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    La medium si confessa!

    "Anna" rivela al CICAP come si diventa falsi medium

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    Houdini and Conan Doyle: The Story of a Strange Friendship

    The fascinating tale of the Magician and the Knight. They were both profoundly attracted by Spiritualism, and yet their opinions were completely opposed. by Massimo Polidoro With the release, last October, of the film Fairy Tale: A True Story, devoted to the famous case of the Cottingley Fairies (Sh

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    Review of: Houdini!!! The Career of Ehrich Weiss (Kenneth Silverman)

    Houdini!!! The Career of Ehrich Weiss. By Kenneth Silverman. HarperCollins, New York 1996. ISBN 0-06-016978-8. 466 pp. Hardcover, $ 35.00. For years, among magicians and magic scholars, it was rumored that a new biography on the life of the Elusive American was being prepared by such a qualified man

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    A suspicious weeping Madonna in Italy

    Last February, Italian media reported that a mass-produced 17-inch-tall statue of the Madonna had wept tears of blood. The attention given by the media to this case, which at the beginning appeared as one of the many that had been reported all over Italy during the last two years, grew rapidly and,

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    I segreti di una sensitiva russa

    Una sorprendente spiegazione per un fenomeno di psicocinesi diventa un'occasione per sollecitare maggiore collaborazione tra scettici e parapsicologi

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    Houdini v. The Blond Witch of Lime Street: A Historical Lesson in Skepticism

    Indice1 Life at Lime Street2 Mina the Medium3 Scientific American Investigates4 The Wizard and the Witch5 The Second Seance6 Houdini's Wrong Step7 The Last Seance8 Different Opinions9 Margery's Suspicious Looking Ectoplasm10 The Harvard Investigation11 Suspicions and More Suspicions12 Malcolm Bird S

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    How to get blood from a stone

    - Chemistry in Britain, 31 (7), 534 (1995) -   In the first few months of this year, Italy has been inundated with peculiar 'miracles': a number of statues and icons of the Blessed Virgin Mary have reportedly wept tears of blood. The actual flow of tears has never been recorded, although many

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    Bufala d'oro

    Premio satirico inventato nel 1994 dal Comitato Italiano per il Controllo delle Affermazioni sul Paranormale, su ispirazione dell'Uri Award di James Randi; viene assegnato ogni 1 aprile a coloro che si sono distinti nella promozione delle più strampalate storie relative al mondo del parano

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