10 Famous Scientists Who Held Surprising Supernatural Beliefs

While we typically hold up scientists, especially those who have made important discoveries, as paragons of rationality, numerous scientists have had fascinations with cryptids, psychic phenomena, and other aspects of the occult. And what some of these particular people believed may surprise you.

Top photo: A seance held by Eusapia Palladino at the home of astronomer Camille Flammarion in France on November 25, 1898. Photo by H. Mairet, via Musees de la Ville de Strasbourg.

1. Sir Isaac Newton and His Belief in the Occult

Ot may surprise folks who are familiar only with Sir Issac Newton's mathematical and scientific contributions that Newton was profoundly interested in the occult. Newton was a devout Anglican and an alchemist — neither of which was unusual for an English scientist in the 17th and 18th centuries. (Although many of Newton's particular religious beliefs, particularly his anti-Trinitarianism, would have been considered heretical at the time.) Still, it's can be difficult for some modern readers to reconcile Newton's mathematical descriptions of the universe with his obsessions with Biblical numerology, astrology, and a quest for the Philosopher's Stone.

Newton made no distinction between the scientific and the mystical. He believed that the world could be understood through mathematics as well as through secrets hidden in the Bible. Based on his interpretations of the Scriptures, he even estimated the date of the end of the world. (He pegged it at around 2060, although he was himself suspicious of people who thought they had the exact year down.) He thought he could divine the size of the Earth by studying the geometry of Solomon's Temple. He conducted numerous experiments in his quest to create the fabled Philosopher's Stone. And his work in religion and alchemy was just as detailed as his work in what we would today consider science.

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Interview with Dr. Evelyn Paglini

Another astonishing interview with Dr. Evelyn Paglini:

Ghost Sighting Filmed by CCTV in Toowoomba

Visions .....

I began having more and more visions of things to come and some have already come to pass. This lady is on the same page as I am but she was there in 2007. She’s on target. Listen to her. I will publish my own visions at a later time.

Evelyn Paglini Discusses Evil, Magick & Predictions:

Halloween Edition 2 ~ BOO!

This is my favorite Halloween story of them all, so I’m following every lead into the quaint, quiet, slow moving – and creepy Sleepy Hollow.

 

Some Reality

Oh, look ….. a man with a map ….. too much, almost!

Well, dude, can’t say you didn’t ask for it!

 

Irving did base a lot of the book on facts. Check out the names on the graves.

Halloween Edition Part 1 - A Tease

I'm starting early this year on spooky and fun things for Halloween. Some true, some not so true and some downright freaky. I want to kick it off with something I found by accident. I do not promote anything in this blog but only to inform. Keep this in mind, however with this one I couldn't help it. Enjoy!

The Ride of the Headless Horseman (The real path!)

“The Amityville Horror House” Up for SALE

On May 25th, 2010 I saw on CNN that the house that is famous for the Amityville Horror is now up for sale. Wolf Blitzer was asked if he was interested in buying it and without hesitation a big “NO” came from his mouth, even before the question was fully out of the lady’s mouth. I couldn’t help but chuckle and agree because that was my own reaction, too.

Professor Hans Holzer, Phd., did a television interview on the Amityville case that he investigated while the haunting of the Lutz family was still in progress. The interview was much later, rather recently before his death, in the timeline of events. The interview itself is in the first posts in this blog within the “Halloween Special” posts. I found it quite intriguing that his prediction in that interview did come true. In fact, I have been waiting to hear this news also just as he was waiting. It was a “when” issue to Professor Holzer, not an “if" it happens” kind of thing. He stated he would not be surprised to hear of spontaneous fires and was watching the papers for the sale of the home and property. I’m not sure about the fires occurring as his prediction but the for sale part is indeed true. He had watched the newspapers in NY to see this ad since his initial learning of new owners.

The article states the address of the home had been changed but according to other sources the telling eye-like windows were also replaced to make the home less noticeable to “fans and fanatics”.

Here it is:

Source Link: BBC News - 'Amityville Horror' home goes on sale for $1.15m

Article:

Six members of the DeFeo family were shot and killed in the house in 1974.

The house made famous by the 1970s Amityville Horror film has gone on sale in Long Island, New York, with a price tag of $1.15m (£800,000).

