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Generally Odd Sites

  

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".

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

Urbanlegends.com The Archives of the Alt.folklore.urban newsgroup has many "true" stories that happened to the friend of a friend...

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

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.

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

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.

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

The Free Energy Archive This site supports various schemes to generate "Free Energy" through perpetual motion devices, cold fusion, and other novel methods.

Science Frontiers - The Unusual & Unexplained This bimonthly newsletter provides summaries of articles that challenge existing scientific theories.

Society for Scientific Exploration The SSE is a group of scientists who look into questions unexplored by mainstream researchers.

Weird Research, Anomalous Physics More unusual theories that you won't learn in "Scientific American."

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Skeptics Sites

The Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal
CSICOP is the best known debunking group in the country. Read the online version of their journal, the "Skeptical Inquirer."

JREF - The James Randi Educational Foundation Homepage for the best-known debunker of "misinformation, pseudoscience, and fraud." Randi is a former professional magician who has made a career of blowing the whistle on paranormal claims.

Philadelphia Association for Critical Thinking
The examination of various paranormal occurrences through the exclusive use of objective, verifiable data.

Skeptic's Dictionary A well-indexed guide to debunking aliens, occult, pseudoscience, psychic, and alternative medicine theories and claims.

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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.

 

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Stigmata Sites

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.

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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