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Fakirs

 Fakirs are thought by some to use trickery to
convince onlookers that they are performing miraculous feats, but some
people seem to be convinced that the fakirs actually are doing something
supernatural when they do the rope trick. It has been suggested that Hindu
fakirs use some form of yoga (training) to accomplish their notorious rope
tricks. They are also reknown for their ability to charm snakes.




Thoughtography
The field of "thoughtography" originated with Tomokichi Fukarai, president
of the Psychical Institute of Japan. Chicagoan Ted Serios became reknown
in the 1970's for his alleged ability to produce images on blank film
simply by projecting mental images to the film inside the camera.
Sometimes an image was chosen for Serios to project onto the film, but he
was not informed as to what the image was. Allegedly, the very images
chosen appeared on the film. Serios apparently had a reputation as a
remote viewer.
Serios's paranormal abilities were studied by
psychoanalyst Jules Eisenbud and Eisenbud was impressed by the results of
testing Serios. Eisenbud wrote a book about Serios called "The World of
Ted Serios: Thoughtography Studies of an Extraordinary Mind", published in
1967. Evidently, once Serios produced a photo of an aircraft hangar that
had a sign on the hangar "Royal Cainadian Mounted Police", instead
of the correct spelling of the word "Canadian".
Serios used a
cardboard or a plastic tube he called a "gizmo" that he said helped
facilitate his thoughtography. Some skeptics charged that Serios was using
some sort of device (within the "gizmo") that made the photos appear and,
therefore, Ted Serios was a fraud. Ted Serios was apparently never caught
using any type of trickery, however.
The Immortal Count St. Germain and Madame
de Pompadour
 St. Germain was a count and alchemist who became
part of King Louis XV's and Madame de Pompadour's (1721-1764) entourage.
Madame de Pompadour apparently was impressed when it appeared that St.
Germain saved one of her friends from death.
No one seemed to be
certain of his parentage, though some believed him to be the son of a
Czechoslovakian nobleman. St. Germain allegedly served in Catherine The
Great of Russia's army where he was nicknamed "General Welldone". In
Nuremberg, he was known as "Prince Rakoczy". One of St. Germain's friends
was the notorious Casanova.
He was allegedly immortal. He was also
apparently remarkable for what seemed to be his perpetual
youthfulness--people claimed that he simply did not age. Many seemed to be
convinced that St. Germain was hundreds of years old--he claimed to be 300
years old.
St. Germain was not only an alchemist, but
multi-lingual, and a violin virtuoso. The famed philosopher Voltaire
seemed to believe that Count St. Germain knew just about everything and
was immortal. Of course, some people regarded him as a charlatan and a
madman.
Oddly, no one, it is alleged, ever saw St. Germain eat
anything but an oatmeal porridge. Did he do that for "effect" or did he
look so youthful because he dined on oatmeal?
In 1972, a Frenchman
named Richard Chanfray claimed to be the immortal Count St. Germain.
Chanfray performed on television--he reportedly transmuted lead into
gold.
What Happened To The Crew Of The Marie
Celeste? In December of 1872, the crew of a ship
called the Dei Gratia came upon the ship the Marie Celeste in the middle
of the Atlantic ocean. No one was found aboard the ship. An opened and
intact bottle of cough medicine was found. It appeared that a meal had
been prepared for the crew, but not eaten. The lifeboat was gone. There
were no signs of a struggle and no indication of what happened to the
crew.
The Marie Celeste had departed from New York on November 7,
1872. The captain was Benjamin Briggs. The captain, his wife and daughter
and eight crew members were aboard the Mary Celeste. The ship was carrying
crude alcohol to Genoa, Italy.
Some have speculated that pirates
attacked the ship, though there were no signs of a struggle. The Marie
Celeste had a history of being considered a "jinxed" ship. There had been
fires and various tragedies associated with the ship in the
past.
To this day, no one has ever discovered what happened to
those aboard the Marie Celeste.
The Winchester Mystery
Mansion
Sarah
Winchester was the widow of the heir to the Winchester Rifle fortune.
Sarah believed that if she didn't keep adding on to her home, the ghosts
of those who had been killed by the Winchester rifle would kill her. She
had hallways, stairs and passages constructed that lead to nowhere.
Apparently, Sarah believed that if she made the mansion a maze of
convolution, the ghosts could not find her. It has been said that Sarah
had visited a psychic who told her that if she kept on building, adding on
to the mansion, she would not die. Sarah insisted that stairs have
thirteen steps and that chandeliers have thirteen lights. One can feel the
confusion intended by touring the mansion. Stairs lead to walls, and
hallways wind around and around.
Secret Codes In A Crossword
Puzzle
 
Just weeks before D-Day during World War II, the
daily crossword puzzles in a London newspaper (London Daily Telegraph)
contained code words that related to the Allied invasion of Normandy that
took place on June 6, 1944. Of course, the military was concerned about
secret code words being in a newspaper puzzle. The word "overlord" was one
of the words and it related to the invasion itself. The words "Omaha" and
"Utah" were other code words and related to the beaches in
Normandy.
The creator of the puzzle, Leonard S. Dawes, was
questioned about his use of the code words, but ultimately was not charged
with any crime. Could he have somehow picked up the code words from the
psychic ether and inadvertently used them in the creation of his crossword
puzzle?
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