Documentary on the Church of Satan from 1970

Gareth Branwyn conjured up this fun 1970 documentary on the Church of Satan and its founder Anton Szandor LaVey. According to many friends of mine who knew LaVey, the "black pope" was, er, wicked smart, insightful, witty, and had the charisma of a great showman. Which of course he was. He also played a mean organ. I wish I'd met him! Satanis: The Devil's Mass

Music Break: Personal Jesus

Marilyn Manson - Personal Jesus from Jojji .... on Vimeo.

Nick Pope Describes UFO Propulsion System as "... Number One Priority"

At the beginning of June, famed UFO researcher Nick Pope did an interview on Fox News. As usual, his information was very intriguing, and of great interest to all of us who seek the truth about the UFO mystery.Check out the full session at UFO Guide's Interview with Nick Pope.

During Mr. Pope's interview with Fox News, he alluded to a photograph (s) that "... had British officials worried." The photographs were allegedly taken near Pitlochry, Scotland, in August, 1990, and show a diamond-shaped UFO which hovered for around ten minutes before zooming up and away.

Scary music is spookier with eyes shut

Singers and guitar heroes alike have always employed what you might call the Celine Dion effect – closing your eyes to heighten the emotional impact of music.

Now, neuroscientists have discovered that a brain centre involved in sensing emotion and fear called the amygdala kicks into action when volunteers listen to scary music with eyes closed.

Spooky sounds

To uncover any neural basis for this effect, Hendler's team scanned the brains of 15 volunteers while they listened to film scores – "kind of Hitchcock-like movies," she says – and less emotive keyboard tunes with their eyes open or shut.

Hear a scary clip here and a neutral one here.

Sure enough, volunteers rated the eerie-sounding music – laced with staccato strings, ominous trombones, and weird effects – as more emotional than the "elevator music"-like keyboard tunes.

Under the gaze of a functional-MRI scanner, horror film scores elicited significantly more amygdala activity in the brains of volunteers who kept their eyes shut, compared to when they kept eyes open. Participants' brains responded no differently to the neutral music whether their eyes were closed or open.

World Science Festival and Bobby McFerrin

World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival on Vimeo.

Fairies

Most Haunted Live Pendle Hill (Part 7 of Night One)

Tips on Ghost Photography

Tips on Ghost Photography:

• Take photos in no light or low light, using a flash
• Be careful of reflective surfaces, such as windows, mirrors, puddles of water, automobiles,
• Take photos with people in them, ghosts like to hang out near the living.
• Take photos behind you, ghosts like to follow the living.
• Talk to ghosts as you investigate, treat them as if they are with you. Quite possibly they are.
• Concentrate on areas that elicit an emotion from you, such as sadness, anger, fear or even joy. Ghosts can effect our emotions.
• No smoking during an investigation. The smoke looks like ecto in photos. One person smoking during an investigation will cause the legitimacy of all results to be questioned. Be respectful of your time and money as well as that of your fellow investigators.
• Do not consume alcohol during an investigation. Not only can it make you careless and more prone to accident, but it also makes you an unreliable witness to whatever phenomena you may encounter.

The Blue Ghost Tunnel

The Blue Ghost Tunnel is located near Gate 12 of General Motors along Glendale Road, St Catharines/Merritton/Thorold, Ontario beside the 4th Welland Canal. It is also known as Merritton Tunnel, or The Grand Trunk Railway. This tunnel is said to be haunted by the ghosts of a train wreck that happened back in the early 1900s. I also think it's haunted by the 663 plus graves buried under and beside the Pondage area, Old Pump House nearby. Over 123 plus freak accidents occcured during the building of the 4th Welland Canal. Many men were either drowned or crushed. When the Lock 6 disaster happened in August of 1928, many workers claimed it was cursed by ghosts there.Read More

Motorist Has Near Collision With Bigfoot In Pennsylvania

Paranormal News has reported a Bigfoot sighting in Pennsylvania:

A report of a possible Bigfoot encounter in Pennsylvania was received by the Sasquatch Watch of Virginia and was then referred to Eric Altman, the Director of the (PBS) Pennsylvania Bigfoot Society to investigate. The incident occurred on July 10, 2009, outside of Uniontown, in Fayette County.