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Claims of Chi: Besting a Tai Chi Master
In nearly half a century of investigating strange mysteries, I have frequently encountered claims of the mysterious force or power known as qi or ch’i or simply chi (pronounced “chee”). The term...
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Miracle Tableau: Knock, Ireland, 1879
In January 2015, I acquired for my collection a rare Currier and Ives print—an original hand-colored lithograph (Figure 1)—depicting a supposedly miraculous occurrence at Knock, Ireland, in 1879. I...
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Cómo superar a un Maestro de Tai Chi
Artículo traducido por Alejandro Borgo, Director del CFI/Argentina. En casi medio siglo de investigación de extraños misterios, frecuentemente me encontré con alegatos sobre una misteriosa fuerza o...
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Some Queensland Mysteries
Strange mysteries may be found almost anywhere, but they seem especially plentiful and interesting in Australia. I investigated several during my first (2000) and second (2016) trips Down Under...
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Murder by Darkness: Does Mammoth Cave’s Specter Harbor a Secret?
If reported encounters are to be believed, Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave—the longest cave system in the world—holds an almost lost secret. Supposedly revealed “to those who have witnessed her spirit”...
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David Dominé is author of a series of three books (2017a; 2017b; 2017c) offering, in turn, “Ghosts”—and “Phantoms” and “Haunts”—“of Old Louisville.” Do they indeed present “True Stories of Hauntings”...
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Navy Pilot’s 2004 UFO: A Comedy of Errors
The first I heard about a shadowy UFO research program operated by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) from 2007–2012 was when I was interviewed by New York Times reporter Helene Cooper on...
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Secrets of ‘The Flying Friar’: Did St. Joseph of Copertino Really Levitate?
Secrets of ‘The Flying Friar’: Did St. Joseph of Copertino Really Levitate? Supported by records citing eyewitness testimony, St. Joseph of Copertino was a seventeenth-century religious marvel who...
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Arkansas’s White River Monster: Very Real, but What Was It?
Arkansas’s White River holds claim to a “monster” that has been said to have appeared intermittently for a century or more. Its reality is defended by cryptozoologists and skeptics alike (I am both),...
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Kraken: Monster of the Deep
The Kraken—a massive sea monster—legendarily rose out of the ocean to pluck sailors off ship decks or even to grasp whole vessels and carry them to the depths. It has sometimes been linked to the...
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