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Do you believe in the Paranormal?
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@DonkeyStyle
The James Randi Challenge seems reasonable but since 2007 he will only consider those with an already existing media profile and the backing of an academic, which really weakens the challenge.
Here's what one lawyer has to say about Randi's challenge:
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@DonkeyStyle
The James Randi Challenge seems reasonable but since 2007 he will only consider those with an already existing media profile and the backing of an academic, which really weakens the challenge.
Here's what one lawyer has to say about Randi's challenge:
Lame, a "real" psychic would have no problem getting either of those things.0 -
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Randi is offering a million dollars.The James Randi Challenge seems reasonable but since 2007 he will only consider those with an already existing media profile and the backing of an academic, which really weakens the challenge.
Suppose you say you can guess whether a card will be red or black 60% of the time. It would take a lot of cards before your odds of winning would be worse than a million dollar lottery. And we all know how many people pay for the privilege of having a tiny chance of free money.
where there's the possibility of a payout there's probably a lawyer circling like a vulture
(IMHO not all lawyers are money chasers, the vast majority give the legit ones a bad name (any lawyer who sues over that will probably have bad luck
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So many cranks applied for the Wolfskehl Prize ( proof of Fermat's last theorem (a^n +b^n=c^n has no integer solutions for n>2) ) that the adjudicator used to pit them against each other by passing other entries them to review.0 -
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im invisible wrote: »Yeah, things like spontanious human combustion, there was a case in Galway (i think) earlier this year, and the placebo effect, things like that, ok. Alien abductions and psychic shìt, not so much
You're putting spontaneous human combustion and the placebo effect in the same category?
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I believe in the paranormal.
I've got loads of books at home about ghosts.
Last Christmas I got a big hardback book called "Haunted Britain" (2010). Each double spread tells you about a certain haunted location in the UK - such as a pub, castle, stately home, stone circle, ancient battlefield etc. And for each location there is text, covering the double spread, which tells you about the history of the place and then the ghosts which supposedly haunt it. And there are colour pictures of each location.
The book is divided into regions - North West, South East, West Midland, East Anglia, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, etc.
I love reading this book late at night when there is nothing on the telly, with the dull glow of the lamp illuminating the living toom.
A couple of locations from my town of Bolton feature in the North West section - Smithills Hall and and the Ye Olde Man and Scythe pub, which is in the top ten of the oldest pubs in Britain. And Most Haunted once did an investigation at Smithills Hall
Ye Olde Man and Scythe, on Churchgate in Bolton town centre, was first built in 1251 but now only the cellar remains of the original building. The current building dates from 1636 and that year has been carved into a wall in one of the lounge areas by the workmen.
In the same building is a shop known as Ye Olde Wench & Trinkets, which sells unusual jewellery, "fairies", crystals, aromatherapy etc. You can also have tarot cards read to you. Both places also have creepy overnight ghost hunts.
In 1651, James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby was beheaded just outside the pub for his part in the Bolton Massacre of 1644 during the English Civil War. On 28th May 1644, the strongly Parliamentarian town was stormed and captured by the Royalist forces under Prince Rupert of the Rhine, the nephew of King Charles I. It was alleged that up to 1,600 of Bolton's defenders and inhabitants were slaughtered during and after the fighting. Many civilians were lined up and run through with swords. The "massacre at Bolton" became a staple of Parliamentarian propaganda. It was the only such massacre which happened during the civil war.
The Earl of Derby had his last meal in the pub just before his execution and the actual chair which he sat in is contained within a glass cabinet in one of the pub's lounges for the drinkers to see.
On the chair is an inscription which reads "15th October 1651 In this chair James 7th Earl of Derby sat at the Man and Scythe Inn, Churchgate, Bolton immediately prior to his execution".
In the glass cabinet with the chair is also the actual axe that was used to behead him! The exact spot just outside the pub where he was beheaded is now marked by a tall stone column surmounted by a cross.
James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby
The column on Churchgate in Bolton town centre marks the exact spot where the Earl of Derby was executed in 1651. The black and white Man and Scythe pub can be seen behind and just to the right of the column.
The same scene during his execution in 1651
Needless to say, the Earl of Derby's ghost has often been seen inside the Man and Scythe. Also, in the room containing the chair and axe, a woman in 17th Century clothing has been seen. The woman purportedly looks just like the woman in the portrait which is hung in that room. Orbs have also been seen in the room by paranormal investigators.
The spirit of Geny, an eight year old girl, has been blamed for tugging at skirts, pinching people, and moving items around, while a phantom dog runs around chairs in the room which contains the old chair and axe.
The chair that the Earl of Derby sat in prior to his execution outside the pub in 1651 and the actual axe used for the execution. Notice the orb.
In fact, the pub is said to contain 20 ghosts.
One particularly mysterious event occurred at the pub. A customer was getting out of her seat to leave the pub when she noticed blood on her hands although she had no wounds. This frightened her so much she ran out of the pub. The barman thought that the blood had dripped from the ceiling and ran upstairs thinking the landlord had had a nasty accident. However, the landlord was fine and the source of the blood was never discovered.
Incidentally, the 7th Earl of Derby who was executed outside the Man and Scythe is an ancestor of the man who founded ice hockey's Stanley Cup (Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby).
The owners of the pub once contacted the Most Haunted team to do an investigation, but when producers of the show visited they decided not to film an episode there as the rooms of the pub don't have doors.0 -
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