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classic texts
The Classic Bookshelf
Ancient classics, medieval classics, renaissance classics, classics of science, sacred classics. Here is the place to curl up with a good book and relax. Put on some good music, get a relaxing beverage, and settle down for a good read. Links to complete classic works readable online.
Sacred Text Archive
Texts from all major world religions, in English and transliterated original languages. The site has a hypertext Bible in Hebrew, Greek, Latin and English, the Quran in English and Arabic, and an extensive archive of Buddhist, Shinto, Hindu, and Pagan texts culled from the net. Includes some major texts not available elsewhere on the web such as the entire Rig Veda in both English and Sanskrit, as well as the Max Muller translation of the Upanishads and Shinto and Jain texts not available elsewhere. These have been specially scanned by the sites' creator. This is a non-commercial site dedicated to scholarship and tolerance and is not sponsored by any specific religious body or sect.

mysteries
The Charles Fort Institute
Help us create the world's leading resource for scholarship and research in the understanding of strange experiences and anomalous phenomena.
Fortean Times
Fortean Times is a monthly magazine of news, reviews and research on strange phenomena and experiences, curiosities, prodigies and portents. It was founded in 1973 to continue the work of Charles Fort. Throughout his life, Fort was skeptical about scientific explanations, observing how scientists argued according to their own beliefs rather than the rules of evidence and that inconvenient data was ignored, suppressed, discredited or explained away (which is quite different from explaining a thing).
Atlantis, The Antideluvian World, by Ignatius Donnelly
"The fact that the story of Atlantis was for thousands of years regarded as a fable proves nothing. There is an unbelief which grows out of ignorance, as well as a scepticism which is born of intelligence. The people nearest to the past are not always those who are best informed concerning the past."
The Shadowlands
Dedicated opening your mind to the world's mysteries such as ghosts and haunted places, UFOs, Bigfoot and Nessie, Crytozoology and many other mysteries.
Ghostrac.com
Is there a ghost in your town? Are you haunted by the desire to tell your tale? Well, you've come to the right place. Ghostrac.com™ takes you out of the land of the living and into the world of ghosts. It's a destination for those who are fascinated with the supernatural, a cyber campfire where people from around the world come to share their ghost sightings.
PARAseek.com
Paranormal search engine, updates, sightings, ghosts, ufo, coverups, etc.

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