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F.A. Mitchell-Hedges

and Daughter Anna’s

Lies Exposed!

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DON’T STOP BELIEVING

Those who truly believe in the “magical
properties” of crystal skulls are unlikely to be
dissuaded by scientific evidence. The going
argument among the faithful is that the reason
the Mitchell-Hedges crystal skull doesn’t look
like anything else the Mayans or Aztecs made is
because it was made by even more ancient
peoples, using alien technology too advanced
for modern scientists to understand. According
to author and “Crystal Skull Explorer” Joshua
Shapiro, who claims to have searched Central
and South America for the rest of the fabled 13,
“The crystal skulls, in my opinion, are the
ancient computers which have stored special
and important wisdom and knowledge that
humanity can access to help us create a peaceful
world.”
And even though Bill Homann made the
skull available for scientific study, he says he
still believes in its power, and he still honors the
woman who entrusted it to him. According to
Crystalskulls.com, Homann is “carrying out the
wishes of Anna Mitchell-Hedges as he travels
around the world making the famous crystal
skull available directly to the public, instead of
having it reside behind glass in a museum.”
There hasn’t been much news about the skull in
the last few years, but we did find this October
anything out of the ordinary, and many others scale of “not at all” at 0 to “a lot” at 170, and
2017 Facebook announcement for a one-day
are the same. the emotionality, what emotion is being
event in Bellingham, Washington:
In a recent study, conducted by Michael conveyed, of the face-like areas. Believers were
Nees and Charlotte Phillips, auditory pareidolia more likely to identify faces in images, some
NEWS FLASH: This is your special
is investigated by trying to discover how were false alarms in which no face-like areas
opportunity to have one of the most amazing
priming affects the perception of auditory were present, as opposed to non-believers.
experiences you may ever know, to encounter
stimuli in a paranormal sense. In their study, 28 Paranormal and religious believers also rated
the most famous skull in the world, known as
participants were subjected to different types of images as more face-like and emotional than
the Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull and the
auditory stimuli – Electronic Voice Phenomena ratings of the skeptics and non-believers. With
guardian Bill Howmann. Could this skull be the
which are voices recorded electronically, actual many believers existing in the world, research
lost skull of Atlantis?
human speech, degraded speech, and white on this aspect of paranormal pareidolia
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either a condition in which they are told from Taken together, these results indicate
the beginning that they are to identify the EVP that the information the brain possesses from
Paranormal Pareidolia recordings from paranormal research, and the our experiences creates expectations for
and the Brain others were told to identify voices in noisy paranormal perception. The human brain is
environments. Participants primed to identify equipped with an area that identifies real and
paranormal voices, identified significantly more illusory faces, with the help of priming, called
For centuries, paranormal occurrences have voices in the EVP and degraded speech trials the fusiform face area, even when the stimulus
been documented by those who believe they than participants told to identify voices in noisy only barely resembles a face. In the situation
have seen shadowy figures in the darkness or environments, although only agreeing 22% of that a person is exposed to the idea that the
heard voices in the silence. The popularity of the time on what was being said in the noises he or she is about to hear comes from a
reality paranormal investigation on television
recordings. The results of this study supports paranormal source, it is more likely that the
and in movies, such as Ghost Hunters and Most the idea that priming can guide the perception of identification of a noise will be a significant
Haunted, supports the growing fascination of voices that may or may not exist. voice. Paranormal and religious believers are
the unknown. One can only imagine that the To expand upon the explanation of quicker at identifying a face that is present in an
fascination stems from the ability to capture on priming, Tipani Reikke and colleagues image, and even identify face features that do
camera what we cannot fully explain from
conducted a study in which they discovered a not exist in an image, along with higher
personal experiences. Maybe going in with the correlation between religious and paranormal emotionality and face-likeness ratings,
idea that these investigators will collect believers and their likelihood to identify illusory compared to skeptics and non-believers.
paranormal evidence has the viewer prepared to faces when compared to skeptics and non-
hear what they hear and see what they see. believers. Both groups were subjected to the
Personally, if I go into a hotel that is reportedly
same sets of images, with and without face-like (Continued on Page 60)
haunted, my full attention is dedicated to areas, and had to rate the face-likeness, on a