Tag: #DrBillBrendle
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What Writing Two True Crime Books Taught Me About the Truth
The gap between what happened and what got written down Having just finished writing my second book about true crime there are a few things I wanted to share about the experience. I’ve known for a long time that court cases are never as cut and dried as the news makes them out to be.…
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What If Time Is Not a Straight Line?
What If Ghosts, Déjà Vu, and Near-Death Experiences Are All the Same Thing We’re constantly told that everyone has the same twenty-four hours in a day. But is that really true? Time seems to shift depending on how we experience it. Sixty seconds does not sound very long until someone cannot breathe. Five minutes waiting…
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From Creepy Pasta to Collective Belief
Is the Internet Creating Thought Forms? If human consciousness has any creative or projective force at all, what happens when millions of people feed the same entity simultaneously through the largest communication system ever built? The internet may have become the first machine in human history capable of feeding a myth continuously, globally, and in…
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Who Really Gave Eve that Apple?
Remember being taught in Sunday School who tempted Eve in the Garden of Eden?Most people think they’ve known the full story ever since. We all know the story: the serpent, the forbidden fruit, Eve eating first, Adam following behind her, and humanity being cast out of Eden. By the time most people leave Sunday School,…
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Fear Spreads Faster Than Infection
How hantavirus outbreaks, Ebola fears, and nonstop headlines quietly reshape perception “Three dead in suspected hantavirus outbreak on Atlantic cruise ship.” Headlines like that move quickly because people understand the emotional implications long before they understand the disease itself. A cruise ship immediately changes shape in the public imagination once infection enters the story. The…
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After Enough Secrecy, Even the Government May Forget What Was Real
This file was older than he expected. The paper itself had yellowed slightly around the edges, and the red TOP SECRET banner had faded unevenly with age. He flipped through some of the pages that described recovered materials from unidentified craft, non-human biological assessments, and some department names he had never heard before. Some sections…
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You Don’t Even Know You Practice Magick
Athletes wear lucky socks. Investors follow rituals before markets open. People knock on wood after saying something frightening out loud. Some refuse to say certain words on airplanes. Others wear jewelry they believe brings protection, confidence, or luck. Then many of those same people insist magick is nonsense. Most arguments about magick collapse because both…
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5 Folk Beliefs That Turned Out to Have a Scientific Explanation
We like to imagine bad ideas disappear because evidence destroys them. That’s not always what happens. Sometimes an idea becomes socially embarrassing long before it becomes scientifically disproven. Once a belief gets associated with poor people, rural communities, old traditions, superstition, religion, or the “uneducated,” the cultural verdict often arrives early. The belief starts sounding…
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Does Science Have a Ghost Problem?
Science accepts invisible forces everywhere until someone suggests one of them might involve consciousness, death, or something we do not fully understand. In a laboratory, an unexplained reading becomes data, while in a seance room, it becomes an embarrassment. A scientist walks into a laboratory carrying an EMF reader and uses it to demonstrate that…
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How Folklore Reveals What a Community Is Afraid to Say Out Loud
You don’t need to believe the story. You need to ask why it keeps getting told. Most people treat folklore like background noise. Old stories, local quirks, something passed around for entertainment or tradition. It gets filed away as culture without much thought beyond that. But that framing misses what folklore actually does. Folklore is…