Empire of the Odd

It is a good idea to sit back and do … nothing.

This is one of those times. Some of you may know that the Odd Empire is under a legal attack and we’ve been obliged to lay low for a while. What the attack is all about we cannot say (exactly) however it is safe to say that should certain ideas be upheld the Odd Empire will forever close it’s doors and you will never hear it’s like again.

I mean that for if this thing passes, the rights of ordinary people to voice their opinions on the Internet will be curtailed. It is actually that important. Your rights are at risk her dear fun-seekers.

Now my worthy opponent will say that it’s all justified and skeptics like myself do not have a right to speak. They feel justified to harass and hound people, threaten and  cajole without restraint.  I’ve met several people like that and they have all been more or less the same.

Why? Because they believe in aliens, Santa, witches, ghosts and other assorted things and I have an opened mind on those subjects.

Let me say that again, I have an open mind and many other people, folks who don’t hesitate to lie, cheat, steal, purger themselves and lie to their friends and themselves dislike me for the following reasons.

1. I tell lit like it is.
2. I have an open mind about the paranormal, which includes consideration of non-paranormal explanations.

Why would that make people angry? Because having an open mind is not enough. I must BELIEVE they shout and if I don’t BELIEVE, they will harass. If I don’t acknowledge their recursive lies are true, I must be punished. If I dare to refuse to validate them, I must go down.

It also has a bit to do with the US First Amendment.

If anyone would like a more detailed explanation, please PM me.

Thanks for the support I’ve received already.

Hopefully more will follow, until then, cherish the freedoms you have and defend them. Because the moment you give up and give in is the moment they win.

The Odd Emperor

Today Gnostalgia raised some interesting questions about whether paranormal TV is staged or hoaxed (or perhaps both). Barry’s no more satisfied with Syfy’s latest paranormal programming offering (Haunted Collector) than I am. And Finding Bigfoot has only turned out to be laughable. (See also another great Gnostalgia post: Finding Bigfoot on Talk Soup.)

Let me give it to you straight: Syfy’s done pissed me off royal. I wanted to like Fact or Faked. But then they had to go and try to package it as some kind of X-Files. Ben Hansen ain’t no Mulder. (Even though the show tries to profile him that way.)

Now we’ve got the Haunted Collector.

Oh, where do I even begin with the woes I’ve got about that show?

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By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press © 2011 The Associated Press

June 7, 2011, 9:16PM

HARDIN, Texas — Deputies who swarmed a rural Texas neighborhood Tuesday to search a farmhouse where a person claiming to be a psychic told officials multiple bodies were buried found no evidence of even a single homicide, a sheriff’s official says.

Liberty County Sheriff’s Capt. Rex Evans said there was no indication of bodies being anywhere on the property about 70 miles northeast of Houston. Officials ended their search Tuesday night and went home, with the focus of the investigation now turning to the tipster who led local law enforcement and FBI agents to the home.

The sheriff’s office had received two calls from the person, officials said. Evans said authorities took the tip seriously in part because the caller had details about the interior of the house that only someone who had seen it could have known.

He said authorities were working to track down the tipster and determine how she had such detailed information on the house. He said authorities had a name and number for the woman.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/top/all/7600327.html#ixzz1Og9Se3cB

Of course it’s impossible to tell what the heck it is. It looks incredibly like a tree-branch in the foreground, until it was enhanced. Then it looks like an animated BF added in post. Not very convincing, but none of them are.

http://youtu.be/2jkACKh7Y8M

Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2011/05/23/3647843/latest-theory-says-roswell-ufo.html#ixzz1ND0AbBBh

(Reuters) – With no sign of Judgment Day arriving on Saturday as forecast by an 89 year-old California evangelical broadcaster, followers were faced with trying to make sense of his failed pronouncement.

Harold Camping, the former civil engineer who heads the

Family Radio Network of Christian stations, had been unwavering in his message that believers would be swept to heaven on May 21.

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UPDATE: According to sources, there is a U.S. Government agency interested in this obvious heinous hoax and we felt it was in the best interest of justice to once again feature this story. To this day, we have heard nothing about missing Maddie and it’s still our opinion this hoax is a slap in the face to the millions of missing children.

Editor’s Notes: If this information is correct (appears to be), this may be the most disturbing story ever reported by scifake and a HUGE slap in the face to ALL parents who reported a child missing.

This story reminds me of the Hot Air Balloon hoax. The father claimed the boy went missing in the balloon (after it took off) hoping to appear on a reality TV show.

Keep this one thought in mind, the domain name www.maddieismissing.com was purchased three months prior to this little girl’s alleged disappearance.

Scifake will keep you updated with more information when it is available. NOW … go grab your barf bag because you will need it.

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According to a small Christian movement, yes, it will.

The movement, led by Harold Camping, who runs the Evangelical network Family Radio, is predicting that mid-May of this year will bring about Judgment Day — the time when, according to some, the earth will be destroyed because of mankind’s sins and all Christian believers will ascend to heaven.

Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/01/03/judgement-day-will-may-21-2011-be-the-end-of-the-world/#ixzz1Merfmw00

Hacker group Anonymous is turning its attentions from annoying the powerful, to hacking off UFO enthusiasts.

On May 22, after they have washed up after their mum has made them dinner, Anonymous members will flood UFO websites with fake reports of a triangular UFO.

Operation UFO will provide the members of Anonymous with endless hours of entertainment as the story is picked up by the mainstream media and becomes “reality”.

The assumption is that the next day the papers will be full of stories sparked by the UFO postings. Ghosttheory has opened a book on whether Fox will run a story linking the UFO with terrorism, or claiming that Obama’s birth certificate was signed by ET.

Read more: http://www.techeye.net/security/anonymous-turns-to-ufo-hoaxing#ixzz1Meo98Uig

PASADENA, Calif. – What if there really ARE little green men out there in the vast universe who plan to plop their UFO in a cornfield in Nebraska? That’s not just a question for science-fiction writers and 10-year-old boys, but for real scientists with alphabets after their names.

“It’s my day job, of course, to look for them,” says Dr. Seth Shostek, senior astronomer with the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI.) “And I can assure you that I wouldn’t do that if I didn’t think that there was a good chance for success because it is not that lucrative,” he says.