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The Psychological Reality of Haunts and Poltergeists Part I: An Initial Model
In the first of a two-part article, Rense Lange and James Houran summarise their work concerning hauntings and poltergeists and argue that ghostly outbreaks can tell us more about the living than the dead.

In Search of Monsters?
Charles Paxton writes in defence of cryptozoology

Secrets of Area 51
David Hambling explores how secret balloon projects may have contributed to the flying saucer myth

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The Psychological Reality of Haunts and Poltergeists Part II: An Advanced Model
Rense Lange and James Houran propose a more advanced model of the psychological processes underlying hauntings and poltergeists

Reconsecration: Towards a Secular Church
Matthew Coniam acknowledges the value of churches, but suggests that we dedicate them to science.

Myths to Die for
Hilary Evans describes new evidence that the atrocities committed by the German army during its invasion of Belgium in 1914 were even worse than we imagined…

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What are we to make of Exceptional Experience? Part 1: Remote Viewing
David Marks begins his three-part assessment of parapsychology with a critical view of remote viewing

Michael Bentine: Behind the Door
Matthew Coniam finds that Bentine was guilty of paranormal double-think

Psychoanalysis: Science or Pseudoscience?
Anna Järvinen considers the status of Freudian theory

Coming Soon to an Office Near You ...
Sadly, Martin Parkinson is unable to respond to inspirational leadership

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What are we to make of Exceptional Experience? Part 2: Ganzfeld Studies
In the second part of his three-part assessment of parapsychology, David Marks focuses on the ganzfeld technique

Life from Non-Life: Must We Accept a Supernatural Explanation?
Scientists are far from being able to explain exactly how life on earth began. Must we accept that life has a supernatural
origin? Steve Stewart-Williams investigates …

The Misfit World of Derek Acorah
Matthew Coniam witnesses a bad night for a psychic medium

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What are we to make of Exceptional Experience? Part 3: Unseen Staring Detection and ESP in Pets
David Marks concludes his three-part critical review of parapsychology

Stupid Sceptic Tricks
Sceptics using unfair arguments? Surely not! David W Owens advises his fellow believers on how to avoid being bamboozled by their devious opponents …

Domesticating The Beast Of Bodmin
Col C J Harbottle (retired) sends his occasional report from the village of Shawley Knott

A Brief Introduction to Neuro-Linguistic Programming
Widely claimed to be indispensable for anyone who wishes to communicate better, NLP tempted Martin Parkinson to enter the jargon-jungle and find out more

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Death and the Microtubules
Susan Blackmore shows that even experienced interviewees can be hoodwinked

The Mosaic of Memory
Chris French considers the nature of memory

From Medicine To Miracle
Peter May questions the remarkable healing of Dr Mary Self

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The Truth about Rendlesham
James Easton presents the first of a series of articles on Britain’s most notorious UFO case

Britain's Roswell?
Would the release of official documents relating to the Rendlesham Forest incident reveal that a UFO really landed?
Dr David Clarke investigates.

The Rendlesham Incident: Some lessons for UFOlogy
Jenny Randles describes her own long involvement with the case and considers its implications for UFOlogy in general

Forgive Us Our Trespasses
Peter Brookesmith considers the diplomatic aspects of the Rendlesham ‘cover-up’

Reflections on a Rendlesham Skywatch
Andy Marriott offers us his whimsical recollections of a beautiful night spent in Rendlesham Forest in August 2003 on a UFO-watch

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Psychoanalysing God: Freud on Religion
Ian Fairholm discusses Freud, neuroticism and religion

Motivated Distortion of Personal Memory for Trauma
At the Remembering Trauma Conference held in London in September 2003, Mark Pendergrast described how people can develop false memories for terrible events

How (not) to talk to aliens
Mark Newbrook ponders the complexities of extraterrestrial languages

Scepticism and the Kennedy Assassination
Jeremy Bojczuk disposes of some of the more ludicrous theories surrounding President Kennedy’s assassination