YESTERDAY woo-woos everywhere were in their element, revelling in the news that Texas police – acting on a tip-off from an unidentified psychic – had uncovered a mass grave containing 30 bodies. Today, disappointment set in like cement when the local plods admitted they had been duped. According to the Telegraph, all the police had [...]
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JAMES Randi, who has spent a large part his life exposing quackery and humbuggery in all its various guises, said that believers in the occult and paranormal – in his words, the “woo woos” – may try and detract from his work now that they know he’s gay. The founder of the James Randi Educational [...]
THE Holy See has a chief exorcist – but he’s crap at his job. Why? Because, if he were any good, he would by now have captured Beelzebub in a bottle, and sold him for mega-bucks on eBay, or some other online auction site. In what amounts to a major admission of failure, the demented [...]
FOLLOWING our report on March 6 that a pair of delinquent spirits, captured by an exorcist in New Zealand, had been put up for auction, we have just learned that they have been sold for NZ$2,830 (£1,318.30).
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YOU have until Monday to place a bid on the New Zealand auction site, Trademe, for a pair of nuisance ghosts held captive in vials of “holy water”. But be prepared to fork out around NZ$2,000 (£920), as the demand for the bottled spirits appears quite high. The seller, known only as Melvin S from [...]
A NEW poll by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life in the US reveals a disturbingly high level of belief in supernatural hogwash. Although most Americans profess to be Christian and many are devout, it hasn’t prevented some members of the flock from believing in astrology, reincarnation or the ability of trees to [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
