SANTA / FATHER CHRISTMAS 45
FIREWALKING 48; 56 SANTA CLAUS, THE TRUTH 93
FIREWALKING 139 SANTA TRAINING SCHOOLS 153
FOLKLORE 69 SCHLOCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW 170
FORT, CHARLES 85 SHANGRI-LA VILCABAMBA 17
FREUD and the DREAM FRAUD 42 SHROUD of TURIN 13
GNOMES 8 SIMULACRUM 50
Creepy HISTORY LESSON 115
SPONTANEOUS HUMAN COMBUSTION 75
INCORRUPTIBILITY (of dead Saints) 45 SUPERHEROES 123
JOAN OF ARC 87 TALISMANS and AMULETS 218
KING ARTHUR and his KNIGHTS 211
TARZAN ALIVE 189
KUNG FU EXPONENTS at FOODLAND 56 TELEPATHY [Douglas Blackburn] 212
LEVITATION LEARN to FLY 5 THOUGHTOGRAPHY 91
LEVITATION 19; 84 THOUGHTOGRAPHY: Ted Serios 35
LEVITATION COPERTINO 218

LEVITATION via T M Training 94 The UNEXPLAINED [Magazine] 26
LONGEVITY 13 VELIKOVSKY 139; 140
LUNACY 81 WATER DIVINING on KANGAROO ISLAND 18
MAGIC SQUARES 102 WATER DIVINING DEBATE 54
MAGICAL INTEREST 39 ZAMBIA SPACE PROGRAM 2


Many of the above articles were reprinted in Investigator from A Skeptic's Guide to the New Age and Skeptoon.

 

These books are available from the author, Harry Edwards: harry1927@bigpond.com

 

 

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THE PARANORMAL

 

(From: Investigator 50, 1996 September)

 

"Religion, the supernatural and the paranormal".  You've seen these words on Investigator's front cover.  What is the paranormal?

The paranormal refers to phenomena supposedly experienced by some people but which are contrary to science and therefore unexplainable by the known forces of nature.

The meaning of "supernatural" overlaps with the meaning of "paranormal" but is more restrictive.  By "supernatural" we think of unseen, non-physical beings like gods, ghosts, demons and angels and their supposed influence on the natural, empirical world.

 

A short list of the paranormal:

Astral Travel

Good Luck Charms Prophetic Dreams
Astrology Homeopathy Psychokinesis
Clairvoyance Levitation Spoon-bending
Demon Possession Loch Ness Monster

Superstition

ESP Magic Thoughtography
Fairies Miracles

Tarot

Firewalking Mystical Healing Energies

Vampires

Flying Saucers Numerology

UFOs

Fortune Telling Palmistry

Water Divining

Ghosts Perpetual Motion Machines

Winning Lotto Systems



 

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