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emitted a horribly hollow roar, gave a ter- in the muck of the moose lick. Hight times | ESP—NOT JUST IN THE MIND? rific leap, and vanished up the ravine. We on the snow we measured the prints. They Extrasensory perception—ESP. made no attempt to follow him!" were the same and so was the enormous almost certainly exists according to Dupuy and the party went to Dawson body. Not the twentieth of an inch differ- Britain's most respected scientific City and asked the governor to send out 50 ence! We trailed them to Stewart, fully researcher into the paranormal. armed men and mules, though it seems to three miles, when snow fell and obliterated Professor Robert Morris of Edinburgh me that a battery of howitzers would not the tracks.” University, who has spent almost a have been amiss. The Dawson City Daily Of course, readers may, like the Dawson decade investigating claims of telepathy, Nugget got hold of the story and likened City Daily Nugget, deem such a story all clairvoyance and pre-cognition, says he Dupuy and party to Baron von _ hooey, if not a hoax. Or they may ask: is “now ninety per cent certain" that ESP Miinchausen, Ananias, Barnum and Louis "Where are the fathers, mothers, sisters, is real. de Rougemont all rolled into one. Perhaps brothers, sons and daughters of these mon- In 1985 Professor Morris became the the governor of the North-West territories sters?" They cannot live in vacuo, nor first holder of Edinburgh's Koestler Chair suspected a hoax, for he never gave the aid were they unbegotten, uncreated, nor can of Parapsychology, established under a asked by Dupuy. Yet the monster was seen live eternally." To which one may reply, -million-pound bequest following the again, About five years later, when Dupuy with a shrug: "Quien sabe?" death of writer Arthur Koestler two years was back in France, he had a letter from Scientists and zoologists and palaeontol- earlier. Pére Lavagneux, who wrote: ogists ridicule these stories just as they Until recently, Professor Morris and "Ten of my Indians and myself have derided Sir Harry Johnston's account of the his team had focussed on finding ways in again seen that horrible beast of Partridge central African Okapi, until presently a which researchers can fool themselves Creek. It was on Christmas Eve, and the specimen was found. Others may dismiss into believing that ESP exists. monster was passing like a whirlwind over the stories as legends, or subjects for the However, now they've begun experi- the frozen surface of the river, breaking off psychologist rather than the biologist. How ments—and have turned up powerful with his hind feet enormous blocks of ice did such monsters escape the fate that support for a paranormal phenomenon from the frozen surface. His fur was cov- befell their ancestors millions of years ago, _ that most scientists reject. ered with hoar frost and his little eyes— when the oncoming of glaciation and the In a study of 32 people, 13 managed to that was why he probably did not see us _ secular rise in the elevation of land masses identify correctly a film clip seen by when we met him, some five years back spelled their doom? In the disappearance someone in another room. The odds of when you were here, my son—glittered of lush vegetation and hot, steamy swamps so high a success rate being achieved by like fire in the dusk. He had in his jaws and plains where the sun shone ever hot chance are about 50 to 1. something which looked to me like a cari- and bright from a cobalt sky, and rain fell Professor Morris and his team believe bou. He moved at the rate of more than 30 _as it seems to do on Venus nearer the Sun, _ that these kinds of experiments constitute miles an hour. The temperature stood at45 only in warm showers in the night, how did important evidence that some people degrees below zero. At the corner of the they survive? really do have paranormal abilities. cut-off, the monster vanished. Did the dinosaur or the Pleistocene mam- They have now gone on to develop a "It is evidently the same monster we saw moths and mastodons leave no descendants test for predicting who will do well in before. Together with the Chief Stinehane behind them to inhabit lonely enclaves of ESP tests. Candidates have to stare at a- and his two sons, I followed up the trail of lost worlds where climate and zoogeo- faint image which is steadily brightened the horrid beast. They were exactly like graphical and geological conditions by acomputer. Those who can make out the tracks you and I and the rest saw when favoured their survival? the image more quickly appear to be par- you were here. Then, they were embedded (Source: Would You Believe?, Spring 1994) ticularly "receptive" in ESP tests. (Source: Weekly Telegraph, 12-18 January 1994) VAMPIRE REMOVAL AT STAKE An unidentified telephone bidder paid A$17,437 at a Sotheby's auction yester- day for a “Vampire Killing Set". The kit comprised garlic powder, an ivory- mounted crucifix incorporating a con- cealed pistol, a Bible, a telescope to spot airborne vampires, a wooden stake, and moulds for making silver bullets. While the kit's creator is unknown, Sotheby's estimate the set was assembled in 20th century America, not 19th centu- ry Europe. Indeed, the perfect gift for the man who fears everything! (Sources: Sunshine Coast Daily, 13 January 1994 ; The Gate, April 1994) JUNE - JULY 1994 62°NEXUS nn