The five-bedroom house at 108 Ocean Avenue, Amityville, gained notoriety through the film based on the story of the Lutz family, who moved in in 1975.

The Lutzes say they soon discovered that the house was haunted.

Several months earlier, six members of another family had been shot and killed as they slept in the house.
The family's eldest son, Ronald DeFeo Jr, was convicted of the 1974 murders.

A book and a series of films based on the events described by the Lutzes followed.

The high asking price of the house - a Dutch Colonial style home overlooking a canal - is based on renovation work, reports say.

It has had several owners since the 1970s. The address has been changed from the original 112 Ocean Avenue in a effort to keep onlookers away.

Another article says that the organization PETA may rent the home:
PETA Aims To Rent ‘Amityville Horror’ House

Joshua P Warren – Bloody Ectoplasm?

Did bloody ecto really show up here in this still shot and video from the Myrtles Plantation while Joshua P Warren was investigating? This is definitely not the first story I’ve heard (or witnessed myself) of this phenomena occurring. I’m not sure what is showing up here since it was not clear what else the infrared could have picked up that the naked eye couldn’t see on that floor but it is not dismissed by me either. In my mind this is one I cannot explain one way or the other but find it very interesting indeed that this “bloody ecto” shot happened in the bedroom of General David Bradford.

Many ghostly encounters of General Bradford are reported at the Myrtles Plantation and I, myself, have seen evidence of this man’s presence from both video and photos that friends have shown me of their own investigations at this very haunted plantation in Louisiana. He is not the only well known presence in and on the plantation. LA spirits’ website has a submitted photo taken on the plantation grounds that show the notorious lady and two kids by the statue and tree that others have seen many times in the past. That’s one of my personal favorite photos taken at the plantation of modern day ghostly photos. This below could very well be in that category if no other explanation is found for this showing up. It comes from http://www.joshuapwarren.com/

 

The still shot is taken from the video below. Decide for yourself.

 

News Anchor Scared by Ghost?

VIDEO: Do you believe?

Children's 'ghosts' haunt Picton cemetery

Amy Dale

January 21, 2010 12:00am

DOES this photograph show the figures of two children, born nearly a century apart, walking in their own paranormal playground?

The family who took this picture while on a Picton ghost tour swear there were no children inside the St Mark's Cemetery - so what are these figures? Pic: Renee English

The family who took this picture while on a ghost tour in Picton, NSW, swear there were no children inside the St Mark's Cemetery.

Which begs the question: who, or what, is out there?

Local legend has it that the two children are David Shaw and Blanche Moon, who died 60 years apart.

Blanche was crushed to death in 1886 when a pile of sleepers that she and a number of children were playing on slipped.

David was the son of a minister who died in 1946 from polio.

The woman behind the lens of this mysterious photo, Renee English, said she was "a sceptic" before undertaking the ghost tour on January 9.

"When we were standing at the bank looking into the Cemetery I was just snapping away and making jokes about the whole thing and asking when the ghosts were going to come out," the Port Macquarie resident said.

"I know that when I took that photo there was no-one else in the cemetery. The only people we saw were a family of four about 10 minutes later but those kids were clinging to their parents the whole time.

"When we uploaded our photos and saw the children all the hairs on my arm stood up and I just went cold all over.

"That night I couldn't sleep at all and I'm never watching a scary movie again.

"I wasn't a believer in ghosts, but now I'm intrigued."

Local historian Liz Vincent conducted ghost tours in Picton, claimed to be Australia's most haunted town, until her death last year. Since then, her husband John and daughter Jenny Davies have taken up the mantle.

"Picton's just so haunted," Ms Davies said. "We find people always love to see their photos afterwards because most of these things aren't visible to the naked eye."

One of the tour's most popular figures is Emily, a lady who was hit and killed by a train in 1916 while taking a shortcut through the Redbank Range Tunnel, also known as the Mushroom Tunnel, to visit her brother.

Emily Bollard resided near the railway line and was a single woman aged in her 50s. Before taking her shortcut, she didn't check the timetable and was hit in the tunnel by a train coming from Thirlmere. She died instantly.

"She likes to move among the participants and loves to touch their hair and body, particularly their arms and legs," Ms Davies said.

"Those on the tour often say that they've also felt a cold wind blowing through the tunnel."

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,26613670-953,00.html