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How Now Brown

The Brown Daily Herald (BDH) is the Brown University student newspaper based out of Providence, Rhode Island. According to its Wikipedia entry, it is the second-oldest student newspaper among American college dailies. Brown University is an Ivy League school, the 7th oldest university in the United States. It is considered one of the finest universities [...]

A Grief Reminder

My friend Mark sent an article my way today via Facebook. Courtesy of The Hartford Courant (the oldest continually running newspaper in America, for the moment), their ‘Business’ section of the website reports that a local engineer is manufacturing “hand held devices” for “effects associated with paranormal.” That is the “business” side of the story.

The other side [...]

Asshole Wife Abuser Blames Ghost

Sorry to be so coarse in the title, but this person makes me furious.

As reported by The Smoking Gun today, Michael West of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin was arrested by police on January 15th. This douchebag told police that a a ghost was responsible for strangling and battering his wife.

First, thank goodness the police [...]

Objection, Your Honor

November 24th, headline reads:  Sodomite Blames Ghosts

November 24th, headline reads: Ohio Man Claims Ghostly Presence at Trial Defense

Seeing as how the news would not seem to let me escape the theme of “fairy-tales allowed in the legal system”, I had to go in for a closer look. 

The first article comes from Zimbabwe. In [...]

Compound Nonsense

Sometimes in the world of Woo, people will call upon pseudosciences or fantasies by introducing another pseudoscience or fantasy to help bolster their claims. For example, we’ve come across people who believe, and have written books about Bigfoot (Bigfeet) being a race of time-shifting extra terrestrials. We are also very familiar with people who consult [...]