1 March 2007 | Conspiracy theories, Frauds & Hoaxes, Pseudohistory
by Claus Larsen The story begins on February 19th, 1948, with the murder of Wilhelm Jacobsen, and his wife, Inger Margrethe Jacobsen, born Scheel, in their flat in Copenhagen, Denmark. Because the double-murder was never solved, there have been numerous myths and...
1 November 2005 | Frauds & Hoaxes, Psychic abilities
Editor’s note: This article appeared originally in the newspaper The New York World, on October 21, 1888. It is the testimony of the first modern-day psychic, Margaret Fox, where she tells the story of how a simple childhood joke sparked the spiritualist...
1 August 2003 | Aliens & UFOs, Frauds & Hoaxes
by Edgar Allan Poe This is Edgar Allan Poe’s famous hoax about the Atlantic being crossed by balloon. First published in an 1844 April issue of the New York Sun. Astounding News by Express, via Norfolk ! – The Atlantic crossed in Three Days ! Signal...
1 October 2002 | Frauds & Hoaxes, Mysticism, Psychic abilities
by Claus Larsen On his web site, Uri Geller has a list of things he connects with the number 11. He believes this number to be all-important. E.g. he attaches meaning to the fact that some people have noticed their clocks sometimes show the numbers...
