Mojave had been on R-Three’s bucket list for as long as he had been fascinated with aviation, which has been just about all his life. He knew this place as one of the rare graveyards for obsolete aircraft, well before it achieved status as a launching pad for civilian space […]
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Beliefs aren’t at play when reporting on the supernatural
Sometimes, when I was out-of-line as a kid, my mom would warn me she’d make me read the Bible. One other time, when I was older, it was Bible camp — a passing moment where I made a glib comment about the Faith Baptist bus scooting by. I’m sure those […]
ETCHINGS: The Wolfman Taketh Social Media
Much to the bemusement of Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks staff members, social media lit up with full moon fever when a large wolf-like animal was shot and killed May 16. The quarry was bagged by a rancher near Denton, Mont, and it still has officials wondering just what it […]
States of Being in the Western States, Part Two: Oddities
How did we get here, from … here? We were on a father-and-son cross-America trek to celebrate a milestone birthday for R-Three. It was designed to be a full family adventure, but an eleventh-hour circumstance tethered my wife to the workplace, leaving R-Three and me to strike out by ourselves […]
University of Manitoba reveals its spiritual side to the public
The University of Manitoba’s Investigation of the Human Psyche: Spiritualist & Parapsychology Collections was a project four years in the making for its Head of Archives, Shelley Sweeney. The 59-year-old met up with the Survival Research Institute of Canada’s president at a conference in Utrecht, Netherlands. During that time, collectors of […]
States of being in the western States, Part One: Crossroads
For the next three weeks, The Superstitious Times will publish the chronicles of Dan Hoddinott and his experience of a time slip, akin to the Moberly–Jourdain incident. I know what it feels like to be on the precipice — to be right there on the edge of dimensions, states of being, […]
ETCHINGS: Bigfoot finds Nirvana
Sightings from around the globe condensed in a week’s brief observations Making waves New Zealand is known for its picturesque landscapes but it can also dish up some tempestuous seas. A 24-meter wave crashed down during a squall, May 8, and the event was recorded by buoy some 700 kilometers […]
What the paranormal means to me, as a journalist
As a kid, the supernatural captured my imagination like a fox captures a vole under the high north snows. I would dig deeper and continually absorb anything and everything paranormal. Still, it was only a morsel. I was acquainted with every episode of Unsolved Mysteries — the one with Robert […]