The Top 7 Great Unsolvable Mysteries
of the Paranormal

7 Why do extraterrestrials — possessing superior intelligence,
sophisticated technology and advanced communications — travel millions of light years to Earth to draw circles in wheat fields and stick objects in the orifices of country bumpkins?

6 How come people are always Cleopatra in past lives?
In history there were a hell of a lot more slaves, peasants, factory workers, spear carriers, cannon fodder, nobodies who died in childhood, etc., than royalty or other famous figures. Yet it's usually the Cleopatras, mighty warriors, great leaders, famous romantic figures, and so on, that people "remember" being in past-life regressions. And come to think of it, how could there be more than one person alive today who used to be Cleo? Multiple personality disorder in ancient Egypt?

5 When the dead communicate with the living through mediums
like John Edward or James Van Praagh, why do they deliver such asinine messages? Why don't they ever have anything really interesting to say, like tell what the afterlife is all about or impart something useful like the cure for cancer? Or at least, "I left the diamonds in the sugar tin"? But no, it's all "You once had a dog" and "I'm with you." No wonder T.H. Huxley said, "Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a 'medium'."

4 Why do psychics have to ask you your name?

3 If aliens don't want to be seen, why do they leave their lights on?
Think about it. When people report UFOs, they usually claim to have seen lights in the night sky. Presumably the extraterrestrials don't want to advertise their presence on our planet. So they light up their spacecrafts to be seen for miles?

2 If Deepak Chopra really has discovered how to stop aging,
how come he looks older every time you see him? The self-help guru has sold a zillion books and makes a zillion dollars a year from giving lectures about how the aging process can be reversed by the power of the mind. Yet, look at him the next time he's on TV. Is the mind drooping a little around the jowls there, Deepak? Are the mental powers turning a little grey on top?

And the Number One great unsolvable mystery of the paranormal:

Why didn't any of the thousands of psychics in the world predict 9/11?
Here's one of the biggest news events in decades with the greatest impact most of us can remember, killing three thousand people, leading to at least two wars and world-wide repercussions for millions of people. And yet not a single so-called clairvoyant—these people who claim to foretell the most miniscule details about the lives of their clients and celebrities—not a single one saw this catastrophe in the future and recorded the prediction unambiguously! Oh sure, lots of psychics claim in retrospect that they saw it coming—predicting the past is always easy. But not a single one said ahead of time, "In September 2001, two planes are going to crash into the World Trade Centre and bring down the towers." Not one.