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  1. Benway

    The end of the pandemic (a link to a sketch).

    This seems about right.
  2. Benway

    US military confirms Skynet is GO! (After being murdered by AI)

    I found this news article amusing right up to the end... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/01/us-military-drone-ai-killed-operator-simulated-test ... where despite the guy being murdered by an AI weapons system in a simulation he (for no obvious reason*) randomly concludes that an AI...
  3. Benway

    Alan Moore's advice on inspiring reading for writers

    This is the best advice if you want to improve your writing, though not something you will often hear! I think it would help writing courses immensely if they included study of wretchedly bad writing!
  4. Benway

    Bonus Round

    A reader submission to my local paper taken at a supermarket.
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    Outrageous!

    Tell us something you did which was... not what was expected! For my part: I had a rough time starting junior school at age 7, but by the time I was 11 I was pretty popular with lots of friends only to have it all ripped away with going to secondary school. More than half my friends and all the...
  6. Benway

    In depth study of Nazareth

    I thought some might be interested in this. Up to now information on the place has been pretty vague and spotty. The possibility that it may have been an Essene or proto-zealot town is interesting, as is the revised population from 'small village' to 'large town'. Though as usual in a newspaper...
  7. Benway

    A fun story about sage

    Sage seems to be a popular thing around this forum for getting rid of unwanted spirits, so I thought I'd share this silly story. I used to have a set of framed pictures of herbs of the kind that you hang in the kitchen. They've been moved around a lot over the years. Some time ago, I was having...
  8. Benway

    Who was In my room?

    I've spent the last two weeks staying with my mum on her visit from Spain. The first week we stayed in an old building which used to be the vicarage of St. Mark 's church next door. That's the only picture I have that's small enough to upload, as I'm still not home, so can't edit. In any case...
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    The odd hidden messages of Google Translate

    You can try this yourself. Open Google Translate and select Somali to English. Type combinations of two letters and sometimes odd phrases appear. ke [space] ke [space] etc. works. I have "ke ke ke ke ke ke ke ke ke pe" right now which reads "Sadducees worship". Adding another "pe" yielded...
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    Stonehenge was built in the 20th century!

    With recent threads threads about Stonehenge, I thought I should throw this out there for those who don't know, since many (okay, nearly all) reports about the place are based on the idea that these stones have stood there in that mysterious formation since ancient pre-history. Here is a...
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    Odd words, phrases and music that pops into your head

    We all get bits of music pop into our head and hang around that we can't quite place, but does anybody else gets words and phrases pop into their heads out of nowhere? I can wake up with a phrase in my head that seems important and yet I have no idea what it means. This also happens at random...
  12. Benway

    A Dogman of a Different KInd

    This could really be posted in various sub-forums as Nick Redfern posted it to illustrate the interconnectedness of various paranormal phenomena usually thought of as being separate. It's also a ripping good story! More On The UFO-Paranormal Issue | Mysterious Universe While hiking in the...
  13. Benway

    The CIA looked for Bible artifacts

    CIA documents show they were interested in finding the Ark of the Covenant, Solomon's Temple and "peculiar apparatus witnessed by Ezekiel". Secret Files: Ezekiel, Solomon and a Legendary Ark? | Mysterious Universe I guess they already have the Spear of Destiny and Holy Grail. Not much info...
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    Paranormal music

    I thought it might be fun to have a thread here for those odd songs about paranormal subjects; songs about ghosts, aliens, monsters or just plain silly things like:
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    Underground Monsters

    A good article from Mysterious Universe about, well, monsters that live underground. Bizarre Cases of Underground Monsters | Mysterious Universe
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    Great shows you were at

    This is prompted by me finding a video on Youtube of my favourite gig! (Warning: swearing!) Northern Irish band Therapy? (it's spelled with a question mark) interrupted a tour of major European cities to play in a shoebox sized room upstairs in a club in my town at normal prices! I have the...
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    21

    By the time I was twenty one years old my life had changed a lot, as you might imagine. I'd had a couple of experiences with precognition, I'd been diagnosed with depression and after a battle dropped out of education. I had a career of sorts working in a wine shop, I had girlfriends, tried...
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    When I was fourteen (and fortean)

    1991, seven years after that weird experience I had I was a teenager, at really really big school and now preoccupied with paranoia about being unpopular and the certain knowledge that no girl would ever like me. And UFOs, obviously! One Sunday autumn night I, for reasons I can't recall, had...
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    What happened when I was seven

    One of the reasons I joined this forum was that I wanted to put the bizarre experiences I've had out there and hopefully talk about them. It seems to me that the best way to go is by starting at the beginning and going on from there. Which means this is going to get off to a rocky start and some...