Tag Archives: Fortean

James Randi wants to give you $1,000,000

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…and all you need to do is prove that the paranormal exists under scientific conditions.

The challenge has been open since 1964 and no-one’s won yet.

Past claims have included ESP, dowsing, astrology, faith, healing etc. Infact, you’re allowed to prove most things unless you’re trying to harm someone.

Would you like more info? All the details of the challenge are located here.

Here’s a very interesting talk James Randi gave at the TED 2007 conference where he takes a fatal dose of homeopathic sleeping pills onstage.

For more info go to Randi.org

Time traveller photographed at 1940’s bridge opening

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There are many things I don’t know about time travel, for example, are you allowed to keep your clothes and if you step on a butterfly will you loose a limb instantaneously or will you gradually fade whilst holding a photograph of you and your siblings from your childhood…?

This photograph; which was part of the Bralorne-Pioneer: Their Past Lives Here Exhibition is exhibited at the Virtual Museum of Canada.

Of course you can see the guy that’s got the Internet in a tizzy, he sticks out like an eccentric at a 1940’s bridge re-opening. Could the fedora-less man in modern looking clothes really be a time traveller? If so, why would he choose to travel to a bridge re-opening in a sleepy mining town in Canada as opposed to a monumentally historic moment or a lively party he once read about.

There’s alot of analysis on forgetomori and more facetious analysis on fark.

So what do you think? Is this guy a time traveller?

If he really is a time traveller I’d be fine with that. What concerns me is that if this man genuinely was a man of his time dressing like a “hipster” and attending small town ceremonies then does that mean that today’s fashion eccentrics will be looked upon as ahead of their time when their photographs are seen by a future generation?