Paranormal

Ghosts, ghouls, UFOs and skeptical investigations; psychics, supernatural beliefs and folklore.

Paranormal

Bizarre double death: spontaneous human combustion, or merely tragic coincidence?

Andy Owens -
Alice Ann Kirby and her little sister Amy died in separate, mysterious fires - some claim spontaneous human combustion explains the double tragedy
Paranormal

75 years on, the Roswell mythology continues to captivate ufologists and the public alike

Nigel Watson -
Three quarters of a century later, the Roswell mythology is still alive and well - even as the facts of the original reports get twisted and overlooked
Ghosts

The mystery of Glastonbury Abbey: When the spirit moves you

Chris French -
Critics often accuse Bligh of making up his claims about automatic writing, but experiments show that it's quite possible that he was sincere, albeit mistaken, in his claims
Paranormal

The Hairy Hands of Devon: how a tabloid tale spiraled into a full-blown urban legend

Blake Smith -
Legendary horror stories of monstrously hairy hands sending drivers in Devon to their death can be traced back to a spate of tabloid tales in the 1920s
Ghosts

The mystery of Glastonbury Abbey: Messages from the other side?

Chris French -
Bligh Bond's 1919 book 'The Gates of Remembrance' is one of the first documented examples of so-called psychic archaeology, claimed to be written using automatic writing.
Paranormal

“Miracles Today?” A Medical Critique of Craig Keener’s miracle claims

Peter May -
A recently published book claims to present stories of miraculous healings brought about by prayer, yet there remains no good evidence of even a single Christ-like miracle
Cryptozoology

Could Loch Ness Monster sightings really be attributed to an aroused whale penis?

Hayley Stevens -
Viral posts claimed that sightings of the Loch Ness Monster were actually just aroused whale penises, but this eye-catching explanation simply doesn't fit the facts
Paranormal

Elizabethan Skepticism: How “A Discoverie of Witchcraft” pushed back against a moral panic

Mark Horne -
While still a product of it's time, Reginald Scot's "A Discoverie of Witchcraft" in 1584 offered common-sense challenges to the moral panic around witchcraft
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