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Generally Odd Sites
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The Darwin Awards "The
Darwin Awards celebrate the deeds of those who improved our
gene pool by removing themselves from it in really stupid
ways."
Crank Dot Net A
one-stop shopping place for oddities.
Cryptozoology.com The
scientific study of hidden animals.
The
Flat Earth Society Yes,
they really do exist; no, they don't expect to be taken
particularly seriously.
The
Kooks Museum Look here for conspiracies, questionable
scholarship, universal solutions, medical quackery, and many
other examples of "kookology".
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Paranormal
at About.com – Links and
articles on all sorts of unexplained and paranormal happenings,
including
some studies and videos.
Wackyuses.com Want
to find new and different ways to use peanut butter, tennis
balls, baby wipes, or coffee filters? Joey Green has devoted
his life to studying these problems so you don't have to!
The
Weird Oddities webring A listing of odd sites including
a shrine to bananas, a "roadkill reconstruction" page,
and many other things that may not occur to normal people.
WorstcaseScenarios.com What
would you do in a worst case scenario??
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Urban Legends
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Urbanlegends.com The
Archives of the Alt.folklore.urban newsgroup has many "true" stories
that happened to the friend of a friend...
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Snopes.com
(Urban Legends Reference Pages) This site collects their
legends by topic: Halloween legends, wedding legends, college
legends, and movie legends plus many more.
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Historical Mysteries
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Forbidden
Archeology "A veritable encyclopedia of anomalous
scientific evidence challenging the standard view of human
evolution."
Museum
of Unnatural Mystery "Are there really flying
saucers? What killed the dinosaurs? Is there something
ancient and alive in Loch Ness? The Museum takes a scientific
look at these, and other, questions."
The Mysterious
and Unexplained Did Atlantis really exist? Could Edgar
Cayce and Nostradamus really see the future? Who really built
Stonehenge and the Pyramids? This site attempts to answer
these questions and provides "Mediagraphies" listing
television shows, movies, and books about each topic.
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Mysterious
Places Examine the unusual artifacts on Easter Island,
Stonehenge, Mali, and Chichen Itza.
NOVA: Mysteries
of the Nile This PBS documentary explores the pyramids
and monuments of ancient Egypt, and attempts to raise an
obelisk themselves using only tools available to the ancient
Egyptians.
Weird Mysteries The
Weird Mysteries page examines a wide variety of conundrums
and oddities, both famous and obscure.
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UFOs
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Center for UFO Studies An
international group of scientists, academics, investigators,
and volunteers dedicated to the continuing examination and
analysis of the UFO phenomenon.
National UFO Reporting
Center The NUFORC site is "Dedicated to the collection
and dissemination of Objective UFO Data" and includes
an online form to report your own sightings.
The
Black Vault A repository for over 2000 UFO documents,
mainly government files obtained through the Freedom of Information
Act that "prove" government involvement with aliens.
The FBI Freedom
of information Act Page
The FBI reports on various unusual phenomena, including a summary of the twenty-year "Project
Blue Book" UFO search.
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SETI
Institute The SETI Institute serves as a home for scientific
research in the general field of Life in the Universe with
an emphasis on the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI).
International UFO Museum
and Research Center The IUFOMRC in Roswell offers a good
compendium of information on the events of 1947.
Mutual UFO Network "MUFON
is a multidisciplinary grassroots research effort investigating
the UFO mystery."
Saucer Smear Saucer
Smear is the "People" Magazine of the UFOlogists.
Learn about the folks making all of those wild claims!
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Weird Science
Skeptics Sites
Spontaneous Combustion Sites
Charlie
Fort's Spontaneous Human Combustion Files – Charles Fort
spent his life examining
unexplained phenomena. Recently, his research has been posted online.
Paranormal
at About.com – Links and articles Spontaneous Human Combustion.
Stigmata Sites
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Living
Miracle's Stigmata– This web site for the documentary
film Living Miracles features both history and modern instances
of stigmata, and includes photographs.
New Advent's
Catholic Encyclopedia. The Catholic Encyclopedia (1915
edition) discusses
stigmata, with brief lives of saints who experienced them.
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Wikipedia
Stigmata article– Online enclopedia Wikipedia includes
a history of stigmata, skepticism about it, and lists of films,
novels, and comic books featuring characters with stigmata.
Skeptical
Inquirer on Stigmata – A scientists examines
people who claim to have stigmata and even tries
to produce stigmata on himself.
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