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Looking for Proof of ESP Looking for Proof of ESP Continued from Page 19 In 1938 speaking at an ESP symposium organized by the American Parapsychological Association, Reiss declared that no criticism could be made of the methods used in his experiments. He explained that he had the deck of cards on his desk, shuffled and turned them over, one by one, at the stated time, making a record of each card as he did so. Sometimes it was a week before he checked the totals. “The only error that may have crept in,” he added, “is a possibility of deception. The only person who could have done the deceiving was myself since the subject at no time knew how well she was doing nor had any idea of the cards which were being turned by myself.” Statistical approval The suggestion that there was something wrong with Rhine’s statistics was also scotched, in 1937, by the American Institute of Mathematical Statistics. It carried out an investigation of the Duke University results and validated the statistical methods used to Kuranda ran into heavy seas north of Australia. Frederic-Marie Bouyer, estimated the creature’s 6F2=E2D6 (9:?6MC )&KD6CDC 01 The ship’s cargo hold shifted in the hold and the head and body to be about 20 feet long. Its Animal Power entire bow began dipping beneath the waves. tentacles (two separate prey-catching structures) were missing. It emitted a strong Suddenly, after one particular steep pitch, the Continued from Page 18 vessel caught with its bow a truly enormous smell, and the general opinion was that ist might lion’s mane jellyfish. Estimated to weigh about be dying. After unsuccessful attempts to shoot Disaster alert 20 tons, the gigantic jellyfish covered the deck and harpoon it, the crew slipped a noose around it, but this simply snapped off the end of the tail, A variety of animals show remarkable two feet deep with its pulpy mass. Its great and the creature escaped. The portion of the tail sensitivity to impending earthquakes. A 1976 poisonous tentacles swirled around the vessels was taken to Tenerife, from where a full report conference at the Center for Earthquake superstructure, enveloping the wheelhouse. One was sent to the Academy of Sciences in Paris. Research at Menlo Park in California discussed tentacle caught a seaman named McGiniss, who the substantial evidence that suggests that screamed in agony and died minutes later. The Chopped off arm creatures are aware of impeding disaster long captain and the rest of the crew sheltered below In October 1873 three fishermen in Conception before humans are alerted. For example, deer decks... Bay, Newfoundland, stuck a boat hook into a jump up and down, fish leap out of the water, Eventually, the deep-sea salvage tug massive floating squid, which immediately and chickens suddenly fly into trees when faced Hercules arrived in response to a radio distress attacked them. Twelve-year-old Tom Piccot with such a situation. Dogs seem especially call from the Kuranda. It took the Hercules two chopped off one of the animal’s arms and one of sensitive to approaching catastrophe, and their hours, using high-pressure steam hoses, to wash it’s tentacles with an ax, and, in a cloud of ink, insistent howling and barking has been noted most of the jellyfish loose. the squid sank out of sight. The fishermen before a number of earthquakes. Animals of all reckoned that the animal’s body was 12 feet kinds have been noticed fleeing areas hurriedly Enormous arms long and its over all length 44 feet. Piccot kept before earthquakes or other natural disasters One of the fanciful monsters of Scandinavian his piece of the tentacle, which was 19 feet long occur. [] folklore was the terrible kracken, which had a body a mile and a half in circumference and and 3.5 inches in circumference, but later sold it Tentacles of Death enormous arms capable of dragging the largest to Moss Harvey, a local naturalist. Weeks later, Harvey acquired a giant squid that had been ship to the bottom of the sea. Though grossly exaggerated, the tales were evidently based on caught in a herring net and decapitated. Giant squids, enormous jellyfish - seamen’s encounters with giant squids. Photographs were published of it draped over a such deadly and terrifying creatures American whalers, too, told of finding the bathtub. stomachs of slaughtered sperm whales squids were once thought to be simply be arms as thick as ship’s masts. Yet naturalists Monstrous sizes the products of fevered consigned all such stories to the realm of Over the years giant squid have been regularly imaginations. But over the years fantasy - until the 19th century, when physical sighted off Newfoundland, New Zealand, proof has emerged that they do exist. evidence of the existence of giant squids began Japan, and elsewhere, and a few have been to mount. In December 1853 a large sea animal found stranded. The largest scientifically was washed ashore in Denmark. Its body was recorded squid is one washed up in November In 1874, in the Bay of Bengal, a crewman used for bait before it could be scientifically 1878 in Thimble Tickle Bay, Newfoundland. aboard the steamer Strathowen was scanning examined, but it’s large throat and horny beak This creature had a body length of 20 feet and the sea through binoculars when he saw a giant were rescued. Prof. Johan Japteus Steenstrup, a an overall length of 55 feet. Nine years later a squid ram the becalmed 150-ton schooner Pearl zoologist at Copenhagen University, identified squid 57 feet long ran aground in Big Bay, New and seize it in its tentacles. Three of the crew the remains as part of a giant squid, firm Zealand, but its great length was accounted for lashed at it with axes, but the squid’s weight evidence for him that the kraken had a mainly by its tentacles: its body was only 8 feet apparently shifted the ballast, making the ship zoological origin. long. These are vast sizes, but marine biologists heel over and sink, leaving few survivors. Eight years later a giant squid was believe that the world’s oceans may hold almost captured. On November 20, 1861, off the specimens even more monstrous. Pulpy mass Canary Islands, the French warship Alectron Just as terrifying an incident occurred in encountered a huge, brick-red, floating squid January 1973, when the 1,483-ton vessel with eyes the size of plates. The commander Continued on Page 31