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What happens when hardcore skeptics have an inexplicable encounter with the paranormal? Their eyes may open, their heart may soften, and their conviction in the rectitude of their own opinions may be forever shaken – providing they’re intellectually honest. The founder of Skeptic magazine clearly is an honest man; for when Michael Shermer had a close encounter of another kind on his wedding day last year, he let the whole world know about it in his monthly column in Scientific American.
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This footage taken in a Florida swamp could be a bear or a person or a primate that stands erect. If it is a primate, it isn’t a zoo animal. If the person who took the video is right about how the animal behaved, then it is not a bear. Our analysis of its shape indicates that it is less likely human than primate. It seems improbable that it’s somebody in an ape suit, given that they are splashing around in the water. The fact that the foreground is full of twigs and limbs makes it a very difficult computer graphic to accomplish. While we can never rule anything out these days, the most probable explanation is that this is a real, physical animal of some sort.
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Now that we know that the ‘feeling of being watched’ is not a paranoid delusion, and that we actually are being watched all the time – even through the walls of our homes –isn’t it about time you built your own Internet?

That’s what techno-activists and growing communities of users are doing at this very moment – thanks to the advent of wireless networking. And they want you to join with them.
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The Super Natural: a New Vision of the Unexplained is the new book Whitley Strieber is writing with Jeffrey Kripal, the Rayzor Professor of Religion at Rice University. It will be published by Tarcher/Penguin in February of next year. They are calling it the most important book on the paranormal since Charles Fort published the Book of the Damned in 1919.

Listen to Whitley read the first chapter of this amazing book. The beginning of a truly new vision, at last.
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