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Apr.27.2012
Thanks to Amazon, old books don’t die. They’re available for sale online in near perpetuity. Some end up like those lonely paperbacks left behind on the bookshelf of a summer beach rental – worth but a bored afternoon when it’s raining outside. Others are worth saving and savoring.
Martin Ebon’s...
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Dec.09.2011
Santa came early this year.
I just received my copy of "Even the Smallest Crab Has Teeth: 50 Years of Amazing Peace Corps Stories". I contributed a tale about my nights spent at the notorious “Mosquito Bar” in Bangkok, trying to write the Great American Novel. We all do crazy, embarrassing...
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Oct.31.2011
It’s Halloween night, so we'll share with you this woman's truly scary story: “Five years ago I was being strangled. I won’t go into the painful details, but I nearly died. At the time, I was living 1,400 miles away from my mother, estranged from her, hadn’t contacted her in...
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Oct.24.2011
“Due to a series of bad relationships in my life, and to my rundown state of health, I just couldn’t see any sense in my life going on. With my thoughts running round and round in endless circles, I began to think of a way to end it all. Suddenly, as clearly as if she were in the room, I heard the...
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Oct.19.2011
Betty and her son Chris, who live in Michigan, have a dog named Brady. When he disappeared for a week, they placed an ad in the newspaper with a $50 reward.
“At about 11:00 one evening,” Betty wrote us, “I received a phone call from a man who was sure he had Brady. He gave me instructions to...
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Oct.17.2011
English poet John Donne, famous for his line “No man is an island, entire of itself,” would love this ESP story.
“I was giving my son a birthday party,” a woman wrote to us. “The party was in full swing, so to speak, when my eyes were drawn to a clock on the wall. I noticed it was 2...
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Oct.07.2011
“My terminally ill husband was in intensive care at a hospital where he spent the last six weeks of his life. The day he died, I went to visit him before I went to work. When I left him, I couldn't go to the office but wandered aimlessly around the neighborhood stores with an...
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Oct.05.2011
Joe McMoneagle is a decorated, retired Army officer and former remote viewer (clairvoyant) for the U.S. government’s once top secret, Star Gate “psychic spy” program, declassified in 1995. Millions of Americans have seen him on ABC-TV, or read about his exploits in Time and Newsweek.
Few know that...
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Sep.28.2011
“I am a mother of three. Two boys and one girl. The two boys are the older and my girl the youngest. They are now grown up and attending college. When my boys were about eleven and seven or perhaps a bit younger, I had taken them to my Mom's house for the weekend. I am...
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Sep.19.2011
Mike Spradley is a 63-year old Texas executive working in the oil industry. I say he’s psychic. Here’s his “stump-the–skeptics” experience. If you can debunk it, let’s hear your reasons. We’ll let Red Room readers decide. Let the games begin!
“In August 1979, I was working...
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Aug.26.2011
We’re mere weeks away from the 10th anniversary of the horrific 9-11 terror attack on New York City, and I still can’t decide whether Becky’s 9-11 experience is a case of genuine ESP. I’ll let you decide. Here’s her strange story, based on the taped notes from my original interview for...
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Jun.22.2011
It sounds like an urban legend, like the alligator living in the city sewer. A woman about to go out on a date with a nicely-dressed man suddenly senses something horribly evil about him, cancels the date, and later discovers the man was a homicidal killer.
Could it be more than just a legend?...
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May.12.2011
Some stories we pen, despite being deeply felt and finely executed, end up too short to merit a book. What can we do with these children of a lesser god? We can blog them to the ether, but the web's ephemeral state, its essential impermanence, nags at us. We’re writers; we want...
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May.12.2011
Playful iphone app called "Pencil Sketch." Converts photos to sketches. I waste absolutely too much time with the iPhone and the app store. Maybe it's because most apps are only 99 cents. Where else can you find something so fascinating and fun for the price of a Pepsi...
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Dec.23.2010
Imagine you’re the DJ for a monster party celebrating your crazy life during the 1960s – the Beatles and Stones, the summer of love, the Vietnam War. What 100 songs would you play to bring it all back home? I’ve started the list below – tell me what hits I’m missing?
The background, and a few...
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About Michael
Michael Schmicker is a veteran business journalist, member of the Society for Scientific Exploration, member of the Board of Advisors for the Rhine Research Center, and nationally-known writer on scientific anomalies. His latest book is The Gift, ESP: The...
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