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Here's a true story which was told to me by a friend, who is sadly no longer with us, but who used to be a professional stage magician. He mainly worked in night-clubs, so his audience were adults, and in order to avoid appearing childish, his act had a black magic theme. The actual tricks...

As anyone who has read "Jadoo" must know, John Keel was always more concerned with telling a good story than a true one. Professional stage magicians have utterly demolished his claim in that book to have performed the Indian Rope Trick (which seems to be absolutely mythical, and to have been...

Bananas has a point. "Hoax" and "Identified Objects" are the same thing. "Incomplete" and "Insufficient Information" also appear to be the same thing, which cannot be differentiated in any logical way from "Unknown". And I don't have the slightest idea what "Information Only" is supposed to...

"You recall that Pickman’s forte was faces. I don’t believe anybody since Goya could put so much of sheer hell into a set of features or a twist of expression." (H. P. Lovecraft - "Pickman's Model")

Interesting point about D&D - it was invented by two men who were devout Christians, but not in an uptight, preachy way. Therefore the original version of the game was meant to subtly indoctrinate the players with Christian values. For example, you were required to choose an alignment - a moral...

Point taken, that point being: don't feed the troll. The mud-puddle's all yours, Allan - have fun splashing around in it.

It's nice to see a 4-years-dead thread resurrected in such a calm and reasonable fashion. Firstly, Mr. Sturm, there's this: "Oh, and I got tired of ignoring requests for my first book, so that's back online and available for download - but this time, not for "donation". Come to find out, people...

Olav Phillips got off very lightly indeed! In a previous podcast, Anthony Sanchez was embarrassed on air for thinking that Commander X was a real person, as opposed to Tim Beckley's house-name for authors to use if the "non-fiction" potboiler they're churning out for his publishing company is so...

Excuse me, but some of this advice is drifting into the realm of gibbering insanity! Regarding Fedora Chronicle's "Excretions Into Danger Zones" (I think the word you're looking for might be "Excursions", though if some of the hazards you mention really are a regular occurrence for you, I...

I agree with Sentry. Given what we know about the ridiculous secret weapons devised (and usually abandoned almost immediately) by the British Army during WWII, such as the Great Panjandrum (google it - it's hilarious!), if the "Sicilian Scarecrow" ever existed outside the imagination of one guy...

Let's consider people who indisputably HAVE been killed by huge conspiracies for revealing secrets. For example, informers murdered by the Italian and Sicilian Mafia for are typically found with very characteristic mutilations, such as their throat cut and their tongue poking out of the wound -...

Well there you have it in a nutshell. "2012 is coming." Typing this as I do just over a month before the end of 2011, I cannot refute this logic. So clearly we are all supposed to have a party. Could anything possibly be plainer?

Oh dear. In that case, the next guest on the Paracast who is obviously telling lies will not be me. Unless of course I'm willing to do it it for the sheer kudos. Or they're lying about not having to pay people like me to pretend not to be people like me. It's all rather confusing really...

Oh dear, I seem to have stirred something up. I will henceforth abandon all claims to be able to interpret Aaron Kaplan's accent, because on the somewhat distorted version I have just listened to, he sounds kind of Central American. Then again, especially when anybody laughs, (which for some...

OK, fair enough, he really went to school with you - he says so on his own website so it must be true. But if I say to you that although I am currently hiding behind the name of E. L. Wisty, a fictional mentally ill conspiracy theorist created by Peter Cook, who is dead, but nevertheless I know...

USA accents are more complicated than UK ones - after all, it's a much bigger country. I am merely suggesting that whatever country this chap comes from (and if it is in fact Germany, maybe his accent's plausible - I have only heard him speak on your own somewhat distorted link-up, and he...

May I just put in a word about the enigmatic Mr. Kaplan? I am not a citizen of the USA, so perhaps this is too broad a generalization, but the name "Aaron Kaplan" suggests to me a mainstream USA citizen who is probably Jewish. Yet this guy sounds to me as though he hails from Mexico, or...

Actually some smoo has bought it! The reserve price was £1, but vincent3932 of Midwest City, Oklahoma bid the curious sum of £2.20, only to be outbidden by a princely offer of £50 from - hang about! - from vincent3932. So the only two people who wanted this painting were the same guy, bidding...

Firstly, I am in total agreement with everyone who has suggested that this is a great excuse for a party. If the world ends, you go out while you're having fun, and pleasantly anesthetized. And if it doesn't, hey, at least you had a party! Plus it's the Friday before Xmas, so you probably don't...

How about Andrew Collins? No, I don't mean Colin Andrews, I'm referring to the prolific UK-based author who has written books on many aspects of the paranormal. Some of his theories are extremely controversial - for example, he tends to think that UFOs are organic creatures rather than...