From the category archives:

Paranormal

Paul the Octopus caught up in a Photoshop controversy…

July 5, 2010

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Above is Paul the Octopus – a “psychic” octopus that the Germans rely on to pick the winners of World Cup matches. (Supposedly during the 2008 European Championship, Paul correctly predicted 80 percent of all German games.) Well, looks like someone is trying to artificially pump up (or hoax) [...]

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Fact or Faked – a new show coming to SyFy…

June 20, 2010

While watching Ghost Hunters last week I saw a promo for an upcoming series on SyFy called Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files and it sure sounds like my kinda show! From the SyFy website…
Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files is set to revolutionize paranormal programming by investigating the evidence witnesses post on the Internet [...]

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Who you gonna call? Shopbusters!

October 28, 2008

A ghost at the scene of its own accident? Um, sure. Whatevs. [From BadGhosts.co.uk]
In doing research for this post I came to the realization that there are a ton of modern fake ghost photos out there, and a lot of them are really, really, reeeeeally bad. Some were even too poorly Shopped to make mention of [...]

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I ain’t afraid of no … double exposure…

October 24, 2008

AAAK! Shoptober is quickly slipping away from me! Can I add a few more weeks onto this month? It appears life has gotten in the way of me posting, which I guess is better than death getting in the way…or is it?
For this post we shall dig through the historic archives of ghost photos. Most people [...]

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Hey Bigfoot, could you hand me a beer?

August 15, 2008

So today is supposedly the big day when a couple of dudes (Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer) from Georgia (the southern USA state – not the country currently being invaded by Russia) hold a press conference and reveal to the world that they have found Bigfoot. Their proof? The screenshot above, taken from a video [...]

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