Paranormal
Ghosts, ghouls, UFOs and skeptical investigations; psychics, supernatural beliefs and folklore.
Pulau Tekong: An island of ghosts, and the military men who train there
While Pulau Tekong's hauntings and spooky occurrences may not be real, the impressions they make on the young military recruits who train there are very real
Why Millennials and Gen Z are turning to tarot as a form of “therapy”
Tarot's TikTok popularity is just the latest sign of the younger generation looking for whatever answers they can find - even if they're not true
The story of the Satanic Panic is a tale of religious and cultural paranoia in America
The Satanic Panic of the 1980s showed we don't actually need a real Satan - well-meaning, deluded and fervent people will do His work for Him.
When put to the test, the predictive powers of Indian astrology simply don’t hold up
The data collected in the famous double-blind test of Indian astrology in 2008 allows us to put the other basic astrological principles to the test
The Battersea Poltergeist, and the role of the paranormal investigator
The Battersea Poltergeist demonstrates how supposedly supernatural phenomena need attention and validation to thrive
Spontaneous Human Combustion: The truth behind the myth of Mary Carpenter
Stories of spontaneous human combustion have been retold since the 1920s, but do those retellings reflect the truth?
What links the Flatwoods Monster, the Kelly–Hopkinsville alien encounter, and Mothman?
The connection between three legendary paranormal sightings tells us a lot about why we see what isn't there... and miss what's really there
‘Startling Stories’, illustrating ‘Strangers on the Heights’ by Manly Wade Wellman
This cover of pulp magazine 'Startling Stories' from 1944 features a reanimated cadaver - a zombie, traceable to Haitian folklore
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