A photo taken by an engineer in Mexico caught the attention of that country’s president, who posted it to social media and identified it as an Aluxe, a woodland spirit from Mayan culture. It might just be a case of pareidolia, but it’s still pretty darn strange and mystical looking. While we’re on that topic, let’s look at Deep Weird: The Varieties of High Strangeness Experience, a review of the new book of the same name edited by Jack Hunter. It seems even researchers who are deeply involved in paranormal investigation try very hard to keep things from getting too weird. Something referred to as the Boggle Threshold is at play here, the point at which even a seasoned investigator taps out. And so to provide better and more compelling evidence of the paranormal, it follows that we must increase what we can tolerate before our minds are blown and disbelief can no longer be suspended. (CM)
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