This movie is partly inspired by the controversy surrounding the final days of Edgar Alan Poe. If his reputation as a drunk and a drug user is accurate, he probably just wore himself out, but various biographers have delighted in cloaking the writer’s death in mystery. In the movie’s...
Whenever a person resolves to lose weight, the question of the best calorie intake arises. The quantity of calories that should be consumed every day has a lot to do with the ideal weight for each person’s unique body type. How calories are processed varies from person to person,...
There’s a whole lot of thought being put into what may or may not happen in the year 2012. Many people have come to believe that some kind of major disaster is going to happen in that year. Maybe even the end of the world. The basis for all...
What happens when a missing person turns up – dead OR alive – after some months or years? A bunch of psychics chimes up to tell the world that they were correct in the information their psychic “guide” gave to them. The case of Jaycee Dugard, missing since 1991...
When we, as ordinary citizens, go looking for evidence of ghost activity on the internet or in books, we find the trappings of science in the way the stories of hauntings are presented. Stories of ghostly comings and goings are classified into different classes of hauntings. There are certain...
The burp is one of the bodily noises that can communicate satisfaction beyond words. In western culture the public burp is frowned upon but in China, for instance, a public burp is just part of life. Many people every day use search engines to find out how to burp...
Many people will tell you that astrology has proven correct in many instances and that people who scoff at it are close-minded unbelievers. Let’s ask some really specific questions for a moment. If you believe that an astrologer or a magazine horoscope is good at prediction then in what...