Send Us Your Incredible Story!

If you've ever had a brush with the paranormal or the unexplained, we want to hear about it. Now you can send us your stories of amazing occurrences and unusual events via our website.

We will eagerly read every mystery you send to us. Some of the good ones we will post here on this blog, crediting your name to the story. The very best ones we will save for future book projects.

Every astounding story in Almanac of The Infamous, The Incredible, and The Ignored happened to real people living ordinary lives. Mysteries, enigmas, and the unexplained are all around us. Tell us what's happened to you, and we will help to tell it to the world.

Like unsolved mysteries and unexplained phenomena? Then you'll love Almanac of The Infamous, The Incredible, And The Ignored, 365 days of amazing real-life occurrences and paranormal activities written by Juanita Rose Violini and published by Weiser Books. It's a must-read for every mystery lover. Check it out at www.incrediblealmanac.com today. A magical daily read!

"The Human X-Ray" - Paranormal Healer In Toronto

Unexplained mysteries aren't unusual, exotic, or something only accessible to other people. They can be as close as your own city. Take Ms. Nateliya Frelova, for example, one of a number of Russian-born healers living and working in Toronto, Ontario. She runs a healing center called Speleocenter Harmony, where she matter-of-factly uses her paranormal powers, including complete x-ray vision, to promote healing.


Nateliya comes from a family of healers. When she was fifteen - a common age for the emergence of extrasensory powers - she suddenly could see people's internal organs. Frightening at first, this talent soon became useful, and now is the centrepiece of her healing work.

Another feature of her clinic is the Salt Room, an entire room coated, floor to ceiling, in salts. People sit comfortably inside and soak up the ions, reputed to be great for respiratory problems. Sounds like a wonderful spot for french fries and popcorn, too.

Look around you. If you think the unusual or unexplained might exist, then you'll find it. And it might be right next door.

Like unsolved mysteries and unexplained phenomena? Then you'll love Almanac of The Infamous, The Incredible, And The Ignored, 365 days of amazing real-life occurrences and paranormal activities written by Juanita Rose Violini and published by Weiser Books. It's a must-read for every mystery lover. Check it out at www.incrediblealmanac.com today. A magical daily read!

Whitley Strieber Hosts The Almanac on Dreamland Radio!

Whitley Strieber - writer of the 1987 classic Communion, alien novels such as The Grays, and novels-become-movies like The Day After Tomorrow, has read Almanac of The Infamous, The Incredible, and The Ignored - and couldn't put it down! Now he is hosting Juanita on his popular radio show Dreamland this Saturday.

Whitley is a big fan of The Almanac. Of course - he is a phenomenon himself, an outspoken leader in the field of paranormal research and dissemination. Whitley Strieber and his wife, Anne, cover the range of unusual investigations on their Dreamland radio show, and on their website, Unknown Country. The Almanac's factual but fascinating portrayal of hundreds of actual mind-boggling events, just as they happened, captivates any true lover of mystery.

Listen in to Juanita and Whitley, hear some excerpts from The Almanac, and catch some interesting stories behind the making of this new compendium of the unexplained. You can find it Saturday Afternoon, 1 pm Pacific time, or catch it on podcast for 2 weeks afterward.

Like unsolved mysteries and unexplained phenomena? Then you'll love Almanac of The Infamous, The Incredible, And The Ignored, 365 days of amazing real-life occurrences and paranormal activities written by Juanita Rose Violini and published by Weiser Books. It's a must-read for every mystery lover. Check it out at www.incrediblealmanac.com today. A magical daily read!

The Drive To Explain

Today the CBC website carried a photo essay of famous publicity stunts. They covered both times Oprah got hoodwinked by writers, the lady who lied about a winning lottery ticket, and the Boston Marathon runner who took a shortcut.

They also decided to mention crop circles and the granddaddy alien story of them all, the Roswell autopsies. In these stories, of course, the CBC writers sailed into famously dangerous and murky waters.

The crop circle phenomenon is an enduring mystery, and rightly so. On the surface, it seems eminently explainable, and Doug Bower and Dave Chorley decided to do just that, telling the world that they had created some of the world's most amazing crop circles with little more than a length of wood and some string. What they didn't explain, and what the world media seems never to have asked, is how two bar buddies could have created mathematical marvels that would stretch the capabilities of a team of engineers and surveyors, in only a few minutes, often under the eyes of people who saw nothing special happening.

The televised Roswell alien autopsy, supposedly put together from footage of the actual event in 1947, is also mentioned as a publicity stunt. It may have been; the Roswell incident has spawned more imitators and takeoffs than Elvis. The real event, however, remains far too inexplicable for reason to rest easy. And I couldn't help noticing that this was the one story they didn't actually come out and call a hoax.

Mysteries are, by their nature, uncomfortable for our reasoning brains. Therein lies their allure; that is why we will reach for any explanation, sometimes in blatant blindness of the outstanding evidence.

There are many of us, however, who are content to let mystery be. This world would be a greyer place if we could explain all of it. Having some unsolveable mysteries reassures me that we will never quite be as big as the world in which we live.

Like unsolved mysteries and unexplained phenomena? Then you'll love Almanac of The Infamous, The Incredible, And The Ignored, 365 days of amazing real-life occurrences and paranormal activities written by Juanita Rose Violini and published by Weiser Books. It's a must-read for every mystery lover. Check it out at www.incrediblealmanac.com today. A magical daily read!

Google Has It Right

Sept 4, 2009: Google has chosen today to honour the incredible number of searches it gets for 'unexplained phenomenon'. http://www.google.ca/

More and more, people are experiencing the sensation that there is something more to this world than what we simply see - call it a feeling, an intuition, but it's too pervasive to be dismissed. Thus, people begin their search. You can read more about it on Greg Bishop's UFO Mystic blog, here.

What better time to get a book with 365 of the world's most amazing occurrences and unexplainable events? What better time to pick one up for your friend? A shameless plug, I know, but hey, it's our blog, and it happens to be true.

Mystery really is all around us. The unexplained is out there. Maybe, with a daily dose of the unusual and the incredible, we can sharpen our senses to see more deeply into the mysterious world we live in.

Welcome

Welcome to Almanac Of The Infamous, The Incredible, And The Ignored.

This blog will enlighten, entertain, and remind you of the magic we have all around us, and the many ways it is constantly trying to make its presence felt in the crush of our 'ordinary' world.

Impossible occurrences, mystifying phenomena, incredible events - not everything that happens can be explained by our philosophies, not by a long shot.

Share with us this journey, this exploration, this trip into what we already know but have forgotten. Let's dabble in the mysteries, and see what we can find.