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If the network flatly refuses to allow you to remove the ads under any circumstances, even from the oldest archived shows, how will it be possible for you to launch an ad-free service at all? So why are we even discussing this? Also, if the way it works is that you make the shows by yourself...

The 1977 Enfield Poltergeist case from England centered around 11-year-old Janet Hodgson, one of four children who were all unhappy because their parents had recently divorced. Although she was caught faking some of the phenomena, and exactly how impressive the poltergeist activity was seemed to...

As a long-time paranormal investigator specializing in this type of case, William J. Hall is undoubtedly very familiar with the 1977 affair of the Enfield Poltergeist (which has already been mentioned by Poltwurst), and he knows how many similarities there are with the Bridgeport incident. In...

What is Col. Alexander's opinion of The Men Who Stare At Goats? I mean Jon Ronson's non-fiction book (and the BBC TV series The Crazy Rulers Of The World it was based on, if anybody remembers that), though I'd be interested to hear his thoughts on the heavily fictionalized movie too.

Since this is a silly thread, I'd like to add my favorite utterly bonkers conspiracy theory of all time - the 1969 Paul McCartney Death Hoax. It uses exactly the same logic as many other much more serious conspiracy theories, notably the idea that huge organizations are covering up something...

Constance, regarding the points you made, Houdini's disillusion with Spiritualism was entirely independent of Conan Doyle's belief that it was real. The séance that caused all the trouble isn't recorded in detail. Houdini was probably too upset to make notes, but in any case, he was never an...

In the case of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, his extraordinary gullibility came to him late in life, after he suffered from terrible depression due to the deaths of several close relatives, including one of his sons, either in World War One or the worldwide flu pandemic immediately afterwards (which...

Which president officially proclaimed that we need more clowns? Richard M. Nixon! The full text is here: Proclamation of Clown Week Now that's scary...

That's the gorilla suit used in the 1939 movie The Gorilla, starring the Ritz Brothers (there's a very good reason why everybody reading this just went: "Who?") and Bela Lugosi at a time when he had to be in films like this because his career was in the meltdown that would culminate in his...

May I add here that I agree with ufology rather that Chris. As I've said already, I've taken huge quantities of psychedelic drugs. And I mean HUGE. If that gives me the authority to argue with Chris on an equal basis, well, fine, bring it on, Chris! Because I have exactly zero belief that any of...

You know what? This thread is getting both way off-topic and incredibly depressing. For instance: Bananas, old chap, you do understand the irony inherent in that statement, don't you? No, I guess you don't... You can't help your lack of intelligence, and having no education probably isn't...

Feel free to hate me for pointing that out, but since it takes less than 30 seconds to use those very clever machines we're all using to access this website to find out how big the Earth's atmosphere actually is, it's probably a good idea to check the basic facts before claiming that something...

Thanks, ufology! I spent some time on the forum you mention, in the naive belief that a small-s skeptic would be able to get along reasonably well with both camps. Not so, alas. I gave up when people started posting comments along the lines of "Why haven't the admins banned you yet?" My crime...

Speaking as a small-s skeptic (a proper Skeptic with a great big S being the likes of James Randi, a devious and vindictive individual I have no sympathy with whatsoever), I would like to say to ufology that yes, this kind of reasoning does indeed "make some skeptics happy". As I said above, I...

I'm not surprised. Apart from the "too good to be true factor", it's very apparent from most of these pictures that the UFO is a ring of lights surrounding nothing at all - the clouds are clearly visible in the middle. I never thought it could possibly be a structured object because it doesn't...

Since Mr. Sheaffer is a skeptic in general but a UFO skeptic in particular, I would like to ask him if he considers the entire subject, bearing in mind that "UFO" stands for "Unidentified Flying Object", not "alien spacecraft", to be entirely without merit? There's some evidence to suggest that...

Just out of interest, did anybody else bother to read the paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1210.1847v2.pdf) on which that well-known scientific journal Wired based its claim that the Universe was a computer simulation just like it is in that movie with the slo-mo gunfights and the really cool if...

I think the problem here is that once you start mixing subjective mental states and objective reality, literally anything goes. I used to know a guy who dropped too much acid in the sixties and triggered his latent schizophrenia. He thought that all his problems in life were caused by the fact...

Er... Fedora Cronicles, you do know, don't you, that if the entire post is very badly translated from Turkish by a machine because the poster doesn't speak English, the title was originally in Turkish as well? Just saying.

Since one of the more intelligible things iremusta managed to say was that she was quite sure these objects were not iridium satellites, she must be talking about lights in the sky. I suspect that in the original Turkish, she never mentioned her mother's body at all.