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Morag
One of several reported lake monsters similar to the loch ness monster that have been reported in nine of the larger Scottish lakes. Morag is the name given the creature that has been sighted in Loch Morar, which lies approximately 110 kilometers (70 miles) southwest of Loch Ness. It was named for Mhorag, the traditional…
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Ann Moore
A woman who claimed the ability to live without eating. According to Moore’s own account, in 1807 she decided that she could not stand to eat any more. Moore became the subject of some curiosity. Pamphlets written about her speculated that she had learned to live off air. A few suggested that she was eating…
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Life on the moon
Historical reports of extraterrestrial life on the Moon. The concept of life on the Moon has a long history. The first person to suggest that the moon was, like Earth, inhabited was Greek philosopher Anaxagoras (c. 500-c. 428 B.C.E.). Second-century writers Plutarch and Lucian of Samosata both wrote about the Moon as an inhabited world.…
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Monuments of mars
Objects on the surface of Mars that resemble pyramids, a human face, and a city. To some, they suggest that Mars is or has been at some time inhabited. During the 1960s and 1970s, a series of U.S. space probes took thousands of pictures of Mars, all indicating that there was no life on the…
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Ruth Montgomery
Leader of the New Age Movement. Montgomery met medium Arthur A. Ford at a 1958 conference on spiritualism and the two became friends. Encouraged by Ford, Montgomery began to practice meditation and soon found that she had the ability to do automatic writing, a form of channeling in which one enters a trancelike or deeply…
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Lord James Burnett Monboddo (1714-1799)
Scottish lawyer, judge, and pioneer anthropologist who explored the origins of language and society. His book, entitled Of the Origin and Progress of Language (6 vol. 1773-92) is typical of Enlightenment thinking in 18th-century Scotland, containing a large body of curious ideas, as well as sober anthropological learning, on the manners and customs of primitive…
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Missing day in time
The assertion that National Aeronautics and Space Administration computers had dis¬ covered a missing day (actually 23 hours, 20 minutes) at a point in time that corresponds to an incident recorded in the biblical book of Joshua 10:12. The Hebrews had just defeated the Amorites, and Joshua commanded the sun to stand still so that…
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Minnesota iceman
Hairy hominid completely enclosed in ice exhibited at midwestern country fairs in the 1960s. Two prominent cryptozoologists, Ivan T. Sanderson and Bernard Heuvelmans, traveled to Minnesota to see the creature. After careful examination or as careful as could be done considering that it remained encased in ice in a cramped sideshow trailer they concluded it…
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Mind mapping
At its very simplest, mind mapping identifies the control of the actions of the right side of the body by the left hemisphere of the brain and vice versa. There is a school of thought, mainly in popular psychology, that asserts that the left hemisphere dominates quantification and analysis and the right is responsible for…
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Mind control
Also called Coercive Persuasion or Brain Washing; a technique that aims at the systematic erosion and reversal of a person’s habits or convictions. Such persuasion has many purposes: political indoctrination or interrogation, religious proselytizing, educational or re-educational programs, or just the personal domination of one individual over another as in the master-slave relationship.
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