Magic Monday

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It's midnight, so we can proceed with a new Magic Monday. Ask me anything about occultism and I'll do my best to answer it. Any question received by midnight Monday Eastern time will get an answer. (Any question received after then will not get an answer, and will likely just be deleted.) If you're in a hurry, or suspect you may be the 143,916th person to ask a question, please check out the very rough version 1.0 of The Magic Monday FAQ here.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

There are Taured debunkings on the Internet, and debunkings of the debunkings, and debunkings of the debunkings of the debunkings, and so on. At this late date, who knows?

I do know the professional skeptics have expended many more words on the Cottingley Fairies, an obvious hoax, than on Taured. E. g. James Randi devoted a hefty portion of his book Flim Flam to the fairies. At the time of his writing , computer analysis had shown the fairies were cardboard cutouts, so the case was timely. (In my opinion, if you need mechanical help to discern that the fairies are cardboard cutouts, you don’t need a computer so much as you need an eye doctor.). So there’s a few thousand words devoted to the fairies—not one devoted to Taured, although the Taured incident occurred in the middle 20th century and thus ought to be easier to investigate than something that happened much further back. The relative silence of the big-name skeptics makes me think there might be something to Taured, even though the most likely explanation is some guy deciding to see how far around the world he can get on a passport issued by a non-existent nation. I doubt anyone would dare try that these days, you’d end up in prison for decades, but circa 1960 the world was much freer.

—Lady Cutekitten