William B Stoecker: A few years ago a number of women, most prominently Melinda Leslie and Leah Haley, claimed that they had undergone UFO abduction experiences, told no one, or, at the most, a few friends and close family members, and then had been abducted by the US military, who seemed, magically, to know all about their UFO abductions. At the time, they had little or no evidence to back up their rather amazing claims. In 1993 author and researcher Kevin Randle wrote an article, and later a book, Project Moondust, claiming that the US Air Force had a parachute trained special operations unit, formed in 1953, t... (Read more..)

Brian Kannard: On 17 Mar 08, a report came through on the Huliq web site that Tudor Parfitt’s Ark of the Covenant had been stolen. The story claims that an Ephraim Sadiki went to see the Ark at the Harare Museum, and was turned away on two separate occasions. The first he was simply told he could not see it, the second visit he was told the Ark had disappeared. Sadiki got the impression that the Ark had been stolen. The article’s author went to Harare and according to him, “was given the same treatment.” Keep in mind that Huliq is a user based ne... (Read more..)

Kathleen Meadows: Chakras, auras, subtle bodies and energy healing have become much more common topics of discussion in western society. More people are moving to a greater awareness of their own body energy – some from a desire for inner growth, others from a scientific (quantum physics) perspective and still others from a renewed sense of the sacred. For centuries eastern cultures have described energetic connections between the mind, body and spirit. Chinese medicine relies on energy meridians that correspond to psycho-physiological states. Vedic scholars, centuries ago described the seven energy centres of the body (... (Read more..)

Matt Haas: Fact or fiction!? With all of the technology and tools we use as ghost hunters, why do you think we have yet to find the answers we are looking for? We know entities and spirits have the potential to be intelligent. They have the energy & power to move objects. They give us direct responses. So why aren't they giving us the answers to questions we ask? In my own opinion, I think there is a huge factor that causes us to become astray from finding these answers. Its because of the fighting I see going on in our field. The paranormal has gotten to be very big on radio and t.v. Its gotten much at... (Read more..)

Marby Noffki: We must have gone through ten Ouija boards when we were kids. If my grandmother happened to find it, she would throw it away, calling it all sorts of barely translatable things in Spanish. Occasionally, my aunt would decide that it was no good to have it in the house and get rid of it, only to buy another when my mother, who would stand up to the devil himself and likely win, told her off for it. I can recall many a summer night that my cousins, and later my sister and I would try and contact the spirit world through the Ouija board, only to have the sessions end with accusations of so and so moving the p... (Read more..)

Paul Dale Roberts: How come my weekends are getting crazier and crazier? The ghostly madness has consumed me. Let's talk about April 4, 2008 Friday through April 5, 2008, Saturday. Friday is here, I'm happy as all heck and I am ready to embrace the weekend! I get a call from Anah Denzeiberg from Oakland that she will be here for the weekend. She is studying engineering and her finals are coming up. She wants to kick it at my place. Anah is a fellow HPI ghosthunter herself, but this weekend she doesn't have time for any ghosthunting and needs some peace and quiet. She knows she can find that a... (Read more..)

Phillip Tilley: The premise of The Secret is the law of attraction, that like attracts like. The author claims that our thoughts send out magnetic fields and what you think about will be attracted to you. In science a solid can be attracted to a solid of the same molecular makeup, this is called cohesion. The solids must be touching and the electrons mingle to cause a loose but measurable bond. Thoughts do produce electrical current in our brains and any electric current does in fact produce a magnetic field. However we know that with magnetic fields it is opposites that attract. The law of attraction The Secret i... (Read more..)

William B Stoecker: It is almost an article of faith among many ufologists that, of course, the ufos are piloted by beings from distant star systems.Some go further and make sweeping statements about Pleiadean beamships and Sirian motherships.Sirius and all the stars in the Pleiades cluster are, by the way, only a fraction of the age of our Earth and Sun. But let us address two questions. Is there anyone out there, and, if so, could they come here? The answer to the first question, of course, is that we don't know for sure, and, while it seems likely in such a vast universe that someone is out there, there are r... (Read more..)

Marby Noffki: For my mother, it was when she put shoes on by herself the first time and on the wrong feet. For my sister’s mother in law, it was when she fell on the ground after spinning herself dizzy. This was the moment that they first became aware of their own individuality, how they related to the family around them, as well as the world they lived in. Both were toddler aged, and from that point on, memories took a more solid, meaningful form. I don’t remember this moment. My earliest memories are a frightening series of fever hallucinations caused by tonsillitis, and the hospital. I don’t know if there was ... (Read more..)

Ken Korczak: It was only a matter of time before my 40 years of Ouija Board practice collided with my 30-year hobby of lucid dreaming. In the lucid dream state, I often meet strange beings and entities of amazing variety. It’s always interesting to try to contact these dream entities later with the Ouija board while I am awake. Today, I tell you about such an encounter. In a previous column, I introduced UM readers to The Restaurant on the Edge of Time. This is an establishment which exists only in the dream world. If you want to read about my first visit to The Restaurant on the Edge of Time, please