Benny Hinn and Peter Popoff Faith Healers

Benny Hinn: let the bodies hit the floor



Benny Hinn cures cancer



Exposed




James Randi and Peter Popoff



Class Break

Faith Healing Frauds

This week, we are going to be talking about faith healers, their extraordinary claims, and their utterly unremarkable lack of success.

• Carey has found Benny Hinn, professional dirtbag.
• Peter's found quackbusters.
• Elise has written about Peter Popoff, who Randi debunked big time on the The Tonight Show.
• Vince has found Oral Roberts, whose son is apparently carrying on the family tradition of fraud and impropriety.
• How about Kathryn Kuhlman, a faking fakir of yesteryear, courtesty of Carolyn?
• Chris has gotten the messy practice of psychic surgery all over his hands.
• Michael has an appointment at Dr. Helena Steiner-Hornsteyn's House of Wacky.
• Brian found Aimee McPherson wandering in the desert, looking pretty good.
• Peter found Jose Silva--I think I went to college with him.
  

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Extra day of apocalyses!

Some Russians have gone down into a cave and aren't going to come up until we are all dead, sometime next year. It's a matter of what lasts longer, the world or their food supply.

HJ

Prophecy...

This week, we are looking at prophesies as well as end of the world myths. You might also, I suppose, choose people who claimed to be prophets (like Nostradamus).

The Oracle at Delphi (actual footage)

• Elliot remembers the time when the world's computers did not all simultaneously crash during the biggest non-event in the history of anything, Y2K.
• Carey has discovered that when you get a Greek high priestess jumped up on wacky tobaccy, she is liable to say all sorts of wacky stuff.
• Catherine Zeta Jones, alien. Caroline shows you how!
• Elise conclusively shows that the world did not end in 1988.
• Michael has a pretty cool post about a pretty nifty clock...I should have known about this one!
• Haley has found a psychic who even puts himself to sleep.
• Peter argues that the world did not end in 1700.
• I would put your money into stocks for canned food and shotguns.
• Brian's got a whole Mayan thing going on.
• Ben ordered a heaping serving of Apocalypse at the International House of Yahweh (warning--moving pictures are not really alive).
• It's the end of the world as Eileen knows it, and she feels fine.
• Vince has discovered what Elise has already done. Oh well.
• Chris found Nostradamus.
  

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Cryptozoology

As you know, but I will remind you anyway, I would like to get as broad a coverage as possible of the field of cryptozoology. This means, as always, the sooner you do your blog, the more likely you will be to get your first choice of topics.

• Go to cszczes.blogspot.com for all your El Chupacabra-related needs.
• Mothman vs. Chupacabra: A WWF Cage Match! Brought to you by Elise.
• Check out Elliot's personals ad: "Wanted: Winged creature about 50 feet long, with giraffe like neck, six legs, head of a bulldog, and smells like a wet dog." (The Monster of Elizabeth Lake)
• Peter found the mud monster, and it's so close to St. Louis that no local necking teenage couple is safe! (Really, it sounds like a 1950's b-movie plot)
• Michael has a few things to say about the Jersey Devil.
• It's a man. It's a moth. It's...Chris's blog!
• Haley, returning from the innermost reaches of the African badlands, has found a bear/hyena/hallucination thing called Nandi Bear.
• Brain's post will make you believe that the Billiken is sort of normal (the Maryland Goatman).
• Peter will get the Nobel Prize for proving evolution wrong (fur-bearing trout).
• Eileen and the Cryptid Apes (could a be a snappy band name).
  

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